Full Force Ahead
Holocaust's Child
JARC's young adult division decides
on 1997 events.
Revelations in adulthood about Jewish ancestry
need privacy, and time, to absorb.
LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER
WALTER REICH SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
T
he young adult division of
the Jewish Association for
Residential Care (JARC)
decided at its recent plan-
ning meeting to sponsor six
events in 1997.
In addition to the annual pre-
glow and theater fund-raiser in
the fall, the young adult com-
mittee will host a billiards
party this winter; a June 8 flower-
a-thon, where volunteers will
plant flowers outside JARC
homes; a summer barbecue at a
JARC home; the third annual
sukkah building brigade; and a
cultural arts event such as an art-
exhibit opening for JARC clients
and volunteers.
The committee also discussed
hosting a social action event in
conjunction with JARC clients.
The people served by JARC at-
tend all events along with the vol-
unteers and committee members.
The young adult division is
hoping to attract new, younger
members.
Lisa Brown and Rob Lippitt
were named the new chairper-
sons for the annual fall fund-rais-
er. Details of the event have yet
to be disclosed.
Committee members reviewed
last year's event, where the young
adult division alone brought in
$95,309 from 300 donors, 21 per-
cent more than the previous year.
In 1995, 270 contributed to the
young adult division's fall fund-
raising coffers. I=1
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F
fifty years after the Holo-
caust, the earth and his-
tory still heave up their
Jewish remains. And each
time we're shocked afresh by the
magnitude and variety of the
loss.
The Washington Post report
last week of Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright's Jewish ori-
gins is only the latest such re-
minder.
First came the bones and ash-
es — the remnants of murdered
life — which still emerge from
Europe's violated soil.
Then came the memories of
the survivors, many of which we
at first wouldn't hear and oth-
ers of which are only now burst-
ing free as survivors near the
ends of their lives.
More recently, we have be-
Walter Reich is a psychiatrist
and director of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum.
This piece first appeared in the
Washington Post.
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come aware of the raped prop-
erty — land, buildings, valu-
ables, art — that lies in bank
vaults, hangs in museums and
has enriched the persons, insti-
tutions and countries that claim
it as their own. And now, with
the story of Ms. Albright's late-
life discovery of her Jewish
roots, and the report that more
than a dozen of her relatives, in-
cluding three of her grandpar-
ents, were killed in Auschwitz
and elsewhere, yet another
chapter of the Holocaust be-
comes evident to the public.
This chapter consists of the
desperate burial of ethnic iden-
tity by European Jews that,
when discovered by their chil-
dren, unsettles them when the
truth emerges and forces them
to reinterpret what they had al-
ways assumed about their roots,
their parents, their religions,
their memories.
Since the particular child re-
ported to have made such a late-
life discovery is our new
secretary of state, concerns have
been raised about the implica-
tions for her future conduct of
foreign policy. The speculation
that her knowledge that she was
born a Jew will affect her pub-
lic policies seems unfounded.
Ms. Albright formulated her
views about the world, and ex-
pressed them publicly, over sev-
eral decades. Her recent public
acceptance of her Jewish origins
seems unlikely to have a signif-
icant impact on her views of her
country's welfare or on the poli-
cies she will pursue.
Indeed, she already has said
that those views were long ago
shaped, in part, by precisely the
circumstances that spawned,
among other tragedies, the
Holocaust: the rise and mur-
derous totalitarianism of Nazi
Germany.
The secretary of state's pub-
lic acts, like the acts of all other
public officials demand our clos-
est scrutiny. Her private iden-
tity should be allowed its zone
of dignity, integration and
peace.
In fact, the report of Ms. Al-
bright's late discovery resembles
reports of many other late dis-
coveries that have been experi-
enced in recent years by Jews
around the world. What makes
her experience different is not
its poignancy but its extreme
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