We're grateful to Barb Smith for introducing us to Art and Rose Gelbart, Holocaust survivors who joined our livestream on December 1, 2025. Barb wrote an account of their World War II experiences in the DD214 Chronicle, a print newspaper serving northern Ohio. Thank you to publisher and USMC veteran Donald Stark for giving
by Marilyn Walton WWII Eighth Air Force historian and US POW expert, Marilyn Walton, has generously shared her expertise with the VBC over the past year. Marilyn served as an advisor on the Apple TV + series Masters of the Air. Below is a story she shared about one POW friend of her, Irving
. . Edith Stein, 97, of Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania is a Holocaust survivor. Born and raised within a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, she remembers a slow rise of social bigotry and cultural brutality against Jews and others deemed “undesirable.” Fascism’s grip on Europe then, as now, she contemplates, was inspired.
