Holocaust victims list updated

(JTA) — Germany published a new list of its citizens who were killed in the Holocaust.

The new register, published May 7, updates the first edition, from 1986, which listed only victims from the former West Germany. The new version includes all of Germany and parts of modern Poland and contains 150,000 names. Up to 600,000 Jews lived in Germany before the rise of the Nazis in the 1930s.

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Six million little pieces?

Days after Oprah Winfrey’s last Book Club selection was unmasked as fraud, triggering a national conversation among literati and lay readers alike about the definition and significance of memoir, the talk show host and cultural arbiter announced her next choice: “Night,” Elie Wiesel’s seminal autobiographical account of his experience during the Holocaust.

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