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At a theater near you: ‘No Other Land’

This Academy Award-winning documentary still has no distributor.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Incivility

Recently, I was at an afternoon movie following a doctor’s appointment. I wanted to pleasantly kill some time before I put my chauffer’s cap...

Pittsburgh: Sign of things to come

In her letter to the editor Tela Zasloff of Williamstown writes: “The Nazis had Hitler and his enablers; we have Trump and the Republicans in Congress and the hate fringe supporting Trump.”

BOOK REVIEW: ‘To Catch a Nazi’ by Kenneth Markel

David Menard’s mission is vengeful and deeply personal and he is finally given every chance to carry it out. The story involves the Israeli Mossad, the CIA and the help of many kindred spirits.

CONNECTIONS: Handbook for dictators

Silencing the press may be difficult, but why bother? Just challenge everything reported as fake and untrue. The stations aren't silenced, but no one is listening.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

Julius Evola eventually broke with Mussolini and the Italian Fascists because he considered them overly tame and corrupted by compromise. Instead he preferred the Nazi SS officers…

Loet Velmans, 93, of Sheffield, author, journalist, prisoner of war, public relations pioneer

Upon retiring to the Berkshires Velmans wrote Long Way Back to the River Kwai, a war memoir detailing his adventurous escape from the Nazis and his imprisonment by the Japanese.

Loet Velmans honored at Hague on anniversary of daring escape from Nazis in 1940

Sheffield resident Loet Velmans, survivor of a daring escape from Holland in a lifeboat, aptly named The Seaman’s Hope on May 14, 1940, compared his own plight to that of today’s boat people in the Mediterranean and elsewhere, risking their lives for a chance at freedom.

Poem: For Yom HaShoah

Two by two, we boarded the boat Noah’s grateful beasts To salvage what was left.
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