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Boil water notice for East Olean after water main break

By JIM ECKSTROM jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com

August 18, 2026

OLEAN — Mayor Amy B. Sherburne advised Tuesday afternoon that East Olean residents boil their water for consumption until further notice after a water...

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The UN combats Holocaust denial

Jan 24, 2022

Israel became the United Nations’ 59th member on May 11, 1949. In the seven decades since, the General Assembly, now numbering 193 countries, has pass...

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Son of Holocaust survivor, partisan to speak at WWII Museum

Olean Times Herald staff

Jan 16, 2021

ELDRED, Pa. — In recognition of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Eldred World War II Museum will host a live presentation via Zoom on Jan. 27. Second-ge...

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Chautauqua Institution joins Holocaust Memorial Museum for ‘The Tehran Children’

Olean Times Herald staff

Dec 03, 2020

MAYVILLE — Chautauqua Institution and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will jointly present an online program titled “The Tehran Children: Iran’s Un...

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RTW: Holocaust awareness is fading

EMILY PUTZKE, Special to the Olean Times Herald

Jan 22, 2019

As International Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches on Sunday, a look at a recent survey by the Claims Conference shows how imperative this day of r...

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Dutch researchers uncover dirty jokes in Anne Frank’s diary

MIKE CORDER, Associated Press

May 15, 2018

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Researchers using digital technology deciphered the writing on two pages of Anne Frank's diary that she had covered over with brown m...

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Holocaust survivor shares worldview with Olean students, actors

CINDY WAGNER Olean Times Herald

Sep 29, 2017

OLEAN — Olean ninth-graders and the student cast of a play centered around the Holocaust were allowed to draw insight from Sophia Veffer, a Holocaust ...

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Holocaust survivor, urges public to become ‘upstanders,’ not ‘bystanders’

CINDY WAGNER Olean Times Herald

Sep 25, 2017

OLEAN - A prisoner in her own country. That’s about all Sophia Veffer will say about how she felt during the Holocaust while living in Holland. She’d ...

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State and Union: Sonja van der Horst establishes professorship at UNC

Apr 26, 2017

In Tuesday’s edition, we wrote of the marriage of Johannes Martinus Arnold “Hans” and Sonja van der Horst in Europe after World War II. In the summer ...

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State & Union: The remarkable journey of the van der Horsts

Apr 25, 2017

In Saturday’s edition we wrote about Hans van der Horst, a man who played a pivotal role in developing the Olean Public Library’s new building in 1973...