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About: I'm Jen. I live a few miles outside of Boston. I do web work for a non-profit during the day.
This web page has been in all sorts of forms since 1994 when I first wrote HTML in emacs on a Unix terminal at BU. Now I prefer BBEdit on my Mac. I'm never quite sure why I'm doing this
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January 27, 2005
Sixty Years
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. CNN has some stunning quotes.
From Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Auschwitz prisoner No. 4427 and former Polish foreign minister:
"The question we ask ourselves and of the world is how much of the truth about the horrible expierences of that totalitarian regime we managed to pass down to the younger generations. Much of it, I believe, but not enough."
There's interesting information on Wikipedia on the yellow badge Jews were made to wear. Apparently this practice goes back to 717 and ended with the 1940s. Well, it has for the Jews, but not for other minority groups in other countries. Prevent Genocide International tracks current news on Genocide and is worth checking out.
This year also marks the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Just a few weeks ago this column ran in the Turkish Press, speaking of the "alleged genocide". Horrifying.