16 Friday, April 142 1983 Reagan (Continued from Page 1) Navy Band in singing "God Bless America." While Reagan's speech implied a confirmation of U.S. support for Israel, Elie Wiesel, the writer and chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Coun- cil, appeared to criticize Administration pressure on Israel. Speaking after the President departed, Wiesel declared that "to re- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS, I 1`. 11,1 le ge• • member" the Holocasuust means "not to apply pres- sure on Israel." He called such pressure "morally wrong" since Israel was the only place to take in Jews when the "world closed its gates" to Jews. "Israel is the only country in the world that is threatened militar- ily by its enemies and politi- cally by its friends," he said. While one of the themes of the Gathering was, ac- cording to Meed, to "ex- aF t i PIA i 1 4; 1 ! f, .° 14 1 :,... '"0 4 10 4 1 -tit 1.11 1 i_ f- 1 aHavens orsurviv o rs :P... 1 1 # press our close ties with Israel," its major purpose was to keep the remem- brance of the Holocaust alive. Reagan also stressed this theme in his address. "We are here first and foremost to remember. These are the Days of Remembrance, Yom HaShoa." He said that "good and decent people must not close their eyes to evil" and "must never re- main silent and inactive in I times of moral crisis." But Reagan, in his address, he stressed "what we do to- discussed the stories of some night is not for us" but for individual survivors and of the next generation. "righteous gentiles" who Meed also pointed out sought to help Jews, as he that soon all of the survivors has done in his two previous will be gone "but we must Holocaust addresses in 1981 see that our past is not for- and 1982. The loudest gotten." Menahem applause came when he Rosenaft, chairman of the mentioned Raoul Wallen- International Network of berg, the Swedish diplomat Children of Jewish who was imprisoned by the Holocaust Survivors, Soviet Union after he saved pledged that "we will never thousands of Hungarian forget." Jews from the Nazis. The long ceremony in- cluded the lighting of six candles for the Six Mil- lion Jews killed by the Nazis by survivors, chil- dren of survivors and members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial would you believe Council. The audience recited Kadish and the El Mole Rahamin was chanted by Cantor Isaac Goodfriend of Atlanta, a member of the Holocaust Memorial Council. One of the most poignant moments in the ceremony was the appearance of two persons who met when the U.S. Army liberated Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. One was Rabbi Herschel Schacter of the Bronx, N.Y., who as a chap- lain in the U.S. Army, dis- covered a frightened seven-year-old boy hiding behind a pile of corpses as the U.S. troops walked into the camp. That boy, Israel Lau, is now Chief Rabbi of Natanya, Israel. 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He said that when vivors of the Holocaust have he was in Auschwitz, he and to tell it. others could see the nearby But Wiesel, who noted munitions factories being that on April 11, 1945, he bombed and prayed the was one of the survivors lib- planes would also hit the erated at Dachau by the camps, but they didn't. He U.S. Army, said that for added that the Soviet Union many years after 1945, "the also has -to-be criticized be- survivors were like out- cause its troops were even casts" and "our story was closer to the camps and they not being heard." too did nothing. "The uniquely Jewish Wiesel said the museum. event (in Which six-million which the Holocaust Coun- Jews were murdered) has cil will build near the Wash- universal application," ington Monument will be a Wiesel said in a luncheon living memorial to the address at the National Holocaust. He said it is Press Club. "It is because needed to educate future the world didn't care that generations. Jews were killed, that now other people are being mas- Columnists sacred and the world doesn't care." He said he went to were in Error, Cambodia after he learned Pro-Israel about the massacres there to see the victims at first Body Asserts hand because "when I NEW YORK (JTA) — needed people nobody "Americans for a Safe Is- came." rael" (SAFE) said that syn- Wiesel's remarks were dicated columnists Rowland made as some 15,000 sur- Evans and Robert Novak vivors and their children erred when they reported on arrived in Washington April 8 that Israeli govern- for the ,first American ment officials had promoted Gathering of Jewish the sale of land on the West Holocaust Survivors this Bank to American Jews week. during a SAFE conference In his press club address, in New York on March 13. Wiesel noted that the The organization, which greatest shock for the sur- contends that Israel must vivors after their liberation permanently retain the was when they learned that West Bank if it is to be se- the world had known what cure, said the conference wasshappening. He told the was a forum in response to reporters present that their President Reagan's Sept. 1 predecessors had done their peace initiative which Is- job in reporting the various rael rejects, that none of the atrocities committed during speakers could be consid- World War II but the lead- ered an Israel government ers of the free world had official and that none prom- failed to act. oted land sales. "I think of this country SAFE said the only men- with pride," Wiesel said. tion of land sales to Ameri- But he said that during the cans at the conference was Holocaust period the ac- contained in a flyer txplain- tions of the United States ing how Americans could and particularly that of its buy land on the West Bank. President, Franklin Delano "None of the Israelis ad- Roosevelt, were not mo- dressing the conference was ments worthy of praise. He aware of the existence of the especially pointed to the flyer," SAFE said.