In Primo Levi on surviving Auschwitz, Levi asserts: “We believe, rather, that the only conclusion is that in the face of urgent need and physical deficiencies, many social attitudes and instincts are reduced to silence” (87). He writes this commentary in part because he no longer feels the “need and lack of physicality” to have […]
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According to a story in the British newspaper, The Telegraph, escaped Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele was passing the time in South America by performing genetic experiments on German settlers in a small town in Brazil. The result, according to a new book Mengele: the Angel of Death in South America, an unusual number of […]
It is extremely hard to believe what happened in the holocaust. We hear death tolls and statistical information that overwhelms and just washes over us because it is difficult for us to comprehend an atrocity of this nature. I believe that for us to understand it we have to hear first-hand accounts from people who […]
On March 24, 2005, I visited the Museum of Tolerance to see Renee Firestone speaking. Ms. Firestone is a Holocaust survivor who was forced into Auschwitz when he was sixteen years old and was later liberated. internment / death camp for twenty years. Firestone grew up in Hungary, and lived what he thinks was a […]