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April 24th: Remembering the Armenian Dead

Christopher Atamian | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Taxes, Turkey, Ahmet Davotuglu, Turkish, Syrian Desert, Armenian Genocide, Armenian, 1915, Pontic Greek, Young Turks, Armenia, Talaat Pasha, Wealth, Genocide, Assyrian, Concentration Camps, Wealth Taxes, Reconciliation, Ayash, Komitas, Djemal, Pontic, Chankiri, Enver, World News

Turkey can delay, it can hem and haw and try to dissimulate, but the reality is that Armenians -- and their Greek and Assyrian counterparts -- have truth on their side; and as we have seen before in the course of human history, truth has a strange way of winning out, eventually.

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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

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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Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas

G. Roger Denson | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Susan Silas, Catharsis in Art, Photography, Holocaust Art, The Holocaust, Concentration Camps, Helmbrechts, CB1 Gallery, Arts News

Susan Silas' series of photographed dead birds in various states of decay presents a singular case in point once we explore how the artist's brightly illuminated, exquisitely feathered corpses take on a surprisingly cathartic function in our need to mourn and to moralize.

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Preserving Auschwitz: A Responsibility to our Children

Jacek Kastelaniec | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nazi, Holocaust, Human Rights, Nazis, Genocide, Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp, The Holocaust, Concentration Camps, Auschwitz, Concentration Camp, Crimes Against Humanity, Impact News

We, the remaining survivors of Auschwitz and the keepers of its memory, urge you to help preserve the physical evidence of Auschwitz and raise awareness to prevent future acts of hatred.

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U.S. Gave Ex-Nazis 'Safe Haven,' According To DOJ Report

The New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josef Mengele, Nasa, Holocaust, Mark Richard, Otto Von Bolscwing, Eric Holder, Science, Arthur Rudolph, Tscherim Soobzokov, Nazis, Cia, Germany, Adolph Eichmann, Concentration Camps, US, Politics News

A secret history of the United States government's Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a "safe haven" in the...

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SNCF, French Railroad, Apologizes For Holocaust Role Before Florida Bid

AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orlando, Jews, Holocaust Apology, Holocaust, Death Camps, Hitler, France, Nazi Collaboration, Vichy France, Germany, World War II, Tampa, Sncf, High Speed Rail, Florida, Concentration Camps, World News

PARIS — France's state-run railroad has for the first time expressed "sorrow and regret" for its role in the deportation of Jews during World Wa...

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Failing the Victims of Genocide in the Balkans... Again

Seema Jilani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bosnian Muslims, Bosnia, Serbian Muslims, Serbia, Serbian Genocide, European Union, Concentration Camps, Ratko Mladic, Serbia European Union, Bosnian Genocide, World News

The volatile Balkan region will implode once again unless we uphold justice. When did we disintegrate into a depraved society that places trade agreements above punishing ethnic cleansing?

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Looking At An Icon Of Evil

Mark Jacobson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Jewish Persecution, Nazi Germany, Nazi, Holocaust, Nazis, Jewish, World War II, The Holocaust, Jewish Culture, Concentration Camps, Concentration Camp, Mark Jacobson, Books News

"It is made from the skin of the Jews," the man said in the local patois. " Hitler made skin out of the Jews." The price was $35.

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Are We Allowed To Imagine The Holocaust?

Sharon Dogar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Holocaust, Auschwitz, Concentration Camps, Sharon Dogar, Annexed, Holocaust, World War II, Concentration Camp, Anne Frank, Books News

There is no other way of reclaiming the individual stories of those who died than through an act of the imagination. How else can we do it if they are no longer here to tell of it themselves?

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Obama: Ahmadinejad Should Come Visit Concentration Camp (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

UPDATE: President Obama visited a World War II concentration camp Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Holocaust survivors Elie Wiesel and...

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Defying Despair: Why I Believe

Sharon Brous | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Religious Texts, Yom Kippur, Humility, Religulous, Judaism, The Holocaust, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Concentration Camps, Israel, Faith, Spirituality, Bill Maher, Ikar, Torah, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News

Faith is not about hatred and exclusion -- those are perversions of the deepest religious truths. The religious life is not about pretending to know with certainty, it is about living with deep humility.

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