TEL AVIV (AP).- Lydia Avidan, an elegant 79-year-old widow, walked into a Tel Aviv high school with tears streaking from beneath her tinted sunglasses. She was about to hand over to historians the only mementos she had left from relatives who perished …
Yad Vashem National Holocaust Memorial Starts Collecting Holocaust Items
TEL AVIV, ISREAL (AP).- Lydia Avidan, an elegant 79-year-old widow, walked into a Tel Aviv high school with tears streaking from beneath her tinted sunglasses. She was about to hand over to historians the only mementos she had left from relatives who p…
Former President Bill Clinton’s Boyhood Home in Hope Opens Doors as Clinton Museum
HOPE, AK (AP).- Bill Clinton’s boyhood home in Hope has been open as a museum for more than a decade, but this is the first year that visitors are seeing the home as part of the National Park Service. The home became a national historic site at the st…
Orthodox Flock to Once-Banned Holy Site of Sumela Monastery in Turkey
SUMELA MONASTERY (REUTERS).- Europe Papadopolous’s grandparents were children when they fled their village in northeast Turkey and settled in Greece almost 90 years ago, yet she still felt she was in exile. Papadopolous, 45, was one of thousands of Ort…