Holocaust

A murderer’s warped idealism

A murderer’s warped idealism By George F. Will, OP-ED in The Washington Post 14 November 2014 Western reflection about human nature and the politics of the human condition began with the sunburst of ancient Greece 2,500 years ago, but it lurched into a new phase 70 years ago with the liberation of the Nazi extermination camps. The Holocaust is the dark sun into which humanity should stare, lest troubling lessons be lost through an intellectual

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A Retiree, 89, Is Held in Deaths at Auschwitz

A Retiree, 89, Is Held in Deaths at Auschwitz By ERIC LICHTBLAU, The New York Times June 19th, 2014 WASHINGTON — The 89-year-old Johann Breyer shuffled unsteadily into a federal courtroom in Philadelphia on Wednesday morning, using a cane for support as he sank slowly into a chair at the defense table. The retired toolmaker from what was then Czechoslovakia, who immigrated to the United States in 1952, was thin and pale and dressed in a green uniform

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The Holocaust is not a he-said, she-said debate

The Holocaust is not a he-said, she-said debate By Michael Gerson, The Washington Post 19 May 2014 Several years ago, I attended the bar mitzvah of a friend’s son. Uniquely in my experience — and, I’d bet, most people’s experience — all of the boy’s four grandparents were Holocaust survivors. In the middle of the ceremony, one grandfather interrupted: “I have something to say.” He recalled holding his grandson for the first time 13

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Links to Holocaust Resources

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whh0o4lvX4E Oprah and Elie Weisel Visit Auschwitz ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ An Introduction to the Holocaust (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) Hitler on Jews and Zionism Avalon Project (Nuremberg War Crimes Trials from Yale University) Cybrary of the Holocaust (from Remember) Facing History and Ourselves Florida

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Articles

The Holocaust ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="334"] Bella Miller shows the number tattooed on her arm as a survivor of Auschwitz. (Viorel Florescu/Staff Photographer)[/caption] Holocaust survivor in Wanaque urges compassion as lasting memorial of WWII genocide By Jeff Green, NorthJersey.com 11 April 2013   WANAQUE

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Archived Updates

25 April 2012 "Mein Kampf to be re-released with notes countering Hitler's arguments," by Kate Connolly, The Guardian 17 April 2012 "How we can prevent genocide," by Lieselot Verdonck and Dr. Gregory Stanton, Genocide Watch 4 September 2011 "Sandor Kepiro dies at 97; Acquitted of Holocaust-era crimes," by The Associated Press 26 January 2011 "Shattering shame and silence," by Sonjam Hedgepeth and Rochelle G Saidel, The Jerusalem Post 26 January 2011

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