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Municipal Councilor; or Mme. Hèlèna Solomon-Langevin, alumna of Oswiecim concentration camp; or Mme. Félix Eboué from overseas France, widow of the late great Negro Governor General of French Equatorial Africa? Last week he prevailed upon Jules to withdraw his resignation and to discuss a revolution-by-law in the Assembly's old-fashioned barbershop...
When she stepped ashore in Haifa, she wept. Feige Fried's mother, seven brothers and sisters would never know Palestine's freedom. They had disappeared into the Nazi crematorium at Oswiecim; Feige escaped...
...faces told the story. For all their bestial apathy, for all the unfolding record of their deeds at Belsen and Oswiecim, the men and women in the dock at Luneburg were human, and theirs were human crimes...
...accuser was a Polish woman doctor, Ada Bimko, whose mother, father, sister, brother and son had died in the gas chambers of Oswiecim. The accused were 45 men & women who had worked at Belsen and Oswiecim concentration camps, now being tried under a warrant from His Britannic Majesty by a British military court. From a plain wooden witness box in the center of the converted gymnasium which served as courtroom, day after day, witness after witness added to the compendium of horror...
Heinrich Himmler's last journey was different. Before, wherever he had travelled, death followed him like a shadow-and the shadow fell on many, at Maidanek. Oswiecim, Buchenwald. "You find people there," he once said of his concentration camps, "with hydrocephalus, cross-eyed and deformed ones . . . a lot of cheap trash . . . the prisoners are made up of slave souls...