Surivor: Greti Herman

In the pounding rain, lined up five abreast, Greti Herman — then Margit Berger — and her parents were marched from Hungary’s Csillaghegy Ghetto to the nearby train station.

Neighbors on proposed condo plan: "a nice ghetto"

There are two empty lots in northeast El Paso, east of Mount Latona Drive, north of Atalas drive and north of Vulcan Drive. The lots are just dirt and have some litter on them. But the nearly one-dozen residents who showed up to the El Paso City Council meeting Tuesday morning said they do not want a proposed condo development to go onto the empty lots. One neighbor, Rosy Mendoza, called the ...

Box Office Report: Underworld Outperforms

In this post-holidays, pre-Oscars lull in the Hollywood release cycle, we find unlikely success in a string of theatrical releases -- some, against the odds, narrowly escaping the Direct-to-DVD ghetto. Overall, the box office was 30 percent higher than the same frame last year, despite snowstorms throughout much of the country. Take heart, Hollywood: America loves movies enough to dig out their ...

Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: My Baby Goes To Day Care In 'The Ghetto'

(By D. Hanousek) As I dropped off my baby girl at day care the other day and waved good morning to the neighbor who had been tinkering with the same dilapidated car he was working on when I picked her up the day before, I realized that I have a confession to make. My baby goes to day care in what you vulgar types call "the ghetto." [ more › ]

Under a Cruel Star: a Life in Prague 1941-1968, By Heda Margolius Kovály

Heda Kovály, the Czech translator of Roth, Chandler and Bellow, had a tragic history. In 1941, the mass deportation of Jews from Prague was instituted by the Nazis. "We were not yet inured to sounds of gunshots followed by agonizing screams, to unendurable thirst, nor to the suffocating air in the crammed cattle cars." Before they reached the Lodz ghetto, many perished on the long march in the ...