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Veterans honored for liberating France nearly seven decades ago
Nearly 70 years after they risked their lives on the blood-soaked battlefields of Europe, a proud contingent of South Florida veterans of World War II was honored for their valor Sunday in a ceremony cloaked in patriotism and solemn with emotion. "That...
Tags: Ceremonies, Fort Lauderdale, Lake Worth, Heroism, U.S. Army
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Author Judy S. Walter looks to inform youth about Holocaust
Name: Judy S. Walter City in which you reside: Chambersburg, Pa. Day job: Retired teacher Book title: "Nightmare in Europe" Genre: Historical nonfiction Short synopsis of book: "Nightmare in Europe" is a concise, easy-to-understand book about the...
Tags: Students, Book, Teachers, Literature, Human Interest
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Calvin R. Sutker, 1923-2013
As a Cook County Board commissioner, Calvin R. Sutker gained support from his fellow county commissioners to bring the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center to Skokie. As a Skokie village trustee, he helped pass the first open housing law in...
Tags: Wilmette, Justice System, U.S. Army, Crime, Law and Justice, Irwin
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Unique German bomber to be lifted from English Channel
ReutersLONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - Work to salvage the sole surviving German Dornier Do-17 bomber plane flown in the Battle of Britain in World War Two began on Friday, more than 70 years after it crashed into the English Channel. Project managers said the plane,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Museums, United Kingdom, England
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Rick Atkinson talks "The Guns at Last Light"
World War II lasted six years, but Rick Atkinson needed 14 years to complete his massive trilogy on the conflict. That turned out to be time well spent. Now the wait for the concluding volume of “The Liberation Trilogy,” his magisterial...
Tags: Journalism, Pulitzer Prize Awards, U.S. Army, The Washington Post, Iraq
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Restoring Torahs
Beth David Congregation in Miami is restoring the parchments of two Torah scrolls. One of these scrolls was written in 1890 and rescued from The Holocaust. The Holocaust Torah is one of 1,564 rescued from Czechoslovakia after the Nazis emptied Jews...Tags: Human Interest, Judaism, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Nazi Party
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Voice of the People, May. 12
Queen for a day Whenever I read anything about the queen of England, I ponder how different my life is (and was) from hers. We are about the same age. I am not at all envious of her, but there are a few instances where I wouldn't mind trading places...Tags: Al Capone, Crosswords, Values, Alzheimer's Disease, Mother's Day
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Britain to honour Winston Churchill on new banknote
ReutersLONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Britain is set to honour its revered wartime leader Winston Churchill with a banknote featuring his portrait and famous declaration "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat". The governor of the Bank of...Tags: Executive Branch, William Shakespeare, Elizabeth II, Nobel Prize Awards, Nazi Party
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Pictures in the News | April 17, 2013
FrameworkWednesday's Pictures in the News begins in London, where pallbearers set down the coffin of Baroness Margaret Thatcher inside St Paul's Cathedral in London. Dignitaries from around the world today join Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of... -
88-year-old World War II veteran honored for his military service
dan.dearth@herald-mail.comJohn Leather wears earplugs to church, but it’s not the sermon that the 88-year-old World War II veteran is trying to muffle. He said he wears the earplugs to drown out the rumble of a drum that’s played when the congregation sings hymns....Tags: Ceremonies, Frostbite, Emergency Incidents, U.S. Army, Heroism
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The jarring reality and artful beauty of photography
I wonder if the curators of the excellent "War/Photography" show at the Annenberg Space for Photography were tempted to include Jeff Wall's "Dead Troops Talk (A Vision After an Ambush of a Red Army Patrol, Near Moqor, Afghanistan, Winter, 1986)". It...Tags: Painting, Arts and Culture, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Photography, Afghanistan
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New museum of Jewish history opens in Warsaw
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews opens Friday in Warsaw, partly funded by the Polish government. It’s located in the area that was once the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, in what was Nazi-occupied Europe. The museum aims not just to...
Tags: Music, Judaism, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Arts and Culture, Entertainment
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