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...DIED. EPHRAIM KISHON, 80, Hungarian Holocaust survivor and satirist whose novels sold more than 43 million copies in 37 languages; in Switzerland. After surviving the Nazi death camps, Kishon fled to Israel, where he wrote news columns, novels, plays and films. Although he never found a wide audience in the English-speaking world, his works were widely read in Europe and Israel; his 1980 novel, Sefer Mishpahti, is the best-selling book in Hebrew after the Bible. Kishon appreciated the irony of his success in post-war Germany: "It is a great satisfaction for me to see the grandchildren...
...product with injections of European culture, Tykwer's compatriots are relaxing and becoming more catholic in their approach to filmmaking. Volker Schlöndorff, the director of such classics as The Tin Drum and Homo Faber, whose latest, The Ninth Day, is about a Luxembourg priest in a Nazi concentration camp, interprets this as a sign of confidence. "For years young German directors have tried to make genre movies that just imitate the French," he says. "But over the past three or four years they have rediscovered day-to-day reality." Tykwer's 1998 Lola is a good example...
DIED. MAX SCHMELING, 99, ex-world-heavyweight-boxing champion who became a reluctant symbol of Nazi might in the years leading up to World War II; in Hollenstedt, Germany. Schmeling became the first European to win the world crown when he beat Jack Sharkey on a foul in 1930. In 1936 he launched a famous rivalry when he knocked out U.S. challenger Joe Louis; his loss in a 1938 rematch at Yankee Stadium was hailed as a national triumph over Nazi Germany. But he was miscast by Hitler as an Aryan superhero; he refused to join the Nazi Party...
...world had listened, we may have prevented Darfur, Cambodia, Bosnia and naturally Rwanda." ELIE WIESEL, author and Holocaust survivor, speaking on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz...
Remember. But Keep Out Sixty years after the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, Germany still seeks atonement. Berlin's astonishing Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, an undulating graveyard of 2,711 concrete slabs, opens in May. But just as the government prepares to mark the Jan. 27 Auschwitz anniversary with a ceremony in the Reichstag, it is also drafting plans to curb immigration of East European Jews. Germany opened its doors to them in 1991 as a gesture of reparation. At the time, fewer than 30,000 Jews lived in the country and many...