Syndrome K: The Cough That Saved Jews in WWII

It was in desperate times that some people rise up to help others, regardless of how risky it is. That was what Dr. Vittorio Sacerdoti, Professor Giovanni Borromeo, and Dr. Adriano Ossicini did— convincing the Nazis about a highly-contagious disease called Syndrome K.

The British Holocaust Hero You’ve Never Heard Of

In observation of the recent International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we bring to you an unsung Holocaust hero that history books often leave out. This is a story of a British banker who took a two-week holiday to Prague in 1938 in what was then Czechoslovakia and left with over 669 Jewish children, saving them from […]

August 1944, Anne Frank and her family are betrayed and arrested

During World War II, the Nazis tried to systematically eliminate the Jews from Europe with their “Final Solution.” Anne Frank’s family that had been hiding in Amsterdam from the Gestapo for more than two years was betrayed and arrested. Anne Frank and seven other Jews were sent to the Nazi death camps. Seven of them […]

From the Holocaust to America’s Special Forces

For most people, surviving the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe would be the defining moment of their lives. Men like Major General Sidney Shachnow aren’t most people. The Lithuanian-born Shachnow survived a forced labor camp and went on to join the U.S. Army, serve in Vietnam, and lead the Army Special Forces’ ultra-secret World War III […]