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See Video Click Here Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil Sitting at Yama Sushi and Grill along Lake Mission Viejo, Julie Shulman and Marlene Beach teach Ino Wolff how to eat edamame. “This is new for me,” the 88-year-old Wolff said after eating …

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By Julia M. Klein Never Walk Alone: Jewish Identities in Sport At the Munich Jewish Museum Through January 7, 2018 The 1936 Berlin Olympics showcased the Nazi love of spectacle and buttressed the regime’s international legitimacy. To avert boycott threats, …

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Romania observes deaths of thousands of Roma in Holocaust By nicolae dumitrache, associated press BUCHAREST, Romania — Aug 2, 2017, 12:47 PM ET The Associated PressPeople attend a commemoration marking the extermination of thousands of Gypsies at a Nazi concentration …

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From the National Czech & Slovak Museum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Bringing Down the Butcher of Prague: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich August 9 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Because the weather was less than ideal on May 17 …

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Featured Photo Arie Kasiarz (with curator Kristen Gresh) viewes Henryk Ross’s photographs of Poland’s Lodz Ghetto, where Kasiarz lived during World War II. By Malcolm Gay Globe Staff  July 26, 2017 Hounded by memories of ghetto life, Arie Kasiarz hadn’t …

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WARSAW — More than 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the first traveling exhibition about the Nazi death camp will begin a journey later this year to 14 cities across Europe and North America, taking heartbreaking artifacts to multitudes …

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Bernard-Henri Lévy, Contributor Huffpost An abiding image of Simone Veil from September 1979, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, in the midst of what are traditionally known as the Days of Awe. It is a black-and-white photo taken, in Paris, …

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Almost 80 years ago, Lilly Cassirer surrendered her family’s priceless Camille Pissarro painting to the Nazis in exchange for safe passage out of Germany during the Holocaust. For nearly 20 years, the Jewish woman’s heirs have …

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PARIS (Reuters) – France paid homage on Wednesday to Simone Veil, who survived the Nazi death camps and went on to make her mark in the male-dominated world of French politics by championing the legalization of abortion as health minister …

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‘I had to carry that in my heart forever’ May 28, 2017 at 5:00 am John Gualtier, a 91-year-old World War II veteran living in Vinton, was just 19 when he helped liberate the Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp in Austria …

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