So many younger actors read as slier than Mr. Hanks, whose appeal has always been that he seems like an awfully nice guy.
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In June 2018, Slier travelled to Kiev to attend a conference on freedom of speech which was organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Upon arrival at Boryspil Airport, she was stopped at customs and had her passport taken away by officials after it was flagged. Slier was denied entry into Ukraine (where she had previously reported on the conflict) “in accordance with Ukrainian law regarding border control” and made to wait in the airport for 8 hours. Slier and fellow journalist, Yevgeny Primakov of the Rossiya 24 channel, have been prohibited from returning to Ukraine for a period of 5 years.
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Philip "Flip" Slier (4 December 1923 – 9 April 1943) was a Jewish Dutch typesetter who lived in Amsterdam during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. Slier left documentation of his experiences as a forced labourer in the Molengoot labor camp in a series of 86 letters that he wrote to his parents between April and September 1942. His family concealed his letters in their Amsterdam house, where they were discovered more than 50 years later.
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Slier was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the eldest of three, having both a younger brother and sister. She attended Waverley Girls' High School, following which she enrolled at the University of Witwatersrand, graduating with a degree in international relations and philosophy. Slier is Jewish and in 2015 made a documentary entitled 119 Lives Unlived about her Dutch family members who were killed during the Holocaust. The documentary was awarded third place in the Best Documentary Film Category at the Moscow International TV Festival.
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Philip Slier (rhymes with "beer") was born on 4 December 1923 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on the top floor in their third floor apartment, at 128 Vrolikstraat. To his friends and family, Philip was known as "Flip".
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In 2015, Slier presented the RT documentary 119 Lives Unlived, about her relatives killed during the Holocaust. She travelled to Amsterdam, where letters from Philip "Flip" Slier, her first cousin once removed, were discovered in the 1990s during a renovation at the former home of her great-grandparents. The letters were written after Flip was sent to a work camp in the Netherlands once he had turned 18. During the documentary, she interviewed Constant Kusters, president of the Dutch Far Right Dutch Peoples-Union, and the grandson of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess.
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Paula Slier (born 26 March 1973) is a South African television, radio and print journalist, news editor, and war correspondent, who is based in the Middle East. She is the Middle East Bureau Chief for RT, and the founder and CEO of Newshound Media International.
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On 1 June 1943 they, along with 3,000 others, were loaded into railroad cattle cars for Poland to the Sobibor extermination camp. They were both killed on 4 June 1943. Of the 58 immediate members of the Slier family in the Netherlands at the beginning of the war, only 6 were alive at the end of the war. Less than 25% of the Netherlands' Jewish population survived World War II.
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His best friend, Karel van der Schaaf, describes his demeanor as brutaal - an uninhibited, extremely daring and bold but good-natured teenager with a sense of humor, who liked being around others. Deborah Slier, editor of reference book Hidden Letters and Flip's cousin, says his letters show him to be "likeable, optimistic, humorous, and affectionate". He had a musical inclination as he liked singing and he played the flute and mandolin. Another of his hobbies was photography, for which he had a passion.
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The report entirely vindicated Perlman's statement, finding that there was an arbitrary blacklist of commentators who SABC staff were instructed not to consult. This blacklist included prominent analysts Karima Brown, Aubrey Matshiqi, William Gumede, Paula Slier, Sipho Seepe, Moeletsi Mbeki, Elinor Sisulu, and Trevor Ncube. The commissioners sharply criticised the head of SABC News, Snuki Zikalala, for his management style, and said that there was a climate of fear in the SABC newsroom. It found that the blacklisting contradicted the SABC's mandate and recommended that new guidelines on commentators be developed through wide consultation in and outside the SABC.
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