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Ryan lecture sponsored by the
Holocaust Memorial Center.
Most poignant was a statement
by Assaya Humesky, Slavic
language professor at the
University of Michigan during
an interview by the Detroit Free
Press following Allan Ryan's
lecture dealing with the John
Demjanjuk trial in Jerusalem.
During that interview, reported
in the Free Press April 2, Prof.
Humesky is quoted as having
said, "Ukrainians will quote all
the horrors they have ex-
perienced at the hands of Jews.
And the same goes for Jews."
This view appears to be
representative of many Ukrai-
nian activists as attested to by
similar statements expressed
publicly by a number of Ukrai-
nians during the Allan Ryan
lecture.
The context, within which
that statement was placed in
the above mentioned Free Press
article, gave the impression
that Jews somehow tortured
Ukrainians during the
Holocaust, just as many Ukrai-
nians tortured and murdered
Jews during the German oc-
cupation of the Ukraine and as
guards in the death camps. The
preposterous nature of that
statement, coming as it did
from an academician at a
prestigious university, resulted
in a phone call by this writer to
Prof. Humesky. When asked
where and when during the
Holocaust did the Jews ever
commit horrors against the
Ukrainians, Prof. Humesky
replied that during the Stalin
era most of the prosecutors that
prosecuted Ukrainians were
Jews. This is what she said she
meant when she stated in the
press that "Ukrainians will
quote all the horrors they have
experienced at the hand of
Jews."
Appalled by this rationaliza-
tion and trivialization of the
Holocaust, I asked how in the
world she can equate the in-
discriminate, sadistic torture
and murder committed by
many Ukrainians against
Jewish men, women and
children with the prosecution of
a select number of alleged anti-
communist revolutionaries by
some Jewish communists? Prof.
Humesky then replied that she
did not intend to justify or to
equate the Holocaust crimes
with whatever some Jewish
communists might have com-
mitted against the Ukrainians.
She was merely trying to ex-
plain the feelings of some
Ukrainians, she said.
The hypocrisy of these
widespread rationalizations for
the indiscriminate murder of
the Jewish people is self-
evident. On the one hand, the
Ukrainians do not want to feel
guilty or even be morally blam-
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Rabbi Rosenzveig is
executive director of the
Holocaust Memorial Center
in West Bloomfield.
ed for the monstrous, in-
discriminate crimes many of
their compatriots committed
against Jewish men, women
and infants. Yet, they ra-
tionalize their compatriots' par-
ticipation in the murder of an
entire people because some
Jewish communists allegedly
served as prosecuting attorneys
for the communist government
against alleged Ukrainian anti-
communists. Would the Ukrai-
nians, including Prof.
Humesky, rationalize an in-
discriminate murder of Ukrai-
To place the
indiscriminate
murder of Jewish
men, women and
children on a par
with war victims or
selective
detainees is to
make another
Holocaust as
acceptable and
predictable as
war .. .
nian men, women and children
because Ukrainians are the
predominant prosecutors and
judges in the communist
Ukraine of today as indeed they
were during the Stalin era?
No less dangerous is the form
of rationalization of the
Holocaust through its univer-
salization. The merging of the
unique Jewish Holocaust with
the political detainees
persecuted by the Third Reich
is an historic corruption and an
inexcusable defamation of the
six million Jewish martyrs.
Furthermore, the osmosis bet-
ween selective political persecu-
tion and planned total an-
nihilation of a people reduces
the social-psychological
revolting reactions to the
Holocaust and its perpetrators.
The only hope that we can have
to avoid another Holocaust is to
expose the true reality of the
Holocaust as a totally un-
precedented and, therefore,
totally unacceptable- socially
revolting historic event. lb corn-
pare it to any other historic oc-
curence dilutes its socially
revolting character, in addition
--to being patently false.
Throughout history, dic-
tatorial and totalitarian
systems persecuted both im-
agined and real political op-
ponents. Similarly, nations and
tribes conducted tribal and na-
tional warfare for imagined or
real threats to its welfare or for
outright national or tribal con-
quests. Tragically, war and its
ugly by-products have been ac-
cepted as an extension of na-
tional interest policy.
Yet, to place the in-