Word: buchenwalde
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...days ago, on the anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, all of us Americans watched with dismay and anger as the Soviet Union and East Germany distorted both past and present history. Mr. President, I was there. I was there when American liberators arrived. And they gave us back our lives...
...noted that some of his darkest days following World War Two, when he was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Auschwitz, had come when he learned that the majority of killers possessed college degrees...
...young Arabs, Israelis and Germans understand that the devil exists in all of us, that Weimar, where that first Divan took place, represented both the best and the worst of German history. It was the city of Goethe, yet it was only a few kilometers away from the Buchenwald concentration camp. He impressed on all the youngsters not only the importance of reading Goethe's Faust but also the necessity for them to witness with their own eyes the remains of the brutality of the concentration camp. He did so in a way that did not offend the Israelis...
...books have been translated into English. But he is also somewhat of a stranger in his native country. His low profile may be in part because of the dense themes in his writing. Sent to Auschwitz at age 14 in 1944, Kertesz was transferred to, and subsequently liberated from, Buchenwald in 1945. He returned to Hungary only to endure communist rule for four decades. In his novels and essays he revisits the Holocaust, pondering, in the words of the Nobel Committee, "the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." Kertesz is grimly accepting of these ghastly...
...under way, it is the coda that elevates their significance. Judit's father Imre died in 1945 on a forced march to Germany. Her older brother Gabor, a brilliant scholar who, like Judit, was baptized a Greek Catholic, was killed when he confessed to a concentration camp guard at Buchenwald that he was "only" a student and had no profession. He was doused with water and allowed to freeze to death. Those deaths were a terrible loss. Even after the war, says Judit Kinszki, she would go to the train station every day to wait for her father to return...