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Tragedies Remembered

Mayor Archer, others speak at annual
Holocaust memorial event.

HARRY KI RS BAUM
Staff Writer

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Holocaust "makes us shudder." He
called the Holocaust "a unique tragedy
in human history"
Angrily pointing his finger,
Rosenzveig said, "Yes, there are abuses
in war. But the attempt to denational-
ize the Holocaust — to make every
event in history a Holocaust — makes
the Holocaust non-existent, and clears
the Germans and their allies from the

etroit Mayor Dennis Archer
proclaimed this week the
"Days of Remembrance," as
Holocaust survivors and
Jewish community leaders offered their
thoughts during a Holocaust memorial
tribute Sunday at
Congregation B'nai Moshe.
After six survivors lit can-
dles to honor the dead, the
mayor told nearly 600 people
gathered to observe Yom
HaShoah, that the cold and
dreary day "reminds us, I
think, of the travesty that
occurred in Europe.
"We're also reminded
today of what is going on in
Kosovo," he said. "If you had-
continued to remind us of
the horrors of the Holocaust,
I wonder if NATO would
Jane Salzberg, 73, steadied the hand of her
have turned its back."
husband, Aaron, 80, as he lit a candle Sunday
Archer said he has "enor-
at B'nai Moshe. Both are Holocaust survivors.
mous respect for the families,
the struggle, the will to succeed"
true guilt that they should feel for all
among Holocaust victims. He urged
time to come.''
the Jewish community "to remind us
Howard Wallach, Jewish Community
all why we should never forget."
Council of Metropolitan Detroit presi-
The nearly two-hour commemora-
dent, urged the crowd to teach the
tion included a color guard presenta-
lessons of the past to ensure that such a
tion by Team Selfridge Air Force Base,
tragedy will never happen again.
under Brig. Gen. Allen
"Shouldn't we be dedicated here to
Ness, and songs by the
the
unfinished work, which they who
children's choir of
died
for us, so nobly advanced?" he
Yeshiva Akiva, led by
asked, calling for support of the
Aviva Zacks.
HMC and the Holocaust Education
Speeches carried a
Coalition. "Shouldn't we be dedicated
political as well as emo-
to the task remaining before us of
tional tone.
teaching our children not only our
"The world kept
past
but how to survive in a world
silent," said Rabbi
Dennis Archer
who
wants
to destroy us?"
Charles Rosenzveig,
Dr.
Charles
Silow, president of
Holocaust Memorial Center director.
CHAIM (Children of Holocaust-sur-
"In 1939 and 1940, many Jews cried
vivors Association In Michigan), said
out, but nobody seemed to have cared."
the word "Holocaust" applies to "what
It wasn't until the 1960s that the
happened to our own families."
world became aware of the Nazi atroc-
What is occurring in Kosovo is "a
ities, he said, and now the world is
terrible
human tragedy," he said, but
using the word "Holocaust" too freely.
not
at
all
the same as the Holocaust.
"Today we hear, and rightfully so,
"We
know
what tragedy and
that the plight of the refugees of
human suffering is. If only the world
Kosovo are worthy for our assistance
would have cared about the Jewish
and America stands behind it," he
people 55 years ago as it does now
said. But phrases that events that take
about Kosovo." H
place in Kosovo represent another

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