LONDON (Reuters) — A leading London theater is to stage the last play of one of Britain’s most controversial writers — the tale of a suicide that Sarah Kane finished just one week before killing herself.
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Deli Strummer cited by USHMM
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BOSTON (AP) — When she was 21, Vivien Spitz embarked on a dark, two-year journey. Her destination: the Nuremberg trials of accused Nazi war criminals.
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Holocaust survivors write book based on their lives
WESTWOOD: Fund-raiser in Westwood celebrates release of testimonials
Continue readingThe Holocaust’s legacies
Philip Gourevitch’s article on Binjamin Wilkomirski and his memoir Fragments (“The Memory Thief,” June 14th) reveals much about the Holocaust industry. In 1996, Suhrkamp, also Wilkomirski’s publisher, published a German translation of my account of a wartime childhood in Poland. It is entitled “Dobryd” — an anagram of the name of the real town where the action takes place. I chose to write it as fiction, because, like Aharon Appelfeld, I did not trust the factual accuracy of my recollections. At the time of publication, it was suggested to me that the book would sell much better if it was reclassified as nonfiction, but I did not accept the suggestion. Though the book has received excellent critical notices, it has never enjoyed the attention given to Fragments.
Continue readingMy five years in the death camps, and how they grew
The Nazis Killed my Dinner
“My story begins in 1940. When I was nine years old, the Germans took me from my home in Krasnik, Poland. For five years I was a prisoner of the Nazis in 10 death camps, where I saw thousands of men, women and children brutally murdered and starved.
Continue readingA scholar argues that Americans are obsessed with the Holocaust
By making the Nazis’ crimes the benchmark for oppression, he writes, we risk trivializing other atrocities
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Death ‘was done manually’ in Croatian concentration camp: witness
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Auschwitz: truth too painful to believe
- Try telling concentration camp survivors that Hitler didn’t exist.
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For a memorable 3½ years, I was a Polish political prisoner in Auschwitz. Beginning in October 1941, we prisoners were put to work building New Camp No 2 (Birkenau) to accommodate more than 200,000 new prisoners. As a construction electrician, I worked installing electrical power in four gas chambers and the adjacent crematoria. Later, during gassing, wires and cables were often ripped off by victims gasping for air and writhing in the agony of asphyxiation. We had to repair such damage when the still convulsive bodies were being lifted up for cremation.
Continue readingI’ll never forget the [non-existent] gas chambers at Dachau
THIS SPRING break I had the opportunity to travel to Germany with my school, and out of the whole trip there is one place I will always remember. We visited the concentration camp in Dachau.
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