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Yorktown's Holocaust Remembrance is April 16
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (178+ words) The Town of Yorktown will host a talk by Holocaust survivor and author Joseph Gosler on April 16 for its annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. Gosler, of New York City, is the author of'Searching for Home: The Impact of WWII on a…...
The story has to be maintained: Holocaust survivors to speak at Atlanta event
1+ hour, 16+ min ago (724+ words) Six Holocaust survivors will share their stories Sunday at Greenwood Cemetery in Atlanta. The remembrances will be part of the Breman Museum & Cultural Center's 61st annual Yom Ha Shoah Commemoration, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the cemetery's Memorial to the Six…...
Bozeman library hosts Anne Frank exhibit, March 4 opening event planned
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (317+ words) WHITEFISH, Mont. " The Montana Department of Transportation " University of Montana students asked finalist candidate for " BOZEMAN - The Bozeman Public Library is set to host the "Anne Frank: A History for Today" exhibit this March, offering a glimpse into the life…...
Jewish Federation screens Holocaust documentary at Notre Dame
49+ min ago (527+ words) SOUTH BEND " In 1994, Marijke Brown received a letter that touched off a 30-year journey into a past she had never known about " how the Dutch Resistance had saved her from the Holocaust during World War II. It also led to "The…...
87-year-old grandmother recalls hiding from the Japaneseduring WW II
6+ hour, 7+ min ago (750+ words) DON MARCELINO, DAVAO OCCIDENTAL (Minda News/9 April) " Eighty seven-year old Precille "Precing" Delos Reyes Medillo still remembers hiding from the Japanese when the invaders came to within three kilometers from their home in Barangay Lais, Malita when war broke out…...
The U. S. Navy's Iowa-Class Battleship Comeback Is Never Going To Happen
6+ hour, 14+ min ago (1799+ words) I walked away impressed, grateful, and a little sad, if I can be rather blunt." No one who steps aboard USS Iowa fails to feel the ship's weight, history, and brute force." You don't stand near those 16-inch guns and…...
Want a Lethal, War-Winning Army? Read Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs
5+ hour, 47+ min ago (186+ words) Rudy Weisz | 04. 09. 26 1. Tactics are meaningless in the absence of strategy. 2. Risk is the seed of victory. 3. Wage war violently and relentlessly. 4. Mission command begets battlefield success. Meanwhile, at Cold Harbor, Grant grew frustrated with subordinate commanders who failed to seize…...
Holocaust survivors' son shares parents" love story in Scotch Plains
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (461+ words) If it were not for the Holocaust, Frederick Polak would have never been born. The irony is not lost on him. On April 15, Polak will share the story of his parents, Dutch Holocaust survivors who formed a bond through secret…...
Remembering victims of the Holocaust by speaking their names
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (398+ words) Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Ha Shoah, will be observed on CU Boulder campus Tuesday with a public reading of the names of Jews killed in the Holocaust The University of Colorado Boulder community will observe Yom Ha Shoah, or…...
This Survivor is Turning 102 Years Old | Aish
9+ hour, 15+ min ago (961+ words) Pearl Hinda Nagel survived the Lodz Ghetto, outlived the Nazis and turned 101. Here is what she wants you to know. Imagine the changes witnessed by someone born more than a hundred years ago, journeying from a 1924 childhood in the gas-lit,…...