22 Friday, April 16, 1982 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Hebrew U. Prof. Bauer Supports New Tack in Teaching Holocaust PHOTOGRAPHERS 14000 WEST LINCOLN BLVD. — OAK PARK, MICHIGAN 48237 COMPLETE PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE • FULL LINE OF INVITATIONS • WEDDINGS • BAR MITZVAHS WE NOW CAPTURE • BAT MITZVAHS BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES ON VIDEO f c÷v 1 . 3-' . — PHOTOGRAPHIC SPECIALIST — 398-4700 • ;- '4i -- • CHICAGO — Prof. Yehuda Bauer, director of Hebrew University's Insti- tute of Contemporary Jewry, greatly admires Simon Wiesenthal's famed efforts to apprehend Nazi murderers, but he flatly re- jects his view that, as Jews, we should remind the world that 11 million people were murdered by the Nazis, in- cluding five million non- Jewish Christians. On the contrary, Bauer said in a wide-ranging pre- sentation at a Northeastern Illionis University sym- posium on teaching the Holocaust, the number of non-Jews who were killed in the concentration camps was a maximum of 750,000. 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This, he said, included practically all Polish in- tellectuals among the three million Polish non-Jews killed, Czechs, Byelo - Russians, and other Eastern Euro- peans. Byelo - Russians suspected as partisans were burned alive by the thousands in Russian Or- thodox churches. All such groups were re- garded by Hitler as sub- humans, and their extermi- nation or persecution, ac- cording to Bauer, was truly genocide. The Jews were not victims of such genocide, but were the first group in history — so far — to ex- perience a Holocaust. Hitler's racial policy placed Jews not in the cate- gory of sub-humans (like Slays), but as the non- human embodiment of corn- plete evil, who are trying to take over the entire world through their satanic machinations. To exterminate this evil was the "holy" million of the German .people, as leaders of the pure and exalted Aryan race. Thus it was possible for members of the SS to murder hundreds of Jews and come home at night as "Christian" hus- bands and fathers. Bauer revealed infor- mation from a previously unknown 1942 survey of the G _ erman people on the still debated question: "Did the German people know what happened to the Jews?" A German anti-Nazi managed to ask this question of hundreds of his fellow-citizens. While he travelled exten- sively throughout the coun- try, he deliberately made acquaintances, and then casually asked what they had heard about the fate of Jews from their cities, towns or villages. Eighty percent responded that they had heard that Jews had been killed. Bauer asked: If 80 percent admit- ted they knew, didn't the other 20 percent have the same guilty knowledge? Bauer addressed directly the agonizing issue of why and how Jews submitted to the Nazis. He rejected un- equivocally the extreme positions that Jews went like sheep to the slaughter, or that they were all heroes and heroines. A British royal commis- sion, the Peel Commission, in 1937 recommended the partition of Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state and British enclaves. The 20th Zionist Congress, while rejecting the commis- sion's scheme as unwork- able, empowered its Execu- tive to negotiate to ascer- tain "the precise terms of His Majesty's Government for the proposed establish- ment of a Jewish state." In 44 other ghettoes, there were armed groups. In 91 of the 110 Byelo - Russian towns and villages where Jews lived, they did resist. There were 25,000 Jewish partisans, most of whom perished. There were 6,000 Jews in Tito's army. In fact, the very first group Tito or- ganized included 13 fighters from Macedonia Zionist groups. Bauer. did not spare his audience the other bitte tragic side — the Jewi traitors: the ghetto police; capos in the death camps; even Jewish hangmen. Among them were young and old; men and women; religious and non-religious; intellectuals and workers. Bauer stressed that de- spite all too frequent non- Jewish assistance to the Nazis in the occupied coun- tries, there were many examples of true bravery. In Poland and in Germany it- self, Jews were hidden by Christians throughout the war. The Archbishop of France asked every priest to save Jews. The Ursuline Sisters and Be- nedictine monks played a key role in rescuing Jews, as did priests and bishops in Italy. The same could not be said of Pope Pius XII who never lifted his voice. Bauer stated that the Pope's fail- ure to act was clearly due to his desire to preserve the Catholic Church at all costs from attacks by the Nazis. Bauer praised the accom- plishments of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in saving Jews during the Holocaust . . . a fact deeply appreciated by Jews who had been under the Nazi yoke. Ironically, Bauer believes this is not known by most American Jews who still mistakenly assume that little or noth- ing was done by any Ameri- can Jewish organization. Bauer's latest book, "American Jewry and the Holocaust — the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 1939-1945," is a detailed presentation of JDC's global efforts. It was the JDC that fi- nanced the revolt in the Warsaw ghetto and Raoul Wallenberg's rescue of Hungarian. Jews. Few people are aware that t' JDC constantly sent aid Jews in all the occupied lands. CASH FOR YOUR offimonos& PRECIOUS JEWELS Scdpre; daft 755 W. Big Beaver Rd. (16 Mile at 1-75) Tray, Michigan _ Phone: 313-362-4500