New
Arrivals
inmates. The composers
died in Theresienstadt or
other concentration
camps. But miraculously,
some of their composi-
tions survived...
That was the music
played in Boston .. .
Mr. Lewis proceeded with
his indictment of one of the
crimes and criminals by
stating:
Between November 1941
and May 1945, 140,000
people were sent to
Theresienstadt. (There
33.00 died of starvation,
disease and mistreatment;
87,000 were sent on to be
killed in Auschwitz and
other death camps.
And there were chil-
dren. Fifteen thousand
entered Theresienstadt.
Ninety-three survived.
Anthony Lewis helped
recall evidence of defiance of
Naziism as it reappears in
Guy Stern
our own time; the battle for
justice is not ended.
Reunification of the two
Germanies is not a savior.
In the search for truth to
demolish the spreading lies
and prejudices, many of the
victims of the Hitler terror
left evidence. Artists, musi-
cians, authors and social
scientists created indict-
ments that live after the
people have been murdered.
A new witness has just been
uncovered in the person of a
skilled artist. David Olere, a
painter at Auschwitz, is a
story of the miracle of sur-
vival. Difficult as it is to see
the brutalities depicted by a
witness of the horrors, it
must be appreciated as an-
other major condemnation of
the crimes.
Mr. Olere's work is com-
mended for serious attention
by the World Jewish Con-
gress and by the Beate and
Serge Klarsfeld Foundation.
Serge Klarsfeld introduces
David Olere in a forward to
his work by calling attention
to survival. Mr. Klarsfeld
states:
In 1945, from a convoy
of 1000 Jews only six sur-
vivors remained, two of
whom were women.
David Olere was one of
the four men. he had been
given the number 106144.
At first a grave digger of
bunker 2, David Olere
was soon sent to join the
special Kommmando of
Jews, the Sonderkom-
mando, of crematorium
III, the building uniting
the gas chamber and the
crematory ovens. David
Olere should have been
rapidly liquidated, as
were alomst all other
members of the
Sonderkommandos
David Olere is the only
painter in the world to
have penetrated into the
crematories of Auschwitz-
Birkenau and to have
come out alive; and , in
addition, to have come out
with the will to testify,
precisely and visually to
that which he had
witnessed...
On January 19, 1945,
David Olere took part in
the death march following
the evacuation of
Auschwitz. He was sent to
the camp at Mauthausen,
then to the kommando of
the camp of Melk on the
Danube where he dug
tunnels. On April 7, 1945,
he was sent in another
kommando to Ebebsee
and on May 6 he was lib-
erated by the Americans.
His health had been great-
ly affected and when
David Olere recounted to
his wife the things that he
had seen, she was con-
vinced that he had
become crazy. As a result
he painted his
"Memento": over 50 sket-
ches that would be the
precise inspiration for
later paintings, works
that became larger as
David Olere's eyesight
became weaker. Lent in
1976 to the Art Museum of
the kibbutz of the Ghetto
Fighters in northern
Israel, these sketches
were never returned to
the artist and form a part
of the present collection
of this museum to which
David Olere donated five
paintings and three
sculptures ...
All that has been recorded
is a commitment to the
humane credo never to
forget, always to expose the
crimes.
"Beneath the yoke of bar-
barism one must not keep si-
lence; one must fight. Who-
ever is silent at such a time
is a traitor to humanity." ❑
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