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Survivor is more than a number

• Dario Gabbai, who was interned at Auschwitz, shares painful memories with Chaffey class.

“182568.”

The teary-eyed man recited the number quickly and without looking, dejectedly revealing to a startled Chaffey College class last Friday why it’s tattooed on his left arm.

PETA BRINGS CONTROVERSIAL ‘HOLOCAUST ON YOUR PLATE’ EXHIBIT TO AMSTERDAM

Date: Thursday, March 8

Time: Noon

Place: Leidseplein (Leiden Square)

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Amsterdam — PETA’s controversial “Holocaust on Your Plate” exhibit is coming to Amsterdam. The display, which consists of eight 6-meter-square panels, each showing photos of factory-farm and slaughterhouse scenes side by side with photos from Nazi death camps, graphically depict the point made by Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer when he wrote, “In relation to [animals], all people are Nazis.”

“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”

— Theodor Adorno (1903-1969), German Jewish philosopher forced into exile by the Nazis

Queens Fire Kills Survivor of Holocaust

An 82-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed early yesterday morning when a fire tore through his Queens home.

From the Holocaust to Saddam

We’re supposed to learn lessons from history, but the lessons we learn depend on who’s writing the history — and who’s reading it.

Concentration camp survivor in Anniston has many scars

ANNISTON, Ala. — Some remain hidden, consumed by the darkness of memory, where the delicate suffering of hope serves only as a constant reminder of a pain once endured but never forgotten. These are the scars that never completely heal. Max Steinmetz has many scars.

Anti-Israel sentiment shows need for Holocaust education

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi cited current anti-Israel sentiment Friday as a reason to boost education on the Holocaust during Italy’s presidency of an international task force.

Jewish Holocaust: A Forgettable, Unforgettable Era

According to historians, at least 6 million Jews were systemically annihilated by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. A total of 5 million people of other ethnic groups, such as Gypsies, Slavs and Poles, also perished in the Holocaust. By Nazi standards, these groups were considered to be undesirable and “inferior.”

The resurgence of European anti-Semitism after the Holocaust suggests that it is integral to European culture.

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Chilling Accounts from Holocaust Survivor

For students at Frenship learning about the Holocaust has been a life changing experience. On Friday they got a rare chance to hear from the heart of Holocaust survivor, Eva Hance.

The Fog of War

Errol Morris’s The Fog of War, an artfully assembled interview with former US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, won Best Documentary at this year’s Oscars. It’s high time Morris won, since he’s America’s pre-eminent documentarian and wasn’t recognised for his 1988 masterpiece The Thin Blue Line. But, fascinating though it is, The Fog of War didn’t deserve the award. It should really have won Best Actor.