Author: Katie Anderson

From 1931-1932, the Japanese Imperial army took over Manchuria, and in July of 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War began. In December of this war, a battle occurred in Nanking between the Chinese and Japanese. Or was it a massacre of the Chinese by the Japanese? In her book, “The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust […]

From 1954 to 1962, Algerians fought for independence from French imperialism. During this time, France fought to continue its control over Algeria, as well as to pursue its agenda of performing a cleanse over its country and Algeria. This cleanse was to create a new standard of hygiene amongst French citizens, because as Kristin Ross […]

Post World War II, thousands of people became displaced and were in need of a place to live. Many Jewish Holocaust survivors found themselves without a home and/or family, and they were thus enticed by the Zionist movement to create a Jewish state. The idea was that it would solve their homelessness, while giving them […]

Lessons on the horrors of the Holocaust often include statistics on the number of deaths and personal narratives of survivors and their hardships. What became of the liberated Jews directly following the Holocaust is often overlooked. Many survivors had no home to return to because approximately 5,000 Jewish communities had been destroyed during WWII. Others […]

In 27 B.C., Augustus Caesar created the greatest empire of all time: the Roman Empire. At its most expanded form, the Empire stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Euphrates River. The Romans owe their successful expansion efforts to their military techniques. Once the Romans conquered a town or city, they absorbed not only their […]

Ten years following the drop of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the emotional and physical scars created by the bombing were still prominent in Hiroshima. Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto of Japan and Norman Cousins, an American editor who worked to bring awareness to the struggle of Japanese war victims created a program to fly women, who […]

Americans Throw a Parade for WWII Veterans Returning Home

When I think about war veterans today, I imagine men and women in uniforms, coming home to their country, awaited by a fanfare of love and respect. What I did not think about however, was how this homecoming would go down if the veteran’s home […]

“They Called Me Leni,” a book about a kidnapped Czech girl, sent to be raised in Germany.

Leni Freiwald is a fictional character from Czech writer Zdenka Bezdekova’s book entitled, “They Called me Leni.” She was born in Czechoslovakia in 1946 and named Alena Sykorova. Kidnapped from her home in Czech, she was taken […]

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