Word: holocaustal
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...UNDER INVESTIGATION. LENI RIEFENSTAHL, 100, Adolf Hitler's favorite filmmaker and cinematic chronicler of Nazi Germany who later turned to underwater photography; for Holocaust denial; in Frankfurt. Riefenstahl, who celebrated her centennial last week, is being sued by a Gypsy organization for dismissing allegations that Gypsy slave laborers used as extras in her 1943 film Tiefland were later returned to concentration camps...
Katherine McGaffigan ’02-’03 testified for three days this week as the prosecution’s star witness in the high-profile case against Erica Chase and Leo V. Felton, who allegedly planned to bomb Jewish and black targets—including the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Rev. Al Sharpton—as part of a plot to instigate a “racial holy...
...that has been raging over the pre-released title of one of his student’s speeches. An etymology and lexicography double major studying at Harvard for the summer, Daniel Webster was very excited to deliver his speech entitled “Eliminating the Capital H: My American Holocaust...
...speech, Webster reported, was to be a re-exploration of the word holocaust, which has taken on such unfortunate semantic connotations since the horrible events of 1939-1945 in Europe. While unequivocally condemning the actions of the Germans in World War II—actions that “hijacked” the meaning of his favorite word—Webster has pointed out that “holocaust” did not always have the stigma of being connected to arguably the greatest concentration of organized evil in human history. Originally, he says, holocaust was just a word...
...such a context. “Being of Jewish descent,” said one student speaking on condition of anonymity, “I find it somewhat offensive that he would use such a public forum to wrestle with the history of a word like holocaust since it conjures up so many painful images and even memories for so many people...