Student's diary tells of occupied Paris
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On some days her world was awash in light, on others dark shadows enveloped her and all of Paris.
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On the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a survivor recalls her experiences at the camp.
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The husband of an intensive care patient explains how writing a diary helped him survive the ordeal.
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It was 60 years ago today, in Paris. I had been waiting a long time for this moment, when I would finally see the enemy in defeat.
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There was little bread and barely any butter. Without coal, electricity or gas, Parisians were cooking meals on camp fires in the streets. By the summer of 1944, the French capital &#151; under the Nazi boot for four years &#151; was hungry, exhausted and seething with revenge.
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The handwritten accounts of more than 80,000 prisoners of war including Sir Douglas Bader, Donald Pleasence and Ronald Searle, are to be made public for the first time.
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Reader Suchet Bal sends us his experiences.
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The story behind an exhibition: postcards, designs, photography, travels, history, stamps and law enforcement.
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PARIS - A Resistance fighter who was executed by the Nazis was honored yesterday in schools across France, although some teachers defied an order by President Nicolas Sarkozy to have his final letter read aloud, saying the government was trying to twist history into propaganda.
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An Iranian-French journalism student who had been prevented from leaving Iran for nearly a year was en route to Paris on Friday, the French foreign ministry said.
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PARIS Aug. 25, 2004 - Paris turned back the clock Wednesday for a grand fete to remember the tears and the euphoria that heralded the liberation of the French capital 60 years ago as it threw off the shackles of Nazi occupation.
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From France to Auschwitz to France again, luggage with an uncertain destination.
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The newly discovered diary of an 18-year-old Jewish girl has offered a haunting insight into life inside a holocaust-era Dutch prison camp in a find archivists are comparing to the Anne Frank diaries.
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Text of the farewell letter written by 17-year-old Resistance hero Guy Moquet and read in schools across France on Monday:
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The diary of a teenage Holocaust victim writing to her boyfriend in 1943 has come to light in the Netherlands.
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Nacera Berrouba, a young Algerian in Paris, says she couldn't get the job she dreamed of until she dyed her hair blond.
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My British school days were a kindergarten Battle of the Bulge. I grew up, half German, a generation after the Second World War and my school friends fought the Hun in the playground every lunchtime.