THIS SPRING break I had the opportunity to travel to Germany with my school, and out of the whole trip there is one place I will always remember. We visited the concentration camp in Dachau. Up to that point...
April 1999 Archives
In 1977, the Israeli scholar Yehuda Bauer offered a heartfelt warning "against the creation of 'Holocaustology' and the careerism of 'Holocaustologians."' At first glance, Bauer's warning seems peculiar. After all, what could be more honorable and more important than...
Some say politicizing event will trivialize it By Douglas Belkin Palm Beach Post Staff Writer In the past 14 months, the director of the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., was fired when he objected to the museum being...
Buchenwald: a reminder of Weimar's somber past Both Nazis and Soviets killed prisoners there MARTA BARBER Herald Staff Writer BUCHENWALD, Germany -- Its name can be translated as Beechwood Forest, and many majestic trees of this species still stand on...
Both Nazis and Soviets killed prisoners there MARTA BARBER Miami Herald Staff Writer BUCHENWALD, Germany -- Its name can be translated as Beechwood Forest, and many majestic trees of this species still stand on the surrounding areas. But its history...
London, Friday, April 9, 1999 Jewish Chronicle JC REPORTER MILL HILL minister Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet criticised what he called "the Holocaust-obsessed" generation in a Passover sermon, suggesting that money would be better spent on Jewish education. He said for...
By STEVEN ERLANGER New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/ europe/040999kosovo-jews.html BELGRADE, Apr. 9 Aca Singer, who lost 65 members of his family in the Holocaust, says he didn't survive Auschwitz to die from an American bomb. [...] "When the Americans bombed...
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