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Romania commemorates 1941 pogrom
By The Associated Press

IASI, Romania - The Israeli and U.S. ambassadors joined Romania’s foreign minister and dozens of historians yesterday to mark the 65th anniversary of the country’s worst pogrom during World War II, when almost 15,000 Jews were killed.

In June 1941, under the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Ion Antonescu, 14,850 Jews were killed. Many were taken from their homes in the northeastern city of Iasi and put on cargo trains for several days where they died of heat, thirst and suffocation. Others were shot dead by members of the military.

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The success of Holocaust survivors in winning a $1.25 billion settlement from Swiss banks, which they accused of helping the Nazis steal Jewish holdings, was a small bright spot in that tragic piece of history. Burt Neuborne, a New York University law professor who represented the survivors, was rightly praised for his part in the effort. But now a controversy has arisen over Neuborne’s bill of more than $4 million.

After his work in helping win the settlement, Neuborne took the lead in helping the court decide how to allocate the money among Holocaust victims worldwide. It was an impossibly difficult task, and unsurprisingly, not everyone was happy with the result. A group of survivors who are dissatisfied are challenging his bill.

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The deadline to submit names for the Middle Tennessee Holocaust Wall of Remembrance is Friday.

They broke ground on the memorial last year.

Thursday, one of the leaders in the Jewish community spoke out about the importance of the memorial and urged people who have not yet submitted the names of loved ones yet, to do so.

The memorial will include six granite walls with the names of those lost in the holocaust.

“Similar things are occurring with other genocides around the world,� said Susan Limor with the Jewish Federation of Nashville.

The names can be sent to the Jewish Federation of Nashvill

ANNOUNCEMENT

Background:

Five years of research by the non-profit organization, One Thousand Children, shown
beyond a shadow of a doubt, based on readily available historical documents, that
there was a “network of cooperation” that crossed religious and sectarian
groups and geographical boundaries over three continents and two oceans, that made
the rescues possible as early as 1934 and allowed them to continue into 1945 and
resulted in the rescue of over one thousand unaccompanied children — Jewish, Christian
and non-sectarian.

In the United States the groups included but were not limited to the Quakers, Unitarians,
Catholic and Protestant organizations, and Jewish welfare organizations. (see attachment).

Of course there were issues that existed and had to be overcome to make this “network”
work (as would undoubtedly be the case even today), but it is their very attempt
to work together and the success they found in doing so, that needs to be recognized
and honored and further researched by historians because it still remains virtually
unknown but demonstrates what diverse peoples and organizations working together
can accomplish and might have accomplished if US policy had been more supportive
at the time.

The One Thousand Children, their families and OTC rescuers are profoundly grateful
to the Natonal Museum of American Jewish Hisrtory for recognizing and honoring the
organizations and persons who made their rescue and resettlement possible and for
their commitment to making this history known to the American people. There are
important lessons for all of us to learn as Americans and parts of the family of man,
especially today as genocide continues to take the lives children and their parents.

Contact at One Thousand Children: Iris Posner 301-622-0321 iposner {at} ix.netcom(.)com

ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING COLLECTIONS AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY

AND THE ONE THOUSAND CHILDREN

The National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH), whose mission is to explore
and celebrate the history of Jews in America and to inspire people of all backgrounds
to a greater appreciation of the diversity of the American experience and the freedoms,
is located on the sacred ground of Independence Mall in Philadelphia, PA, in the
heart of the most historic square mile in America. They are in the midst of a capital
project to erect a landmark new building which will house their exhibitions and
programs, a theater, classrooms, and an education and resource center.

The Museum maintains and continues to expand its unique collection of original photographs,
documents, and artifacts relating to the experiences of Jews coming to and living
in America. In addition the Museum is developing a one-of-a-kind online catalogue
of artifacts, documents, and photographs pertaining to American Jewish history.
The NMAJH Registry, the most comprehensive searchable catalogue of objects about
the experience of the Jewish people in America, will serve as an important resource
for museums, scholars and the public. Their web site is www.nmajh.org and
includes the plans for the new museum.

I am very pleased to announce that the Museum has established a collection dedicated
to the history of “The One Thousand Children”(OTC) — the only unaccompanied
children rescued from the Holocaust by America, and in addition, will include artifacts
representing this history in the core exhibition space of their new hundred million
dollar state-of-the-art Museum. Many of the OTC children have already donated materials
to this OTC Collection.

In order to continue to document the history of Jews in America including the One
Thousand Children, the Museum welcomes donations of original material related to
life pre-immigration, the immigration process, and and life in America.

They welcome original documents, letters, diaries, artwork, music, photographs,
clothing, religious materials, memorial (yizkor) books, personal artifacts, toys,
historic film footage, home movies, and other artifacts that were kept with you,
created, and/or used before, during and after immigration to the US.

If you have materials that you would consider donating to the Museum, please provide
a description of the materials to:

Registrar
National Museum of American Jewish History
cpingel {at} nmajh(.)org

Curatorial Dept.
(215) 923-3811 extension 124
(215) 923-0763 fax
collections {at} nmajh(.)org

or send a letter or call,

The National Museum of American Jewish History
Independence Mall East
55 North 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-2197

tel 215-923-3811
fax 215-923-0763

Should anyone want to contact me, please email iposner {at} ix.netcom(.)com, and you
can visit our web site at www.onethousandchildren.org

Regards,
Iris Posner
President, One Thousand Children

www.onethousandchildren.org

Comic France shuns as anti-semitic is a hit in Quebec

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FRENCH ANTISEMITE COMIC, DIEUDONNE IS LOVED MY HIS AUDIENCES INQuebec

the article does not say that Dieudonne is responsible for much of the Blacks hatred of Jews in France and indirectly responsible for encouraging the murder of a young Jewish man who was tortured to death.

Graeme Hamilton, National Post
Published: Thursday, June 29, 2006

MONTREAL - Have you heard the one about the Holocaust-obsessed Jewish intellectual who goes to a market in France and haggles over the price of potatoes? “With six million dead, surely you could give me a better price,” he complains.

Audiences packing a Montreal theatre this week for shows by the French comic Dieudonne have heard the joke targeting Bernard-Henri Levy, and according to press reports, they have been rolling in the aisles.

Dieudonne’s increasingly virulent attacks on Israel and Jewish lobby groups have made him something of a pariah in his native France. Former colleagues have accused him of anti-Semitism, and last March a French court convicted him of “incitement to racial hatred” for saying that his Jewish critics were “slave traders, who had converted to banking, show business and, today, terrorist action.” Mainstream venues have shunned him and he is reduced to performing in his own theatre.

Where were you during the war?
By Yossi Sarid

The Holocaust Victims Welfare Fund in Israel is in dire straits, and even though the numbers of its clients is dwindling, it is unable to provide them with their basic needs. Last week, the Finance Ministry rejected a request to increase its allotment to the fund, which provides assistance to some 20,000 survivors.

A few days ago, another government, the German government, agreed to sign an agreement with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. According to the agreement, payments will be made to survivors from North Africa, most of whom live in Israel. The Germans also agreed to add 22 million euros for the care of those who are still alive, and whose conditions worsens with every passing day. The Holocaust Victims Fund in Israel welcomed the agreement and expressed hope that “the Israeli government would join in this assistance.”

I have no objection, of course, to the Germans continuing to bear their historic responsibility until the end of time; all the treasures of Germany would never suffice to make up for what happened to the victims. But I do object strongly to this division of labor: our Israel merely increases the need for care, expecting someone else to take care of these needs in its stead; the government of the state of the Jews ignores the living victims among us and sometimes even abuses them, while the government of “the other Germany” bears the consequences of this irresponsibility. We cripple and they heal.

Haaretz recently published hair-raising reports of experiments conducted on the elderly at two hospitals - Kaplan and Hartzfeld. I found it difficult to understand what was new in these horror stories. For years, experiments have been conducted here on the elderly whom the Holocaust did not manage to murder. They survived and made it to the Jewish people’s national home, which was supposed to provide them with shelter and comfort. That was a mistake on their part: If they had gone to another country, a properly run country, their fate would have been better. No Western country has turned a shoulder as cold and apathetic as Israel’s to the dead who insisted for some reason on living; and if the State of Israel exists, and the raison d’etre for its existence was in part to serve as a refuge for survivors, then that reason for its existence has been weakened and blurred and will soon be entirely erased.

There is no doubt that the experiments in question were particularly interesting medical and human experiments, which could best be performed here, since this is where most of the survivors ended up. For example, how long can someone last who spent a few years in a concentration camp as a slave laborer, his weight dropping to 35 kilograms, and now faces severe psychological and material distress; is that not an interesting subject from a medical-scientific point of view? Or another example: A Jewish child who spent a year or two in the Mengele bloc in Auschwitz-Birkenau, with that psychopathic doctor rooting around in his brain, his eyesight going bad and his teeth going rotten, and now he does not have money to fix either the eyes or the eyes. What will happen to such a person?

Are such unique experiments not as good as any of the research done at Kaplan and Hartzfeld? And all the experiments on survivors are open and legal, since the state itself is constantly conducting them ? under the Budget Law, for example.

Sixty-one years after the Holocaust, the findings of any research into the survivors ? a breed facing extinction ? will only enrich future generations, on condition, of course, that it is conducted with permission and with arbitrariness, with the state’s authority and with the right amount of cruelty.

In his new book, On the Slopes of the Volcano, Amos Oz describes the gloominess and discomfort that accompanies him on his visits to Germany. He worries all the time that he is going to be invited together with someone who was among the criminals. “I avoid any contact with Germans over the age of 80 as much as possible,” he writes. “Unless they were always Socialists,” he adds. “But how can one tell from afar who has a ‘Socialist face’?”

This syndrome is familiar to any Israeli who has ever visited Germany; every elderly person one meets seems to beg the question: Where were you during the war, and what did you do? But I am worried about meeting the elderly in Israel, and not in Germany. Every time I encounter a tormented and drained elderly person, I am afraid to ask if they also came from over there, and I am even more afraid to ask myself: Where were you, man, when this person fought alone for his stolen life and robbed dignity? And I still have not completely given up on identifying the “Socialist face” that might actually agree to take part in a war for the teeth, and the eyes, and the heart.

The denial of the Holocaust survivors is another form of Holocaust denial.

Sometimes, that is how it feels, as if one had to cry out, “Hear O Israel, Hear O Israel” ? and Israel does indeed hear something, and Israel hears nothing.

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Sudan: Adding anti-Semitism to genocide
By Nat Hentoff
Published: Wednesday, June 28, 2006

While the killings and gang rapes in Darfur, and among refugee camps in neighboring Chad, are increasing after the so-called “peace agreement” on May 5, the genocidal president of Sudan, Gen. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, absolutely refuses to allow entry to U.N. peacekeepers to supplement the inadequate, though brave, African Union mission in Darfur.

Declaring that these would be “colonial forces,” the ruthless al-Bashir accuses Jewish groups of organizing for U.N. intervention. “If we return to the last demonstrations in the United States, and the groups that organized the demonstrations,” said al-Bashir on June 21 (Associated Press), “we find they are all Jewish organizations.” (Actually, a rainbow of many religious groups organized the demonstration.)

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An 80-year-old British Holocaust survivor unveiled a memorial at a school in Vienna on Wednesday in commemoration of more than 70 Jewish students expelled by the Nazis in 1938.

Harry Bibring, who was born in Vienna in December 1925 and now lives near London, was just 12 years old when he and dozens of other students were forced to leave the Amerling Gymnasium in April 1938 because of their religion.

Neil Cavuto Plays Politics with Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust
Reported by Melanie - June 28, 2006 -

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Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, and a man who has spent his life combating indifference, intolerance and injustice, was a guest today (June 28, 2006) on Your World w/Cavuto. Wiesel, who lost his mother and a sister at Auschwitz and his father at Buchenwald, was on to talk about the Israeli hostages being held by Hamas and this week’s growing tension between Israel and the Palestinians.

Several minutes into the segment, Neil Cavuto changed the topic to Iran. He said:

Let me ask you - we were talking during the break about Ahmadinejad of Iran who had said, and leads this chorus against Israel, that it doesn’t have a right to exist, that the Holocaust never existed - many have likened him to a modern-day Hitler. Is he?

Wiesel replied:

Look, I don’t like comparisons because then we would say Hitler is only an Ahrmadinejad. It - simply - I don’t like analogies, but he is bad.

Comment: Cavuto himself is among the “many” who have likened Ahmadinejad to Hilter. Those who do so are engaged in an effort to convince the American public that what we need, in lieu of diplomacy, is an all-out war with Iran.

It’s bad enough when Cavuto compares the two when he’s talking to, say, Oliver North. But to corner Elie Wiesel and use what he, his family, and millions of Jews experienced at the hands of Adolph Hitler to prime the American public for another Bush war, is cheap, disrespectful, and shameful.

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Mary McNamara

IN a documentary world awash in Ken Burns knockoffs, with their reliance on old photographs and celebrity voice-overs, it is good to be reminded of what the camera can capture that no amount of narrative or analysis could ever hope to. In “Inheritance,” which screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Tuesday at the Italian Cultural Center, director James Moll documents the story of Monika Hertwig, a German woman who in her early 60s finally comes to terms with her parents’ participation in the Holocaust.