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Russian Teen Discovers Message In A Bottle

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Wed, 03/30/2011 - 5:51am

In 1987, a five-year-old boy stuffed a message in a bottle and tossed the bottle from the deck of a ship into the Baltic Sea.

Twenty-four years later, a Russian teenager discovered the bottle.

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Russian Village Haunted By A Hidden Holocaust Past

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Mon, 03/08/2010 - 11:01pm

World War II ended more than six decades ago, but one Russian village on the Baltic Sea is still coming to terms with its role in the Holocaust.

In Yantarny, Russia, then part of East Prussia, thousands of Jews were killed in 1945. Even now, some villagers are still unaware of what happened.

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