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  Holocaust (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Holocaust, the systematic killing of mainly Jews, but also Gypsies, Poles, and other groups in Europe during World War II that killed 11,000,000 people in all, earlier known in Hebrew as Shoah.
Post-1970s coinings of "holocausts" in the sense of "genocide" or "mass murder" imply a comparison to the Shoah and are often used polemically
Holocaust of the un-born (abortion), is a propaganda term used in combination with pro-life activism argument.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holocaust_(disambiguation)   (397 words)

  
 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hiroshima during World War II At the time of its bombing, Hiroshima was a city of considerable industrial and military significance.
Hiroshima was the primary target of the first U.S. nuclear attack mission, on August 6, 1945.
Some of the reinforced concrete buildings in Hiroshima were very strongly constructed because of the earthquake danger in Japan, and their framework did not collapse even though they were fairly close to the center of damage in the city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiroshima_Holocaust   (7969 words)

  
 CATS
Masuji Ibuse was born in Hiroshima in 1898.
The Hiroshima Maidens is the first candid account of an extraordinary attempt at reparation and rehabilitation for selected victims of the atomic bomb.
The Hiroshima Maidens is both a warning and an encouragement : the horrors of nuclear weapons are vividly brought out in the devasting effects which the bomb had on the lives of the young girls; yet their courage and resilience remind us of human values which may yet triumph.
members.tripod.com /~leongpc/sypnosis/hn.htm   (1407 words)

  
 The Holocaust, the Shoah - The Peace Encyclopedia
The Holocaust was the murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.
The negation of the Holocaust is appealing to the denier or revisionist because, like the anti-Zionist, one can fight a war against the Jews while still denying that one is antisemitic, a title which excludes one from the battlefield of ideas in the post-Holocaust western world.
This group blames the Holocaust and the sympathy it aroused, for the creation, recognition, and continuing survival of the state of Israel, which they feel would not exist today had it not been for a world guilt-stricken over the Holocaust.
www.yahoodi.com /peace/holocaust.html   (4303 words)

  
 Gale Literary Databases - Document
Her awareness of the interconnection between the private and the political in her interest in the Holocaust is evident in a BBC radio interview she gave in 1962.
The contrast between the resonance and diversity of Plath's use of myth and the single dimensions of her use of history in the form of the Holocaust and Hiroshima is not simply due to Plath's greater experience and confidence in handling the former, learned from using mythic material throughout her poetic career.
An understanding of the "boot in the face" effect of Plath's treatment of the Holocaust, then, enables the recognition that the dissonances between history and myth in her poetry are not an aesthetic problem but work to prohibit complaisance about the definitions of--and the relationship between--myth, history, and poetry in the post-Holocaust world.
www.sylviaplath.de /plath/strangeways.html   (3829 words)

  
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One Hopi woman, dying from the effects of nearby uranium mining, told Dostou that she felt a kinship with the people of Hiroshima.
Speakers talked of Pearl Harbor, of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of the Oklahoma City bombing and of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. Smith walked to the front of the church's sanctuary and said, "This flame represents an already broken world.
After reaching the United Nations on May 12, some marchers plan to take the Hiroshima flame to Red Rock, Ariz., where the uranium was mined for the bomb that destroyed that city.
www.buddhistnews.tv /current/peace-walk-nuclear-N.php   (891 words)

  
 Not facing history
The Holocaust curriculum known as "Facing History and Ourselves" is examined, and the need to reevaluate it as a tool for teaching the Holocaust is addressed.
The editors claim that the Holocaust and "a study of potential nuclear holocaust" share certain "basic principles" though teachers are cautioned not to "draw too strong parallels." This cautionary sentence is followed by six pages of readings and suggested activities for kids designed to stress the threat of nuclear war.
Teachers of the Holocaust and writers of curricula on the topic must be scrupulously careful of imparting the message that at1 its heart the Holocaust is just one in a long string of inhumanities and that every ethnic slur has in it the seeds of a Holocaust.
www.codoh.com /reference/ntfcnghist.html   (1717 words)

  
 Repeat not the evil, let them rest in peace - Editorial - Opinion
"In Hiroshima, 30 days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world," Burchett's report began, "people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly - people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.
The devastation of Hiroshima and its aftermath eclipsed anything that Burchett had seen during his coverage of the Pacific war.
By the end of the year, 140,000 people had died in Hiroshima either directly from the impact of the bomb or the radiation sickness that followed.
www.theage.com.au /news/editorial/repeat-not-the-evil-let-them-rest-in-peace/2005/07/30/1122144052015.html   (708 words)

  
 ABS-CBN Interactive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
HIROSHIMA, Japan - The world’s first nuclear attack has been immortalized in museums, books and movies but for many, the Hiroshima holocaust represents a personal struggle between reawakening painful memories and letting them lie.
Kuroki’s latest film, The Face of Jizo, is about a young Hiroshima woman’s struggle to overcome her guilt for having survived the atomic bombing and her journey to find love and happiness.
For Minoru Hataguchi, being the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum has forced him to confront his most painful war memory: losing his father in the nuclear attack before he was even born.
www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=12359   (1373 words)

  
 Hiroshima & Nagasaki - the Worst Terror Attack in History
That is, the target at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was principally the civilian population itself.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki have shown us that there is, ostensibly, a point beyond which we will not allow ourselves to be pushed without exhausting all military resources available to us and that, no matter how costly the consequences, we are prepared to justify those actions accordingly.
Hiroshima had been selected as one of these for several reasons (e.g., its size ["a large part of the city would be destroyed"] and its adjacent hills [to "focus" the blast effect]).
www.tamilnation.org /humanrights/hiroshima.htm   (15248 words)

  
 Scholastic Recommends
Six Holocaust survivors from Poland are interviewed about their lives before World War II, the changes they experienced as the war neared, and their memories of the Holocaust.
This site explains the mission of the Survivors of the Shoah (Hebrew for "Holocaust") Visual History Foundation, which is to videotape and archive the accounts of as many surviving Holocaust victims as possible to provide a record for the future of this shameful chapter of history.
This museum is the United State's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history and serves as this country's memorial to the millions who were murdered.
teacher.scholastic.com /activities/wwii/recommends.htm   (2040 words)

  
 Cary Nelson :: Syllabus: Holocaust Poetry
There is no more severe challenge to the aspirations and social functions of poetry than that posed by the holocaust.
The seminar does not assume expertise on the holocaust, merely willingness to discuss the relevant issues.
It can focus on a single Holocaust poet, a comparison of two or more poets, or a theoretical or historical issue that cuts across a number of writ ers.
www.cary-nelson.org /nelson/holocaust.html   (1226 words)

  
 Holocaust and Hiroshima : Thunderbay IMC
The nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the culmination of a war to the end.
Thus the citizens of Hiroshima were amongst the first victims of the Cold War.
Yet Truman maintained the lie that Hiroshima was primarily a military base and that the US had wanted "to avoid, as far as possible, the killing of civilians".
thunderbay.indymedia.org /print.php?id=21307   (3270 words)

  
 The Genocidal Temptation: Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda and Beyond. Ed. Robert S. Frey. New York: University Press of ...
Hiroshima” and “Reflections on the Holocaust and Hiroshima,” explore the definition of genocide in the context of mass killings of civilians in wartime.
Hiroshima is not generally considered to be a genocidal event and no action was ever taken to discipline those who developed the atomic bomb, sanctioned it, and executed its use.
The effect of Auschwitz and Hiroshima on religion is a third theme that is woven into this collection.
www.law.harvard.edu /students/orgs/hrj/iss18/booknotes-Genocidal.shtml   (876 words)

  
 We must remember the Holocaust
To compare the Holocaust with Hiroshima, for example, denies and hides the historic role of German and Christian anti-Semitism that lead to and helped implement Hitler's mad theories.
Lucy Dawidowicz in The Holocaust and the Historians, writes that another implication is that "Nazi Germany committed no worse crimes than other states and was not unique among nations as a perpetrator of evil deeds.
This is not to belittle the horrors of Hiroshima or any other atrocity, but instead to assert their distinct circumstances.
www-tech.mit.edu /V110/N20/frankl.20o.html   (1508 words)

  
 frontline: a jew among the germans: germany's memorial: memorial to the murdered jews of europe, berlin | PBS
The simplicity of this idea ended with the Holocaust and Hiroshima and the mechanisms of mass death.
The Holocaust cannot be remembered in the first, nostalgic mode, as its horror forever ruptured the link between nostalgia and memory.
Remembering the Holocaust can therefore only be a living condition in which the past remains active in the present.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/germans/memorial/eisenman.html   (1024 words)

  
 Poetry Super Highway Bookstore: Holocaust Poetry
Heartwrenching, direct, personal poems about the Holocaust and the resulting dislocation endured by its survivors and their children, with 44 accompanying photographs.
Interwoven with these are the wrenching stories of the Holocaust survivors and their children who were her neighbors in an Eastern neighborhood in Brooklyn in the mid-sixties.
Kramer, a poet and scholar specializing in the translation of Yiddish literature, has been collecting and translating poetry written by victims and survivors of the Holocaust for 50 years, determined to preserve this indelible evidence of their courage and grief.
poetrysuperhighway.com /shoahbooks.html   (1399 words)

  
 Editorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
With this visit we are looking at the beginning of a new era in Bangladesh-India cooperation and actualising political, economic, social and cultural programmes to the mutual benefit of the two nations.
And Marshall is on record months before Hiroshima as suggesting that "these weapons might first be used against straight military objectives such as a large naval installation and then if no complete result was derived from the effect of that...
Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, is the author of "Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam", and "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb".
independent-bangladesh.com /news/aug/08/08082005ed.htm   (4442 words)

  
 Abstracts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Holocaust and the atomic bombings were two apocalyptic events that had worldwide impact in terms of changing our perceptions of what humanity is capable of, and forcing re-examination of moral values.
Whereas the Holocaust has been used as a moral yardstick of absolute evil, Hiroshima has been treated more relatively, seen as both a moral good and an evil.
Their moral and ethical positions were guided by their beliefs that reached beyond national concerns, as they struggled to answer questions on the validity of warfare, the future of humanity, and universal moral obligations.
www.anu.edu.au /asianstudies/jpncen/APWeek2006_Japan/Abstracts/NK.html   (232 words)

  
 20th century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Advances in fundamental physics through the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics led to the development of nuclear weapons (known informally as "the Bomb" and dropped on the industrial town of Hiroshima and the historic town of Nagasaki), the nuclear reactor, the semiconductor and the laser.
This war also involved Asia and the Pacific, in the form of Japanese aggression against China and the United States.
Among soldiers, civilians also suffered greatly in World War II -- from the bombing of cities on both sides, and in the German genocide of the Jews and others, known as the Holocaust.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/20th_century   (1938 words)

  
 "Hiroshima - 50 Years" by Mordechai Vanunu - Indymedia Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Whistleblower on Israel's nuclear weapons cried out against the atrocity of Hiroshima while he was spending his ninth year of solitary confinement in Ashkelon prison in Israel
Japan sacrifices your holocaust on the Yen altar.
Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland.
www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=71385&results_offset=61   (415 words)

  
 Japanese remorse for war debated - World News - MSNBC.com
Indeed, Hiroshima’s monuments are often criticized for lacking the context of the bombing, though the main museum here has been expanded and revised in recent years to include the history of the war and the city’s value as a military target.
Itsuo Inouye / AP Minoru Hataguchi, director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, speaks in front of a photo panel of the "mushroom cloud" at the museum in Hiroshima in July. "If there is a nuclear war, then humanity will be extinguished, that's what Hiroshima and Nagasaki need to tell people," he said.
Kiyoko Nakano, taking photographs with her husband one evening beside the ruins of the Hiroshima dome, draws the standard Japanese lesson from the bombing of her hometown: that all killing of innocents is a crime and should be condemned.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8714706/page/3   (1002 words)

  
 LINK-MAIL: The Nuclear Armageddon of Hiroshima and Nagasaki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
LINK-MAIL: The Nuclear Armageddon of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
It was the end of the world for the two Japanese cities back in 1945 when the nuclear holocaust destroyed them in a matter of seconds.
Several photographs have been taken in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the nuclear holocaust in 1945.
www.link-mail.com /40900.html   (529 words)

  
 Holocaust - Ask.com Search
The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-led persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe and North Africa along with other groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaboratorsDonald L Niewyk, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, Columbia University...
The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct...
The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events of the 20th century.
www.ask.com /web?q=Holocaust&qsrc=1&o=0   (276 words)

  
 history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Inspired by the photographic work "Hiroshima" by Japanese artist Hiromi Tsuchida, The Hiroshima Archive was originally set up to join the on-line effort made by many people all over the world to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
A Cybrary of the Holocaust is an educational forum bringing together Holocaust survivors, children of Holocaust survivors, art by children, educational efforts, and Books by Survivors to promote learning and remembering.
www.lex5.k12.sc.us /dfhs/media/history.htm   (3495 words)

  
 Debunking the Holocaust Hoax
We at Adequacy have uncovered incontrovertible proof that the so-called Nuclear "Holocaust" in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was in fact staged in a California movie studio.
The holocaust hoax was not an isolated incident, but merely one occurrence in a long and ongoing string of deceit.
A holocaust in the nuclear sense would be A holocaust, not THE Holocaust that is capitalized and a proper noun in history.
www.adequacy.org /public/stories/2002.4.27.222035.313.html   (4250 words)

  
 The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 429   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A two-day exhibition commemorating the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima was held at Drik gallery recently.
Here the horror, pain and anguish of the holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6, 1945 were captured in fl and white posters flown in from Japan.
Despite the dire shortage of food, capital and materials of all kinds, the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fought off the despair and struggled to rebuild their lives.
www.thedailystar.net /2005/08/10/d508101402120.htm   (327 words)

  
 Spymac.com - Social Online Community Network :: Forums :: Hangouts :: Political Corner :: Holocaust in Hiroshima.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I think a holocaust entails a continuing process of aggression and/or extermination.
So I guess I still say "no" to the use of the word "holocaust" for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were truly horrible, but many lives were spared by the bombings.
www.spymac.com /forums/showthread.php?threadid=88506   (865 words)

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