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such a momentous event deserves. But Israel (the land) has a few
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For more information, see your travel agent. Or
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Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603.
And come to Israel this year. Because a 40th anni-
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taboo subject until it surfac-
ed again in the mid-1970s.
The made-for-television
movie Holocaust generally is
credited as the catalyst for
the growing interest in the
Holocaust. Hilberg disputes
this notion, arguing it was
renewed interest that allowed
the series to be televised.
America's youth, frustrated
by the military standoff in the
Korean War and the moral
confusion of the Vietnam
War, were searching for a
time when good and evil
clearly were delineated. They
found their Manichaean con-
flict in World War II and the
Holocaust, Hilberg explained.
"Ironically, the fact that the
Jews did not seem to fight
back made the German acts
more profoundly evil," he
said, adding it was a rebellion
against the older generation's
failings that led young
Americans back to the
Holocaust.
Out of the renewed interest
came "organized
rememberance," including
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Council, the Justice Depart-
ment's Office of Special In-
vestigations and Holocaust
courses in universities.
The
Germans,
too,
discovered the Holocaust.
"They don't want to discover
it," Hilberg declared, his voice
deepening. "But they can't
get rid of it.
"Bitburg was going to put
an end to it. Exactly 40 years
after the end of World War II.
What subtlety!"
In 1985, President Reagan
visited the Bitburg military
cemetery in West Germany.
The revelation that soldiers of
the Nazi SS were buried on
the site created an uproar and
dashed German hopes that
the visit would close the
wounds of World War II.
"It didn't do the job,"
Hilberg said. Young Germans
born after the war, many from
the left wing of the political
spectrum, "will not let the
German people forget!'
Hilberg said these young
Germans are angered at the
bitter legacy bequeathed to
them by the older generation.
"These Germans turned to
the Holocaust out of
rebellion."
As a member of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Council,
Hilberg traveled twice to
Poland, where he found his
reception grimly ironic. "The
Poles welcomed us with open
arms. They love the dead
Jews as they never loved the
live ones?'
Polish officials cut through
bureaucratic red tape to ac-
comodate their visitors, he
said. They were gracious
hosts. But common and con-
Prof. Raul Hilberg: Asked "a
complicated question."
flitting memories of the
Holocaust hung over the
encounter.
"They made jokes about the
Russians and occasionally
reminded us that Poles also
died.
"Poland the graveyard," he
said as if surveying the
decimated countryside.
"Memory is not something of
the past; it is something of to-
day. Memory is rebellion!"
Hilberg wondered against
whom are the Poles rebelling
as they remember the
Holocaust. "Maybe against
the Russians who still deny
that Jews were special
victims.
"How long can you continue
to rebel?" he asked his
listeners, intimating that
when the youth end their
rebellion, the Holocaust will
be forgotten. "And here you
see the crux of the future: how
to remember in peace!'
New Direction
For HMC Project
STAFF REPORT
The encyclopedia of the
Holocaust launched last
November by Detroit's
Holocaust Memorial Center
has shifted direction, accor-
ding to HMC executive vice
president Rabbi Charles
Rosenzveig.
The encyclopedia was to
have been a 1,000-page
volume summarizing all
aspects of the Holocaust. Last
month, the project's backers
discovered that a similar en-
cyclopedia was being
prepared by the Yad Vashem
Holocaust Authority in
Jerusalem.
The Detroit-based work will
now focus on reactions to the
Holocaust as found in films,
the news media and legal
systems of 50 countries, Rab-
bi Rosenzveig said. Some 30