Auschwitz Memorials Online

With today's commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, people around the globe are taking time out to remember the many who died at in the Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. A number of excellent Web sites have been doing the same for years and provide exhaustively detailed background on this dark chapter. The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., has put together a comprehensive Auschwitz Web site , with Soviet footage taken just after the camp's liberation, interviews with survivors, and information on the development of the camps themselves. PBS has an excellent site as well, a companion to their television series called Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State .

Iraq Refresher

Need a quick brush up on Iraq before elections on Sunday? London's Guardian offers a little refresher course  in the form of a question and answer session. We've seen these before, but this one hits all the facts and steers smartly through all the sticky details to briefly deliver what it takes most a mouthful to say.