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World War II veterans mark V-E Day in Washington with Trump
Ranging in age from 96 to 100, they joined the president in a commemoration at the World War II Memorial.
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Bill Nemitz: He picked up a WWII dog tag – and couldn’t let go
Thanks to a Royal Australian Navy veteran, a Portland soldier’s legacy rises from the battlefield on which he died.
Posted inLocal & State
South Portland memorial honors a WWII veteran known for modesty, valor
Captured multiple times and awarded a Bronze Star, Barry Scott didn’t speak about his experiences because he didn’t want to ‘brag.’
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Dorothea Buck, Nazi sterilization victim turned artist and author, dies at 102
Buck was one of an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 victims of forced sterilization under Nazi rule, and described in recent years by the German press as one of its last survivors.
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Bella Tovey, who bore witness to Holocaust, dies at 92
She survived Nazi labor and concentration camps as a Jewish teenager in Poland, living to tell her story to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Posted inPortland Forecaster
French Jewish spy at 99: ‘I’m still fighting the same battles every day’
Marthe Cohn is coming to Portland to tell how she infiltrated World War II Germany for the Free French Forces.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: Cape Cottage post office is gone, but the memories aren’t
In the 1940s, everything that kids loved or needed was right in their own neighborhood.
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Anita Epstein, who chronicled her infancy during the Holocaust, dies at 76
“Few babies or very young children, not rescued or hidden, survived,” a historian at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says.
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Leonard Pitts: On 75th anniversary of D-Day, consider what you’d give to save your world
The Americans who fought World War II weren’t a perfect generation, but they pulled together on behalf of something bigger than themselves.