[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Tunisia, 1942: Situation 22 April and Operations Since 26 February 1943
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Status of Forces and Allied Theater Boundaries, 2 July 1942
India-Burma, 1942: Allied Lines of Communication, 1942-1943

[BroJoeK]

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March 21, 1943:

• "During the Jewish festival of Purim, 2300 Jews from Skopje, Yugoslavia, are deported to Auschwitz.

• "Eight members of the Jewish intelligentsia are taken from Piotrków, Poland, to a Jewish cemetery and shot, along with the cemetery's caretaker and his wife.
  The Germans engineer these killings to total ten, in a macabre reference to the biblical story of the hanged ten sons of the Jew-hating Haman--a crucial character in the Purim story.

• "At Radom, Poland, Jewish physicians are removed from the ghetto and executed at nearby Szydlowiec."

"This doll belonged to a child living in the Kraków (Poland) Ghetto.
The doll's owner, Zofia Burowska, recovered it after the war from non-Jews who saved it for her.
It was especially important to Zofia because it had been made specifically for her.
Toys such as this doll were often the only links Jewish children had to a normal childhood."

"Nazi Einsatzgruppen massacred most of the 350,000 Baltic Jews in 1941.
Beginning in late 1942, tens of thousands of Jews from other European countries were sent to forced-labor camps in Estonia."

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[Zuben Elgenubi]

Well, Homer, I just read this post and noticed there is not one article about homosexual rights or gay marriage. You sure this is the N Y Times I'm reading?