Word: buchenwald
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...World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald. His parents and a sister had been murdered. How had he survived two of the most notorious killing fields of the century? "I will never know," he says. "I was always weak. I never ate. The slightest wind would turn me over. In Buchenwald they sent 10,000 to their deaths each day. I was always in the last hundred near the gate. They stopped...
...Good War" is a barrage of contrasts and images: descriptions of Los Angeles chicanos lounging on street corners in zoot suits; burn victims without skin; deferred civilians earning $200 a week in safety; infantrymen dying for $40 a month; a sign on Buchenwald's gate that identifies the death camp as zoological gardens; Operation Paper Clip, the innocuous code name for expediting U.S. citizenship for useful ex-Nazis. We are told that millions of dollars in trucks and equipment were dumped into the sea after victory, and we hear a general say that the $811 it cost to process...
...Possessed, Dostoyevsky offers a characteristic irony: "I have a plan-to go mad." That remark is a motto of one of his literary heirs, Elie Wiesel. A survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel has long been recognized as a visionary, reading symbols in the charred remains of the Holocaust. But it is Wiesel the artist who commands the attention of Theologian-Critic Robert McAfee Brown. In Messenger to All Humanity, Brown provides the best introduction to the score of works that have made Wiesel a leading candidate for the Nobel Prize...
...evil to forget? Is it necessary to remember? Perhaps remembrance is a matter of sociobiology. Perhaps we remember what it is necessary to remember for survival, and we forget what it is necessary to forget. The author Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, states the case on eloquently pragmatic grounds: "Memory is our shield, our only shield." To Wiesel, only memory can immunize mankind against a repetition of the slaughter...
...survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, frequently mentioned as a Nobel candidate, Wiesel has made Nazi genocide his central theme for 25 years. Here he explores a different kind of angst: the transformation from practicing Jew to militant Communist, a journey taken by thousands of thinkers and millions of chanting followers from the steps of the Winter Palace to the barbed wire of the Gulag. Wiesel reduces that odyssey to the tale of a single wanderer, Paltiel Kossover, a minor poet whose life becomes a battle between the divine and the dialectic...