As the year winds down, we're remembering people whose deaths didn't grab headlines in 2018 but whose obituaries told fascinating stories. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: People such as Freddie Oversteegen.
Seeing the film Schindler's List was a pivotal moment for Rob Prince, a moment that years later has led to his own Holocaust film. "I knew a little but not a lot about the Holocaust before Schindler's ...
Freddie Oversteegen was only 14, petite with long braids, when she became an assassin and saboteur. It was 1940, Germany had invaded the Netherlands, and she and her sister, Truus, who was two years ...
Carel Jan van Oss joined the Dutch Resistance in World War II quite by chance. He only intended to help some girls he knew by making fake identity cards for them. “I was about 18, just out of school.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Dutch resistance spirited newborn Flip Delmonte away after his parents were detained by Nazi occupiers of the Netherlands in World War II. They were among 102,000 Jews deported ...
Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book is simultaneously a sexually charged, non-stop action movie about the Dutch resistance to German occupation in World War II and a bleak examination of the often morally ...
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BERLIN (AP) – Klaas Carel Faber, a Dutch native who fled to Germany after being convicted in the Netherlands of Nazi war crimes and subsequently lived in freedom despite several attempts to try or ...
With three bestselling World War II espionage thrillers to his credit, including “Into the Lion’s Mouth” and “The Princess Spy,” author Larry Loftis faced a dilemma. He’d already covered the four ...