World War II

A public arts and culture initiative provides a yearlong mentorship for around a dozen Iowa artists with disabilities who work across a variety of mediums. Then, playwright Mary Swander discusses her new one-man show, Coop.

A new film series is looking back at five iconic Hollywood films from directors and actors who left Europe in the years leading up to World War II. "From Hitler to Hollywood" will feature screenings at The Last Picture House in Davenport starting Sept. 3.

It was 80 years ago that the Karp family walked out of Oskar Schindler’s factory as free Jews. They had survived the unimaginable and would soon find a new life in Iowa. Celina, who was just 13 at the time, shares her story of overcoming hate and the importance of finding your voice.

The Scattergood Friends School in West Branch served as a hostel from 1939-1943, giving shelter to refugees from Europe fleeing Hitler's regime.

Eighty years wasn't too long a wait for an Iowa native to don the ceremonial cap and gown.

The Ghost Army was kept a secret for decades after the war.

Ninety-year-old identical twins Bonnie Smola and Donna Story spent their first 20 years together, and the next 20 years apart, before coming back together for the next half-century.

Caleb Sinnwell, a junior at Nashua-Plainfield Jr.-Sr. High School played a pivotal role in getting the Congressional Gold Medal awarded to living and deceased members of the Ghost Army, a World War II deception unit that was kept secret for half a century after the war.

The Congressional Gold Medal was recently awarded to living and deceased members of the Ghost Army, a World War II deception unit that was kept secret for half a century after the war.

Erika Schwartz was born in a Jewish ghetto in Hungary in 1944, one day before Nazis sealed it off. Against all odds she and her mother survived the Holocaust, eventually moving to the United States.