Abtey, Jacques, 78–79
aktion, 50–51
Alliance (Noah’s Ark) spy network, 63–65, 67
Allied forces, 6, 13, 22, 33–34, 67, 71–73, 80, 92, 102, 128, 169, 196, 211, 217, 234–35
America First Committee (AFC), 193
American Friends Service Committee, 60
Amsterdam (Netherlands), 91
Anti-Comintern Pact, 148
arbeitslager (work camp), 37
Armia Krajowia (AK), (Home Army), 34, 41
Armstrong, Jennifer, 41
Army of Liberation, 143–44
Aryans, 2, 10, 12; Jews, as racial enemy of, 3
Auschwitz (concentration camp), 33, 50
The Autobiography of the Woman the Gestapo Called “The White Mouse” (Wake), 182, 252
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), 167–68
Baker, Josephine, 75–81
Banska Bystrica (Slovakia), 223–24
Battle of the Ardennes. See Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge, 128, 210–13, 218
Battle of France, 57–58, 62, 199
Belgian Army of Partisans, 136–38
Belgium, 2, 57, 89, 126–27, 134, 136–38, 141, 166, 211, 213, 219; anti-Jewish laws in, 128; escape lines in, 128, 130; Jewish children, rescuing of, 128; invasion of, 125
Belzec (concentration camp), 4
Berlin (Germany), 25, 230; as Judenfrei (Jew-free), 13, 26
Bles, Mark, 140
Bletchley Park: German Enigma Code, 169
Blitz, 166
Bonekamp, Jan, 105–6
Brittany (France), 68–70
Brittany Bureau of Information, 69
Brussels (Belgium), 130–31, 133
Buchenwald (concentration camp), 73
Cartaud, Pierre, 173–74
Catlos, Steven, 227
Cavell, Edith, 130
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 203
Chamberlain, Neville, 165
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France), 82–88
Chelmno (concentration camp), 4
Child at War (Bles), 140
Churchill, Winston, 1, 6, 71, 166–69
Clews, Syd, 140
Cochran, Jacqueline, 194
Collier’s (magazine), 231
Committee for the Defense of the Jews (CDJ), 128
concentration camps, 3–5, 11–12, 32, 38, 51, 83. See also death camps; forced labor camps; individual camps
Congo, 134
Copenhagen (Denmark), 147, 155, 158, 162
Cornioley, Henri, 188–90
La Creole (operetta), 77
Czechoslovakia, 61, 165, 223, 231
Czech Republic, 223
Czech Slovak Forces of the Interior (CFI), 223, 226
Dachau (concentration camp), 234–36
Daman, Hortense, 135–40
Darcissac, Roger, 86
Davis, Bill, 145
Davis, Guilliam, 226
D-day invasion, 58, 173, 184, 190, 197, 202, 234
death camps, 4, 51. See also concentration camps; forced labor camps
de Gaulle, Charles, 58–59, 63–64, 69–70, 78, 173
Denmark, 2, 148, 166; German edict in, 161; invasion of, 147, 158–59; Jews in, 149, 154–55, 160, 164; martial law in, 149; Resistance movement in, 150, 153, 159
Depée, Arnold, 132
Deuxième Bureau, 78
Diamant, Lea Adler, 49–51
Dietrich, Marlene, 213–20
Drôle de Guerre (Phony War), 2, 166, 199
Dunkirk (France), 133
Dutch Communist Party, 91, 104, 107
East St. Louis (Illinois), 76
82nd Airborne Division, 219
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 60, 100, 107, 196
The End of the Tunnel (Vos), 115
England, 178–79, 186, 200, 214, 231, 233. See also Great Britain
Europe, 1–2, 5, 10, 34, 61, 107, 166, 193, 198–99, 211, 230
Farmer, John, 179
Fascism, 231
February Strike, 91
Fellowship of Reconciliation, 87. See also Mouvement International de la Réconciliation
Final Solution, 3
Fiocca, Henri, 178–79
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), 168, 179
forced labor camps, 4, 32. See also concentration camps; death camps
Fourcade, Marie-Madeleine, 61–67
Fournier, Henri, 180
France, 2, 9, 31, 62, 67, 71, 74, 78, 82–83, 86, 89, 127, 131, 134, 138, 152, 166–68, 171, 175, 178, 180, 182, 184, 190, 196–97, 200–201, 219, 230; invasion of, 57, 186; liberation of, 60; Resistance movement in, 1, 59–60, 63–64, 71–72, 74, 79–80, 83, 172–73, 186, 197–98, 200; surrender of, 57–58; women in, 60
Franco, General, 131
Free French Forces (Forces Françaises Libres) (FFL), 58, 60, 78, 81
Freisler, Roland, 14
Frit Danmark (Free Denmark) (newspaper), 153, 159–60
Garrow Line, 178–79
Geheime Feld Polizei (GFP) (Secret Field Police), 138–39
Gellhorn, Martha, 229–37
Gentiles, 7
Germany, 1–4, 9–10, 12, 19, 22, 27, 31–32, 34, 40, 50, 58, 73, 77, 86, 92, 95, 122, 125, 128, 131, 136, 147, 150, 159, 165–67, 178, 193–94, 199, 214, 230–31, 234; surrender of, 6, 13, 150, 169, 196, 211, 236. See also Nazi Germany
Gestapo, 11, 13, 18, 46–47, 65, 71, 96–97, 110–12, 119–20, 142–43, 155, 172–75, 178–79, 188, 200–201
Girl in the Belgian Resistance (Davis), 145
Goebbels, Joseph, 12, 26, 79, 215, 253
government issue (GI), 210
Graf, Willi, 18–19
Great Britain, 1–2, 9, 31, 33, 58, 74, 90, 127, 131, 134, 147, 152, 154, 159, 166, 169, 175, 182, 190, 194, 200, 206; women, in military, 167–68. See also England; Wales
Group, 110. See also Laren Resistance
Gulovich, Maria, 221–28
Gut, Irene, 35–42
Haarlem (Netherlands), 102–4, 108, 117–18
The Hague (Netherlands), 95–96
Hannie Schaft Memorial Foundation, 108
Harlem Renaissance, 77
Harnack, Mildred Fish, 13
Hawaii, 194
Het meisje met het rode haar (The Girl with the Red Hair) (de Vries), 108
The Hiding Place (Boom, Sherrill, and Sherrill), 122
Hitler, Adolf, 2, 5–6, 9–13, 15, 22, 25, 32, 36, 38, 50, 52, 58, 61–62, 89–91, 94, 116, 131, 147, 165–66, 171, 179, 193, 199, 214, 217, 223; Jews, hatred for, 3
Hitler Youth (Hitler Jugend) movement, 11, 15, 38, 230
Holger Danske group, 162–64
Holy Roman Empire, 11
Hrinova (Slovakia), 222
Huber, Kurt, 18
Huguenots, 83
Idle Women, 167
In My Hands: Memoirs of a Holocaust Rescuer (Gut and Armstrong), 41
International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism, 78
internment camps, 83
Israel, 48
Italy, 6, 79, 131, 152, 193, 231
Jan Karski Award for Valor and Courage, 48
Jazz Age, 77
Jensen, Jacob, 155–56
Jewish ghettos, 3, 32, 36, 53; aktion in, 50–51. See also Warsaw ghetto
Jews: 32–33, 103, 117, 149, 154–55, 160, 164; anti-Jewish laws, 12, 25, 50, 128; Aryans, as racial enemy of, 3; and Final Solution, 3; German Jews, suicide of, 91, 95; hiding of, 85, 92, 96, 119–20, 127, 222; Jewish children, rescuing of, 128; Jewish orphans, 34, 44–46, 48; Jewish refugees, 83, 87, 119, 152, 179; safe houses, 27, 34, 131, 133, 162
John Paul II, 41
de Jongh, Andrée, 128–34
journalism: public opinion, role of in, 230–31
Kansas, 47
Keszthelyi, Tibor, 221–22, 224–25, 227
Keufgens, Fernande, 141–46
Khan, Noor Inayat, 170–76
King, Martin Luther Jr., 81
de Klijn, Alice, 109
de Klijn, Nap, 109
Kockova, Margaret, 225
Koornstra, Fred, 118
Kossak, Zofia, 33
Krahelska-Filipowicz, Wanda, 33
Kraków (Poland), 41
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), 12, 78
Lafrenz, Traute, 18
Land og folk (Country and People) (newspaper), 153
Laren Resistance Group, 110–11, 113, 115. See also the Group
Larroque, Hervé, 190
Lend Lease Act, 194
Leopold III, 125
La libre Belgique (Free Belgium) (newspaper), 126, 137
Liége (Belgium), 143–44, 207–8, 210
Life in a Jar (play), 47
Lindbergh, Charles, 193
Lithuania, 36
L’ordre national (magazine), 61–62
Loustaunau-Lacau, Georges (Navarre), 61–64
Love, Nancy, 194
Lozeman, Aalt and Alie, 97, 99
Lund, Ulla, 159
Lyon (France), 199
Maginot Line, 57
maquis. See maquisards
maquisards (French Resistance fighters), 59, 177, 180–82, 185, 187, 196
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 81
Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, 237
Mauthausen (concentration camp), 134
Medal of Freedom, 107
Mein kampf (My Struggle) (Hitler), 2, 10, 25
Mican, Jerry, 224–25
Milice Française (French militia), 188
Miracles Do Happen! (Virot Peel), 74
Mission Accomplished: Stop the Clock (Engelman), 212
Moulin, Laure, 59
Mount of Remembrance, 7
Mouvement International de la Réconciliation, 87. See also Fellowship of Reconciliation
Muus, Flemming, 154
Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (Nationalist Socialist party) (NSB) (Nazis). See National Socialist German Workers’ Party
National History Day, 47
National Labor Service, 16
National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazis), 10, 91–92, 105–7, 113–14. See also Nazi Germany; Nazis
Nazi Germany, 15, 57, 94, 103–4, 152; as Third Reich, 11. See also Germany; Nazis
Nazis, 3–4, 6, 25, 199; mentally disabled, euthanasia of, 16, 121; and racism, 78. See also National Socialist German Workers’ Party; Nazi Germany
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 50
Netherlands, 2, 57, 89, 91, 94–96, 100, 103, 107, 126, 150, 166; hongerwinter (hunger winter) in, 92–93, 102, 122; invasion of, 116; liberation of, 93; university students, loyalty pledge, 92, 104
NKVD (Soviet Secret Police), 226
Noah’s Ark (Fourcade), 67
Normandy (France), 1, 6, 13, 67, 71–72, 190, 196, 202, 207, 231–33
North Africa, 58, 80, 193, 200, 215, 253
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 3, 59, 196, 198, 201–3, 219, 223–24; Morale Operations (MO), 216
onderduikers, 91–92
101st Airborne Division, 219
Oversteegen, Freddie, 105–6
Oversteegen, Truus, 105–7
Patton, George S., 219
Pauline: The Life of an Agent of the SOE (Witherington Cornioley and Larroque), 190
Pawiak Prison, 47
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), 6, 194, 205
Picasso, Pablo, 77
Phillips, Muriel, 204–12
Podgorska, Stefania, 49–56
Polak, Milan, 222
Poland, 3–4, 35, 41, 47, 150; Catholic nuns, 34; children, as “Germanized,” 32; division of, 32, 36, 50; invasion of, 2, 31–32, 50, 136, 166, 171, 193, 199; Jewish ghettos in, 32, 36; Jews in, 32–34
Portugal, 80
Protest (leaflet), 33
Przemysl (Poland), 49–51
Raad van Verzet (Council of Resistance) (RVV), 104–5, 107
Radom (Poland), 36
Ragut, William M., 106
Rake, Denis, 180
Ravensbruck prison, 72–73, 121–22, 134, 136, 140
Reagan, Ronald, 101
Resistance movement, 3, 13, 25, 34, 92, 138; in Belgium, 126, 136, 142–45; courier work, 5, 137, 187, 222; in Denmark, 150, 153–54, 156, 159, 162; and espionage, 59–60; false identification papers, 4; in France, 1, 59–60, 63–64, 71–72, 74, 79–80, 83, 172–73, 186, 197–98, 200; in Netherlands, 95–96, 99, 103–8, 110, 119, 126; ration cards, 4–5, 118–19, 126; safe houses of, 4; underground newspapers of, 4, 126, 148, 159; women, role of in, 5–7. See also French Resistance; the Group; individual women; Laren Resistance
Righteous Among the Nations award, 7, 41, 48, 55, 88, 101, 115, 122, 127–28
Rokita, Sturmbannfürer, 37–38
Rommel, Erwin, 253
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 6, 193–94, 196; Date of Infamy speech, 204–5
Rose: Portrait of a Resistance Fighter (film), 74
Rosie the Riveter, 195
Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra), 13
Rotterdam (Netherlands), 90, 95
Royal Air Force (RAF), 34, 154, 166, 171, 190
Royal Navy, 166
Russia, 19. See also Soviet Union
Russian Empire, 32
safe houses, 27, 34, 131, 133, 162
Sandburg, Carl, 229
Schaap, James, 100
Schlage die trammel und furchte dich nicht (Beat the Drums and Be Without Fright) (von Maltzan), 29
Schmid, Jakob, 21–22
Schmorell, Alexander, 17–19
Scholl, Hans, 14–21
Scholl, Sophie, 14–18, 20–21, 23
Schutzstaffel (SS), 38
schwedenmöbel (Sweden furniture), 27–28
Semper Paratus, Always Ready (SPAR), 194
Sendler, Irena, 43–48
Seyss-Inquart, Commissioner, 105, 111
Sicherheitsdienst (SD), 38
Un simple maillon (Just a Link) (film), 127
Slovakian Uprising, 223
Sobibor (concentration camp), 4
Soldatensender West (radio program), 216–17
Soutendijk, Renée, 108
Southgate, Maurice (aka Hector Stationer), 187–89
Soviet Union, 6, 31–32, 34, 107; invasion of, 13, 50. See also Russia
Spain, 80, 130–32, 178–79, 231
Special Operations Executive (SOE), 3, 59, 148, 168–69, 171–74, 176, 178–80, 182, 187, 196, 199–200
St. Louis (Missouri), 76
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (newspaper), 230
Synnestvedt, Alice Resch, 60
szmalcowniks, 34
ten Boom, Betsie, 116–17, 119–22
Ternopol (Ukraine), 37, 40; as Judenrein (Jew-pure), 38–39
Terwindt, Beatrix, 98
Things We Couldn’t Say (Eman and Schaap), 100
Treaty of Versailles, 9–10, 12, 152
Treblinka (concentration camp), 4, 48
Trocmé, André, 82–88
Trocmé, Magda, 82–88
Trocmé, Nelly, 85
Truman, Harry S, 202–3
Ukraine, 36
Union of German Girls, 15
United Service Organization (USO), 216, 218–19; and Camp Shows, 215
United States, 5–6, 10, 41, 47, 55, 74, 101, 115, 134, 145, 182, 194, 196, 204, 214–15, 219, 230; as isolationist, 193; racism in, 76–77, 80
University of Munich, 16, 20–22
V-E (Victory in Europe) Day, 6
Vergeltungswaffen (“vengeance weapons”), 67, 167
Versteckt (Forbidden) (film), 29
Vichy France, 58, 62, 82–83, 188, 199
Viest, Rudolf, 224
Virot, Andrée, 68–74
Vivarais-Lignon Plateau, 83–84, 87–88
von Galen, Clemens August Graf, 16, 18
von Maltzan, Maria, 24–30
von Sternberg, Josef, 214
Vos, Johtje, 109–15
Vos, Peter, 112
de Vries, Theun, 108
Vught (concentration camp), 121
De waarheid (The Truth) (newspaper), 107
Waffen SS, 38
Wales, 206. See also Great Britain
Warsaw ghetto, 19, 43–45, 47. See also Jewish ghettos
Wehrmacht (regular armed forces), 26, 38
White Rose pamphlet, 15–22
Wichfeld, Jorgen, 152
Wichfeld, Monica, 151–57
Wilhelmina Resistance Cross, 107
Witherington, Pearl, 184–91
Wittenstein, Jürgen, 18
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), 194
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), 194
Women’s Army Corps (WAC), 194
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), 167, 171, 186
Women’s Land Army (WLA), 167, 195
Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS), 167
Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS), 167
Woodstock (New York), 115
World War I, 32, 57–58, 89, 125, 168
World War II, 1–2, 31, 165, 168, 182, 205, 208, 236
Wulff, Hilmar, 153–54
Yad Vashem, 7, 41, 48, 55, 88, 101, 115, 122, 127–28
Zou-Zou (film), 77