Word: holocaust
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...turns out, one other survivor, whose identity should probably not be revealed here. Alas, the tragic dimensions of Everything Is Illuminated do not quite reach the originality and intensity of its comic passages. There is something conventional, not quite emotionally realized, in its evocation of the Holocaust. Perhaps the first thing people said about the Holocaust--that its horrors were beyond the range of art to fully comprehend--may be the truest...
...cloud but for the politics of restraint and the memory of Hiroshima and its victims. But with the shift from cold war conflicts to unconventional suicide bombings and the quest by Middle Eastern countries for nuclear arms, are sufficient international measures being put in place to avert another atomic holocaust? Darlington Owhoji Abuja, Nigeria
...being destroyed by the Nazis. With his hands humbly clasped in front of him, the Pope walked into the main hall as the choir sang, ''Shalom alechem,'' or ''peace be with you." After two Hebrew hymns, and the blowing of the shofar ram's horn, the son of a Holocaust survivor and then the synagogue's rabbi spoke. When it came time for Benedict to rise, his remarks wouldn't stray much from the original text. But there was something happening that went beyond words. It was in the way the Pope listened so intently to his hosts...
...Palestinian Authority spokesman had wished for his safe return. "We flew over Jerusalem," he said in an interview from space. "Israel looked so small and beautiful." He had asked Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for an Israeli emblem to take with him. And he borrowed a drawing from Jerusalem's Holocaust museum--by Peter Ginz, a boy in a concentration camp--of what he thought the earth would look like from the moon. Ramon sent his last letter by e-mail to his wife Rona on Friday: "Though everything here is astonishing," he wrote, "I can't wait until...
...book in question, “Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History,” Norman G. Finkelstein—a professor of political science at DePaul University whose contentious positions on Israel and criticisms of the modern presentation of the Holocaust have angered many Jewish groups—argues that supporters of Israel deflect charges against the country by calling its critics anti-Semites...