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This week, as we commemorate Yom Ha-Shoah or the Day of Remembrance, the question naturally arises: what precisely was this evil called the Holocaust? How do we quantify it? Six million were murdered, but the numbers are not central. Twenty million Russians died in the same...
Tomorrow, on Yom Ha-Shoah, the names of victims will be read all day on the steps of Widener Library. Their number is relatively small; none of us can even conceptualize six million names. If this were a Jewish tale, it would belong in synagogues, community centers and campus Hillels...
Schindler's List Is Not Shoah: Bilderverbot, Popular Modernism and Public Memory. Miriam Hansen, University of Chicago, Carpenter Center, RoomB...
...Krakow Ghetto." He excoriated Spielberg's vision as "pure Hollywood . . . the fantasies of a young boy from California who had never taken an interest in the Holocaust or the Jews before." Both critics were reflecting the view of Claude Lanzmann, director of the 1985 death-camp documentary Shoah. "It is seen from a very slanted angle, almost like an adventure story," Lanzmann wrote in London's Evening Standard. "Even if Spielberg believes that he has respected the historical truth, and I am sure he does, the general impression is distorting...
...Shoah, the day when the world Jewish community mourns the slaughter of six million of their people at the hands of a nation possessed by hate. It is a day to remember, it is also a day to remember in the right context. The Holocaust, perhaps the most brutal expression of widespread race-hatred and genocide in history, deserves a place apart from the contemporary political debate...