- VILLAGE OF A MILLION SPIRITS: A NOVEL OF THE TREBLINKA UPRISING, by Ian MacMillan. Steerforth, 257 pages, $24.
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Smoking crematories
GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — The audience received an unforgettable history lesson, and the speaker hopes to keep it that way.
George Brown spoke at Glendale Community College Tuesday, describing his experiences during the Nazi Holocaust.
Continue readingThe Holocaust as kitsch
In St. Petersburg, Fla., the powers that be have graciously prepared a list of “40 Fun Things to Do” in their city. Number 11 on the list is “Remember the Holocaust.” Those out for an enjoyable afternoon are invited to visit the local Holocaust museum, where for $39.95 they can purchase a scale-model replica of a Polish boxcar once used by the Nazis to transport Jews and others to the concentration camps. (If that’s not enough, they can donate $5,000 or more to the museum and receive a genuine railway spike from Treblinka preserved in Lucite.)
Continue readingAnnihilation through Catholicism
Continue readingThe Jewish woman wears a gold crucifix on a chain, given her during the war when she was in hiding. Now, apparently, she is a devout Catholic, while the Polish woman is an atheist.
Non-white, Nazi, Gestapo-like park rangers
You have nothing to lose but your leashes
Dog owners are rebelling against what they see as draconian pet law
Continue readingDeath by denier
The man who bore witness
Primo Levi, an obsessive chronicler of his life as a Holocaust survivor, gets a biography from someone else.
PRIMO LEVI: Tragedy of an Optimist, by Myriam Anissimov, Overlook Press, 452 pages
Continue readingJust remember, Nazis were NOT fashion-forward
In his previous job as editor of the British monthly Loaded, James Brown created a publishing success by unapologetically pandering to the sensibilities of young, male party animals. Now his taste for outrage has lost him his new job — he’s been doing it for a year — as editor of British GQ. His mistake? To include the Nazis on a list of the 20th century’s best-dressed men.
Continue readingTruth about cats and dogs
[…] One of the most distressing moments in the Holocaust was when the Nazis decreed that no Jew could have a pet.
Continue readingThe most emotionally-charged accusation one can level at a political foe in the United States: Holocaust denial
Hitchens-Blumenthal feud escalates
Beltway dispute takes ugly turn with charge of Holocaust denial
- The falling-out between writer Christopher Hitchens […] and White House aide Sidney Blumenthal has escalated.