A Message From Mathias B. Freese, Author of The i Tetralogy

Mathias B. Freese, author of The i Tetralogy and Down to a Sunless Sea, recently left a comment on the sign up page for the WWII challenge.  You might have misssed his message, so we thought we’d post it here.
I am honored that The i Tetralogy is listed in your challenge.  If your readers would [...]

Polish Holocaust Survivor

In a world where we are constantly fed fear for breakfast over the newswires and on the television, its a wonder how so many people across the world can believe that the atrocities of the holocaust did not occur or were greatly exaggerated.
One author, Jan Gross, recently called attention to the atrocities that continued in [...]

Review: HITLER AND MARS BARS by Dianne Ascroft [Diary of an Eccentric]

Hitler and Mars Bars by Dianne Ascroft tells the story of Erich Schnell, who is just four years old when the book begins in March 1945. Erich and his brother, Hans, live in Goldschmidthaus Children’s Home in Bredenscheid, Germany, and though they are starving due to food shortages, the home offers them a better life [...]

Pearl Harbor

Today is December 7, the day that will live in infamy!  It has been 67 years since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and awakened a sleeping military giant–the United States.  Until that day in 1941, America had remained neutral in World War II. The Japanese commenced not only an air attack, but surprised [...]

Leopold Engleitner: Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor

Serena found a story in the Dec. 1 online issue of the Christian Science Monitor about Leopold Engleitner, 103, the oldest living survivor of the Holocaust.  Engleitner survived three Nazi camps.  What is unique about Engleitner is that he’s not a Jew, a homosexual, or a member of the other well-known groups that endured persecution by [...]