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and news updates! Speech by Professor Adam Rotfeld about
forgiveness and reconciliation given at the Warsaw 2011
conference. Click here to read the speech: Professor Adam
Rotfeld’s Speech “Memory of Nations. About the Right to Forgive
and Reconciliation” In The Lost Children, Tara Zahra tells the
heartbreaking stories of child survivors of World War II, whose
fate was often decided by ideological battles, policy debates,
and lingering ethnic tensions At the end of World War II,
several hundred teenage boys who had managed to survive
Buchenwald were invited by the Frenchgovernment to recuperate at
a group home near Paris. One evening, the Buchenwald boys, as
they became known, were served Camembert cheese as a special
treat for dessert. To the shock of the (Jewish) staff, the boys
began hurling the Camembert at the walls: Unfamiliar with the
runny, smelly cheese, they believed that they