Word: holocaustal
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...University of California at Santa Barbara as an instructor in a class on the Vietnam War run by Walter Capps, a religious-studies professor who would later serve a term in Congress. When they first met, Kerrey asked if Capps had ever read Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust writer. Capps said he had. "Then you know that when an event is unspeakable, it takes a while to learn the right words," Kerrey said. Capps, who died in 1997, recalled that in his first lecture, Kerrey ended with a startling comment: it's more difficult to kill for your country than...
...Greeting President-elect Lawrence H. Summers with a contentious rally from the get-go wasn’t a great idea, and the sit-in’s first few days—with sleep-deprived Yard residents raising a ruckus and a daytime rally accidentally drowning out a Holocaust Remembrance Day reading nearby—seemed to only hurt the campaign, not help it. But over the past five days the tide turned, with the protesters gaining the support of both Massachusetts senators, AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney and nearly every pair of House Masters across campus...
...candles were later re-lit as the service progressed, and at the end a seventh candle was lit in memory of the non-Jews who perished, as well as those who risked their lives to save Holocaust victims...
Perl-Rosenthal said at the beginning of the service that it was primarily to determine "what was lost, what was found, and what was recovered," and stressed the importance of understanding the Holocaust today. The movie, he said, brought the issue of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust to the present in a way that readings often...
...commemoration continues today with the reading of the names of Holocaust victims on the steps of Widener Library. Members of the Harvard community will read the names in five-minute time slots from...