November 1918 and the war to end all wars comes to its conclusion as the guns on the western front fall silent. For four ...

Claudine Spire pointed to a group of toddlers in a black-and-white photo. "I thought I recognised myself," she said, ...

during the wake of the Allied forces' successful D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, it seemed as if the Second World War was all but over. On Dec. 16, with the onset of winter, the German army ...

Hiding out due to Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were said to be energized by the news that Allied forces had landed in France and were marching against Germany. Sadly, her hiding ...

Marceau was born in Strasbourg, France, as Marcel Mangel, son of a kosher butcher. During the German occupation of France, he and his brother, Alain, hid their identities as Jews and adopted the ...