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For one child of survivors, Cambodian killings resemble Shoah
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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April 17, 2006
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- Krauz, Tibor
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Krauz, Tibor
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
04-17-2006
BANGKOK, April 16 (JTA) -- As someone who lost practically his entire
family to the Holocaust, I came to regard the Holocaust as the ultimate
benchmark for mass murder. Any subsequent 20th-century genocides seemed
merely sad reminders that the post-Holocaust pledge "Never again" was just
an empty promise. Tuol Sleng is Cambodia's version of Auschwitz. I found
seeing Tuol Seng not only a harrowing experience but an eye-opener of the
similarities between the two killings.
Outside Tuol Sleng, or "Poison Tree Hill," ragged little children chase a
football while a small girl savors a vanilla ice cream. Like over half of
Cambodians, they were born after ...
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