Admissions against interest about ‘the Holocaust’
Holocaust Survivor Kurzem Finds Cousin
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — After seeing his mother and siblings shot to death by Nazis, 5-year-old Ilya Solomonovich Galparin went into survival mode, concealing his Jewishness and assuming the role of fair-haired Aryan mascot for a Latvian Nazi military unit. Continue reading
Pretoria — Advocate Francois Joubert SC and Alwyn Griebenow who are representing the 70 men being held in Harare’s maximum security Chikurubi Prison on charges of coup plotting have described the jail as a camp worse than Auschwitz. Continue reading
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It was 65 years ago when two teenage neighbors from the Polish town of Nowy Sacz parted ways to embark on their separate, lurching odysseys through the Holocaust. Continue reading
Photo reunites cousins separated by Holocaust
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TWO sisters who each feared the other was killed during the Holocaust have been reunited — after more than 61 years.
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Reunited after 61 years
By Steven Erlanger
New York Times News Service
February 6, 2005
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RISHON LETZION, Israel — Klara Bleier and Hana Katz thought each other dead, swallowed 61 years ago, like the rest of their family, in the maw of Auschwitz.
The sisters were separated in October 1944 in the Budapest ghetto when Katz left one day to find work and food. She never returned.
But both came through the chaos of the Nazi death marches and the refugee camps at the end of World War II; both came to Israel in 1948 and raised families, 45 miles apart; both thought they were sole survivors.
In the years since, Bleier’s son-in-law became obsessed with the missing family history. Katz’s granddaughter did too. Six years apart, they filed survivor testimonies with Yad Vashem, Israel’s center for Holocaust studies and commemoration.
A new computerized archive matched the two testimonies, and on Thursday — a week after heads of state marked the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation — the two women were reunited.
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At last the Soviet army liberated Budapest, she said, “and we all went to wherever we could find a place.”
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Who were the Holocaust victims?
Database hopes to document lives of the dead
The lives of thousands of Holocaust victims are coming to light in a new database that allows anyone with an Internet connection to research the fate of family members and friends sent to Nazi death camps.
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One of the early users was Jerry Zeisler, a 50-year-old business consultant from Leesburg, Va., who logged on within hours of the launch Nov. 22 to search for members of his mother’s family. He and his sister, Bonnie Frederics of Tucson, Ariz., worked simultaneously while e-mailing each other.
Among the testimonies they found were those of Zlata Adelson, a great-grandmother of theirs who was born in Butrimantz (Butrimonys), Lithuania, in 1879, and Benzion Adelson, her son born in 1911. Zeisler and Frederics knew that Zlata and Benzion had died in 1941 because they were listed in a postwar account of the Jews of Butrimantz — one of many such books, called yizkor, written by survivors who wanted to chronicle the lives of those who had died.
They also hit upon a surprise: The person who submitted the victims’ names, in 1955, was Reuven Adelson, another son whom surviving family members assumed had died in the Shoah with his mother and brother. […]
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By Bill Broadway
The Washington Post
January 25, 2005
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For Israel, the wounds of the Holocaust remain fresh
RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
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(01-25) 11:29 PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Though it ended six decades ago, the Holocaust remains a fresh trauma here, a tragedy that darkens Israeli society and forms an integral part of the national identity.
The Holocaust is everywhere. It is a tool used by hard-liners and doves to score political points and a reference point for cultural debates. It hovers over the Middle East conflict, where Israel, despite its military superiority, still fears being wiped out.
Thousands of Israeli high school pupils make annual pilgrimages to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps to forge a personal link to the murder of 6 million Jews. Visiting foreign leaders are routinely brought to Israel’s Holocaust memorial to directly confront the dimensions of the nightmare.
Israel maintains an informal ban on the works of Richard Wagner, Hitler’s favorite composer. A planned speech by German President Horst Koehler in Israel’s parliament next week sparked threats of a boycott by some legislators, who said it would be too painful to hear German in the Knesset.
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“Auschwitz is a part of our daily life, not our past,” said former Parliament Speaker Shevah Weiss, a Holocaust survivor. “In our society, our souls, our national spirit, everything is connected with the memory of the dark period of Auschwitz.”
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Avner Shalev, the director of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, said the Holocaust remains a living catastrophe for the entire nation.
“It’s in the air, you can feel it,” he said. “The wound is there still. We are still mourning, we are still processing and trying to cope. The trauma is so deep and so painful, it is still going on.”
Our overuse of the term ‘holocaust’ belittles the true horror of Nazism
Notebook by Mick Hume
January 14, 2005
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Indeed, the farther into history the Second World War retreats, the more obsessed with Nazis the news seems to become. […]
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Holocaust survivor to share his terrifying odyssey
By Steve Zalusky Daily Herald Staff Writer
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Posted 1/12/2005
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The month was January, the year 1943.
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On the run from the Germans, Morris Goldner and his father, Leap, had found their way to the home of a supposed friend.
The man turned out to be an informant who tied them up and had them taken to the train station to be shot by a German officer. Before he did his duty, the officer told the informant, “… these two may be Jews, but what I see in front of me are two human beings. And you make me come here to kill two innocent people?”
Trailing both his and his father’s blood into a nearby clump of bushes, Goldner encountered another man who would change his life.
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In the forest, Goldner runs into a notorious Polish outlaw, recently escaped from Auschwitz, who teaches him how to use firearms and ultimately presses him into service with the Polish resistance.
In one chapter, Goldner, pretending to be wandering aimlessly, throws a grenade in the path of a transport carrying about a dozen German soldiers. In another chapter, the diminutive teenager squeezes into a coffin-like compartment beneath a train carrying Jews to Auschwitz, his purpose to take pictures for the resistance.
“It read like a fictional adventure novel,” said Maxine Sukenik, who directs the temple’s adult education program. She said the temple is excited to get the increasingly rare opportunity to hear the stories of a survivor.
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