The High Cost of WWII
The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That represents 23,000 lives lost every day, or more than …
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Daniel Cordier, French Resistance Hero (1920 – 2020)
Alan Cowell writing in The New York Times: [Cordier] had been shocked to see German soldiers photographing one another at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. But as he headed toward a …
Audiobook: ‘The Liberation of Paris’
The Liberation of Paris is a gripping book that is packed full of interesting details about Nazi-occupied Paris and its last commander Dietrich von Choltitz. At the end of WWII, Adolf Hitler …
Never Again?
The central lesson of the Holocaust is what it says about humanity’s capacity for evil.
World War II Deaths
The National WWII Museum in New Orleans estimates that 15 million people died in battle in World War II. The estimate of civilian deaths is 45 million. Country Total Civilian …
Film: ‘The Art Dealer (L’antiquaire)’
The Art Dealer (L’antiquaire) is a beautiful 2015 French film about a young Parisian woman portrayed by Anna Sigalevitch. She’s searching for paintings stolen from her Jewish family during WWII. Louis-Do de …
Abram Enzel (1916-1994)
Holocaust survivor and my father.