Word: holocaust
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...half of Germany that was partitioned and impoverished is the only place in Germany where anti-Semitism is openly voiced today. Instead, consider a German friend of my family, a small child during the Second World War who made his life's work educating German schoolchildren about the Holocaust. He remembers distinctly the first day he wasn't hungry; he was 11 years old. It is instructive to remember that if Alan Dershowitz had been calling the shots in 1945, my friend would probably have starved to death...
...Holocaust survivors talk of the shame of being alive. Relatives, playmates, teachers, strangers were shot where they lived or were shipped away and gassed, but they themselves somehow did not die. Why? By what justice...
...First Amendment absolutist position should not necessarily reign supreme in this issue, Kilson said. "Occasionally you have to rethink the boundaries between free speech and speech that harms and hurts. When the Nazis march in Skokie, Ill., before hundreds of Jews whose relatives died in the Holocaust--that's no longer speech, in my view. That's violence...
...symbolism of a Confederate flag hanging from a Harvard College house; and 2) her withdrawal of the swastika flag and her explanation of that withdrawal--namely, that she meant no injury whatever to our Jewish peers at Harvard or to Jews elsewhere by hanging this murderous symbol of the Holocaust, and that she sought forgiveness for her action from our Jewish peers...
Charles S. Maler '60, professor of history and a frequent writer on the ethical implications of the Holocaust, offers the following, from the recent New Republic, on ways of writing about history...