Des Moines Holocaust survivor seeks back pay from German firms
Fisher, who endured 31½ years in Nazi labor camps, sues descendants of German chemical and industrial giants for back wages and punitive damages. He seeks compensation for slave labor and urges action before his death, noting he did not receive any pay and his family suffered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisher
Chemical Companies
Base, Hoechst
Bayer
Krupp
Daimler-Benz
Iowa
Ronald Longstaff
Craig Rogers
Steve Luckert
Holocaust Museum
Washington
William Marks
Louise
Des Moines
Gross Rosen
Buchenwald
Langerstein
Fishel
Omaha
Neb
David Fishel
Downy Woodpeckers Nest Near Our Neighborhood
A local note describes the small downy woodpecker nesting in a yard this spring. It covers cavity placement, the round entry hole under a branch, egg clutch size, incubation by Papa, and regional year round residency from Newfoundland to the Gulf Coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newfoundland
Alaska
Canada
Gulf Coast
North Carolina
California
Dear Abby Readers Face Nudity and Prescription Woes
A Valencia reader questions nudity norms after neighbors discuss skinny dipping and sleeping nude. Angry in St Petersburg laments unreadable prescriptions and pharmacist errors. Milwaukee couple guest tests language clash and choices. Chuckle for today ends with a bar joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen C
Valencia
Calif
Ellen
Abby
ST. Petersburg
Fla
Milwaukee
Alabama Rivers Alliance Forms To Protect State Waters
Alabama scientists warn river ecosystems are in trouble with native species declining. The Alabama Rivers Alliance unites 15 conservation groups to safeguard remains of wild rivers and wetlands and to raise awareness of the economic and ecological value of healthy waterways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
New York Times
New York
North America
Mobile
Charles Lydeard
Richard L. Mayden
University of Alabama
Alabama Rivers Alliance
Brad McLane
Savannah
South Carolina
Georgia
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Hudson River
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Poland
Bedzin
Germany
Bismarkshute
Riegersfeld
Blahema
Auschwitz
bin Pai
Pischel
David
Angaben
Sehios
Felibach, Bahnhofatz
Bendzin
Polen
Eulalie (Lee) Gibbs
Gibbs
Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
Loretta Yalowitz
Lakewood
Ecoview
Whit Gibbons
Bama
Gibbons
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