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Local Holocaust survivor
challenges the claims of
Christian rescuers.

D

r. Emanuel
Tanay attrib-
utes his
Holocaust survival "in
part to my own inge-
nuity, but obviously I
needed help, and
many people, many
Christians, risked
their lives to help me
he told a crowd of 100
people at the
Holocaust Memorial
Center in Farmington
Dr. Taney: wary of the drumbeat
Hills on Sept. 20. "I call
them heroic helpers. I do
tion increases, and when the last
not call them rescuers:'
survivor is gone, there will be no
Dr. Tanay, a forensic psychia-
trist and professor at the Wayne one to challenge it."
He said the story of Raoul
State University Medical Schoo
in Detroit, said, "When someone Wallenberg, the Swedish diplo-
mat who rescued thousands of
falls into a river and somebody
Hungarian Jews, was overblown.
throws him a life preserver,
Dr. Tanay questioned how a 31-
there is no ambiguity here —
year-old businessman given a
he or she was rescued. No Jew
was rescued as long as he or she diplomatic passport could
change the whole policy of
was under German custody in
Jewish deportations.
one way or another."
The need exists to create a
The speech, "Rescuers: Myth
and Reality:' was part of an occa- "myth of rescue" on both sides,
he said.
sional series sponsored by the
The Holocaust was a disaster
HMC.
because 6 million Jews died, but
Dr. Tanay said the best thing
it was a catastrophe for
anyone could say about
Christianity "because that's when
Christianity during the
Christianity realized that 2,000
Holocaust is that "it remained
years of teaching of hatred — or
silent and passive."
as many Chrlstian theologians
"Individuals helped, but there
call it now, a Theology of Hate —
is no institution that I know
matter;' he said. "It leads to
about that actively assisted Jews,
behavior."
including the Red Cross:' he said.
The problem was an ethical
The Red Cross visited only one
dilemma for Christianity, solved
section of one concentration
by rescue. And rescue also shows
camp, Theriesenstadt, the model
that Jews were not abandoned by
camp.
humanity, he said.
"What bothers me is that so
"But I am troubled by the
many of the Christian 'rescuers'
exaggeration, by the constant
being praised for things they
drumbeat of the ever-increasing
have not done he said. "With
number of rescuers." 0
every passing year, the exaggera-

September 29 2005

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