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January 17: Final Roll Call at Auschwitz On this day in 1945,
January 17: Final Roll Call at Auschwitz On this day in 1945, the Red Army of the Soviet Union freed the Polish city of Warsaw from Nazi control. Mor...

January 2: Isaac Asimov Science fiction writer and biochemist
January 2: Isaac Asimov Science fiction writer and biochemist Isaac Asimov was born on this day in 1920. His family emigrated from the USSR to Brookl...

December 19: Gisele Freund The first woman to work for Magnum,
December 19: Gisele Freund The first woman to work for Magnum, the cooperative photography agency founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Ca...

October 29: Editor of the New Yorker Happy 56th birthday to
October 29: Editor of the New Yorker Happy 56th birthday to David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker since 1998, born in Hackensack, New Jersey on thi...

October 11: Trading Cigarettes for Jews For the second day in a
October 11: Trading Cigarettes for Jews For the second day in a row, on this date in 1943, Yanis Lipke, a former dock worker in the port of Riga, Lat...

October 5: The Anti-Zionist Rabbi Elmer Berger, the Reform
October 5: The Anti-Zionist Rabbi Elmer Berger, the Reform rabbi who headed the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism from its founding in 1942 u...

September 25: Uncle Misha’s Partisans Anticipating the
September 25: Uncle Misha’s Partisans Anticipating the liquidation of their ghetto in Korets, Ukraine, which had already suffered the execution of ...