How these Jewish genealogists are repairing Nazi ‘dirty deeds’
Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in ...
Sunday conversation: Karen Franklin on the sacred task of returning Nazi-looted books
"This is for us a sacred task," says a world-renowned expert on German Jewish genealogy from the Looted Books Project.
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Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.
Matthew Goodman tells the true story of Kate Bonnefous and her Jewish friend Etta Shiber, who rescued Allied soldiers trapped ...
Yes, Columbia University expelled student for leading anti-Nazi demonstration in 1936
Burke led protests in May 1936, including an anti-Nazi picket and a mock book burning. The protests were a response to the ...
Presidents' Private Love Lives Explored in New Book, Including JFK's Alleged Affair with a Possible Nazi Spy
In a new book 'Presidents At War,' historian Steven M. Gillon takes a look at how World War II impacted a generation of ...
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From 'Saving Private Ryan' to 'Das Boot': The greatest war movies
An army major, played by a superbly commanding Lee Marvin, is forced to lead soldiers convicted of various crimes on a ...
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Two friends defied the Nazis. Then one woman ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other
In 'Paris Undercover,' author Matthew Goodman digs up the truth behind a successful 'memoir' that played fast and loose with facts as one of its subjects sat in Nazi prison ...
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Nazi Germany Once Tried to Build an Aircraft Carrier. It Didn’t End Well.
Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider ...
This shocking sculpture invokes both Nazi delirium and Jewish theology
Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” weighing more than seven tons, is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of ...
‘The Fifteen’ delves into forgotten history of Nazi POWs on U.S. soil
Author William Geroux finds a compelling true-crime angle in a series of camp murders, as well as international intrigue in a ...
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Reflections | Book bans, burnings in ancient China were a loss for all. Is history repeating itself?
One of the most dramatic, and terrifying, demonstration of the intolerance of ideas in recent times was the Nazi book burnings of the 1930s, when ceremonial bonfires of books representing ...
Weather Getting You Down? Pick Up One of These Books Now
Canadian singer Tate McRae is quickly climbing the ranks as one of the hottest pop acts in music. The “Revolving Door” singer ...