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WBUR senior health and science reporter Gabrielle Emanuel moderated a conversation with historian and best-selling author Simon Schama about his new book, “Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the ...

One road to Auschwitz ran through a small garage in Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania. In June, 1941, local nationalists surrounded and murdered about 50 Jewish men and left their bodies out in the street ...

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