Into the Deep with Author Patricia Posner
PATRICIA POSNER, author of “The Pharmacist of Auschwitz,” was born in London and spent half of her life in the U.K. and half in the U.S.A. Posner has always been greatly interested in the history surrounding World War II and the Holocaust. She has long been been fascinated by the mostly untold story of Victor Capesius, an ethnic German from Romania who ended up as the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp.
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Cartoon Great Mischa Richter
MISCHA RICHTER delighted readers of “The New Yorker” for a half century. His magazine art — his preferred term, rather than cartoon — appeared in other magazines over the years as well, but he was best known as one of “The New Yorker’s” most prolific contributors. Starting in January 1942, the magazine published more than 1,500 of his creations. Their common traits were wit, craftsmanship and intellectual curiosity.
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Into the Deep with Author Patricia Posner
PATRICIA POSNER, author of “The Pharmacist of Auschwitz,” was born in London and spent half of her life in the U.K. and half in the U.S.A. Posner has always been greatly interested in the history surrounding World War II and the Holocaust. She has long been been fascinated by the mostly untold story of Victor Capesius, an ethnic German from Romania who ended up as the chief pharmacist at Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp.
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