Word: matchlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are no Dostoyevskian rages scribbled in the flare of matchlight. They are collective efforts, calmly set down by a committee of professionals including a historian, an ethnographer and a Bible student. Because the daily reports could have been read by Nazi authorities, they are necessarily devoid of comments about jackboot cruelty or speculations about the neighboring death camp of Chelmno, less than an hour's drive away. But an undertow of agony tugs at the facts. That road, praised as "a monument to the ghetto's vitality," leads to a cemetery where more than 43,000 inmates...
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