Word: witnessers
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The case is further complicated by uncertainty about the fate of the real- life "Ivan." Three of Treblinka's 100 or more Ukrainian guards were killed in an abortive uprising at the camp in August 1943. Several escapees, including the late Avraham Goldfarb, have said that Ivan was among them...
While The Day Room can be faulted for what it tries to be, it cannot be faulted for its ultimate success--as a clever, witty series of surprises and startling situations. Larger issues aside, the inhabitants of the asylum and their quest for a better reality make for an intriguing...
Police said the gunmen shot the trucks' tires out. One witness, who declined to be identified by name, said the drivers jumped out and ran for cover.
The singular achievement of Cambodian Witness, a quiet, devastating memoir of this genocide, is to reveal the faces behind the numbing statistics and, more terrifying, to show how familiar they look. The fanatics who unleashed the bloodbath were usually, it seems, the people next door.
Cambodian Witness begins, happily enough, with an easeful and exotic tour of prerevolutionary life in the capital of Phnom Penh, where May's father was a doctor. The narrator's earliest memory is of fighting with his siblings for the free toy inside his mother's packages of Tide, and...