
October 1945, a muddy field in New York. The rain falls cold and steady. 847 German women step off cattle cars. Their legs shake. Their…

In the final chaotic hours of World War II, as Allied forces closed in from all sides and the Third Reich crumbled into ash and…

May 8th, 1,945. Berlin is burning. Soviet artillery pounds the ruins of Hitler’s capital into dust. Nazi officers are torching documents, swallowing cyanide capsules, putting…

The dawn was colorless, the kind of pale gray that makes even the living look like ghosts. It was January of 1940 5 somewhere on…

It was the kind of cold that killed slowly, breath freezing midair, fabric stiff with frost. Manuria, January 1945. A line of exhausted Japanese nurses…

August 1945. The air in Japan still smelled of ash and surrender when Allied forces began rounding up prisoners across the Pacific. Convoys of trucks…

The clang of metal echoed through the narrow corridor like a warning bell. Cold air slipped through the gaps in the wooden planks as the…

Lie on this table, don’t scream. Five words, English. But Sori hears them in Japanese, her mind translating what she’s been warned about for months.…

November 1944, Camp Aliceville, Alabama. The German nurse picked up the jar with shaking hands, not from fear, from confusion. Helga Brandt had survived RML’s…

July 1945, Camp Swift, Texas. The exam room is hot and still, smelling of disinfectant and dust, while a tired ceiling fan clicks above a…





