Sublime

The roll call took place. The Lagerkommandant announced that the Buchenwald camp would be liquidated. Ten blocks of inmates would be evacuated every day. From that moment on, there was no further distribution of bread and soup. And the evacuation began. Every day…

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Tous, absolument tous, souffrent du même mal – psychose traumatique. Et il en va ainsi dans toutes les salles d’attente des services spécialisés dans les troubles nerveux de chaque hôpital de l’Allemagne tout entière. C’est pour eux une grande souffrance : irritabilité, incapacité à se concentrer, violentes crises d’angoisse et de dépression. Sans

Pendant toutes ces heures, j’avais souvent parlé avec Freud de l’horreur du monde hitlérien et de la guerre. Il était profondément bouleversé en tant qu’homme épris d’humanité, mais en tant que penseur ce terrible accès de bestialité ne l’avait pas du tout surpris. On l’avait toujours blâmé, me dit-il, pour son pessimisme, parce qu’il niait la supr

Yet martyrdom alone could not have stopped the massed power of the Seleucids and Hellenizers. In Chasidic reasoning, apocalypse was the only hope left. Indeed, had the Chasidim survived the persecution and won out within the Jewish community, the religion would have been decisively turned onto a path of pacifism, apocalyptic expectation, and denigr

BEYOND THE LEGITIMATE ACCUSATION that Jewish forces at times forced Arab populations to leave their homes, this portion of the war also prompted what the historian Benny Morris called the “atrocity factor”37—allegations that in the midst of the War of Independence, Jewish forces committed numerous

she survived Auschwitz by disobeying his order to join the line with the elderly, the grey and the weak, and instead slipping into a line with younger people. She avoided the gas chambers a second time by trading food for hair dye so she wouldn’t be murdered for looking too old.