World War II
‘Yiddish Glory’ CD records Jewish pain and resistance in World War II
August 20, 2018Even as WWII was still raging, a group of Soviet Yiddish scholars undertook an ambitious project of preserving Jewish culture of the 1940s while and soon after it was created. Linguists, folklorists, and historians joined to...
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Nuclear abolition: Protesters confront Livermore Lab on Hiroshima anniversary
August 10, 2018Nobuaki Hanaoka was an infant in Nagasaki in August 1945 when the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb. He recalled how, when he was a child, "death came down with the rain.”
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D-Day anniversary: Remembering how World War II was actually won
June 6, 2018Ultimately, humanity was saved in the 20th century because of the cooperation between countries with different social systems. It’s a lesson we should all remember.
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Fascistic Ukraine government attacks communists, squashes May Day preps
April 25, 2018While those activities have been declared illegal by the Ukrainian government, the use of fascist symbols and flags, fascist marches and the construction of memorials honoring Nazis are all entirely legal now in that country.
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This week in history: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
April 17, 2018For four weeks, residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps.
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