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Miraculously, my mother did what almost no one else in her large family could: She survived WWII. She arrived at New York’s Ellis Island in 1946, still a teenager. Orphaned, dispossessed of everything and knowing no English, she lived first in Toronto with her older sister, Jean, who’d left Poland a decade before the war when my mother was still an infant. A seamstress in a factory, Jean became the devoted, sometimes nagging, older sister my mother had never known. But my mother’s new life would be built on her own terms. After six months, my mother returned to New York. She shared an a...

What Were Romanian Soldiers Doing at Stalingrad? The destruction of two Romanian armies at Stalingrad increased the unpopularity of the war in Romania and exacerbated the already strained relations between the Romanian and German militaries. Here's What You Need to Know: German and Romanian forces at Stalingrad failed to stem the tide of the resurgent Soviet Red Army. World War II involved some of the most complex alliance systems in the history of warfare. During the course of the conflict, former antagonists became allies and former allies became foes. Of all the alliances struck during th...