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September 18, 2023

Raymond Moriyama, Designer of Humane Public Spaces, Dies at 93

One of the firm’s standout works was the Toronto Reference Library, a generous glass and brick structure, completed in 1977. But their projects were not confined to Canada. They designed a transit mall in Buffalo to revitalize the city’s main street; the National Museum of Saudi Arabia, in Riyadh; and the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, […]

September 16, 2023

Uncategorized Europe Hitler, Adolf Holocaust and the Nazi Era Jews and Judaism Pius XII Roman Catholic Church War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity World War II (1939-45)

Pope Pius XII Likely Knew of Holocaust, Newly Discovered Letter Suggests

A letter found among the private papers of Pope Pius XII suggests that the Holy See was told in 1942 that up to 6,000 people, “above all Poles and Jews,” were being killed in furnaces every day at Belzec, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Though news of the atrocities being perpetrated by Hitler was […]