RE: [Cz-L] Lessons from the Report on the Holocaust in Romania

Mimi...it is possible in our time as well...Rwanda, Srebrenica , Darfur
etc...and that is why we need to be vigilant. Cornel

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[mailto:bounce-4084236-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Miriam Taylor
Sent: 10 July 2009 15:33
To: Jessica Attiyeh; czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Lessons from the Report on the Holocaust in Romania

Dear Jessica, Dear all,

I agree with most of what Jessica writes, but am puzzled by some assertions.
For instance:
> and the naive blind eye of our own leaders that could not or
> would not envision the steam-rolling potential consequences of acts
> they were complicitly enabling.
I take it that by this Jessica means either Jewish leaders, or American
leaders. In either case, I do not know the basis for this assertion.

What disturbs me most in thinking about the Holocaust, is the fact that
individual people, admittedly, usually in groups or in mob situations,
were able to do the most heinous acts of violence. The details of what
happened in various villages in the vicinity of Czernowitz are too gruesome
to recount here. I struggle to understand how people could be so cruel.
I think there is no explanation.

Mimi

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