Recently, another Obama administration-brokered cease fire between the Hamas terrorist organization and Israel collapsed. Having lived through 12 years of Nazi totalitarianism in Germany as a child and teenager, I will remember forever the inhuman humiliation and suffering inflicted upon fellow Jewish citizens. Adolf Hitler’s “final solution” is officially the basic policy of Hamas, namely, […]
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Holocaust and human rights awards at Bates College
LEWISTON — They rose for many standing ovations — some even making several attempts to stand beside their walkers — to applaud those honored by the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine at Bates College on Sunday afternoon. “I don’t like to talk about it,” said Judith (Jutka) Magyar Isaacson, a woman whose son […]
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Students: Holocaust history shows how discrimination accelerated
LEWISTON – While she ate lunch with friends in the Lewiston Middle School cafeteria, eighth-grader Jordan Girouard said she couldn’t believe how Holocaust victims were starved and forced to do slave labor. Jamie Poliquin was aghast “how they would throw babies into a pit like they were nothing, and how skinny the people were.” Before […]
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Livermore teacher named Maine History Teacher of the Year
LIVERMORE — Not every classroom has a language tree depicting the Latin and Greek roots of common words used every day. Nor does it have a fifth-grade teacher who was named Maine History Teacher of the Year for 2013 by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of America. That classroom and its teacher, Janet Ventrella, is a […]