Nisa Inayat Khan, a British-Indian spy who played a pivotal role in the French Resistance during World War II.

Nancy Wake was the most decorated servicewoman of World War II, but before the manhunts and the medals, she was just a New ...

Renee Guette, 98, laughed as she looked at her computer screen in Texas. On the other end of the video call was 97-year-old Andree Dupont, living in France. The women, who supported the French ...

When she was asked to spy for the French army, Marthe Cohn recalled decades later, she didn’t hesitate before saying yes. It was late 1944, months before the end of World War II in Europe. She had ...

France surrendered to the Nazis in 1940 for complex reasons. The proximate cause, of course, was the success of the German invasion, which left metropolitan France at the mercy of Nazi armies. But the ...

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 ...

Jonathan Freedland's latest explores why a small group of German aristocrats, army officers, diplomats and teachers resisted ...

Renee Guette, a WWII concentration camp survivor, talks online with Andree Dupont, an old friend from the French resistance who was imprisoned with her - Copyright ...