Randomosity: Interesting Links for a Rainy Saturday
Published May 02, 2009 @ 07:09PM PT
The New York Times reviews a new book on FDR and the Holocaust that "upends a widely held view that he was indifferent to the fate of Europe's Jews, and asserts that new evidence shows that the president pushed for an ambitious secret rescue plan before the war began." Of course, while FDR might not have been entirely indifferent, he not only never followed through with any such rescue plans, but failed to take relatively easy actions that would've saved thousands of Jews seeking asylum from Nazi persecution.
Leopold Engleitner, a Jehovah's Witness who spent time in the Buchenwald concentration camp after refusing to denounce his faith, will travel to St. Petersburg this week to speak to audiences at the Florida Holocaust Museum.
Dom Joly describes his encounter with the photographer of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Cambodia: "This man's photographs are now possibly the most poignant and hideous symbols of the genocide committed by Pol Pot's regime in the late Seventies. Here I was, sitting in his living room with his grandchildren running around his feet, smoking Alain Delon cigarettes. I felt sick."
Artists in Rwanda launched the "One Dollar Campaign" to raise money to assist orphans and vulnerable children.
The case of a suspected Rwandan genocidaire, arrested in Kansas earlier this month, will mark the first attempt by the U.S. government to prove genocide in federal court.
Gareth Evans criticizes the UN Security Council for failing to recognize their responsibility to protect civilians in Sri Lanka. (For regular updates on the situation in Sri Lanka, check out Change.org's Humanitarian Relief blog.)
[Photo: Prisoners walk out of the Buchenwald concentration camp after being freed by U.S. Army troops in April 1945.]
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Michelle became involved in the anti-genocide cause at a young age, and has been involved in various activist endeavors, including the Teach Against Genocide pilot campaigns, ever since.
