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Nazi Archive Will Help Save Lost Names

When Bill Connelly heard that the heirs of a collector of Jewish memorial books were cleaning out his library, he rushed to New York and fished dozens of the Yiddish-language volumes out of a municipal trash bin.

Files Show Postwar Woes of Nazi Victims

Looking back at the first weeks after World War II, a French lieutenant named Henri Francois-Poncet despaired at ever fulfilling his mission to establish the fate of French inmates of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

Holocaust Records Help Reconstruct Lives

The path to uncovering the life and death of Cornelis Marinus Brouwenstijn begins with a plain manila envelope containing a purse, an ID booklet, a cracked leather wallet, a slew of family snapshots, and a typewritten risque joke about women in the army.

Holocaust Archive Tells Many New Stories

The 21-year-old Russian sat before a clerk of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate's office, describing the furnaces at Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp where he had been a prisoner until a few weeks previously.

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Scene From a Tea Party: Right-wing protesters at GOP rally display prominent sign tying health care to the Holocaust
Source: Think Progress

It’s unclear whether this sign is one of the many being handed out by Americans for Prosperity, the corporate front group sponsoring today’s rally. The sign reads “National Socialist Health Care: Dachau, Germany – 1945”

Obama Says He Erred in Speech
Source: The Washington Post

The WP reports: The Republican National Committee, grumbling John McCain staffers and conservative bloggers have tried for months to label Barack Obama as a serial exaggerator and heir to Al Gore, whom Republicans tarred in 2000 as someone who claimed to have discovered the Love …

Hagee's Jewish Endorsers
Source: The Washington Post

I do not share Rev. Hagee's belief that God controls every action here on Earth nor that God wishes for every Jew to move to Israel right now. But even if Rev.

Purloined pictures
Source: Guardian Unlimited

In his 1937 book I Know These Dictators, the ex-Daily Mail journalist G Ward Price had the following to say about one such tyrant: "Art has also a great appeal for him, and he knows a good deal about pictures.

Government Produced, Iranian Holocaust TV Series Sympathetic to Jews
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

It is Iran's version of "Schindler's List," a miniseries that tells the tale of an Iranian diplomat in Paris who helps Jews escape the Holocaust — and viewers across the country are riveted.

Master printer who forged his way to survival
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

Adolf Burger lost his teeth in Birkenau because he shared his first name with Hitler. He lost his young wife, Gisela, to the gas chambers. And he had long lost all hope of survival when summoned by an SS officer in 1944.

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