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ing personal items when they ar-
rived at Majdanek. These could
be put to good use to further the
Reich. Nothing was spared.
"Look at this," Rabbi
Rosenzweig said as he held a doll,
the first item from the Majdanek
Museum shipment that he
picked up.
She has a lime-green hat and
rosy cheeks. Her pink-and-blue
outfit is knitted, with a tear at
the top that appears to have been
sewn hastily. She is missing one
arm and has empty holes where
her eyes should be.
Setting her down, the rabbi
says, 'The doll survived the child
to whom she belonged."
Rabbi Rosenzweig, who often
visits Poland for his work with
the HMC, said it took a great deal
of calling and faxing to finally se-
cure the items. It didn't hurt
when several Detroiters, in
Poland for the 50th anniversary
of the liberation of Auschwitz,
gave museum officials a call.
Each item at ived wrapped in
off-white paper. They had been
packed tightly into a wooden
crate lined inside with bubble-
wrap. Customs officials were cu-
rious about its contents and held
it for five days, then finally let it
through, Rabbi Rosenzweig said.
It arrived in West Bloomfield last
Thursday.
After prying the top off, Rabbi
Rosenzweig first unwrapped the
doll, then carefully sorted
through the other sad mementos.
They include:
* A red-and-white woman's
shoe, terribly worn and with a
nail sticking out of the heel.
* A man's shoe, torn, and with
no laces.
* An olive-green enamel cup,

painted white inside and scraped
on the bottom.
* A white ladies shoe.
* A green can, roughly opened
at the top, now rusted inside and
smelling like things old. GIFT-
GAS! (POISON GAS) it reads
atop a picture of a skull and cross-
bones. And underneath: ZYK-
LON.
* An urn, once used to take hu-
man ashes from the crematori-
um.
* A wooden spoon with the ini-
tials AK carved thickly into the
side.
* A small shoe, brown with a
black strap. A purple-and-white
sticker on the bottom tells that it
was purchased at a store in Lvov.
It probably fit a child 2 or 3 years
old.
This is the first of such ship-
ments Rabbi Rosenzweig has se-
cured. The Museum of Auschwitz
also has promised relics from the
Holocaust, which will arrive in
the coming months.
Meanwhile, glass cases al-
ready have been built to store the
Majdanek collection. The shoes,
spoons, a prisoner uniform,
Zyklon gas can and other items
will be on display underneath
signs that list the numbers of
Jews murdered in each country,
from 77 in Denmark to 3,001,000
in Poland.
Directly across is the flame of
remembrance, where thick,
sharp-red sparks flash into the
dark, and where a gas flame
hums steadily and heavily.
Nearby is a listing of all the death
camps.
"These do I remember," reads
a silver sign behind the flame.
"And for them my soul weeps." El

Hate Mail Flies
Through Cyberspace

Los Angeles — The Simon
Wiesenthal Center is asking Vice
President Al Gore and Prodigy,
an on-line computer service to
face up to the swelling volume of
hate tirades on electronic bulletin
boards in cyberspace.
In a letter last week to the
president of Prodigy, Rabbi Abra-
ham Cooper, associate dean of the
Wiesenthal Center, requested
that the commercial on-line corn-
puter service find a way "to deal
with racist subscribers who abuse
Prodigy to spread hatred and de-
mean entire groups of people."
In an immediate response,
Prodigy spokesman Brian Ek in-
vited Rabbi Cooper and re-
searcher Rick Eaton to come to
White Plains, N.Y., and meet
with Prodigy officials.
At the same time, Rabbi Coop-
er petitioned Mr. Gore, as the
highest-ranking advocate of the

budding information superhigh-
way, to convene a meeting of hu-
man rights groups, educators,
regulatory agencies and techno-
logical experts "to develop strate-
gies to combat the abuse of the
superhighway by hate mongers."
Rabbi Cooper said that while
racist, anti-Semitic and white
supremacist messages are found
on other major commercial on-
line services, he had received the
most complaints from Prodigy
users.
The commercial services have
five million subscribers, includ-
ing two million on Prodigy, but
these figures — and the potential
spread of hate messages — are
dwarfed by the 20 million corn-
puter users linked to the Inter-
net global computer network.
Prodigy was the focus of con-
troversy involving anti-Semitic
postings three years ago .

