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Courtesy of Yad Vashem, Wikimedia CommonsJPR鈥檚 Vanessa Finney discusses 鈥淥nly Hope: A Survivor鈥檚 Stories of the Holocaust鈥� with book editor Irving Lubliner, director Liisa Ivary, and Christine Williams, who narrates the audiobook and stars in the play. -
Irving LublinerHolocaust survivor, Felicia Lubliner felt driven to remind us that the millions who perished were not defined by their deaths but by their lives-their joys, dreams, loves.
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Ariana Neumann knew her father had escaped the Nazis in the second World War. But she didn't know much more than that--until he died. Then she began鈥� -
Nobuo Fujita wanted to set part of Southern Oregon on fire. He was a Japanese pilot during World War II, given the task of dropping incendiary devices in鈥� -
Gone, but not forgotten. World War II had a huge impact on the region; it was home to both a major army base (Camp White, where White City is now) and a鈥� -
Marthe Cohn escaped Nazi oppression in France before the Allies liberated the country. But rather than celebrate the freedom, she chose to enter鈥� -
Paying attention to history might, it is hoped, prevent us from repeating it. So new generations of people need to understand what happened to previous鈥� -
Latin America was not a major battleground in the second World War, but it was pivotal in other ways. The region's riches in natural resources made it鈥� -
In our current divided political climate the word "fascist" is an all-purpose insult used by the left to describe members of the alt-right. Much like鈥� -
A piece of history went missing in Coos Bay, and some people want it back. At one time a billboard in Eastside (east of the Coos River) bore the names of鈥� -
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend." So China and the United States were friendly in the early days of World War II, even before Japan attacked Pearl鈥� -
It was Henry Luce, the publisher of Time magazine, who declared an "American Century" in early 1941. Historian Alfred W. McCoy is not at all convinced鈥� -
Depending on your political orientation, this time in America is either the dawn of a new age or something like "springtime for Hitler." And it is鈥� -
In a less candid age, the end of the phrase "Eleanor and..." was "Franklin." Roosevelt, that is. The first lady and the president broke many barriers in鈥�
