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  • A photograph documenting the shooting of 'Theresienstadt,' a propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos."
    A photograph documenting the shooting of 'Theresienstadt,' a propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos."
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    The Coerced Community of Theresienstadt

    H.G. Adler survived the Holocaust to write a monumental, meticulous study of the Nazi’s ‘model community,’ one of the first of its kind, in German. Why did it take so long to be translated to English?

    byPeter Filkins
  • Aerial photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau, taken by a reconnaissance aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, 1944.(Wikimedia Commons/Bundesarchiv)
    Aerial photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau, taken by a reconnaissance aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, 1944.(Wikimedia Commons/Bundesarchiv)
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    The Unforgivable Sin of Survival

    Only now, years after he survived Auschwitz, can we hear the alienation and fury of H.G. Adler’s newly translated ‘Shoah Trilogy’

    byAdam Kirsch
  • (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
    (La caverne aux livres by gadl / Alexandre Duret-Lutz; some rights reserved.)
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    On the Bookshelf

    Jews and Germans, ghosts and golems, comedians and clowns

    byJosh Lambert
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