Beaten to Death

From: Wiesenthal dot com:

February 3, 2005 - Budapest - The Simon Wiesenthal Center's chief Nazi-hunter Dr. Efraim Zuroff met here today with officials of the Hungarian Justice Ministry and submitted a list of potential witnesses in the case of Charles Zentai, currently residing in Australia, who was discovered recently in the framework of the "Operation: Last Chance" project jointly conducted with the Targum Shlishi Foundation of Miami Florida. Zentai is accused of the murder of at least one Jewish teenager, eighteen year old Peter Balazs, whom he caught without the yellow star and beat to death in his army barracks in Budapest in November 1944.

Hannah's Suitcase

Yellow badge apears on the cover of the Holocaust diary 'La Valise d'Hana' (Hannah's Suitcase) by Karen Levine.

David Irving

From: AP Online January 11, 2000
David Irving is suing Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books for libel over the 1994 book
''Denying the Holocaust…

Irving, 62, has outraged Jews by saying the Holocaust has been exaggerated and by challenging the number and manner of Jewish concentration camp deaths under Adolf Hitler's regime. He also claims Hitler knew nothing about the extermination of Europe's Jews until 1943. 'The word 'denier' is particularly evil, because no person in full command of his mental faculties, and with even the slightest understanding of what happened in World War II, can deny that the tragedy actually happened, however much we dissident historians may wish to quibble about the means, the scale, the dates,'' he said. Being branded a Holocaust denier, ''is a verbal Yellow Star,'' he said, referring to the symbol the Nazis forced Jews to wear.

Villa Romana

Photo of Floor no. I is courtesy of "pginot" from Flickr.

Photo Floor no. II is courtesy of "liberalmind1012" from Flickr

The content of this page moved to the new blog of Dr. Ze'ev Goldmann

Eberhard Taubert

Dr. Eberhard Taubert was a high official in Goebbels' ministry.

From Wikipedia, entry Eberhard Taubert

Eberhard Taubert (May 11, 1907, Kassel, Germany - 1976, Cologne) was a lawyer and anti-Semitic Nazi propagandist. Since 1933 he was a member of the Nazi Propagandaministerium under Joseph Goebbels. His nickname in Nazi circles was Dr. Anti. He worked in 1940 on the script for the anti-Semitic propaganda film Der Ewige Jude and was responsible for the law requiring Jews to wear the yellow Star of David (Judenstern). 

The Silence Of The Lambs

Following is an excerpt from: The American Experience of the Holocaust by Pierre Sauvage

(I recommend reading this whole touching address, which is worth to be taught in Schools…)

Yes, what about us here during that time? Did we know nothing? Could we do nothing? Were we here in the U. S. essentially "nothings" when it comes to that experience? Or are we being handed down only part of our past, part of our experience? Are we living on lies?

(…)

In late 1940, a New York City wallpaper hanger who also happened to be a prominent Yiddish poet had felt the need to articulate some troubling thoughts and emotions:

Today the first snow descended.

Children are gliding on sleds in the park,

The air is filled with the clamor of joy.—

Like the children, I love the white snow,

And I have a special love for the month of December. (...)

O dear God, God of Abraham, of Isaac and Jacob,

Scold me not for this love of mine—

Scold me for something else—

(...)

Scold me for not really wearing

The six-towered Star-of-David

And the infinite circle of the yellow patch—

To hearten the sons of Israel in Hangman's-Land

Truly—

The question gnaws like a gnat in my brain,

The question eats at my heart like a worm.

Again, this was in 1940, before the large-scale murder began, before the reports on the torture and murder started dribbling back, tentative at first, but soon inescapable and convergent and clear except to those who did not want to hear, but the question of H. Leivick's identification with the Jews in Naziland was already gnawing at his brain and eating at his heart. What was left of that brain and that heart, I wonder, by the time it was over?

Urinary State, Avner Bar Hama, Installation

This detail from an artwork that includes a portrait of Herzl and the Magen David (not seen here)  is published here courtesy of the artist, and all rights are reserved to him.

According to art explorer David Sperber (translation by zeevveez):

In Avner Bar Hama’s Installation Urinary State a modern urinary is placed under the Duchamp urinary photograph. "We are living in a changing world: reality is changing as well as identity; everything changes and smells bad. What we see here is a protest against the culture of "what will the neighbors say? ". In spite of this, on the portrait of Herzl appears his saying "our hope have never been lost”.