For others, like Benelux employee Patrick Livémont, the sense of historical duty takes a more individual and private form.

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys in which they were packed into cramped cattle cars.

Hundreds of passengers were evacuated safely after a fire started on a train on SEPTA's Wilmington/Newark Regional Rail line. The fire engulfed the train's lead car at a station in Ridley Park in ...

After decades of discrimination, Vernon Baker was finally recognized for his heroism during an assault on a German stronghold ...

The greatest World War II movies ever capture one of the most devastating conflicts in history in historically accurate and ...

Prohibited from serving with the U.S. Army as a medical officer, Barbara Stimson was commissioned by the British—and helped ...

Yes, there was a spirited and ferocious Dutch resistance against their German occupiers throughout World War II, which was joined ... They were pushed into waiting tram cars to the Central Station ...

Vernon Baker is among the seven Black American troops to receive the Medal of Honor for their actions during WWII. (DOD ... his parents were killed in a car accident, leaving him and his two ...

In all, 56 survivors gathered under a huge tent set up over a gate and railway tracks at ... which was under German occupation during World War II. Most of the victims were Jews killed on an ...

In all 56 survivors gathered under a huge tent set up over a gate and railway tracks at the ... which was under German occupation during World War II. Most of the victims were Jews killed on ...

She was born in Yugoslavia to ethnically German parents. And after World War II ended ... in front of the train, another group could have come in, pried open our cattle car and possibly set ...