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Wiese! Reports on Journey to Aid Cambodian Refugees
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Elie Wiesel, the chairman of
the President's Commission
on the Holocaust, recently
returned from a visit to
Cambodian refugee camps
as part of a delegation or-
ganized by the Interna-
tional Rescue Committee.
The author and lecturer
described the scenes which
he, together with more than
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gious affairs department of
the American Jewish
Committee, saw as they
journeyed to the Thailand
border to see first-hand the
condition and plight of the
Cambodian refugees.
Characterizing the three
refugee camps as "specta-
cles of horror," Wiesel de-
picted them as resembling
"pictures taken of DP camps
after World War II" with
scenes of "hunger, illness,
misery, death and of chil-
dren with emaciated bodies
and wounded men and
women."
Noting that the foreign
visitors were "deeply
shaken" by the situation,
Wiesel recalled that "the
Cambodian children
sensed our compassion
and viewed us as repre-
senting salvation and so
they jumped into our
arms."
Nevertheless, the adult
refugees responded to the
International Committee
very differently. "Some
were very dignified in their
misery, yet others resented
our presence," Wiesel said.
With estimates running
as high as 1-3 million Cam-
bodians murdered, Wiesel
pointed out that what was
particularly heartbreaking
to him was that "the refu-
gees had resigned them-
selves to the idea that the
Cambodian people had
come to an end."
While the entire visit was
an exhaustive and possibly
dangerous experience, a
touching personal moment
for Wiesel occurred when he
had to say Kadish for his
father, whose yahrzeit fell
during the journey.
Wiesel, whose father
died in Auschwitz, set out
"to find 10 Jews at the
border of Cambodia. I
went from one group to
another looking for a Jew
here and a Jew there. Fi-
nally I got a minyan to-
gether to say Radish." It
was, he recalled, "a sym-
bolic and very moving
moment."
When asked why he had
decided to make this trip,
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TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
Agudat Israel has been
heavily criticized for failing
to -invite Israeli President
Yitzhak Navon to its recent
world conference.
Agudat leaders explained
that Navon's presence
would pose a protocol prob-
lem for the delegates, who
would have to rise when
Navon entered the hall.
An Orthodox professor,
Ephriam Auerbach, pointed
out that Agudat delegates
stand in respect for foreign
heads of state, "and even
foreign tyrants who oppress
the Jewish community, but
in the Jewish state they
don't want to rise to honor
the president of our coun-
try."
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Wiesel responded that
"while I am not a represen-
tative of any group," he felt
that "as a Jew I had to be
there and see first hand
what is happening and
whether I could be of any
help."
Citing the reports which
had emerged about Cam-
bodia, he noted that "if
these reports that we have
read in the last couple of
months, the last couple of
years, about the end of the
Cambodian people were
true, then we had to do
something to prevent the
end of the people."
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