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The Shangri-La’s elusive key witness

The former assistant food and beverage director at the Hotel Shangri-La is the only person who claimed to have heard hotel owner Tehmina Adaya say she wanted to eject the “f—ing Jews” from the pool at the hotel she and her family own.

Color puts Holocaust in new dimension

The leader of our small group told us many history book-type facts that for me went in one ear and out the other. I was concentrating on the camp. However, one of the last things he said stopped me in my tracks. He said, \”Remember guys, the Holocaust didn\’t happen in black and white, it happened in full Technicolor.\” Oh.

Fortunoff Archive preserves Holocaust testimonies

In the 1980s, Geoffrey Hartman helped establish the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, a Yale-based collection of videotaped Holocaust testimonies he continues to head. The archive preceded Spielberg\’s Shoah Visual History Foundation by more than a decade.

A Year to Remember

Don\’t you get the feeling 2003 will be a Big One?\n\nEvery generation believes it is witness to momentous times. That desire accounts for people at the fringes who forecast the imminent end of the world — then are forced to readjust their predictions when, say, 2000 came and went like lunchtime.\n\nBut it also accounts for the rest of us who smirk when reciting the Chinese curse, \”May you live in interesting times,\” certain that, as opposed to the Chinese guy who came up with the phrase, ours really are interesting times.

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