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Burdens of the Past

Seventy-three years ago, on September 1, German tanks rolled across the border of Poland and the conflict that soon became known as World War II officially began.  The literature is vast, even for children.  The weight is vast, too, with a level of destruction and death that we find hard to imagine.  War stories aren’t [...]

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Learning the Holocaust

In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a review of Annexed, by Sharon Dogar (Houghton Mifflin, 2010, 337 pages) Yes, I am dead now, but if you listen you can still hear me. Wystawach. Wake up. Are you still there? Are you listening? I was around twelve years old when Adolph Eichmann, administrator of the Nazi [...]

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