WWII
  • 2 years 2 months ago

‘These families lost everything’: Nazi art theft, an overlooked part of the Holocaust

“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture,” wrote Beatnik poet Allen Ginsberg.Continue...
  • 2 years 4 months ago

Viveka Melki’s ‘the FENCE’ tackles revisionist history of Japanese POW Camps

Viveka Melki’s the FENCE examines the four-year period during WWII in which 2,000 Canadians suffered incarceration inside Japanese Prisoner of War (POW) camps in Hong Kong and Japan.Continue...
  • 3 years 4 months ago

Carrying on the legacy of Remembrance Day in honour of my grandfather

I’m worried that my generation is forgetting the importance of Remembrance Day. As we move further away from World Wars I and II, I fear the sacrifice of Canadian soldiers and veterans will soon become meaningless, or worse, forgotten.Continue...

Sister Anna smiles beside the only tree older than she is at the Motherhouse.
  • 6 years 8 months ago

Sister Anna remembers 100 years of life

As Sister Anna Moran celebrates 100 years of life, she also celebrates the stories and memories that accompany them — stories set in Kingston, and for over a decade, at Queen’s.Continue...

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