Word: warsaw
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...economy relies on the military for hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs and the employment of millions of troops and bureaucrats. This situation is outdated; the only other large nations with such a significant dependance on the military are in the collapsed Warsaw Pact...
...have found some quotes regarding ceremonies held over the past couple of days for Holocaust Remembrance (April 18) and the fifty-year anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis (April 19). I thought others might find these interesting in light of today's political climate...
...York Times of April 16, a 72-year-old Holocaust survivor recounts his thoughts during the Warsaw uprising: "We thought that if there was an uprising, some shooting back, somebody would wake up. But nobody did. No help came...
Even as fighting eased in Srebrenica under a cease-fire agreement brokered in Sarajevo late Saturday night, painful memories were being evoked half a continent away, in Poland, where preparations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising were under way. In 1943, 60,000 Jewish survivors of starvation and deportation -- roughly the same number as those trapped in Srebrenica -- confronted Nazi troops in a final, hopeless battle. Back then the outside knew little and could do less about what was afoot. But the horror of the last days of Srebrenica could not be ignored by a world...
...display, which was sponsored by the Kennedy School's Jewish Student Caucus, also commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising...