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Students, religious authorities and Harvard officials read out the names of Holocaust victims on the steps of Widener Library yesterday in observance of the Israeli holiday, Yom Hashoah...
...long reading was par of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel's observance of Yom Hashoah, a state holiday in Israel which commemorates the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, said Aimee L. Kahan '95, the event's organizer...
...Germans were confronting their countrymen's bestiality in detail more vivid than some could stand, many Israelis were reluctant to relive it. "People here live the Holocaust," says Tel Aviv resident Noga Reshef, 29. "They teach it in school, they hold ceremonies, and every year there is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Day. We can't escape the Holocaust; it sits on our shoulders." Others had more personal reasons for wanting to avoid the experience. "I'm afraid of these movies," said Pinchas Pistol, a Plaszow survivor who witnessed too much of the Nazis' random sadism. "Every time...
Wonder who's repenting today, on Yom Kippur...
Netanyahu took a leave of absence from the army in June 1973, during which he enrolled in Harvard Summer School. He returned in time to fight in the Yom Kippur War. In 1975, a little more than a year before his death at Entebbe, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel...