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A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evi...

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Saul BellowHim With His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories

But then what is the alternative to trying to tell the truth about the Holocaust, the Famine, the Ar...

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Thomas KeneallySearching for Schindler: A Memoir

And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of peopl...

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Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, ban...

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At Dachau. We had a wonderful pool for the garrison children. It was even heated. But that was befor...

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To understand how that astounding moral blindness was possible, it is helpful to think of the worker...

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Zygmunt BaumanModernity and the Holocaust

Bigotry against any group should be disqualifying for high office.

But here God didn't come. We were all on our own.

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Art SpiegelmanMaus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which ...

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To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential ...

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Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest...

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Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to ...

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It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ...

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Anticipating their calamity and fright when deportation day came (August 6, 1942) he [Henryk Goldszm...

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Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and stranger...

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Gideon conquers, the church conquers, we conquer, because faith conquers. But the victory belongs no...

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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night se...

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We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our na...

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The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...

There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gr...

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My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate al...

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Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of tempta...

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Hannah ArendtEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don'...

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Isaac Bashevis SingerAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller ca...

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If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke ...

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If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but...

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But then, staring at the label on one crate, which readSWORD-CANE-DLUBECK SHOE TREE-HORASUITS (3)-HO...

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Michael ChabonThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common ...

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Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few...

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The conviction that life has a purpose is rooted in every fibre of man, it is a property of the huma...

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I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to thi...

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