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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. -
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.
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Wednesday December 7th marks the 75th anniversary of the bombing of the American fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack launched the U.S. involvement鈥� -
Mel and Annalee Jacoby were journalists who shared a love for Asia and for each other. They got married in Manila--in November 1941. With the attack on鈥� -
Philippe Sands is a writer and international lawyer who works to curtail and punish mass murder by whichever term is used: genocide or crimes against鈥� -
Fact and fiction combine in the book Salt to the Sea, by Repa Sepetys. It tells a true story through made-up characters, the story of a ship full of鈥� -
Much has been written about the interning of Japanese-Americans during World War II, but Pamela Rotner Sakamoto's story of that period is a tale of a鈥� -
It's hard to believe World War I was once called The Great War, when an even greater war followed it. The two World Wars are taken up as a single subject鈥� -
Under an engraving of a four-engine airplane and a cross, a polished granite memorial at Mountain View Cemetery in Ashland, Ore., reads, 鈥淚n Memory of the鈥�
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Michael Gruenbaum was young when his family was forced to move into a Jewish ghetto in Prague. But he grew up fast when the Nazis increased their鈥� -
The world had only three days to get used to the idea of nuclear weapons... when the second bomb dropped. It's been 70 years nearly to the day since an鈥� -
The World War II draft called thousands of Oregonians into the armed forces, many of them with backgrounds similar to Dick Rone of the Nonpareil鈥�
