Many of Sendak's family members in Europe were killed by the German Nazis in death camps during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Miller's television drama, "Playing for Time", told of an orchestra of prisoners at the Nazi death camp,Auschwitz, during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

And later still, during the War of 1812, the Americans defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Audrey Hepburn often said her loyalty to UNICEF was the result of her experiences as a child during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

In another example, pilot Edith Foltz Stearns was flying a plane to a military base in Scotland during World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

And later still, during the War of Eighteen Twelve, the Americans defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain.

VOA: special.2010.08.30

President Truman tried to stop the increases through a special price control agency that had been created during the war.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

During World War Two, Dave Brubeck,who is white, formed one of the first racially mixed bands in the Army.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

Abraham Lincoln was the only president in American history to lead the nation during a civil war in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Much of the money was spent on payments to men who had fought in the Union Army during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Abraham Lincoln is remembered as the president who ended slavery in the rebel southern states during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

He had been a teacher, a college president, and a general in the Union army during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

But during World War Two, national leaders recognized the importance of the territory to security in the Pacific.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

It tells the story of a German woman who served as a guard at a Nazi death camp during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.02.20