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Scars from the Holocaust...
Growing up as the daughter of concentration camp survivors is like carrying "a terrible bomb," says Author Helen Epstein. That sense of menace and dread, she writes in her book Children of the Holocaust (Putnam; $10.95), can make New York City's Seventh Avenue subway seem like a train rolling through Poland to a death camp. As children, she and her brother armed themselves with kitchen knives whenever their parents were out, because the "burglars and murderers" might come at any time...
Lyons and Reed said their blood symbolized the "blood of innocents" that would be shed in a nuclear war. Ashes, they said, would be all that would remain after a nuclear holocaust...
...life" that the Carter administration exhibited in proposing the draft. Simon said that because women have not been taught that war and killing are necessary, they will be the ones to stop the draft of men. "The war cycle will be ended either by women or by a nuclear holocaust, and I hope you all feel the obscenity of this way of death," she added...
Portions of the memoir will be contained in an updated Hebrew edition of Hausner's 1966 book on the trial, Justice in Jerusalem, which will be published in Israel this March. Hausner, who is now chairman of the Yad Vashem memorial to Holocaust victims in Jerusalem, feels the entire manuscript should not be published on the grounds that it is rambling, repetitive and stuffed with what he calls the typical Nazi "jargon of violence." Besides, adds Israel's former Attorney General, "I felt that Eichmann had ample opportunity to make his defense during the trial...