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I recently received one of those "forwards" which can sometimes be annoying. But today (5 October, 2009), it was different. A friend sent me a forward about a woman, Irena Sendler, a true WWII heroine. Someone also mentioned her name this week while I was book signing at Höstfest (Minot N....

We just had to offer this new CD from Scandinavia to go with Jerry's Vallkulla book series, as it wasn't being sold anywhere in USA. Now you can hear the sounds of the summer forest as the young herdswomen like the vallkullor Anna-Stina and Jugas-Brita used to communicate. The CD is about to be prev...

Therese Nahlbom had several of her other photos accepted in the prestigious European photography contest, Al-Thani Award and today it was announced she won a Gold Medal of Excellence for her children's photo titled "Standing". Wishing her the best of luck in this! Here are the links: http:...

Since I wrote the novel "My Enemy's Child" at book signings, lectures, etc. I am often approached by readers who have themselves had personal experience with the Nazi Lebensborn endeavor. In one particular instance, reading "My Enemy's Child" prompted one person to investigate th...

Here is a link to a recent article citing Tess's award winning photography in Gagnef Dalarna Sweden.

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Again, from the Virtual Jewish Library: "In the fall of 1939 Hitler had conquered Poland in a three-week campaign-the beginning of the Blitzkrieg, which within 22 months would give him control over virtually all of Western Europe and large chunks of the East. At the time, Heinrich Himmler gave ...

...from the Jewish Virtual Library:

"...many thousands of children had been kidnapped by the Nazis, whose purpose had been twofold: to deplete the populations of the countries Germany was conquering and to replenish Germany's own population with racially valuable children."

Here is a link to the Virtual Jewish Library and a report by Gitta Sereny, an investigator in post-war Germany for UNRRA (the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration). She notes the experience of investigating two of the 250,000 children, stolen by the Nazis from Europe and Scandinav...

The Royal Air Force (RAF) had three organizations of service which attacked and defended against the AXIS powers: RAF BOMBER COMMAND RAF COASTAL COMMAND RAF FIGHTER COMMAND Many of these brave men are still living and offer captivating stories of their sortes in the air over Europe. Just ask one.

Lebensborn began as a benevolent social services program for unwed mothers in pre-WW-II Germany.

Why did it develop into such a horrendous program of legalized kidnapping?