Word: schonheit
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...Betrayal has heroes as well as moral lepers. Rabbi Riccardo Pacifici risked his life by staying in Genoa after its occupation by German troops to minister to the city's large Jewish refugee population; he was one of some 7,000 Italian Jews to die in concentration camps. Carlo Schonheit, a cantor from Ferrara, and his son Franco were among the handful who survived Buchenwald, the horrors of which Alexander Stille describes with chilling understatement. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, the frail Archbishop of Genoa, unhesitatingly agreed to carry on the work of a Jewish relief organization after it was forced...
Yesterday afternoon Dr. Fulda gave a public reading in the Fogg Lecture Room, under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein. He read a short dramatic sketch entitled "Die Lastige Schonheit", and a few selections from his satirical poems...
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