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Greta Miller’s hands are shaking as she moves closer to the door. The smell of soap and disinfectant fills the air. Behind her, women whisper…

The war had already ended in everything but the paperwork when they walked out of the communications building and into the pale morning light of…

They would walk to the library separately, find separate tables, read separately. [music] Occasionally they sat within sight of each other. They did not discuss…

Lena Hartman was 24 years old, standing at the south rim of the Grand Canyon in January of 1945, and she had not spoken in…

Elsa stood in the yard with the coins in her palm and the recipe in her pocket and the pencil where it always was and…

Doesn’t seem to matter much to the wars. He drove the second screw. Elsa held the hinge plate steady and thought about her father’s workshop….

Hayes, Kansas, June 1945. The day started the same way every day started. 5:30. The light coming through the barracks window still gray and uncertain,…

She drank from the glass. After a long time, she said quietly to no one in particular. In the tone of a woman reading aloud…

Late October 1945, the war had been over for 5 months. Sophie Winsel knew this the way you know something that has not yet finished…