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Elie Wiesel hated it. NBC'S 9½-hour docudrama, Holocaust, so offended the author and survivor (Buchenwald, Auschwitz) that he wrote: "Untrue, offensive, cheap: as a TV production, the film is an insult to those who perished and to those who survived. What you have seen on the screen is not what happened there." But Wiesel has written almost obsessively about the Holocaust; he has a kind of morally proprietary passion about it. He is a keeper of the flame, a visionary who sees the past as intensely as a prophet sees the future. Many more Americans seemed...
With the controversy over last week's television series on the Holocaust still simmering, the appearance here of Telford Taylor, the chief counsel for the U.S. in the Nuremburg Trials, is very timely. He will speak on "Guilt and Responsibility in the Third Reich" next Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Science Center...
...conceal their ages; if their lives are tougher, they frequently possess a certain centeredness and strength that is unavailable to those much younger, who seem somehow unformed, incomplete, far less interesting-and sometimes unbelievably ignorant. Not long ago, a Radcliffe senior confessed that she did not know what the Holocaust...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government and director of the Center for European Studies, said yesterday he was "nauseated" by "Holocaust" because the series is "badly acted, mechanical and entirely cliched." He added it is a "collection of stereotypes...
...many others, the show is a painful reminder of a tragic era. Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, a survivor of one of the World War II concentration camps, said yesterday he could not watch the series. Gold criticized the media for too often identifying Jews with the holocaust. "These are not our roots; this is a tragedy in our history," he said...