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Yom HaShoah from page 12

the question, "What kind of legacy are
we going to leave for the future?"
Since the remaining survivors were
the youngest during the war, she said
they need to also speak for the survivors
who have died. "We need to tell their sto-
ries so others can understand"

Emotional Time
Alex Karp of West Bloomfield, who lit
a candle with his wife, Gaby, and other
family members, found it hard to put his
thoughts into words. What struck Alex
most was the declining number of local
survivors. "Each and every year, there
are less and less survivors left. It's of
paramount importance that we keep the
momentum going after the survivors are
gone," he said.
Gaby and Alex are Gary Karp's par-
ents. Alex was pleased that in addition
to the traditional survivors gathering,
another memorial for the broader Jewish
community also would be taking place.
Ruth Weber of West Bloomfield, an
Auschwitz survivor and a child of a sur-
vivor, also was at a loss for words when
asked to describe how she was affected
by the program. She was glad that each

In Hitler's Time from page 12

he said.
In her talk, Heschel, the
daughter of Holocaust survivor
and esteemed theologian Rabbi
Abraham Joshua Heschel, focused
on German Protestant theolo-
gians who supported Hitler and
sought to de-Judaize Christianity
by turning Jesus and the Apostle
Paul into Aryans. They advocated
removing Jewish scripture from
Christian theology and even
rewrote Christian scripture to
remove Jewish references. She
called the attempts to purge
Jesus of his Judaism a type of
"theological bulimia."
She contrasted how
Kristallnacht engendered Nazi
support from among many
German Protestants with how the
Nov. 9-10, 1938, attack on German
Jews moved the Church of
England to strengthen its support
of its nation's efforts to counter
the Nazis.
Heschel also spoke about
Father Eugenio Pacelli, who
served as the Vatican's secretary
of state before becoming Pope
Pius XII in 1939. She charged that

of the speakers addressed the survivor's
children.
"It isn't only for the survivors, but for
the children of the survivors; to help
them understand our pain," Weber said.
"They need to know so they can pass it
along to their children and grandchil-
dren:"
Brenda Betel of West Bloomfield, the
mother-in-law of Tammy Betel, is a reg-
ular volunteer at the HMC. Her upbeat
manner and ready smile belie her core
message that "hate brings all of the evil.
We want everyone to know they should
always remember what happened:'
"The most important part of the
Holocaust today is our link to the survi-
vors',' says Rowe Ruch of Southfield, who
has been volunteering at the front desk
of the HMC for six years.
"Being around them, helping them,
being with them, is the most important
mitzvah.
The Holocaust Memorial Center will
always be here, but they will not. Their
presence is a blessing, and it is a sacred
duty to honor them. Outside of support-
ing the State of Israel, I can't think of
anything more important:'

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Pacelli ignored direct pleas from
both Jews and Catholic leaders
to speak out against Nazi anti-
Semitism and the persecution and
murder of Jews. She said while it
could be argued that initially he
acted out of fear for what Hitler
might do to the Church, after
Hitler was defeated, Pacelli still
didn't stand up or speak out. He
also made efforts to protect Nazi
officers and smuggle them to
South America.
"Could it be the Vatican felt
closer ties to the Nazis than to
the Jews? Whose lives did they
really want to save?" she provoca-
tively asked.
Following her accessible but
academic presentation, she paid
tribute not only to the lives lost,
but also to the Jewish communi-
ties, culture and religious learning
that the Nazis destroyed.
While he found her entire talk
enlightening, her conclusion espe-
cially appealed to Larry Gunsberg
of Farmington.
"Her description of the
European Jewish heritage that we
lost was both touching and sober-
ing. Beyond the lives we lost, we
lost a very special way life." Li