Word: holocaustic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start, no matter how much he wanted to bury the hatchet. The wounds of the death camps should be opened again and again, because only by making us wince repeatedly will we come closer to preventing something like that from happening again. There is no happy ending to the Holocaust. And if Reagan didn't know that before, he probably knows...
...disastrous attempt to bury the hatchet, Reagan had initially refused to visit Holocaust sites during his visit to Germany for the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II. Instead, he decided to visit a German war cemetery where some of Adolf Hitler's SS troops are buried...
Although Reagan has agreed to visit the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp also, he will still go to Bitburg. Menachem Rosensalt, founding chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, which represents 5000 siblings of survivors, called Reagan's cemetery vacation plans a "calculated insult...
...Andrew Young upon the latter's expulsion from the U.N. after meeting with a PLO member, and Jackson blamed the American Jews for Young's dismissal. The reverend accused Israeli Prime Minister Begin of being a racist, and was quoted as rebuking Americans for worrying too much about the Holocaust, while there are many other atrocities, such as the systematic murder of the Palestinian people, which he said are comparable to the Nazi regime and more current...
...there are "very few alive that remember even the war, and certainly none of them who were adults and participating in any way." Besides being so obviously untrue, Reagan's statement shocked Jews and many others for whom it is an article of faith that the horrors of the Holocaust should never be forgotten or dismissed. As Hyman Bookbinder of the American Jewish Committee pointed out last week, Kohl himself is to visit one of the concentration camps this Sunday...