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...advertisement, submitted by Bradley Smith, founder of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, challenged readers to “provide, with proof, the name of one person killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz.” It has been pulled, and will not run on other days this week as originally requested by Smith...
...prisoner at Auschwitz, Dina Babbitt, 86, was ordered by Nazi physician Josef Mengele to create portraits of his patients. In exchange, her life and her mother's were spared. Babbit later inspired Holocaust survivors by fighting to reclaim the paintings...
...world has learned. But again, the world hasn't. Had the world learned, there would have been no Cambodia and no Rwanda and no Darfur and no Bosnia. Will the world ever learn? I think that is why Buchenwald is so important - as important, of course, but differently as Auschwitz. It's important because here the large - the big camp was a kind of international community. People came there from all horizons - political, economic, culture. The first globalization essay, experiment, were made in Buchenwald. And all that was meant to diminish the humanity of human beings. You spoke of humanity...
Concern about the muddiness of Benedict's message first surfaced when he visited Auschwitz in 2006. Those attending the event were moved by his obvious emotion at the former death camp. But his address that day was marked by some highly peculiar ellipses. He failed to mention anti-Semitism, instead contending that "ultimately" the Nazis' motive in killing Jews was to "tear up the taproot of the Christian faith." And although he claimed to speak as a "son of the German people," Benedict seemed to downplay any ordinary-German implication in the Holocaust. Instead, he placed blame on a "ring...
...Jewish boxer Salamo Arouch, 86, fought his way to survival as a prisoner at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz by winning fight after fight against other captives--keeping prison guards enthralled. He was the subject of the 1989 film Triumph of the Spirit, starring Willem Dafoe...