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Posted inEditor's Pick

The Forgotten History of the World’s First Trans Clinic

by Seyward Darby March 7, 2023March 7, 2023

The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Daring Nun Who Hid and Saved 83 Jewish Children

by Carolyn Wells September 7, 2020October 19, 2022

“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.””

Posted inFeature, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized

Remembering the Things That Remain

by Amos Barshad January 29, 2020December 30, 2022

A Polish artist invites a journalist to dig into disturbing remnants from the Holocaust that Poland would rather keep buried.

Posted inEditor's Pick

In Praise of Cowardice

by Sari Botton December 18, 2017October 19, 2022

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

by Emily Meg Weinstein December 18, 2017October 19, 2022

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

by Emily Meg Weinstein December 18, 2017October 19, 2022

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

by Colin Dickey April 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Those who would build enormous structures—skyscrapers, bridges, border walls—should do so with an eye toward their eventual ruin.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

Building In the Shadow of Our Own Destruction

by Colin Dickey April 3, 2017October 19, 2022

Those who would build enormous structures—skyscrapers, bridges, border walls—should do so with an eye toward their eventual ruin.

Posted inHistory, Nonfiction, Quotes

How the Burning Brigade Broke Free

by michelleweber February 28, 2017October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Holocaust’s Great Escape

by michelleweber February 28, 2017October 19, 2022

A remarkable discovery in Lithuania — an escape tunnel from the Nazi killing site at Ponar — brings a legendary tale of survival back to life.

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