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Observers held candles during the two-hour service as students read victims' names quietly, while Holocaust book excerpts and poems were interspersed with readings from the Book of Job and traditional prayers...
These were some of the approximately 14,400 Holocaust victims' names read over a loudspeaker from the steps of Widener yesterday to commemorate Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance...
March of the Living: Commemmorating the Holocaust and Celebrating Renewal. Howard Katz, associate dean, McGill University. Wiener Auditorium...
Mark Twain is reputed to have said that history does not repeat itself; it rhymes. There will never be another Holocaust. The exact permutations of history that created it are lost forever, and in this respect every event is a historical singularity. But cracks in a world which we must strive to make perfect surround us. And not just cracks, but major breaches of ethics and humanity. The enduring power of the Holocaust is its ability to wake us from moral slumber and prod us into action...
...doubt she would equate the two tragedies, but I also doubt she would see their inequality as no more than a historical curiosity. The cries of suffering united the two, and the memory of the Holocaust had helped her to hear them better. If the daughter of survivors, one who lost most of her family in this tragedy of tragedies could make that link, so should...