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Childhood friend recalls tragic diarist Anne Frank

She told stories, flirted outrageously with boys and was constantly changing her hairstyle.

Holocaust survivor: Museum shooter akin to suicide bomber

The gunman who opened fire at Washington's U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum this week is no better than a suicide bomber, a survivor of the Holocaust said.

Commentary: Witness to history and horror

I write this from my office in the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum where I have been privileged to have had a fellowship for the past semester. Up until Wednesday at 12:50 p.m., it had been a perfect visit. Everything a scholar could hope for: exceptional scholarly resources and a magnificent museum staff.

Commentary: Hate groups threatened by diversity

Last Saturday, a young African-American president used eloquent prose to challenge the world to learn from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust at Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp: "To this day, there are those who insist that the Holocaust never happened -- a denial of fact and truth that is baseless and ignorant and hateful. This place is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts; a reminder of our duty to confront those who would tell lies about our history."

Obama urges vigilance against prejudice in shooting's wake

The fatal shooting of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum sent shock waves throughout the nation's capital and across the country and the world.

Guard killed during shooting at Holocaust museum

A rifle-wielding white supremacist entered Washington's Holocaust museum on Wednesday afternoon, fatally shooting a security guard before being wounded himself by return fire from other guards, authorities said.

Visiting Buchenwald, Obama speaks of the lessons of evil

President Barack Obama made an emotional visit to the former Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany, Friday, saying that the camp should serve as a reminder of humanity's duty to fight the spread of evil.

Buchenwald survivors see Obama as family

A long narrow road winds through a thick forest up a hill called the "Ettesberg," on the outskirts of Weimar in central Germany.

Pope urges Israelis, Palestinians: 'No more war!'

Pope Benedict XVI completed his eight-day tour of the Holy Land on Friday with an exhortation to both Israelis and Palestinians to work through their decades-old conflict.

Politics interrupt pope during Gaza visit

With his visit already bogged down in historical disputes, the pope's message of peace in Gaza was interrupted Monday by an impromptu speaker who fueled the longtime resentment between Palestinians and Israelis.

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