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Fast Forward Marine Le Pen Accuses Dad of ‘Political Suicide’ in Feud Over ‘Gas Chamber’ Quip
A bitter family feud between National Front leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie deepened on Wednesday as she accused the 86-year-old founder of the far-right party of sabotaging its efforts to move into the political mainstream. Jean-Marie Le Pen, who last week defended a past comment that Nazi gas chambers were a “detail…
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Culture The Life and Death of Jewish Lithuania
● The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police Translated and edited by Samuel Schalkowsky Indiana University Press, 416 pages, $35 When we think of Lithuanian Jewry, we tend to think of Vilnius, “The Yerushalaim of Litte,” for its fame as a Jewish religious and intellectual center, its great scholars, and its contribution to…
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The Schmooze Real-Life Lawyer Behind ‘Woman in Gold’
(JTA) — When attorney E. Randol (Randy) Schoenberg saw himself portrayed on the big screen by hunky Ryan Reynolds in the movie “Woman in Gold,” he immediately spotted a difference. “Obviously, I’m not the sexiest man alive,” Schoenberg acknowledged in an interview at his West Los Angeles home, referring to People magazine’s designation of Reynolds in…
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Fast Forward France’s Marine Le Pen Slams Dad for Calling Gas Chambers ‘Detail’
(Reuters) — Tensions between French National Front leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie worsened on Thursday as the 86-year-old founder of the far-right party defended having described Nazi gas chambers as a “detail of history.” Since taking over from her father in 2011, Marine Le Pen has tried to rid the anti-immigrant party…
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Fast Forward 1902 Pisarro Masterpiece in Munich Cache Was Looted by Nazis
Experts have determined that a painting by Camille Pissarro from the cache of reclusive German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt was stolen by Nazis from its rightful owner, according to German officials. German Culture Minister Monika Gruetters declared in a statement that her ministry was already in touch with an heiress of the original owner and…
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Fast Forward Dutch Royals Plan To Return Looted Art Work
The Dutch royal family contacted the heirs of a Nazi-looted painting’s owners as a step toward restitution. Queen Juliana had purchased the painting from a Dutch art dealer in 1960, according to independent research commissioned by the palace in 2012, the French news agency AFP reported. It was not known at the time that the…
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Fast Forward Was Anne Frank Murdered Earlier Than Thought?
New research by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam shows that the teenage diarist died earlier than previously believed. The exact date of Anne Frank’s death from typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is unknown. At the end of World War II the Red Cross officially concluded that she died sometime during March 1945. But new…
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Culture Chasing ‘The Messiah’ and Bruno Schulz’s Long-Lost Novel
Despite the limited number of literary works that survived his life, cut short by a Nazi’s bullet in wartime Poland, many today view Bruno Schulz as one of the 20th century’s most interesting and imaginative writers. First brought to public light in the United States in the 1970s by Philip Roth, he inspired such prominent…
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