Man finds astonishing secret under his aunt’s old sewing machine
Carl Sabatino’s aunt had a big secret. But it wasn’t one she wanted to take to her grave. So shortly before she died, she let Carl in on it. It turned out, she had been …
Carl Sabatino’s aunt had a big secret. But it wasn’t one she wanted to take to her grave. So shortly before she died, she let Carl in on it. It turned out, she had been …
Something that was very clear when my grandma moved into the retirement home was that she didn’t like to get help with things she could previously do herself. She was embarrassed that she could not manage on …
CBS Peggy and Billie were married in 1944. They were still teenagers and looked forward to starting a life together. They made plans and shared their dreams, but they had no idea how drastically their …
1933 marked the building of the first concentration camp, where political prisoners were placed. Between 1937 and 1939, the construction of camps was scaled up, and by the end of 1945, there were a total …
Nicholas Winton, who later worked as a stock broker, planned to go to Switzerland for a ski holiday in the winter of 1938. But he changed his mind and instead went to Prague to meet …
1. Rocky Most of us have seen Sylvester Stallone’s classic about the underdog boxer who gets his chance to fight a heavyweight champion. But, the script for Rocky doesn’t have the bright and cheerful history as …
This photo has become one of the most iconic photos of World War II. A single man, August Landmesser, is visible amidst a large public gathering of Nazi proponents and Hitler’s followers. But when the …
When World War II broke out in Europe in 1939, 23-year-old Madame de Florian was forced to abandon her home in the heart of Paris. She locked the back door and fled south to escape …
Laura sang “You’ll never know this” by Engelbert Humperdinck before her husband, Howard, went out to fight in World War II. Then her voice have sounded just like Rosemary Clooney in the version she does …
73 years of marriage. That’s long enough to go through a whole lot of ups and downs. Helen and Joe Auer certainly had their share of them during the over 7 decades that they were …