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efore he entered politics,
German president
Johannes Rau was a book
publisher. In the mid-
1950s, a manuscript landed on his
desk — a manuscript titled Here Fly
No Butterflies. It contained no words,
only artwork done by children in the
Thereisenstadt concentration camp.
"I experienced firsthand the diffi-
culties to get the book used in the
German school curriculum," said
Rau, who has visited Israel more
than 30 times and was the first
German president to address the
Knesset.
Rau stopped in Detroit Feb. 20 on
his way to the Winter Olympics in
Salt Lake City.
After a brief tour of the Holocaust
Memorial Center (HMC) in West
Bloomfield, Rau attended a recep-
tion in his honor hosted by the
American Jewish Committee at the
Jewish Community Center.
As a boy in post-war Germany, Rau
witnessed starvation and the bleak
conditions of other schoolchildren
who had to wait in line for food, he
told the crowd of 75 through an inter-
preter.
"I just have to think about the testi-
mony by the witnesses, that when
Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig speaks to Alan Zekehnan, center, and German President
Johannes Rau at the Holocaust Memorial Center.
they had to queue up for vegetables or
a potato, and hundreds of thousands
starved to death," he said. "By com-
parison, we ... had it easy compared to
the people killed by the National
Socialist Germans'INazis]."
He told the crowd to never forget.
"We must always remind ourselves
to keep this awareness of the sheer
level' of despair, destitution and of
need and want," Rau said. "We must
also remind ourselves of the unsung
heroes who tried to save more perhaps
than some people thought, but much
less than humanly possible."
Now the German Education
Ministry, together with the American
Jewish Committee, is adapting AJC's
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