May 8th, 1945. Victory in Europe Day. Across London and Paris, church bells rang until the sound became one long, shimmering rope of joy. In…
April 12th, 1943. A cold morning inside a noisy plane factory on Long Island, New York. Outside, the sound of engines roared. Rivet guns screamed…
I arrived sooner than expected—the kind of early arrival fueled by good intentions and no wa:rning. I was holding a pie still warm from the…
April 17th, 1945. A cold, gray morning near Halbrun, Germany. The mud of the countryside is thick with rain, and something darker—something unspoken. Anna Schaefer,…
April 17th, 1945. A cold, gray morning near Halbrun, Germany. The mud of the countryside is thick with rain, and something darker—something unspoken. Anna Schaefer,…





