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Eichmann undertook the job. At Lublin, he personally tested a closed truck that carried Jews to the burial pits and killed them en route by monoxide fumes. The prisoners screamed for minutes on end, and Eichmann, peeping through a window in the cab, saw "a grasping hand." He wrote later: "I wanted to get off. 'Don't worry,' said the driver, 'we are almost finished.' " At Auschwitz, always his favorite camp, Eichmann was impressed by the use of Cyclon B gas, which was first tried on 600 Russian prisoners of war. He ordered the building...
...effort. Pale-eyed Rudolf Hoess. commandant of Auschwitz, begged Eichmann to ease up because he was receiving more human "freight" than he could conveniently kill. At Majdanek. the tall, tapering crematorium chimneys belched flame day and night until "a light dust lay over the whole city" of Lublin. At Auschwitz, even Eichmann noted that the smell of burning flesh "was not very pleasant.'' On May 29, 1942. Czech partisans hurled a grenade at Eichmann's boss. Reinhardt Heydrich, near Lidice. His spine was severed, and it took him six days to die. In revenge...
...MAGICIAN OF LUBLIN, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (246 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is a tender, philosophical tale about Yasha Mazur, who makes his living in the circuses and theaters of 19th century Poland. He can skate on the high wire, eat fire, swallow swords, open any safe or lock (if Yasha had chosen crime, they said in Lublin, no one's house would be safe), and, above all, charm any woman. Blithely, he considers himself neither Jew nor gentile: there is a Supreme Being, he decides, but one who reveals himself to no one and gives no indication of what...
Lecturing in Poland under the auspices of the Ford Foundation, and in Yugoslavia at the invitation of the University of Belgrade, Galbraith will include in his itinerary the University of Warsaw, the University of Cracow, the Catholic University of Lublin, and the Polish Economic Society...
...Sent his "very good wishes" to the people of Communist Poland on the 13th anniversary of the establishment of a provisional Communist government in Lublin after the Russian "liberation" of eastern Poland from the retreating Nazi armies in World...