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April 27, 2016
Probing the minds of Nazi war criminals
Dr. Joel E. Dimsdale is a psychiatrist who has long specialized in the “coping behavior” of concentration camp survivors.
A soldier speaks of war, 70 years later
One would have thought that all direct testimonies of World War II had already been recorded. Well, not so.
A French survivor becomes a legendary photojournalist
“The one thing that is very clear in my mind is that day in 1942, when the French police knocked on our door to come and take us,” Henri Dauman, 83, said, moments after taking his seat at a Beverly Hills café.
Czech Torahs reunite at Holocaust Museum
One day in 1965, Ruth Shaffer opened the front door of the Westminster Synagogue in London to find David Grand, an Orthodox Jew with a long beard and a tenuous grasp on the English language.
Paris attacks suspect Abdeslam extradited to France, under formal investigation
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was placed under formal investigation on terrorism and murder charges in France on Wednesday after his extradition from Belgium, and he promised to talk to judges during his next hearing, his French lawyer said.
The enduring relevance of Hannah Arendt
She was a Holocaust survivor, a German-born Jewish intellectual and one of the most significant and controversial political theorists of the past century.
Learning to err on the side of compassion
This was rage — I had no doubt about that.
The last voice from the French internment camps
In 1942 on the eve of Passover, Dora Werzberg, a 21-year-old French Jew, walked through the gates of the Rivesaltes internment camp in Vichy, France.
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