Holocaust survivor urges peace, hopes youth learn from past
GRAND CHUTE — In a Europe driven mad by war, Holocaust survivor Henry Golde was the innocent target of many hateful words and deeds.
For five years in adolescence Golde, 75, endured the terrors of nine different Nazi-run concentration camps during World War II.
Continue readingCritics are calling the media scandal over the Jerry Killian forgeries “Rathergate.” But to thousands of Vietnam veterans, the real Rathergate took place 16 years ago when Dan Rather successfully foisted a fraud onto the American people. […]
On June 2, 1988, CBS aired an hour-long special titled CBS Reports: The Wall Within, which CBS trumpeted as the “rebirth of the TV documentary.” It purported to tell the true story of Vietnam through the eyes of six of the men who fought there. And what terrible stories they had to tell.
Continue readingHolocaust Memorial to Open in Oregon
PORTLAND, Ore. — For years, Chella Kryszek had nightmares about the dark, crowded cattle cars that shuttled her from concentration camp to concentration camp as a Dutch Jew during the Holocaust.
Continue readingPhotographs give testament to the horror of the Holocaust
Continue readingHolocaust Survivor: He Shouldn’t Get Away with Murder
The federal government wants a Mercer County man’s citizenship revoked, saying the now 79-year-old retired steelworker served as a guard at two Nazi concentration camps in 1943.
Continue readingJewish students attacked at Auschwitz
Tamar Schuri, a member of the group of Israeli and Jewish students who were attacked while visiting the death camps in Auschwitz earlier this week said that during and after the attack no one came to help the victims, not even the guides employed by the camp, Army Radio reported Wednesday.
Continue readingHolocaust educators tell their stories
Stanislaw Gawel’s parents were children when the Nazis moved them from their towns across the Polish river Sola so that they would not bear witness to the destruction in Auschwitz and Birkenau, located near their homes.
Continue readingMore hits from the politically correct songbook
I’ve seen more evidence of the Holocaust than many New Zealanders because I’ve taken the trouble to visit concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Majdanek and Dachau.
Continue readingSurvivor to tell of past horror
A Jewish man who fled Nazi tyranny as a boy, just weeks before the outbreak of the Second World War, is to relate his story to today’s children.
Continue readingIs Fox News not playing fair with ‘Fair & Balanced’ slogan?
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In a recent column for the Los Angeles Times, social historian Neal Gabler observed that “if by ‘fair’ one means objective and unbiased, then more often than not ‘fair’ and ‘balanced’ may be mutually exclusive.” That is, a “fair” discussion of the Holocaust wouldn’t call for the “balance” of a Holocaust denier.
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