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...survivor Andrew Burian recounted his experiences in concentration camps during World War II to warn against the dangers of discrimination and to emphasize the importance of kindness, before a crowd of nearly 400 last night in Memorial Church. Between the ages of 13 and 15, Burian spent time in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Gunskirchen, concentration camps in Poland and Austria. Burian told his story to the crowd to fulfill his personal responsibility “as a witness” to history, he said. “I urge you to do your part, to participate in the liberation...
...life story of Imre Kertész is so remarkable that, at times, it threatens to overshadow any story he could invent. Deported to Auschwitz at the age of 14, he survived both the Holocaust and the Hungarian Stalinist regime to become a Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novel “Fatelessness” about his experiences in the concentration camps only to have it refused, in 1975, by one of two publishing houses in Hungary on the grounds that it was “anti-Semitic.” When he won the Nobel...
...Slander!" from the agitated crowd suggest that the latest offering from Jan Tomasz Gross is garnering attention in circles way beyond those of academic historians. Gross has come to Warsaw's Entrepreneurship and Management Academy to promote his new book, Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, and the visible police presence and the plethora of TV cameras in the jam-packed hall make clear that the topic has aroused strong emotions...
Unearthing the Truth Unlike the industrial-scale, anonymous genocide in death camps such as Auschwitz - the world's iconic images of the Holocaust - Ukraine's killings were often terrifyingly intimate. While 400,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered in concentration camps, about 1.1 million were shot dead at close range. The murders were often in full view of neighbors and acquaintances, many of whom the Nazis deployed to dig and cover the graves, then to distribute the belongings of the dead. The fact that locals sometimes received these possessions, or were ordered to help in the executions, may partly...
...almost that many plots. Basically, it involves a Dutch cognitive psychologist, Paul Andermans, who is doing research at the University of Potsdam in 1995. After a violent run-in with those neo-Nazis, he recovers at a hospital in nearby Berlin. There he meets Jozef de Heer, an Auschwitz survivor who persuades Andermans to write down his life story, a gripping tale of escape and betrayal in the wartime German capital. Like nearly everyone in the book, De Heer isn't what he seems. Neither is Paul Goldfarb, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist who fled Nazi Germany to help develop...