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Because fact can have far more influence than fiction. How else to explain Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski, a harrowing, much celebrated Holocaust memoir, which turns out to have been fabricated? The author's real name is Bruno Doesseker. He is not a child survivor of Majdanek, the son of Latvian Jews murdered in the Holocaust. He is Swiss, the son of a Protestant single mother. He never saw the Holocaust. (He claims his Holocaust memory was recalled while he was in therapy...
...designer, San Francisco architect Stanley Saitowitz used the symbolic number six throughout the Memorial to evoke the six million Jews killed, the six main Nazi death camps--Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinks, Majdanek, Sobibor, Chelnino and Belzes the six pointed star of David and the seven-branched Menorah, one branch missing in remembrance of the million who died...
John Paul also paid an emotional visit to the Majdanek concentration camp, where several hundred thousand people, mostly Jews, were killed during World War II. As he prayed silently for five minutes over a mound of the victims' commingled bones and ashes, tears welled in his eyes. Throughout the trip, the Pope was surrounded by legions of militia and other security personnel, whose intimidating numbers may have kept down attendance at some events. In Gdansk riot police clashed briefly with some 10,000 worshipers marching toward a Solidarity worker's monument...
Then Eichmann scoured the Continent for Jews, who were jammed into cattle cars and sent east to Auschwitz, Belsen, Treblinka, Buchenwald. Majdanek, Sobibor. In his fanatic dedication, he seemed to have no interest in the fact that Germany was fighting a war. The army high command protested Eichmann's seizure of trains that were needed to rush supplies to the Russian front. The economic ministers howled that Eichmann was grabbing highly skilled Jews off the assembly lines of slave factories important to the war effort. Pale-eyed Rudolf Hoess. commandant of Auschwitz, begged Eichmann to ease up because...
...Slowly, deliberately Bulganin summoned back the terrible memories that had been lying all along just beneath the thin veneer of cheerfulness. "The Soviet people cannot forget ... the shooting of 70,000 people at Babi Yar ... the millions of people shot, gassed or burned alive in the German concentration camps . . . Majdanek . . . Oswiecim . . . Kharkov." It rolled out like a litany. "Smolensk . . . Krasnodar . . . Lvov." The 9,626 imprisoned Germans were paying for those crimes, said Bulganin. If they were released at all, it could only be through negotiations in which Adenauer would have to sit down with the East German Communists...
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