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Seventy large portraits in the courtyard of the National World War I Museum and Memorial put visitors face-to-face with Holocaust survivors.The portraits,…
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Segment 1: Kansas City is part of a global mission to collect and exhibit Holocaust survivor portraits.Luigi Toscano wants people to look in the eyes of…
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Segment 1: "All genocides ... begin with words," says one Emory professor concerned about a rise in anti-Semitic rhetoric. Anti-Semitism is on the rise…
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Segment 1: Education and the Holocaust.What's the best way to preserve the memories and lessons of a really painful past? We'll hear from two people…
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Battles, triumphs, and defying the odds are all common themes in life, and in film. Some survive Auschwitz, while another climbs a 3,000-foot rock wall…
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Kansas City is home to the best brass band in the country. Hear more about the Fountain City Brass Band, which recently placed second and third at two…
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Sonia Warshawski is a Holocaust survivor who ran a tailor shop in Metcalf South Mall. A documentary about her life is in theaters now. What does this…
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Jim Murray will never forget the first time he heard "Study for Strings" by the Czech composer Pavel Haas. It was a performance by the Philadelphia…
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The Kansas International Film Festival And What's Showing In Independent, Foreign & Documentary FilmFirst, we get a rundown of what audiences can look forward to at next weekend's Kansas International Film Festival. Then, Up To Date's film critics review…
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Ghosts and ghouls haunting your mood, or is it just candy that's giving you a stomach ache? Up To Date's indie, foreign and documentary film critics have…
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In the 1930s and 1940s, many Jews in Europe lived in fear — or in hiding — from the Nazis. A cramped attic in Amsterdam served as a makeshift home for two…
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It's not often a state poet laureate turns her pen to write a non-fiction tale, but Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg has done just that.In the…