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Children of the Holocaust...
...only now that I am 33 years old that my parents, survivors of the Holocaust [April 21], are finally willing to describe their ordeal to their children. We are in the process of making a taped dialogue that painfully relives their horror and persecution. Why? I feel it is my responsibility to ensure that my children and future generations of our family will know in detail what happened to their German ancestors in the '30s and '40s. My parents can never forget; I will never forget; nor should any of us ever forget, lest it happen all over...
...conference participants generally agreed on the causes and cures of what they see as the coming economic holocaust. The reasons, they noted, ranged from oil-fueled inflation and the weak dollar to labor strife, excessive regulation, inadequate government-business cooperation and, most of all, slumping productivity brought on by too little investment in research and equipment. Among the most popular suggested solutions: more labor-business-government dialogues and more effort to halt the flood of regulation. The participants favored cuts in business and personal income taxes to spur individual savings and corporate investment, even if it meant that the federal...
...even begin to explain the Jewish position or why Israel is so dear to those people. The Jews were exiled from Israel by the Romans, and it took centuries of wandering, persecution and a Nazi Holocaust before the world even sympathized with them. Compared with the Jews, the Palestinians don't even know the meaning of persecution yet. Let them experience the centuries of exile that the Jews did. Then we'll discuss whether they should have a homeland...
Some 20 organizations have sprung up around the country to serve the social and psychological needs of the Holocaust survivors' children, and-in the words of Trachtenberg-"to stop the trauma from passing on to the third generation." Still, there is no way to protect that generation from the emotional shock of learning what the Nazis did. Anne Sommerfeld-Halliwell, a survivor's child and a Yale psychologist, reports that her daughter Naria, 4, already wants to know "Will the bad men come here?" Her son Eli wrote a poem about assassinating Hitler, and at age nine...