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The man is charged with "knowingly and willfully" aiding and abetting the murder of prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, from January 1942 to February 1945, according to the prosecutor's office in Neuruppin, Brandenburg. The charges include involvement in the shooting of Soviet prisoners of war in 1942, and aiding and abetting the murder of prisoners through the use of the poison gas Zyklon B, as well as other shootings and the killing of prisoners by creating and maintaining hostile conditions in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp
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admin | February 16, 2021
LOS ANGELES (AP) Lucasfilm says Gina Carano is no longer a part of The Mandalorian cast after many online called for her firing over a social media post that likened the experience of Jews during the Holocaust to the U.S. political climate. A spokesperson with the production company said in a statement on Wednesday that Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm with no plans for her to be in the future.
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admin | February 16, 2021
Ursula Meyers teddy bear, Bremen, Germany, circa 1925. Tragedy can imbue the most mundane things in the world with overwhelming significance. Thats the main thrust of Stories of Survival: Object.
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admin | February 16, 2021
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Beba Epstein. Before her world disappeared into the horrors of the Holocaust, fifth-grader Beba Epstein wrote about her life in pre-World War II Poland, describing summers in the countryside, an outing to watch the movie "Uncle Toms Cabin" in her hometown of Vilna, a religious grandfather who never smiled and a grandmother who was "a great storyteller." One thing for sure I was a big brat, she wrote in that essay, composed during the 1933-'34 school year at the Sofia Gurevich school in what is now Lithuania. She got into mischief at home, sending dishes crashing to the floor from a sideboard when she was 2 and ripping her cousins neatly copied geography assignment to bits, but also grew into a keen if sometimes unsparing chronicler of her secular, middle-class life
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admin | February 16, 2021
Today: How to Win Grants to Advance Racial Equity Join our webinar. A partnership of investors, a nonprofit, a developer, and a church in Los Angeles are building housing for homeless people at a fraction of the time and cost that government-subsidized projects usually take. A $100 million-plus private-equity fund, with Kaiser Permanente as the largest contributor, is providing the financing, which allows the developer to skip the two- or three-year process of getting tax credits and securing "layers of financing from multiple government and private sources." The venture's first project will house and provide support for 20 homeless people, with a caseworker living on the premises
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admin | February 16, 2021
Independent news website Open Vallejo says a handful of Solano County Sheriffs Office employees, including one with a famous brother and another recently elected to the Vacaville City Council, have supported right-wing anti-government militia group the Three Percenters. Sgt.
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admin | February 16, 2021
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Experienced sports chief executive officer Ahron Cohen has joined the ADvantage Sports Tech Fund, a global leader in early-stage sports investing backed leAD and OurCrowd, as a venture partner.
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admin | February 16, 2021
An 80-year-old Holocaust survivor and her rabbi son were allegedly beaten up in an attack on a bus in north London on Tuesday, according to reports from Jewish neighbourhood watch volunteers.
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admin | February 16, 2021
When they parted ways in 1939, two Jewish girls from Berlin promised to keep in touch. One family fled to Chile, while the other made its way to the United States via Shanghai.
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admin | February 16, 2021
The San Luis Obispo Police Department is asking the community to come forward with any information about suspicious activity around the time anti-Semitic graffiti was sprawled outside a Jewish-affiliated Cal Poly fraternity. Members of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity reported finding the swastikas and other graffiti at their house in the 200 block of California Blvd. on the morning of Saturday, Feb
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