She knew her husband would be furious, but the image of the bloody rag burned in her mind. That night, Fanny broke the rules of…
Another young man from a good family with too much money and not enough health. Ellen kept her gaze unfocused behind the green glass. Her…
Charleston would be more vigilant than Savannah. Wilmington more vigilant than Charleston. and Baltimore, the last slave port before freedom, would be the most dangerous…
Behind the green tinted glasses, she studied the face that was warning her about the very people who might save her life. “I understand,” she…
Three officers stood near the exit and one was moving systematically through the crowd, stopping certain people, asking questions, demanding to see papers. Ellen and…
Proof that the system was not unbreakable, that resistance was possible, that people who were supposed to be property could claim their own humanity and…
The SS women handled auxiliary communications, telephone operators, radio operators, stenographers for the SS, and in some cases, they were guards in concentration and extermination…

Hedwig Poast and Lena Hyrich: Women and Lovers of SS Leaders. The officers of the German secret service are well-known, but they also had wives…
Their escape, that impossible 4-day journey from Mon to Philadelphia, became something more than personal triumph. It became a weapon in the hands of those…
” Ellen closed her eyes trying to imagine it. a world where she wasn’t performing, wasn’t hiding, wasn’t constantly one mistake away from destruction. It…
