Holocaust

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Absarokee woman unearths mother’s story of survival

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Postcard

Before her mother’s death in 1995, Angelica Osborne knew only a few things about her mother’s life in World War II-era Germany, before she married an American soldier and came to the United States. She knew that her mother, Margit Chinkes, had spent time in two Nazi concentration camps as a teenager. Her mother had also talked about how she might have died of starvation if the commander of one camp, whose office she cleaned, had not left her a slice of bread in his desk drawer every day. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Angelica Osborne, Farcountry Press, Holocaust, Nazi Germany

Prairie Lights: A new wrinkle in the war on truth

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Ed

You know you’re living in strange times when the maker of the world’s most popular dictionary feels compelled to send out a tweet defining the word “fact.”

As National Public Radio reported, there were actually two tweets, one defining “fact” as “a piece of information presented as having objective reality,” and a later one saying that the word “is understood to refer to something with actual existence.” (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Prairie Lights, creationism, Donald Trump, Holocaust, intelligent design, Kellyanne Conway, Richard Spencer

Prairie Lights: Honoring vets not as simple as it seems

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Memorial

Years ago, I wrote a story about a Billings man who had entered one of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps shortly after it had been liberated. That prompted a well-known crank in Big Timber to call me and “argue” about whether the Holocaust had actually happened. I specifically said in my story (unavailable in the Gazette archives) that the soldier had entered a concentration camp, not technically one of the death camps, but that was beside the point. The crank didn’t need much pretext for expounding his silly views. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Prairie Lights, Holocaust, Honor Flight, World War II Memorial