World War II
New York-born GI who defected to the East back in USA
May 22, 2019Grossman is speaking about his new book: A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee. The book tells about his life in the German Democratic Republic from 1949 – 1990 and reasons for the fall of socialism...
Read moreManzanar pilgrimage commemorates Japanese-American internment victims
May 10, 2019This year's pilgrimage to the Manzanar internment camp was the 50th annual commemoration of the victims.
Read moreRemembering 1945: No compromise with fascism, whatever form it takes
May 8, 2019The best memorial to the millions killed in the fight against fascism is to make sure that fascism never returns.
Read more‘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...
Read moreNuclear 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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