german occupation, 1940-1945

Examines the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II, including background on Denmark and the Holocaust, firsthand accounts from the many people involved, and how thousands of Jews were saved from the Nazis.

Text and photographs survey the planning and execution of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Germanoccupied Europe on June 6, 1944.

During World War II Briton Marian Sutro is recruited for service in the Special Operations Executive, only to find that another secret organization wants her to infiltrate Paris to persuade a research physicist to join the Allied war effort.

A World War II escape narrative, telling the story of how Jan Baalsrud, a member of a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos who were ambushed on their way to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance, managed to evade the Nazis and make his way to a small arctic village whose residents were determined to save him.

In World War II France, a young girl's prayer for an angel to come rescue her from the Nazi occupation is answered by the arrival of an American paratrooper. Inspired by the author's memories of his father-in-law who was a paratrooper.

During the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Lisa and other teenage Jews become involved in an underground resistance movement and eventually must flee for their lives.

In 1940, when the Nazi invasion of Norway reaches their village in the far north, twelve-year-old Peter and his friends use their sleds to transport nine million dollars worth of gold bullion past the German soldiers to the secret harbor where Peter's uncle keeps his ship ready to take the gold for safekeeping in the United States.

The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

Nineteen-year-old pilot Henry Forester, having returned home to Virginia after fighting in World War II, is consumed by worry over the well-being of the people who helped him escape Nazi-occupied Germany and returns to France, where he is shocked to see the ravages of war and tries to regain internal peace.

In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.