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...United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in a statement issued last fall, says there is certainly evidence that Black soldiers fought heroically at the Battle of the Bulge and were liberators in Euchenwald, Gunskirchen, and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps, but that their direct involvement at Buchenwald or Dachau could not be confirmed or denied...
Joining Jackson, Parks and Ogle tree on the panel will be Dobois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. chair of the Afro American Studies department. Rabbi Sally J. Finestone, acting director of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel; and Zezette Larsen, a Holocaust survivor and vice chair of Facing History and Ourselves, a Holocaust education group...
...guilt of the survivor is a familiar psychological construct. That observation could be applied to the novel, but would not do justice to Begley's imagination and authority as a writer. Ben's feelings about his escape from the Holocaust and his transformation into an affluent non-Jewish Jew in America are complex and ironic. He is too intelligent to misinterpret his problem but too emotionally bottled up to solve it. Begley shares some of his resume with Ben, but he has not written an autobiography. The Man Who Was Late is a what-if novel -- specifically, What...
There are other reasons why the Shetlands may avoid the ecological holocaust that hit Prince William Sound, where an estimated 435,000 birds died. January is the off-season for birds in the Shetlands. Had the accident taken place in the spring, when bird migration is in full swing -- as it was in Alaska just after the Exxon Valdez accident -- thousands of guillemots and razorbills, which nest and breed off nearby Sumburgh Head, would have been at risk...
...call you Nazi, schmuck." Constructive criticism this isn't. With the present efforts being made toward peace, this name calling isn't necessary and certainly doesn't contribute to any dialogue. Furthermore, to compare the IDF to the Nazis displays nothing more than a stunning ignorance of both the Holocaust and of the Intifada...