defining the Holocaust?

[Richard Romeo]

funny, but when I think of the Holocaust I don't ever think of anything, 
especially from some dumb work of fiction, BUT...

a story from a survivior:
a woman gathering milk in the morning, pass the piles of corpses, the site 
and sound of rats eating the faces of her former friends and fellow bunk 
mates.

or the woman who wakes up to see the sun every morning and hears the screams 
of those burned alive in the Warsaw Ghetto

or...

P.S. Ariel Sharon must be pretty happy over the past week's events--
Rich




>From: KXX4493553 at aol.com
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: defining the Holocaust?
>Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 05:42:32 EDT
>
>In einer eMail vom 30.09.00 11:17:20 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit 
>schreibt
>jbor at bigpond.com:
>
><<  In one of the forgotten Holocausts of the Third Reich, more than 2
>  > million of some 3.5 million Soviet prisoners were dead by February
>  > 1942 as a result of mass starvation and disease
>
>  That's a *pluralisation* of the term. It denotes another, or different,
>  "Holocaust" to "the genocidal murder of the Jews by the Nazis in
>  WW II", which is the generally accepted definition of the proper noun. >>
>Indeed, jbor, there are many different ways of killing and different kinds 
>of
>people you can annihilate. It remembers me at the "discussion" in Germany
>about the Wehrmacht exhibition which was  also shown in the US in the
>meantime.
>
>Kurt-Werner Pörtner

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