Opinion: A Holocaust remembrance — and lessons we have yet to learn
NPR's Scott Simon wonders why teaching children about the Holocaust is not mandatory in most states and the lessons they are missing.
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Even after a century, tanks still play a major role in war
Germany and the United States have pledged to send tanks to Ukraine for their war efforts. What role could they play in the coming months?
Forensic musicologists race to rescue works lost after the Holocaust
The Exilarte Center in Vienna is the world's leading research institution devoted to preserving the work of composers such as Walter Arlen and others, who were exiled or killed during the Holocaust.
Her ancestors survived the Holocaust. She returns to Germany to reclaim her identity
In an excerpt from the podcast Memory Wars, a descendant of a Holocaust survivor takes back her heritage by moving to her ancestral homeland in Germany.
Tanks were invented more than 100 years ago. How have they stood the test of time?
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with historian Antony Beevor about the role tanks play in warfare and how Ukraine might benefit from them.
Nikole Hannah-Jones on turning 'The 1619 Project' into a docuseries
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones about her new docuseries, The 1619 Project, which is based on the journalism project of the same name.
Most Americans say overturning Roe was politically motivated, NPR/Ipsos poll finds
An NPR/Ipsos poll finds that most Americans say Supreme Court justices are guided more by their politics than the law, and that lawmakers aren't deciding abortion policy based on public sentiment.
New graphic novel explores the life of 'Queenie,' Harlem Renaissance mob boss
Queenie: Godmother of Harlem tells the overlooked story of Stephanie Saint Clair, or "Queenie," a Black female mob boss and fashion icon who lived during the height of the Harlem Renaissance.
A firefighter's 1943 photos of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising have been found
The photos were taken inside the Warsaw Ghetto by a 23-year-old Polish firefighter as the Nazis were brutally crushing the Jewish uprising of 1943. The photos were discovered in a family collection.
Opinion: The lessons we can learn from 'idiberug'
NPR's Scott Simon wonders about 8 characters on an old runestone found in Norway. It goes on display today, so others may look and ponder. It is a curse? A love poem? A receipt for Viking take out?