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Lies and Miracles: Childhood in a Siberian Camp Three screenings upcoming in Cedar Rapids area. See below for more information including a film review and video excerpt. Monday Oct. 29th Noon – 2pm Kirkwood Community College Cedar Hall 6301 Kirkwood …
USA TODAY NETWORK Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MILWAUKEE — A lie, it was famously said, gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. The deception in this story spanned half a century, and it kept Mary Jane …
By Sean Coughlan BBC News education and family correspondent In August 1942, a stranger knocked on the door of a house in the Hague, in the Netherlands. An eight-year-old girl was handed over to the safekeeping of the unknown visitor, …
Max Fuchs, G.I. Cantor in Historic Battlefield Service, Is Dead at 96 ImageMax Fuchs, second from left, helped lead a battlefield prayer service for Jewish soldiers in Germany in 1944 that was broadcast in the United States.Creditvia Max Fuchs By …
By Rebecca English, Royal Correspondent In Jerusalem For The Daily Mail and Mark Duell In London For Mailonline Published: 04:07 EDT, 26 June 2018 | Updated: 06:12 EDT, 26 June 2018 Prince William was left ‘deeply moved’ as he learnt …
By Paul Thornton Jun 23, 2018 | 4:00 AM People compare presidents they don’t like to Adolf Hitler. It happened during Barack Obama’s presidency, and among our letter writers, it has happened frequently since President Trump took the oath of …
HERO AMONG US Cedar Rapids, IA Coe College Documentary Screening Announced! John Gualtier is living a quiet life in his hometown of Vinton, Iowa when a local schoolteacher discovers he has a secret: He is actually a decorated war hero. …
When Michael Bornstein was just 4 years old, he stuck his arm out to show his identification tattoo to the Soviet soldiers who were liberating Auschwitz. One of the youngest recorded survivors of the Nazi death camp, Bornstein had undergone …
By MAGGIE ASTOR APRIL 12, 2018 For seven decades, “never forget” has been a rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement. But a survey released Thursday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, found that many adults lack basic knowledge of what happened …
KCCK Radio – Culture Crawl 338 “Remembrance” April is Holocaust Remembrance Month, and in Cedar Rapids, the David and Joan Thaler Holocaust Remembrance fund brings a Holocaust speaker to the area each year. This year, Michael Bornstein and his daughter …