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May 26, 2005
Gulags. Holocausts. Proportion.
I wonder how many of my readers know personally (not just have heard speak in public) a Nazi concentration camp survivor or a Gulag survivor? Someone who came through the Laogai? The owner of our neighborhood grocery store (throughout my childhood), who was the parent of a teammate of my sister (gymnastics) and the father of two boys just far enough ahead of me in school that I barely knew the younger one had a tatoo on his forearm. Dachau, if I remember correctly.
You?
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 26, 2005 8:35 PM