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  • No longer will Americans like Melvin Dwork be fired from the military simply because of their sexual orientation.

    Ian Thompson: The Demise of DADT Ian Thompson 2011

  • Having visible gay and lesbian soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines is incredibly meaningful and important, both for our country's armed forces, which will benefit from the service and sacrifice of these brave men and women, but also to a community that includes people like 89-year-old Melvin Dwork, who have waited years, indeed decades, for justice.

    Ian Thompson: The Demise of DADT Ian Thompson 2011

  • So consistently have military concerns motivated care for pregnant women and infants, writes historian Debórah Dwork, that one could say that “war is good for babies.”

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

  • Dwork and Van Pelt begin their story in 1270, with the founding of the Polish town Oswiecim (renamed Auschwitz by the Germans), and demonstrate the key role that it played for both countries over the next 700 years.

    Books Of War 2009

  • By studying the lives of the children during the Holocaust, Dwork also explores how adults, particularly women, were active in trying to hide and protect children.

    Holocaust Studies in the United States. 2009

  • In her classic, Children With a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe (1991), Dwork argues that it is the history of the children that particularly and painfully underlines the horror of the Holocaust: It is the children who show that there can be no excuse for the Nazi Judeocide.

    Holocaust Studies in the United States. 2009

  • From That Time and Place: A Memoir, 1938 – 1947 (1989), and The War Against the Jews: 1933 – 1945 (1975); Dwork, Deborah.

    Holocaust Studies in the United States. 2009

  • Dwork grew up with an awareness of how the Holocaust had affected her family.

    Holocaust Studies in the United States. 2009

  • The center became the first in the world to offer postgraduate degrees in Holocaust and genocide studies, Dwork said.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2010

  • The center became the first in the world to offer postgraduate degrees in Holocaust and genocide studies, Dwork said.

    WRAL.com Top Stories 2010

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