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This Sabbath, the second day of Kislev, 5738, the following scriptural selections will be read in our
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Candle lighting, Friday, Nov. 11, 4:57 p.m.
VOL. LXXII, No. 10
Page Four
Friday, November 11, 1977
Book Fair as Communal Pride
Few events in the life of this community have
as unifying an effect as the annual Book Fair
which will be inaugurated at the Jewish Corn-
munity Center this Saturday evening.
Every element in the ranks of Greater Detroit
Jewry has a role in this annual dedication to
authors and publishers, in the process of
encouraging greater interest in books.
This is the occasion to inspire people to read
and to ascertain that their Jewish knowledge is
acquired through the Jewish book and its
author.
The importance of the current Book Fair
becomes apparent in the eight-day program
that will feature a number of the most noted
writers on Jewish themes. The selection of
some of the most valuable Jewish literary
works that have come off the presses of Ameri-
can publishing houses in recent months is a
mark of additional honor for, the Book Fair
planners.
The annual Book Fair, introduced and spon-
sored by the Jewish Community Center, with
the cooperation of the major Jewish organiza-
tions, assumes a holiday spirit. It has become a
community festival. The discussions with
authors, the cooperation extended by pub-
lishers, the book exhibitions, the overflow
audiences always drawn to these events, com-
bine to give pride to Greater Detroit Jewry's
cultural tasks. Book Fair is, indeed, occasion to
hearten Detroit Jewry in the continuity of its
aims to perpetuate learning and knowledge and
to keep providing the inspiration that is so vital
in keeping the cultural-spiritual standards of
Jewry on the highest level.
Nazi Revival: Wiesenthal Warning
An upsurge of neo-Nazism, the shocking arro-
gance of elements who continue to operate with
the swastika as their emblem. is becoming a
cause of new concern in the ranks of civilized
people.
The new anti-Semitism does not hesitate even
to assert that JewS had invented the tragedy of
the Six Million, that the Holocaust is a myth,
that Jews are the culprits and Hitler and his
hordes were saints.
Perhaps this accounts_ for a movement reviv-
ing the viewpoint that after more than three
decades since the Nazi terror there should be
both forgiveness and a total forgetting of what
had occurred. •
The differing view is the realistic—that once
the mass murders and the crematoria are for
and memory ignored, there is a danger
of their recurrence.
A timely warning comes from the man who,
more than any other, has exposed the crimes,
has revealed the existence of Nazi cells in many
parts of the globe, and has demanded the con-
tinuing search for the criminals so that the
mass murderers may _be brought to judgment
and punished for the brutalities they imposed on
millions of innocent people, with some Six Mil-
lion of them Jews—as victims of the bestialities.
Simon Wiesenthal is unrelenting in his search
for the criminals and in his campaign never to
permit the age of brutalities caused by Hitler
and his associates to be forgotten: The visit here
for a weekend at the Shanrey Zedek of Mr. Wie •
senthal should be welcomed so that the cou-
rageous defender of Jewish rights and the man
whose efforts have succeeded in locating many
criminals who have been hiding from justice
should be properly listened to and given due
recognition for fearlessness in carrying on a
battle for justice, often single-handedly. •
Should the Nazi crimes be forgotten and the
criminals given respite because of the passage
of time? There must be support for the views of
Simon Wiesenthal, who has declared: •
"The' Nationalist Socialist Party had 10 mil-
lion members. As the party drew its strength
mainly from the younger generation, an aver-
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age Nazi would be about 55 to 60 years old
today. The majority were not killed in the war,
because party members were seldom sent to the
front to fight. There are seven million Nazis
alive who are concentrated in Germany and the
previously occupied territory; five million in
West Germany; 11/2 million in East Germany;
300,000 in Austria; and about 200,000 in the rest
of the world."
In spite of these realisms there are the com-
passionate who would be kind to the per-
petrators of the worst crimes in history. On this
score Mr. Wiesenthal has stated:
"The diminutive term 'war criminal' is one of
the reasons why people say, 'It is now 33 years
after the war, and so it is time to stop talking
about it.' Young people, who lack appropriate
history courses in school, who hear nothing
about these matters from their parents, and are
therefore uninformed and confused, cannot
understand why, 33 years after the war, we still
cannot forget the bloodbath."
The unwisdom of granting compassion to the
war criminals is already in evidence. The inher-
itors of the Nazi idea are scoffing at the victims
of Hitlerism. That should be a lesson to those
who would forget.
Simon Wiesenthal comes here at a time when
it is necessary to remind the forgetful of what
had occurred and to prevent the recurrence of
the brutalities which already are being advo-
cated by those who are brandishing the legacy
of Nazism and are demonstrating a renewed
hatred for Jewry and for humanitarians of all
faiths. The time is here to uphold the hands of
those who keep exposing the Nazi criminals by
reminding the forgetful of their crimes. Let the
welcome to Mr. Wiesenthal be in the measure of
his worth, as a recognition of the labors of a
searcher for the truth, as an advocate of the
idea that when one fails to remember the past
he encourages repetition of the sufferings of
that era, thereby giving courage to the inhuman
elements in society. The Wiesenthal message is
never forgotten so that every vestige of Nazism
should be wiped out, never again to be given the
merest form of recognition.
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Holocaust Photos Increase
Human Sense of Outrage
However bitter the outrage over the bestialities of the Nazis, and
the Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, every collection of photos exposing the back-
ground of the inhumanities adds to the anger over what had occurred.
This is especially true at this time with the appearance of the Ktav-
published "An Illustrated Source Book on the Holocaust.
In this, the first of three volumes, the author-collector, Zosa Szaj-
kowski, has included pictures of atrocites that preceded the actual
Holocaust, illustrations showing how the Nazis, even before Hitler
assumed power in 1933 and in the years that followed, humiliated
Jews, insulted them, desecrated their synagogues, ruined their busi-
nesses, subjected them to indignities so degrading that they are uni-
maginable in a civilized society.
This book not only exposes the crimes. It shows how the
inhumanities of depraved minds had sunk so low that there wasn't a
spark of decency in the generation that followed Hitler's rise.
The scores of illustrations in this volume are fully indexed and their
sources given. It is a factual book. It does not need text other than the
explanatory inscriptions. There could not possibly be a more incisive
indictment of a people that_permitted the outrages.
Many in Germany had claimed that they were not aware of what
was occurring. This volume refutes such claims. In the view of what
is reconstructed here, how could anyone have failed to know how the
dignified German Jewish community was dragged through gutters,
abused, degraded, deprived of humanyights, robbed of possessions!
Zosa Szajkowski, a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish
Research, author of a number of important books, including "Jews
and the French Revolution," "Jews and the French Foreign Legion."
"Analytical Franco-Jewish Gazetteer" and others, has expertly
assembled the evidence against Hitler and the Nazis and Germans
who permitted the outrages, in this•large and impressive work.
Szajkowski did not have to leave Germany, in gathering material
for this, the first of his three volumes on the Holocaust, to have the
facts needed to indict and condemn the guilty. He retained the locale,
kept the theme linked with Germany alone, did not have to go to the
concentration and extermination camps. The evidence is within Ger-
many itself, and this volume accomplishes the aim of pinning the guilt
upon the Germans within Germany.
The beasts who engineered Nazism, Julius Streicher and his cohorts,
those who like Streicher advocated "the Jews must disappear," ar
the cast of ugly characters protrayed by their work, pictoric—,
exposed, in this volume.
The photos in Szajkowski's collection show how the Nazis had domi-
nated the press, the theater, films, business; how they invaded homes
and businesses to carry on the task of destroying the Jews.
There is nothing to match the cruelties exposed here. The author of
this pictorial account of the years of terror asserts that it was not only
the German propaganda forces to blame. He charges as many of the
photographs prove, that local German authorities had collaborated in
the crimes against the Jews, which later developed into crimes
against all humanity.
Szajkowski also points out that the German anti-Semitic tactics soon
were imitated in France, Romania, Lithuania and other countries,
and the Nazi crime became a global menace.
An important contribution towards exposing the Nazi crimes is
made in Zosa Szajkowski's "An Illustrated Source Book on the
Holocaust" and his three-volume collection is certain to be among the
most important documentaries in the Holocaust library.