Word: auschwitzes
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...Bert Linder, now 85, it began the day in 1942 when the Nazis took his gold wedding ring. It was such a mean little gesture as they separated him from his loved ones. The Auschwitz ovens later claimed his wife and 10-month-old son and four other family members. Linder was one of only 2,000 to leave that charnel house alive, and so, he says, "my life was meant for something...
Little Boy: (sobbing hysterically) Mama! Oh God, why did that guard here in Auschwitz shoot my Mama...
...Hungarians witnessed another state funeral, this time by the conservative government: the reburial of Hungary's former dictator, Admiral Miklos Horthy, who had died in exile in Portugal after the war. It was under Horthy, an ally of Hitler, that 600,000 Hungarian Jews were deported and murdered in Auschwitz in the spring and summer of 1944. Now, some of the same "dissidents" who had celebrated Imre Nagy were celebrating Horthy...
...evident in his portrayal of Schindler, who saved 1,200 Jews from the horrors of Auschwitz but also had a cozy relationship with the Nazis, Neeson has a gift for depicting heroic men whose moral code is something short of Benedictine. "No one wants to see the flat good guy or bad guy that's just popcorn for the eyes," Neeson argues. "I'd hate for an audience every time they see me to think, 'Aw, the day is goin' to be saved--he's such a nice...
...group of Israeli toddlers building a sand castle with a colorful bucket and spade. Looking on protectively from a short distance was a much older man, likely a grandfather. On closer inspection I noticed upon the man's left arm the six tattooed digits which mark survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp. I marveled at the juxtaposition of such stark contrasts which is so characteristic of the modern Israeli state. Could this man ever have conceived of this day 50 years ago? It was a simple picture I saw before me on a Tel Aviv beach that day, yet undoubtedly...