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Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center. $5 for students. "Doctor Petiot" at 7 and 9 p.m. Marcel Petiot, a man who perpetrated a personal holocaust by operating a crematorium in his furnace, was one of the most enigmatic figures of occupied France. By day, he was a good doctor who treated the poor. But by night, he lured unsuspecting Jews into his snare in the guise of smuggling them to freedom and coldly destroyed them and stole their valuables. The insane genocidal climate of the times surely held to trigger his own latent madness and made him a monster...
Harvard Film Archive. "Doctor Petiot" at2, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Marcel Petiot, a man whoperpetrated a personal holocaust by operating acrematorium in his furnace, was one of the mostenigmatic figures of occupied Fance. By day, hewas a good doctor who treated the poor. But bynight, he lured unsuspecting Jews into his snarein the guise of smuggling them to freedom andcoldly destroyed them and stole their valuables.Carpenter Center. $5 for students...
...every generation," the Passover prayer book says, tyrannical rulers have risen up to try to destroy the Jewish people. Unfortunately, these ancient words continue to ring true. One cannot erase, nor can one advocate erasing, the memory of the Holocaust. The minds of older Jews still resound with the knowledge that the Jewish population is smaller than it was fifty years...
...extraordinary. Explaining the peace formula to his government partners, Israel's Prime Minister declared, "The past no longer matters." To a nation founded on the premise that the past must be remembered so as not to be repeated, the remark verged on blasphemy. But Rabin did not forget the Holocaust; he had contrived to show that generosity can -- must -- triumph over...
...edge" or the "Fox attitude." It encompasses everything from the brassy bad taste of Married with Children to the tabloid grittiness of Cops. Fox has been willing to take chances on ideas too dumb to believe (Woops!, a sitcom about the survivors of nuclear holocaust) and others almost too good to be true (The Simpsons). If the young audience hooked on Fox signature hits like Beverly Hills, 90210 has had little patience for more sophisticated efforts like The Ben Stiller Show or Tribeca, well, that's the price for cultivating a niche...