DC Night Gallery: Staying Alive

Washington, DC – Photos of Holocaust survivors were projected on the outside walls of the Hall of Remembrance at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Friday night. 35 of the 63 people shown larger than...

Original construction plans for Auschwitz concentration camp found in Germany

As the world is commemorating war sacrifices by celebrating the Remembrance Day, three architect drawings believed to be the blueprints for the construction of the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, where 3...

Obama: 600 Million Dollars Later Is the Question Still Above Your Pay Grade?

It took six weeks for Barack Obama to admit he was a bit flippant about his answer about when human life actually begins. Now only days away from the general election has his answer changed at all?  ...

Digitizing Holocaust memories

" Dr. Josef Mengele calmly greets a trainload of prisoners to Auschwitz as human ashes fall from the sky. This scene, from the Steven Spielberg film Schindler's List, is unforgettable, but a dramatic rendering is nowhere near as powerful as hearing from someone who once stood...

Palin on Ahmadinejad: 'He Must Be Stopped'

"By SARAH PALIN | September 22, 2008Governor Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, was scheduled to speak today at a rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to protest the appearance here of President Ahmadinejad of Iran. Her appearance was canceled by rally organizers...

Top Ten Hagee-isms

I just don't think that enough attention has been paid to McCain's endorsement seeking strategy from Rev. Hagee and Rev. Parsley, especially when you add up how many weeks we saw Rev. Wright on TV. So to be fair,...

Help, I'm turning into my mother

"(LifeWire) -- Stacy Pearson keeps buying food she knows she'll never eat -- from tomato soup to green beans to ramen noodles -- merely because it's on sale. Why? Blame her mother. ...

Gay Nazi victims' monument vandalised

Less than two months old, a monument to the gay victims of the Holocaust has been vandalized by persons unknown. "The monument -- a grey concrete slab that stands about 5m igh -- contains a window through which...

German Jews angry that citizenship test ignores Holocaust

A new citizenship test in Germany is coming under fire today by Jews living there because it does not mention the Holocaust.It does however, mention many other less important points in German history.Starting in...

She Survived to Tell the World, A Holocaust Story

"In an age when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad openly declares the Holocaust a myth, it is increasingly important to tell people the truth of what happened, and Tosia Schneidner has made that her life’s mission.“There is no occurrence that was better documented...

Albert Einstein and the new Berlin-Brandenbourg International Airport

 Facts and Opinion.   “Yedioth Ahronot”. published yesterday (6.24.08) on his Hebrew printed edition: “Berlin considering to name it’s new international airport ‘Albert Einstein’ “.To be...

Sarkozy urges settlement freeze

French president Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to the Israeli Knesset, or parliament, was notable for its distinct difference in tone not only from US president George Bush's address to the same body recently, but also from the recent speeches given to US Israel lobbying...

Young X-Men Magneto in the Holocaust

" The Israeli “haaretz” newspaper is considered as the ‘newspaper for thinking people ’. So I looked with some suspicion and disbelief at the headline “X-Men mutant survives the...

Berlin: Memorial to the Nazis' gay victims

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly this gesture a long time in coming, shows Germany's desire to make amends to past atrocities that today are still being practised today in what is supposed to...

Chinese diplomat honored for saving thousands in Holocaust

Stories like this abound nowadays but they remain equally enthralling.  It has made me wonder, what could have their parents, guardians, and/or mentors told them as they were growing up so that they put others ahead of themselves?  Then I thought, maybe they were...

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