Word: buchenwalde
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...many Jews go unresisting, even unknowing, to the extermination camps? Why were so many observers apathetic? The questions refuse to go away. Now Elie Wiesel, 36, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, suggests the poet's answers with a strange, lovely novel, drenched with horror, God-besotted and all-but-autobiographical. The hero, Michael, secretly returns to his native Hungarian town, is arrested by the Communist police and interrogated. To keep silent, Michael forces himself to relive his past; through his memories, people and episodes are mortised together to form a convincing mosaic portrait of East European Jewry-gripped...
...wistful, wiry Neapolitan whose lifelong preoccupation with the grotesque and the macabre led critics to think of him as a 20th century Goya, produced a savage, semi-abstract body of work illustrating grim themes classic and modern, from Dante's Inferno and the Crucifixion to Dachau and Buchenwald; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
What is a young man to do today if he has a genuine urge to become a bum? The modern world is tougher on the vagrant than all previous civilizations. Hitler herded Europe's gypsies into Dachau and Buchenwald along with the Jews; the Soviets liquidated the bez-prizornye; the Welfare State frowns on the free-roving tramp; the American hobo has nearly died out, and even the Australian swagman, so mournfully celebrated in the national song, has become almost extinct...
...Louisville flood. As the only foreign press photographer in Russia when Hitler attacked, she dodged wardens and bombers to shoot the nightly air raids on Moscow. Her ship was torpedoed out from under her in the invasion of Africa; she was among the first correspondents to photograph Buchenwald; she was the last to interview Gandhi, hours before his assassination. Thus Margaret Bourke-White followed the classic dictum of her trade, to be "in the right place at the right time." Now 57, she has put the places and the times together with some of her fine pictures in an autobiography...
...role in French banking out of proportion to its numbers. He joined the French treasury in 1936 after graduation from Paris' Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, went underground as a Resistance fighter after France's fall in 1940, and spent the war's final months in Buchenwald. His education in international monetary affairs began in 1947, when he became an alternate member of the IMF board. In a succession of important French administrative posts, he helped conceive and carry out the devaluation and stabilization of the franc, laying the basis for France's remarkable economic renaissance...