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...mind cracks a little in contemplating a holocaust of words. No one died in the fire. And yet whenever books burn, one is haunted by a sense of mourning. For books are not inanimate objects, not really, and the death of books, especially by fire, especially in such numbers, has the power of a kind of tragedy. Books are life-forms, children of the mind. Words (in the beginning was the Word) have about them some of the mystery of creation...
...programs which highlight this week include displays of books on the Holocaust and distribution of a bibliography of Holocaust literature at city libraries, special instruction at high schools which deals with the Holocaust and issues of prejudice, and the performance of "Grafitti," which will also be broadcast on local cable television...
...commemoration of this week, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel will hold Holocaust service tonight and tomorrow will show the documentary "Genocide," said Eli S. Feen '90, co-chairman of the Holocaust Remembrance Day planning committee." Hopefully, reflection of the past will help us to act appropriately in the future," he said...
This year is the eight national observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, said Sam Eskenazi, Director of Public Affairs of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. "Hundreds and hundreds of cities in all parts of the country" are honoring it, he said...
...hand, we are intensely attached to the Jewish homeland, and rightly so. Our history is a history of persecution, culminating in the Nazi Holocaust. During the Holocaust Jews were led like sheep to slaughter, with no outcry from any nation, and--with the notable exception of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising--with little resistance. This calamity convinced many Jews that a homeland was necessary to insure our survival in a hostile world...