Belgian Nurse Honored For WWII Bravery

Augusta Chiwy, a 90-year-old Belgian Congolese nurse who saved hundreds of wounded American soldiers during WWII received an award for valor from the US Army earlier this week.

New Play Dramatizes Eichmann Capture

Fifty years ago, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death in an Israeli courtroom.

Greece Prime Minister Papandreou Pleads for German Bailout

In a speech Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou told a group of German businessmen that it wasn’t just a rescue, but “an investment to move Greece to the future.”

Polish Art Looted By Nazis Returns Home

Two oil paintings that disappeared in 1944 are now being returned to Poland’s National Museum.

Why foreigners like Fanta so much

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When the weather gets hot and humid in America, many people will ask for a Coke or a Pepsi, please. A Fanta? Not so much – but Fanta is right up there with the big boys in Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Brian Palmer wrote about the foreign Fanta phenom in “Slate.” Katy Clark talks with him. Download MP3

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The ordeal of Ukrainian Nazi slave laborers

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When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, they seized millions of Ukrainians and sent them back to Germany as slave laborers. When the laborers who survived went home after the war, they were treated as Nazi collaborators. Reporter Brigid McCarthy met a 76-year-old former slave laborer in Kiev (Image of Inessa Merchevska by Brigid McCarthy) Download MP3

Latvian Nazi unit commemorated

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The wounds of World War II are still deeply felt in the Baltics. That was evident in Latvia today where veterans gathered to commemorate troops who had died defending Latvia against Stalin’s Soviet invaders. The annual ceremony angers some in Latvia because the troops being commemorated fought in two Waffen SS divisions on the side of Nazi Germany. The BBC’s Damien McGuiness is in Latvia’s capital Riga. Download MP3 (Photo: German Bundesarchiv)

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The History of Polish Jews

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Construction has just started in Warsaw on the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. It will not simply be a museum about the Holocaust. The museum team wants to focus more broadly on centuries of Jewish life and achievements in Poland. Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska has our story. Her report was produced with the help of Feet in Two Worlds, a project of the Center for New York City Affairs at the New School.

New Polish museum to celebrate Jewish life

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There’s a new Jewish museum being built in Warsaw. It’s not a Holocaust remembrance musem. It’s dedicated to the centuries of Jewish life and culture in Poland. Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska has the story.