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Well, my mother is a Holocaust survivor. She lost her entire family to Hitler's death camps, and her motto is, If Hitler didn't get me, nothing can. So she's steely, although she has softened with age. Her house was run like a boot camp. She wasn't cuddly, really. She was just strong, hard, determined and not motherly in the classic sense...
...will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian President, when asked by a reporter for Germany's Der Spiegel magazine if he stood by the claim he made last year calling the Holocaust "a myth...
...highly focused and she always was willing to write an honest opinion even if that was not a popular opinion,” fellow Crimson executive Steven J. Rosston’81 says.FAMILY MATTERS Faludi grew up in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. where her father, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, worked as a photographer while her mother, a former journalist, became a housewife. The two eventually divorced. Faludi’s mother has since become an editor.“[Feminism] is always highly personal and in my case, I had a mother who really wanted...to go back to work...
...With these words, Benedict set off on a rather remarkable theological meditation on the Holocaust. ?Why, Lord? he asked, ?did you remain silent?? It is of course an unanswerable question, but one that Benedict used to implore Catholics and non-Catholics alike to pray - and work - so that it never happens again. He unpacked the singular aims of Hitler?s Final Solution, and discovered universal religious and Christian theological lessons: ?The rulers of the Third Reich wanted to crush the entire Jewish people, to cancel it from the register of the peoples of the earth,? he said. ?Deep down, those...
...unwilling member of the Hitler Youth as a teenager in his native Bavaria. He also did not explicitly ask for forgiveness on behalf of Catholics or Germans. Some Jews will likely be left unsatisfied by Benedict?s avoiding the topic of his homeland's potential collective responsibility for the Holocaust, placing the blame on a ?ring? of Nazi criminals who also victimized the Germans...