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" Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. "
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" My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. "
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