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...noted that some of his darkest days following World War Two, when he was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Auschwitz, had come when he learned that the majority of killers possessed college degrees...
Best known for his holocaust novel Night, writer Elie Wiesel—a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald—has also written over 40 other books. He is also a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace (1986) and the Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities at Boston University. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, free for undergrads and grad students. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Church...
...religion is also terrible. These people whose faces I now watch in awe—I can't help thinking that their ancestors confined mine to squalid, unlivable ghettos, or watched in silence as the cattle cars rolled out towards Auschwitz. And there's no need to list the places in today's world where people continue to kill in the name...
...beginning of his papacy, I admit, I had my doubts. Shortly after becoming Pope, John Paul decided to visit Auschwitz. It was a gesture certain to touch many survivors. But during that solemn occasion, he decided to conduct a Mass for the dead amid still-constant reminders of the victims' tragic fate. The great majority if not the near totality of those killed were Jews from all over occupied Europe. The Pope prayed with genuine grief for the Christians. But why didn't he invite a rabbi and nine Jews to have a minyan to recite the Kaddish for these...
...individual engagement based on a personal obstinacy. "I ran to Biafra," he has said, "because I was too young for Guernica, Auschwitz, Oradour and Setif." He wants to exorcise the great butcheries of humanity. A man of fire, a warrior of peace, Kouchner invented "the duty of international meddling." He favors intervention--peaceful if possible, military if necessary--to stop massacres and those who commit them. In the name of human rights, he approved the U.S. intervention in Iraq: "The No. 1 weapon of mass destruction is Saddam Hussein," he said. He lost loved ones in the attack against...