The Day the Thunderbird Cried

Author: David l. Israel

This story is one of many from The Day the Thunderbird Cried published by EMEK Press in September 2005. The book deals with the American troops who liberated the Dachau concentration camp. You may contact me for any further information needed

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Fantasies

The first words he remembered hearing were “SCHNELL� and “RAUS� – “quickly� and “out.� He didn’t know how old he was then – maybe one and half or two years old. He heard the older boys in the group talking about mothers and fathers, but he didn’t know what the words meant. The others all had names, but when they spoke to him, they only pointed with a finger or said, “you do this or you do that.� He never thought about the fact that he didn’t have a name. He didn’t think much about anything. There was no one to teach him otherwise, so he assumed this was the way things were. Full story.

British Chief Rabbi Encourages Students to Make a Difference “One Act at a Time”
November 28, 2005
“To make a difference, you don’t have to change the world all at once. You save the world one act at a time.”

The words of Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of Great Britain, held great meaning for the standing-room-only crowd at Hillel’s Charles and Lynn Schusterman International Center in Washington, D.C., earlier this week. Rabbi Sacks’ visit coincided with the opening of “Darfur Drawn: The Conflict of Darfur Through Children’s Eyes,” a one-of-a-kind art exhibit that showcases children’s drawings from the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan. The chief rabbi was on hand for the exhibit’s Washington debut and then shared his thoughts about the conflict through the lens of his latest book, “To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility.” Full story.

By Margaret Gillerman
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/28/2005

Sarijane Freiman led the group of neatly groomed St. Louis police recruits in khaki uniforms through the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. They stopped at a photograph of a boy with his school class in 1939. Full story.

Last update - 10:21 30/11/2005
By Amiram Barkat and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents

Genetic testing will not be performed on the bones of Jewish inmates discovered in a Holocaust-era mass grave during construction on a U.S. military camp near Stuttgart, according to a decision by Ulrich Goll, justice minister of the German state of Baden-Wurttemberg. Full story.

Today in Italy
Special service by AGI on behalf of the Italian Prime Minister’s office

(AGI)- Vatican City, Italy, Nov. 30 - The Holocaust was a “vile, murderous operation, that remains as an indelible disgrace in the story of human kind.” Pope Benedict XVI does not mince his words when describing the deportation of Jews to the death camps.
Full story.

From Guysen News

Two French organizations fighting racism and anti-Semitism - SOS Racisme and the MRAP - are suing far-right politican Jean-Marie Le Pen for revisionism. In an interview with British BBC Channel Monday, Le Pen said that the gas chambers were ”a detail of the Second World War.” He had already made the same comments in September 1987.

JTA Lead Story

Holocaust survivor Ernest Michel looks for his face in a photograph of journalists covering the Nuremberg Trials, with exhibit curator Claudia Steur in Berlin on Nov. 22. Click here.

BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Sixty years after Nuremberg,
Germans grapple with lessons
By Toby Axelrod

BERLIN, Nov. 28 (JTA) — Their faces stare out in black and white: the defendants of Nuremberg. Today, the rain-spattered images hang outdoors at the Topography of Terror Exhibition and Documentation Center in Berlin. Full story.

JTA
Slovakia has begun issuing compensation payments to Jews for property confiscated between 1938-45. click here.

Daniel Wise
New York Law Journal
11-29-2005

In a divided 2-1 ruling, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed the last remaining class action for Holocaust-era claims against the Austrian government, setting the stage for the release of $210 million in compensation negotiated in the waning days of the Clinton Administration. Full story.

Kindertransport Children at “The Laundry”
Shortly before the start of World War II, 10,000 children were brought to England. Most of them never saw their parents again.

This operation became known as the KINDERTRANSPORT

One group of these children was housed for a short while in 1939/1940 in a hostel in Linslade which they called “The Laundry”.

We are searching for and would like to hear from any of the Jewish refugee children from Germany and Austria who stayed at this location

Some of their names were:
Bruno Berger
Ernst Caspari (he may have studied medicine)
Marion Frischauer
Hannah Hirsch
Franz Oppenheimer
Wolfgang Zernick

There may have been others….

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