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Some came on foot from the surrounding villages, carrying crosses and banners emblazoned with the names of their parishes. Others arrived in packed buses and trains. At least 150,000 strong, they pushed shoulder to shoulder past the rusty barbed-wire fences into the Auschwitz Birkenau extermination camp, where 4,000,000 died during the Nazi hell. The pilgrims had come to honor one of those dead, a Franciscan friar named Maximilian Kolbe who had stepped forward one day in 1941 to take the place of a family man selected for execution...
What is enough for Gold? After meeting an Israeli girl, taking her home and to bed, he walks through the Jeru salem night thinking that the history of the lost Jews of Lakewood, Haiti and Auschwitz all converge in himself - "a man walking across Jerusalem at night after a party and taking a girl home, with the eyes that sparkled in the sky oblivious to his every move...
...glory but shame on Swimmer Spitz for his sickening lampshade wisecrack -from one of the millions whose aunts were murdered at Auschwitz...
...modern world. The presumption is that these fragments are awaiting a supersign that will unify them into some sort of new mythic order. When this in fact occurs in Tournier's book, the effect is one not of artistic revelation but of melodramatic kitsch: a young Auschwitz refugee turns into a Star of David; the star, in turn, spins off to the heavens as a more generalized mandala symbolizing a harmonious universe...
Over and above these pressing concerns, some Jews began to question the wisdom of tying Jewish identity too closely to the precarious existence of a political state. Even International Lawyer Samuel Pisar, 43, an Auschwitz survivor and firmly pro-Israel, warns that "to put the greatness of Jews into that little basket [Israel] is very dangerous. What if it goes...