Word: cellblock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prison whistle shrieks. Clang! go the steel cellblock doors...
...horse-drawn Russian army cart creaked to a halt before the cement cellblock at Auschwitz. Gathering their tattered bundles, a dozen silent men crawled into the wagon, huddled together against the cold, and jolted through the gate into the snowy darkness. Among them was Primo Levi, a young Italian Jew who had been interned for two years at Auschwitz and the nearby slave-labor camp of Buna-Monowitz. In an earlier book, If This Is a Man, Chemist-Sociologist Levi recalled his imprisonment in chilling detail. In this reflective sequel, he tells of his arduous return to life. With jovial...
...Hawaii's outer-island hotels [July 23] will easily draw the intelligent tourist away from the cellblock gun-turret piles that corrupt Waikiki and blotch the lovely profiles of Diamond Head and Punchbowl. A few of our developers care for Honolulu, once one of the world's beautiful cities; the rest are feverishly changing it into the architectural junkyard of the Pacific...
...proved erroneous) were already dead. By nightfall, the guards outside were uncontrollable in their fury. Prison officials pleaded with them not to attack the cell block. Instead, the guards mutinied. "Let's go, let's kill these dogs," cried a guard, and nearly 100 men charged the cellblock, bayoneting and shooting the massed prisoners. When the twelve-hour bloodbath ended, the toll stood at nine guards and 15 prisoners dead, another 25 wounded...
Twice each week, armed guards escort Pastor William Lovell Hull of Jerusalem's nondenominational Zion Christian Mission into the maximum security cellblock of Israel's Ramla prison. As he enters, a sallow, thin-faced prisoner behind a thick glass partition snaps to his feet, bows and clicks his heels. Then the two men sit down, take up the earphones and microphones through which they communicate and open their Bibles. Pastor Hull then begins another session of trying to bring Adolf Eichmann back to the Christian faith he left...