Holocaust Memorial Day 2009
Francis Sedgemore, Tuesday 27 January 2009
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It began with a boycott of Jewish shops, and culminated in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. It may not have been the freedom envisaged by those who built the concentration camps, but the finest memorial of the Holocaust is the State of Israel.
עם ישראל חי
Update: Talking of Auschwitz, Pawel Sawicki of the camp museum explains the problems of preserving the crumbling 191-hectare site.
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Tuesday 27 January 2009 at 11:08 GMT
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… meanwhile, in the Vatican, the little man in the white coat has decided to take the opportunity of the pre-Holocaust Memorial period to remit the excommunication of Richard Williamson, bishop of the Society of Pius X and the Catholic Church’s own David Irving.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,603355,00.html
According to one of Williamson’s cronies, nearly 2 mio rosaries were recited by their staunch followers to undo the opprobrium of their bishop’s excommunication.
Well done, Benedictus — great timing!
Tuesday 27 January 2009 at 15:08 GMT
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Tuesday 27 January 2009 at 18:21 GMT
Your SPAM filter is only allergic when I comment from my own email address rather than John’s. Mine is trustworthy address from a German higher education institution. Methinks your comment SPAM filter bears a grudge against academia.
Tuesday 27 January 2009 at 22:30 GMT
The memorial on that island in the Seine in Paris is also a very fine memorial. I’m not convinced the State of Israel is looking so fine at the moment, but then it’s less a memorial than a living entity, which is always more problematic.
Tuesday 27 January 2009 at 22:41 GMT
For all its faults, I think Israel is in fine shape.
Tuesday 27 January 2009 at 22:48 GMT
Anja – academic Internet domains are notorious when it comes to PCs infected with trojans and other nasties created and sitributed by SPAMMers. Universities pay their sysadmins peanuts, so it’s no wonder these techies do little to protect their charges from electronic attack.