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| Indiana museum torched? |
| 2003-11-18 |
| A fire destroyed a museum founded by a Holocaust survivor early Tuesday and arson is suspected, a museum official said. The fire was reported at the CANDLES Museum just after midnight and gutted the building, a former printing plant south of the city’s downtown. "The police said there was a brick that had broken the main glass door, and they threw something in there that was an accelerant," said Mary Wright, the museum’s education director. "Even the display cases were practically burned down to the ground." Someone also wrote "Remember Timmy McVeigh" on a wall. Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, was executed at a federal prison outside Terre Haute in 2001. Terre Haute police referred calls to the Fire Department, which did not return messages. Doug Garrison, a spokesman for the FBI in Indianapolis, said his agency is not involved in the fire investigation, but could be asked to assist. CANDLES stands for Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Experiments Survivors. The museum was founded in 1995 by Holocaust survivor Eva Kor. It houses artifacts from Auschwitz and documents relating to Dr. Josef Mengele. Kor and an identical twin sister, Miriam Mozes Zeiger, were subjected to Mengele’s genetic experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Her sister died of cancer in 1993. Kor did not return phone messages left Tuesday at her home and office. Wright said the museum had never received any threats. |
| Posted by:Atrus |
| #5 p.s.- my beloved was photographing mountain scenery for Nat'l Geographic; stumbling across the camp, camera in hand.... well, you can guess the rest. To satisfy your curiosity- yes, I "heard" it in Utah... that great, silent "shout"- like a burst of white hot light- then darkness. He spoke to me several years later; his words? "No, this is not a dream; I am here to tell you about the other side"- yes, both the priests and the professors are ignorant and blind. There is much more, and it is as detailed and complicated as the reality we build on this world... if we create a new and higher reality(airplanes, brick houses, and watches) in this world, do you think the next would be any different? Although, there, there is no escape from one's victims... As for a "Judge" or even "Designer", I don't know. Doesn't matter anyways- if there were a God, yet you dissolved- poof!- into nothingness upon death, would his existence matter? What matters after death, to you, is YOUR existence. |
| Posted by: alzaebo 2003-11-19 12:26:50 AM |
| #4 Was it Indiana or Iowa that just granted a large "youth summer camp" to a Muslim group? (Think of Palestinian youth camps- or North Korean, or Cuban ones (where the 7 year olds like Elian Gonzales are shipped off to chop tobacco for Castro). "...it wasn't a Mosque"-- good one, no, GREAT one! I'm an identical twin, too- mine was killed in a PLO training camp in the mountains of Vancouver, Canada in 1979. Mengele?!!? You poor singletons honestly just cannot imagine or understand... this wasteland of loneliness is all you know. |
| Posted by: alzaebo 2003-11-19 12:14:08 AM |
| #3 Looks like we won't be evacuating the surviving Turkish Jews to Indiana. I'm afraid to look in the obits of the local papers for evidence of honor killings. This is pretty shameful. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-18 8:15:36 PM |
| #2 Thank G*d it wasn't a Mosque. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-11-18 7:22:20 PM |
| #1 "Remember Timmy McVeigh"??? Hmmm..that sounds so...confused. |
| Posted by: B 2003-11-18 2:07:28 PM |