When the German war machine stormed into Poland, 19-year-old Zula Schibuk was sent from her home to Kaiserwald, a concentration camp in Latvia. This is her story.

This Saturday and Sunday (May 3, 4), experience Hanami — the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry blossom season — when the Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s 220 cherry trees enter peak bloom.

Even though the Meadowlands area of Northern New Jersey has had extensive environmental cleanup, a new bird study shows that many species still live with harmful levels of contaminants.

Mark Bittman, food columnist for the New York Times and host of public television’s “The Best Recipes in the World,” visited our studio for a live interactive webcast right here on Thirteen.org. Watch the full episode.

Have you lived on an aircraft carrier or have a family member who has? In conjunction with the Carrier series starting April 27, 2008, we’re looking for a few good stories or video to share with viewers.

The Fragonard Room inside the Henry Clay Frick Estate is the setting for an ensemble of canvases by Fragonard and a remarkable group of French furniture from the 1700s. Walk through the room online.

While Darwin is best known for his theory of evolution, he had a lifelong fascination with plants. The new exhibit on Darwin at the Bronx Botanical Garden features a breathtaking array of orchids, including the comet orchid from Madagascar, whose defining characteristic is a 12-inch-long nectary. You can watch video of the special moth that pollinated such a plant on Nature online.

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly this weekend ran a feature on the population influx to Utica, and the role of churches in settling immigrants from Somalia, Burma, Bosnia and more. GO

Isiah Thomas is just one of a long line of New York sports characters who have fallen on both sides of the hero/villain divide. This great episode of New York Voices from June 2003 delved into the paragons and pariahs of New York sports. Narrated by Vincent Pastore from the Sopranos.

It’s spring in New York, and Philip Glass is bursting out all over — from Satyagraha at the Met to new box sets of previously recorded works and even a documentary about the composer at IFC Center.