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Fired professor loses appeal to win back CU job
September 10, 2012 11:12 AM
DENVER (AP) - A former University of Colorado professor who compared some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi has lost his appeal to get his job back. The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday upheld a lower court decision against Ward Churchill. The court said that the Denver District Court was... more » -
Rabbi buys books with ties to Holocaust survivors
April 6, 2012 7:17 AM
An Ohio rabbi who recently purchased two religious books dating to shortly after the Holocaust has drawn attention from historians and archivists for the books' limited run by the U.S. Army to help Holocaust survivors in displacement camps around Europe. Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann of Columbus bought the tractates, or passages... more » -
Miracle claimed for controversial WWII-era pope
July 3, 2011 6:02 PM
CASTELLAMMARE DI STABIA, Italy (AP) - Maria Esposito says she was cured from an aggressive form of cancer after she and her husband prayed to the late Pope Pius XII. The Italian woman is convinced that the World War II-era pope intervened with God to save her. Esposito's... more » -
Spielberg to honor Comcast head during Philly gala
May 8, 2011 3:56 PM
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The head of Philadelphia-based cable television company Comcast is being honored by filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who created a foundation to preserve oral histories of the Holocaust. Spielberg will present Comcast Corp. CEO Brian Roberts with the Shoah Foundation's annual Ambassadors for Humanity Award at a Philadelphia... more » -
California library gives Nazi papers to Nat'l Archives
August 25, 2010 2:35 PM
The National Archives now has the documents historians say laid the legal groundwork for the execution of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. The private, nonprofit Huntington Library formally handed over the Nuremberg Laws to archive officials at a news conference Wednesday at the library in San Marino, California.... more » -
Holocaust survivor receives honorary diploma
May 20, 2010 5:05 PM
In Pueblo, there was a special honor Thursday for Holocaust survivor. Lili Susser received an honorary diploma from the McClelland School during a school graduation. When she was younger, Susser was taken to an Auschwitz concentration camp and never finished school. The school's 8th grade class wanted to give Susser... more » -
Air Force Academy to observe Holocaust anniversary
April 7, 2010 11:53 AM
The Air Force Academy will observe the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps with a Holocaust remembrance event. The Academy says Sam Lauber, a Holocaust survivor and an Air Force veteran, will speak on "A Hidden Child's Story" at a luncheon on Thursday. Lauber will... more »
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