Four Frenchwomen who were sent by the Nazis to a labor camp for female prisoners found support in one another—during and ...

In the book, Olson notes that out of the 1,038 admitted in 1940 to Charles de Gaulle’s Compagnons de la Libération, an order honoring resistance fighters, only six were women.

Join the Program in Judaic Studies and the Center for Collaborative History to hear Renée Poznanski discuss her book, recently published in an English translation, Propaganda and Persecution: The ...

Lynne Olson documents how, within the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, the women of the French Resistance continued to ...

In “The Art Spy,” Michelle Young shines new light on the heroic French curator Rose Valland. By Nina Siegal Nina Siegal is the author of three novels and “The Diary Keepers: World War II ...

Perhaps that is because the experience was, in retrospect, so strange, so out of time and place. Ms. Kochanski, a British historian, quotes Jean Cassou, a resistance leader in Toulouse who ...

When Ida Rozenberg-Apeloig received a book about the activities of the French Resistance in wartime France, her childhood memories of Chateaumeillant came flooding back. Rozenberg-Apeloig was ...

Much of the book centers on Maud’s 1907 birthday, a happy time in a story that is not always pretty. “The Road to Roswell,” by B. Connie Willis (Del Rey) Francie is in Roswell, N.M., to ...

This week she talks with two women who were brought together by an extraordinary act of courage: During World War II, Clémentine Lestang’s great-grandfather, a member of the French resistance ...