by Pier Marton | Nov 12, 2012 | Jewish, Magyar, Media, Politics, Shoah
The BBC cannot acknowledge their guilt. This is as close as they can go. The BBC and the Hungarian Holocaust on BBC 4 “Hindsight… It was not the job of the BBC to warn the Jews… startling… fatigue… (had they known) those Jews who died...
by Pier Marton | Oct 29, 2012 | Antisemitism, France, History, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars
… a sizable section of the European left has been reluctant to take a clear stand when anti-Zionism spills over into anti-Semitism… Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the militant group Hezbollah, famously commented: “If we searched the entire world for a...
by Pier Marton | Oct 1, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Highlights, History, Ideas, Jewish, Politics, Quotes, Shoah
(from “Why Auschwitz” – in an “auto-interview”) It is the duty of everyone to meditate on what happened. Everybody must know or remember that Hitler and Mussolini, when they spoke in public, were believed, admired, adored like gods. They...
by Pier Marton | Sep 25, 2012 | Antisemitism, Death, France, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars
Tristan Bernard, romancier et auteur dramatique, avant de partir pour Drancy: « – De quoi avez-vous besoin M. Tristan Bernard ? » « – D’un cache-nez. » Tristan Bernard, the noted writer/journalist/lawyer upon his arrest to be sent to Drancy: «...
by Pier Marton | Aug 18, 2012 | Antisemitism, Doc, Jewish, Middle-East, Racism, Shoah, Wars
A film documenting the stories of Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman (who just died), two slave labourers who escaped from Treblinka extermination camp in a dramatic revolt in August 1943. For five more days (or more!) on BBC website: Death Camp Treblinka: Survivor...
by Pier Marton | Jul 28, 2012 | Antisemitism, Doc, Film, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time
… in the same venomous spirit as Alois Brunner (in hiding in Syria after being helped by the CIA) states in 1987 in the Chicago Sun Times: “The Jews deserved to die because they were the devil’s agents and human garbage. I have no regrets. If I had...