AvatarkmryanMonique Hanotte, Savior of Allied Airmen, Dies at 101 (Published 2022)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Alex TraubUsing her knowledge of the Belgium-France border and quick thinking, she guided dozens of downed Allied airmen to safety during World War II. Monique Hanotte, who greeted border guards as friends as she smuggled about 140 Allied airmen out of German-occupied Belgium during World War II, died on Feb. …
AvatarkmryanWhy the US photographed its own WWII concentration campsverified_publisherVox - Coleman LowndesDorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades. US President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 — two months after Japan’s bombing of the US Navy base at Pearl Harbor. It empowered the US army to designate strategic …
AvatarkmryanFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCitizen 13660, a Graphic Memoir of Japanese Concentration Camps, Is an Understudied Masterpiecehyperallergic.com - Caroline Ellen LiouSeeing Miné Okubo’s memoir makes the betrayal, humiliation, and downright misery suffered by countless Japanese Americans hit home in a way that no …
AvatarkmryanA Canadian opens up about her secret wartime work — eavesdropping on Japanverified_publisherCBC News - Ashley BurkeAt age 97, Marjorie Stetson has never told anyone her secret code number — until now. That's the identity code — 225 — that she typed on every page of …
AvatarkmryanOverlooked No More: Kim Hak-soon, Who Broke the Silence for ‘Comfort Women’ (Published 2021)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Choe Sang-HunHer public testimony about the horrors of sexual slavery that Japan had engineered for its World War II military encouraged other survivors to step forward. This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The …
AvatarkmryanEdith Cavell: how the executed British First World War nurse became a symbol of peacehistoryextra.com - Jonny WilkesHours before she was taken from the cell where she had spent the last ten weeks and executed, Edith Cavell had a visitor. Her friend, Reverend H …