Henry Kissinger’s history lesson
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Leave Hitler out of it
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On the political extremes, the use of Nazi or Holocaust imagery to delegitimize the opposition is not new, even to Israel only 50 years after the Shoah …
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The Public: Fighting the Republicans on Impeachment
As she watches Republicans in Congress push ahead with impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, Ellen Mendel of Manhattan says she feels the same despair that she did as a girl in Nazi Germany when the efforts of a stubborn group of leaders snowballed, crushing the will of the people.
Continue readingGerhart Riegner recalls attempts to alert world to Holocaust
GENEVA (AP) — In August 1942, he tried to alert the West about the Nazi plan to annihilate Europe’s Jews. No one responded.
Continue readingNew center for reflection planned for Bergen-Belsen
FRANKFURT, Dec. 20 (JTA) — Plans are being finalized for a non-denominational sanctuary space to be built on the grounds of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Continue readingGermany remembers Gypsy victims of Holocaust
BONN, Germany — Germany’s upper house of parliament held a service Friday to commemorate Gypsy victims of the Holocaust.
Continue readingThe murderer as artist
Bitten to death by fellow prisoners
Shivitti: A Vision
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From Publishers Weekly
Ka-Tzetnik 135633 […] is the pen name of Yehiel De-Nur, a pseudonym derived from the tattoo branded on his arm in Auschwitz. In an unusual footnote to the large body of Holocaust literature, the Israeli author describes the LSD treatments he underwent in 1976 under the supervision of a Dutch psychiatrist and specialist in the so-called Concentration Camp Syndrome. The hallucinogen incongruously prettifies some memories […]. But, for the most part, the drug allows De-Nur to combat his demons as it intensifies his recollection of grotesqueries that were the order of the day in Auschwitz, the “planet of death.” From the fragmented, impressionistic account emerge trenchant images of martyrs: […] a Dutch Jew covered in marmalade by Nazis and bitten to death in mass frenzy by fellow prisoners.
Continue readingGerman Criminal Code
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(3) “Whoever publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or renders harmless an act committed under the rule of National Socialism … in a manner capable of disturbing the public piece shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine.”
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Ohio mission faces sobering issues on trip through Israel
JERUSALEM — From the Holocaust to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, death has played a critical role in the identity and history of Israel.
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