The Valiant Woman Project

Kate Lipner was seventeen years old.  Her father was in a German labor camp and her mother had recently died.  She lived alone in Vichy Fran...

Mother Elizabeth of the Eucharist, born Elise Rivet, was the Mother Superior of a French convent during the Second World War.  She and her S...

Sorry for the recent cyber silence!  It's been a busy week, but full of good things. Last night we went to a baptism for THREE little ...

Tucked away in a corner of Berlin is the Museum der Deutsche Widerstand, or Museum of German Resistance. The museum is actually located...

Lady Almina, the Fifth Countess of Carnarvon lived at Highclere Castle in the early 1900's. (And yes, that is where Downton Abbey is se...