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Only a few hours after the heavy rain began, water and detritus overflowed and destroyed the stream banks of the island’s principal localities. Taking back areas of unduly occupied flood plain, torrents of water swept away everything in its path.
Learning from the past should not necessarily entail painful memories...
Years ago, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance formulated how hatred of Jews can be recognised. Now a new definition is causing controversy. By Sarah Judith Hofmann
Search Lotte (left), Sonja, and Ursula in sailor suits made by their mother (Photo courtesy of Sonja Cowan) The past we step into Berlin - Sonja came into my life by happy coincidence, right in the middle of the pandemic. The message came, as so often in this hyperconnected year of physical isolation, in the form of a tweet. The author of the message, Benjamin Preiss, was an Australian fellow journalist who had come across a blog post about my walk to work in Berlin.I had written it in January 2017, an unsettling time for me as an American after a deeply divisive election campaign had ...