Daily Archives: February 11, 2009

Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto (an Image Used as Evidence at the Nuremburg Trials)

This image was “taken by SS General Jurgen Stroop”, and is now part of the US National Archives:

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Edith Bruck’s Poem, “Pretty Soon”

Edith Bruck, a concentration camp survivor, was a filmmaker, playwright, and poet. After the war, she lived in Israel and Italy. This is her poem, “Pretty Soon”: Pretty soon when people hear a quiz show expert talk about Auschwitz they’ll … Continue reading

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: “History counts its skeletons in round numbers”

From “Some Like Poetry”, by Wislawa Szymborska: History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle, an ABC never read, air that … Continue reading

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Mental Health Break

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“St. Paul put it this way: The Jews are beloved for the sake of Our Father, but our enemies for the sake of the gospel”: Anti-Semite and Holocaust Denying Catholic Bishop, Richard Williamson, Spouts More Stupidity in an Interview with Der Spiegel

Salon.com has an English translation of the interview that Bishop Richard Williamson did with Der Spiegel, the German news magazine. As one might expect, the bishop dug an even deeper intellectual and moral hole for himself, refusing an offer to … Continue reading

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Percentage of Americans Who “Believe in Evolution”: 39%

Happy birthday, Charles Darwin? A recent Gallup poll puts American “belief” in the scientific theory of evolution at just 39%. 25% percent of respondents to the poll stated outright that they “do not believe in evolution”, and 36% had no opinion … Continue reading

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Rudolf Hoess at Nuremburg

Here is part of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Hoess’s official testimony at the Nuremburg Trials, 1946: The “final solution” of the Jewish question meant the complete extermination of all Jews in Europe. l was ordered to establish extermination facilities at Auschwitz … Continue reading

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