A box of chocolate helped my family escape Nazi controlled Free City of Danzig in the late 1930’s. Planning started in the summer of 1937 when my great-uncle George and his wife, Margaret, my ...

In 1939, it was obvious that Nazi Germany was on the war path. Austria had been annexed just a year earlier, and so was the Sudetenland that belonged to Czechoslovakia. The British and French, who ...

CWS 180804D 16:11:22 — 16:12:05 This story has been added by CSV volunteer Linda Clarkon behalf of the author Peter Gilson. His story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the ...

World on Fire starts in 1939 as Europe is on the brink of war. The new large-scale BBC series focuses on different stories across the continent, from the lives of those living in Manchester to the ...

The Danzig authorities today served an ultimatum on the Jewish community declaring that the first 1,000 of the 4,000 Jews in the Free City must emigrate “before the end of January” or face “serious ...

This story has been added by CSV volunteer Linda Clarkon behalf of the author Peter Gilson. His story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. The ...