How a World War II Private Accidentally Joined the French Resistance Pfc. Stephen Weiss, third from left, in France, 1944, after being cut off from his U.S. army unit.

Four Frenchwomen who were sent by the Nazis to a labor camp for female prisoners found support in one another—during and ...

An ID card made and delivered to Marcel Pinte’s family in 2013 identifies the 6-year-old as a member of the French Resistance in World War II.

Simple History. The French Resistance (World War II) Posted: November 14, 2024 | Last updated: November 14, 2024. Resistance soon took place in different ways after Charles de Gaulle encouraged ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to former French Resistance activist and author Genevieve Callerot, who has died at age 108. Callerot, who was among the last survivors of the ...

1. THIS LAND IS MINE (Jean Renoir; 1943) (star)(star)(star)1/2 Mostly ignored in America, this is a better film than its reputation. A timid, childlike but brainy French schoolteacher (Charles Laug… ...

Arsène Tchakarian, the last surviving member of the Armenian-led Manouchian network, which fought alongside the French resistance against the Nazi occupiers during World War II, died Aug. 4 at a ...

It seems to have dawned simultaneously on many 95-plus year-old veterans of World War II that living. Search. ... A review of “The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground ...

The life of Henri Rol-Tanguy, a leader in the French Resistance during World War II, and praised for his efforts to liberate Paris, is recalled by host Liane Hansen and guest John Sweets, a ...

Germaine Tillion, 100, a celebrated anthropologist and French Resistance fighter during World War II, who wrote about her experiences in a Nazi camp, died April 19 at her home near Paris.

Shortly after D-Day during World War II, French resistance fighters took 47 captured German soldiers to a small wooded area in southwest-central France. In the scorching heat, ...