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  • Liselotte Karoline Rosenstiel, in one of the two passport photos contained in her file
    Liselotte Karoline Rosenstiel, in one of the two passport photos contained in her file
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    Her Name Was Luka

    A stunning piece of scholarly detective work, aided by a new database, restores the identity of a Dutch Jewish hero of the Sobibor revolt

    byAline Pennewaard
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    The Afterlife

    Alexander ‘Sasha’ Pechersky led a successful prisoner revolt at the Sobibor death camp. His story of extraordinary courage was also the story of millions of Soviet Jews who lived and died in a country that refused to acknowledge their fate.

    byDavid Bezmozgis
  • Ghetto police escorting residents for deportation, 1942-1944.
    Ghetto police escorting residents for deportation, 1942-1944.
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    Poland’s Judas Holocaust

    The Polish parliament seeks to ban the landscape of contiguous evil recognized by the country’s greatest postwar writers

    byDavid G. Roskies
  • Sobibor railway yard. (Wikimedia)
    Sobibor railway yard. (Wikimedia)
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    Excavation Unearths Gas Chambers at Sobibor

    Discovery enables further research of the Nazi extermination camp

    byStephanie Butnick
  • Detail of photo of Abba Kovner holding gun in Vilna, 1944.(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
    Detail of photo of Abba Kovner holding gun in Vilna, 1944.(United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
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    Gun Control and the Holocaust

    Gun-rights advocates cite Nazi laws in their defense of the Second Amendment. Is the comparison fair?

    byMichael Moynihan
  • John Demjanjuk last May after his conviction.(Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images)
    John Demjanjuk last May after his conviction.(Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Awaiting Appeal on Conviction, Demjanjuk Dies

    Ukrainian-American was among last living (alleged) Holocaust camp guards

    byMarc Tracy
  • John Demjanjuk (C) today.(Johannes Simon/Getty Images)
    John Demjanjuk (C) today.(Johannes Simon/Getty Images)
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    Demjanjuk Convicted, Sentenced, and Set Free

    Has justice been done to the last Nazi genocidaire?

    byMarc Tracy
  • John Demjanjuk's World War II-era military service pass(US Department of Justice/Getty Images)
    John Demjanjuk's World War II-era military service pass(US Department of Justice/Getty Images)
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    Still Terrible

    Why the Germans are right to prosecute 89-year-old John Demjanjuk

    byMichael Moynihan
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