“Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” By Art Spiegelman (National Library of Scotland, Censorship, Activity 2) https://www.nls.uk/learning-zone/politics-and-society/themes-in-focus/censorship/activity-2/
“This resource looks at some of the issues surrounding the censorship or outright ban of seven items. The accompanying questions serve as starting points for further discussion or research into that particular publication and the issues surrounding its suppression.”
Boris Pahor (born 26 August 1913) is a Slovene novelist living in Italy who is best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre-Second World War increasingly fascist Italy as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor. In his novel Necropolis he visits the Natzweiler-Struthof camp twenty years after his relocation to Dachau. Following Dachau, he was relocated three more times: to Mittelbau-Dora, Harzungen and finally to Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated on 15 April 1945.
Following the death of Marco Feingold on 19 September 2019, he became the oldest living survivor of the Holocaust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Pahor
A new CBS News poll finds that surprisingly large majorities oppose banning books on history or race — and importantly, this is partly because teaching about our racial past makes students more understanding of others’ historical experiences. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/book-bans-opinion-poll-2022-02-22/
The poll finds that 83 percent of Americans say books should never be banned for criticizing U.S. history; 85 percent oppose banning them for airing ideas you disagree with; and 87 percent oppose banning them for discussing race or depicting slavery.
CBS does their homework. Of the “major” network news programming, I must admit my preference for CBS…founded in my case mostly on the fact they still present general broad coverage of news. As opposed to the 3 or 4 topics shared by the other “newscasts” often in the same order.
Tennessee lawmaker suggests burning banned books https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/tennessee-burning-banned-books/
The Republican-led Tennessee state House passed a bill Wednesday that would require public school librarians to submit to the state a list of book titles for approval, as a GOP lawmaker suggested burning books that are deemed inappropriate.
“Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” By Art Spiegelman (National Library of Scotland, Censorship, Activity 2) https://www.nls.uk/learning-zone/politics-and-society/themes-in-focus/censorship/activity-2/
“This resource looks at some of the issues surrounding the censorship or outright ban of seven items. The accompanying questions serve as starting points for further discussion or research into that particular publication and the issues surrounding its suppression.”
“Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” By Art Spiegelman (.pdf) https://uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/spiegelman-maus-ii.pdf Chapter one begins on page 8 of 132
Boris Pahor (born 26 August 1913) is a Slovene novelist living in Italy who is best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre-Second World War increasingly fascist Italy as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor. In his novel Necropolis he visits the Natzweiler-Struthof camp twenty years after his relocation to Dachau. Following Dachau, he was relocated three more times: to Mittelbau-Dora, Harzungen and finally to Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated on 15 April 1945.
Following the death of Marco Feingold on 19 September 2019, he became the oldest living survivor of the Holocaust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Pahor
“…anyone who closes his eyes to the past becomes blind to the present. Whoever does not wish to remember inhumanity is susceptible to the dangers of new infection.”
Federal President Richard von Weizsäckerduring, at the Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the End of War in Europe and of National-Socialist Tyranny on 8 May 1985 at the Bundestag,Bonn.
https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Reden/2015/02/150202-RvW-Rede-8-Mai-1985-englisch.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
Picturing Auschwitz (click image twice) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/03/17/picturing-auschwitz
How did such a nonentity – a man with only a primary school certificate, no money and no helpful connections manage to turn the everyday life of one of the most important industrialized nations of its time inside out within just a few years? https://wpr-public.s3.amazonaws.com/ttbook/styles/story_full_image/s3/images/Adolf_Hitler_45_edited.jpg
“Elon Musk tweets, then deletes, Holocaust joke” https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/elon-musk-tweets-then-deletes-holocaust-joke/
See also Reductio ad Hitlerum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
A new CBS News poll finds that surprisingly large majorities oppose banning books on history or race — and importantly, this is partly because teaching about our racial past makes students more understanding of others’ historical experiences. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/book-bans-opinion-poll-2022-02-22/
The poll finds that 83 percent of Americans say books should never be banned for criticizing U.S. history; 85 percent oppose banning them for airing ideas you disagree with; and 87 percent oppose banning them for discussing race or depicting slavery.
CBS does their homework. Of the “major” network news programming, I must admit my preference for CBS…founded in my case mostly on the fact they still present general broad coverage of news. As opposed to the 3 or 4 topics shared by the other “newscasts” often in the same order.
2AM MST, tomorrow morning, 24th
Tennessee lawmaker suggests burning banned books https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/tennessee-burning-banned-books/
The Republican-led Tennessee state House passed a bill Wednesday that would require public school librarians to submit to the state a list of book titles for approval, as a GOP lawmaker suggested burning books that are deemed inappropriate.
7AM MDT, tomorrow morning, 29th