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 speak. Ms. Firestone is a Holocaust survivor who was forced to Auschwitz when she was sixteen years old, and was subsequently liberated from the internment/death camp at the age of twenty. Firestone grew up in Hungary, and lived what she considers ...
In Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz, Levi states that, “We believe, rather, that the only conclusion to be drawn is that in the face of driving necessity and physical disabilities many social habits and instincts are reduced to silence” (87). He writes this memoir in part because he no longer feels the “driving necessity and ...
Maus is the story of a husband and wife, Vladek and Anja Spiegelman, who survived the Holocaust. Vladek and Anja were Polish Jews who lived in Bielsko when Germany first invaded Poland in 1939. As the war progressed, things became worse for the Spiegelmans and their families. When the war ended, Vladek and Anja had ...
