If you are looking for a professional painter no less than $15,000 If you are ok with 'just a painter " probably you can find somebody to do the job for $7-8000 That all depends on the location of your new house.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.