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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Holocaust horrors recounted
Victims struggled to preserve their story

The Associated Press

AMHERST, Mass. — Some of the images seem almost mundane: a photograph of hunched women picking cabbage; essays scrawled in the handwriting of school children; posters advertising a summertime performance of the Jewish Symphony Orchestra.

But their everyday appearance is undercut by stories of exceptional horror.

The fertile cabbage field became a mass grave site. The words written by a 14-year-old describe the desperate cries for food he hears on the street. The 80 musicians who performed in that August 1941 concert were murdered at a concentration camp.

The artifacts are the remains of the Warsaw Ghetto, fragments of a Jewish society marked for extermination by the Nazis during the Holocaust, but saved by a small group who had the foresight and determination to record their history rather than allow it to perish with them.

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A journey in wordsFairfax student one of 10 winnersin Holocaust Remembrance Project
by Adam Levin

WJW Intern

When David Bae thinks about the Holocaust, he feels the collective weight of injustice all around the world.

A 17-year-old Fairfax resident, Bae was one of 10 first-place winners of law firm Holland and Knight’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Project. As a result, Bae spent the week of July 15 touring Washington, D.C., in the company of his fellow winners, seven Holocaust survivors and eight high school teachers. The weeklong event culminated on July 20 with a dinner banquet at the District’s Fairmont Hotel that featured a speech by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

To qualify for their trip, Bae and his fellow participants tackled an essay topic: Analyze why it is vital for the lessons of the Holocaust to be passed to new generations and suggest what students can do to prevent prejudice, discrimination and violence in the world. In his essay, starkly titled “Indifference,” Bae, a rising senior at Woodson High School in September, wrote of the evils that abound when humanity turns a collective blind eye.

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Le Pen to face trial for Nazi comments

France’s extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen will stand trial for commenting that Nazi occupation of France had not been ‘particularly inhumane’
EJP

France’s extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen will stand trial for comments he made last year when he said that the Nazi occupation of France had not been “particularly inhumane.”

The comments were made during an interview with the far-right weekly magazine Rivarol. Le Pen had said: “In France, at least, the German occupation was not particularly inhumane, although there were some blunders, inevitable in a country of 550,000 sq km.”

A judicial source said Le Pen would be tried for “complicity in contesting crimes against humanity and complicity in justifying war crimes.”

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Knoxville exhibit tells story of Tennessee’s Holocaust survivors
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For some people, the Holocaust is just part of history, but for some others it is still part of their daily lives.

That is why for over three years, photographer Robert Heller has been documenting images and stories of Holocaust victims who live throughout Tennessee.

Now, these important and compelling images can be seen in a new exhibit at the East Tennessee History Center in Downtown Knoxville.

“As much as we learn about (the Holocaust), there is really nothing like listening to the story of someone who was there, who was a victim or witness to,” Heller says of the survivors he photographed.

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Head honoured for keeping Holocaust memories alive

Jul 25 2006

SANDHURST School assistant head Sam Hunt was among guests honoured at a St James’s Palace reception in tribute to her work with the Holocaust Educational Trust.

The secondary school in Owlsmoor Road, the only one represented at the reception, has been recognised by the Government’s education department as an example of excellence for its anti-racism programme.

Mrs Hunt, who has worked at the school for 14 years, said she was delighted to be asked to attend the reception, hosted by Local Government Minister Philip Woolas.

The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation

presents the grand celebration of

Raoul Wallenberg’s 94th birthday

Join us on Sunday, August 6th, 2 5 p.m.
Central Park on 5th Ave & 67th St.
(Across the Billy Johnson playground)

Festivities include
Live Music + Face-painting + Storytelling
Games + Arts & Crafts + Contests + Prizes & More!

Children of all ages are welcome!!

Raoul Wallenberg is the Hero who saved 100,000 people during WWII. He was seized by the Soviet Army and is still missing

The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation is a non-profit organization whose aim it is to render homage, promote the message and remember the actions of all those Heroes, who like Raoul Wallenberg, risked their lives to save persecuted people during WWII.

The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
34 East 67 St. 2nd floor - New York, NY 10021 - USA
Tel 1 212 737 3275 - Fax 1 212 535 6262
irwf {at} irwf(.)org - www.raoulwallenberg.net

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Survey: Many U.S. museums lag in researching Nazi-era looted art
By Associated Press
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 - Updated: 11:17 AM EST

NEW YORK - Many American art museums missed a deadline to report whether their collections contain works that might have been stolen during the Holocaust, according to a survey released Tuesday.
Despite their agreement seven years ago, 118 out of 332 museums, or 35 percent, have not reported on their progress, according to the Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which posted the results on its Web site.
Among museums that did meet the July 10 deadline, 33 percent provided incomplete information, the organization said.
The New York-based Claims Conference was established after World War II to help Holocaust survivors and their relatives reclaim property. It asked the museums to research items that were created before 1946 and acquired by the museum after 1932, that underwent a change of ownership between 1932 and 1946, and that were or might reasonably be thought to have been in continental Europe between those dates.

Holocaust survivor who spread hope dies

01:00 AM EDT on Monday, July 24, 2006

BY KIA HALL HAYES
Journal Staff Writer

PROVIDENCE — Witnessing the violence that came from learned hatred, Lea Eliash spent her life teaching forgiveness and humanity.

Eliash, a Holocaust survivor who devoted her life to telling her story of survival and the atrocities suffered by millions of Jews, died yesterday from a massive stroke. She was 89 years old.

“The most amazing thing about her is that she wasn’t bitter and she wasn’t angry; she wanted to educate people,” said her daughter, Asya.

In 1997, Eliash received an honorary doctorate degree in public service from Rhode Island College for having told many people around Rhode Island of the brutality she had witnessed more than 65 years ago.

After the Nazis occupied Lithuania in 1941, her husband, Solomon, was sent to the Dachau concentration camp. Eliash worked in a factory in Kovno, Lithuania, making gloves and vests for German soldiers.

Learning in 1942 that the Nazis planned to kill all Jewish children, Eliash arranged for a Christian family to keep Asya and smuggled her out of the ghetto in a shopping bag.

In 1944, Eliash crawled beneath the barbed wire fence in Kovno’s ghetto when the electricity was shut off. Living on the run, she was reunited with her daughter months later.

Eliash and her daughter were living in a displaced persons camp in 1947 when they were reunited with Solomon. The family emigrated to the United States in 1951.

The Christian family served as an example of humanity for Eliash, he daughter said. Despite the indignities Eliash experienced, “That’s what she came out of it with, rather than anger and bitterness. She came out of it with goodness.”

She had promised her husband before he died in 1978 to tell others about the Holocaust, so Eliash crisscrossed the state, spreading her message and her memories in schools and at the Rhode Island Holocaust Museum. She taught Hebrew at Temple Emanu-El in Providence for more than 40 years.

Eliash was preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Sarah Isaac Kotler. She is survived by her daughter and her grandson, Jonathan.

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. today at Temple Emanu-El , with the burial at Lincoln Park Cemetery in Warwick. Shiva will be observed at her residence at 266 Morris Ave. today from 7 to 9 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m., and Friday from 2 to 4 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Temple Emanu-El or to the Rhode Island Holocaust Museum. Funeral arrangements are being handled by the Sugarman-Sinai Memorial Chapel.

From Budapest, Hungary to Boca Raton, Florida to Los Angeles, California:

Mary Eckstein and Vera Schwartz Menlo

MAZEL TOV!

From Ungvar to California to Connecticut

Ed Hoffman and Andy Klein

My name is Edward Hoffman (nickname BUMI) and I was born in NOEY SZOLLOS in 1929.

I speak Yiddish, Hungarian, German and some Russian. I was liberated in EBENSEE.

I visited EBENSEE, the concentration camp, in 2005 which is now a housing development. I only found the tunnels there with a guide to explain things, as if that could be done.

I want to thank you again for all your help in connecting all of us survivors.

By the way, I am looking for a good friend. His name is Andy Klein form Unguar.

He lived in Burnley, England in 1946-1947. That’s near Manchester.

If anyone knows him, please contact me on my e-mail.

Thank you very much.

Edward Hoffman

From Andy Klein, a Survivor in Fairfield, Connecticut:

Bumi,

This is Andy Klein living in Connecticut.

Born in Ungvar in 1929, liberated in Liebsig in 1945.

Went to Manchester in 1946 - 1949.

I would love to hear from you if I am the same Andy you are looking for.

Hoping to hear from you.

Andy Klein

CONTACT: allgenerations {at} aol(.)com