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The eternal poor of these cities, many of whom lived in great cavernous chambers in the dank and gloomy cellars, were dead. The fur-coated Jewish factory owners of Lodz, the Budapest lawyers, the Viennese physicians were dead. Throughout the countryside, through the 33 all-Jewish villages of the Crimea...
They died in the great gas chambers of the concentration camps, in the traveling gas vans that moved from village to village, in freight cars whose floors were sprinkled with skin-searing quicklime; and in the sewers, the last sanctuary of hundreds.
"Historically, the school had a really bad reputation," says Donna Chambers, head teacher at this institution of about 250 nursery and primary schoolers, which serves one of the most deprived sections of Nottingham. Charged with rejuvenating the state-run school, where "children come in well below national averages," Chambers has...
Robert Mellors, nestled among two-story brick homes in an ordinary residential neighborhood, has none of the grandeur and mystery of Hogwarts, let alone its cavernous dining hall. But here, as in the books from which it drew inspiration, the key to success has been the wondrous power of a...
The Iengs' arrests are the third and fourth of five former Khmer Rouge leaders targeted by the co-prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) - the official name of the U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal established in Phnom Penh. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch...