Ancient

This article recounts the story of Hedwig Höss – the wife of Rudolf Höss, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp – and her family’s life […]

In February 1889, a small notice appeared in the Cincinnati Inquirer. A call for medical aid to a woman in rural Kentucky who hadn’t left […]

There’s a photograph that hangs in the Pendleton Family Manor in rural Virginia. It shows a bride in white lace, her face pale as porcelain, […]

In the summer of 1965, a state trooper named Michael Garrett pulled over on a dirt road in southwestern Virginia because he thought he saw […]

January 23, 1943, northern France, Pas-de-Calais region.  Snow fell heavily on the ruins of an old textile factory converted into something that German military maps […]

My name is Claire Morau.  I am 72 years old today and I live in a small apartment in Lyon.  For 48 years, I kept […]

The first time that German General Klaus von Richtberg entered Barrack Number 7 of Ravensbrück in March 1943, he didn’t say a single word. He […]

I spent years trying to erase from my memory the sensation of the cold iron biting my wrists as the water rose to my neck.  […]

January 23, 1943, 47 a.m., eastern sector of Tionville, Moselle region, occupied territory of France. The sound of German boots echoed in the wet concrete […]

In the early autumn of 2021, two sisters from Portland, Oregon embarked on what was supposed to be a simple weekend camping trip in the […]