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...Italian Jewish novelist Prime Levi, who has devoted much of his life to trying to express what he witnessed as a prisoner at Auschwitz, has written that "our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man." When we write of radical evil in the world, we can record the details of its existence, the facts about its operation, but we cannot translate the darkness itself. More words betray...
There can be no longer journey than the one Elie Wiesel, 56, has taken from a cell in Auschwitz to the corridors of Washington. "How can you measure it?" he asks. "In the suffering of a people? In the recesses of history?" The questions are rhetorical. No gauge exists; no one has ever made the trip before. The voyage is charted in three words inscribed on his medal: AUTHOR, TEACHER, WITNESS...
...covers, Wiesel has kept to his private tasks of organizing memory and troubling a deaf world with his cries. Although he has been called the voice of the 6 million killed in the "Final Solution," few of his more than 20 books directly confront the events of Auschwitz. Often they discuss the testamental prophets (Five Biblical Portraits, Messengers of God), ancient legend (The Golem) or contemporary Eastern Europe (One Generation After). His study of the Soviet Union (The Jews of Silence) was a new jeremiad, going beyond the crimes of the past. "People who didn't read the book thought...
Twenty-nine Auschwitz survivors appeared last week in Jerusalem before a six-member panel to give evidence against Mengele. Though the tribunal had no judicial status, it recorded the proceedings on film, which could be used if Mengele, the most wanted Nazi still at large, is ever brought to trial. Known as the "Angel of Death," he is held responsible for the deaths of at least 400,000 victims; his particular brand of infamy involved using Auschwitz inmates as human guinea pigs for his genetics research. In Mengele's presence, wrote a former assistant, "the SS themselves trembled...
Born to a well-to-do family, Mengele received degrees in medicine and anthropology before arriving in 1943 to work as an SS doctor at Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi death camps. As cattle cars of Jewish captives arrived, he committed the "unfit" to the gas chambers and chose others for his experiments. He injected serum into children's eyes in an effort to change their color and killed victims with drugs in order to perform autopsies on them. His special interest, however, was in twins and dwarfs. When Mengele found seven dwarfs among her Hungarian theater family, Elizabeth...