Word: holocaust
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...fire fighters, recalled: "The first explosion knocked down two whole hose teams." Added fellow Fireman Bob Barton: "There were some of us buried under wreckage. We went up with our hose but lost pressure." Another seaman remembered the shock of seeing casualties brought below deck from the holocaust: "My chief was on the first load from the elevator. He was missing...
...happy, comfortable thought to believe that we can indeed make ourselves relatively safe and the Soviet Union relatively unsafe with anti-missile missiles and so forth. But think a little deeper. Our efforts might leave 50 million survivors here at home instead of 25 when the holocaust is over, while we kill two-thirds of the Russians instead of only half. This, to me, is only half thinking...
...fine weave of the film is connected by haunting Yiddish melodies. Waletzky blends in interviews with Holocaust survivors, revealing the remarkably vivid recall each emigrant possesses. One elderly woman recites several Yiddish folk songs and prayers, and the mix of her voice with the photography brings us back to the old country. The narration, written by Jerome Badanes, is appropriately spare and unobtrusive. He usually avoids the temptation to moralize, and indeed understatement is what lends Image its unique force...
...most aggressive streak last week in attacking his favorite enemy after the Arabs, the Germans. Irritated by statements from West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in support of the Palestinians, the Israeli Prime Minister fired off an incendiary salvo. Said Begin in an address to party leaders: "It seems the Holocaust has conveniently slipped his mind. The German debt to the Jewish people can never end-not in this generation and not in any other. Such words have not been heard since the end of World War II, when the world saw what was done to us in the crematoriums...
Begin, whose parents died in the Nazi Holocaust and whose animosity toward Germany is such that he even refuses to ride in German cars, was little inclined to let Schmidt off with just one stinging rebuke. Later in the week, he told reporters that Germans "should be ashamed of their Chancellor." Then, in a rambling radio speech on Israel's Independence Day, he insinuated that Schmidt had backed Nazi persecution of Jews just by serving in the German army on the eastern front in World War II. Schmidt did serve as an army lieutenant on the eastern and western...