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Holocaust Research
In the 1980s, Waltzer grew dissatisfied
with how Holocaust scholars wrote
that America and American Jews did
little to nothing to help European
Jewry.
He found that the left, and the heav-
ily Jewish labor movement and Social
Democrats, were very active during
the war pushing for American diplo-
matic action to save Jews. When that
wasn't enough, they went underground
to send money and other assistance to
Europe through the Polish government
in exile.
He was able to track down some
of the couriers and documented that
hundreds of thousands of dollars were
transferred to those in hiding.
"It was a mistaken approach to focus
on good people and good communities
doing selfless things:' Waltzer says. "It
was the resisters that turned into res-
cuers. Rescue was a collective activity,
clandestinely done along networks"
Waltzer's research focused on
Buchenwald, a concentration camp
where American liberators had found
21,000 surviving prisoners, among
them 904 boys, many age 12 and
younger.
Among the boys were Elie Wiesel,
then 16, and Meir Israel Lau, 8, who
would become Israel's Chief Ashkenazi
rabbi.
"How were they able to make it
through?" Waltzer asked at the time.
He found they were rescued inside the
camps. The Communist-led under-
ground protected all the boys.
"The goal was to stay in the camp
and not go outside where the work was
brutal. In Kinderblock 66, they kept
them inside the barracks:' Waltzer
explains. "They created a school, led
songs and had performances. They
had to convince the kids they would
make it to the end"
Waltzer served as historical con-
sultant for a 2012 documentary,
Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald,
that told the story. While the film
was being screened at the Jerusalem
Film Festival, it was announced that
Antonin Kalina, a leader in the camp
underground, would be posthumously
granted Righteous Among the Nations
status by Yad Vashem for his role in
saving the boys. This year, the film
was shown at the United Nations and
UN-sites worldwide on International
Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27.
Previously, Waltzer's research as one

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of 15 scholars from North America,
Europe and Israel who traveled to
Bad Arolsen, Germany, in 2008 to
examine the newly opened Red Cross
International Tracing Service Archives,
led to Yad Vashem recognizing another
righteous man.
Waltzer tracked down Rabbi Lau's
rescuer, whom Lau had sought for
decades without success. Lau only
knew the older boy's first name,
Fyodor, so Waltzer searched the Red
Cross archives and found only one
person with the same name interned
with Lau.
Lau invited Waltzer to the ceremony
at Yad Vashem in 2009, but he was
unable to attend so MSU produced
a short video for the occasion. (The

video can be seen on the JN website at
www. thejewishnews. corn).
Waltzer has now gathered informa-
tion on more than 200 of the 904 boys
rescued from Buchenwald. He is cur-
rently completing a book, The Rescue
of Children and Youths at Buchenwald,
and another collection of essays, tenta-
tively titled Children's Stories: Children
and Youths in the Nazi Camps.
He has lectured internationally on
his recent work, including in Australia,
Canada, France, Germany, Israel and
the United States.
His knowledge of Buchenwald also
received wide attention when he chal-
lenged the publication of a Holocaust
memoir considered slated for the best-
seller list and movie screens. Waltzer
assembled a team to investigate his
suspicions of fraud, and the book,
Angel at the Fence, was withdrawn.
It's clear that Waltzer's activist days
continue, with new things to teach,
know and build in order to better soci-
ety, Israel and the Jewish world.

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