...the news headlines include a number of stories that reflect the persistence of a past that is everlasting and does not wish to pass...
(Jelin, State Repression and the Struggles for Memory, 2003)
Saturday 19 July 2008
El Salvador: Holocaust Hero Remembered
Thanks to Tim's El Salvador Blog for drawing my attention to the story of Jose Arturo Castellanos, a Salvadoran diplomat who issued fake Salvadoran papers to Hungarian Jews, saving from the gas chambers:
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