She had arrived by morning flight to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport from Dublin that day in February, while he had taken a short transit through Berlin before taking a ride by a high-speed train to travel to Paris.  Orla was super excited to explore the city of her dreams, which she had heard so…

Living against the backdrop of increasingly destabilizing international relations, rising totalitarian regimes, political instability, and economic impoverishment made the people of Hamburg stare at a stark and uncertain future in Europe. A war was looming ahead, they feared. The ambiance in every house was filled with tense trepidation whenever there was an announcement on the…