Posts Tagged ‘World War II’

How Denmark saved its Jews from the Nazis

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013

They left at night, thousands of Jewish families, setting out by car, bicycle, streetcar or train. They left the Danish cities they had long called home and fled to the countryside, which was unfamiliar to many of them. Along the way, they found shelter in the homes of friends or business partners, squatted in abandoned Read more

Memorial Mass in Guam recalls one cut short by invasion

Friday, December 16th, 2011

A memorial mass in Guam was celebrated on December 8 to recall what happened seven decades ago, when mass to commemorate Santa Marian Kamalen was abruptly cut short. It was 70 years to the day since the Japanese began their invasion. Carmen Artero Kasperbauer was just six years old at the time. She was one Read more