Word: holocaust
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...dirty and barbarous" people who "live like dogs and are expert at thieving and cheating." During the Middle Ages, aristocrats out on a hunt considered them fair game, along with birds and boar. More than 400,000 of them were murdered by the Nazis in the course of the Holocaust that also claimed 6 million Jewish lives. Even today West Germany's gypsies are openly persecuted. Says Grattan Puxon, general secretary of the Roma World Union, an international gypsy organization based in Bern, Switzerland: "We are the forgotten victims of Fascism...
Joined by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, gypsies have begun to press for rights and recognition. Last month 2,000 gypsies marched to the stone marker at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where thousands of Jews and gypsies were killed...
MARRIED. Michael Moriarty, 38, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Holocaust); and Anne Hamilton Martin, 35, a publicist and sometime actress with Moriarty's Potter's Field Theater Company; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...There is no serious question," says Clark, "that the Khmer Rouge in attempting to establish a new Cambodia-without family ties, without mail, telephones or even money-committed a form of genocide unknown to mankind since the Holocaust. Yet, one cannot look at the condition of these people today without a sense of anguish. A starving baby minutes away from death has no responsibility or knowledge of Cambodian politics. What human cruelties and failings, one wonders, have reduced tens of thousands of people to the state of dumb, brute animals...
...first suggested by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame. Said he: "I'm perfectly willing to ride in the lead truck and get shot in the process rather than sit back and have it on my conscience that I did nothing to stop a second holocaust" Hesburgh also suggested that the U.S. withhold grain sales to the Soviet Union unless the Kremlin collaborates in making 150,000 tons available to the Cambodians immediately. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Senate majority leader, contacted Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin in an appeal to Moscow to persuade Phnom-Penh...