... deported, and before the suffering that still lives," said company chairman, Guillaume Pepy, at a ceremony held at a station in Bobigny, a Paris suburb. Officials and Jewish dignitaries were in the audience. Pepy also announced that they would be handing the station over to local authorities for a memorial to the ... New York lawyer who was hired by 600 Holocaust survivors to file a class-action lawsuit against SNCF, reported that she was getting phone calls all day from Holocaust survivors who were "furious and heartbroken." Tamen said Pepy should have "skipped the bowing and written a ...

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... , including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Luxenbourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, besides the United States, fought in Korea. Korea is a country that is bitterly cold in the winter and steaming and hot in the summer. One Korean veteran would remember being badly wounded when the Chinese army found he and his buddies ... 35 degrees below zero and the soldier ended up crawling on hands and knees to escape the other Chinese soldiers who came. Other Korean veterans remember the insect...

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... girl's life, conveyed every emotion, from happiness and excitement, to dread and sadness. In the same summer that Patty Bergen, the narrator of the story, turns twelve, her small Arkansas town becomes the sight of the newest POW Camp, for German soldiers. Patty, lonely for positive attention from her hurtful mother, and loving approval from her physically abusive father, houses an escaped POW ... in her families garage. Although Patty seems to realize what she is doing is wrong ... world could possibly understand or respect. Although her family is Jewish, she does not see Anton as a Na...

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... and destroy gardens and crops and cause the cancellations of many fairs in the villages across the southern plains. In 1936, it was the coldest winter with blizzards contributing to chilling records and also events where people froze to death. During the summer of 1936, it was the longest and hottest summer. Temperatures reached one hundred degrees Fahrenheit regularly and also caused a few deaths ... had been hard working wage earners a couple of years ago. The camps served the purpose of feeding the men, clothing them, and paying them 20 cents a day. The relief camps "kept them in the...

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... I felt tense, strange and extremely nervous. It was as if I was in a fantasy dream world and thought that at any moment I would wake up from this unreality and find that I was back in the barrack room at Bulford Camp. Whilst we laughed and sang to raise our spirits - and perhaps to ... France had fallen into German hands. The British army had to flee the Continent and escaped from the French port of Dunkirk with frightful losses. In the summer of 1940 the Germans, with their allies, the Italians, controlled all of western Europe. The German air force began its attempt to bomb the ... ca...

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... racial discrimination with Executive Order 8802 and the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), which aimed at an end to prejudice in employment, African Americans did not gain the upgraded jobs and equal wages that the "fair" order promised.# Blacks were still held down. Blacks were also excluded and unable ... the Marines, the Coast Guard, and the Army Air Corps.# The main, respectable jobs in the army corps were unavailable to them. They were limited to dirty work. Although many thought that racial inequality in labor had left with slavery, it was evident that it was here to stay....

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... women who can compete with men intellectually and physically. Yet, many argue that the distinction between combat and non-combat becomes blurred in the context of women warfare (Ladin; Holm, Hoar). In actuality, many women are assigned to jobs that will expose them to enemy attack, and this has been openly acknowledged by the top Pentagon officials. The United States ... (Hoar). The first test, labeled MAX-WAC (Women Content in Units Force Development Test) studied women in three-day field exercise, and assessed their effect on unit performance. The second test, REF-WAC, studied women in...

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... only known as the number. Nobody dared to care of your name and your background. The camps were not that of children's summer camps where all were fun and games. It was in fact the exact opposite and even more than so. Prisoners arrived to camps packed aboard trains tighter than a can of sardines. ... of the individuals, man, woman or child, never saw their families again. Once in line they headed off to their next destination. Once could only hope that they were in the line headed off to work in the harsh and unbearable camp conditions instead of the gas chambers, or anywhere else where...

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... also women taking over men's jobs in factories and many other work places. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met at sea off the North American coast in August 1941. They produced the Atlantic Charter that restated Woodrow Wilsor's Fourteen Points simpler. In 1943 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill conferred in Casablanca in January and in August in Washington D.C, and Quebec. In 1943 in Moscow the foreign ministers of Britain ... , the Soviet Union, and China and Secretary of State Hull of the United States signed a pact to plan an international organization ...

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... of American women. Women went from being housewives to working hard and being a major help during and after the war. Women took jobs to build airplanes for their husbands to use in the war. Five million women entered the work force, and made up 36 percent of the American labor force (Sinnot 13). Thousands ... of women took jobs in airplane factories. They assembled tens of thousands of military airplanes needed in the war effort ("American Women in WWII" 391). Some aircraft plants were as big as small towns, and the noise of production was deafening ... and for the men. After the war w...

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... of the most realistic war movies ever created. The opening scene is Omaha beach, on the Normandy coast of France, on D-Day, June 6,1944. The troops are arriving at the beach in the LCVP boats. The young boys are let out in the ocean (the boats can't go to shore because of the mines) and shooting starts. Bullets go whizzing by, and lives ... and we knew that it was fake"(SPR). Saving Private Ryan does have some parts that are purely movie. In the opening scene Cpt. Miller and his men secure the beach very quickly. In reality the GI's didn't secure the beach until nightfall (D-day museum)...

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... , many nations have done away with their programs altogether. This is very promising but if larger nuclear powers do not do their jobs at monitoring one another, the current trend could reverse itself. North Korea Korea was told during WWII that when Japan was defeated, ... they would be independent. However, after the defeat of Japan, Korea was divided along the 38th parallel, with U.S. troops in the south and Soviet troops in the north . In the south, the U.S. backed right-wing political leaders while the Soviets supported the left-wing side. To create a new government, ... be a hot t...

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... women, feminism, and society. All these courses have contributed to my interest in the project I want to pursue this summer, comparative study of nationalism and feminism in Japan and in Turkey. I hope that by understanding this comparison I can find out how ideologies of westernization and modernization, influenced these countries, and in particular the lives of Japanese and Turkish women. By understanding this comparative ... background that I gained from my past experiences, and combining them with my own native background, I will carry this project to this summer. During the summer o...

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... house and find work and be able to work for wages equivalent or almost equivalent to that of a man's. This slump in the employment of women and the variety of jobs they could get continued on through the Great Depression on until World War II started. Once again, with the men gone, ... parts and candles for light. Even things as simple as candles were of dire importance during these trying times. Candles from the Whiting candle factory in America gave jobs to thousands of American women during the great depression. Over 75 percent of all candles made at the Whiting Factory were designed ...

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... thrown into the mud with the rest of the Jews, while the higher ranking officers were given lighter workloads and larger food rations for the day. This can be seen in the film "Le Grande Illusion", which tells the story about a group of French officers captured during World War I. Even though they were prisoners ... of. The young boys who were molested were kept well fed, as well as the younger, more attractive women of the camp. Considering the fact that the German soldiers were usually surrounded by men, anyone who could satisfy their sexual urges were made sure not to die ... shoes, ...

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... sisters. Elie and his father stuck together where they were starved, beaten and worked day and night. On the last night of Elie's fathers' life they were on a march to another camp, they ran for miles until finally reaching their destination. Elie and his father took shelter in an abandoned brick building; neither of them could sleep without death creeping up on them ... so they sat in the snow trying to keep each other up. They took comfort in the fact that they still had each other ... easier it would be if he was on his own. When an SS officer started to beat Elie's father, Elie did...

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... Truman's administrations had been infested with communists. The Cold War also frightened Americans to the point that they changed their way of life. As the threat of a nuclear war was in place, some built bomb shelters to protect themselves when the war started (D5). People started to fear and hate everyone that was charged with having communistic ties. Two people, Julius ... ...

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... Woodrow Wilson had a huge decision to make: stay neutral or enter the war? I believe that the President's decision to enter World War I was in the United States" best interest. The United States was being threatened economically, politically, militarily, and socially. Also the world may have been destroyed by ... to their assistance affected every phase of American life; it was propaganda in its broadest meaning. News, money, and political pressure each played its part and the battle itself was fought not only in London, New York, and Washington, D.C., but also in American classrooms and...

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... One scenario that has been explored is that a genetically engineered version of the Ebola virus would be spread simultaneously through airborne means at conventions in a country. Then, when all the business representatives and their prospective buyers returned to their homes, they would spread the virus through means ... environment including blast, thermal pulse, neutrons, x- and gamma-rays, radiation, electromagnetic pulse (EMP), and ionization of the upper atmosphere. Depending upon the environment in which the nuclear device is detonated, blast effects are manifested as ground shock,...

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... battle. The Lincolns had fought in trench warfare at Jarama for four months before being withdrawn. In July of 1937 the Abraham Lincoln Brigade moved to it's next battle in the town of Brunete. This battle, too was one of the most important in which the Lincoln Brigade had fought in. In this battle they fought along side of the George Washington battalion. The large number of ... casualties in this battle and the death of the commander Oliver Law caused the two battalions to ... republican army, one of the soldiers of the Lincoln-Washington brigade reported "We were winning the battle ...

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... embarked on crusades to fire working wives." To evade these laws women lied about their marital status in order to attain jobs. Women who had married were forced to resign from their jobs. This was evident with teachers, they married and were forced to resign, and when they ... requiring employers to take positive action to ensure their employment policies do not discriminate against women. The following table is actual statistical data on women in the workplace:- LABOUR FORCE Units 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Total labour force '000 8,488 8,514 8,569 ... Femal...

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... By comparing North Korea's and South Korea's current predicaments, we can see the potential future for the Korean peninsula, if it had been conquered in the war. As of 2013, North Korea`s infant mortality rate was 26.21 per 1000 births, 6.5 times higher than South Korea. North ... this moment, South Korea currently rivals North Korea economically, politically, peacefully and autonomy wise. Today we can see, that the benefits that came in result of our actions are positive and beneficial to the South Korean people. The communist forces were committing war crimes throughout their campaign....

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... Anti-Comintern Pact, which had many secret military strategies directed against Russia. Hitler disguised thousands of airmen, artillerymen, and tank crew to voluntarily fight in the Spanish Civil War. This was the first time Stalin and Hitler met on the battlefield. Hitler then waged war on Poland with the consent ... imposed Red Army bases on three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. After that Stalin annexed them. The same day Stalin did this Hitler ordered immediate studies for the attack and conquest of Russia. Hitler wanted to destroy Russia first because he ... Peter ...

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... soldiers. In the U.S., Armistice Day was observed in 1919 and beyond with veteran's parades, religious and secular services and two minutes of silence to honor the dead. In 1920, the British Unknown Soldier was buried in Westminster Abbey and the French Unknown Soldier at the Arc De Triomphe in Parish, where a perpetual flame burns. In 1921, the American Unknown Soldier, found in a battleground in Germany, arrived in Washington, D.C. ... introduced a bill into the House of Representatives to change the name to Veteran's Day and Congress officially did so on May 2, 1954. In1954 President...

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... for parliament and vote since 1902 but the first woman wasn't voted in till 1921. Her name was Edith Cowan and she represented the electorate of West Perth in Western Australian parliament from 1921 till 1924. Women only represented 20.3% of the total workforce in 1921. A few worked in jobs, considered male jobs, they started which the got during World War One, but most did ... jobs which were considered appropriate. For example teaching, nursing, shopkeeping, and secretarial work. Many ... women worked in factories too. In all jobs women's wages were less than men's. Women were expect...

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