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Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, represented California's 12th District since 1980. He died a month after disclosing he had cancer of the espohagus.

San Diego Jewish Film Festival

The subject of the Nanking Massacre has been explored before. The continued dispute with Japan over exactly what happened colors relations between China and Japan to this day.

A Tel Aviv auction house has sparked controversy by auctioning off several items from the Holocaust including an identifying yellow Jewish star that the Nazis forced Jews to wear. Some Holocaust survivors say that the sale was an insult to the memory of the dead. The Israeli parliament is now debating a bill to ban future sales.

Scherman's article came to the attention of Jeffrey Porro who showed it to his friend, writer and TV producer Robert Eisele. Eisele and Porro developed the idea and brought to Oprah Winfrey's company, Harpo Films. That's about the time that Denzel Washington came on board to direct and star as Tolson. The film marks his return to directing after making his directing debut in 2002 with another true story,

The Great Debaters

The Golden Compass

Bukowski in his home at 5124 De Longpre Avenue in Los Angeles For the last couple of months, a movement has been underway to turn an apartment once rented…

Landmark Status of Charles Bukowski Bungalow Postponed

Jacki Lyden remembers Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Norman Mailer, who died Saturday at the age of 84. We hear excerpts from NPR interviews with Mailer. And we speak with Jimmy Breslin, the long-time newspaper columnist who was Mailer's running-mate when the author ran unsuccessfully for New York mayor in 1969.