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More strange truths

on Sep 21 2006 | Filed under: Holocaust

I blogged yesterday about the former concentration camp guard who married a Jewish man, spent a lot of time working for Jewish charities, and never mentioned a word about her past. There was an interesting debate in the comments section about her motives and whether she was acting out of contrition or as a way [...]

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Truth is stranger than fiction

on Sep 20 2006 | Filed under: Holocaust

Here is one truly amazing story: Those who knew San Francisco’s Elfriede Rinkel never found it remarkable that the German immigrant would marry a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, or attend synagogue with him, or plan to be buried next to him at a cemetery run by a Chevra Kadisha, a Jewish burial society that [...]

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World War II’s legacy

on Aug 18 2006 | Filed under: Britain, Holocaust, Israel, War crimes, World War II

We have had sitting around for months a DVD called The Long Way Home. It’s a documentary about the Jewish survivor’s plight in the three years after World War II. I really didn’t want to watch it, because I knew it would upset me — hence, it’s long sojourn on our coffee table. As it [...]

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