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This monument at Yad Vashem is a kind of fence made of twisted bodies, screaming soundlessly to the heavensDefying Denial
Holocaust Remembrance Day is coming up in a year when Holocaust denial is in vogue in a government that just joined the nuclear club. Meet Mordecai Paldiel, a director of Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial. Also, Italian journalist Carlo Bonini who first discovered that some claims of an Iraqi nuclear program were based on forgeries; and Brooklynite Okwui Okpokwasili at P.S. 122’s Best of the Boroughs Festival.
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Everyone Has Their Dollar Amount
Andrew Edgecliffe -Johnson, media editor for the Financial Times, on the controversy over the sale of the stories of the captured British sailors.
The Italian Connection
Carlo Bonini, journalist for La Repubblica in Italy and author of Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror, describes Italy's role in the flawed intelligence that helped justify the war in Iraq.
Defying Denial
Mordecai Paldiel, director of the Department for the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial, talks about Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 15th and his book, The Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust (Collins, 2007).
The Righteous Among the Nations is available for purchase at Amazon.com
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Rutgers Women's Basketball Coach C. Vivian Stringer speaks about Don Imus' comment at a press conference.
B.O.B.: Brooklyn
Okwui Okpokwasili, actress and creator of "Pent-up: a Revenge Dance," a modern multi-character folktale, represents Brooklyn in P.S.122's Best of the Boroughs (B.O.B.) Festival.
This week's other B.O.B. representatives on The Brian Lehrer Show:
Monday - Sara Valentine
Wednesday - Edith I. Freni
Thursday - Nia Love
Friday - Kwikstep
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