Word: holocaust
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That the solemnity of the Holocaust and the painful connotations that it still has for so many could be trivialized and disparaged in such a callous manner is almost too much to bear. Worse was my own realization, and no doubt that of many Jews who watched "Schindler's List," that the characters represented in the consoling father, the hysterical little boy, the murdered mother and the harassed young girl very likely met the same fate as did members of my own European family...
...sake of making a trivial point. There is a real danger that readers flipping through the latest issue of Demon who do not have the time to ponder the subtleties of the authors' convoluted sarcasm would have taken away little more than the new and dangerous attitude that the Holocaust is fair game for knee-slapping satirization. According to Jewish sages, one who makes a mockery of something, whether intending to or not, diminishes its importance...
...Holocaust denial and historical "reinterpretation" and "reconstruction," Glazed Pork Loin's flippant attitude cannot be dismissed simply as being in poor taste or excused as "politically incorrect" or "culturally apathetic." He gives us a sobering reminder of the work that awaits all those who would seek to preserve and to (now) re-dignify the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of the infamous and inhuman acts of the German people and their cohorts. His is an attack upon the hallowed memories of all Jewish martyrs who are not alive to reply...
Last week the U.S. found itself abruptly rushed into action. The rising hullabaloo from aid workers, news reports and foreign governments warned of an imminent holocaust among the Hutu refugees. The advocates clamored for immediate military intervention to save them. The news and pictures out of Zaire certainly looked sickening. Some 500,000 Hutu were said to be huddled in the Mugunga camp, held captive by Hutu militias, cut off from food deliveries. As they do so often, the images began to galvanize political leaders. Aid officials called for immediate help, France demanded action, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali...
...connected to the Swiss banking business, I am convinced that no bank in the world would just pay out money to an individual without being sure that the receiver was entitled to it. Besides, the Swiss banks would probably be happy to get rid of the Holocaust funds as soon as possible since the matter is beginning to ruin their reputation. It is unfair to hint between the lines that many of the Swiss bankers, lawyers and accountants dealing with Holocaust fortunes must be crooks...