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this is for keeps. This informa-
tion will live on for generations
and generations to come."
The interviews, which last
from one to five hours, not only
include accounts of the survivors'
pain and loss, but their efforts
at rebuilding their lives.
Photographs and documents are
also preserved on the tape.
`The whole point of the project
is to document it so (the
Holocaust) can't happen again,
so we can't forget. It makes me
proud to be a Jew. It makes me
proud to know these people.
"Every day that goes by we're
missing stories and testimony
that is vital to our future. This is
a mission of sorts and I want to
forge ahead as fast as I can," she
said.
The informal Michigan office
joins others around the world, in-
cluding Los Angeles, New York,
Miami, Chicago, Toronto, Sydney
and Amsterdam. Soon to open
will be regional offices in Prague,
Jerusalem, Frankfurt and
Buenos Aires.
Ms. Victor hopes the presence
of the project in Michigan will
help encourage survivors who
have not yet given their testimo-
ny to record their eyewitness ac-
counts. Any person who is
interested must first contact the
California office.
Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig,
founder of the Holocaust
Memorial Center, which has 380
oral histories in its museum, said,
"The very fact that they are do-
ing this is positive. It's important
work and the more the better."
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At Holocaust survivors and
interviewers
nterviewers can
write the Shoah Visual
History Foundation, P.O. Box
3168, Los Angeles, CA 90078-
3168. Or call toll free in the
United States or Canada: 1-
800-661-2092.
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gins. Welfare? Health care?
Support for the arts? Why should
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the two cornerstones of Jewish
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Stability and justice go to-
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eloquently observed in a speech
he gave nearly three years before
he became president. "When ...
you have succeeded in dehu-
manizing the Negro, when you
have put him down and made it
impossible for him to be but as
the beasts of the field; when you
have extinguished his soul in this
world and placed him where the
ray of hope is blown out as in the
darkness of the damned, are you
quite sure the demon you have
roused will not turn and rend
you?"
Lincoln was not talking to or
about Jews, of course. His was a
more general observation re-
garding the connection between
justice and stability. And if what
he said was true for America in
general, at achat kamah
v'chamah— how much the more
so — it is true for us.
Of all the things we remem-
ber and know, none is more cau-
tionary than what social chaos
means to us. Surely the histori-
cal record need not be again re-
viewed here; it is in our bones. As
a matter of the most immediate
self-interest, we depend on sta-
bility. And stability, in turn —
save as we turn to despotism
(which scarcely guarantees sta-
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term) — depends on justice.
There is no certain cure for our
nation's afflictions. Some of us,
for example, may support higher
taxes, perhaps through steeper
graduation; some may support
more radical solutions; some ad-
vocate a focus on the deficit in or-
der to stimulate economic growth.
There is much room for debate
of the best remedy. But there is
no room for debate regarding the
question of whether Jewish in-
terests are at stake, and, accord-
ingly, of whether Jewish
organizations ought to engage
with any issue that touches on
America's health.
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