Cantor Jennifer Bern-Vogel was used to hearing her mother tell the story. On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then ...
She had a quaint and nun-like look, as if she might be a German canoness ... emphasized by her nearer friends, and which shows itself in her quaint and unique description of a rural burglary, ...
When Yannis Ritsos passed away on November 11, 1990, the world of poetry lost one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
I’ve researched the rare moments of intimacy during war, when enemies see the humanity in each other and forge unlikely ...
A friendship between a German solider and a couple from Devon has kept two families in touch for almost 80 years. Bruno Pannhausen was captured in Normandy in 1944 and detained in a prisoner of ...
November 9th, 1938 was when ordinary Germans turned against their Jewish friends and neighbours – or turned away ... For ...
Brokered by Amnesty International, the West German government had agreed to buy his freedom. But he refused the offer. He so desperately wanted to get back to his family and friends, he went on a ...
The writer receives the most important literary award in the Spanish language, endowed with 125,000 euros, and succeeds the ...
Robin Williams would have turned 73 this year. We used Rotten Tomatoes to determine what his best and worst movies were, ...
I n one of the 50 marvelous sketches populating Eugenio Montale’s “Butterfly of Dinard,” a writer named Gerda asks a young ...
The jury has reached a verdict in the high-profile Delphi, Indiana, double murder trial on the fourth day of deliberations.
Ernst, who lives in Middleton, Wis., is the author of 20 historical novels and mysteries for young readers from American Girl ...