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Among those relieved that the bishop is being kicked out is Auschwitz survivor Mira Stupnik, 80, originally from Poland, who settled in Argentina with the tens of thousands of other Jews who came to this South American nation after the war. When she heard that Williamson lived in Argentina, Stupnik contacted Catholic Church authorities unsuccessfully seeking to organize a meeting with Williamson. "I wanted him to tell me to my face that the Holocaust didn't happen," says Stupnik, who lives in the quiet Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa del Parque and still carries the number A-15538 that...
...allay fears within Argentina's Jewish community. Rabbi Daniel Goldman, a child of Holocaust survivors who sought government action against Williamson, told the Jewish News Agency that "actions such as these clearly show that our people and our leadership refuse to live alongside a lie." For Holocaust survivor Stupnik, the bishop's expulsion came as a relief. "Justice is being done, even if it is late justice. The truth must always triumph...
...fully agree with the kids that our lax school system should be stiffened. While in a San Diego high school, I got to select my own courses-all art. Now, five years later, I'm called a beatnik-what I really am is a "stupnik" and am straining in night school to catch up on fundamentals...
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