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PHOTOS: The Survivors

Posted 03.10.2013 | New York
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 20th Anniversary tour of the country stopped in NYC last weekend. Some 2,500 people, many of them Holoca...

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Secretary Madeleine Albright: On the U.S. Responsibility to Protect

92nd Street Y | Posted 03.09.2013 | World
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Former U.S. Secretary of State thinks the U.S. has a responsibility to protect other countries facing crisis. She was here last month as part of a pan...

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Poland, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Tussle Over Auschwitz Barracks

AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 04.24.2012 | DC
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WARSAW, Poland — Polish and U.S. officials are engaged in intense talks to determine the fate of a sensitive object: a barrack that once housed ...

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

Bernard Starr | Posted 02.08.2012 | Home
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Bernard Starr

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

AP | SHARON COHEN | Posted 10.07.2011 | Impact
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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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Dear Westboro Baptist, Please Protest My Funeral

Brandon G. Withrow | Posted 10.03.2011 | Religion
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Brandon G. Withrow

I can imagine that great day when Westboro heads out to protest and Americans shrug their shoulders. If a protest of my funeral takes them one step closer to future obscurity and irrelevance, then do your worst.

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A Day For Holocaust Remembrance

Posted 06.28.2011 | Religion
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Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the official Israeli commemoration of the 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi Germany during World War II. Yom ...

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Pat Buchanan's Bile Goes Unchallenged

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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Menachem Rosensaft

Buchanan must be held publicly accountable for facilitating the dissemination of toxic hate speech that, as the Holocaust Museum shooting reminds us, can have tragic consequences.

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Holder Pushes Hate Crime Bill in Wake of Recent Wave of Hate

Janet Murguía | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Janet Murguía

Hate has always been present. But the recent spike in violence against immigrants is being fanned by the flames of the anger and hateful rhetoric being voiced in the debate over immigration.

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Judge: Holocaust Museum Suspect Can't Appear In Court

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — A white supremacist accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is in no condition to appear...

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Holocaust Museum Reopens Two Days After Shooting

AP | GILLIAN GAYNAIR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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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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The Challenge of the Holocaust Museum Shooting

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Simon Wiesenthal, the great Nazi Hunter and humanitarian would say to us: "I don't judge a democratic society by how many Nazis there are, but by how many anti-Nazis there are."

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Holocaust Museum Shooting: Obama Saddened

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he is shocked by the shooting at the Holocaust museum near the White House. He called it an "outrageou...

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William Cohen And Wife Witnessed Holocaust Museum Shooting (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Witnesses to the shooting at Washington D.C.'s Holocaust Museum related to reporters the fear and confusion inside the building. Defense Secretary W...

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Holocaust Museum Shooting In Washington D.C.

AP | NAFEESA SYEED and DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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WASHINGTON — An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Me...

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Holocaust Museum Shooter Von Brunn Is Elderly White Supremacist

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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WASHINGTON — A frustrated artist and an angry man, the suspect in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting once tried to kidnap members of th...

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