26 Jan

(1962) In 1946 Holland, a young girl who barely survived Auschwitz concentration camp is desperate to reach Palestine. ...

25 Jan

(1937) A French WWI antiwar film and a cinema classic, co-written and directed by Jean Renoir, none other than the son of the impressionist painter. ...

25 Jan

On our last evening the "Siblings in Sweden" decided to do a "Pub Crawl" of our parents' favorite wartime Stockholm hangouts ...

12 Jan

Since I first wrote about Berns Salonger in 2011 I have been to this famous Stockholm restaurant three times! It was a favorite spot for my parents during World War II....

12 Jan

(1953) An American soldier falls in love with a Parisian girl during the U.S. liberation of Paris. He wants to marry her, but his commanding officer is against it. ...

01 Jan

(1946, 1960, 2011) Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was a Jewish physician in Hungary who in June of 1944 was sent with his wife and young daughter to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Once he arrived he volunteered to work as a doctor and ended up...

24 Dec

(2012) In the early days of World War II two airplanes, one from Great Britain and one from Germany, crash in the vast snowy wilds of Norway....

17 Dec

Favorite (2012) A Higher Call by Adam Makos tells the amazing story of two World War II pilots … Charlie Brown from the USAAF and Franz Stigler from the German Luftwaffe....

03 Dec

(1999) A Jewish vendor who lives in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi occupied Poland wants to give hope to the other residents who know that their neighbors and friends have been shipped away to unknown horrors. ...

26 Nov

The trams began to service Stockholm beginning in 1877 with small horse-drawn carriages. Then in the early 1900s they were run by the electric lines which ran throughout the city. ...

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