Word: holocaustic
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...most prominent university, who were in a position to influence public opinion at a critical time, remained indifferent to Germany’s terrorist persecution against the Jews,” Norwood said at a conference at Boston University sponsored by the David Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies...
...Harvard presumably should be a pathfinder, not one that lags along with the worst elements,” said retired University of Massachusetts Professor David S. Wyman, a prominent Holocaust scholar and chairman of the event’s sponsoring institution. He said Harvard should apologize for its actions, “without excuses...
...History Lesson ROMANIA President Ion Iliescu acknowledged his country's responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Roma during World War II. His comments came after he received a report on the Holocaust in Romania from an international commission headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel...
...DIED.IRIS CHANG, 36, American historian whose 1997 best seller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II chronicled the grisly rape, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; of suicide; near Los Gatos, California. Chang, whose book was the first full-length nonfiction account of the brutality, said, "I didn't care if I made a cent from it. I wrote it out of a sense of rage." She was hospitalized for depression earlier this year as she was researching her fourth...
Blocker, who has always been fascinated by digital media and issues of performance in her work, was immediately intrigued by Hamilton’s project. Her curiosity about the conceptual connections between the blushing of a building, the shame of a Holocaust victim and the issues of existential subjectivity brought into new focus by the decoding of the human genome led her to some unexpected and riveting parallels...