Word: holocaust
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...this picture because the message can do some good for the world--even when I made Schindler's List. I was terrified that it was going to do the opposite of good. I thought perhaps it might bring shame to the memory of those who didn't survive the Holocaust--and even worse to those who did. I made the picture out of just pure wanting to get that story told. I thought it was important that at least my kids someday could see what happened, just to hear that story being told. I feel the same way about Munich...
...Some European countries insist on saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces, to the extent that if anyone proves something contrary they condemn that person and throw them in jail." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran and Holocaust denier who last week suggested moving the Zionist state to Europe...
...militarist leaders killed an estimated 20 million Chinese. During the Rape of Nanjing in 1937-38, soldiers butchered 300,000 civilians, according to Chinese figures. Most Japanese are aware of what happened but their society has never engaged in the type of introspection common in Germany after the Holocaust. Carefully worded official apologies have landed far short of the five-star kowtow demanded by Beijing, senior Tokyo officials occasionally deny atrocities and just last April a new government-approved textbook written by right-wing groups downplayed the wartime brutality visited on civilians...
...This Is Your Life, each program surprised a guest with live reminiscences from loved ones and shrewdly capitalized on the new medium's capacity for intimacy, chronicling riveting, often weepy stories of the famous (Buster Keaton, Bob Hope, Marilyn Monroe) and sometimes the less famous (Holocaust survivor Hanna Bloch Kohner). More recently, he developed such shows as Name That Tune and The People's Court, the pop-culture phenomenon that in 1981 made California judge Joseph Wapner a household name...
...third grade, my class visited the Bronx Zoo; in fourth grade, we moved on to Ellis Island; freshman year of high school, we were cultured enough for the Met; and senior year, mature enough for the Holocaust Museum in New York. For a long time, New York City was just the end-point of many long school bus rides. I assumed every building was a museum or a monument, forgetting that eight million New Yorkers had to live somewhere. New Haven was the center of my universe, and New York was two hours off my radar...