Word: dachau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the war, Sol Nazerman had been an instructor at the University of Cracow; the Nazis packed him off to Belsen and Dachau, where his wife and daughter were murdered. Surviving somehow, Sol escaped to the U.S. and prosperity; but at 45 he is a grey echo of a man. By day he shuffles about the dusty hock shop that he manages for a tax-wise hoodlum: by night, at the home he shares with his sister's family, he listens stolidly to the family's spoiled and petulant quarrels. On Sundays, he sits in the backyard, reading...
Front-Page Fare. Five hundred reporters have already arrived, clogging Jerusalem's cramped hotel space. Many of them stopped off first at the gas chambers of Dachau, Buchenwald and Auschwitz to refresh readers' memories with the tales of such folk as Use Koch, the warden's wife accused of making lampshades of human skin...
...annihilation or assimilation, getting out of the Warsaw Ghetto or into the Hasty Pudding Club. The atrocities of the National Socialist regime seem to have had an effect other than that desired by Hitler; they have made the public acutely conscious of the sufferings of the Jews. Auschwitz and Dachau created a wide and sympathetic audience for the outpourings of such ethnic authors as Herman Wouk and Philip Roth. This, however, has not always been kind to the Jews themselves...
Dressed for the most part in shabby overcoats, the refugees marched silently as a light snow began to fall. They carried signs reading "Remember Dachau," "Remember Auschwitz," "Don't let another Buchenwald happen...
Stilled Ovens. A baker's apprentice who joined the Nazis in 1930, he was trained in SS brutality as a guard at Dachau and in May 1944 sent to Auschwitz to replace a commandant deemed too soft by Eichmann & Co. That summer he kept the gas chambers and the four giant ovens roaring at top capacity to consume the 380,000 Jews Eichmann shipped in from Hungary. On Oct. 18, 1944, the gassing stopped because the Russians had pushed the battle line too close. In January, Baer ordered the camp's surviving 64,000 inmates to march...