The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology.
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The Daring Nun Who Hid and Saved 83 Jewish Children
“Her own bishop supported Pétain so she wrote to Archbishop Saliège for advice. She records his response in her journal: “Let’s lie, let’s lie, my daughter, as long as we are saving human lives.””
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Remembering the Things That Remain
A Polish artist invites a journalist to dig into disturbing remnants from the Holocaust that Poland would rather keep buried.
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In Praise of Cowardice
A humorous personal essay in which Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
In Praise of Cowardice
Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
In Praise of Cowardice
Emily Meg Weinstein considers the ways in which her grandfather’s less than heroic choices in love and war led to her existence.
Posted inArts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Nonfiction
Building In the Shadow of Our Own Destruction
Those who would build enormous structures—skyscrapers, bridges, border walls—should do so with an eye toward their eventual ruin.
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Building In the Shadow of Our Own Destruction
Those who would build enormous structures—skyscrapers, bridges, border walls—should do so with an eye toward their eventual ruin.
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How the Burning Brigade Broke Free
In the village of Ponar, in present-day Lithuania, occupying Nazis shot nearly 100,000 people, then exhumed and burned the bodies in an effort to remove all traces of the atrocity. The prisoners forced to dig up and burn the bodies of their countrymen knew there was only one way to get out alive: escape.
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The Holocaust’s Great Escape
A remarkable discovery in Lithuania — an escape tunnel from the Nazi killing site at Ponar — brings a legendary tale of survival back to life.