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Identification With Holocaust Tragedy
Lost Among Developed Areas of Poland
The hotel is nearly al-
ways full. Tourists from Po-
land itself, from France,
(Editor's note: Edwin
America and the two Ger-
manies often opt for an Au-
CUSTOM -
on his visit.)
schwitz stay.
At a turn of a wooded
Like the American
road, five kilometers from tourists, I drove to Au-
the Polish city of Oswiczim schwitz from Cracow
(Auschwitz) the former Au- along a beautiful, green,
A LASTING GIFT
schwitz death camp bursts wooded road. At the end
into view.
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Auschwitz is still there, Oswiczim. Apartment
but 33 years after the gas buildings, with wash
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chambers and cre- hanging on the balconies,
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matoriums have stopped start some five kilomet-
spitting forth their ashes ers from the center. The
Our 30th Year
and smoke, the death camp railway station through
has changed. The lanes are which the death-bound
empty. The barracks serve trains used to pass is now
as exhibition halls for filled with quiet, rela-
Soviet and Polish prop- -lively well 7 dressed
aganda. .
people waiting to board a
The tragic passage of mil- train. There are 70,000
lions of Jewish victims on inhabitants in the city
their way to death is practi- which has become an im-
IN-DEPTH PROGRAMS FOR EVERYONE
cally forgotten. The former portant industrial center.
death camp, whose very
The Jews in nearby
PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
name sends - a shiver down Cracow say that one of the
BAR—BAT MITZVAH PILGRIMAGE: For 13 or 14 year olds .
the spine, has been turned Auschwitz survivors settled
six weeks of tours, cultural and recreational, activities. Re-
c ption at ancient synagogue in Old Jerusalem to mark and
e
into a tourist attraction.
in Oswiczim after the camp
celebrate the Bar — Bat Mitzvah year.
was
liberated. They think
Near
the
spot
where
HIGH SCHOOL STUDY PROGRAM: Students in grades 10. 11
once stood the small his name is Vogel but they
and 12 ... year or semester . . . will fulfill American high
school curriculum. Also technical programs . Judaic/
railway station where the never see him. Several
-Hebraic studies. field trips, work experience and group liv-
first "selections" were other' Jews live near the
ing. SCholarships also available.
made, a reception build- former death camp, four or
YOUTH SUMMER STUDY PROGRAM: Young adults ages 15 to
ing complete with a 58- - five Jewish engineers em-
17 ... six weeks of studies, lectures, discussions of life in
Israel, tours, recreational and cultural activities. -
room hotel, a cafeteria ployed in the city's large
COLLEGE STUDENT STUDY PROGRAM: At Hayim Greenberg
and a bank has been chemical factory. -
College in Jerusalem for a semester or one year. Curriculum
built. One still enters the
These few. Jews are prac-
includes Hebrew Language, Literature. Bible. History. Educa-
tion, Philosophy, Sociology. Talmud. Credits by leading uni-
camp, like the former tically the only Jewish
versities in the U.S. Also. tours, cultural and recreational
prisoners, through the presence left in the former
programs. Scholarships available.
iron
gate with the in- death camp site. In - the
SUMMER PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS
scription "Arbeit Macht former camp barracks, now
ISRAEL-AMERICA SUMMER SCHOOL: Intensive 8 week mod-
Frei." But now, on the turned into a museum, the
ern Hebrew language study at Ulpan Akiva, at Green Beach
left, there is a large park- Jewish presence is insig-
near. Natanya. Swimming, recreational and cultural activities.
ing lot.
nificant. There are hun-
UNIVERSITY SEMINARS: -6 weeks of study at Israeli universi-
ties. Plus tours. cultural and recreational activities. Up to 11
To the right there is a new dreds of photographs of
recognized credits may be earned. -
building—a long, modern former inmates who went to
HEBREW EDUCATORS SEMINAR: 3 weeks of lectures, studies,
corridor with several stalls their deaths but, with a few
tours, cultural and social activities.
where souvenirs are sold, rare exceptions, they are all
PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS INSTITUTE: 5 week seminar (in
English): lectures and discussions of Israel's cultural. social,
including- blue and white of former Polish and Rus-
economic, political, and educatiorial achievements. In service
pennants embroidered with sian political prisoners or
credits; Also tours and cultural activities.
a watchtower and a section resistance fighters.
BIBLE SEMINAR: 3 weeks of lectures and field trips—explore
biblical origins of modern Israel: tours. cultural and social
of the electric fence, color
(In April a Jewish memo-
activities.
postcards • and a variety of rial pavillion will be offi-
For information and applications call or write:
wzo I WORLD'ZIONIST ORGANIZATION
books and brochures.
cially opened.)
WZO Department of Education & Culture
One of the stall atten-
515 Park Avenue, N.Y.C. 10022
The Jewish presence is
dants, a former camp in-
(212) 752-0600 ext. 385/386
discreet but there, for any-
mate, is prepared to inscribe
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his tattooed Auschwitz bne who wants to see it. In
IT, Bar — Bat Mitzvah Pilgrimage •
3 University Seminars
number on the postcards for the barrack in which
3 High School Study Program
❑ Hebrew Educators Seminar
❑ Public School Teachers Institute
0 -Youth Summer Study Program
a few zlotys. At the end of thousands of suitcases are
0 Bible Seminar
College Student Study Program
displayed one needs only to
the corridor, with view over
0 Other Programs
26-A
3 Israel-America Summer School
scan the names: Goldmann
part of the camp; is the new
( Name
hotel. For $10 a night one • and Schwartz, Moses Sil-
berstein and Salomon
can get a nice room. Break-
\ Address
Poretz, the "orphan child
fast is served in the
city
Weissbrand" and . Rabbi
cafeteria.
State
Zip
Haim Fussband.
The entrance to the gas
chambers to which the pris-
oners were led believing
/
they were going to the
showers, is hidden from the
If I can't Beat Your Best Deal
camp by a wall of greenery
and trees.
Even more frightening in
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By EDWIN EYTAN
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
Eytan, the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency's European–
Bureau Chief, was recently
in Poland. This is another in
the series of reports he filed
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its stark nudity is Bir-
kenau, three kilometers
away. A railway line, the
"little death train," runs be-
tween the two camps. At
Birkenau there is no
museum, no photographs,
no posters, just hundreds of
wooden. barracks
stretching as far as the eye
can see.
At Maidanek near Lub-
lin everyday life has -
taken over at the former
compound. The city of
Lublin has grown till it is
only a few hundred
meters away from the
former death camp. The
city's new high-rise
apartment buildings,
perched ona hill top, look
straight down on the
camp and its gas cham-
bers. The new tenants
apparently do not mind.
On the site of the former
Warsaw Ghetto, a whole
new area of small houses
with gardens and garages
has been built."
It is not part of a program
of forgetfilness, on the con-
trary, Poland is trying to
stress for political and his-
torical reasons, the Nazi
period. It is just that 33
years have passed, and a
new generation, demanding
better flats, modern con-
veniences and a higher
standard of living, has crop-
ped
. Labor Budget
Move Defeated
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Premier Menahem Begin's
government coalition easily
defeated atabor Alignment
motion of no confidence by a
vote of 67 to in the Knes-
set.
Labor received only the
support of Shell, the Civil
Rights -Movement, Poalei
Agudat Yisrael and the
Communists in its motion
attacking the way the gov-
ernment had presented the
proposed 1978-79 budget.
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TEL -AVIV (ZINS) —
Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan recently said that
Jordan was -willing to ab-
sorb 500,000 Palestinians
currently living in refugee
camps and grant them im-
mediate citizenship.
Dayan -said, however,
that U.S. talk of establish-
ing a Palestinian entity in
the administered territories
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