Links To Learning More

A Troubled Peace

For survivors’ stories, see:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/

 

WWII:

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/collections/wwii-core-documents/

 

The French Resistance:

https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/resistance-movements/the-french-resistance/

https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=153

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaZETaKMMko

The French Resistance Memorial and Museum in the Vercors:

Memorial: https://www.parc-du-vercors.fr/resistance/home

Museum: https://en.vercors-drome.com/patrimoine-et-resistance/161352_musee-departemental-de-la-resistance/

Amazing and inspiring personal accounts of the French Resistance:

https://spartacus-educational.com/FRresistance.htm

British S.O.E agents with the French Resistance

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/spies-saboteurs-and-d-day

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-secret-british-organisation-of-the-second-world-war

 

Liberation of Paris

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-liberated

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/opinion/frances-troubled-liberation.html

https://www.historynet.com/a-moment-of-elation-the-liberation-of-paris.htm

 

V-E Day May 1945

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/victory-in-europe

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-ve-day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W6fg-xt1ZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH7fQ7TVpcs

 

Post-Liberation France 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1986/07/06/france-after-the-liberation-settling-the-score/1da560c2-6b3d-4da0-a551-124f36c131dc/

https://time.com/5303229/women-after-d-day/

Concentration Camp Survivors

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/concentration-camp-survivors-share-their-stories

https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/survival-and-legacy/liberation-the-survivors/

Displaced Persons

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/displaced-persons

Anne Frank

http://www.annefrank.org/

Elie Wiesel

http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/

Albert Camus

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1957/camus-bio.html
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/00/pwillen1/lit/indexa.htm

George Orwell

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/