Word: holocaustal
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...side that gives an enormous amount to charitable causes," says former Newark city council member Cory Booker, who accepted $15,000 from Kushner in his unsuccessful bid to become Newark mayor in 2002. Booker says he sat shivah with Kushner recently after the death of his mother Rae, a Holocaust survivor. Booker saw only a grieving son, not the venal plotter who would mail motel-room porn to his sister...
...southern Africa; some rural areas have seen a heartbreaking 11-fold jump in mortality. "The death rates from malaria are as high as those from HIV," says Dr. Christa Hook, coordinator of the malaria working group for Doctors Without Borders. "In many ways, it's a kind of silent Holocaust...
Sudan's Arab Janjaweed, the country's government-backed militiamen, have declared war on the black Africans of Sudan [July 5] and begun a virtual genocide against those defenseless people. Didn't the nations of the world say "Never again" after the Holocaust of the 1940s, the starvation of Biafrans in the '60s, the slaughter of Cambodians in the '70s and the wanton butchery in Rwanda in 1994? What does it take for the world to act? The U.N. is ineffectual, the European Union is asleep and Arab nations live in denial. If we Americans continue to allow genocide...
DIED. THOMAS KLESTIL, 71, Austrian President; of multiple organ failure, two days before his second six-year term was to end; in Vienna. While in office, he spoke out against Austria's Nazi complicity during World War II and expressed sympathy for Holocaust victims during a trip to Israel, helping improve bilateral relations after revelations that his predecessor, Kurt Waldheim, had served in the Nazi military...
...swastika on our labels. We have canceled all the swastikas." German law bars any trade using Hitler portraits, swastikas or National Socialist symbols. What is not forbidden is importing Hitler wine for private use. Péter Zsolt, vice director of the new Budapest Holocaust Museum, says: "It's both sad that it can be sold and even more shocking that people buy it. We are trying to educate people as to how Hungary could get to the point where people were taken to gas chambers. This is exactly how it started, with small human choices. There are things that...