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Family Secrets: The Mystery My Mother Left Behind

Lev Raphael | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: The Holocaust, Mystery Writers, Buchenwald, Concentration Camps, Mystery Novels, Mothers, Family Secrets, Books News
Lev Raphael

Going through her things after the funeral, I found something shocking: My mother had kept the concentration camp uniform she was wearing when she was liberated by the Americans in 1945.

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What? A Holocaust Inspired Fence Sparked Outrage?

Posted 01.11.2012

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The design pair Studio Job is known for pushing the envelope with their provocative and dark genre-bending visions. But the duo recently realized that...

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Lost Airmen of Buchenwald: Lost Tale, Finally Told

Carla Seaquist | Posted 01.04.2012

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Carla Seaquist

Lost in the histories of World War II is an extraordinary tale: that of Allied airmen, shot down over Europe, who were captured and imprisoned in the Nazi labor camp, Buchenwald.

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Nazi Death Camp Art On Show At Auschwitz Museum

AP | By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA | Posted 12.18.2011

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WARSAW, Poland -- Photos of 20 drawings and other artifacts clandestinely made by inmates at Nazi death camps during World War II are on show at the A...

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemorated

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) - Germany's president stood in silence Thursday before a gray concrete wall where Nazis executed Polish resistance members at Au...

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A Nutcracker to Shun

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

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George Heymont

Over the years, I've seen some pretty awful movies. None, however, has been as expensive, as overproduced, as idiotic, as appalling, or as stupefyingly reprehensible as the The Nutcracker in 3D.

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Meeting the Last Known Pink Triangle

Maxime Donzel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Maxime Donzel

One aspect of coming to terms with your own homosexuality is learning about gay culture. I recently got a chance to meet someone who reminded me of this again: Rudolph Brazda, the last known survivor of the Pink Triangles.

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Holocaust Survivor's Daughter Fights Anti-Semitism for the U.S. Government

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011

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Menachem Rosensaft

It is both symbolic and appropriate that the task of coordinating the official American response to the scourge of international anti-Semitism was entrusted to the daughter of a refugee from Nazi Germany.

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Letter From Paris: Let the Saints Come Marching In

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beth Arnold

We headed over to the beautiful cemetery to say hey to Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and others. If the 20th Arrondissement is good enough for them, then it certainly should work for us.

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The US Senate Apologized for Slavery. But We Ain't Gettin' 40 Acres and a Mule!

Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yvonne R. Davis

We can all feel relieved there is an official acknowledgment that something terrible was done to black people. Yet the reality is way too much time has passed for this apology to really mean anything.

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Remembering America: Obama's D-Day Speech and Two Days in June

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Bradley

On Thursday in Cairo, Obama gave his rhetorical best to reposition a mostly peaceful America in the future of the Muslim world. On Saturday in Normandy, he reminded of America's glittering past.

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President Obama Confronts Holocaust Evil, Now Confront Slavery Evil

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The U.S. government, not just a handful of evil Southern planters, encoded slavery in the Constitution, and protected and nourished it for a century. The government should apologize.

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Elie Wiesel in Buchenwald: The Moral Challenge to Learn, and Act

Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rachel Sklar

Today, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel joined Barack Obama at Buchenwald, one of Nazi Germany's worst concentration camps, but he worried that "the world hasn't learned" from the tragedy.

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In Buchenwald, Obama Targets Holocaust Denial

AP | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

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DRESDEN, Germany — In a solemn rendezvous with history, President Barack Obama will visit a scene of the 20th century's great European horror to...

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Obama Buchenwald Visit Planned For June: Spiegel

The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama will visit Buchenwald concentration camp in Dresden this summer, Spiegel Online is reporting. Barack Obama's planned trip to German...

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