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For the Poor and the Stranger
Paul Mirat didn't need Leviticus to tell him the right thing to do
Michael Hickins
Michael Hickins is the award-winning author of The Silk Factory: Finding Threads of My Family’s True Holocaust Story, The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing, and I Lived in France and So Can You.
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The Unbearable Ambiguity of Registration
There are some registers where you don't want your name to appear, and others to which you cling for dear life.
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A Letter From ‘Almost Your Countrymen’
A tribute to Paul Mirat, who treated refugees like human beings
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No Rest for the Weary
A thought for the so-called undesirables trying to keep track of their imprisoned significant others during wartime.
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Just Follow the Rules for Asylum
People fleeing oppression or death should be prepared to jump through a few, simple bureaucratic hoops, right?
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Come Here This Instant!
The precarious life of an “undesirable foreigner” taking refuge in a hostile land
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Safe Passage During Wartime
The examination of an oxymoron
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The Interpreter of Internment Camps
An examination of a certificate attesting to my father's service in a French internment camp.
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The Ongoing Relevance of the Holocaust
Why I wrote a memoir and why I'm still writing it as we speak
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