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Obama Speaks At Holocaust Commemoration

Posted 04.23.2012

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President Barack Obama spoke at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum marking the annual remembrance of the Holocaust. He addressed his administration's ...

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Holocaust Remembrance Day: How You Can Help Preserve The Memory Of The Holocaust

The Huffington Post | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 04.19.2012

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The horrific stories of the 6 million Jews who were gassed, starved and shot point blank throughout the Holocaust are well documented. But the number ...

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When Is The Past Not The Past? In The Hands Of 'Shoah' Director Claude Lanzmann

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Paull | Posted 03.16.2012

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The past, the past, le passé. Past perfect, past imperfect, passé composé...The past weighs heavy on 87-year-old Claude Lanzmann, director of the i...

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Two Cultures, Two Genocides, One Story

Bernard Starr | Posted 02.27.2012

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David's harrowing memories from Eastern Europe at the hands of the Nazis and Jacqueline's genocide experiences in Rwanda, although more than half a century apart, are hauntingly similar.

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A German Town Mourns Its Holocaust Past: The DP Camp Story, Part 2

Bernard Starr | Posted 02.14.2012

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A commissioned stained-glass window dedicated to the Holocaust portrays a gas chamber scene and bears a Star of David. To all who enter the church, it's a stark reminder of past atrocities

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The Miracle of Jewish Recovery After the Holocaust: The DP Camp Story

Bernard Starr | Posted 02.08.2012

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For survivors, of course, the memories and scars never fade. But there's another side of the story: In the aftermath of the Holocaust, an extraordinary drama of resiliency, rebirth and renewal took place in Austria and Germany: the creation of the Displaced Persons camps.

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Lost Cousins Unite Through Holocaust Database

AP | ARON HELLER | Posted 01.17.2012

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JERUSALEM — For five long years during World War II, Nahum Korenblum never left the side of his younger brother Yaakov as the two fled the Nazi ...

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U.S. Holocaust Museum Launches Search For Displaced Kids In Photos

AP | SHARON COHEN | Posted 10.07.2011

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There are girls with ribbons in their hair, boys in short pants or wool jackets (one even wears a discarded Hitler Youth uniform). There are teens and...

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An Afternoon of Cherry Blossoms and Swastikas

Rob Sachs | Posted 05.28.2011

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Maybe it was the sign outside the museum that read "Think About What You Saw," but before I knew it, I was walking through the metal detectors and into the museum's cold stark atrium.

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An American Jew Roams in Germany

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011

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The German and Jewish people are forever locked in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called a 'single garment of destiny.'

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Pander-monium Breaks Out Among 2012 GOP Hopefuls

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the 2012 race heats up, we'll be tracking the candidates' pander playbooks to ferret out the most interesting, egregious and hilarious suck-ups.

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Reading the Tea Leaves of Domestic Terrorism

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have become keenly aware that deliberately overheated rhetoric and pernicious public speech by our national leaders tacitly grants permission for the weak minded and mentally ill to commit atrocities.

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Westboro Baptist Church Protests At Northwestern's Hillel

northbynorthwestern.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Four members of the Westboro Baptist Church gathered on Wednesday on the corner of Foster Street and Sheridan Road for half an hour to protest Northwe...

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Fire Destroys Shoes Of Nazi Victims At Polish Museum

walletpop.com | Sarah CoffeyAug 11th 2010 at 6:00AM | Posted 05.25.2011

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A fire at the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland has destroyed one of the wooden barracks and about 10,000 shoes of Holocaust prisoners displayed a...

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The Newtiness of Newt

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

A newt is a slimy amphibian with an uncanny ability to reinvent itself by regenerating limbs. Living up to his name, Newt Gingrich has metamorphosed from disgraced former House Speaker to a preeminent position on the Right.

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Holocaust Remembrance, Part 2: Walking in Hell

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

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In 1995, fifteen years after I had worked on Cecile's story, and fifty years after she had been liberated from Auschwitz, I had the opportunity to follow in her footsteps.

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James Von Brunn Dead: Holocaust Museum Shooter Died In Hospital

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The 89-year-old white supremacist charged in a deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust museum died Wednesday in North Carolina, w...

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Death at the Holocaust Museum and the Degradation of the American Dialogue

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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There was a time when intellectual honesty was not considered unpatriotic; when compassion for, and understanding of, your fellow man was a sign of strength, not weakness.

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Guard Who Returned Fire Speaks About Holocaust Museum Shooting

Associated Press | GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WHITE PLAINS, Md. (AP) -- After retiring from a 27-year career as a D.C. police officer, Harry Weeks thought working security at the U.S. Holocaust Me...

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Holocaust Museum Reopens Two Days After Shooting

AP | GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Liz Johnson showed up Friday to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with 12 Girl Scouts in tow. None of them was alive when the Holo...

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James Von Brunn's Son Slams His "Cowardice"

ABC News | MICHAEL S. JAMES, PIERRE THOMAS, JACK DATE and THERESA COOK | Posted 05.25.2011

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A son of the 88-year-old white supremacist who allegedly started a shootout at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is slamming his father's "cowardice"...

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Media Gives Hate-Mongering White Supremacist Airtime, Facetime and Helpful PR

Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

This is unbelievable. In last night's "NBC Nightly News," Pete Williams had a segment on the Holocaust Museum shooter, James von Brunn, and they prese...

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My Daughter's Chilling Account of Years at Holocaust Museum

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The entire time I worked there, we always expected something terrible to happen. I was very lucky it didn't while I was there -- but it wasn't for lack of trying."

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Over Two Days, Hannity Devotes One Sentence To Holocaust Museum Murder

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fix News host Sean Hannity only devoted one sentence to discussing the shooting at the Holocaust Museum on his program this week, Media Matters report...

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What Right Wing Threat?

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Maybe continually over-simplifying every issue in politics into a siege upon America actually helps bring about a siege mentality in Americans.

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