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Vanessa Gera

A Holocaust survivor remembers: Lost in the rubble of Warsaw

Vanessa Gera

Greek party most extreme of Europe’s far right

Vanessa Gera

Faithful crowd St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, May 1, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI beatified Pope John Paul II before more than a million faithful in St. Peter's Square and surrounding streets Sunday, moving the beloved former pontiff one step closer to possible sainthood. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito) (AP)

Pope beatifies John Paul II before 1.5M faithful

Nicole Winfield, Vanessa Gera

This image taken Jan. 28, 2011 shows conservation worker Andrzej Jastrzebowski, left, carrying the gate sign of the death camp in the modern laboratory of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. Officials launched a global campaign to raise euro120 million ($165 million) to create a "perpetual fund" whose interest can be drawn on indefinitely to repair barracks, watchtowers, crematoria and other structures at the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum and memorial in southern Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) (AP)

Auschwitz decays, prompting preservation effort

Vanessa Gera

A woman stands in front of a artwork by Italian artist Max Papeschi at the exhibition 'Abnormal Nudes' at the alternative art house Tacheles in Berlin on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. The art poster hung on a Polish street that blends Mickey Mouse's innocent image with that of a swastika and a nude woman's body is causing a stir in Poland, where memories of suffering inflicted by Nazi Germany remain strong. The poster, which went up last month in the western city of Poznan just steps from an old synagogue, is an Italian artist's critical take on what he calls the "horrors" of the American lifestyle and is one work in a contemporary art exhibition that is to open in the fall. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (AP)

Mickey Mouse with Nazi symbol ignites Polish anger

Vanessa Gera