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Ariana Neumann knew her father had escaped the Nazis in the second World War. But she didn't know much more than that--until he died. Then she began…
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Nobuo Fujita wanted to set part of Southern Oregon on fire. He was a Japanese pilot during World War II, given the task of dropping incendiary devices in…
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Philippe Sands is a writer and international lawyer who works to curtail and punish mass murder by whichever term is used: genocide or crimes against…
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Fact and fiction combine in the book Salt to the Sea, by Repa Sepetys. It tells a true story through made-up characters, the story of a ship full of…
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Much has been written about the interning of Japanese-Americans during World War II, but Pamela Rotner Sakamoto's story of that period is a tale of a…
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It's hard to believe World War I was once called The Great War, when an even greater war followed it. The two World Wars are taken up as a single subject…
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Under an engraving of a four-engine airplane and a cross, a polished granite memorial at Mountain View Cemetery in Ashland, Ore., reads, “In Memory of the…
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Michael Gruenbaum was young when his family was forced to move into a Jewish ghetto in Prague. But he grew up fast when the Nazis increased their…
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The world had only three days to get used to the idea of nuclear weapons... when the second bomb dropped. It's been 70 years nearly to the day since an…
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The World War II draft called thousands of Oregonians into the armed forces, many of them with backgrounds similar to Dick Rone of the Nonpareil…