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September 20, 2016 Art exhibit on display at Luther College Oct. 21-Dec. 5 When memorializing a horrific event in history, it is often difficult to see beyond the defining darkness and tragedy. Yet it is often within the context of …
October 18, 20164:42 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition Nazi officials were prosecuted at the Nuremberg trials in Germany from 1945-49. American Benjamin Ferencz, who was 27 and serving as a prosecutor for the first time, won convictions against all …
In collaboration with multiple organizations, including the Thaler Foundation and Coe College, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library will host Gideon Frieder, a speaker from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Survivor Speakers’ Bureau to speak of his …
In the autumn of 1941, one the gravest atrocities of the 20th century unfolded in a ragged ravine on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Kyiv. The massacre of 33,771 Jews on September 29-30, 1941, at Babi Yar was an early example …
The infamous Baba Yar massacre took place on September 29-30, 1941, in a ravine outside the city of Kiev in the Ukraine. Over 33,000 Jewish men, women and children were murdered in the space of 48 hours by the Einsatzgruppen …
By PAUL WIEDER Associate Editor Hillel C. Neuer of UN Watch delivers the keynote speech at the Jewish Federation Annual Meeting. (Photo by Robert F. Kusel) A year of challenges, solutions and celebration of an abiding commitment to Israel and …
By: Saul Jay Singer Published: September 15th, 2016 Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), who designed more than 1,000 structures and is widely recognized as the most influential architect of all time, was also an interior designer, writer, and educator. He …
September 20, 2016 Art exhibit on display at Luther College Oct. 21-Dec. 5 When memorializing a horrific event in histor y, it is often difficult to see beyond the defining darkness and tragedy. Yet it is often within the context …
By Associated Press August 31, 2016 | 12:23pm Modal Trigger Joseph Harmatz sits in his apartment in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 23. Photo: AP TEL AVIV, Israel — Seventy years after the most daring attempt of Jewish Holocaust survivors …
By Roy S. Johnson | [email protected] September 06, 2016 at 4:00 PM, updated September 06, 2016 at 11:17 PM It’s not always easy to talk about history—not the most wrenching and shameful periods, the heinous events and people without conscience …