Since the policy change, the lawsuit claims at least 46 books were removed or are in the process of being removed from St. Francis schools.
Elie Wiesel, the Nazi concentration camp survivor who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize, showed little inclination this ...
His foundation also lost millions. 1944 – The Wiesel family is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, when Elie is 15. January 1945 – Is moved with his father to the Buchenwald ...
A damaged apartment after a rocket attack in the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine. The once-thriving neighborhood of Northern ...
Kitty Dukakis, the first Jewish spouse of a US presidential candidate, died at 88. She advocated for addiction recovery, ...
He pointed specifically to Elie Wiesel’s “Night” as an example of a book that could be caught in the dragnet. Lochner had previously brought up “Night” during oral arguments about the ...
The Lloyd M. Burstein Memorial Holocaust Film Series 2025 begins at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 16, at the Figge Art Museum, 225 W. 2nd St., Davenport. Tickets are available at the door. Adults $7; ...
St. Francis Area Schools adopted a policy in the fall requiring all new school library materials purchased by the district be ...
From Snyder’s On Tyranny to modern authoritarian trends, historians explore the critical lessons from the 20th century ...
The late Elie Wiesel, the famed essayist and survivor of Adolf Hitler’s camps, once described the Holocaust as “an indictment of our present world.” Eight decades later, that verdict was renewed when ...
Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Randee Dawn shares how a book of folk tales by W.B. Yeats was a "lightbulb moment" for ...