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15 March 2023Access AmericaClimate Change, climate crisis, drain on natural resources, Europe, Fédération Internationale de Ski, FIS, Lake Placid, Leuphana, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Nordic World Ski Championships, NY, Ski Jumping, Slovenia, snow, Sports, United States, Winter Sports, World CupJanina Malena Sähn

Winter Sports — At What Cost?

By Hannah Quinque

Not exactly an idyllic view: The future of winter sports lies in producing artificial snow.
Photo credit: “Ski jumping in Oberstdorf, Germany” by Arne Müseler

“Having the World Cup back on U.S. soil is very important in developing the sport of Ski Jumping in this country and across the world,” enthuses one ski jumping trainer about the return of the Men’s Ski Jumping World Cup to historical site Lake Placid, NY, after over three decades. As heart-warming as this news may be for North American winter sports aficionados, it’s hard to feel as optimistic about ‘developing’ the future of snow sports when climate change is already heavily impacting events even today.

16 November 2022Access AmericaAmerica First, Breckinridge Long, Film, Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter, Henry Gibbins, Holocaust, Jewish refugees, Leuphana, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Liberty Ship, NY, Oswego, Reflection, Theater, World War IIJanina Malena Sähn

America and the Holocaust

By Michael Lederer

Beyond a severely limited immigration quota kept to a bare minimum, fewer than a thousand Jewish refugees from Europe were admitted into the U.S. during World War II. In August 1944, they were brought on a single U.S. Liberty ship, then interned behind barbed wire on an old U.S. Army camp upstate New York until after the war had ended. That small lucky group included my father Ivo, his sister Mira, and their parents Otto and Ruza.