

Children of Winton
669 Jewish children were kidnapped from Czechoslovakia and for nearly half a century, no one knew about this story. Grete Gjelstrup finds...
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Nov 13, 20244 min read


Germany of the 1970s Through the Eyes of a Child
I went back to the years between 1977 and 1979. For the effects of those two years on me have been deep enough to influence my life even today. Our flight from Istanbul to Munich with Lufthansa in June 1977, and then our journey by train from Munich to the city of Regensburg, and a few months later our settling into the university campus, added to my life days that were beautiful, yet also bitter and filled with unsettling events and people. In September of the same year, my
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Nov 13, 20248 min read


Goodbye Assos
"Mom," I say, "we've come to our lands again." The island with the pointed peaks appeared again from miles away. My mother opens the...
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Nov 13, 20243 min read


Conservative Country Losing Its Culture
It was the 1980s. It was the Özal government period. The country was in the gloomy atmosphere of the September 12 martial law days. On...
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Nov 13, 20248 min read


Valentino Achak Deng
Valentino Achak Deng: The name of a long and very burdensome life story that starts from the city of Marial Bai in South Sudan and...
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Nov 13, 20244 min read


Miracles of Life: Simon Gronowski
The date is April 19, 1943. 1,631 people are being sent from a Nazi detention center in Belgium to their deaths in the gas chambers of...
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Nov 13, 20243 min read


Canakkale
Arıburnu, 1915. He has been fighting for three years. He spends every night in the trench. He knows that the moment he sticks his head...
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Nov 13, 20243 min read


Berlin 1978
I was a child, but I remember everything. In front of Brandenburg, an empty Unter Den Linden Street. Everything is white. Berlin is...
Arda Tunca
Nov 13, 20246 min read


Land of Adonia
A muffled voice, like one coming from a gramophone record. A curly-haired woman sings in Greek. Her voice floats from a few streets away....
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Nov 13, 20244 min read














