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Piotr Cywinski, the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, has offered to serve part of the 10-year sentence of a teenage boy in Nigeria, who was allegedly punished for blasphemy.

Opinion: Holocaust Historian Offers To Serve 10-Year Sentence Of Nigerian Boy

Piotr Cywinski of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial has suggested Nigeria's president allow 120 adults to each serve a month of a boy's 10-year prison sentence.

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  • Scott Simon
A marble plaque over the main entrance of the Vatican Archives reads in Latin "Secret Vatican Archive." The Vatican's library on Pope Pius XII and his record during the Holocaust opened to researchers in March.

Records From Once-Secret Archive Offer New Clues Into Vatican Response To Holocaust

The Vatican has long maintained that Pope Pius XII did everything he could to save Jewish lives, but newly unearthed papers have renewed accusations of complicit silence against him.

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  • Sylvia Poggioli
Actor Charlie Chaplin is seen in the film "The Great Dictator," as Adenoidal Hynkel, center, and Jackie Oakie as Napaloni, left, and Henry Daniell as Garbitsch, 1940.

How Hollywood Tackled Fascism In Film To Build American Support For WWII

Hollywood's Golden Age and the rise of fascism in Europe were happening at the same time, a world apart. Those worlds collided when Hollywood decided to...

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On Second Thought For October 6, 2016

“Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness" is a new book by historian Craig Nelson. It uses oral histories from unlikely sources to give fresh...

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'Among The Living' Explores Jewish Perseverance In Savannah

The Holocaust displaced millions of Jews in the 1940s. Many survivors were left to find new homes and rebuild their lives on foreign shores. One of...

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