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KL Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers. Over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives here.

On This Day in 1945: Adolf Hitler Takes His Own Life...

James Murray - April 30, 2026 0

Tuesday brought another hammer blow from the air in occupied France. U.S. Eighth Air Force heavies went for the submarine base at St. Nazaire—those thick concrete shelters that are the wombs of the U-boat war

History Today: DISPATCHES FROM EUROPE — Week of February 15–21, 1943

James Murray - February 16, 2026 0

The Hawker Hurricane was manufactured in Thunder Bay - Today the plant is still here making the Bombardier rail cars that are exported world-wide.

The Hawker Hurricane – The Backbone of the Battle of Britain

James Murray - September 22, 2025 0

Waiting, waiting, waiting. Soldiers were all in camps, waiting to GO!

Allied Expeditionary Press Corps Report – June 2, 1944

James Murray - June 3, 2025 0

Remembering the Hawker Hurricane: Elsie MacGill’s Legacy and Canada’s WWII Effort

James Murray - November 11, 2023 0

Canadian Soldiers on Juno Beach

June 6, 1944 – Anniversary of Allied Invasion of Nazi Fortress...

James Murray - June 6, 2022 0

Local Artifact Lenders Help the Juno Beach Centre Mark the 80th...

NetNewsLedger - March 25, 2022 0

Veteran Carries Physical Reminder of Second World War – On Remembrance Day this year, many Canadians will be reflecting on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Among those will be war amputee veteran Bob Gondek, of Toronto, who served alongside the Allied Forces with the 2nd Polish Corps during the Italian Campaign. In 1944, Bob was based outside Loretto, Italy when heavy gun fire broke out, resulting in the loss of part of his left arm below the elbow. Bob immigrated to Canada where he became a member of The War Amps, an Association originally started by amputee veterans returning from the First World War to help each other adapt to their new reality as amputees. For the last 50 years on Remembrance Day, Bob has laid a wreath to honour his comrades and pay tribute to all those who lost their lives.

World War Two Veteran Shares His Story of Service and Injury

NetNewsLedger - October 23, 2020 0

TGM 24Oct1939 Prisoners Build - After Canada declared war on Nazi Germany, forging the last link in a transcontinental highway became urgent

Northern Ontario’s Wartime Highway

Edgar J. Lavoie - February 23, 2017 0

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Former POWs Honoured in Washington

NNL Staff - May 1, 2014 0