Yom HaShoah The internationally acknowledged Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day (or Holocaust Day, in English) is colloquially known...

Lientje van der Mast was born on January 8, 1914 in Haarlemmermeer, in North Holland province, near Amsterdam. Her parents were Cornelis...

On pages 7 and 8 of That Damned Torpedo I contemplate historiographic approaches to numbers of casualties in wars. I concluded that on an...

Second Officer Dirk van Ekelenburg’s ship, the MV Berakit, was torpedoed at 05:56 on May 7, 1943, by the Japanese submarine I-27, under...

Pastor Dirk van Ekelenburg was a first cousin of Nederland Lines second officer Dirk van Ekelenburg. He was born in Vlaardingen, South...

In the 1940s, the instantaneous sharing of a photo of one’s lunch at XYZ restaurant would have seemed peculiar at best. Today’s texting,...

I've read that war is God's way of teaching Americans geography. This is the map (26" x22") on my office wall on which I located places...