THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
`Holocaust' Text a Must for Jewish, Public Schools
The Holocaust—mass
murder of six million Jews.
Can we, as Jews, ever for-
get? Can we, as Jews, ever
let our children forget?
To perpetuate the knowl-
edge of this period, author
Bea - Stadtler has published
a textbook, "The Holocaust
— A History of Courage and
Resistance" (Behrman
House, Inc.).
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Another positive feature
of the book, besides its com-
pleteness, is that Mrs. Stad-
tler relates it directly to
children for whom it was
written. She recounts the
slaughter of children "just
like you." In the chapter on
Theresienstadt (Terezin), in
which she reprints the poe-
try left by the younger in-
mates, she writes:
"These are just two of
the poems of children who
were taken from their par-
ents, sent to Terezin, and
then to Auschwitz to be
murdered. These children
drew and wrote poetry just
like you. They liked pretty
things and springtime;
they had the same hopes
and dreams as you."
Kristallnacht, the yellow
badge, the untermenschen
label and a complete de-
scription, in- easy to • under-
stand language, of Hitler's
final solution all are in-
cluded. There even is a pas-
sage of the Nazis' duping of
Red Cross officials at There-
sienstadt, the "model con-
centration camp."
Among the heroes are the
righteous gentiles and the
Danes for their "Danish
Rescue." The illegal immi-
gration, Aliya Bet, and the
youth aliya movements also
are detailed. Even the role
of Nazi hunter Simon Wie-
senthal, himself an inmate,
is included.
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The book is a must for
every Hebrew school and
Jewish child. More impor-
tantly, it should be used as a
supplement in secular
school history classes so
that public school teachers
will not pass over this most
important chapter in Jewish
and world history.
—Heidi Press
The textbook, with a fore-
word , by Yehuda Bauer,
professor of Holocaust stud-
ies at Hebrew University of
Jerusalem's institute of con-
temporary Jewry, covers the
entire Holocaust periodiand
some of its aftermath, from
the rise of Adolf Hitler to
the trial and execution of
Adolf Eichmann.
The book is geared for
an upper elementary-age
reading group, youth age
10-12, and each of the ea-
sy-to-read chapters is fol- -
lowed by a series of
thought questions, such as
the following:
"On the night of Nov. 9,
1938 almost all the syn-
agogues in Germany were
destroyed; the sacred books
of Judaism were burned —
Torah, Talmud, prayer-
books and Codes. Why did
Hitler and the Nazis Who
helped him to plan the
`Final Solution' choose to
strike at buildings and
books first?"
Despite the omission of
the names of many of Hit-
ler's top henchmen and
most of the death camps, ex-
cept for the most horrible,
the book is a complete ac-
count of Jewish resistance
to the. Nazi terror and the
Jewish resistors to that ter-
ror.
Among those briefly de-
scribed in the Stadtler
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book are Hannah Senesh,
Henrietta Szold, Rabbi
Leo Baeck, Mordechai
Anilewitz, a young leader Bonn Indicts
of the Warsaw Ghetto re-
sistance;-Januscz Korczak Hermine Ryan
(Henryk Goldszmit), the
BONN (JTA) — Herrnine
father of orphans; and Braunsteiner Ryan, the
some of the "righteous Nazi concentration camp
gentiles." -
guard who later was a
Doctor warriors, rabbi Queens, New York house-
warriors and women fight- wife extradited to West
ers contributed much to the Germany in 1973 after los-
Jewish resistance. Mrs. ing a five-year court battle
Stadtler says of the women _.to retain her American citi-
resistors:
zenship, was indicted last
"Young girls and women week in Duesseldorf with
fought with guns and home- nine other Germans on
made bombs; they sloshed charges connected with the
through the filth of the sew- killing of 250,000 inmates in
ers guiding people to the a concentration camp.
`other side of the wall.' They
The trial is due to start
behaved heroically in ghet- this summer. Mrs. Ryan, 53,
tos, camps, and forests ... . was one of five women
Women as well as men were guards at the Maidanek con-
instrumental in making di- centration camp near Lub-
lin, Poland. After the war
-she married Russell Ryan, a
former U.S. serviceman.
Israel Sailors
Help Saudi Ship
TEL AVIV — The Israeli
Navy spent three days help-
ing a Saudi ship refloat it-
self after it ran aground in
the Gulf of Suez last week-
end.
The Saudis agreed to the
rescue operation after they
were permitted to remain
aboard their vessel and the
United Nations was in-
formed. -
The ship was finally -re-
floated at high tide after the
Saudis dumped their cargo
of oranges. The ship ran
" aground on the eastern side
of the Israeli-controlled Ju-
bal Strait, a mile and a half
from Egyptian controlled
waters. The area has been
hit by high winds and
. waves.
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