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Apr 23, 2018

Parasites Closing In

Please, no hitchhikers: When vacationers bring stray dogs or cats home with them, they may also be bringing uninvited infections.

A risk to people and animals alike: Tourism and climate change have brought an increase in worm diseases in Central Europe, as elsewhere.

An adorable ball of fur has been trotting alongside the family for quite some time now, obviously without an owner. It looks up pleadingly, practically begging to be taken along. The kids are already hopelessly in love.

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When Is Fear Only a Feeling?

Fear of the dark: Many people feel unsafe in poorly lit metro rail stations and inside tunnels after dark.

Researchers from Freie Universität study transit passengers’ sense of safety and security.

It’s just after midnight when Jana K. passes the Berlin Ringbahn railway on Hermannstrasse in Neukölln, traditionally a rough-and-tumble working-class district and now home to a large immigrant population. She has the hood of her black coat pulled up and is listening to music.

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An Exhibition to Keep Memories Alive

A mobile soup kitchen in Zbąszyń in 1938: Calls went out in Polish Jewish and Yiddish newspapers, asking the community to donate food, physical objects, and money for the Jews who had been deported.

Students and scholars from Freie Universität have studied the fates of Polish Jewish families from Berlin who were arrested and deported by the Nazis in 1938.

In October 1938, more than 16,000 Jews who were citizens of Poland were arrested in Nazi Germany and deported to the Polish border. Many of them had been born in Germany or had lived there for decades.

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