- VILLAGE OF A MILLION SPIRITS: A NOVEL OF THE TREBLINKA UPRISING, by Ian MacMillan. Steerforth, 257 pages, $24.
Admissions against interest
Admissions against interest about ‘the Holocaust’
The 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.)
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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 …
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 readingGuilt was the pretext for stealing Arab lands
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.
Continue readingBinjamin Wilkomirski, the fake ‘survivor’
Fictional ‘survivor’ testimony
Continue readingAnother life cut tragically short by the Nazis
Death camp doctor dies at 85
NEW YORK — Dr. Hadassah Rosensaft, a Holocaust survivor who cared for 150 Jewish orphans at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and was later a spokeswoman for survivors, has died.
Elie Wiesel caught in another lie
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s Crazy Thesis
Goldhagen is to Holocaust scholarship what Elie Wiesel is to Holocaust memory. In a highly-praised memoir, All Rivers Run to the Sea, Wiesel reports, ‘I read The Critique of Pure Reason — don’t laugh — in Yiddish.’
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