Read the telegram inviting application to WASP training, notification of acceptance into the WASP training program, required qualifications for acceptance into WASP program, letter from Walt Disney with a design for the WASP insignia, and notification from General Hap Arnold of the end of the WASP program.
Read an article written by Cornelia Fort, the first American woman pilot to die flying a military aircraft, and excerpts from Madge Rutherford Minton's and Mary Anna Martin Wyall's letters home.
Kurt Klein emigrated to the U.S. in 1937 and exchanged hundreds of letters with his parents who were deported to Auschwitz. Read excerpts from these letters.
One of the first public figures to make effective use of the airwaves, Charles E. Coughlin, was for a time one of the most influential personalities on American radio.
On November 9, 1938, the sounds of breaking glass filled the air throughout Germany and parts of Austria while fires devoured synagogues and Jewish institutions.Â
In 1944, more than 17 months after news of Hitler's plan to annihilate Europe's Jews reached the U.S., President Roosevelt issued an executive order that established the War Refugee Board.
In Poland, the Nazis moved to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto. In a desperate last stand, the remaining Jewish inhabitants began a hopeless month-long battle against them.
