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...bargained for. Some members of Memorial and other intellectuals have begun calling for a public trial of Stalin, a move that might raise questions embarrassing to the Communist leadership. Still, as Belorussian writer Alexander Adamovich says, "had there not been a trial at Nuremberg, Nazi atrocities at Auschwitz or Buchenwald might have been denied by later generations. Our history must also have a legal foundation based on solid documentation...
...deportation of some 300 Jews and 300 French Resistance prisoners in Lyons to Auschwitz and Buchenwald in August 1944, only days before the advancing Allies liberated the city...
...author, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, was 15 years old when the Nazis entered his hometown of Sighet, Hungary, in 1944. Miraculously he managed to survive the death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and at war's end he became a journalist in Paris. He would not speak out about the unspeakable for ten years. When that self-imposed vow of silence ended, he devoted his life to writing and talking, with rare eloquence and power, about the despair of the past and the concerns of the present. Now a U.S. citizen, Wiesel, 56, has written some...
...coveted award was given in absentia to German Pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, a writer and opponent of Nazism who died shortly after being released from a concentration camp. Last week the son of a Jewish holocaust victim, himself a survivor of the death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, accepted the same Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo for his work as witness and human rights champion. Before he began his speech, Author- Philosopher Elie Wiesel recited a Jewish prayer of gratitude, but the awful echoes of the occasion all but overwhelmed him. Accompanied to the podium by his 14-year...
...Mountains, Wiesel grew up with a grounding in both the Torah and humanist literature. But his faith was shaken in the spring of 1944, when the Nazis arrived and deported the Jewish population. Wiesel spent time in Auschwitz, where his mother and youngest sister were killed, and later in Buchenwald, where his father died. "The child that I was," he later wrote, "had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured...