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Picture shows Pasquale Gissi, undated. He was the longest-living citizen of Andria, Italy. (Newsflash)

World War II Italian Resistance Fighter Dies Days Short Of 108th Birthday

Post author:Joseph Golder
Post published:July 8, 2024

A 107-year-old Italian World War II veteran who fought the Nazis as a resistance fighter and ended up in a Nazi concentration camp has died. Pasquale Gissi, known to locals…

Photo shows Lina Volpi (left) and John Allman Hemingway (right), undated. Her mother saved the RAF pilot during the Second World War. (Lina Volpi/Newsflash)

Battle Of Britain Hero’s Heart-Wrenching Reunion With Italian Girl’s Family Who Saved Him From Nazis

Post author:Simona Kitanovska
Post published:July 3, 2024

A former Battle of Britain hero has met with the daughter of a little girl who helped him escape from German forces nearly 80 years ago after his Spitfire was…

The former concentration camp secretary Irmgard Furchner in the Itzehoe regional court. (Newsflash)

Jewish Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Testifies Against Former Secretary, 96, In German Court

Post author:William McGee
Post published:December 23, 2021

A Jewish survivor of the Stutthof Nazi concentration camp has testified in court against a former secretary who is on trial for complicity in over 11,000 cases of murder and…