Nazis came to her door, shot men in her yard, and took her father. The 8-year-old lost it all in #WWII and only a leap from a train saved her from a death camp. What kept her going? Indomitable will. A tribute to that survivor~My Mother nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/0… @NatGeo #MothersDay
Under Nazi & Soviet occupation, my Polish mom was one of millions of children who suffered unimaginable horrors-and forged grit to survive.
A tribute to Last Voices of a generation @anneapplebaum @sikorskiradek @121Dulag @USEmbassyWarsaw @PolishEmbassyUS @1944pl @MNKrk @PolandMFA
A tribute to Last Voices of a generation @anneapplebaum @sikorskiradek @121Dulag @USEmbassyWarsaw @PolishEmbassyUS @1944pl @MNKrk @PolandMFA
I encourage you to read our whole Last Voices of #WWII @NatGeoMag package. Here's a letter from editor-in-chief @susanbgoldberg about why stories from WWII’s last survivors matter now more than ever: nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/… #VEDay75 #VEDay
From New York and London to Paris, Moscow and Berlin, @NatGeoMag profiled some of the Last Voices of #WWII with beautiful portraits by @RobertClarkFoto. Powerful stories in this gorgeous interactive: nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/… @NatGeo
You can read and hear Last Voices of #WWII from our June @NatGeoMag @NatGeoChannel here nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/…
Why it’s important to hear from Last Voices of #WWII - @susanbgoldberg explains our June @NatGeoMag cover story: To mark the 75th anniversary of the war’s end, the dwindling survivors of that generation share their stories & lessons learned #VEDay75 nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/…
Lynne Olson, author of best-sellers on #WWII history, notes in her intro that awareness of the war's almost unfathomable consequences has faded like a sepia photo. Fewer than 400,000 of Americans who served in the war—2.5 percent—were still alive in 2019. nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/0…
We introduce you on our June @NatGeo cover to America's oldest living #WWII veteran, 110-year-old Lawrence Brooks, who faced discrimination at home and abroad: nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/0…
This is what the oldest American #WWII veteran Lawrence Brooks, 110, looks like today, in @RobertClarkFoto's dignified portrait for on our June @NatGeoMag cover:
As I've said before, they don't call us @NatGeo for nothing. Part of the brilliance of this package comes from the dynamic #maps of nine key moments that defined #WWII nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/… from @mapchwastyk @rymobiz @themappist #VEDay2020
Our @NatGeoMag graphics team made an incredible #infographic on "Peaks of Brutality," highlighting the 100 deadliest wars and man-made conflicts of the past 2,500 years nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/… by
@aLucasLopez
& Kaya Lee Berne #VEDay75 #VEDay @NatGeo
@aLucasLopez
& Kaya Lee Berne #VEDay75 #VEDay @NatGeo
I'd also like to single out a poignant story that traces the flight of wartime refugees, a universal tale that's sadly repeated in today's global conflicts. My friend @EveConant writes about her Ukrainian mother's escape from Stalin & Hitler: nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/0… @NatGeo #WWII
And across the Pacific, never forget that for Hiroshima’s survivors, memories of America's atomic bomb are devastating and indelible nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/… by @Ted_Gup @NatGeo
You can hear directly from @NatGeo's Last Voices of #WWII, survivors in New York, London, Moscow, Berlin & Tokyo, by clicking on their pictures here: nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/… Watch the full documentary #WWII in Europe: Voices From the Front, Thurs May 21, at 8/7c @NatGeoChannel
One of my favorite profiles is Betty Webb, 97, whose spy work at Bletchley Park was so secret she couldn't tell her parents. With typical British understatement, she says~‘I wanted to do something more for the war effort than bake sausage rolls’ nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/… @NatGeoMag
GRATITUDE. I am lucky to be here today because my mother survived. And lucky to work for a truly global media company. A story I wrote about my mom-a #WWII survivor from #Poland-to mark #VEDay2020 was translated by @NatGeo Poland. How cool is that? national-geographic.pl/national-geogr…
The full survivor story in English is here nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/0… Polish excerpt in tweet above^ cc @ArturOrkisz @PolishEmbassyUS @USEmbassyWarsaw @121Dulag @1944pl @MNKrk @AuschwitzMuseum
Correct link here for @susanbgoldberg’s letter to @NatGeoMag readers on why it’s so important to remember the Last Voices of #WWII nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2020/…
