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New Americans

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To The Contrary



A special documentary edition of To the Contrary featuring the New Americans. We visit China and Southern California where we introduce you to the new Americans and the emerging industry that is growing up around them. Continue


Searching for answers

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Need To Know



In this extended interview, 19-year-old Gladys Dominguez shares her emotional journey to find information about her father, Alfonso Martinez Sanchez, who was lost crossing Arizona state’s border desert while trying to re-enter the United States. Continue


Vermont Passes Measure to Legalize Assisted Suicide

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FRONTLINE



A bill approved by the Vermont legislature will make Vermont just the third state in the nation to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Continue


Lillian Boraks-Nemetz: My Holocaust Survival

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FRONTLINE



In this excerpt from her book "The Old Brown Suitcase," child Holocaust survivor Lillian Boraks-Nemetz recounts being separated from her family and her harrowing escape from the Warsaw Ghetto. Continue


Watch More Child Survivor Stories

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FRONTLINE



As many as 1.5 million children were killed during the Holocaust. But some managed to survive, at times because they hid with their families, or because relatives sacrificed themselves to protect them or because they pretended not to be Jewish. Filmmaker Marian Marzynski visited some of these child survivors spread across the globe, probing their life paths, identities and memories. Continue


Never Forget to Lie

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FRONTLINE



In the most recent of his critically lauded autobiographical films, Marian Marzynski explores his own wartime childhood and the experiences of other child survivors, teasing out their feelings about Poland, the Catholic Church, and the ramifications of identities forged under circumstances where survival began with the directive "never forget to lie." Continue


Loretta Sanchez Interview

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To The Contrary



Representative Loretta Sanchez talks with To the Contrary about sexual assault in the military. Continue


TTC Extra: First Day Death Rate

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To The Contrary



Non-profit group Save the Children released a statistic stating 50% more babies die on their first day of life in the United States than in any other industrialized nation--11,000 babies per year. One reason is the high number of teen mothers giving birth to premature infants. Continue


Champion of Military Sexual Assault Awareness Questions...

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PBS NewsHour



Tuesday should have been a good day for Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif. Her signature issue in Congress -- reducing sexual assaults in the U.S. military -- had just been forcefully endorsed by the president and secretary of defense. But Speier was not optimistic that major change is coming. Continue


Military's Growing Number of Sexual Assaults Draws Rebuke

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PBS NewsHour



A new Pentagon report finds the official number of sexual assaults in the U.S. military rose to nearly 3,400 in 2012, while up to 26,000 cases went unreported. Ray Suarez talks to Time magazine's Mark Thompson about whether adjudication of sexual assault up the military chain of command affects the number of crimes reported. Continue


Dying to get back

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Need To Know



While the number of illegal crossings at the border has plummeted dramatically — roughly half the number than during peak years — just as many people are dying. Meaning for those coming into the country illegally, it is now more deadly, more lethal, than at any time in recent U.S. immigration history. Continue


"My Life In Hiding"

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FRONTLINE



Maja Hrabowska is part of the generation of children that survived the Holocaust. "The past is always with me," she writes. "It has long, cold fingers, and catches me unprepared, at night mostly, when I wake up in sweat." Continue


Marian Marsynski: Returning to the Warsaw Story

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FRONTLINE



In this reflection, filmmaker Marian Marzynski describes his journey to making "Never Forget to Lie." He writes, "In Poland I lived in a closet: as a 5-year-old boy hiding during the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, running for my life on the Christian side, but also, as an adult after the war, trying to forget my past. Continue


Ed Herman: My Warsaw Ghetto Memories

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FRONTLINE



Born in Warsaw in 1931, Ed Herman managed to survive the Holocaust. Here, he recounts his escape and reflects on what it was like to return to his birthplace after being absent for 68 years. "My personnel journey is a narrative of strong faith, growing up in a hurry, resilience and strength in face of adversity, a story of close escapes against all odds and miraculous survival," he writes. Continue


News Wrap: Abortion Doctor Gets Life Sentence

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PBS NewsHour



In other news Tuesday, Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering three babies. Gosnell forfeited his right to appeal to avoid the death penalty. Also, the Defense Department says it will furlough more than 600,000 civilian employees for 11 days through September. Continue


Returning to the Haunted Ground of the Warsaw Ghetto

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FRONTLINE



Before World War II, Poland's capital Warsaw was home to the country's largest Jewish community; more than 350,000 Jews lived in the city. No more than 20,000 of them survived the Holocaust. FRONTLINE filmmaker Marian Marzynski was one of the few. In "Never Forget to Lie," Marzynski returns to the ghetto to explore his own wartime childhood and the experiences of other child survivors. Continue


Sexual Assault; Egg Freezing; International Surrogacy

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To The Contrary



Sexual Assault in the military is on the rise. The debate on women freezing their eggs. Behind the Headlines: International Surrogacy. PANELISTS: Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hadley Heath, Avis Jones-DeWeever, Tara Setmayer Continue


Judy's Notebook: The Me Me Me Generation Can Be...

PBS NewsHour



More and more often I come across an inspired idea a young person has had in response to a problem our older generation dumped in their laps. Given today's debate around immigration reform, it's especially notable when that young person is the child of immigrants. Continue


Kidnapping Victims Lived in 'Dungeon-Like' Environment

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PBS NewsHour



Details have emerged about the specific ordeal endured by three women held captive in a Cleveland home for 10 years. Ray Suarez talks with Peter Krouse of The Cleveland Plain Dealer about the "dungeon-like" conditions, the charges against suspect Ariel Castro and reports of neighbors trying to report Castro to the police. Continue


Pentagon Reports Rise in Military Sexual Assaults

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PBS NewsHour



A new Pentagon report finds the official number of sexual assaults in the U.S. military rose to nearly 3,400 in 2012, while up to 26,000 cases went unreported. Ray Suarez talks to Time magazine's Mark Thompson about whether adjudication of sexual assault up the military chain of command affects the number of crimes reported. Continue


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