https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkXBfAmwWFY The Nuremberg Academy held a special online event in honor of and with live participation of Benjamin ‘Ben’ Ferencz on his 101st birthday on 11 March 2021. Deputy Director…
By Jennifer Szalai When the poet Osip Mandelstam was arrested by the Soviet secret police in the 1930s, he was taken to the notorious Lubyanka prison for interrogation. He drew a…
Jannie Jones is the 76-year-old woman who had to know who Representative James Clyburn was voting for in the South Carolina primary. Did her question change the Democratic presidential race?…
As a child, Katsumoto Saotome barely escaped the air raids over Tokyo that killed as many as 100,000 people. He has spent much of his life fighting to honor the…
Katie Wedell, Lucille Sherman and Sky Chadde, USA TODAY Network6:00 a.m. EDT Mar. 9, 2020 One by one, the three men from the same close-knit community took their own lives.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO2qkgfrTio Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the…
https://youtu.be/Lvfxzht9KUA Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The U.S. government said Thursday that it is deporting a 94-year-old German ex-Nazi who has been in the United States for decades after information was found in…
About 100,000 people were imprisoned in the camp system where the man served, and at least 42,900 were killed. by Elisha Fieldstadt | NBC NEWS A Tennessee man who served…
School officials at a New Orleans university have removed its “Victory Bell” after learning that it was used on a plantation and symbolized a “horrific part of our nation’s past.”…