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Elie Wiesel, history's witness
It was a fine April day last week that found Elie Wiesel at Chapman University; it was a fine April day too, 58 years earlier, when the gaunt, teenage Wiesel found himself alive and suddenly free to walk out of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In the...
Tags: Justice System, Religion and Belief, Judges, Lawyers, Refugee
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'Pianist' is a stirring case of art preserving life
In 2002, Roman Polanski directed a remarkable, Academy Award-winning movie taken from a book by Wladyslaw Szpilman, the Polish piano player and composer who survived the Holocaust. Mona Golabek's deeply stirring new one-woman show at the Royal George...
Tags: Music, Religion and Belief, Entertainment, Music Industry, Judaism
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"Lore" Shows Innocent Children Caught in a War Made By Their Parents
Lore Directed by Cate Shortland, opens April 26 at Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, (860) 232-1006 realartways.org Any modern filmmaker caters to the senses of sight and sound by definition — it's a much trickier thing to convey...
Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lore (movie), Real Art Ways
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Leon S. Idas
Leon Samuel Idas, who owned a commercial used clothing business and fought the German occupation of his native Greece during World War II, died of a cerebral ailment April 12 at his home in Lauderhill, Fla. He was 87 years old and formerly lived in Bolton...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Sports, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Clothing, Accessories, and Shoes, Rugby League
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What FDR said about Jews in private
In May 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the White House. It was 17 months after Pearl Harbor and a little more than a year before D-Day. The two Allied leaders reviewed the war effort to date and...Tags: Religion and Belief, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Judaism
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A beautiful work in a horrific setting
The most famous, roof-rattling passage in Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem" describes the "day of wrath" for the guilty as they face their eternal fate: "How great will be the terror when the Judge comes who will smash everything completely … Whatever...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Music, Entertainment, American Red Cross, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times in EDT): 1. DRAGNET TIGHTENS FOR MARATHON BOMBING SUSPECT One of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing is dead and a massive manhunt is...Tags: Justice System, Judges, Sports, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Labor Markets
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Sneak peek of Sony's 'This Is the End' plays to enthusiastic crowd
LAS VEGAS -- The head of the National Assn. of Theatre Owners may want Hollywood to make fewer R-rated movies, but the exhibitors at CinemaCon this week seem to be eager for more. During nearly every studio presentation here this week, the movies...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Adam Sandler
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Debating FDR and the Holocaust
It wasn't surprising that Rafael Medoff's April 7 Op-Ed article about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's private comments on Jews facing persecution in Europe drew spirited responses (though I do admit that I was a little rattled that most of the letters...Tags: Religion and Belief, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Iceage's Confrontational, Coarse Punk Careens Into New Haven
Iceage w/ White Lung, Fins and Blessed State. $10 adv., $12 doors. 8 p.m., Apr. 18. Lilly's Pad, 300 York St., New Haven, toadsplace.com Listening to Iceage and interviewing Iceage fundamentally function as two variations on one experience....
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Toad's Place, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Immature yet innocent Bieber
Justin Bieber and his generation are so far removed from the World War II era that it is probably difficult for him to imagine the dire circumstances of Anne Frank, her family and other Jews who were hiding from the Nazis. And living a charmed life as...Tags: Justin Bieber, Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Anne Frank
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FDR's Holocaust lapse
Responding to Rafael Medoff's Op-Ed article Sunday detailing FDR's reaction to Jews facing persecution in Nazi Germany, reader Robert Ouriel wrote in a letter published Friday that "as an American and a Jew, I found [Medoff's] criticism of Franklin D....
Tags: Religion and Belief, Genocide, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Refugee
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