by jeff.sanders | Apr 10, 2021 | Blog
Johannes Bogaard of Niew Vennep, the Netherlands, had only two years of formal education, and that was in elementary school. After the age of eight, he worked full time on his family farm. That was the only life he knew, and it was a good life. He got married, had two...
by jeff.sanders | Apr 6, 2021 | Blog
In the summer of 1940, the little Baltic nation of Lithuania was being flooded by Jewish refugees from Poland. Lithuania had its own considerable Jewish population, and all were concerned not only about the Soviet take-over of the little country, but the very real...
by jeff.sanders | Mar 29, 2021 | Blog
You find heroes in the strangest places. They are not always soldiers fighting incredible odds, or people in the medical profession discovering breakthrough cures. Sometimes they are obscure government workers, overlooked by most people, but still there quietly doing...
by jeff.sanders | Mar 22, 2021 | Blog
When the National Socialist armies of Germany overran most of Western Europe in 1940 they did not immediately round up Jews and send them off to death camps. The Nazis used a slow, methodical approach of discrimination at first, followed by the secret arrests of many...
by jeff.sanders | Mar 15, 2021 | Blog
Crimea is a beautiful peninsula on the Black Sea with a long and rich history. For hundreds of years, Muslim Tatars lived there as fishermen, farmers, and ranchers. During World War II the Nazis conquered that part of the Soviet Socialist Republic. The German National...
