A shattered shop window with a yellow star, a mountain of shoes, an arch with the grim irony \”Arbeit Macht Frei\” inscribed upon it: These images alone can summon up the historic nightmare of the Nazi Holocaust.
Hundreds of people turned out for the Simon Weisenthal Center Museum of Tolerance\’s one-day symposium, \”A Call to Freedom.\” The conference, held last month, highlighted the plight of black slaves in Sudan and Mauritania, where today, \”tens of thousands of blacks are sold into slavery, raised like slaves and have the deadened expressions of men and women who know no other life but the life of a slave,\” said Sam Cotton, author of \”Silent Terror,\” a book describing his secret trip to Mauritania where he interviewed slaves.
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