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70 years ago, Ella Weissberger stood on stage as a cat in the first performances of the children’s opera Brundibar. The stage was in a Nazi concentration camp and she was a prisoner. Weissberger still attends performances and shared her story with The World’s Nina Porzucki.

German designer Otl Aicher created the pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich. His design has influenced not only future Olympic pictograms but many signs we see on a daily basis.

Ukraine has been gripped by demonstrations for weeks now. Protesters want the President to keep his promise and sign a deal with the European Union. The deal would bail out the country’s broken finances and bring it into closer association with Brussels. Russia doesn’t like that. It’s not the first time in Ukraine’s history that is has to decide between East and West.

News broke over the weekend in Germany that 1500 masterpieces by Matisse and Picasso and others were found in an apartment in Munich.

Until recently, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party enjoyed substantial popularity in Greece. Then, two weeks ago, a Golden Dawn member admitted to killing anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas. In the following days, Greek authorities arrested more than 20 Golden Dawn members, including much of the party’s leadership.