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The Holocaust was in the news on January 27, 2005, as death camp survivors and a few of their Russian liberators joined heads of state and Jewish leaders at a snow-covered Auschwitz-Birkenau to observe the sixtieth anniversary of that camp’s liberation by the Red Army. The aging and dying of the survivors and liberators meant that such a gathering is not likely to take place again.
The Holocaust remains a highly combustible issue.
Stuart Eizenstat, Imperfect Justice
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Stuart Eizenstat, Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II (New York: Public Affairs, 2003), pp. 130, 137–8, 353.
Michael J. Bazyler, Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts (New York: New York University Press, 2003).
Jean Améry, At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities, trans. Sidney Rosenfeld and Stella P. Rosenfeld (New York: Schocken Books, 1986), pp. 30–1.
Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 327 and 396.
Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (New York: Summit Books, 1988), pp. 106, 109, 111, and 119.
Emmanuel Levinas, “Useless Suffering,” in Entre Nous: On Thinking-of-the-Other, trans. Michael B. Smith and Barbara Harshav (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998), pp. 94, 97, and 99.
Charlotte Delbo, Auschwitz and After, trans. Rosette C. Lamont (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995), pp. 58–9.
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), pp. 241, 261.
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Roth, J.K. (2005). Post-Holocaust Restitution of a Different Kind. In: Ethics During and After the Holocaust. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230513105_6
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