The liberation of auschwitz. Predicting the weather is imperfect science and we know that after last nights warning of a historic blizzard across the northeast, in new york subways were shut down and schools closed and drivers stay off the road and it created more of a nuisance and that state of emergency and it was a glancing blow for the big apple and new england took a direct hit and power out to 33,000 homes. The cost of preparing the damage expected to add up to between 500 million and a billion dollars. Tom ackerman has more from boston. Boston streets and a city scape in swirling white sustained winds of up to 70 Miles Per Hour and steady snowfall qualified winter storm juno as a full pledged blizzard in new york and long island and communities in massachusetts and rhode island were particularly hard hit by wave surges. Along a 250 mile east coast corridor schools, workplaces and government offices were shut down. But the storm failed to live up to the worst expectations by midd
Premieres Monday, June 12, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! In World War II over a million African Americans fought for freedom and democracy in an army, that was strictly segregated by race. These Black GIs fought to liberate Germany from Nazi rule, as racism reached unfathomable levels at home and their unit. Finding a "breath of freedom" in post-war Germany, Black soldiers experienced for the first time what it felt like to be treated as equals.
Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.
Confined first at Auschwitz then Buchenwald, a Jewish microbiologist conspired with a ragtag team of scientists and rebels to send dud typhus vaccines to the German soldiers on the eastern front.