Philip Bialowitz still remembers the ear-piercing shrieks. “I could hear the screams of those in the gas chamber,” says Bialowitz, his voice rising as he remembers the horror of it all. “It was like thunder.”
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New poll: Few deny Holocaust
NEW YORK — Americans have a shallow knowledge of the Nazi Holocaust but few doubt that it happened, according to an American Jewish Committee report correcting a misleading survey that caused alarm last year.
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A Jew who survived six gassings
The river that runs red with the ashes of Jews
A town relives memories of the Holocaust
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It was 1944 and the Red Army was approaching. On orders from the high command, the Nazis began an effort to hide the evidence of their atrocities in the Terezin ghetto, a town just 30 miles outside of Prague known as the antechamber to Auschwitz.
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Wannsee’s importance rejected
London (JTA) — An Israeli Holocaust scholar has debunked the Wannsee Conference, at which top Nazi officials are said to have gathered at a villa in a Berlin suburb in 1942 to draw the blueprints of the “Final Solution.”
Continue readingMemory of Holocaust central to new world order
- Unchallenged, racism has the capacity to undercut civilization’s basic values and to destroy democracy
In the moral reconstitution of Eastern Europe, coming to the terms with the Holocaust must figure prominently.
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Adolf Hitler
Hitler’s Early Life
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Following another family move, Adolf lived for six months across from a large Benedictine monastery. The monastery’s coat of arms’ most salient feature was a swastika. […]
Continue readingNo business like Shoah business
Too many books are written on the Holocaust. There are too many films and television plays that exploit the subject …
There is a fascination with the Holocaust and with Nazism. There may, in fact, be “no business like Shoah business.” The problem is that many of these productions, if not most, are historically inaccurate, sentimental, romantic, exotic and hyperbolic, and so they ultimately distort and cheapen the Holocaust.
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Holocaust expert rejects charge that Nazis made soap from Jews
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