THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Collection Gains Detroit Haggada Maurie Orodenker, prom- inent Philadelphia public relations man, added the Haggada used at the Sedorim of the Sholem Aleichem Institute of De- troit to his vast collection of 1,400 Haggadot. Orodenker is reputed to have collected more Hag- gadot, from all ages, than any other bibliophile in the world. Orodenker has about 1,400 Haggadot in 25 differ- ent languages. The search for Haggadot has taken Orodenker around the world. His collection comes from 30 countries. According to the Philadelphia (Pa.) Bulle- tin, among Orodenker's Haggadot are those writ- ten by survivors of the Holocaust. These show Nazi soldiers instead of the biblical Egyptians. One, published in 1948 in Munich, Germany, notes that "Passover, 1948, marks the third Seder after the redemption from the bondage of the Nazi tyranny," and con- tains pictures of the chil- Mercy Students in Solidarity With Holocaust Survivors (Editor's Note: Sister Carol Rittner of the order of Religious Sisters of Mercy, has embarked on a project of raising the consciousness of Christians to the events of the Holocaust. She also is teaching a course at Mercy College entitled, "Agony and Triumph: An Encounter With the Holocaust." (The dais was assigned to write an essay about the Holocaust survivor in today's society. Sister Carol selected three by non-Jews which she thought would be of interest to the Jewish community: "Can We Ig- nore the Voice of Survivors?" written by Barbara Laubscher, a nurse and emergency room supervisor at Detroit General Hospital; "Value in the Survivor's Voice," by John Shuell, a Detroit policeman; and "Who Heard the Screams of 11 Million?" by Detroit policewoman Midge Roberts. (The essay follows in toto.) dren from Nazi concen- tration camps. Modern Haggadot use pictures of Israeli Army tanks next to the chariots of biblical days or call for prayers for Soviet Jewry. There are women's libera- tion Haggadot and a "hip- pie" Haggada. Orodenker's collection in- cludes the smallest Hag- gada published, about the size of a postage stamp, and the largest, a 20-inch by 16- inch Hagadda published in 1971 in Israel. Orodenker's collection includes a limited edition facsimile of a German Haggada from the year 1400. Another facsimile is of a 14th Century Hag- gada called the Bird's Head Haggada, which uses birds' heads in its illustrations. Rabbis for- bade the use of any human forms in illustra- tions because of the bi- blical commandment against graven images. His oldest Haggada is part of a prayerbook printed in 1521 in Rimini, Italy. His oldest separate one is the Amsterdam Haggada, pub- lished in 1695. Who Heard the Screams of 11 Million? "Who heard the death scream of 11 million innocent men, wcJ.nen and children? No one. It was not a scream of rage or even of despair. It was a scream of silence. The silence of disbelief? Perhaps. The silence of apathy? Defi- nitely. The wailing of the many victims went unheard. Will humanity now try to redeem itself by hearing the whisper of the survivors? There are so few of them left. They speak so softly, as if they are embarrassed to speak at all. Can they be blamed for their reluctance? "They were freed from an unimaginable nightmare only to find that they had been brutally betrayed by an uncaring world. They left the ashes of their dead families and friends at Auschwitz and Treblinka. Yet, even now they carry the ashes of their dead dreams and hopes in their hearts. "The nightmare is over. They are free to speak their truth as they lived it. Humanity is free to listen to their truth. But it can not be heard with ears alone. It must also be heard with the heart. The survivors are not on trial. They did not cheat death in the gas chambers, only to be judged by those of us who can never know or understand their agony. It is as if they stand accused— not of surviving — but of having the poor taste to keep reminding us of their survival. "Would it have been better if they had all died? The world could have erected a memorial for the mil- lions of victims, mouthed some universal prayers and then conveniently forgotten them. It would have been simpler and much kinder on the conscience of the rest of humanity. How bizarre it is to confuse the victims with the victimizers. "Is our guilt such an unbearable burden that we must attempt to thrust it upon the frail shoulders of the sur- vivors? Haven't they endured enough pain, enough sorrow, enough anguish? When the last survivor dies, will our guilt and shame die too? When there are no more survivors will there be no more memories? When there is not a single yoke left to cry out, will it finally be over? Will the Holocaust be buried like the bodies of its victims? "To forget is far worse than to forgive. When you for- give, you still acknowledge that a wrong has been done. To forget this crime against all mankind is the same as saying, `It never happened at all!' The survivors can never forget the Holocaust. The stark reality of the horrors they suffered are forever burned in their minds and in their souls. "The world owes the victims a debt and it owes the survivors an even greater debt. It is a debt that can never, never be paid. The survivors can never regain what they lost. How do you regain that which is of the spirit: love, honor, dignity and trust? It is impossible, as impossible as it is not to listen to the voice of the survivors. That voice is like a single candle of justice, flickering in the abysmal dark- ness of the mind. A lonely beacon guiding us to truth. That voice can be heard in many ways: in the books we have read, in the alms we have seen, and from the survivors, who were willing to share their painful experiences and their tears of blood with us. I have heard that voice and I will continue to hear it for the rest of my life." 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