Removing books from schools isn't a ban, SC superintendent says. She bristles at Nazi comparison.
There's a difference between removing books from schools and banning them, SC Superintendent Ellen Weaver said. She was ...
How these Jewish genealogists are repairing Nazi ‘dirty deeds’
Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in ...
Sunday conversation: Karen Franklin on the sacred task of returning Nazi-looted books
"This is for us a sacred task," says a world-renowned expert on German Jewish genealogy from the Looted Books Project.
Yes, Columbia University expelled student for leading anti-Nazi demonstration in 1936
In June 1936, Columbia University expelled student activist Robert Burke for leading an anti-Nazi demonstration.
The Forward on MSN6d
Two middle-aged women defied the Nazis. One ‘wrote’ a book that betrayed the other.
But while most readers might agree that a book labeled “nonfiction” should strive to get its facts right, what if the ...
‘The Fifteen’ delves into forgotten history of Nazi POWs on U.S. soil
Author William Geroux finds a compelling true-crime angle in a series of camp murders, as well as international intrigue in a ...
The National Interest on MSN3d
Nazi Germany Once Tried to Build an Aircraft Carrier. It Didn’t End Well.
Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider ...
The Harvard Crimson12d
So You Want to Read Like a German Concentrator
From 18th-century dramas to young adult fantasy novels published in the 2000s, this list can help everyone read like a German ...
Presidents' Private Love Lives Explored in New Book, Including JFK's Alleged Affair with a Possible Nazi Spy
In a new book 'Presidents At War,' historian Steven M. Gillon takes a look at how World War II impacted a generation of ...
This shocking sculpture invokes both Nazi delirium and Jewish theology
Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” weighing more than seven tons, is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of ...
Exclusive: International Booker Prize-Winning Author Jenny Erpenbeck Says, “No Single Book Can Capture the Entire Truth of History”
Jenny Erpenbeck explores history, identity, and memory, stating that no single book can capture the full truth. She reflects ...
Fighting for the return of Nazi-looted art
New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the U.S.), and a recent French law, may make it easier for Jewish families to claim ownership of artworks that they believe were sold under ...