Short stories tagged with WWII
Listing 20 stories.
A WWII army officer begrudgingly sticks his neck out for his fellow Jewish trainees' right to go to shul, which opens him up to manipulations from a trainee who tries to control his fate in the army and avoid deployment in the violent Pacific theater.
A father gets a call informing him that his son was arrested in a far away town, so he goes through every effort to find him and get him back.
A young woman finds the letters that her aunt wrote to her while the aunt was in a concentration camp, helping her mother give birth and raise the young woman
An aging Jewish woman who escaped the Nazi occupation of Poland plans a Passover meal for her family in 20th century New York. Her family worries that she's losing her mind, but she worries what is really being lost is her memory.
A man of mysterious origins comes under suspicion in a French village when the outbreak of WWII throws his allegiance into question and a death occurs on the grounds of his hotel.
A young schoolteacher struggles to break the news of her pregnancy to her husband, haunted by the secret of her past — that she's adopted, which leads her to question her legitimacy as a mother.
A series of "sketches" illustrating the perverse and horrific crimes perpetrated by soldiers during WW2.
A Russian emigre calls a long-lost relative in New York asking for asylum. Her strange, self-sabotaging actions call into question her real intentions.
When a World War II era navy woman hears a fellow navy man die eighty years in the future over her radio, she becomes determined to contact him to prevent his fate.
Shortly before WWII, a young girl grows up on the grounds of a mental asylum where her father is Chief of Psychiatry. She experiences sexual assault at the hands of one of the patients who her father has become taken with.