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Candidate trying to reclaim Holocaust victims’ property

October 12, 2009

After an attempt on Adolf Hitler's life, Glenn Berwin's family and their property was seized along with many other Jews in Munich. Berwin's uncle owned two restaurants and a shop there. They were seized alo...

Catholic bishop believes Katrina was a heavenly punishment

Sachin Seth

March 2, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday rescinded the promotion of a very, very conservative pastor who has recently come under some scrutiny for his remarks that Hurricane Katrina was God's way of punishing New Orleans, the New York Times reports.

Confronting a Holocaust past

Kristen Gard

February 10, 2009

There is no doubt that Nazi Germany was a haunting place to live in the wake of the Holocaust. Bernhard Schlink addressed these hardships in his 1995 novel "The Reader" and through lectures in Boston last we...

Defiance

Terri Schwartz

January 6, 2009

What makes the film "Defiance" so unique is that without ever seeing concentration camps and with barely any physical presence from the Germans, director Ed Zwick was able to tell the story of the Jews' plight during World War II almost as masterfully as Stephen Spielberg did with "Schindler's List."

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