I note in today’s (11/11/14) New York Times a story about the mementos of a Shoah survivor. Mary Berg’s mother was an American, which is why she survived. She was in the Warsaw Ghetto and kept a diary which was published in the US in the forties. She campaigned on behalf of the victi[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Buchenwald’
October 13th, 2014 - 1:11 am § in Religion
Buchenwald 58: My father’s views on God and the camps.
An Indictment of the Deity for the crimes of the Nazis from Κέλσος blog. The essay is very much like the things my own father used to say abut God and about people who want to defend their beliefs despite the reality that any God who would foment such events would have to be the devil. [&he[...]
October 9th, 2014 - 10:16 am § in Misc.
Swedish Academy Honors French Post-Holocaust Writer
Patrick Modiano, 69, France’s leading “Post-Holocaust” writer whose novels focus on the loss of human identity in the Holocaust and Occupied France, has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Literature Prize “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human des[...]
October 7th, 2014 - 12:08 am § in Misc.
Yale Joins Brandeis in Shaming Free Speech
Muhammad Syed, the co-founder and Executive Director of Ex-Muslims of North America “As a former Muslim with friends and loved ones who are Muslim, I am disappointed with the behavior of the Muslim Students Association. There’s a pattern of silencing dissent that runs through the Muslim wor[...]
October 3rd, 2014 - 2:16 pm § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 57: On Yom Kippur The Women of Shoah
Chilling new book has unearthered thousands of complicit German women[...]
August 1st, 2014 - 4:54 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
BUCHENWALD 55: As Gaza blazes and on the 70th Anniversary of the Polish resistance in Warsaw, Can we remember the motto, “Never Again?’
In May of 1943 the Germans finally destroyed the Jews still in the Warsaw ghetto but Warsaw, now Juden frei, was to see more blood in 1944. The suicidal actions of Hamas, their willingness to die for a failing cause, reminds me of the Warsaw ghetto. The Jewish resistance had arisen within the[...]
June 23rd, 2014 - 8:26 am § in Uncategorized
Why Israel? …. ask the French
Seven decades after the liberation of Jews from Hitler’s camps, the crime of being Jewish while European remains real. With the exception of Germany, little or no effort has been made to entice Jews to remain. This leaves the alternative of living where you are less than wanted or leaving.[...]
June 6th, 2014 - 9:15 am § in Misc.
Buchenwald 53: Some other pictures
John G. Morris, now 97 years old, was the editor at Life magazine who worked with the greats .. Roberta Capa and Margaret Bourke-White to show WWII to the world. Stimulated by Capa’s work, Morris went into Europe with a Rolleiflex and 15 rolls of film. Now he has published his own work. The[...]
June 6th, 2014 - 8:21 am § in America
Buchenwald 52: Honoring Those Who Served with Robert at Normandy
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BUCHENWALD 51: “My brother’s hateful effort to destroy Robert’s pictures hurts especially on D day.”
Normandy landings en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandy_Landings D-Day – June 6, 1944 My brother’s hateful effort to destroying my father’s pictures hurts especially on D Day. Today is June 6, the anniversary of D-Day and now four days after the anniversary of my father’s d[...]