I WAS taken aback by a strange omission in Beverly Beckham's Nov. 4 column "At Auschwitz, confronting the unimaginable," which appeared in the Globe's Sunday local sections.
In her discussion of her visit to Auschwitz, and her reaction to the 2002 murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, she omitted what Pearl and 90 percent of the more than 1 million people slaughtered by the Germans at Auschwitz have in common: They were Jews, and their Jewishness marked them for cruel and brutal deaths.
To discuss the Holocaust and the Pearl slaying and avoid any mention of the word "Jews" or "Jewish" is bizarre. Denying Mr. Pearl and the vast majority of the victims of Auschwitz the recognition of their heritage is deeply offensive.
CHARLES S. GLASSENBERG
Wellesley
