A Holocaust Historian’s Parting Lessons

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The just-passed holiday of Sukkot had something of a mournful edge this year because the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre had happened at the tail end of the holiday last year. But this year added a note of sadness all its own with the death on Oct. 18 of Yehuda Bauer, a founding father of Holocaust historians who had fled Prague just as the Nazis had begun swallowing Czechoslovakia. His family made it to Palestine in 1939. Yesterday, Haaretz published what it said was the self-eulogy Bauer left behind

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