Sentences with phrase «u.s. holocaust»

«World is Witness, a new «geoblog» from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative, in partnership with Google Earth, documents and maps genocide and related crimes against humanity.

You may already have run across it, but I just wanted to put in a mention for World is Witness, a project of the U.S. Holocaust Museum to utilize satellite imagery to monitor genocides worldwide.

A wall sculpture entitled «Memorial» by Ellsworth Kelly, displayed in the permanent exhibition of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in the lounge space between the third and fourth floors.

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Traveling Exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to Open at Ramapo College September 1

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Outside the formal education arena he has worked in administration at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, provided support in a law firm, and managed a Pizza Hut in Idaho!

Stephen A. Feinberg, M.A.T.» 72, director of national outreach in the education division of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., says a complex combination of societal forces accounts for why it took more than three decades for that history to reach the classroom.

More than 10 years ago, Polish archaeologists carried out a dig at Beec, the first of the Operation Reinhard camps, where the Nazis killed more than 434,000 Jews and an unknown number of Gypsies (Roma) and Poles, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Reading about the Nazis can't take our breath away like a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, with its room filled beyond number with the shoes of the murdered.

While Rospars helped launch Blue State Digital in 2004 after working with Howard Dean's presidential campaign, it wasn't until he helped lead Obama to victory in 2008 that the firm began building a large client base well outside politics, attracting such customers as the Green Bay Packers, AT&T and HBO, as well as nonprofits and cultural institutions, including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Not exact matches

The U.S. leader visited the Israel Museum during his visit where he delivered remarks, and made an appearance at Yad Vashem, the world Holocaust remembrance center in Jerusalem, where the president laid a wreath with the First Lady.

The list included Netanyahu; Wolfowitz; Holocaust writer Elie Wiesel; New York Governor George Patald; former New York Mayor Rudolf Guliani; U.S. Senators Arlen Specter (H., Pa.) and Barbara Mikulski (D., Md.), and leading members of the House such as Armey (R., Tex.) and Richard Gephardt (D., Mo.).

Elie Wiesel claps as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the Holocaust Museum April 23, 2012 in Washington, DC.

People can't stand personal insults in this country, let alone praising Hitler, mocking the holocaust, using U.S. flag to wipe your behind, calling our heroes baby killers and insulting them, posing nude in public and a ton of other stuff.

Nuclear holocaust did not ensue, the cold war thawed, Israel lost the ear of the president, and the U.S. government continued to spend hundreds of billions on social reconstruction.

Similarly, a variety of Jewish voices within the U.S. have challenged a narrow preoccupation with the Holocaust.

How ironic that such a peaceful mantra would actually serve to cause even more grief and suffering (let me point at the middle east for example, KKK, slavery in the U.S. (to some extent), Holocaust and other forms of religious persecution, and finally the manipulation of peasants to fill up the coffers of child molesting Popes... which makes modern politicians of this day look like a Saint).

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

This historical fact and the subsequent success of the Marshall Plan in rebuilding Europe have made the Holocaust a paradigm for the interventionists in some parts of the human rights community and among U.S. policymakers.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a U.S. - based Jewish group, called on religious authorities to declare the demonstrators» use of Holocaust symbols a desecration of God's name.

The cumulative effect of the book is to support the conclusion that it was not David Koresh and his followers but the U.S. Government that bears moral and legal responsibility for the holocaust at Waco.

Born in Poland but sent to the U.S. before the Holocaust, the young career woman receives word that the older sister she presumed was dead has in fact survived the Nazi terror and is coming to America, forcing Rose to confront her own past and future.

Unlike the U.S. court system, in which the plaintiff must demonstrate that he or she has been libeled, Lipstadt must prove that she didn't libel him — in other words, that the Holocaust happened, and that Irving deliberately falsified evidence to suggest that it didn't.

After Auschwitz (Unrated) Holocaust documentary belatedly recounting the trauma experienced by a half - dozen survivors who had been evacuated to the U.S. and pressured to suffer in silence without ever discussing the horrors they'd witnessed in Hitler's death camps.

Hurt is the final piece to the puzzle for the show as he'll portray Professor Abraham Setrakian, a holocaust survivor who immigrated to the U.S. after World War II and now runs a pawn shop in Spanish Harlem.

Connie Chung — television reporter Ann Curry — news anchor woman, Today Show S. I. Hayakawa (1906 - 1992)-- U.S. senator, college president Dr. Feng Shan Ho — saved thousands of Austrian Jews during the Holocaust David Henry Hwang — playwright, M Butterfly Colonel Young Oak Kim — first Asian American to command a battalion in combat Ang Lee — movie director: Hulk; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973)-- movie star and martial artist Gary Locke — governor, state of Washington Norman Y. Mineta — first Asian - American member of U.S. president's cabinet Patsy Mink — Congresswoman, Hawaii Ralph Nader — consumer advocate, presidential candidate Yoko Ono — artist, musician; was married to Beatle John Lennon Dalip Singh Saund — first Asian elected to Congress (1956) Donna E. Shalala — secretary, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services John Sununu — congressman, New Hampshire Amy Tan — author, Joy Luck Club Tiger Woods — golfer Kristi Yamaguchi — Olympic figure skater Jerry Yang — co-founder of Yahoo! Laurence Yep — author, young adult fiction (Dragonwings, Rainbow People)

The United States eventually admitted wrongdoing, and worked, through the appointment of the U.S. Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets, to track the trail of these treasures.

Most of the museums in the city and free and many of them are some of the best in the U.S. Of particular note are the Air and Space Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Conner selected 27 individual shots from declassified U.S. Government footage of this event from the National Archives to transform the images of nuclear holocaust into hypnotic abstraction.

Free market formats such as those used in precise ink on paper — works by Mark Lombardi and Fernando Bryce — pointedly portray U.S. governmental money laundering and the Jewish holocaust, respectively.

In 2003, Mr. Kaplan argued in the U.S. Supreme Court a case he had won in the Ninth Circuit, representing the state of California over legislation requiring insurance companies doing business in the state to disclose information about policies issued during the European Holocaust.

Reparations for Holocaust Survivors Starting in California, Bet Tzedek, a legal services organization, created a clinic model to provide support to Holocaust survivors, and in partnership with attorneys at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP * †, created training materials and workshops in order to replicate the model throughout the U.S..