Word: holocaustal
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...Italian movie Life is Beautiful demonstrates the type of greatness which independent films are capable of achieving. The film details the struggle of a Jewish man in the Holocaust to save the life of his five-year old son by hiding him from concentration camp guards. It takes a monumental risk by using a great deal of comedy in an unamusing environment: The father creates a fantasy world for his child in which the child will win a real army tank if he can successfully hide from the Nazi officials...
Demands for justice from Holocaust survivors like Lee are steadily mounting. In August, Switzerland's two largest banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion to settle wartime claims against them. Since then no fewer than 10 class actions have been filed against European companies that do business in the U.S. Some of these are claims for individual accounts confiscated by banks in Germany and Austria. Others charge that major corporations such as Krupp, Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz profited from slave labor during the wartime years and should pay billions in back wages and other compensation. The issue of Holocaust reparations...
Amid all this, however, a small but growing segment of the survivor community is questioning whether the campaign for restitution has gone too far and is sending the wrong message. "This is not how the survivors want the Holocaust to be remembered," says Roman Kent, chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. "The image and memory of those killed have been put in the background, and all I hear about now is the glitter of gold." Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, voices a similar concern: "Survivors who have claims deserve to bring them...
...death threats, Margot Hornblower reported in our May 25, 1998, issue, he emigrated to New York City, where he started work as a doorman. Now Meili, 30, has accepted an $18,000-a-year scholarship at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The "1939" Club, a group of 650 local Holocaust survivors, will pay all living expenses for him, his wife and two children over four years. "There weren't too many people who stood up for Jews during the Holocaust," says club president William Elperin, son of two survivors. "Now Christoph has stood up for them and was punished...
...little more than greed and self-interest, he shows the ease with which we can be seduced. It is simple to see how our lack of feeling towards the characters can be translated into the lack of empathy for another culture, race or religion that allows atrocities like the Holocaust to happen. It seems to have been Appelfeld's intent to lull us into a state of complete emotional suspension. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, it seems that we commonly ask ourselves how the Holocaust could have ever happened. Appelfeld reminds us why it was possible. And as dark...