Berlin, Germany – Those hoping to have a 50-year secrecy order overturned believe the government is embarrassed by details within that may prove German and Vatican officials colluded in his escape and freedom.
The secrecy order is being challenged in a benchmark court case against the BND, Germany’s domestic intelligence service, which wants the 4,500 pages [...]
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In exclusive interview, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva tells Haaretz it’s time for more serious Israel-Palestinian talks.
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South Lanarkshire, UK – A group of stunned primary schoolchildren began crying when their teacher told them during a bizarre Holocaust game that they were to be taken away from their families.
The pupils, aged 11, became upset after a number of them were segregated and told they were being sent away or might end up [...]
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Washington – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum says 30 million visitors have now come through its doors.
The museum said today that the milestone was passed this week. The museum has been open since April 1993. A museum spokesman says 1.75 million people visited last year.
Museum officials also note that 88 heads of state and [...]
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Yantarny, Russia – The Holocaust memorial in the seaside Russian town of Yantarny is out of the way. A bumpy road leads down a hill, toward the chilly waters of the Baltic Sea. Climb over a rope, walk around a restaurant and there are a few stones arranged like a pyramid and, nearby, a long [...]
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The Associated Press reports: It took Ina Polak 35 years to discover the dusty piece of paper that probably saved her and her family in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. It wasn’t until she was cleaning her mother’s New York City apartment following her death in 1980 that she discovered the document listing her, her sister and parents. It [...]
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New York – It took Ina Polak 35 years to discover the dusty piece of paper that probably saved her and her family in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
It wasn’t until she was cleaning her mother’s New York City apartment following her death in 1980 that she discovered the document listing her, her sister and parents. It [...]
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New York, NY – The Health Department is mulling a new tax increase on alcohol – which supporters say would make New Yorkers drink less and get healthier.
“It’s one of the things on the menu,” said Executive Deputy Commissioner Adam Karpati, who oversees the Health Department’s alcohol policy.
And it could put a big siphon on [...]
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