… let me to tell you what you would have seen and heard had you been with me on Thursday. It will not be pleasant listening. if you’re at lunch or if you have no appetite to hear what Germans have done, now is a good time to switch off the radio. For I propose to tell you of Buchenwald. It’s on a small hill about four miles outside Weimar and it was one of the largest concentration camps in Germany. And it was built to last.
E.R. Murrow
E.R. Murrow
Today, January 27th, is the Day of Memory in Italy. On this day in 1945 the Red Army opened the gates of one of Hitler’s concentration camps in the small Polish town of Oświęcim, now universally known by its German name, Auschwitz.
On April 12th, 1945, E.R. Murrow (“Good Night and Good Luck”) visited the camp of Buchenwald. Four days later he reported what he saw on the radio. To commemorate the Day of Memory la Repubblica has put up Murrow’s historical broadcast. There is a brief introduction in Italian lasting a minute and a half, then eight minutes of pure radio.
May this day be the Universal Day of Memory.
Crossposted at Eurotrib by de Gondi.
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Fri Dec 17, 2004 at 07:09:16 PM PDT
From the comfort of our armchairs, it is all but too easy to paint horrific events with broad strokes. The events are known to us, but far away either in time or geographical distance, making it easy for us to not learn about the details, or to forget or ignore them …
I have written a new diary titled: “The H-word A Personal Story”, just need some time to decide whether to publish it and when in time. In the Netherlands, I have personally never met anti-semitism and I have some friends who are orthodox Jews. Yearly a Dutch organization publishes a report on the incidents, seldom of a major nature. Since 911 attacks, the muslim population have been discriminated and abused on the streets, jobs and in the media. So OBL has succeeded, with the help of the neocon policy, to spread the seed of hatred for the next generations. See EU report by Gijs De Vries on expansion of Jihad and the call for suicide bombers from European nationals.
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Reviewing the historical development of the H-word, my conclusion is, from now on I will avoid the term and return to the Dutch description in WWII: de Jodenvervolging or persecution of the Jews. See in Amsterdam the Anne Frank House. The abuse by parties with another agenda makes use of the H-word a liability for smears and labeling.
Dutch Auschwitz Memorial
The Nation March 9, 2005
Cathy Young distorted my [Eric Alterman – Oui] argument to accuse me of anti-semitism and self-hatred, using an ellipsis to make it appear as if I were describing the founding of the Jewish state as a “catastrophe” rather than attributing that view to Palestinians and their Arab supporters.
She went even further, insisting that by acknowledging that Palestinians and their supporters perhaps had reason to be less than thrilled with the creation of Israel, I was actually–I kid you not–blaming “long-dead Holocaust victims” and arguing that “every Muslim is justified in viewing every Jew as the enemy.”
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
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