Word: holocaustic
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...rainy April afternoon in Harvard Yard, Jeffrey Kwong ’09 stands on the steps of Widener Library with a fellow member of Students for Israel reading names from a list of 3.3 million Holocaust victims, Yahrzeit candles glowing at his feet...
...question Pope Benedict XVI's good will, nor the eloquence of his prose. But for the second time in three years, the Pope has delivered a highly anticipated discourse on the Holocaust that was moving but, by its silence on specific subjects, missed an opportunity of historic proportions...
Welcomed at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial early Monday evening, Benedict spoke powerfully of the victims, and called on humanity never to forget the attempt to exterminate the Jews as a way "to ensure that hatred will never reign in the hearts of men again." But, in a highly unusual criticism of an honored guest's remarks, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, chairman of the Yad Vashem council, told Israeli television that though the speech was moving, "Something was missing. There was no mention of the Germans or the Nazis who participated in the butchery, nor a word of regret." Unlike...
...mother of is posthumously baptized by Mormons who have previously demonstrated their chutzpah by performing the ritual on Jewish Holocaust victims...
...Orwellian twist, the drafters of the bill, which is being called the law "Against the Rehabilitation of Nazism," have said they modeled it on the various forms of Holocaust-denier legislation that exists in Austria, Germany, Belgium and France. But critics point out that the law banning denial of the Holocaust is designed to protect the memory of the Jews and other ethnic groups killed by Nazi forces and their supporters. Russia's new bill, however, would stop anyone reexamining a history fraught with half-truths and lies propagated by the Soviet government, then carried into the present...