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...World War II to warn against the dangers of discrimination and to emphasize the importance of kindness, before a crowd of nearly 400 last night in Memorial Church. Between the ages of 13 and 15, Burian spent time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Gunskirchen, concentration camps in Poland and Austria. Burian told his story to the crowd to fulfill his personal responsibility “as a witness” to history, he said. “I urge you to do your part, to participate in the liberation of the human race to whatever extent so the Holocaust shall...
...companies and countries that have been slow to reform their economies - such as France and Italy, whose considerable price tags for cars, trains, airplanes, luxury goods and food products have become absolutely daunting once they've traversed the euro-dollar exchange. In places like the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria - where enormous pressure on salaries and production costs have made goods and companies more competitive in recent years - the rise of the euro has been less catastrophic, though only in relative terms. Whereas Germany has watched the plummeting dollar eat at its healthy trade surplus, France blames that slide for worsening...
...atrice André-Salvini, a curator at the Louvre, says it marks the first major exhibition devoted to Babylonian history, an omission that owed in large part to practical considerations. "The essence of Babylon is scattered," she says, noting that museums in 13 countries from Austria to Saudi Arabia loaned items for the show. Noticeably missing are treasured artifacts from Baghdad's National Museum of Antiquities, which are currently locked away in underground steel vaults...
...other figures. But when students venture out into the world and experience art in its original form, they often gain entirely new perspectives.LIKE SHAKESPEARE FROM CLIFF NOTESIn the past, students in HAA graduate seminars, like Schlozman’s, have traveled abroad extensively, with excursions ranging from Belgium to Austria. Through these crucial research opportunities, students are able to interact with works of art that they may have previously encountered only in photographs. According to Thomas Batchelder, the undergraduate coordinator of the HAA department, the concentration’s annual budget includes provisions for these graduate excursions...
...menial maintenance job, Valland eavesdropped on her Nazi bosses as they catalogued looted Vermeers and Rembrandts, and shipped them off to the private collections of top Nazis. Choice pieces were earmarked for the grand Führermuseum, which Adolf Hitler planned but never built in Linz, Austria, near his birthplace. At night, Valland would record the details at home in secret diaries, and warn her comrades in the French Resistance so that Allied bombers would spare these treasure-laden trains bound for Germany...