During Germany's World War II occupation of Poland, Jerzy Kowalewski paid a heavy price for helping the resistance. The Nazis knocked out all of his teeth, then packed him in a cattle car to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they ordered him to clean streets in 15-hour shifts and turned him into a human guinea pig in sadistic medical experiments. Six decades later, the 83-year-old Kowalewski gained a small measure of compensation for that suffering about $20,000 from a German fund set up to help survivors of the Nazis' forced labor program. After compensating nearly 1.7 million people in recent years, the fund is sending out its last checks to meet a Sunday deadline set by German law to finish its work. "This isn't just about money," said Guenter Saathoff, director of the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future foundation that administers the fund. "It's much more about morality: These payments are one way that Germany recognizes the wrongs inflicted on its victims."... http://abcnews.go.com censor News |
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Wikipedia creator turns to search |
| The creator of the Wikipedia encyclopedia is turning his attention to search engines. Jimmy Wales, the man behind the collaborative online reference work, is planning to create a "people-powered" search site. T.. full News |
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Saddam team 'to take belongings' |
| Lawyers for former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein have confirmed to the BBC that they have been asked to pick up his personal effects. But an Iraqi official denied that he has been handed from US military to Iraqi.. full News |
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Nigeria Census: Africa's Most Populous Nation Has Estimated 140 Million People |
| Nigeria's population has nearly doubled to an estimated 140 million people since the last count in 1991, according to census figures released Friday. Population growth in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation,.. full News |
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132 million people access Web in China |
| China's population of Internet users has risen by 30 percent over the past year to 132 million, a state news agency said Friday.The figure was up from 123 million at the end of June, the Xinhua News Agency said.. full News |
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Hajj approaches spiritual climax |
| More than two million Muslims have taken part in a prayer ceremony on Mount Arafat - one of the main events in the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. The pilgrims will also hear a sermon modelled on the one the Prophe.. full News |
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