Word: holocaust
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...world commemorated the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland 60 years ago last week, the hatred that conceived it continued to erupt. The far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) walked out of the Saxon state parliament during a silence for Holocaust victims. "It is the common duty of all democrats to confront the disgusting propaganda of neo-Nazis," said German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, whose government has tried and failed to ban the party. The Interior Ministry is now formulating proposals to stop far-right groups from demonstrating near Holocaust memorials. This would...
...people, making a 9:15 a.m. exam refreshed after a solid eight hours of sleep is as easy as a Fairy Tales final. For the rest of us, stumbling into Science Center C at 9:15 in the morning is about as pleasant as being Prince Harry at a Holocaust memorial. You study for hours, yet all you can remember is that song you heard on the radio the day before. Maybe it was Ace of Base? Dates, facts, basic grammatical constructions, all sneak out of your brain like rats following the tune of the Pied Piper...
Seven stories above the sparkling waters of Hallandale, Florida and the ebb and flow of tourists’ shouts live two women with similar life stories. Both were born and raised in Poland, both lost most of their families to the Holocaust, miraculously survived, moved to Israel and then settled in America to raise their families. Both women are in their eighties and survived their dearly beloved husbands. Their children live hundreds of miles away, and though they speak with them often, they can’t help feeling mostly cut off from their families and histories. Happiness sometimes creeps...
...that the Holocaust and subsequent linguistic barriers between the past and the present play a significant role in these Floridians’ feeling alienated from even their very own youths. So that part of the equation will not hold up in my (God willing) old age. But it will likely play a role in the lives of many of my peers who are themselves immigrants to the States. Unfortunately, though, my perhaps precocious observations about the key to happiness in old age is not as clear-cut as encouraging your children to speak to you in your native tongue. Indeed...
Dallaire fought with UN diplomats who refused to provide adequate support for the peacekeeping mission. After the genocide ended, Dallaire returned to Canada—but the horrors of an African holocaust trailed him home. Dallaire battled a new enemy: post-traumatic stress disorder. In June 2000, Quebec police found Dallaire unconscious on a park bench: he’d consumed a bottle of scotch—which produced a dangerous mixture with his daily dose of prescription psychotropic drugs. By the time police had rushed Dallaire to the hospital, the decorated general had nearly fallen into a coma...