Word: auschwitzes
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...brought hopes of integration to the Philippines, Brazil, Africa; messages of healing to Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Germany. To Latin America he brought his intense love of the individual soul -? and his formidable anti-Communist and anti-totalitarian credentials ?- to denounce (and effectively wipe out) Liberation Theology, a Marxist-leaning Catholicism swelling up in the land of Che. Just last January it was Cuba, Il Papa face-to-face with El Jefe, quarrelling (rather adroitly) not so much with Castro?s vestigial brand of communism but with the low state of Cubans under it. "When was the last time a pope really...
...after the war was over, my mother married Otto Frank. They had both lost so much. She and I had survived Auschwitz. His life was a mess. He talked continuously of Anne. They had been very close. He had heard from friends about her last days in Bergen-Belsen--how she didn't think her parents had survived, how her sister Margot got typhus and died, and that Anne, thinking she was the only one left, just gave...
...Awareness Week, and Hillel sponsored events throughout the year that discussed religious tolerance. A December panel, for example, discussed the difference between religious tolerance and religious pluralism. Hillel also helped students remember the Holocaust's 50th anniversary with a panel discussion of Kristallnacht and screening of a movie on Auschwitz...
...great-uncle also came to mind when I read a recent story about the release of documents by Deutsche Bank A.G., Germany's biggest bank, that showed it had helped finance the building of Auschwitz. Deutsche Bank produced this information in connection with its negotiations with Holocaust survivors who are suing the bank. Deutsche Bank thus joined such other European institutions facing lawsuits as Siemens, I.G. Farben and the banks of Austria and Switzerland. The Swiss banks have already agreed to pay $1.25 billion in claims over gold deposits, and Deutsche Bank may end up paying much more...
Deutsche Bank provided a line of credit to a small company that built the walls, bridges, floors and roofs of Auschwitz. One imagines the bill for the construction of such things: walls, bridges, floors and roofs, $6 million; towers and searchlights, $4 million; wire fences, dogs and guns, $2 million; showers, $3 million; ovens, $12 million. Now one imagines a bill presented by the survivors consisting of the same items with some additional incidental charges for medical experimentation and the extraction of teeth. Naturally, today's bill would have to be adjusted for 1990s dollars. The mere image...