Egypt Letting His torian Says Colleagues Ignore Holocaust
YORK (JTA)—Most Amer-
Terrorists Do ican NEW
The report, dealing with the personalities in dealing with the is-
historians—and consequently, squads which operated in Lithu- sue of Jewish Councils, and the
the scholarly works and textbooks aria from July to December 1941
Its Dirty Work? Century—lack
they have been writing on the 20th reveals that the Nazis "counted necessity for avoiding simplistic
generalizations. He pointed out
genuine "historical

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their victims one by one" and com-
piled a detailed body-count with
break-downs by category and sex.
The report reveals that 98 per
cent of the victims were Jews.
Dr. Randolf L. Braham of the
City University of New York,
presented a paper, A Reinterpre-
tation of the Holocaust in Hun-
gary, which stated it was a myth
that the destruction of Hungary's
Jews was caused only by the
Nazi occupation of that country
in 1944.
Instead, he said, the fact is it
was the consequence of initiatives
of "radical right" elements in the
Hungarian government which pre-
ceded the occupation by several
years and continued under the
Nazis.
Dr. Isaiah Trunk of YIVO stress-
ed the importance of recognizing
the factors of local conditions and

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that there were numerous in-
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consciousness" of the Holocaust.
GARAGE DOOR
stances where chairmen of coun-
ports that Russia has off ered This conclusion emerged from a
cils committed suicide, chose de-
training and medical aid to the detailed analysis of "The Holocaust
guerrilla's in a major reversal of in American Historiography" in a
portation, or actively engaged in
resistance rather than collaborate
its long-Standing policy of aloof- paper by Dr. Gerd Korman, profes-
ness toward The fedayeen move- sor of history at Cornell University.
in the murder of their people.
ment. The principal stipulation is
It was presented at a special
He emphasized 'that the phe-
reported to be that the guerrillas session on the Holocaust attended
nomenon of the councils should be
make an effort to end their political by several hundred professors and
"discussed within the framework
feuding, cease frying to undermine students participating in the an-
of Jewish history and not as a
existing Arab regimes and con- nual conference of the American
unique
and detached episode."
centrate on the resumption of ter- Historical Association.
rorist and sabotage attacks against
The
session,
the
first
of
its
Israel.)
kind for the AHA, was co-spon-
Elazar New Chief of Staff
sored by the VIVO Institute for
of Israel Armed Forces
SEE OR. LL
Jewish Research and the Con-
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Coinmand ference Group for Social and
of Israel's armed forces changed Administrative History.
hands on Jan. 1. Gen. David
Dr. Korman indicated in his
(Dado) Elazar, who commanded presentation that with a few ex-
in
at
Israel's successful assault on the ceptions, the only historians deal-
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old Yugoslavian-born Elazar, Is- torians seem to be "unaware" of
rael's ninth chief of staff, paid a those writings, he said. Among the
courtesy call on President Zal- many reasons for this phenomenon
man Shazar after his appointment was the possibility that they con-
became official.
sider that the "primary signifi-
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