So, how do some of you address the thoughtless remarks — do you just let some of this go by, do you try to correct the person, or what? I tend to act surprised and tell the person I was offended (or hurt) by their comment, but sometimes the person has no idea why what they said could be considered offensive, and they just end up thinking I am overly sensitive. Advice?
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Admissions against interest about ‘the Holocaust’
Wilkomirski award withdrawn
JUDGES of a leading Jewish literary award have withdrawn a non-fiction prize from an author whose work has been exposed as fiction.
Continue readingNew museum to launch Israel into next century of Holocaust remembrance
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli army officer stood before two sculptures, one depicting Jews trudging toward Nazi slaughter and the other portraying Jewish rebels, proud and muscular.
Continue readingBook blasts WWII rabbis
JERUSALEM (AP) — During the Holocaust, ultra-Orthodox American rabbis focused on saving several hundred Polish Talmudic scholars, ignoring the suffering of millions of other Jews who were eventually murdered by the Nazis, a new book charges.
Continue readingFrench Jewish chief under fire for Auschwitz jibe
PARIS, March 30 (Reuters) — The head of France’s main Jewish religious body is under pressure to resign for writing to a long-time rival: “If Auschwitz had not existed, it is likely you would have invented it,” Jewish sources said on Thursday.
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Online, a Tangled Web
When Jen Rosenberg first started searching for information about the Holocaust on the World Wide Web, she found a lot of dubious and intentionally misleading pages. “You were more likely to come up with a denier or revisionist web site,” she says, which “looked more professional sometimes.”
Continue readingThe great pretenders
In April 1998, the cover of The Jewish Journal featured the person who called himself Binjamin Wilkomirski. Naomi Pfefferman (“Memories of a Holocaust Childhood,” April 24, 1998) compared his writing — his one and only book, called Fragment” — to that of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel. During an emotionally filled performance at a Beverly Boulevard synagogue, Wilkomirski was accompanied by a lady who called herself Laura Grabowski. Both claimed to be soul mates who, at long last, were reunited survivors of Dr. Mengele’s experiments in Auschwitz.
Continue readingGerman artist’s Nazi abomination against Giuliani
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My mother was born in Mr. Haacke’s country in the 1940’s, in a camp called Bergen Belsen, where my grandparents were prisoners under Hitler, because they were Jewish …
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Continue readingCommercialization of the Holocaust
Holocaust on the block
A new exhibit of artifacts is part of a growing debate over what some say is the commercialization of the tragedy
Continue readingIsrael gets tremendous sympathy for the Holocaust
Israel Expresses Concern for Talks
JERUSALEM — A recent surge of anti-Israel rhetoric in the Arab world prompted Israeli leaders to express concern Sunday for the future of the peace process.
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