book review of The Escape Artist, a biography by Jonathan Freedland of Walter Rosenberg, aka Rudolf Vrba, one of the very few people who ever escaped from the #Holocaust in #Auschwitz. #history #genocide
on 02026-08-19“the last known Native manufacturer of stone arrowheads (...) Ishi, which means “man” in the Yana language, is an adopted name. The anthropologist Alfred Kroeber gave him this name because in the Yahi culture, tradition demanded that he not speak his own name until formally introduced by another Yahi.[2] When asked his name, he said: “I have none, because there were no people to name me”, meaning that there was no other Yahi to speak his name on his behalf.” #archaeology #genocide #human-rights #history
on 02025-09-29#Pygmies were subjected to #cannibalism during the #Congo civil war. #human-rights #genocide
on 02024-09-11future #genocide against the Third World by white supremacists. #politics
on 02017-03-30