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ליקוטי שמואל — Nitzavim-Vayelech 5784

Выпуск: ליקוטי שמואל — Nitzavim-Vayelech 5784. Темы: не определены автоматически. ‫בעלון‬ ‫ בשעת הצורך הרשות נתונה לאמור מהדברים‬- .‫ לשמור‬/ ‫ להעתיק‬/ ‫ לחלק‬/ ‫להדפיס‬ ‫ אך הבא להדפיס יביא גאולה לעולם וידפיס בשם‬.‫שבעלון אף שלא בשם אומרם‬ .‫אומרו‬ New research uncovers how Lithuania’s largest Holocaust massacre was mostly forgotten Chris Heath’s ‘No Road Leading Back’ pieces together the Ponar massacre in detective-like fashion, including a daring escape of 40 prisoners through a secret tunnel in 1944 By MATT LEBOVIC In 1944, after months of using spoons to dig an escape tunnel beneath their barracks, 40 prisoners managed to crawl through the passage and flee the largest Nazi killing site in Lithuania. “I wanted to know exactly what could be known, or what somebody who was there had said — and if something couldn’t be known, or if the contradictions between different accounts or even different apparent facts were awkward, I wanted to show that, and embrace it, and see what we might learn from it,” Heath told The Times of Israel. “I desperately wanted to write a compelling, propulsive narrative that people would want to read — I believed that what I was finding and trying to describe was special and important and deserved a real audience — but I also wasn’t prepared to sacrifice anything or sanitize anything,” said Heath. “Writing my book, I was all too aware how many narrative problems it would solve if I smoothed things over, plausibly filling in gaps between 6 what is known, in a style which I believe is considered acceptable in certain types of popular narrative nonfiction,” said Heath. Eisikovits Eisikovits1@gmail.com 2 ‫הגיליון מופיע באתר 'לדעת' וכן ניתן לקבלו לאימייל מדי שבוע על ידי‬ eisikovits1@gmail.com‫ל‬, .‫שליחת בקשה‬ 058-4852-443 ‫אודה לכם אם תעבירו את העלון לאנשי הקשר שלכם או כתובות של מעוניינים‬ ‫ גם רשות‬. 3 In “No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust,” acclaimed journalist Chris Heath pierces through the confusion surrounding Ponar’s role in the Holocaust. “If a key Nazi goal in the implementation of the Holocaust was to make the visible invisible, then one crucial and enduring goal of those opposing them would be to do the reverse: to make the invisible visible,” wrote Heath. He recorded details of the daily shootings on scraps of paper, soda bottles, and a calendar,

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ליקוטי שמואל

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27 сентября 2024 г.

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