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Hostilities commenced about noon, when Henry B. Burnett, Jr. '52 parked his car in front of the Center on Arrow Street and started to repair his accelerator. Holland and James S. Nicholson '54 stopped to superintend...
...sole upshot was a criminal charge of "blaspheming" leveled against Lawrence R. Holland '52 by a female Feeny disciple, believed to be Catharine Goddard Clarke, author of The Loyolas and the Cabots," a history of the Center...
...this point, Father Feeney emerged from the Center and told the boys to disperse. He accused them of turning the place into a "Jewish garage." Apparently mistaking Holland for Earl Kramer '54, whom he had driven away with the same accusations a week before, Feeney said. "I told you to stay away before, you dirty Jewish mechanic...
Later in the afternoon Holland drove his car up in front of the Center, where it was immediately surrounded by the Feeney group. Rather than risk a fight, Holland moved his car further up the street. The Feeneyits stayed in front of the Center for most of the afternoon, glowering at passers...
...Jews sent to Auschwitz, only a handful survived, and Cohen asks himself relentlessly, "Why did I survive?" The answer, he believes, lies largely in his psychological preparation for the ordeal. He had an active, personal philosophy of life. A theoretical Zionist who had put the comforts of Holland above the rigors of pioneering in Palestine, he blamed himself: "I hadn't been enough of a 'hero' to go to Palestine." Much the same, he adds, was true for the political foes of Naziism who were prisoners: "They could understand why they were in camp." Finally, Cohen knew...