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It is a massive recollec- tion of the annihilation which is generally termed Holocaust. Pantheon Books published the text of Shoah simultaneously under the revealing title. To- Partie :„‘, Pape Noe' io)- - Disposable products Color coordinated Suitable for all occasions Discount prices Prompt service 6° 661-2934 Karen Roscncler Ruth Weingarten "If you want to turn on your earning power, take a tip from me." Invest in your own future and buy new U.S. Savings Bonds through your Payroll Savings Plan. The Plan makes saving money almost as easy as spending it! And now Bonds pay better than ever, making your money work harder for you. Today's Savings Bonds are hot. Check them out where you work or bank today. Shannon — Recording artist of the hits "Let the Music Play, - "Give Me Tonight" and "My Heart's Divided. A NCI\ Ili: t._ US SAVINGS BONDS Paying Better Than Ever rilhilt.111t , 11 Claude Lanzmann gether, the experience is the witnessing of tears dried up, of hearts rendered asunder. The Hebrew dictionary has additional translations for shoah: devastation, ruin, desola- tion, waste, catastrophe ... Such is the theme that emerges from the agonies repre- sented in the creative labors of Claude Lanzmann. He labored for ten years to gather the facts. He traveled back and forth through 14 countries to inter- view the survivors who are the witnesses in Shoah, the book and the film. There is nothing to compare with it, and the tears that were drawn by the hun- dreds of books on the Holocaust are multiplied in the Lanzmann accomplishment. Therefore, it has earned the accolade as the greatest film di- rectory ever produced. Simone de Beauvir wrote the preface to the book and she The entrance to Auschwitz. properly alerts the reader: "Af- ter the war we read„ masses of accounts of the ghettoes and the extermination camps, and we were devastated. But when, to- day, we see Claude Lanzmann's extraordinary film, we realize we have understood nothing. In spite of everything we knew, the ghastly experience remained remote from us. Now, for the first time, we live it in our minds, and hearts and flesh." A constant urging for creation of oral histories as means of re- taining historical facts achieves the near-ultimate in The Shoah. Lanzmann's courageous and tireless author and interviewer has an impres- sive history as a political ac- tivist with a lifelong commit- ment to Israel. Lanzmann shares with the readers and film viewers many of the shocks he experienced. For example, when he came to Treblinka, there was the horror of witnessing the railroad sign with the name of the place where 400,000 Jews were gassed to death, with the railway there as if nothing so horrifying ever occurred. He keeps returning to Treblinka, commencing with: Richard Glazar (Switzerland), survivor It was at the end of No- vember 1942. They chased us away from our work and back to our barracks. Sud- denly, from the part of the camp called the death camp, flames shot up. Very high. In a flash, the whole coun- tryside, the whole camp, seemed ablaze. It was already dark. We went into our bar- racks and ate. And from the window, we kept on watching the fantastic backdrop of Ilaines of every imaginable 'color: red, yellow, green pur- .ple. And suddenly one of us -stood up. We knew ... he'd been an opera singer in War- saw. His name was Salve, and facing that curtain of fire, he began chanting a song I didn't know: My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken us? We have been thrust into the fire before, but we have never denied Thy Holy Law." He sang in Yiddish, while behind him blazed the pyres on which they had begun then in November 1942, to burn the bodies in Treblinka. That was the first time it happened. We knew that night that the dead would no longer be buried, they'd be burned. Proceeding is the trek of blood and horror, through Sobibor, Chelmno, Auschwitz, Thresienstadt, Vlodawa, back and forth, introducing the sur- vivors, introducing them in all their agonies, in Israel and wherever they are located. The Polish story is equally endless. The natives are intro- duced. At a minimum there is some compassion among the non-Jews who recall the neighbors who ended in the crematoria. In the main there is a snickering, a sort of retained hatred — even now — for the Jews left there. Such is Shoah. Lanzmann's is acclaimed the greatest of all film documentaries, therefore with an equal recognition for the printed Pantheon text. As a human document it keeps re- minding of the Holocaust- Annihilation-Devastation, con- tinually crying out in protest against the unspeakable crimes. Vatican Admonished Rome — Leading Vatican offi- cials were told last week that the future of Christian-Jewish relations depends upon the ac- ceptance of Judaism as an equal faith partner in combatting the moral and social problems that confront us today. Rabbi Mordecai Waxman, immediate past ;presider-At of the Synagogue Council of America, stated that Catholics must understand and accept the role Israel plays in the lives of Jews and the deep meaning of the Holocaust tragedy. In a speech delivered before a four-day consultation of 60 Catholic and Jewish officials marking the 20th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the Vatican II declaration on the Jews, Rabbi Waxman said that existing ves- tiges of Christian proselytizing of Jews must be eliminated. 1