By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press Writer With every step toward the gate, Jerzy Bielecki was certain he would be shot. The day was...

Sophie and Hans Scholl grew up in an somewhat unorthodox German family. Their family was religious, but had an ardent love for discuss...

It was late Shabbat afternoon, that magic moment between dusk and darkness. The visitors had gone. The baby was already sleeping. Soon the ...

Thanks to my sister Sean MacKenzie at Fictionista , I did my first guest post for another blog. It is about Irena Sendler, entitled "Th...

Irena Sendler rescued 2,500 children from the Nazi death camps. Her story, writes Marti Attoun in Ladies' Home Journal, was rescued b...

Life in Frankfort in the 1930s was like the morning before a thunderstorm -- clear blue skies and a brisk breeze, with threatening gray clo...

“Seven-year-old Helena (Stefania Podgorska’s sister) had grown quite adept at passing slips of paper through the barbed-wire fenc...