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I am a Nazi Holocaust survivor.
, ' - My family, parents, sister,
grandparents, uncles and aunts,
and cousins, consisting of over 70
persons were brutally murdered
i .15y the notorious S.S. Nazis. Some
were mere children.
It is my understanding that
President Reagan is planning to
-'isit their cemetery, thus honor-
ing the executioners of my family.
Isn't that inconsistent with the
ledge Mr. Reagan made to us just
three short years ago? At the
gathering of the Holocaust sur-
vivors in Washington, D.C., Mr.
Reagan personally said how
grateful America was to us for
„choosing this country to begin a
new life. I will never forget the
,Ithunderous applause and stand-
ing ovation Mr. Reagan received
for that statement.
Now Mr. Reagan is about to
visit the cemetery of my family's
murderers, thus legitimizing
their heinous crimes. I cannot be-
lieve it. My murdered family in
-Auschwitz and Treblinka have no
cemetery. In fact they have no
graves. By visiting the S.S. Nazi
cemetery in Germany Mr. Reagan
will be desecrating their blessed
memory.
> Mr. President I implore you, for
'\ the sake of the memory of the six
,-,,., million that perished, please do
not visit that German cemetery.
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Sam Offen

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`Holocaustism 9

Finally,
Congratulations!
of
t h e
w i courageous
someone
p n0ugh t has with
issue
to deal
American Jewry's obsession with
the Holocaust (Jewish News,
April 12).
Let the truth be stated bluntly
and succinctly. American Jewry

has made a religion out of the
Holocaust. It is an item which is
neither controversial nor one
which makes demands upon its
adherents. Thus, those who are
not inclined to take their
"Judaism" seriously now man-
ifest their Jewish identity
through "Holocaustism." Neither
is it irrelevant that some have
made a living and career out of
our great national tragedy.
Our tradition teaches us that
the Temple and even the land of
Israel itself could be lost to the
Jewish people but that we would
thrive as long as we studied Torah
and lived its precepts. The mes-
sage is,simple and clear. Ours is
not a faith enslaved to the physi-
cal i.e. read, monuments (whether
in Washington, D.C., Detroit or
elsewhere).
So, let those who truly wish to
commemorate the loss of our
brethren do so in the most Jewish
way of all; to wit, by rededicating
themselves to the study and prac-
tice of our ancient and glorious
tradition!

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year June 13 at Cong. Shaarey
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Jewish Theological Seminary in
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States and Canada.
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lating to their congregations the
seminary's involvement in the
Jewish community and explain-
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