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dent of the Shoah, have never
experienced 240-calorie starva-
tion diets or lines leading to
sooty chimneys. Why did Mr.
Schulman not choose to
concentrate on this dishonor in-
stead of the article's placement
[on the front cover] in The Jew-
ish News.
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My final concern is Mr.
Schulman's seeming willingness
to toss aside his own commit-
ment to Judaism and absorb
the content of the Watchtower,
a magazine published by the
Jehovah's Witnesses. If this
is any indication of his Jewish-
ness, it now makes sense to
read such high assimilation sta-
tistics.
Mr. Schulman, people in glass
houses should not throw stones.
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of Wagner, one of Hitler's favorites.
I could be entertained by such
melodies without knowing who
composed them. Upon learning of
their author, I would turn away.
Gaining from something that gave
Hitler joy is repugnant. Yet, the
music itself is not evil and I can-
not forbid its existence.
The deeper issue remains.
What if Pernkopf s information
had not been replicated? Are we,
in fact, commanded to use it?
The Talmud instructs that to
save a life is as if you have saved
an entire world. We are even ob-
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Strange are the ways of justice.
Drazen Erdemovic, a soldier
in the Bosnian army, was re-
cently found guilty of crimes
against humanity at the Inter-
national War Crimes Tribunal
in The Hague. He admitted
killing "up to 100" Muslims dur-
ing the Bosnian War. His sen-
tence: 10 years. With good
behavior, he could be released
before then.
Jonathan Pollard, a naval in-
telligence analyst, pled guilty in Jonathan Pollard
1985 of passing classified infor-
mation to Israel. His sentence: formation needed to defend it-
life with a recommendation that self. Israel was legally entitled
he never be paroled. He has al- to this information, but it was
ready served over 11 years of withheld by individuals in the
this sentence, with no end in American administration.
sight.
I can only assume, therefore,
Andrew Brooke
that mass murder isn't as seri-
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ous a crime as giving Israel in-
g
The debate over
scientific data
collected by the
Nazis is the
Holocaust's moral
legacy.
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After all, Deuteronomy instructs
to pursue 'lust justice." I interpret
ligated to violate Shabbat to save that to mean that the rulings of
someone.
aci unjust system, such as that of
So could we not use data col- the former Soviet Union, are in-
lected half a century ago in order valid.
to benefit people today? Would
On the other hand, if it were my
that not represent a new form of friend in the freezing sea,
triumph over the omni-present wouldn't I reach for that
chill of the Nazi reign?
book?
At first, my answer was no.
One scholar in particular
Such data, I told several people, is walked me through numerous sce-
gained illicitly and thus invalid. narios that detailed the trade offs
The price of potentially encourag- in deciding whether to use illicit-
ing others to replicate it, I argued, ly gained information. There are
is too high. Our society must only no absolutes, he told me. Each sit-
benefit when justice is pursued. uation merits its own judgment.
Thus, he explained, in the case
of the pilots we are obligated to use
the information to save lives. In
the case of the Pernkopf atlas, its
major contribution today is artis-
tic beauty. There is no need to use
it.
The debates on such matters
will continue in the coming
decades. They will be the lasting
legacy of the Holocaust. The po-
tentially posthumous victory of the
Nazis will only arrive if, when
faced with these dilemmas, we
stop asking the questions and
seeking the humanity in our re-
sponse. ❑