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Thursday, May 31, 2012

The Two-Way

A Family's Visit To Holocaust 'Stumbling Stones' Evokes Strong Emotions

The names of Jeffrey Katz's family members are depicted on "stumbling stones" in Lembeck, Germany. His relatives owned a home on the property near the stones, before they were evicted in 1942.

May 31, 2012 When NPR's Jeffrey Katz took his family to see the stones memorializing his relatives who were victims of the Holocaust, he was struck by the "selfless dedication of a new generation of Germans who feel a responsibility to keep their memories alive."

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Picture Show

Auschwitz The Memorial, Oswiecim The Living Town

An elderly man from Oswiecim locks his bike to a sign at Auschwitz II-Birkenau that directs visitors to the Auschwitz I museum site.

February 23, 2011 Most tourists, who come in buses to the former Nazi prison camp for the day, may not notice the people living in the surrounding towns.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

The Two-Way

Holocaust Project Identifies 4 Million Victims, Continues Search For Names

December 21, 2010 Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the Holocaust, says it has identified the names of 4 million Jews who died at the hands of Nazi Germany. The names,kept in an online database, represent two-thirds of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.

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Friday, September 25, 2009

Tell Me More

What It Means To Survive

September 25, 2009 Decades later, Leslie Gilbert Lurie finally begins to understand how — despite her mother's best efforts — the sense of fear that scarred Rita's life after the Holocaust had affected her own American childhood, and was influencing the way she ra...

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Monday, December 08, 2008