In early 1941 in Nazi-occupied France, a German officer stopped a 17-year-old girl and her ailing grandfather. She explained that they were taking the train to see family in their home village near ...

PARIS (AP) — France is honoring four people who resisted the Nazis during World War II by inducting them into Paris’ Pantheon mausoleum, in a rare and highly symbolic ceremony aimed at uniting the ...

Madeleine Riffaud, who has died aged 100, was a heroine of the French Resistance and one of the last surviving links with the Liberation of Paris in 1944. The decisive moment of her life, she believed ...

As Allied armies approached, the people of Paris took their destiny into their own hands. Witness the chaotic and courageous ...

That’s one of the stories included in Melange Dance Company’s expanded piece, “Love Letters of World War II.” The show runs ...

Odile de Vasselot, aged 99: she was spurred to action by de Gaulle’s radio broadcasts from London - THOMAS SAMSON/AFP Odile de Vasselot, who has died aged 103, served in the French Resistance during ...

She had to fight for recognition after a male colleague took credit for her work in identifying an extra chromosome as the ...