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  • The author's great-aunt, Stasia Szymanska, and cousin, Stasia’s grandson, Pawel Szymanski, on their farm in Chociszewo, Poland, where schoolteacher Wladyslaw Gugla hid during the war. They are both farmers and both live at the house.(Courtesy of the author)
    The author's great-aunt, Stasia Szymanska, and cousin, Stasia’s grandson, Pawel Szymanski, on their farm in Chociszewo, Poland, where schoolteacher Wladyslaw Gugla hid during the war. They are both farmers and both live at the house.(Courtesy of the author)
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    A Polish Village’s Secret

    A farming town hid a Jewish-born teacher during the Holocaust. I went to dig up what it had buried.

    bySuzanne Rozdeba
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    (Wikipedia)
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    The Last Salvo

    Mikics Replies to Snyder

    byDavid Mikics
  • German tank in Ukraine on June 21, 1941.
    German tank in Ukraine on June 21, 1941.
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    In Defense of Bloodlands

    The Yale historian explains his masterwork and its transnational narrative of the Holocaust

    byTimothy Snyder
  • A German soldier with civilians in September 1939 during the German invasion of Poland.(Deutsches Bundesarchiv)
    A German soldier with civilians in September 1939 during the German invasion of Poland.(Deutsches Bundesarchiv)
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    The Diplomat of Shoah History

    Does Yale historian Timothy Snyder absolve Eastern Europe of special complicity in the Holocaust?

    byDavid Mikics
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    The Treblinka Gold Rush

    After World War II, Polish peasants hunted for jewels and gold amid the human remains at former Nazi death camps

    byJan T. Gross
  • Tony Judt, 2002.(Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo James Leynse/Corbis.)
    Tony Judt, 2002.(Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo James Leynse/Corbis.)
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    Arguing the World

    In his last book, the late intellectual Tony Judt is sharp as ever—offering biting comments about American Jews, Israel, and his ex-wives

    byMatthew Kaminski
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    Lithuanian Holocaust Memorial Vandalized

    Why this corner of the Shoah is often overlooked

    byMarc Tracy
  • From the Miral poster.(IMDB)
    From the Miral poster.(IMDB)
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    Sundown: Controversy Over Schnabel Film

    Plus what Abbas says and whom he says it to, Neil!, and more

    byMarc Tracy
  • Vasily Grossman in Schwerin, Germany, in 1945, with the Red Army.(Foreign Policy)
    Vasily Grossman in Schwerin, Germany, in 1945, with the Red Army.(Foreign Policy)
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    Eyewitness

    A collection of Vasily Grossman’s shorter work offers a chance to reassess the Soviet master’s life and legacy. A conversation with Grossman translator Robert Chandler.

    byBlake Eskin
  • The Soviet siege of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), April 1945.(Getty Images)
    The Soviet siege of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), April 1945.(Getty Images)
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    Devastated

    Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands contextualizes the story of Eastern European Jewry’s sad fate without relativizing it

    byAdam Kirsch
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