False religion, often very common false religion, often confuses this subject. There are basically "3" potential parts to human beings the Bible teaches. 1: Body, which is your physical body 2: Soul, which in the Hebrew of the Bible translates from the words "nephish kia","Living soul", or another literal translation, "Breath life".
3: spirit, the actual part of a person that is truly created in "the image of God". God is Spirit. This is the part of a person that makes them, God's child.
Not everybody even has a spirit. Its born in us by the choice of accepting Jesus Christ. The "soul" is simply the fact we are alive, it means, "breath life".
As long as a person is breathing, they have a "soul life". So, no, the soul does not exist outside the body. "Hell" as it is most commonly taught, DOES NOT EXIST.
It is not genuinely a Biblical teaching. Most of the words translated, "hell" in the bible, simply mean "gravedom", or "in the grave". All the other words translated "hell" have other meanings than a place where the bad people suffer forever and ever, too.
The spirit is the part of human beings that is eternal. We receive this part when we become, as the scriptures put it, "born again", or their original words and language literally translated,"born from above". This part of a human being is created by God in the instance they believe on God's Resurrection of Jesus the Christ from the dead, and that by this he was made lord over all creation( See Romans 10: 9, 10, and 11.
We chose to accept this nature by this means alone. We are not eternal if we do not, it is only by free will choice upon the terms and conditions it is offered. God will not impose a life forever with Him and Jesus Christ if we don't choose to accept it.
The nature of our spirit is created after Christ, but for us individually, it retains the fullness of our lives. So, yes, if someone was born of God, upon being resurrected from the dead( people do not really go directly to heaven when they die. There will be a point in time that those that are "asleep" in Christ, as the scriptures say it, will rise from the dead, and then, they will go into the heavens with Jesus Christ.
The dead are "not" presently living. They are "asleep" awaiting the return of Christ. That's the way the Bible teaches it in its former languages.
The actual biblical definition of "heaven" is "any place above the earth or seas" Two centimeters off the ground would be considered the biblical definition of heaven. You can see "heaven", all you have to do, is just, look up, its right there man, no mystery.) the person who was born of God would regain their remembrance of their life, and then some, upon Resurrecting from the dead.
Since there is no scientific definition of a soul - the answer will depend on who you ask. I think a christian would say: god works in mysterious ways, the soul is a mysterious work, and yes you'll regain back the memories.
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.