Ruth Weinberger
By Ruth Weinberger
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Opinion Shalom, Austrian President Thomas Klestil
Some 36 hours after his rather sudden death last week, I received a personal letter from Austrian President Thomas Klestil. In his letter, Klestil wrote that he fully intended to fight for the Jewish cause until his very last day in office. The envelope was postmarked July 2, which turned out to be his final…
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Opinion Then They Came for the Romani Women
I hear stories of forced sterilization experiments on a daily basis. I hear frail, old voices trying to explain what happened to them so many years ago at the hands of Nazi doctors. These Holocaust survivors struggle to describe the indescribable, fighting to recollect the horrific experiments to which they were subjected so that they…
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