In 1990 I won
The Harry 5'st
and Sarah Laker
Israel Youth
Scholarship.

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You Too Can Win
a Year of Study at
a Leading University
in Israel!

David-Seth Kirshner
attending Bar Ilan University

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You must be a resident of the Metropolitan Detroit area,
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University Ben Gurion University, 'Tel Aviv University
Bar Han University, or Haifa University.

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information. Final day to apply is May 13, 1991.

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ISRAEL YOUTH
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FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1991

PURELY COMMENTARY r"--

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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor Emeritus

Yom HaShoah Holiday:
Remember The Children

t Passover, we com-
memorate a historic
occurrence of
resistance to the Nazi
horrors when several hun-
dred Jews fought and, even
with immense losses, dem-
onstrated defiance to those
who created the Holocaust.
We are now often advised
to keep commemorating be-
cause the generation that
suffered will soon have dis-
appeared. This must be
viewed as an unrealistic
despair.
The very functioning of
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust
memorial, in Jerusalem
disproves it. The Holocaust
Memorial Center in Detroit
denies it. That more than
100,000, mostly non-Jews,
have visited the latter in the
past year alone is a proof
that the terrors will not be
forgotten.
Secretary of State James
Baker, before pursuing his
mission to confer with
Israel's leadership and a
selected group of Palestin-
ians, went to visit Yad
Vashem to witness the
evidence of the Holocaust.
Many facts have received a
lessening of emphasis. For
example, there is all too
little concern with the mass
murder of children by the
Germans who generated the
Holocaust. A record of it is in
a moving account assembled
by Deborah Dwork of the
Child Study Center at Yale
University. In her book
Children With a Star (Yale
University Press), she
states:

This book is about the
life experience of Jewish
children in Nazi Europe.
Perhaps it is well to re-
member that a mere 11
percent of European Jew-
ish children alive in 1939
survived the war; one-
and-a-half million were
killed.

The stories are not pleas-
ant to read, but Yom
HaShoah compels continu-
ing the knowledge of them.
The Dwork book should be
compulsory reading, and
children should not be ab-
solved from knowing the
facts.
Yom Hashoah also calls for
a review of the Warsaw
Ghetto resistance. This
tragedy is related in another
Holocaust volume, Himmler,
by Peter Padfield (Henry
Holt), a biography of
Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's
SS and Gestapo chief and
head of Poland's death

Women and children in a concentration camp line.

camps. There are few among
the indecent Nazi mass-
murderers who matched the
cruelty of Himmler.
The Himmler biography
contains the lengthy record
of the manner in which the
Nazis terrorized, brutalized
and sent Warsaw Jews to the
death camps.
The heroism of the Jewish
fighters are concerns as we
commemorate Yom
HaShoah.

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Marcus Is Guide
To Preserve Facts

Dr. Jacob Marcus,
historian and creator of ar-
chives for the preservation of
basic facts in our
historiography, has fan-
tastically popularized the
legendary. He has created
interest in personalities.
This is a remarkable lit-
erary quality. While none of

Jacob Marcus

his great works on Jewish
history fails to deal with
people as well as events in
human experience, Dr. Mar-
cus' emphasis on anniver-
saries is a trait all its own.

For perhaps 20 years, it
has been a privilege for me
to invite readers to share
admiration for facts which
he accumulates as a con-
tribution to knowledge. For
the current year, 5751-1991,

There is all too
little concern with
the mass murder
of children by the
Germans who
generated the
Holocaust.

my mentor Professor Marcus
enriches us with the follow-
ing:

Feb. 12: The Baron de
Hirsch Fund was incor-
porated in New York. Its
purpose was to help refu-
gee Jews to settle on the
land and to learn trades.
June 9: Israel Efros was
born. He came to America
from Russia in 1906 and
was ordained at the Jew-
ish Theological Seminary
in 1915. He was a Hebrew
poet* and founder of the
Baltimore Hebrew
Teachers College.
David Sarnoff was born.
He came to America from
Russia in 1900 and began
his electronics career as a
wireless operator. He
became the chairman of
the board of the Radio
Corporation of America.

With such information we
become informed about our
Peoplehood. We learn about
events that influence our
history and left their in-
fluence upon us. In such
fashion, Jacob Marcus also
leaves his own creative in-
fluence upon us.

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