
At the Illinois Holocaust Museum, holograms forever preserve survivors
Scripps News revisits the Illinois Holocaust Museum to hear from a survivor whose likeness and memories are preserved in holographic form.
Scripps News revisits the Illinois Holocaust Museum to hear from a survivor whose likeness and memories are preserved in holographic form.
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is forecasted to be the brightest from January 31 to February 1. Experts say it will be most visible just before dawn.
Many suspect the hundreds of items construction crews dug up in Lodz, Poland belonged to Jews who were hiding their valuables from the Germans.
The Svingerud stone has carved scribbles, which may be the earliest example of words recorded in writing in Scandinavia.
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The sarcophagus, almost 9.5 feet tall, may have belonged to an ancient priest named Ankhenmaat. It was smuggled through Germany into the U.S. in 2008.
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These are the singers, actors, politicians, athletes and other notorious people who died this year.
Researchers were able to get genetic information out of the small, damaged bits of DNA to reveal what life was like 2 million years ago in Greenland.
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The New York-based Center for Jewish History is launching a project offering DNA testing kits for free to Holocaust survivors and their children.
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Nine international adventurers follow in the footsteps of one of the greatest legends of the golden age of polar exploration: Ernest Shackleton.
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DNA pulled from bones in Siberian caves suggests Neanderthals lived together in small communities of 10 to 20 individuals more than 50,000 years ago.
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Newsy's Sasha Ingber and a small group of other descendants of Holocaust survivors met in D.C. where they welcomed a historian to give them insight.
Diana drove the black Ford Escort RS Turbo from 1985 to 1988.
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At Georgia Tech, a group of students are putting a modern spin on the traditional Philippine folk dance known as Tinikling.
Japanese photographer Kenji Kawano is working on a project nearly 5 decades in the making: preserving the legacy of Navajo Nation Code Talkers.
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set out on a British expedition to cross Antarctica. But in 1915, the ship got stuck and the crew abandoned it.
| Clayton Sandell and AP
Saturday, Jan. 19 marks the 80th anniversary of Pres. Roosevelt's executive order that authorized placement of 122,000 Japanese-Americans in camps.
Why does the U.K. still have a monarchy?
| Scripps News Staff
As France faces election season, fury among opponents of COVID vaccines increasingly bubbles over into violence directed at elected representatives.
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Commemorations are taking place amid a rise of antisemitism that gained traction during lockdowns as the pandemic exacerbated hatred online.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
The Biden administration tapped nine social services agencies to help Afghan refugees transition to life in the U.S.
| Scripps
Charlotte Maxwell-Jones started a veterinary clinic and animal rescue in Kabul.
| Kabul Small Animal Rescue
97-year-old retired American soldier Martin Adler met the three siblings in person for the first time since the war.
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Experts say an inscription of the tomb is the first evidence that Greek, the language of culture in the Mediterranean, was used alongside Latin.
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The government began to medically support certified survivors in 1968 after more than 20 years of effort by the survivors.
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The 97-year-old artist's work is available in a Boulder, Colorado, art gallery.
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David Dushman was 98 years old.
| Katherine Biek
After nearly 20 years, President Joe Biden says the U.S. military is exiting Afghanistan.
The two best friends were separated from each other when they were nine years old.
| WFTS
97-year-old Lily Ebert spoke to Newsy about the importance of Holocaust Memorial Day and her recent recovery from COVID.
| Kristy Schantz and Luke Hanrahan
Payments will be made over the next two years to Holocaust survivors struggling with the burdens of the coronavirus pandemic.
| Matt Simon
A-bomb survivors in Japan now in their 80's and 90's are prone to solid cancers like breast and lung cancers.
Protesters are tearing down statues around the world. It's a global reckoning with the White supremacist past that built the world we know.
Holocaust survivors commemorate 75th year since Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated.
The World Holocaust Forum marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.