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Dr. Steven Grant,
president of
the Holocaust
Memorial Center,
HMC executive
director Rabbi
Charles Rosenzveig,
and Robert Slatkin,
president of the
United Jewish.
Foundation, sign
an agreement
allowing the center
to expand on the
JCC campus, which
the foundation owns.
has proposed for the Holocaust
Memorial Center in West Bloomfield,
which he heads. The expansion will
change the attitudes of the people who
visit and "show the richness before,
the darkness during, and the light
after" the Holocaust, he said.
The Holocaust museum phenome-
non of the last 15 years is "an attempt
to provide a location where the mes-
sage of the Holocaust could be trans-
mitted to a generation that was not
there," said Dr. Michael Berenbaum,
president and CEO of the Shoah
Foundation in Los Angeles.
Berenbaum, who served as former
project director of the creation of the
Washington museum, noted that
with the exception of Detroit, where
the leadership from that was Rabbi
Rosenzveig, who himself was a sur-
vivor, the interpretive task has fallen to
the next generation."
The Holocaust "becomes the cor-
nerstone from which we teach a whole
range of values," he said. The mission
of the museums, he continued, is
negating the values that led to the
creation of the perpetration of the
Holocaust and affirming the values
that could prevent this occurrence."
The resurgence of interest in the
Holocaust within the past 15 years
springs from other reasons too, the
experts said.
Many victims simply found it too
painful to speak about it, and there
was little interest in others hearing
their stories, Cooper said.
"They were told, It must have been
really terrible for you, now you're a
greener here, so learn the language, get
married, get a job and raise kids and
forget about it."'
But a series of events starting about
20 years ago — the NBC mini-series,
"The Holocaust," the appearance of
those who deny the Holocaust hap-
pened and the neo-Nazi march in
((
Skokie, Illinois in 1979, among others
— awakened old memories, he said.
"The survivors are now in the last
phases of their lives," he said. They are
responding to the Shoah Foundation
and other local efforts to make sure
that the martyrdom of their family's
and their personal suffering is not lost."
Rosenzveig agrees.
Calling the immediate post-
Holocaust period so "overwhelming,"
C C
he said that few could come to terms
with what they witnessed.
"It took years to come to an ability
to recall it," he said.
Linenthal said the Six-Day War and
the Yom Kippur War had a "tremen-
dous effect to energize a distinct Jewish
identity and a sense among many peo-
ple that this could happen again."
The Holocaust deniers, seen by
many people as murderers of the
memory of the Holocaust on one side,
and the distinctively Jewish voice of
Elie Wiesel, who has become an iconic
feature in American culture, on the
other side also has helped.
According to Berenbaum, interest in
the Holocaust seems to grow the more
distant people are from the event.
"Part of that has to do with the
philosophical issue that the Holocaust
is about atrocity not tragedy," he said.
"There is no lesson that balances the
price that was paid for that lesson.
"When we created the Holocaust
museum, people were worried that
nobody was interested. On the con-
trary, what we see is an explosion of
interest precisely because people can
draw the connection between their
life, their world, their experience in
the Holocaust. Sometimes they draw
it correctly, sometimes they draw it
incorrectly, but they draw it.
"What all of these museums are
attempting to do is to salvage from the
ashes at least a lesson, and at least a
call, a cry, a shout."