President Hoover's Charity to Battered Poland Remembered in New Exhibit
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Herbert Hoover, the former U.S. president associated at home with the despair of the Great Depression, is remembered as a hero to Poles in an exhibit that opened Friday.
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"I think that many of us feel that this lustration is a Polish version of McCarthyism"  This should be a time for Solidarity veterans to savor.Eighteen years after the collapse of Polish communism, two of their own are perched at the pinnacle of power: Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, identical twins who once advised Solidarity founder Lech Walesa.But instead of relishing their rise, many of the movement's leading activists _ including Walesa himself _ have turned against the Kaczynskis and joined forces with their old enemies, the former communists.They aim to create 'a coalition in defense of democracy in Poland,' said Bronislaw Geremek, an adviser to the Solidarity movement who was foreign minister in the 1997-2000 Solidarity-led government. Read more
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A new exhibit honoring the American sacrifice during wars that span the nation&#39;s history opened in Washington DC on Veterans Day.
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WARSAW, Poland  - Poland's prime minister marked the 65th anniversary of the start of the Second World War on Wednesday, unveiling a new memorial on the spot where a German warship fired the opening shots at a Polish munitions depot, sparking nearly six years of bloody conflict.
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The Jewish Claims Conference joined with Polish restitution organizations Wednesday to appeal for the return of private property seized in the country during World War II and under Communist rule.Comment
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Poland had a strong resistance - but the uprising was crushed Historians in Poland have discovered the wreckage of a World War II RAF Halifax bomber along with the remains of its British and Canadian crew.Comment
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CINCINNATI -- A newly opened Cincinnati museum portraying the horrors of American slavery has generated criticism and stoked friction that persists three years after race riots tore through the Ohio city.
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The image originated in Worcester, Mass., where an exhibit on it opens October 6.
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A case before the European Court of Human Rights is being seen as a landmark that could force Poland to compensate Holocaust survivors and their descendants for their material losses.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Miles Lerman, who fought against the Nazis in Poland and later helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has died. He was 88.
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The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is offering to help survivors and their families navigate a vast Nazi archive that promises to document their persecution and provide clues to the fate of loved ones.
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Jim Newman, an Army captain during the Vietnam War, stared at the Bell UH-1 Huey Helicopter. "I left a lot of blood and part of my leg in that Huey," he said. Nearly four decades after escaping death, Newman was among dozens of veterans at a dedication ceremony Wednesday for a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit that pays tribute to the service and sacrifice of the nation's battle-worn men and women.
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Former Polish president and Solidarity hero Lech Walesa said Monday he was considering another attempt at a political comeback by running for president later this year. Walesa led a labor union movement that helped topple communism in Poland in 1989, and was its first democratically elected president.
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Polish officials say that legal documents compiled in a new book bolster their ownership claim of drawings by Renaissance master Albrecht Durer that were looted by the Nazis during World War II.
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MONROE, Mich. - It was a symbol of philanthropy
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A new traveling exhibit gives a glimpse of Afghanistan's diverse cultural legacy, rescued from the Taliban's destruction
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By Elaine Jarvik Deseret Morning News  Former Polish president and trade-union activist Lech Walesa, who helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe, will speak at a $250- a-plate fund-raiser in Salt Lake City on George Washington's 275th birthday.