Some of the more famous works are by Holocaust survivors or victims, such as Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, and Anne Frank, but there is a substantial body of literature and art in many languages. The Holocaust has been a common subject in American literature, with authors ranging from Sylvia Plath to Saul Bellow addressing it in their works. Key works in other languages include Ukrainian Anatoly Kuznetsov's novel about the Babi Yar massacre. ...

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The massacre of Jews at Babi Yar inspired a poem written by a Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko which was set to music by Dmitri Shostakovich in his Symphony No. 13. In 1984, Canadian rock band Rush recorded the song Red Sector A on the album Grace Under Pressure. The song is particularly notable for its allusions to The Holocaust, inspired by Geddy Lee's memories of his mother's stories [1] about ...

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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to murder every possi ...

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Holocaust theology refers to a body of theological and philosophical debate, soul-searching, and analysis, with the subsequent related literature, that attempts to come to grips with various conflicting views about the role of God in this human world and the dark events of the European Holocaust that occurred during World War II (1939-1945) when around 11 million people, including six million Jews were subjected to genocide by the Nazis and their cohorts. "Holocaust theology" is also referred to as "theology nach Auschwitz" ("after Auschwitz" in German), due to the common practice of using ...

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Holocaust denial, or Holocaust revisionism as it is referred to by its supporters, is the belief that the Holocaust did not occur as it is defined by mainstream historiography. Key elements of this belief are the explicit or implicit rejection that, in the Holocaust: The Nazi government had a policy of deliberately targeting the Jews and the Gypsies for extermination as a people; Around six million Jews and millions of others (including Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jehovah's Witnesses) were systematically killed by the Nazis and their allies; and Among other methods, gas chamber ...

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Art theft is the stealing of someone else's high-profile art. This is usually done for the purpose of resale; occasionally thieves are also commissioned by dedicated private collectors. Art theft - Individual theft. Many thieves are motivated by the fact that reasonably valuable art pieces are worth millions of dollars and weigh only a few kilograms, at most. Transportation is also trivial, assuming the thief is willing to inflict some damage to the painting by cutting it off the frame and rolling it up int ...

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The Holocaust has also been the subject of many films, including Oscar winners Schindler's List and Life is Beautiful. A list of hundreds of Holocaust movies is available at the University of Southern Florida. With the aging population of Holocaust survivors, there has also been increasing attention in recent years to preserving the memory of the Holocaust through documentaries. ...

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During the Holocaust, the Nazis confiscated tens of thousands of works from their legitimate Jewish owners. Some were sold by the Nazis, while many others were confiscated by the Allies at the end of the war. Many ended up in the hands of respectable collectors and institutions. Jewish ownership of the art was codified into the Geneva conventions. ...

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Moon in art and literature - Science fiction. Lucian wrote in the second century AD of voyages to the moon. The ninteenth century saw the start of many other stories about trips to the moon: "The Unparalled Adventure of Hans Pfaall" (1835) by Edgar Alan Poe features a repairer of bellows in Rotterdam who creates a giant balloon and an 'air compressor' to allow him to travel to the moon. Jules Verne wrote From the Earth to the Moon (1865), a novel about travel to the moon. The ...

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Moon in art and literature - Classical. Ludwig Von Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (1801) is probably the most widely recognised classical piece about the moon although Debussy's Au Clair de Lune ("By The Light of The Moon") approaches its fame. Debussy also wrote The Terrace for Moonlight. Antonin Dvorak included Song to the Moon in his opera Rusalka (1900). Less widely known works include Edward MacDowell's To the Moonlight, Leopold Godowsky's Boro Budur in Moonlight, Dennis Ruff's Aries Moon< ...

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Many famous literary figures have been associated with Birmingham: W. H. Auden grew up in Harborne, Birmingham, and his poem Letter to Lord Byron mentions the Birmingham-Wolverhampton rail line. Barbara Cartland was born in Edgbaston in 1901. The family home was on Cartland Road, Kings Heath. Charles Dickens gave readings in Birmingham Town Hall and was the sixteenth President of The Birmingham and Midland Institute. Jonathan Coe was born and raised in Birmingham, which is the setting of two of ...

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Siehe auch: In der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus verfolgte Composeren Pavel Haas, Composer (d. Auschwitz concentration camp 1944) Gideon Klein, Composer (d. Auschwitz concentration camp 1945) Hans Krása, Composer (d. Auschwitz concentration camp-Birkenau 1944) Karlrobert Kreiten, Pianist (d. Berlin-Plötzensee 1943, Executed) Alma Maria Rosé, Violinist, Conductor (d. Auschwitz concentration camp 1944) Franz Schreker, Composer, Conductor (d. Berlin 1934 by a stroke after repris ...

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Flatulence has had a role in literature for centuries. In Rabelais' 16th century Gargantua cycle, the word pet (fart) appears several times. In the translated version of Penguin's 1001 Arabian Nights Tales, a story titled "The Historic Fart" tells of a man that flees his country from the sheer embarrassment of farting at his wedding. In Dante's Divine Comedy, the last line of Inferno Chapter XXI reads: ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta ("and he used his buttocks as a trumpet"), in the last example the use of this ...

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"The Benevolent Goblin" by Gesta Romanorum and The Goblin of Adachigahara (Japanese) are just a few fairy tales depicting goblins. Also see Brothers Grimm. Christina Rossetti in her poem Goblin Market, used goblins as symbols of earthly desires who tantalize and nearly destroy a girl who falls under their spell. Author George MacDonald, in The Princess and the Goblin, portrayed goblins as malevolent, subterranean creatures. The book is said to have been a childhood favorite of J. R. R. Tolkien, who populate ...

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Portrayals of girls may reflect their standing in the artists' culture, and a brief overview of different views of girls in different art periods gives a sense of girls' roles in societies around the world and at different points in time. Egyptian murals included sympathetic portraits of young girls of royal descent. Ancient Greek classical art and literature paid scant attention to female children, though there are many poems about boys. Only Sappho's poe ...

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See also: Romantic poetry In art and literature, 'Romanticism' typically refers to the late 18th century and the 19th Century. The British poet James Macpherson influenced the early development of Romanticism with the international success of his Ossian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both Goethe and the young Walter Scott. An early German influence came from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe whose 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had young men throughout Europe emulating its protagonist, a young artist with ...

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Main article: Indian literature Indian literature is generally acknowledged, but not wholly established, as the oldest in the world. India has 22 officially recognized languages, and a huge variety of literature has been produced in these languages over the years. In Indian literature, oral and written forms are both important. Hindu literary traditions dominate a large part of Indian culture. Apart from the Vedas which are a sacred form of knowledge, there are other works such as the Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabhar ...

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Flatulence had a role in literature since the mists of time, as In Rabelais' Gargantua's cycle reads several times the word pet (fart). In Dante's Divine Comedy, the last line of Inferno Chapter XXI reads: ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta ("and he used his buttocks as a trumpet"), in the last example the use of this natural body function underlined a demoniac condition. In Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" (one of the Canterbury Tales), the character Nicholas hangs his buttocks out a window and fa ...

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The Caress (1896), by the Belgian symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), is a representation of the myth of Oedipus and the Sphinx and portrays a creature with a woman's head and a cheetah's body (often misidentified as a leopard's). André Mercier's Our Friend Yambo (1961) is a curious biography of a cheetah adopted by a French couple and brought to live in Paris. It is seen as a French answer to Born Free (1960), whose author, Joy Adamson, produced a cheeta ...

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