Word: holocaustal
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...scene never left him, and 45 years later he enrolled at Northwestern to write it down. After turning out 30 more stories about the camp, he hired an editor to help shape them into a book and published it himself. Several copies were sent to German groups that maintain Holocaust archives. Hausner was afraid he would run out of things to write about, but he's found support among the group members, and the exchange of ideas keeps them all writing. So far, he has produced dozens of stories about his business careers, his travels and a 55th high school...
...thought of him last week when people were comparing the mass murders in Kosovo to the Holocaust--how inept the comparisons were, vile as Slobodan Milosevic is. The Holocaust has no analog; this is why, almost 60 years after the fact, it is still impossible to fit it into the rest of history...
...great-uncle also came to mind when I read a recent story about the release of documents by Deutsche Bank A.G., Germany's biggest bank, that showed it had helped finance the building of Auschwitz. Deutsche Bank produced this information in connection with its negotiations with Holocaust survivors who are suing the bank. Deutsche Bank thus joined such other European institutions facing lawsuits as Siemens, I.G. Farben and the banks of Austria and Switzerland. The Swiss banks have already agreed to pay $1.25 billion in claims over gold deposits, and Deutsche Bank may end up paying much more...
About 90 law students crowded into Hauser Hall at Harvard Law School (HLS) yesterday to hear a panel discussion entitled "Litigating the Holocaust? The Role of Private Law and Litigation in Redressing International Calamities...
Panelists gave presentations on recent class action lawsuits in three areas pertaining to the Holocaust: against Swiss banks for hindering Holocaust survivors from reclaiming property and for receiving gold looted by the Nazis; against insurance companies that sold life insurance policies in territories occupied by the Nazis; and against companies who used concentration camp labor...