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5 days ago · While Hans Jürgen enjoyed “a really lovely and idyllic childhood in Auschwitz”, on the other side of the garden wall, Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, now 98, played in the camp ...
5 days ago · The 87-year-old was one of five siblings who lived just outside the walls of Auschwitz, the concentration camp where more than one million people were murdered during the Holocaust. He is the son...
2 days ago · Zugzwang (from German 'compulsion to move'; pronounced [ˈtsuːktsvaŋ]) is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because of their obligation to make a move; a player is said to be "in zugzwang" when any legal move will worsen their position.. Although the term is used less precisely in games such as chess, it is used specifically in ...
1 day ago · Age-related factor induces Alzheimer’s-like neuro-degeneration in mice. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by the deposition of aggregated amyloid plaques containing beta-amyloid (Aβ) and hyperphosphorylated tau (pTau) tangles. Whether Aβ deposition is sufficient to initiate or maintain AD pathogenesis is unclear.
1 day ago · A close family member mentioned, from the days of the old Lasker club in Tel Aviv, what must have been a common occurrence among chess players.The club had a small kitchenette / cafe, where members could buy tea and coffee. For the older, constant club members, such as Aloni, the kitchenette's owner would also offer meals - cooked by the cafe owner's wife in their apartment next door.
5 days ago · Investigators learned that Lasker’s private secretary and the pilot, whom Lasker’s secretary had hired, devised the plot to steal the diamonds. Greed is a powerful motivator. Once Lasker’s body had been thrown from the plane, the pilot continued flying the plane to the southeast.
1 day ago · EUROPEAN Union (EU) Film Festival co-curator-turned-co-ordinator Alex Gwaze has announced the call for entries to the EU Bioskop Short Film Competition. The deadline for the submissions of the ...
