Nels Sommer & Ane Marie Jonasen met and married in Denmark and had their first two children there before emigrating to Rockford, Illinois.
In July 1940, consular officials from three nations conspired to open an escape route for Jews out of occupied France. Why did they do it?
The home of a French Jewish jeweller was "Aryanized" and became a Nazi salon during the Occupation.
The Wencl J. & Theresia (Braulich) Haberman Family
Though raised in a Jewish household, Chelsea confronts her family’s deepest mystery: her grandfather Karl Stöcker’s rumored Nazi past.
He wanted to find a connection to France and an ancestor who was an artist like him... and his genealogy delivered the goods!