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No. And this is not the first time we've seen proof of that sad fact.

David Frum writes an unusually good piece about Obama's calling Auschwitz a "Polish death camp."

This brings to mind a book I recently read (on Kindle) that I would like to recommend: The Stories our Parents Found Too Painful to Tell. It's a translation of a memoir written (in Yiddish) just after the war by a Jewish man from Bialystok who survived the ghetto and more than one camp, and then made his way to Australia. It's, as its title suggests, painful reading, but emotional and beautiful (the occasional show of humanity from a Nazi, for example, and the overwhelming courage of the Nazis' victims) and also, I believe, an important historical document. I hope it shows up on university reading lists, along with Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel and Anne Frank. It certainly belongs in such company.

Interesting sidenote: Mel Brooks named the lead character in The Producers after Bialystok, Poland, as that was where his family lived before making the trek to the new world. Thankfully, they got the hell out long before the era of industrial genocide.