Remarkable nonsense

LANDIS — “My number is 34042.”

Dr. Susan Cernyak-Spatz can never forget that number. Living through two years in a Nazi death camp during World War II carved it on her mind like Adolf Hitler’s Nazis tattooed it in blue on her left forearm.

THE Honorable President of the State of Israel, The Honorable President of Poland, The Honorable Minister of Education of Poland, Our precious pupils, My brothers and sisters,

How terrible this place is, and how awful this ground we walk on is, the most defiled place in the history of mankind, and the holiest place in the history of mankind.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel on Wednesday urged lawmakers to fight re-emerging anti-Semitism and other prejudice around the world, telling a Senate committee that “hatred is still alive and well.”

History lesson in person

• Teens hear from Auschwitz survivor

For awhile, Gene Deutsch’s teen-age years had been as carefree as those of the Dayton, Ky., students he talked with Tuesday: He liked to walk to school with his girlfriend, and he loved his family very much.

Please forward to Germar Rudolf.

I visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during Winter 1997 (…) Near the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers one may still see an old truck, the engine of which was activated by the Nazis in order to prevent the inmates from hearing the shrieks of their fellow comrades …

Private hell of a charming rabbi

Chasing Shadows

Rabbi Hugo Gryn was well known as the genial contributor of Jewish wisdom to the radio programme The Moral Maze. […]

“I am here for my wife,” said Dutch veteran John Franken, 77, who was captured and forced into slave labour in a Japanese coal mine three months before the atomic bomb was dropped Hiroshima. “She was at Auschwitz and got sent to the gas chamber three times. She survived because they kept running out of gas.”