Word: holocaust
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...Rosenbaum of the HJLSA and two members of One Generation After, a Boston organization made up largely of children of Holocaust survivors, argued during their meeting with the deputy consul for repeal of the statute...
...father imposed on his family less than heroic, but as Mr. Frank, Eli Wallach communicates the virtue of kindly patience. He makes one feel that for a gently reared bourgeois family headed by such a man, his claustrophobic choice offered the best, most reasonable hope of enduring the Holocaust. Anne Jackson brings spirited understanding to the role of a woman caught in the primal conflict between mother and adolescent daughter under the most trying conditions. As Anne's mostly silent elder sister, Katherine Wallach quietly plays a self-effacing part, and the rest of the supporting cast are similarly...
...Jewish tradition, epitomized in the fiercely mystical Hasidic teachers whose stories Wiesel tells so well, men taking issue with the Master when the universe is out of joint. And Wiesel's eyes saw a universe contorted out of all proportion when he was confined in Auschwitz during the Holocaust...
...books and in the essays, letters and diary excerpts that make up this new volume, the Holocaust haunts every word. Wiesel's special accomplishment is that he has assigned himself the excruciating role of witness to the century's great crime without losing his hold on sanity and compassion...
Wiesel's hottest outrage is reserved for the so-called scholarship of revisionists who call the Holocaust a myth, or in the words of Northwestern Professor Arthur Butz, "the hoax of the century." Replies Wiesel: "Where has a people disap peared? Where are they hiding?" In fury, he asks why academics have not boycot ted Butz and why students have not walked out on his classes...