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By the second half of 1943, the Holocaust was no longer considered a big story. Berl Katznelson, the editor of Davar, thought that the public was not interested in reading about the annihilation of the Jews.
Tom Segev • A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion
The rally represented one of the early—and one of the strikingly few—instances where a Holocaust story would make the front page of the New York Times. The article was 2,783 words long, but in all those words the Times report did not make a single mention of the fact that Jews were being mass slaughtered as part of a Nazi racial extermination campa
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
I had mistaken the enormous public interest in past Jewish suffering for a sign of respect for living Jews. I was very wrong.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
The last day had been the most lethal. We had been a hundred or so in this wagon. Twelve of us left it. Among them, my father and myself. We had arrived in Buchenwald.
Marion Wiesel • Night
The decision not to go to America or back home meant being condemned to an indefinite number of years in limbo in a D.P. camp, or it meant having to board leaky, suffocatingly crowded tramp steamers to run a British blockade, and most likely end up in another prison camp in Cyprus until further notice. Yet by their refusal to go elsewhere, by placi
... See moreIrving Greenberg • The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays
Where was God at Auschwitz? Sooner or later this was the question I had to ask, because the Holocaust still casts its shadow over Jewish life.