He initially lived in and around Buenos Aires, then fled to Paraguay in 1959 and Brazil in 1960, while being sought by West Germany, Israel, and Nazi hunters such as Simon Wiesenthal who wanted to bring him to trial. Mengele eluded capture in spite of extradition requests by the West ...
Christie centered his electoral strategy around New Hampshire, where he polled as high as second place at one point. But he struggled to hold on to that position anddropped out in January, just a few days before the Iowa caucuses. He said at the town hall announcing his decision...
including the viability of a two-state solution and ensuring Israelis and Palestinians can attain equal measures of security, prosperity, and freedom," Mr. Biden said in the order. "They also undermine the security of Israel and have the potential to lead to broader regional destabilization across...
Relatives: Daughter of Charles Peaslee Turner and Julia Francis (Mather) Turner; married, November 12, 1889, to Edward Williams Hooker; second cousin thrice removed of Smith Thompson; third cousin twice removed of Jacob Livingston Sutherland, Gilbert Livingston Thompson and Israel Dodd Condit. Politi...
Analysis: Israel cracking down on peace activists who have taken up residence in the occupied territories to support PalestiniansMICHELE NORRIS
commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka death camps in German-occupied Poland. More than 100,000 Jews are believed to have been murdered during his tenure at Sobibor before he moved to Treblinka, where he was directly responsible for the Nazis’ second-deadliest camp where 900,000 were killed....
He wrote dozens of books, founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, and championed the cause of Israel. “A messenger to mankind,” his 1986 Nobel citation read in part. “His message is one of peace, atonement and human dignity.”...
Unlike all other Nazi-occupied countries, if a concealed Jew was found hidden by a Polish family, the entire family, and often their neighbors as well,were executed right on the spot! Some went further still, entering the death camps, smuggling out information and trying to liberate the priso...
King and Cuthbertson stayed in Nazi-occupied France for a total of three days before deciding to return to England, somehow not getting killed in the process. They stole another motorboat and made their way across the English Channel. They miscalculated the amount of fuel the boat would need,...
He also occupied senior positions at the Canadian Film Development Corporation and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and acted as an advisor to the Secretary of State.During his time in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, he worked first with the Associated British Corporation (ABC, now Thames ...