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The visitors accompanying Wiesel were from the President's Commission on the Holocaust. It had been charged by Jimmy Carter, the American president at the time, to recommend an appropriate Holocaust memorial for the United States. That initiative resulted in the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in 1993. During the Auschwitz stop on his 1979 journey, Wiesel read "Listen to the Wind," a poem he had written. The poem urged people to listen--to listen to the wind, stones, and sky--in a place that Wiesel aptly called "the grave of man's heart." Later in 1979, reflecting on his "Pilgrimage to the Kingdom of Night," as his November 4 article in The New York Times called it, Wiesel referred to Auschwitz-Birkenau as "the beginning, the end: all the world's roads, all the outcries of mankind, lead to this accursed place.
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A bill that would require insurance companies doing business in the United States to publicly disclose all Holocaust-era insurance policies is being sponsored by two Florida members of Congress. The bill, The Holocaust Victims Insurance Relief Act of 2007, is sponsored by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, and Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton. It would allow Holocaust victims and/or their heirs to bring action in U.S. courts to resolve unpaid claims.
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"In our post-Holocaust era, many Jews have identified with the State of Israel as their last line of defense should the community again come under the threat of eradication. Most Christians, especially in North America, are unable to begin fathoming this possibility. Their communities simply have not been under such a threat."
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The extent to which the Holocaust was a factor in the establishment of the state of Israel remains a question in both historiography and nonacademic polemics. One stream of Zionist historiographers and religious Zionist thinkers, along with many Arab and post-Zionist commentators, view the Holocaust as the single decisive factor in the creation of Israel. Careful historical research... undermines such a simple causal connection.
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Tabatha Yeatts's book, THE HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, provides an astute glimpse into one of history's most difficult chapters. The author establishes an historical context for her story with a brief summary of the Holocaust. She goes on to relate the experiences of survivors as well as addressing issues and aims of the Nuremberg trials and the task to establish an independent state of Israel. Yeatts skillfully blends broad, often harsh, themes with convincing, intimate detail. The result is a carefully balanced narrative that communicates the magnitude of events without overwhelming the reader. Her sensitive retelling of individual tragedies respects the human dignity that is the victims' due.
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Lupolianski is best known in Israel not as a politician, but as the founder of Yad Sarah, a medical charity named after his grandmother, who was murdered in the Holocaust. The charity, with almost 100 branches and 6,000 volunteers, supplies medical equipment to those who need it and runs low-cost dental clinics and centers for disabled children of any religion. The big battles in Jerusalem - over housing, zoning, equal education and land sales - are really small versions of the much larger national struggle between Israelis and Palestinians. And given their nature, some of them are beyond Lupolianski's purview: the health services and the police, for instance, which are run nationally, not municipally. Uniquely, Jerusalem, not the state, administers its own educational system, although the state pays the bills out of national taxes.
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