Word: warsaw
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...Warsaw ghetto, German evil learned to manipulate Jewish hope and turn it into a Nazi tool of management. It was hope--the faintest, most tantalizing, vanishing glimmers of it--that led the victims on from day to day. Surely the worst is over now, they repeatedly told themselves, against the mounting evidence. They won't take me. They need me at the Tobbens factory. This new identification card will keep me safe. Day by day, hope deflected the full, unillusioned despair that, when it came later--too late--roused the ghetto to armed resistance...
...unusual labors - recording the inscriptions on ancient Jewish tombstones (see accompanying story). And in Poland, plans are afoot to build a new museum that will recreate homes, streets and whole villages representing 800 years of Jewish life. The museum will be constructed on the site of the infamous Warsaw ghetto. Discussions are under way with American architect Frank Gehry, the son of Polish Jews. "We want Poland to be seen as more than the world's largest Jewish graveyard," says project director Jerzy Halbersztadt. These efforts have one thing in common: their focus is not on how Jews died...
Instead, Beamer added "Let's roll" to the patriotic lexicon when he and his fellow passengers attacked the hijackers, who intended to crash the jet in Washington. As they struggled, the plane went down in a Pennsylvania field, killing all on board. Flight 93 became the Warsaw Uprising of 9/11, a national blueprint for resistance and a tonic against helplessness...
...Instead, Beamer added "Let's roll" to the patriotic lexicon when he and his fellow passengers attacked the hijackers, who intended to crash the jet in Washington. As they struggled, the plane went down in a Pennsylvania field, killing all on board. Flight 93 became the Warsaw Uprising of 9/11, a national blueprint for resistance and a tonic against helplessness...
...jury that was expected to reward eccentricity and innovation (because it was headed by iconoclastic American auteur David Lynch) gave the Palme d'Or to Roman Polanski's The Pianist, a conventional, if sharply drawn, epic about a Jew surviving the Warsaw Ghetto. Second place, the Grand Prix, went to Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past?one of the deadpan-comic Finn's finest films, but more sweet than startling. And Im's thanks-for-coming prize was the only laurel Asia received. The one competing Chinese film, Jia Zhangke's Unknown Pleasures, got nothing. As for Hong...