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...million pebbles will be encased in rectangular plexiglass columns, standing on a map of Eastern Europe and enclosed by barbed wire. The pebbles in each column will represent the number of Jews slaughtered in each East European country by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. The whole scene will be displayed during Brandeis University's Holocaust Rememberance Week, April 19 to 25, in an area between Brandeis' library and student center...
Certainly Jews bore the largest and probably most well-publicized brunt of Nazi genocide, but there was no monopoly on the suffering. Nor should there be monopolies on the remembering--by Jews alone--or on the remembered--of Jews alone...
THERE will be events during Brandeis' Holocaust Rememberance Week to pay tribute to the Nazi's non-Jewish victims, according to Poskin. But the fact remains that the pebble display makes a powerful statement about the Holocaust, both in whom it memorializes and whom it does...
...been treated as if this were not true. The thrust of the reporting and, in particular, the commentary is that Israel has failed dismally to meet Western standards, that it has been particularly barbaric in its treatment of the Palestinian uprising. No other country is repeatedly subjected to Nazi analogies. In no other country is the death or deportation of a single rioter the subject (as it was for the first year of the intifadeh, before it became a media bore) of front-page news, of emergency Security Council meetings, of full-page ads in the New York Times...
...most striking symbols of four-power rule was the guarding of Nazi war criminals at the Spandau prison in West Berlin, where the four countries rotated guard duties every month. After Rudolf Hess, the last prisoner, died in 1987, the prison was demolished. Now the World War II victors will again have a role to play in determining Germany's destiny...