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Kurt Wallach was 7 when he and his family fled the Nazis in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1933. What ensued was a three-year journey that led to a new beginning in the United States.
Wallach wants to ensure his experience and those like his are remembered. For their struggle as well as their triumph.
That’s the impetus behind a $20 million gift to Florida Atlantic University its largest gift in school history to create the Kurt and Marilyn Wallach Institute for Holocaust and Jewish Studies housed in FAU’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.
“We speak for those who cannot speak, and we remember all the victims including our family members who perished needlessly,” Kurt Wallach said. “No one should ever be subjected to such horror. We hope that through the education we can provide that lives will be saved and history will not be repeated.”
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Three-martini lunch tax break, foreign aid: Year-end bills stir controversy Matthew Brown and Ledyard King, USA TODAY
President Trump denounces new COVID-19 relief bill and seeks multiple changes
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WASHINGTON – The $2.3 trillion spending package Congress overwhelmingly passed last week has a little bit of everything.
Fused from two major bills – a $900 billion coronavirus aid package to address the economic fallout of the pandemic and a $1.4 trillion spending measure to fund the government through Sept. 30 – the legislation includes money for direct payments to millions of families, vaccine distribution efforts and pay raises for the military.
It also includes controversial provisions that would extend tax breaks for race car tracks and business lunches, millions for venues that aren t open and a requirement that carbon monoxide detectors be installed in public housing apartments. It includes billions in foreign aid, which often draws co
Historical novel on Holland s largest Holocaust rescue operation slammed for awful errors
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The Amsterdam building that used to house the Reform seminary and children s detainment facility where Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk helped saved hundreds of Jewish children.
AMSTERDAM (JTA) - It was meant as an ode to one of the most courageous yet little-known rescue efforts of Jews during the Holocaust.
But a week after its publication, a Dutch-language historical novel is at the heart of a controversy over whether the author twisted the historical record in ways that risk distorting public understanding of the genocide.