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...second six-year term; in Vienna. After three-and-a-half decades as a diplomat and public official, Klestil was elected to the post that had been tarnished by the Nazi past of his predecessor Kurt Waldheim. In contrast, Klestil spoke out against Austrian complicity in the Holocaust, paid the first visit by an Austrian President to Israel, and opposed the Austrian nationalist Freedom Party's participation in the government. Klestil, shown below, is succeeded by Heinz Fischer, who was elected in April...
Save for several New York Times op-eds on the subject, Blumenfeld shifted his focus to books, calling periodicals “too ephemeral.” In 1981, Blumenfeld wrote Jenny: My Diary, a cautionary tale of the consequences of nuclear holocaust...
...thought we were heading to another nuclear holocaust,” Blumenfeld says. “There were so many warheads, mathematically it looked like sooner or later some mishap would happen and we were all going to do ourselves...
...history buffs. In 1997 volunteers started to secure copyright permissions, translate the volumes and publish them online in a centralized place. The Yizkor Book Project website, www.jewishgen.org/yizkor is making these books available in English for the first time. Also Translated: descriptions of lost communities compiled by Israel's Holocaust museum Yad Vashem. The website boasts 584 entries describing some 450 disappeared communities, listed from A to Z, with 9,096 graphic images. A searchable database of necrologies retrieves different spellings of family names...
Website visitors--who logged 1.9 million impressions in 2003--include Jewish family-history devotees as well as East Europeans of other ethnicities exploring their communities' past. "The Yizkor-book pages are linking people in the West, Holocaust survivors and children of survivors to non-Jewish people in those European towns," Field says. Sixty years after the horrors of the Holocaust, the Internet is serving as a tool of reconciliation. "The younger generation is realizing that they are missing a significant part of their history," she adds. "This type of material was suppressed by the communists," who severely restricted access...