AS AN EARLY TEEN, I was playing in a YMCA basketball league in Sumter, South Carolina, a leafy, sleepy southern town of about 35,000 where I was born and raised. Being of Jewish descent, I had to play for a Methodist team because the Jewish population in the county — indeed, in the state, at that time — was limited enough to preclude its own league. The YMCA was agreeable to this, and a few other Jewish kids from surrounding areas played as well.
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The swimming pool that’s not really a swimming pool
(A new sign at the Auschwitz main camp.)
Continue readingA Holocaust fraud
A post-modern parable about the pliable nature of historical truth and the ways in which the memory of the Holocaust is manipulated.
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New York’s Undocumented Day Laborers Fight for Their Piece of the Big Apple
Teresa’s attitude is not unique. Resentment is high between the Satmar Jews of Williamsburg and a hundred or so Polish day laborers who clean for them. A half-century after the war, the slaughter of their brethren burns the Jews like a live wire. Ask nearly any Satmar to define the neighborhood and he or she will tell you, “We’re a community of Holocaust survivors.” They’re keenly aware that Poland’s large Jewish population was annihilated during the war. Ask the Polish women how they like their work, and many ignore the question: “The Jews blame us for the death camps in Poland,” they say. Echoing the Polish government’s longtime position, they add, “It was the Nazis that killed the Jews. Not the Polish people.”
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Author and Auschwitz survivor Yehiel Dinur dies of cancer at 84
Author Yehiel Dinur, who used the pen name K. Zetnik, died last Tuesday of cancer at his home in Tel Aviv, at the age of 84. […]
Continue readingNazi saga takes a new turn
CLEVELAND — Twenty-four years ago this summer, the U.S. Justice Department made a remarkable allegation: One of World War II’s most notorious and malevolent practitioners of genocide was not only alive and well, he was living in Cleveland.
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OUTRAGE AT ISRAEL CONCERT
A world-famous conductor has broken a decades-old Israeli taboo by playing a piece by Richard Wagner, an anti-Semite who was Hitler’s favorite composer.
Continue readingFalse memory, hard time
WASHINGTON, July 5 (UPI) — Defense attorneys have long known that eyewitness identifications are notoriously unreliable in criminal proceedings. A new study sheds light on why.
Continue readingFinally: Proof of Holocaust claims — again
The Secret History of World War II
- This series sheds new light on key events of World War II. The stories are based on some of the more than 3 million files declassified under a 1999 executive order.
Disney vs. history
This “Pearl Harbor” movie still bothers me.
The Disney people re-edited the film for Japanese audiences because of “emotional sensitivity issues.” In other words they softened what was already a cupcake of a movie because Disney wanted to do better in the box offices in the Land of the Rising Sun, which is the largest movie-going country after the USA.
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