Archive for 2009

light posting –if at all — until 2010

By at 21 December, 2009, 10:15 am

Happy holidays — I will be posting lightly if at all between now and picking it up again next year.

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Judges reject Demjanjuk defense motions; more Dutch witnesses testify

By at 21 December, 2009, 10:14 am

The Demjanjuk trial in Munich resumed this morning after a several week break with the Judge rejecting the defense motions to end the trial based on the extradition or claims of double jepoardy. Demjanjuk appeared in court in a wheelchair, keeping his eyes closed for much of the hearing. He reappeared later on lying on […]

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Work may set you free…but crime doesn’t pay

By at 21 December, 2009, 10:00 am

The sign that stood over the entrance of Auschwitz saying “arbeit macht frei” has been recovered in Poland. Five men were arrested, who, according to reports, hoped to sell the sign for money. See the cnn.com story: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/12/21/auschwitz.sign.found/

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Los Angeles man says his father was alleged Demjanjuk victim

By at 18 December, 2009, 12:03 pm

Saul Lisky, who was 6 when his father was killed in a DP camp in Germany — had a shock of recognition when he heard that Demjanjuk was being investigated for possibly running over a man with a truck in a DP camp in German — he realized it was his father. The full article […]

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DISNEY ON ICE — A GREAT TIME HAD BY ALL

By at 18 December, 2009, 11:28 am

I was a little concerned that my daughter and her friend, tweens already disdainful of all parent-chosen entertainment, would find the DISNEY ON ICE show, as they say, “boring!” or too babyish — but they were enchanted. There was a Mickey and Minnie opening to the show that they could have done without but the […]

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German prosecutors looking into whether Demjanjuk ran over a Jewish man in 1947

By at 17 December, 2009, 4:27 pm

I know it sounds strange but one of my trusted correspondents sent me this Jpost.com article: ‘Demjanjuk ran over a Jew in 1947’ By JPOST.COM STAFF Evidence that John Demjanjuk, 89, may have deliberately run over and killed a Jew while driving a truck in Germany is being studied by police, a prosecutor said Monday […]

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Disney on Ice comes to the Southland

By at 17 December, 2009, 4:20 pm

As many of you are well aware I am a good audience for all things circus and ice shows — can’t say that it’s my ‘rosebud” but it has something to do with my childhood, no doubt, and the sort of entertainment that my father enjoyed and took me to as a child. I have […]

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DOES “AN EDUCATION” DABBLE IN ANTI-SEMITIC ARCHTYPES?

By at 11 December, 2009, 4:14 pm

You wouldn’t think so to see the film. Yes, there are jarring moments surounding the film’s main villain played by Peter Saarsgard — but he appears as someone who in no way looks Jewish, is not in any fashion observant, and therefore it seems is a bad person who happens to be Jewish — any […]

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A few thoughts on the first week of the Demjanjuk trial in Munich

By at 4 December, 2009, 12:11 pm

A few thoughts on the first week of the Demjanjuk trial in Munich: One of the most interesting aspects thus far, to my mind, and little remarked upon, is that the co-plaintiffs in the case are Dutch and their relatives were transported to Sobibor from the Netherlands and murdered there. I don’t know why I […]

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Demjanjuk trial: first week summary

By at 4 December, 2009, 12:10 pm

<!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:””; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –> This week, John Demjanjuk was put on trial in Munich, Germany for being an accessory to the murder of 28,700 Jewish men, […]

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