
February 1945, a frozen forest near the Elba River, Germany. The temperature is minus 28° C. Snow falls in sheets. 29 young German women, nurses,…

Mississippi, 1858. The overseer, Thomas Briggs, stood in the mud, holding a chain in one hand and a whip in the other. In front of…

They were told Americans would torture them until they begged for death. But when 16 Japanese women stepped off the train in Montana’s wilderness, September…

They were told American soldiers would use them, defile them, strip away the last shreds of their dignity. But when 300 Italian women stepped off…

In the spring of 1854, a doctor’s handwriting destroyed a household before a single shot was fired. Before a single courtroom gavel fell, before anyone…

A widow in 1813 chose her tallest slave for her six daughters. And she created a dynasty, but not the kind she expected. Margaret Ashford…

They were told to hate, to fight, to die for the fatherland. But when Greta Schmidt and Leisel Hoffman stepped off the transport ship in…

They told her the Americans would cut off her hand. In the spring of 1945, as the Third Reich collapsed into rubble and ash, a…

They told her the Americans would let her die, that prisoners like her, a German woman carrying the enemy’s shame, deserved no mercy. But when…

He bought a slave just to be a nanny for his motherless daughter. But when he found out what she was doing every night in…





