Word: holocaust
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...Libeskind or bust. Though born in Poland, he's a U.S. citizen. He likes to remind people that at 13 he came to the U.S. with his parents, Holocaust survivors, arriving on a ship that glided past the Statue of Liberty. For much of his architectural career, he was a teacher and theorist, not a builder. Then in the late 1980s, while living in Europe, he won a competition to design the Jewish Museum of Berlin. His complex building, a zinc-clad thunderbolt, operates in a way similar to that of Trade Center design. Its very lines acknowledge a calamity...
...Fully half of our women athletes are minorities and come from diverse socio-economic backgrounds. In addition, our coaching staff is a diverse group including an Israeli Jew and son of Holocaust survivors, a Chinese expatriate and recent emigre, and a Filipino-American who spent the early years of his life in an internment camp...
Hovering over the joyous atmosphere, however, was the spectre of the Holocaust. Just like the ceremonial breaking of a glass at a Jewish wedding, the Holocaust was a constant reminder to the town’s inhabitants that “the world is sad and needs healing...
...PIANIST. Adrien Brody’s magnetic, largely silent performance in Roman Polanski’s Holocaust drama almost compensates for The Pianist’s inconsistent tone and distasteful political sensibilities. Brody’s Wladek Szpilman, who could hardly have picked a worse time and place to be Jewish, transforms from cocky concert pianist to starving phantom hunted by Nazis after escaping death in the bombed-out ghetto. The film soars briefly as it reflects on the redemptive power of music and the Szpilman’s commitment to survival; it stumbles badly in its misleading depiction...
Standing at religious and historic sites and feeling connected to something larger than myself made it easier for me to understand how such a small piece of land could be the source of such bitter dispute. Visiting the Holocaust museum shed new light on the desire for a Jewish homeland. Meeting with a Palestinian journalist, who had to travel illegally to Jerusalem because he is not an Israeli citizen, called attention to the civil rights violations that have occurred in the wake of the Intifada. Hearing the immense sorrow of a woman who lost her daughter in the Dolphinaria disco...