First-Person Account of Auschwitz-Birkineu

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Robert Cohen - 16 Feb 2007 02:41 GMT

eyewitnesses and victims are dying, though not before telling of
their experiences for history

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/obits/stories/2007/02/13/0213metobstorch
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Marty Storch, Holocaust survivor who lost, later regained his faith

By KAY POWELL
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 02/13/07

Motek Sztorch, Auschwitz number 57135, lost his faith during the
Holocaust.

"I looked up many times to the sky when the kids were burning in the
gas chamber and I'm dropping tears. I ask why and I get no answer," he
said in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article.

File
(ENLARGE)
Marty Storch poses in 1997 at the Atlanta Jewish Federation in front
of a photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

"My faith disappeared because of the atrocities...

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Robert Cohen - 16 Feb 2007 15:28 GMT

> eyewitnesses and victims are dying, though not before telling of
> their experiences for history
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> "My faith disappeared because of the atrocities...

i saw this in haaretz today

30 million apparently bureaucratic type documents

i suppose hannah arendt's take is being ratified: the "banality" of
administering the genocide

it's a response to the revisionist movement, which apparently rejects
beaucoup first-person accounts, such as marty storch's linked above

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/826648.html

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Ice Storm - 25 Feb 2007 08:10 GMT

> > eyewitnesses and victims are dying, though not before telling of
> > their experiences for history
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> http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/826648.html

all accounts must be preserved. they must.
Jerry

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