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U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick linked the Holocaust to today's
"totalitarians" and violators of human rights.
BY GARY ROSENBLATT
Editor
More than 1,500 people partici-
pated in what U.S. Ambassador to
the United Nations Jeane J.
Kirkpatrick called our solemn
duty"of remembering the
Holocaust and perpetuating that
memory by dedicating Detroit's
new Holocaust Memorial Center
at a dinner at the Westin Hotel
Sunday evening.
Ambassador Kirkpatrick, the
guest speaker, told a hushed
audience that one of the lessons
learned from the Nazi tragedy is
that such horrors happened "in-
crementally, gradually, legally,"
a process in which the Jews of
Europe were transformed from
citizens to slaves, and then less
than slaves. Incrementally, the
Jews of Europe were de-
humanized, depersonalized, de-
based and finally annihilated."
The first step in preventing
such a recurrence is through an
affirmation of reality," the Am-
bassador said in a thoughtful talk
on the Holocaust and its implica-
tions today. "We must recognize
that words often have conse-
quences, and that warnings must
be heeded." In comparing the hor-
rors of Hitler's Europe to today's
world scene, she suggested that
"totalitarians test the ground" by
beginning with minor human
rights violations and gradually
increasing them to test Western
resolve. When the aggression
went unchecked, Hitler was able
to go from violating Jews' civil
rights to murdering them en
masse. But "genocide is not sim-
ple," Kirkpatrick said. "It re-
quires a whole society to either
participate or to refuse to believe
the reality of what is happening
around them."
Democracy must never allow
totalitarians to prevail, she went
on, noting that "unfortunately at
the United Nations we see a per-
version of the raison d'etre of the
UN's founding." Citing examples
of how words are twisted, how the
vocabulary of the Holocaust has
been "usurped" by Israel's
enemies, she asserted that Pales-
tinians are redefined as the New
Jews, Israelis as the Mew Nazis,
and genocide is used to describe
Israeli practices on the West Bank
and Gaza. "And no one is con-
cerned, no one seems to mind."
But"be assured," she said "that
the U.S. mission does mind. We
don't shrug it off, we take it seri-
ously. We will not acquiesce
The mood of the
evening was neither
celebratory nor
mournful, but
solemn .. .
passively in this re-definition of
the Holocaust.
"Let us be clear: the Holocaust
was unique to the Jewish people
. . . and to use the term genocide
now against the Israelis is an out-
rage."
She spoke warmly of Israel and
drew applause when she pledged
that the U.S. mission will not ac-
quiesce in "the abuse, degrada-
tion and expulsion" of Israel from
the United Nations.
A number of other dignitaries
addressed the large crowd during
the long evening, including Gov.
Jim Blanchard, who recalled how
some of his classmates at
Ferndale High, in 1959, ques-
tioned whether the Holocaust
really happened. "Remembering
must not simply be a Jewish ex-
perience," he said, "but a human
experience." Senator Carl Levin
struck a similar theme when he
spoke of the memory as "our trea-
sure, our pain, and our sorrow."