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...night of May 14 and May 15, 1948, when Israel declared its independence. I was nine years old. I remember my father coming to my bed and lying beside me in the dark. "When I was a boy, I was beaten in school in Russia and then in Poland for being a little Jew," he said. "You may still get beaten in school, but not for being a Jew. This is what the State of Israel is all about." In the darkness I could suddenly feel his tears. It was the only time in my life that my father cried...
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, visiting Poland's Katyn Forest, paid tribute to the more than 4,000 Polish officers massacred there by Soviet secret police in 1940. Moscow owned up to the atrocity only...
...Georgian army officer and grandson of a czarist general, Shalikashvili was born in Warsaw and at the end of World War II fled Poland with his family in a cattle car, just ahead of the Soviet army. After migrating to the U.S. and teaching himself English by watching John Wayne movies, he joined the Army and steadily rose through the ranks. A virtually unpronounceable surname (shah-lee-kash-VEE-lee) and a reputation for passing on to subordinates the credit that more flamboyant officers reserve for themselves have earned him the diminutive "General Shali." He made his first international impact...
Clinton nominated four-star Army General John Shalikashvili, a native of Poland who arrived in America at age 16, to succeed Colin Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In his current post as a NATO commander, Shalikashvili has been critical of U.S. inaction in Bosnia...
...individuals who served in Nazi death camps. A case in point is Jack Reimer, an otherwise inconspicuous 74-year-old potato-chip deliveryman in Carmel, New York. U.S. authorities now believe that in 1941 and 1942 Jakob Reimer was a Nazi guard at the Trawniki SS training camp in Poland. Investigators claim that under interrogation last year he not only admitted having witnessed other Nazis massacre Jews but also acknowledged that he had opened fire into a ravine filled with the bodies of 50 Jewish men already gunned down by other guards. Upon seeing one move, he fired...