| By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | This week marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. While anniversaries can serve as a chance to remember, this one is also a moment to observe that first-hand memories of the Holocaust are fading as time passes. Historian Natalia Romik argues in Made by History that we must remember its atrocities in their full complexity, especially now, amid a resurgence in antisemitism, xenophobia, and other distortions of history. Remembering, she shows, has long been both challenging and dynamic—the Holocaust was not a singular event, but one that unfolded over a vast area, in sites large and well-known like Auschwitz, but also in smaller, more obscure places. In recent decades, efforts to memorialize the full scope and breadth of the Holocaust have involved documenting lesser-known sites, including those where Jewish people sought refuge, in order to reckon with how deeply the Holocaust infiltrated daily life. Marking these histories honors the past, and, one hopes, helps safeguard the future. | |
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| | | |  | The Origins of the Anti-Vaccination Movement | Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s nomination to lead HHS reflects the rising power of an anti-vaccination movement more than 100 years in the making. |
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|  | The L.A. Fires Expose the Problem With Conservation Policy | For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources. |
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|  | How Disaster Provides Cover for Targeting Immigrants | Efforts to target immigrants amid the 1992 L.A. Uprising point to what deportations might look like under Trump 2.0. |
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|  | The Idea of 'Demographic Destiny' Was Always Flawed | The narrative assumes that disparate groups of non-white Americans had the same politics. |
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|  | The Unsung Power of Maya Angelou's Activism | The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the anti-rape movement. |
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| | This week in 1949: Cole Porter |  | The Jan 31, 1949, cover of TIME |
| Boris Chaliapin |
| "[A]fter writing the songs for 22 shows and nine movies, he is still just a little stagestruck. He also combines genuine modesty about his work with an amateur's enthusiasm for hearing it played and sung by first-rate professionals…Kiss Me, Kate was a special milestone. For several years Composer Porter had not been regarded as a sure-fire Broadway investment, in spite of the fact that five of his songs (Begin the Beguine, Just One of Those Things, What Is This Thing Called Love?, Night and Day and I Get a Kick Out of You) ranked last year among the 35 all-time U.S. popular favorites." |
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| This week in 1955: Grace Kelly |  | The Jan. 31, 1955, cover of TIME |
| Boris Chaliapin |
| "Interviewers who tried to get her to open up came away swearing that they would rather tackle a train window any time. One producer grumbled that she had 'stainless steel in-sides.' She flatly refused to divulge even the standard data (bust, waist, hips). One columnist asked routinely whether she wore nightgowns. 'I think it's nobody's business what I wear to bed,' she said coolly. 'A person has to keep something to herself, or your life is just a layout in a magazine.'...Says she, setting her beautiful chin: 'I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face. If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll do something about it.'" |
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| This week in 2013: (L-R) Michael Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Gabby Giffords |  | The Jan. 28, 2013, cover of TIME |
| Nigel Parry/CPi for TIME |
| "The next great American gun fight began this month with handshakes and smiles in a reunion of old foes at the Vice President's ceremonial office. Joe Biden knew the drill. Two decades ago, he led the last major gun-control effort in the Senate, enacting a 10-year ban on sales of certain semiautomatics and imposing background checks for gun purchasers using licensed dealers. It was a defining experience. 'Guns! Guns! Guns!' he called out from the Senate floor in August 1994. 'The single most contentious issue in the 22 years I have been here that relates to the criminal-justice system.' Now it was starting again, in another gilded room and with many of the same players still sitting on opposite sides of the table…" |
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