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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
During the recent TWA hijack-
ing crisis, when the terrorists
made similar demands on Israel,
the media put intensive pressure
on Israel through its one-sided
coverage which implied that Is-
rael (a) was to blame for the
hijacking and (b) that it should
release its prisoners.
Not only that, the media ig-
nored the fact that Israel had
previously planned to release the
prisoners and that the terrorists
had made similar demands of
other countries — Kuwait being
one — but were similarly ignored.
Following the statement by the
Rev. Weir, given the Israeli ex-
perience, one should have ex-
pected major coverage with live
interviews of Kuwait officials,
asking them why they did not re-
lease the 17.
What happened in the media?
Absolutely nothing. It was a one-
day story.
If the media expect to increase
their credibility and reverse the
suspicion with which such audi-
ences as Jews judge the media —
and other sectors of society feel
similarly mistreated in the news
— than they need to re-evaluate
their apparent double-standard in
defining news.
The issue is not whether this
double-standard is intentional or
not. The definition of news —
given deadlines, speed and other
factors — always has been arbit-
rary. The issue is whether the
media want to fulfill their respon-
sibility to the public in presenting
a balanced picture — in this case
on the Middle East — which is so
crucial to peace in not just that
region but the world.
Friday, October 11, 1985
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Poems Recall Holocaust
Echoes of the tragic years of
flight from the Nazi terror, loss
of family in the mass murders,
the minimal help from non-Jews
and incarceration in the Nazi
camps — these experiences are
recorded in poems bilingually
(Polish and the English transla-
tion) in Painful Echoes which is
reproduced from the diary of
Luba Krugman Gurdus (Schoc-
ken Books).
The introduction to the poems
is in itself a tragic account of
agonies, describing love for fam-
ily, the author's flight with her
son who was among the
perished, the manner in which
she was aided in her commenc-
ing flight by non-Jews and
abandoned by one family of
peasants after another, always
left to her own whims to find re-
scue and survival.
There is a great tribute to the
escaped poet-author in an intro-
duction to this bilingual book by
Dr. Martin Gilbert, who is an
eminent Oxford historian and
one of world Jewry's most dis-
tinguished scholars. Dr. Gilbert
pays honor to Mrs. Gurdus' ear-
lier book, The Death Train, and
the manner in which she de-
picted in it the horror of watch-
ing the destruction of the War-
saw Ghetto.
It was in hiding that time
that she began to write her
. poems and a diary whence now
comes the deeply moving recol-
lection of a tragic period that
ended with the death of her
family.
Dr. Gilbert declares in the in-
troductibn that the events re-
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will serve both as a personal
contact with evil events, and as
a warning that such events
must never happen again."
Worthquoting from Mrs.
Gurdus' volume are these mov-
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stroyer":
"Piles of ruins and burned
houses, Pillaged temples, men
enslaved, Paintings, sculptures
marred by vandals, Scores in-
humed in shallow graves
"Treasures of priceless art and
culture, Destroyed by Satan's
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"In their deadly, reckless fury
They mutilate and injure
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"They shame our civilization
And assail our ancient creed
They mock our sacred customs
And disdain anguish and grief
"In blinding lightning the great
evil Reaches the depth of our
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in feeble A holy fire of revenge
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