Washington Heights contains one of NYC's great concentrations of pre-war apartment houses, with many retaining much of their original architectural grandeur.
s/43, a World War II internment camp in Montreal remained under wraps until a recent history project at the Musée Stewart.
French museums own thousands of pieces of art looted by Nazis during WWII; many of the original owners were Jewish families murdered in the Holocaust.
An exhibition of former "beauty contest" winners at the New York Transit Museums throws into relief the complicated and rocky history of women in New York.
This bookstore has a fairy tale history; the original shop was owned and run by an American but was closed down by the Nazis during the war and became the meeting point for Hemingway’s "Lost Generation."