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Farewell to Auschwitz...
...controversy that has anguished Catholics and Jews for nearly a decade ended with the departure of the last Carmelite nun from a convent adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, where more than 1 million Jews were slaughtered. When the convent opened in 1984, in a building once used to store poison gas, Jewish organizations around the world protested that this Roman Catholic presence was inappropriate at the very gates of a place of such particularly solemn significance to Jews. Pope John Paul II ordered the nuns to move out in April...
...Wulzburg camp; Vitezslava Kapralova, a Czech-born pianist and conducting student of Charles Munch, who, only 25, perished in 1940 of tuberculosis while attempting to get to America; and Gideon Klein, another Czech composer, who died in 1945 at the age of 25 after trips to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Furstengrubbe...
These lessons are important, but in the shadow of the Holocaust rather banal. They do not require the authority of Auschwitz. They follow easily enough from Soweto and Howard Beach, from Sarajevo and Nagorno-Karabakh...
...approach Auschwitz, one must begin by understanding its uniqueness. All the easy universalisms bow before this particular fact: Auschwitz was the apex of a campaign by one people, the Germans, to exterminate another, the Jews. They almost succeeded. They killed 6 million, 2 out of every 3. They annihilated a civilization more than a thousand years old. They even managed to murder a language. Soon Yiddish will go the way of Latin and Greek...