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Of course they may, of course
they should. For the one response
to America that is Jewishly un-
acceptable, on the basis of both
Jewish interests and Jewish val-
ues, is indifference. If one is con-
vinced that laissez-faire economics
is a prescription for what ails us,
so be it; let's argue it out; let them
say how in such a system the or-
phan and widow would be pro-
tected, the naked clothed, the
hungry fed, and so forth. But if as
is too often the case, our indiffer-
ence (or our active defense of the
status quo) is because we are
among those whom the invisible
hand has reached out to stroke,
because we live on this side of the
divide, because, in a nutshell,
we're not among the hurting, no
— not acceptable.
Hence an expansive definition
of "the Jewish interest," a defini-
tion that embraces not only our
interest in protecting the stabil-
ity of the society but also our in-
terest • in organizing around
Jewish values. It is no coinci-
dence that our interests and our
values coincide: Isaiah wasn't be-
ing sentimental when he spoke
of orphans and widows, any more
than Lincoln was in speaking
about America's blacks. Justice
is not a luxury to be attended af-
ter our interests have been ade-
quately looked after. The two are
inseparable, and they beckon us
insistently, compellingly. ❑
Leonard Fein is a writer based in
Boston.
Survivor Returns
To Ravensbruck
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Our 2nd year
on Maple Road
y last sight of Ravens-
bruck, the concentration
camp where my mother
died, was 50 years ago.
I had often thought of visiting
the place to which my mother
and I were transported from our
native Budapest in November
1944. A year later, the Nazis
forcibly transferred me to yet an-
other camp while my mother lay
deathly ill in Ravensbruck's "hos-
pital." Perhaps by returning to
Ravensbruck I could somehow do
what I was not allowed to do then
— say goodbye to my mother.
Yet a return to Ravensbruck
on my own had been a formidable
prospect emotionally, and also lo-
gistically, since the camp is lo-
cated in a largely unpopulated
area of the former East Germany,
a difficult two-hour drive from
Berlin. But in early January I re-
ceived notice that the District of
Bradenburg was inviting all for-
mer inmates of Ravensbruck and
Sachsenhausen to be its guests
in April for commemoration
events marking the 50th an-
niversary of the liberation of
those camps by the Soviet army.
I knew, of course, that I had to
go.
As soon as I arrived at my ho-
tel in the German countryside,
and began to meet other sur-
vivors and their families, what-
ever anxiety I had experienced in
anticipation of my journey sud-
denly disappeared. Here were
people with whom I shared a
common life-shattering experi-
ence, and we formed an immedi-
ate bond. Our first dinner
together, on Friday night, was a
warm and loving celebration of
the Sabbath. As we sang Hebrew
songs together, my eyes filled
with tears, and I felt prouder
than ever to be a Jew.
The next morning our contin-
gent paid a visit to the concen-
tration camp grounds. The
District of Bradenburg had
spared no expense and sensi-
tively attended to all of our needs.
Our young German guides had
received special training on how
to be of help in such an emotion-
ally charged environment.
The same sinister
gray air hangs over
the camp even on
sunny days.
Ravensbruck today is far dif-
ferent than it was 50 years ago.
Though the same sinister gray
air hangs over the camp even on
sunny days, most of the camp as
I remember it was destroyed by
the Russian army.
I return home with a reas-
suring sense that today's
Germans and their government
are dedicated to teaching about,
and atoning for, the crimes of
the Nazis, and to zealously erad-
icating the seeds of hatred as
they resurface.
I returned also with two im-
ages of Ravensbruck, where be-
fore there had been only one.
Hopefully, the second and new-
er image will allow me to live the
rest of my life slightly less bur-
dened by the everlasting shadow
of the past.
Agi Rado, a concert pianist and
piano teacher, now resides in
Baltimore.