Episode 14: Tanzania s Opposition Leader Tundu Lissu on Politics after Magufuli The death of President Magufuli, a populist authoritarian and COVID-denier, officially from a heart failure, raises questions about whether newly sworn-in President Samia Suluhu Hassan will change course or maintain her predecessor’s authoritarian track. Tundu Lissu, Tanzania’s main opposition leader, joins Alan Boswell this week to discuss the late President Magufuli’s legacy and policies in Tanzania. Tundu says President Magufuli’s death is an opportunity to reverse trends and ensure accountability in the country. He expects Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s first woman president, to reverse the government’s response to Covid-19, as well as a variety of other policies pursued by Magufuli over the past five years.
A potato sack helped her survive the Holocaust. She ll tell her story during virtual event. Carli Teproff, The Miami Herald
Jan. 23 Suly Chenkin was only 3 when her mother and father gave her a sleeping potion, put her in a potato sack and threw her over the barbed wire.
Her parents, she later learned, thought giving the little girl away was her only chance of survival.
This was on May 11, 1944, about three years after the Nazis invaded Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania.
Chenkin, who survived the Holocaust and was eventually reunited with her parents, will share her tale of survival as part of Holocaust and Genocide Awareness week at Florida International University. Hillel at FIU, the school s Holocaust & Genocide Studies Program, the Jewish Museum of Florida, Casa Cuba, along with several other FIU departments and organizations and other community partners have teamed up to offer a week-long schedule of virtual events including a discussion with Chenkin on Wednesday,
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum uploads over 700 hours of audio recordings, many of them in German without translation, as well as 37 reels of film introduced as evidence
Renowned Professor Comes (Virtually) to Library of the Chathams
Professor Paul Lombardo will present a virtual lecture on the legacy of Eugenics in America. More than 100 laws were passed in the US during the 20th Century, both federal and state, that reflected ideas associated with the eugenics movement. This presentation will survey them with an analysis of the popular beliefs people associated with eugenics” in the first two decades of the 20th Century, including Better Baby and Fitter Family contests and the proliferation of commercial advertising that highlighted eugenic ideas. Many of these were absorbed into the country s political and legal culture, including sterilization laws for people deemed feebleminded or socially inadequate.