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On August 5, 1942, German soldiers arrived at the orphanage on Sienna Street in the Warsaw Ghetto with orders to empty it. Inside were roughly...
In the spring of 1940, Japanese forces were closing in on Yangcheng in China's Shanxi Province. Gladys Aylward — a former London parlour maid turned...
In 1873, Phoebe Knapp sat at her piano in Brooklyn and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does this tune say?"...
In the final year of his life, Rembrandt van Rijn stood before a massive canvas in his modest Amsterdam studio — a far cry from...
For six years, Leo Tolstoy sat at his desk in the estate house at Yasnaya Polyana, a hundred and twenty miles south of Moscow, writing...
In the spring of 1940, as Japanese forces closed in on the city of Yangcheng in Shanxi Province, a small British missionary named Gladys Aylward...
In 1988, Grete Winton was rummaging through her attic in Maidenhead, England, when she discovered a worn scrapbook. Inside were lists of children's names, photographs,...
At 12:55 a.m. on February 3, 1943, a German torpedo tore into the hull of the USAT Dorchester in the icy North Atlantic near Greenland....
On May 5, 1945, Japanese machine gun fire swept across the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged thirty-five-foot cliff face the Americans had nicknamed...
In the winter of 1942, a knock came at a farmhouse door in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village nestled in the mountains of south-central France....
In late July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As retribution, deputy commander Karl Fritzsch lined up the men of Block 14 and selected ten...
On the morning of October 6, 1536, guards led William Tyndale from the damp stone cells of Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels to a wooden stake...
By 1818, Ludwig van Beethoven could not hear a single note. The composer who had once filled Vienna's concert halls now lived in total silence,...
On March 30, 1842, in the small town of Jefferson, Georgia, Dr. Crawford Williamson Long did something no surgeon had ever done. He soaked a...
Between 1850 and 1860, Harriet Tubman returned thirteen times to Maryland's Eastern Shore — the very land from which she had escaped — to lead...
For eighteen years, Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, a city perched on the northern bank of the Ohio River with slaveholding Kentucky just...
On June 12, 1942, a thirteen-year-old girl in Amsterdam received a red-and-white checkered autograph book for her birthday. Within weeks, Anne Frank and her family...
On March 20, 1852, the Boston firm of John P. Jewett published a two-volume novel by a minister's daughter from Connecticut. Harriet Beecher Stowe's *Uncle...
On May 10, 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Jozef De Veuster — known as Father Damien — stepped off a boat onto the Kalaupapa...
On the evening of March 24, 1882, Dr. Robert Koch stood before the Berlin Physiological Society and made an announcement that would alter the course...
On March 20, 1852, a small Boston publishing house, John P. Jewett and Company, released a two-volume novel by a minister's daughter from Connecticut. Harriet...
On February 18, 1943, twenty-one-year-old Sophie Scholl climbed the marble staircase of the University of Munich carrying a suitcase full of contraband. Not weapons. Not...
In 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach took up his post as Thomaskantor at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. The position was grueling — he was...
In the winter of 1943, the sound of a buzzer echoed through a narrow house at Barteljorisstraat 19 in Haarlem, Netherlands. Corrie ten Boom —...