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The Lamarr department store honoring the Hollywood legend will open in Vienna in 2025
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Culture How one newspaper column saved lives, reunited families and changed the course of Jewish history
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Culture She wrote ‘Gigi’ and inspired a Keira Knightley movie — was she also a Nazi collaborator?
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Christopher Nolan’s explosive film centers a Jew committed to his faith and one who was indifferent to it
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Al Leff came from a poor, immigrant family in Brooklyn. The U.S. Army and a camera opened up a whole new world for him.
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Sam Meiselman was a member of the army's elite 10th Mountain Division
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Film & TV A new Nazi revenge film from Finland is called ‘Sisu’ – is that Finnish for ‘chutzpah’?
The movie glosses over Finland’s complicated World War II history — but that shouldn’t keep you away
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