Moderator Ronald Leopold delivered the following introduction to Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Last Train to London, a novel based on the true story of the Vienna Kindertransports and the heroic Dutch woman who led the rescues, Truus Wijsmuller.
In this fourth and final blog of this series, John Adams director Tracy Metz selected photographs from Brian Rose’s book ‘Atlantic City’ showing the city as a symbol of excess and decline.
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On January 26th, Overseas Americans Remember (OAR) will sponsor the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute and Dinner at the Hotel Den Haag-Wassenaar. The commemoration will feature a number of distinguished speakers as well as music integral to the civil rights movement. For more information, please visit this website.
A New York Times investigation showed that the report on the Turkish Airlines crash near Schiphol in 2009 had left out or mischaracterized criticism of Boeing. A report by aviation safety expert Sydney Dekker, commisioned by the Dutch Safety Board to analyze the crash, was never published.