He was born in Holland in 1942, during World War II and the Holocaust. Despite the ongoing war, Hans Vischjager’s parents, Joseph Vischjager and Hillechien (Hilda) Levit, had decided to get married, thinking that having a child would spare them from the Nazis.They were wrong. When they...
Miller, also president of the board of the National Center for Science Education, said the phrase “climate change” was not removed from his high school biology text, which he assumed happened because climate change is mentioned in Florida’s academic standards for biology courses. But according ...
An old friend once said to me that in Argentina “it is rare for a non-Peronist president to finish a full term”. The remarked surprised me at first but then I thought of the lateJuan Domingo Perón(1895-1974) who served as Argentina’s president three times. His final term was shor...
the river kept her family safe when they needed it most–safe from the Holocaust. But that was before the Communists seized power. Before her parents were murdered by the Soviet police. Before Csilla knew things about her father’s legacy that she wishes she could forget. ...
Ágnes Keleti, Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medal winner, dies at age 103 Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]January 2 Former Estonian President Arnold Rüütel dies at age 96
by something that affects everyone on a cultural level, even if some individuals don’t experience it personally. The traumatic impact of the Holocaust on the Jewish community is a good example of this, as is the collective trauma expressed by Black Americans in the wake of the George Floyd ...
“toxic mistrust, profound bitterness, and spiritual malaise” that underscored West Germany’s transformation into an economic powerhouse. Following the war’s end, Black argues, a nation struggling to come to terms with the nature of evil and its complicity in the Holocaust t...
“‘All that is known of John Delgano,’” read Serli with his mouth full, “‘comes from two documents left by his brother Carl Delgano in the archives of the MacKenzie Group in the early years after the holocaust.’ Put some honey on this cake, Mira my dove. Verbatim transcript foll...
Ironically, Reader, whose site regularly covered Russia-gate stories, suspected his business was being impacted by everyone from Republican operatives to MAGA-hat wearers and Russian trolls anxious to dent his pro-Democratic content. “It could have been Russians,” he says. “It could have been...
Israeli security has historically been acore element of German foreign policydue to the Nazi Holocaust against Jews during World War II. Italy: Italy has provided helicopters and guns to Israel, according to the SIPRI, and is a partner of the F-35 fighter jet program, helping to manufacture ...