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Survivor Susan Vigorito, left, meets Righteous Gentile Heiltje Bos at the
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autioning against as-
suming "it could nev-
er happen in
Auschwitz-
America,"
Birkenau survivor Susan
Vigorito urged the 1,500 per-
sons attending this week's
fourth anniversary Holocaust
Memorial Center dinner at
the Westin Hotel to combat
hatred by developing feelings
of tolerance and considera-
tion, especially in their
children.
"Tolerance begins at home,
not in the schools," said Ms.
Vigorito, the concentration
camp's youngest survivor
who, along with her twin
sister Channah, were among
those experimented upon by
Dr. Josef Mengele. "Money for
Holocaust education is not
enough. It takes the in-
dividual being a part."
Though 3 at the time, Ms.
Vigorito said she has vivid
memories of the horror of her
family's detection in 1944,
physical separation from her
grandmother at the camp,
branding, and being placed in
cages with her sister in Dr.
Mengele's laboratory. Her
sister, who didn't survive, was
highlighted in an Emmy
Award-winning documentary
film. that Ms. Vigorito
produced.
She criticized the medical
community for debating the
merits of Dr. Mengele's ex-
periments which, despite the
horrible means, may have
produced some scientifically
useful information.
"Why should credit be
given to Nazi doctors so
children in some class two or
three generations from now
find that some cure was deriv-
ed from them?" she asked.
"What ever happened to
medical ethics?"
Aside from Ms. Vigorito's
presentation, Heiltje Kooistra
Bos of Holland was awarded
the center's Righteousness
Award for sheltering eight
Jews in her home during the
war. She has been honored by
Yad Vashem in Israel as a
Righteous Gentile.
Mrs. Bos, speaking in
Hebrew, said she and her hus-
band "were aware the Lord of
hosts was with us and the
God of Jacob was our high
tower."
Humanist Resolution
Defines Who Is A Jew'
More than 20 individuals
from the Detroit area par-
ticipated in the second bien-
nial conference of the Interna-
tional Federation of Secular
Humanists to draft a resolu-
tion of "Who Is a Jew."
Those attending the con-
ference, held last month in
Brussels, included Rabbi
Sherwin Wine of the Birm-
ingham Temple; Lynne
Master, president of the Socie-
ty for Humanistic Judaism;
Julius Harwood, chairman of
the Michigan Coalition of.
Secular Humanistic Jews;
Miriam Jerris, executive
director of the Society for
Humanstic Judaism; and
Marilyn Rowens, North
American director of the In-