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Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 09:07:57 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Paul Lawrence Rose <PLR2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Publication info - Who Killed the Jews of Latvia?
In-Reply-To: rtidyman AT laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au -- Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:43:15 CDT
The Ezergailis essay on Latvia has been published with the rest of the conferen ce papers in "Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis", ed. S Gilman and S. Katz, NYU Press, 1991. It should be easily available through ILL or in paperback. PLRose PLR2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 09:09:30 CDT
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9s?= Nader
<andresna@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Address of Wannsee Museum
>From: Simon Wiesenthal Center Library/Archives < simonwie@CLASS.ORG >
>
>
>A few months ago someone posted the address and phone number of the
>Wannsee Museum. What was it?
>
Gedenkstaette Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz
Am Grossen Wannsee 56-58
D-14109 Berlin
Germany
Tel.: (030) 80 50 01 0
Fax: (030) 80 50 01 27
The code for Germany is 49.
Sincerely,
Andres Nader,
Eichkatzweg 77
14055-Berlin
Germany
Tel 49 (030) 30 24 638
e-mail: andresna@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 09:11:55 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: SAC@aol.com Subject: ftp sites
Does anyone know of any ftp sites that contain curricula for teaching the Holocaust? I am esepcially interested in the Pennsylvania curriculum for teachers of the Holocaust that is part of the Electronic Jewish Library. My gopher connection to this library is not working and I need an address name.
Steven Cohen
NYC
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 10:07:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Reichmark equivalency
From: crowed < crowed@VAX1.ELON.EDU >
In 1938-40, $1 equaled 2.5 Reichsmarks. David Crowe. crowed@vax1.elon.edu
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 10:12:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Symbols used by the Nazis
From: Charles Fishman <FISHMAN%SNYFARVA>
I believe the sun-wheel version of the swastika was Hindu in origin. The
"arms"
of this wheel "turned" toward the left, that is, toward the spiritual realm,
whereas the Nazis turned the arms toward the right, that is, toward the
material
universe.
Charles Fishman * Fishman@snyfarva.cc.farmingdale.edu Distinguished Service Professor * * * (516) 420-2031 (Voice) Dir., Visiting Writers Program * * * (516) 420-2051 (Fax)
SUNY, Farmingdale * * * "If the Sun & Moon should doubt, Farmingdale, NY 11735 * They'd immediately go out." --Blake
From: Stephen Feinstein < feins001@MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU >
The Chicago artists Edith Altman had created a huge room installation
that does into the history and symbol of the Swastika, as well as other
symbols manipulated by the Nazis. She juxtaposes the Swastika and the
Star of David. The installation includes an entire section from an 1894
encyclopaedia depicting the history and migration of the swastika. Her
installation tries to redeem the symbol through shamanism using the
Kabbalah and Jungian psychoolgy. I have a paper on the work. You can also
contact Edith in Chicago:
811 W 16th St
Chicago, IL 60608
The installation also contains a dissection of the triangle, which became
a symbol of victimization. Hilberg discusses the euphenisms used for
"killing" in DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY.
Stephen Feinstein
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 11:04:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: FW: Fwd: Re: Holocaust Education
From: Richard Prystowsky <RJPrys@aol.com>
Janis Coulter makes some very good points. I would ask, though, if it's
possible to recognize consequences without necessarily arguing
teleologically. In other words, let's say, just for the sake of argument,
that Israel was in fact created as a result of the world's guilt (which is
how I believe the matter was phrased in someone else's post). Could we not
say that this consequence followed from the Holocaust without thereby
arguing
for a redemptive theology (for example) of/in/concerning the Holocaust?
Obviously, I'm leaving aside the question of whether or not Israel's
founding can be understood in the terms alluded to here.
Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
School of Humanities and Languages
Irvine Valley College
5500 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92720
Phone: 714-559-3206
Fax: 714-559-3270
From: JANIS R. COULTER < jcoulter@cassandra.cair.du.edu >
Responding to Judy Podolsky's post:
Your goals and methods are extremely admirable and, I must add, beautifully written. However, I do have one question:
Can we really talk about Israel being created as a result of the world's
guilt at their own treatment, or avoidance, of the "Jewish Issue" during
WWII without somehow reaching the conclusion that something good came out
of the Holocaust? I don't believe we should make the connection or pose
the question in this way, lest we risk causing some to come to the
conclusion
that we suffered for a good cause, that the Holocaust "was worth it"
somehow.
This may be too fine a point to bother debating it, but I think it is an
important one to recognize. HaShoah was too horrendous an event, and one
in which all humanity participated in in one way or another. We should
approach it for what it is - as incomprehensible as it seems most times -
and leave it at that.
Yes, Israel represents the future of the Jewish people. Hopefully that future will be one in which Jews can be secure (difficulties in today's Mid-East aside, we all know how precarious reality is). But do we really want to believe that 6 million Jews, and another 6 million nonJews, died so that Israel may live? I realize that in a sense this is the truth of it, I simply do not want the Holocaust to be a precedent-setting event. Of course, viewing the ethnic cleansing occuring in the former Yugoslavia in the name of nation-building, I know that I'm too late, the precedent exists. But I don't have to like it.
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 11:29:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: FW: REGISTRY OF NON-JEWISH PERSONS WHO DIED AT DEATH CAMPS?
From: arieh.lebowitz < arieh.lebowitz@rex.com >
Just a thought, but it would be likely that the German authiorities, who were so meticulous about record-keeping in other ways, would have kept records of non-Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, political opponents, Jehovah's Witnesses, and I would even imagine that they would hav ekept categorized records. Who on the list has information on all of those German/Nazi archives that were hurriedly microfilmed and then packed back to Germany not too long ago?
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 13:39:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: QUERY: Zuchthaus and Gefaengnis
From: William M. Thomas < wmthomas@STRAUSS.UDEL.EDU >
The "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" (15.9.35) lists the punishment for Jews marrying Germans as _Zuchthaus_ and the punishment for "extramartial intercourse" [ausserehelicher Verkehr] between Jews and Germans as _Gefaengnis_ or _Zuchthaus_. My dictionary lists them both simply as "prison," but the law is clearly making a distinction between the two. Could anyone explain the difference to me?
Thanks.
Will Thomas
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////
William M. Thomas
wmthomas@strauss.udel.edu
Dept of History, U of Delaware
The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of
the use of camera and pen alike.
--Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 14:29:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Useful Videos for Classes on the Holocaust
From: Jerry Rosenberg < JROSENBE@UA1VM.UA.EDU >
I am sending this partial list of videos I have used in my Holocaust classes and will send additional listings later in the week. At that time I will try and identify when I use any specific video or set of videos, depending on the focus and content needs of the class and the kind of impact on students that only visual images can make.
Video of Mydanek and Triblinka (obtained at Triblinka)
Video of Mauthausen (obtained at Mauthausen)
Nazi Plans for Death-Auschwitz PBS
The Longest Hatred-Anti-semitism
Memories of the Camps PBS
Nazi Concentration Camps-War Dept. Films
The Eagles Nest
David Wolper-Trial at Nurmberg
Selling Murder:The Killing Films of the Third Reich
Hitler: The Whole Story
Fatal Attraction of Adolph Hitler
Fuhrer-Seduction of a People
Wannsee Conference
The Warsaw Ghetto
The Lodz Ghetto
Facing Evil-Bill Moyers-PBS
History of SS
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Witness to the Holocaust--The Eichmann trial in Jerusalem
Facing Hate with Elie Wiesel PBS
A Portrait of Elie Wiesel-PBS
Kitty: Return to Auschwitz
The Unknown War--The Nazi invasion of Russia and the liberation of the camps
Of Pure Blood
Liebensborn
Purple Triangle--The Jehovah's Witnesses under Nazism
Weapons of the Spirit
Courage to Care
Restless Conscience--Nazi Resistance
Theresianstadt-The Model Camp
Triumph of Memory
Eyewitness to History--The Emory University project on survivors and
liberators
Dust and Ashes
Art of Holocaust
Precious Legacy
Krystallnacht
Genocide #20 of World at War series
Confessions of a Hitler Youth--HBO
Triumph of the Will
Judd Suess
The Eternal Jew
The Radio Priest--anti-semitism in America 30s and 40s
SHOAH
Memorandum
Armenian Journey--The Armenian Genocide
Last week the Discovery Channel showed an excellent documentary of liberators sharing their rememberances with pictures of the camps they liberated and follow-up with some of the survivors.
I hope this partial list helps. If there are any specific questions about
any
of the films listed in terms of content or use prior to my follow-up posting
please contact me through the net or personally. Jerry Rosenberg, Univ of
Alabama.
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 15:04:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Symbols used by the Nazis
From: Stacey Ward <wards@plk.af.mil>
Jill Goldstein/Gerda Gisella wrote...
> I am interested in knowing what Ancient German symbols the Nazis used and
> how they perverted their original meaning.
>
> For example the Swastika is a sunwheel, that has been important in the
> native heathen religion of the Germanic People. Another is the Rune
> Sowilo was used as the "lightning bolts" on the SS collars. They aren't
> lightning bolts but the Rune from the Elder Futhark called Sowilo. IN
> Holland I understand a certain branch of the German Army used Othala Rune
> for one of their symbols.
>
> What other symbols were perverted by the Nazis?
As a related tangent, there was an excellent documentary on PBS
approximately
two years ago: "The Nazis and the Occult." It dealt in part with the Nazis'
fascination with symbolism, as well as the "occult." Did not see all of it,
so I don't know if the perversion of symbols was addressed per se.
Regards,
--
Ms. Stacey A. Ward
wards@plk.af.mil "how can you start a revolution
if you won't walk on the grass?"
-- Russian folk saying
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Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 15:34:00 CDT
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From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com>
Subject: Re: REGISTRY OF NON-JEWISH PERSONS WHO DIED AT DEATH CAMPS?
From: Michael Thaler <mmt@itsa.ucsf.EDU>
The "Nazi/German archives" you inquire about contain predominantly Nazi
Party and SS membership records. These were kept in the Berlin
Documentation Center under the jurisdiction of the US Armed Forces until
last
summer when control was turned over to German authorities. Prior to
transfer from American to German control, all files were
microfilmed and the copies brought to the National Archives in Washington,
The first 4,000 microfilmed dossiers were recently made available for public
inspection.
On Mon, 1 May 1995, Mott, Jim wrote:
> From: arieh.lebowitz < arieh.lebowitz@rex.com >
>
> Just a thought, but it would be likely that the German authiorities, who
> were so meticulous about record-keeping in other ways, would have kept
> records of non-Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, political opponents,
> Jehovah's Witnesses, and I would even imagine that they would hav ekept
> categorized records. Who on the list has information on all of those
> German/Nazi archives that were hurriedly microfilmed and then packed
> back to Germany not too long ago?
>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 16:29:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Wladyslaw Bartoszewski in Israel.
From: tkgierym@k-vector.chem.washington.edu (Tadeusz K. Gierymski)
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, April 29, 1995, reports that
Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
will be attending events in Israel early next
month to mark the end of World War II hostilities
in Europe 50 years ago, it was announced in Warsaw
Saturday.
He will speak in the Knesset on May 9 and on May 10 will take part in a congress of the World Association of Jewish Combatants. Bartoszewski was given honorary citizenship of Israel in 1991 for his efforts to save Jews during the Nazi occupation of Poland. He was invited to Israel on a number of occasions before he became foreign minister.
According to the Polish Foreign Ministry Bartoszewski will meet Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin and President Ezer Weizman during his stay in Israel from May 9-12.
Here are excerpts (my translation - tkg) from M-3129 in Yad Vashem Archives concerning Wladyslaw Bartoszewski's activities during the WW II for which he received the title of a "Righteous Gentile" in 1965:
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski was a soldier in the
Home Army (AK) ... . He was a member of the
Provisional Committee of Aid to Jews and later
of "Zegota" - Council for Aid to Jews - founded
in December 1942 in cooperation with the
Delegatura of the Polish Government in Exile.
He was Deputy to the Director of the Jewish
Section in the Department of Internal Affairs of
the Delegatura. After the war he was a co-founder
of the League for combatting Fascism, a member
of Poland's main commmision studying German
war crimes, and he wrote extensively about Jewish
martyrology during the German occupation.
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski was born in Warsaw 2/19/1922. He was a prisoner in Auschwitz, and after his release from it he helped to found "Zegota." He was active in the Polish Home Army (AK), was on the editorial staff of its "Biuletyn Informacyjny," and took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
Yisroel Gutman wrote of "Zegota":
But the activists of 'Zegota,' the people who
actually bore the taxing and perilous task of
rescue, were among the bravest heroes of the
war, truly the righteous among nations.'
Is "Zegota" the only national organization honored with its own tree in the Avenue of the Just?
Tadeusz K. Gierymski
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 09:06:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Review: *Etre juif en France pendant la ww2* [x H-FRANCE]
Renee Poznanski
Etre juif en France pendant la seconde guerre mondiale
Hachette, Paris 1994, 859 p.
ISBN 2.01.013109.6
Renne Poznanski est professeur d'Histoire a l'universite Ben Gourion du Neguev, a Beer Sheva (Israel).
Dans "Vichy et les juifs", M.R. Marrus et R.O. Paxton avaient longuement analyse la politique antisemite de Vichy et les responsabilites de ce regime dans la Shoah.
Le livre de Renee Poznanski a pour objectif "de faire sortir les Juifs du texte de loi.. en somme redonner aux Juifs qui ne sont bien souvent traites que comme objets-victimes de l'histoire, le role de sujet" (p. 11). Du coup la scene francaise pendant la seconde guerre mondiale prend un nouvel eclairage, sans aucun doute particulierement necessaire, mais surtout extremement riche. L'auteur s'appuie sur des fonds peu utilis s jusqu'alors : journaux personnels (mise en parallele de journaux tenus par des juifs et des non-juifs), archives des organisations juives, t moignages.
Renee Poznanski montre d'abord l'extreme diversite des juifs en France
en 1939. Bien loin du Juif unique de la propagande vichyssoise,
la micro societe juive (300.000 a 330.000 personnes) est extremement
heterogene. Fran ais juifs assimiles (90.000 personnes) et juifs etrangers
de toutes nationalites, socialistes et bourgeois, pratiquants et
non-pratiquants : il est bien difficile de parler d'une communaute. Les
juifs francais, emancipes depuis 1791, particulierement republicains,
avaient
toutes les raisons de s'en remettre a l'etat francais. Le juif etranger est
plus isole et ne beneficiera pas des memes appuis dans la societe francaise.
Ainsi se dessine la variete des situations face a la montee de l'antisemitisme en France.
Des 1939, avant Vichy, plusieurs decrets sont pris par le gouvernement
francais, ordonnant l'internement de 3000 refugies juifs Allemands et
Autrichiens dans les culs de basse fosse de la Republique (Gurs, Le Vernet,
,etc..), enrolant de force les etrangers dans des compagnies de
"prestataires"
qui deviendront "groupements de travailleurs etrangers" sous Vichy.
La defaite amene avec elle la serie de mesures antisemites prises par les Allemands et par Vichy. Depuis Paxton, ces mesures sont connues : recensements, spoliation, "epuration", internement puis deportation. Chacune de ces etapes fait l'objet d'une etude minutieuse. Temoignages et journaux personnels restituent la vie dans les camps d'internement, les GTE, Drancy ou Compiegne. Les rapports officiels permettent de chiffrer le rendement des recensements, de "l'aryanisation" des biens juifs, de l'organisation de l'epuration puis des rafles. Les archives officielles rendent compte de la deportation de 76.000 juifs de France (dont 24.500 Francais) et du soutien qu'apporta Vichy.
L'auteur decrit la surdite de l'administration francaise qui applique avec serieux et rigueur professionnelle des lois de plus en plus eloignees des principes de base du droit francais.
Renee Poznanski montre la variete des comportements face a ces mesures. Le choc le plus brutal est pour les juifs Francais. Souvent ce fut l'occasion d'une prise de conscience de sa judeite. Mais tous, pour survivre, devinrent dependants soit de la societe francaise, soit des association juives.
L'auteur restitue l'acharnement des differentes associations a venir en aide a une population menacee. Et d'abord l'UGIF, organisme cree par Vichy et l'occupant, qui finira par englober toutes les associations legales, et dont elle montre le role positif. Si les dirigeants de l'UGIF accepterent une collaboration technique avec les autorites ce fut pour proteger les reseaux d'assistance la communaute. Pour les juifs, survivre devient un acte de volonte et de resistance.
Si pour manger il faut un papier d'identite (la carte de rationnement), pour survivre se cacher est necessaire. Pour sortir du dilemme, les juifs francais trouverent souvent des complicites "aryennes". D'autres eurent recours aux organisations juives. Ainsi la communaute passa a la resistance passive ou active. R. Poznanski decrit le travail des resistants dans les organisations paralleles a l'UGIF; la creation de groupes armes dont les plus celebres et les plus actifs furent les FTP-MOI. D'autres organisations juives fournissent des milliers de faux papiers, dissimulent des milliers d'enfants, organisent les passages a l'etranger par centaines.
A la fin de la guerre, les trois quarts de la communaute juive ont survecu.
Renee Poznanski reconnait le role des associations juives dans la
sauvegarde de la communaute. Par leur diversite, leurs relais dans la
societe francaise, elles purent aider la communaute dans son heterogeneite.
Mais, pour elle (comme pour S. Klarsfeld), le role de la societe civile
fut determinant. "L'Etat pouvait effacer d'un trait de loi des mesures
d'Emancipation, il ne pouvait en effacer les effets qui s'etaient enracines
dans la societe durant cent cinquante ans" (p 705). Si la societe francaise
accueille sans reaction les premieres mesures antisemites, des le printemps
1941 des voix se font entendre. Ce sont surtout les scenes de rafle de l'ete
1942 qui font basculer l'opinion francaise, d'autant plus que les juifs
ne sont pas les seules victimes de Vichy (les francs-macons, les
communistes,
les requis du STO...). "Le drame vecu par les Juifs en France pendant la
Seconde Guerre mondiale fut en meme temps une tragedie juive et une
tragedie francaise" (p. 710).
Un des derniers chapitres du livre est consacre aux lendemains de la Liberation. Apres quatre ans de propagande antisemite officielle, les survivants eurent bien du mal a recuperer les biens dont ils avaient ete spolies. Toute trace d'antisemitisme n'avait pas disparu du pays...
Le livre de Renee Poznanski est d'une extreme richesse et complete de facon incontournable le travail de Paxton et Marrus.
Francois Jarraud
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Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 11:47:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Publication info - Who Killed the Jews of Latvia?
From: David Dickerson <ddickerson@IGC.ORG>
Dear Richard,
> I am wondering if anyone knows the whether a lecture by > Andrew Ezergailis called "Who Killed the Jews of Latvia?" > has been published? It was presented to the conference > "Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis", April 10 1986 at > Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. If anyone could > send me a copy that would also be great.
You will be happy to learn that Andrew Ezergailis' essay, "Anti-Semitism and the Killing of Latvia's Jews," has indeed been published, in the fine volume, ANTI-SEMITISM IN TIMES OF CRISIS, edited by Sander L. Gilman and Steven T. Katz (New York: New York University Press, 1991); the ISBN for the book is 0-8147-3056-6. Please let me know if you need any additional information.
Also, as you may know -- and according to the "Notes on Contributors" in ANTI-SEMITISM IN TIMES OF CRISIS -- Andrew Ezergailis is/was working on a study of the Holocaust in Latvia.
Cordially,
David Dickerson
David Dickerson / / / ddickerson@igc.apc.org
"In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness." - Elie Wiesel
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 12:32:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Black Book's editor
From: Alexander Soifer < asoifer@ELEVEN.UCCS.EDU >
Permite me a little correction. The Black Book editor's name is Ilya Erenburg (not Ehrenberg). He was a writer, poet and journalist. Above all, he personally knew Pasternak, Mandelshtam, Tuvim, Modigliani, Pascin, Sutin, Picasso and counless other creators. His 3 volume memoirs "People, Years, Life" is an incredible reading, an encyclopedia of XX century. I have it in Russian, but perhaps somebody could post its translations.
Yours, Alexander Soifer (asoifer@uccs.edu).
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 12:32:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Reichmark equivalency
From: SIMPSON < SIMPSON@AMERICAN.EDU >
David Crowe is right about the 1938-1940 RM/$ exchange rate, and I suppose
that number may be as good as can be found. There are a few built-in
problems,
however. First, the RM was not fully convertable and as a practical matter
the
2.5/1 exchange rate was set by the German government. It tended to inflate
the
value of the RM. Second, the Nazis' finance ministry made a practice of
manipulating
both sides of international currency exchange by capturing the
central
banks in conquered regions and installing compliant bankers. This device
permitted
them to loot the assets of whole countries -- the British did an
interesting
wartime study of this and the Poles attempted to bring formal war
crimes
charges as a result of this practice. Third, the systematic theft of Jewish
property and the associated flight of Jewish-owned capital tended to make
the
RM more valuable in certain situations and less valuable in others,
depending
upon whether the holder was attempting to flee Germany or an outside
speculator
attempting to cash in on the crisis.
Also, for my two cents worth, the passage of time has made it increasingly
difficult to translate the value of, say, 1940 dollars into 1995_dollars_
because of the differences in economic activities of the society.... Yes,
competent economists do make such translations all the time; my point here
is
simply that the more the economies diverge over time, the greater the degree
to which hypothetical exchange rates will reflect the economist's own model
and
the assumptions built into it. It also becomes more and more difficult to
compa
re the hypothetical rates to those set by markets, because no such markets
exis
t.
Regards, simpson@american.edu
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 12:32:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Query: Cookbooks produced in camps and ghettos
From: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett < krshnbtt@ACF2.NYU.EDU >
I am interested in the phenomenon of women in ghettos and concentration
camps writing down recipes they remembered in notebooks. Several of them
are
in the collection of Yad Vashem. One is about to be published. I am trying
to
locate others. If anyone knows of such material, I would be very grateful
for the information.
Thank you.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
krshnbtt@acf2.nyu.edu FAX: 212-254-7885 TEL: 212-998-1628
Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th fl, New York, NY 10003
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 14:37:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Reichmark equivalency
From: David Dickerson < ddickerson@IGC.ORG >
>From MAClelland <MAClelland@AOL.COM>:
> In reports, students have cited the Reichmark value of > the slave labor and the ultimate "profit" accrued to the > state from managing the camps. However, I do not know > what the modern equivalent for a Reichmark is; > consequently, these figures have no clear meaning for my > students. Can anyone give me a sense of what the > Reichmark's purchasing power in today's dollars might be?
Based upon the figures in the chapter, "The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz," by Jean-Claude Pressac and Robert-Jan van Pelt in ANATOMY OF THE AUSCHWITZ DEATH CAMP (edited by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum)*, it would appear that, when that particular chapter was written in 1992, four (4) Reichsmarks (RM) would have been the rough equivalent of one (1.00) US dollar. In other words, one RM is about a fourth of a US dollar (25 cents). Here is an example figure from page 233 of ANATOMY OF THE AUSCHWITZ DEATH CAMP:
Crematorium II was finally delivered on March 31
at a cost of 554,500 RM (1992: $2,215,000).
I offer this exchange rate with a word of caution, since I am far from being an expert on currency exchange and since the above figure is for the US dollar in 1992. (To get a rough idea of the equivalent in US dollars, I've simply been multiplying the RM amounts I read by four.)
I hope that my estimation is close enough to be useful, but I would very much appreciate more definitive responses from other HOLOCAUS list members.
Cordially,
David Dickerson
David Dickerson / / / ddickerson@igc.apc.org
"In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness." - Elie Wiesel
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 10:01:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Film on the Kutno ghetto
From: Jerzy Halbersztadt < HALBERUW@PLEARN >
Few days ago I have seen in Warsaw the first presentation of a new documental film "Miasteczko" (A small town) produced by a private producer and directed by Agnieszka Arnold. It is the film on the creation (1940) of the Jewish ghetto in KUTNO, a small town 125 km westwards from Warsaw. Agnieszka Arnold found an anonymous tape kept by Archives of the Documental Film Producers in Warsaw and identified Kutno in this film. This film had been copied two years ago from the unidentified documents of the Bundesarchiv Babelsberg. According to the information released to Mrs. Arnold Bundesarchiv received this material from the Russian Film Archives in Krasnogorsk.
The original film was taken on 16 mm professional camera, probably by the German local photographer. It is not resembling the typical Nazi propaganda films. It simply documents the everyday life of the small ghetto (ca. 7,000 inhabitants). Kutno is located in this part of Poland which was incorporated directly to Reich after 1939. Mrs.Arnold confronted the documental film with the reactions of Jewish survivors of Kutno living now in Israel and with the comments of Polish neighbours. The result is really interesting. The film lasts ca. 25 minutes. The next part on the Jewish survivors of Kutno after 1945 is planned.
Jerzy Halbersztadt, University of Warsaw, and the Director of the Polish Program of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC.)
01-682 Warszawa
Kiwerska 16/8
tel/fax (+48 22) 33-79-21
e-mail: halberuw@plearn.edu.pl
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 10:01:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: A conference on the Chelmno death camp
From: Jerzy Halbersztadt < HALBERUW@PLEARN >
The conference on the death camp in Chelmno was held on 24 April, 1995, in Konin (I informed the Holocaust-L correspondents on this event few weeks ago). It was a factual and valuable review of the results of the research of this topic. The positive effects of this short, one-day conference were possible due to organisers who managed to publish all the papers presented (in Polish language with English and German summaries). The book titled
"OSRODEK ZAGLADY W CHELMNIE NAD NEREM I
JEGO ROLA W HITLEROWSKIEJ POLITYCE
EKSTERMINACYJNEJ, MATERIALY Z SESJI
NAUKOWEJ"
contains the texts as follows (I quote the translations of the
titles done by the organisers although these translations are far
from correctness):
Slawomir Abramowicz (Lodz), State of Polish investigations on the extermination center in Chelmno on the Ner,
Julian Baranowski (Lodz), Extermination of Jews from Wartheland and West Europe in Chelmno on the Ner,
Juliusz Gulczynski (Konin), Extermination place in Chelmno on the Ner,
Marian Kaczmarek (Poznan), Hitleric plans of the extermination of Jewish people in Wartheland,
Shmuel Krakowski (Jerusalem), The state of researches on the extermination center in Chelmno on the Ner outside Polish borders,
Andrzej Bodek (Frankfurt a.M.), Der Vernichtungszentrum Chelmno nad Nerem im Kontext der Ermordung europaeischer Juden,
Marek Budziarek (Lodz), Poles, Czech children and Soviet prisoners of war murdered in Chelmno on the Ner (The survey of the problem),
Antoni Galinski (Lodz), Liquidation of Gypsies - prisoners of Lodz-ghetto in Chelmno on the Ner,
Jan Jagielski (Warszawa), Documents referring to the extermination camp Chelmno on the Ner in the collections of Jewish Historic Institute,
Witold Kulesza (Lodz), Garrison's members of the extermination center in Chelmno/Ner in front of German court of justice, outlines of biographies, actions and bearings,
Przemyslaw Mnichowski (Zielona Gora), Extermination center in Chelmno on the Ner in the light of inquisitional records in the Central Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against Polish Nation,
Marian Kaczmarek, Origins of the extermination of Jews in Wartheland, The extermination of Jews in Konin District,
Piotr Rybczynski (Konin), Liquidation of the agglomerations of Jewish population in the Konin's district.
The most important topic discussed in few papers was the number of victims of Chelmno. It was the common opinion that the older evaluations of 320,000 - 360,000 victims (given by Polish scholars Bednarz and Serwanski as well as by Dawidowicz, Gilbert, Encyclopaedia of Holocaust, etc.) are not proved by the reliable source evidence. The number of victims was surely less than 200,000. Baranowski, who investigated the transports to Chelmno, says that 150,000 to 160,000 Jews from Wartheland and West Europe and over 4,000 Gypsies were killed in Chelmno. It confirms the earlier evaluations of Raul Hilberg, Adalbert Rueckerl and other scholars.
I asked in Chelmno how the copies of this book could be available for foreigners. I am sorry, but I could not be an agent for all interested (except of few colleagues from the list who requested me to play this role before the conference). All other persons can write directly to the District Museum in Konin:
Muzeum Okregowe w Koninie
ul. Muzealna 6
62-505 Konin -Goslawice
Poland
The price of one copy is ca. US dollars 4.00. The air mail to the USA costs ca. US dollars 6.00. You can mail 10.00 dollars cheques to the museum (putting on the cheque the name of museum - Muzeum Okregowe w Koninie - and the bank account of the museum (WBK O/Konin 353005-61607) or you can transfer the payment directly to bank account informing the museum on it.
The telephone of the museum is (+48 63) 427-599. The name of the director of the museum is Mrs. Lucja Nowak.
Jerzy Halbersztadt, University of Warsaw, and the Director of the Polish Program of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC.)
01-682 Warszawa
Kiwerska 16/8
tel/fax (+48 22) 33-79-21
e-mail: halberuw@plearn.edu.pl
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 10:46:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Explaining Hitler
From: Jay Losey < Jay_Losey@BAYLOR.EDU >
Dear list members,
In the most recent NEW YORKER, there are two articles on Hitler. The first
is
by Ron Rosenbaum, titled "Explaining Hitler." The byline reads as follows:
"What was the genesis of Hitler's evil? In the fifty years since his death,
generations of experts have produced wildly competing theories that attempt
to
account for every aspect of his identity--and imply troubling things about
our
own." The second much shorter piece is by Philip Hamburger and is titled
"Letter From Berchtesgaden: Beauty and the Beast." Both articles can be
found
in the 1 May 1995 issue, pp. 50-73. Cordially, Jay.
Jay_Losey@baylor.edu
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 10:56:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Earliest Reference to "Holocaust"
From: Franklin Littell < FHL@TEMPLEVM >
Colleagues: I am grateful to Charles Fishman for his information on use of the word "Holocaust." The forthcoming issue of HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES will carry an article of mine in which i.a. I discuss my own experience with this word. I remember hearing Elie Wiesel and Raul Hilberg discussing one time which of them introduced it - NIGHT in 1958 or THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY in 1961? Two summers ago a German scholar working in my papers from my years with OMGUS discovered it used in a "Newsletter" I was mimeographing and sending to colleagues back home - from Stuttgart in August, 1949. On reflection I concluded I must have picked it up - as a precise reference to the Nazi genocide of the Jews - from American Jewish chaplains or from workers in the DP camps. In any case, I concluded in my paper: "The `Holocaust' was not `invented,' as the revisionists claim... we looked back and it was there - as close, as inescapable, as our own shadows." - Franklin Littell
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 11:26:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Birkenau -Sonderkommando
From: Saul Issroff < 100142.3356@COMPUSERVE.COM >
On 29/4/95. re Sonderkommando and Arnost Lustig-
>From: ajacobs < ajacobs@INTERACCESS.COM >
>Hello,My name is Alan Jacobs. I am new here. I am not new to Holocaust
studies.
>Right now I am trying to find someone who speaks Czech and knows about the
>war. I have tapes of an interview I did, in 1980 in Mannheim, with Filip
>M=FCller, the former sonderkommando at Birkenau and author of the book
>"Eyewitness Auschwitz, Three years in the Gas chambers". The interpreter
>was Arnost Lustig. But as he got into many conversations in thier native
>tongue with M=FCller that he didn't translate, I need some help. Is anyone
>interested in the contents of these tapes? Can anyone recommend an
>enterpreter? Also I have tape of an interview with Lustig, Milton Buki and
>Manya Buki on the same subject. Milton was also a sonderkommando at
>Birkenau. Manya worked in the Sauna disinfecting clothing from the camp and
>from the transports with Zyclon B.
>Also is anyone here familiar with an Oswiecim State Museum publication: "Amidst a Nightmare of Crime, Notes of Prisoners of Sonderkommando Found at >Auschwitz" (1973)? These are notes written in Yiddish and stuffed in >various containers and buried beneath the ashes at Krematoria II & III, >Birkenau. Is anyone interested, or is anyone working on a study of the >sonderkommnando? Best,Jake
'After Those Fifty Years', (Memoirs of the Birkenau Boys)
edited by John Freund and obtainable from him. His address is:-
John Freund
184 Highbourne Road
Toronto
Ontario, Canada M5P 2J7, Tel.No. 416 481 1933
I was in Birkenau 15th Dec. 43 to 24th Dec. 44. In July 44 about 90 boys
were
transferred from the so called Czech Familienlager (Abschnitt BIIb) to the
Maennerlager. There we were accomodated in the Straffenblock next to the
Sonderkommando. I had been a Laeufer (runner) for the hospital block in
BIIb
and ran errands for Mengele, in the Maennerlager I became Laeufer for the
Kleiderkammer (clothing department). The Maennerlager (Abschnitt BIId) was
a
service camp for the whole of Birkenau. The men of the Sonderkommando
befriended us, fed us and helped in all sorts of ways. It was a special
thing
that they had contact with Jewish children who were alive. I spent the
first
three days in the Maennerlager with them and a foreman of one of the
Sonderkommando gangs called Geille got me a pair of skiing boots which saw
me
through the evacuation right up to the time I had a sauna just before typhus
in Mauthausen in May 1945.
Geille was the foreman of the gang of crematorium III which was blown up by the Sonderkommando in October 1944. Their revolt lasted about half an hour and all of them were shot.
As I had access to roads round the Birkenau camp Geille asked me to tell
about
10,000 Hungarian Jews that they were waiting to be gassed, they were camped
out on the road between the Maennerlager and the BIIc Abschnitt, I was to
ask
them to start a riot when they heard the explosion. Some men took me to a
Rabbi who heard me out and asked why my Yiddisch was like Taich. I
explained
that I was from Czechoslovakia and that up to Auschwitz I had heard my
parents
speak to Polish Jews and always understood Yiddisch but that I only started
speaking the language in the camp. The Rabbi chose not to believe me
because
I was smartly dressed as a Laeufer and had special permission to grow my
hair.
He turned to the bystanders and accused me of being a provocateur. The
revolt had no support at all, and in due course the people waiting were the
last group of Hungarian Jews to be gassed. When they were finnished the
Germans started dismantling the gas chambers and crematoria, leaving only
crematorium II to service the corpses of the dying, there was no shortage of
bodies.
I write extensively, not necessarily about the Holocaust, my subject is
Jewish
genealogy. I will be in the US at the Washington DC summer seminar on
Jewish
Genealogy taking place 24th to 29th June. We could meet. I am willing to
help you all I can. There are several others of the boys some in the US who
could also tell you more stories about the Sonderkommando in Birkenau. I
speak Czech, a bit of Polish, Hebrew & Yiddish and have done a number of
translations.
Shalom, Michael Honey 100142,421@Compuserve.com
(posted on behalf of Mike Honey)
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 12:21:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Allied indifference?
From: Paul Lawrence Rose < PLR2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU >
It is difficult to take seriously the Jerusalem Report feature of 12 Jan. excusing the bombing of Auschwitz. One subsequent published comment by a Polish gentile witness in the issue of 23 March may interest readers: "US Air Force apologists mentioned in Why Didn't the Allies Bomb Auschwitz speak of an "umbrella" of hundreds of Luftwaffe fighter planes and "79 heavy guns" defending Auschwitz from air attack. All this is imaginary. In 1944 I was a prisoner in Ausch. working as "captain" of one of the camp's three fire trucks. We were responsible for checking the fire-fighting equipment in the heavily industiral 40 sq. km. area...During the summer of 1944 there were several US air-raids on this area, and I watched them through binoculars. Only once did I spot two German fighter planes. They "defended" the area by flying scared and at tree-top level, while high above them 90 US Superfortresses flew nonchalantly by. In 1944 there were 17 (not 79!) anti-aircraft guns in the area. They were manned by Italian gunners and were chronically short of ammunition. Sigmund Sobolewski. Vice-President, Auschwitz Awareness Society, Alberta, Canada". Mr Sobolewski is well-known and appreciated for his countering of the various denial myths that have sprung up about Auschwitz. PLRose PLR2@psuvm.Psu.Edu.
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 13:16:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: FW: Weimar and Buchenwald
From: Aharon Meytahl < power@act.co.il>
An Israeli theater director was intrigued by co-location of Weimar, a city where Goethe, Schiller, Bach, Liszt lived and created some of their works, and Buchenwald (actually Ettersberg) concentration camp and the headquarters of the Second SS Totenkopf Division. He decided to produce in Weimar the Merchant of Venice, with German actors. In this production, the plot takes place in SS Officers' Club. A Jew is ordered to play Shylock for the German officers. The Israeli TV Channel 1, interviewed some of the actors and several people from the audience. They did not like the interpretation. They complained that it was painted in black and white. Life, they said, is more complicated. One actor said that he does not believe that SS Officers behaved in the way he was told to act, but being a professional actor he does what instructed by the director.
Jorge Semprun, a Spaniard and a French man of letters also deals with Buchenwald and Weimar in his book published last year, Writing or Life, which probably will be soon translated into English. Semprun who was for a while Minister of Culture in Felipe Gonzales cabinet, was during the war a young student of philosophy in Paris. He fought in the resistance, was captured in 1944 and sent to Buchenwald. He was twenty at that time.
The book is an autobiographical narrative, focused on the day of liberation and its aftermath with flashbacks to being a Buchenwald prisoner. It is a remarkable account.
Semprun, a gentile, has a profound respect for the Jews, whose conditions were much worse. He tells about an Auschwitz Sonderkomando Jew who somehow remained alive and was sent to Buchenwald. This person met with the resistance committee and recounted his Auschwitz experience. After some minutes of silence, the head of the group, a German prisoner by the name of Kaminski asked everybody to remember Germany. Germans did the atrocities.
After liberation Semprun, like many others, contemplated suicide. He feels himself akin to Primo Levi and attempts a bold interpretation for the reason for his suicide.
I recommend the book to everybody.
Aharon Meytahl
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 13:21:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Symbololgy origins in Nazi Germany
From: Bill Huber < whuber@SADIS01.KELLY.AF.MIL >
I always wondered about the connection between Hitler and the swastika as a Hindu symbol. He never appeared to me as one who went in for studying other cultures. There was a program on the Arts & Entertainment Network Sunday night that I had not seen before about Hitler that mentioned his Catholic upbringing in Austria and the fact he had been a member of the church choir. It showed an interior shot of the church that he sang and over one of the carved saints was an escutcheon shield in which was centered a swastika sitting flat (cross style rather than cocked 45 degrees the way the Nazis later adopted) with pointed arms in a semi-sunwheel style. The earliest Nazi flags had the swastika sitting flat on one arm and was later cocked at the angle everyone is familiar seeing. Anyway, that is the best connection I have seen presented yet as to how Hitler came up with the swastika symbol.
As for the other runic symbols used by the Nazis there were many. The SS in particular used them in an adapted form. Many of the foreign Waffen SS units had collar insignia that was derived from Nordic runic symbols and those symbols also appeared on the SS officer's rings. The tyre rune (upward pointing arrow) was used in the Nazi party to distinguish graduates of the Nazi leadership school. The "wolfsangle" was used by the Dutch SS volunteers. The sunwheel or mobile swastika was used by the 5th SS Panzer Division etc. etc.
The SS used those symbols to try to create a mystic aura of the Viking days with all that blond hair, blue eyed terror of the seas stuff. The SS, being the essence of Germanic manhood identified closely with all that Teutonic Knight ideal.
Cheers, Bill Huber / whuber@sadis01.kelly.af.mil
Isn't the swastika of Roman origin or provenance? There are swastikas in Roman ruins, including those at Conambrigia, near Coimbra, in Portugal.
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 15:59:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Black Book's editor
From: Stephen Feinstein < feins001@MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU >
Not to beat a dead horse, but the accepted spelling in English is Ilya Ehrenberg, as in the 1985 published book by Ilya Ehrenberg and Konstantin Simonov, IN ONE NEWSPAPER (Sphinx press). I have never seen it spelled Erenberg, even though it may be more phoenetic. Stephen Feinstein
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 09:55:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: NEH $ for translations
National Endowment for the Humanities Translation Grants
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS
TRANSLATIONS PROGRAM
The Division of Research Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities welcomes applications for translation projects. Translations grants support individual or collaborative projects to translate into English works that provide insight into the history, literature, philosophy, and artistic achievements of other cultures. The Endowment welcomes print and electronic publications that make available to scholars, students, teachers, and general readers the thought and learning of both ancient and modern civilizations.
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Awards in the Translations Program are made for up to three years and usually range from $30,000 to $150,000, depending on the scope and magnitude of the project.
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List of Awards - Fiscal Year 1995
David L. Blank, University of California, Philodemus Translation
Project (The Aesthetic Works)
Marilyn L. Booth, An Anthology of Writings by the Egyptian
Feminist Mayy Ziyadah
Louise M. Burkhart, SUNY Research Foundation/Albany, The Virgin
Mary in Early Nahuatl Literature: An Anthology
John C. Dagenais, Northwestern University, Mirror or Book of
Women, by Jaume Roig (1460)
Toyin O. Falola, Yoruba Historical Chronicles
T. Griffith Foulk, Rules of Purity for Ch'an Monasteries and
Related Chinese Buddhist Monastic Codes
Daniel H. Garrison, Northwestern University, Annotated
Translation of Vesalius's Fabrica, A Renaissance Text on
Anatomy
Charles T. Gehring, University of the State of New York, The New
Netherland Archives
Howard V. Hong, Saint Olaf College, Kierkegaard's Writings: An
Annotated English Edition
Thomas M. Hunter, Jr., Sekar Iniket: An Anthology of Old Javanese
Literature
Alan S. Kahan, Florida International University, The Old Regime
and the Revolution, Volume II, by Alexis de Tocqueville
Gyula Klima, Notre Dame University, Buridan's Summulae
John L. Kessell, University of New Mexico, The Journals of Don
Diego de Vargas
P. David Kovacs, Loeb Classical Library Euripides
Roderick L. MacFarquhar, Harvard University, The Chinese
Communist Revolution: Mao Zedong's Pre-1949 Works
Shulamit S. Magnus, Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother:
Scenes from the Cultural Life of Russian Jewry in the
Nineteenth Century
Carol S. Maier, Kent State University, The Autobiographical Novel
Delirium and Destiny, by Maria Zambrano (1989)
Cynthia L. Martin, Ilya Kabakov, Memoirs of an Unofficial Russian
Artist
Julie S. Meisami, Nizami Ganjavi's Khusraw and Shirin, A 12thCentury
Persian Romance
Michael J. Mikos, University of Wisconsin, The Mountain of
Beautiful Calliope, An Anthology of Polish Renaissance
Literature
Jan Nattier, Indiana University, The Inquiry of Ugra, An Early
Mahayana Buddhist Scripture
Bruce R. O'Brien, The Latin Legal Literature of Anglo-Norman
England
David T. Roy, University of Chicago, The Plum in the Golden Vase,
A 16th-Century Chinese Novel
John D. Schaeffer, Northern Illinois Universisty, Universal Law,
A Treatise on Natural Law, by Giambattista Vico
Marshall S. Shatz, V. O. Kliuchevsky, Russia under Catherine the
Great, Nine Lectures
Marina A. Tolmacheva, Washington State University, Corpus of
Arabic Sources on Northeast Africa
Selena A. Winsnes, L. F. Romer's A Reliable Report about the
Guinea Coast (1760)
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 10:41:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Magazine issue
From: Suzanna Hicks < hicks@WEBB.PSYCH.UFL.EDU >
The April/May 1995 issue of "Israel My Glory" (a magazine put out by a Messianic Jewish group called The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, in Bellmawr, NJ) is devoted to the Holocaust.
A phone # is 1-800-257-7843.
-Suzanna Hicks
Secretary, Psychology Dept.
University of Florida
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 10:51:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Weimar and Buchenwald
From: Froma I. Zeitlin < FIZ@PUCC >
Semprun is the author of a 'classic' book on the Holocaust experience, called the Long Voyage (published many years ago in French and available in English, still in print). He uses flashbacks there as the entire work takes place on the trains.
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 10:56:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Zegota and Collective Yad Vashem awards
From: Steve Paulsson < gsp3@LEICESTER.AC.UK >
Tadeusz Gierymski asks:
> Is "Zegota" the only national organization honored with its own > tree in the Avenue of the Just?
There is also a collective tree for the 'whole Danish people', and another for members of the Norwegian underground who helped rescue Jews.
However, so far as I know, Zegota was the only organization in Europe which was formally established by non-Jews specifically for the purpose of helping Jews. At the height of its operation (in the summer of 1944) it was providing financial and other assistance to about 4,000 Jews, mostly in and around Warsaw.
Steve Paulsson tel. (44)116 252 2802 Associate Director fax (44)116 252 3986
Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH England E-mail gsp3@le.ac.uk
Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule. (Dickens, Great Expectations)
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 11:41:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Rates of circumcision
From: William Oldson < woldson@GARNET.ACNS.FSU.EDU >
After viewing "Europa, Europa" and "Au Revoir, Les Enfants," my class wanted more background on circumcision being a "fool-proof" way for Nazis to discover Jews in hidding.
Does any one have information on the percentage of gentiles in Europe and North America who were circumcised for the World War II period as well as what is currently the norm in those two area? How was this issue handled by the Wehrmacht for Allied POWs?
THANKS!
William Oldson
Department of History R-126
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2029
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 13:21:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Symbololgy origins in Nazi Germany
From: Simon Wiesenthal Center Library/Archives < simonwie@CLASS.ORG >
An excellent article on the history of the swastika is:
"Symbol of the Century" by Steven Heller in Print (January/February 1992): 39-47.
I also have several articles in a vertical file on the swastika as a Buddhist symbol.
Paul H. Hamburg
Reference Librarian
Simon Wiesenthal Center Library
9760 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
TEL: 310-553-9036, ext. 292
FAX: 310-277-5558
simonwie@class.org
From: Paul Lawrence Rose < PLR2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
There is a reecent British book on the origins of the Nazi swastika. Its
author and title elude me, but I recall seeing it well reviewed in the TLS
a few
months ago. PLRose
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 09:45:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Austrian Liberation Commemoration Events in the next days
From: Ortner, Thomas < tortner@USHMM.ORG >
PROJECT GEDENKDIENST INFORMATION
From: Thomas Ortner <tortner@ushmm.org>
Especially media people are calling me (us) to get information on this
topic.
Here is again a list of all major commemoration events for the 50th
anniversary
of the liberation of former concentration camps in Austria, issued by:
May 4, 1995 GUNSKIRCHEN ceremony at the Memorial
11:00 am Welcome Mayor Werner ZIMMERBERGER
Addresses Ms. Shelly SHAPIRO, Holocaust Survivors &
Friends
Education Center, Albany, NY
a representative of the 71st US Infantry
Division
May 4+5, 1995 VIENNA Altes Rathaus (former City Hall), Wipplingerstr.
symposium "The History of Mauthausen" organized
by the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Historical
Social Sciences, Salzburg-Vienna, chaired by
Professor Dr. Gerhard BOTZ,
Dr. Wolfgang NEUGEBAUER, Prof. Karl
STUHLPFARRER.
May 5, 1995 REDL ZIPF ceremony at the Memorial
11:00 am Moderator Mr. Gerhard KRIECHBAUM
Address Mr. Paul LE CAER, representative from France
musical performance - Secondary School
Neukirchen
laying of wreath
May 5, 1995 STEYR ceremony at Memorial at Haagerstrasse
11:00 am Welcome Mr. Karl RAMSMAIR of "Mauthausen Aktiv Steyr"
Addresses Mr. Heinz FISCHER, Head of the Austr.
Parliament
Mr. P. MACARY, representative from France
musical performance; laying of wreath
May 5, 1995 VOECKLABRUCK Wagrein, memorial site
3:00 pm Moderator Mr. Christian HAWLE
Address Prof. Gerhard JAGSCHITZ
choir "Mira";
laying of wreath
May 5, 1995 GUSEN Sports facility Langenstein
6:00 pm Welcome Mayor Erich STEINMUELLER
Address Former inmates of different nationalities
Commem. Speech Ltn. Governor Fritz HOCHMAIR
choir from Ried performs "Golgotha Gusenmarsch
-
Jean Chant des Poire"
May 5, 1995 EBENSEE inside the Memorial (mine)
8:00 pm performance of the "Mozart Requiem" followed
by a torchlight procession
May 6, 1995 HARTHEIM ceremony at the Courtyard
10:00 am Welcome a representative of the municipality of
Alkoven
Addresses Ms. Irmgard ASCHBAUER of the "Austrian Camp
Inmates Association Mauthausen"
Mr. S. CHOUMOFF, representative from France
musical performance of "10 strings and 1 bow"
laying of wreath
May 6, 1995 GUNSKIRCHEN ceremony at the Memorial
10:30 am Welcome Mayor Werner ZIMMERBERGER
Addresses Mr. Georg OBERHAIDINGER, Member of Parliament
a representative of the 71st US Infantry
Division
representative from Hungary
youth program and musical performance
laying of wreath
May 6, 1995 EBENSEE symbolic liberation at former camp gate, near
2:30 pm Memorial, followed by a cortege to cemetery
Welcome Mayor Herwart LOIDL
Commem. Speech Mr. Leon ZELMAN, "Austrian Camp Inmates Assoz.
Mauthausen"
Addresses Captain T. BRENNAN, Mr. I. TIBALDI, Mr. L. ZUK
musical performance, laying of wreath
May 6, 1995 BRAUNAU ceremony at the Memorial - Commemorative Rock
5:00 pm Welcome Mayor Gerhard SKIBA
Addresses Dean Stefan HOFER
Mr. Peter UNTERRAINER, Catholic clery
"Mauthausen Cantata" perform. by choir from B.
laying of wreath
May 6, 1995 MAUTHAUSEN workshops at Secondary School
1:30 pm "Contemporary Resistance against Old Times"
organized by youth organizations from Upper
Austria
7:00 pm Quarry Memorial - "Todesstiege"
choir of Mauthausen "Momento",
songs and texts from the concentration camps;
best entries to composition contest "Momento"
8:00 pm ceremony at the Memorial - roll call grounds
"Music against Facism and Violence" - songs
against intolerance, featuring Timna BRAUER,
Cultural Association of the Austrian Roma,
Geor DANZER, "Wiener Tschuschen Kapelle",
"Bruj",
"Sama Band", and Gerd SCHIFFKOVITZ and his
band;
moderator: Ostbahn Kurti, Andreas GRUBER and
oth.
May 7, 1995 ST. GEORGEN Parish Church - Memorial Service in the
presence
8:30 am of Governor Josef PUEHRINGER and former
Governor
Josef RATZENBOECK
May 7, 1995 GUSEN Memorial site
9:00 am laying of wreath
May 7, 1995 MAUTHAUSEN Memorial site - chapel
9:15 am Mass Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Donato
SQUICCIARINI
Prayers Memorial service of the Jewish Community
Centers
at the Memorial site
10:15 am assemblies at national memorials
10:45 am assembly of delegations of former inmates and
the
diplomatic representatives according to
country
of origin at the "Lagerstrasse"
11:00 am cortege at roll call grounds
11:45 am Introtuction Austrian National Anthem
Welcome Mr. Helmut EDELMAYER, Member of the State
Legislature, "Mauthausen Aktiv Upper Austria"
Addresses Col. Richard R. SEIBEL - US Liberator of
Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Mr. Simon WIESENTHAL
Mauth. Oath Mr. Josef HAMMELMANN, President of
International
Mauthausen Committee
Addresses Mr. Josef PUEHRINGER, Governor of Upper
Austria
Mr. Caspar EINEM, Federal Minister of the
Interior
Commem. Speech Mr. Franz VRANITZKY, Federal Chancellor of the
Republic of Austria
Music Program Mikis THEODORAKIS - "Mauthausen Cantata" - the
composer will conduct the performance of the
original version of his composition with his
orchestra; voice solo: Maria FARANDOURI
May 7, 1995 MAUTHAUSEN Quarry Memorial
7:00 pm George TABORI - "Die Zeit unseres Lebens
zaehlten
wir nach Wochen" - collage of original
documents
from the camp presented by actors from
Vienna's
"Burgtheater"
May 8, 1995 MELK ceremony at Memorial
10:30 am Welcome a representative of the municipality of Melk
Addresses representatives of "Austrian Camp Inmates
Assoc.
Mauthausen"; a representative from France
performances by students;
laying of wreath
May 12, 1995 TERNBERG "Jungscharheim" - former concentr. camp
barracks
10:00 am Welcome Mr. Karl RAMSMAIR of "Mauthausen Aktiv Steyr"
Address Mr. Hans MARSALEK, "Austrian Camp Inmates
Assoz.
Mauthausen"
Commem. Speech Professor Walter WIPPERSBERG; unveiling of
commemorative plaque; musical performance
June 10, 1995 LOIBLPASS on the Austrian side of the border - former
9:00 am "KZ-Lager-Nord"; Memorial service
11:00 am on the Slovenian side - former "KZ-Lager-Sued"
Memorial service
Commem. Speech Mr. Milan KUCAN, President of Slovenia
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 09:50:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Holocaust education effects
From: Dr.Harriet Sepinwall < sepinwal@LIZA.ST-ELIZABETH.EDU >
I am reflecting on the conference held yesterday at my college,
"The Legacy of the Holocaust on New Jersey and American Society".
All of the speakers were excellent. Dr. William Helmreich's
plea that Survivors be treated as people (ordiniary
people at that)
rather than as "Survivors", PAstor Murdoch Macpherson's
apology
for what the Lutheran Church in Germany had permitted--and his
pledge "Never Again", Dr. Laura Winters' presentation of the
dilemma presented by using film in Holocaust education (using
Wiesel's argument that sometimes "silence" is more effective
than "vulgar" depictions...but that sometimes,
silence is not
enought.... "The panel of survivors and liberators who
shared
their memories.... All this--and so much more seemed to have
a profound effect on so many of the attendees. Still, I was
somehow even more affected by the query of one of the survivors
in attendance who , after the conference ended, praised the
quality of the presentations and lauded the sensitivity of the
speakers. She asked me, "Now, after all of the
beautiful words,
what will this result in...what difference will it make?" While
I am committed to Holocaust education and have many reasons to
feel that it can make a difference, I still found myself
reflecting on her questions long after I left yesterday.Indeed,
I find myself still thinking of it today.
Dr. Harriet Lipman Sepinwall
Holocaust Education Resource Center
College of Saint Elizabeth
2 Convent Road
Morristown, NJ 07960
sepinwal@liza.st-elizabeth.edu
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 09:55:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: CFP Midwest Jewish Studies
From: Gordon Mork < mork@MACE.CC.PURDUE.EDU >
I am putting together a proposal for the Midwest Jewish Studies Conference St. Paul MN Oct 22-23 1995. The topic will be using the Internet in Holocaust education. Anyone out there want to participate? The deadline is 5/31, so we must move quickly. Gordon Mork, Purdue Dept. of History (mork@mace.cc.purdue.edu) or FAX 317-496-1755.
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 10:10:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: use of films in Holocasut classes
From: Sidney Bolkosky < sbolkosk@UMD.UMICH.EDU >
Gary, I have used a BBC film called "Memorandum" which works fairly well
to stimulate discussion. The film chronicles a return to Germany of
Belsen survivors and their children for a memorial in 1964. That occurs
as the verdicts in the Auschwitz trials are being handed down. The
combination of events, the juxtaposition of 1960s Germany with the
memories of the survivors as they walk the haunted landscape of Belsen is
remarkable and moving. It's about an hour long.
I've also had some success showing parts of "Shoah", the "Warsaw Ghetto",
"Shop on Main Street" (which takes place in Houmeni, a town in Slovakia),
"Wanssee" and a few other, lesser known movies. Good luck
Sid Bolkosky
UM-Dearborn
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 10:25:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: War Crimes
From: Myer Wolpert <mwolpert@hookup.net >
Crossposted
>From Canadian Jewish News Thursday 4th May 1995
Headed "War time link to killing squad alleged" By Paul Lungen CJN Staff Reporter
Toronto- One day after Yom Hashoa, federal authorities announced that Waterloo, Ont., resident Helmut Oberlander is facing loss of his citizenship and deportation for his alleged involvement in a mobile Nazi killing squad,
Oberlander, 72, allegedly failed to divulge to Canadian immigration
and
citizenship officials his "membership in the German Sicherheitspolizei und
SD and Einsatzkommando 10A during the second world war and [his]
participation in the executions of civilians" say court documents filed last
week.
Media reports indicate that Oberlander, a former construction
worker,
has
left for the United States. It is unclear when he will return.
According to Hokocast historian Raul Hilberg, Einsatzkomando 10A was
a sub
unit of Einsatzgruppe D, one of four killing units that followed the German
army into the southern Soviet Union in 1941. The units, in conjunction with
local collaborators, engaged in mass shootings of Jewish civilians and
others.
In his book _The destruction of the European Jews,_ Hilberg
chronicles
several incidents involving Einsatzkommando 10A. There were an unspecified
number of killings in the Ukranian town of Kodyma, as well as a July 1941
incident in Balti in which
"the Romanians [allies of the Nazis] were shooting Jews en Masse...
Kommando 10A pitched in by shooting the Jewish leaders in the town."
Jewish leaders applauded federal authorities for commencing denaturalization proceedings against Oberlander, but urged that other cases be launched as well.
"On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death
camps
by the allies, it is particularly appropriate to see the alleged
perpetrators of unspeakable crimes brought to justice," said Milton Harris,
chair of the Canadian Jewish Congress' war crimes committee.
"We owe this all to Canadians, as well as Holocaust survivors in our midst," Harris said.
Pointing to the activities of Einsatzgruppen, Harris said "these
units cut
a murderous swath through Western Poland and the former Soviet Union. We
continue to question why the Government is not proceeding with a criminal
charge instead of deportation to another Country."
B'nai Brith spokesperson Marvin Kurtz pointed to the momentum"
building on
the war crimes dossier. "However [the Oberlander] case... is only the tip of
the iceberg. Not only must these cases proceed expeditiously, the
Government must pick up the pace and bring forward the other nine cases it
is aware of simultaneously and without further delay"
In recent months, the Justice Department's war crimes unit announced
it was
forwarding 12 completed files to Immigration for denaturalization and
deportation. Federal authorities said they would test the legal waters with
four cases.
Jewish groups have objected to that strategy, saying the successful deportation of Jacob Luitjens to Holland has provided sufficient precedent. They urged all 12 cases to be commenced.
"We are in a desperate race against time," said Sol Litman, Canadian
head
of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre. He applauded Justice Minister Alan Rock and
Citizenship and immigration Minister Sergio Marchi for "keeping their
promise to name these men" and he urged a quick hearing.
So far Erichs Tobiass, 84, of Toronto, and Joseph Nemsila, 82, of
Oshawa
have been named as alleged war criminals.
Tobiass has been accused of participating in the mass execution of
Jews in
Nazi occupied Latvia while Nemsilla is accused of being a member of the
Hlinka Guard, the Slovak equivalent of the German SS.
Nemsila was not the first alleged Hlinka Guardnamed by Federal
Authorities.
In 19990 Stephen Reistetter of St. Catherine's, Ont. was charged with
kidnapping 3000 Jews and deporting them to Nazi camps. Charges were dropped
when witnesses died.
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Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 11:15:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Extradition
From: RJPrys@aol.com
A member of our college's online Holocaust Studies Group recently posted the following message:
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JusticeRUs) -- A federal judge ordered
Thursday that an 82-year-old former Nazi SS captain be extradited to
Italy to face charges for taking part in a World War II massacre of 335
civilians.
Judge Leonidas Moldes told the national news agency Diarios y
Noticias that his ruling was based in part on the fact that Erich
Priebke is accused of crimes against humanity that are not subject
to statutes of limitation.
Priebke's attorney, Pedro Bianchi, said he would appeal the
ruling.
Bianchi had argued that there were no legal grounds to extradite
his client since the 15-year statute of limitations for homicide
has expired.
Italy has charged Priebke with crimes against humanity and
homicide.
Priebke has been under house arrest since last June at his home
in Bariloche, 1,100 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. He has lived
there under his own name since immigrating to Argentina in 1948.
He was arrested after publicly admitting his involvement in the
1944 massacre of 335 Italian civilians in the Ardeatine Caves
outside Rome. He maintains he was simply obeying Adolf Hitler's
order that 10 people be executed for each of 32 German soldiers
killed in an ambush in Nazi-occupied Italy.
Priebke said he drew up the list of people to be executed,
including at least 70 Jews, several priests and a 14-year-old boy.
He admitted in a televised interview that he killed one prisoner
himself.
Argentina, which became a safe haven for many Nazis after the
war, has come under mounting pressure from Italy and Jewish groups
to extradite Priebke.
Of more than a dozen extradition requests for war criminals
received by Argentina since 1950, only three have been granted.
Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
School of Humanities and Languages
Irvine Valley College
5500 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92720
Phone: 714-559-3206
Fax: 714-559-3270
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 12:50:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust education effects
From: RJPrys@aol.com
Dr. Sepinwall writes:
>>Still, I was
somehow even more affected by the query of one of the survivors
in attendance who , after the conference ended, praised the
quality of the presentations and lauded the sensitivity of the
speakers. She asked me, "Now, after all of the
beautiful words,
what will this result in...what difference will it make?" While
I am committed to Holocaust education and have many reasons to
feel that it can make a difference, I still found myself
reflecting on her questions long after I left yesterday.Indeed,
I find myself still thinking of it today.<<
As I've mentioned in a previous post, I've become rather demoralized after
trying, in vain, to help the students in my Holocaust seminar understand
what
I see (at this point in my life, anyway) as one of the only tangible and
legitimate lessons that those of us who "weren't there" can learn from the
Holocaust: to wit, the extent to which ordinary people can help to promote
and can even commit acts of extraordinary evil, and the extent to which we
ourselves are ordinary people. The violence is in us; it is internal,
mimetic, and contagious, as Rene Girard, Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther
King,
Ghandi, and so many others have tried to teach us. Still, the bulk of my
students--after reading so much material on the Holocaust, after listening
to
survivors, liberators, and rescuers, after seeing the films, after visiting
Mel Mermelstein's private exhibit--seem either unable or unwilling to
understand the deeply profound and, yes, deeply personal issues at stake
here.
I tried helping them understand these issues by, among other things, explaining that, after initially and mistakenly imagining that the Oklahoma City terrorist(s) must be Middle Eastern and Islamic (that is, "not one of us"), we came to discover that McVeigh is indeed--well, what do you know?--one of "us." Immediately, I went on, "we" began distancing ourselves from him ("Well, he's not *really* one of us; he's actually quite different....") Then, when I further tried explaining how calling for his death engages us in the very violence that we claim to be so appalled at and to want to end--that it helps to support the contention that violence is contagious, mimetic, and internal, and that it helps confirm the notion that all of us participate in acts of violence--I received little more than angry resistance and denial.
Never mind the fact that, at the time, we were studying the work of Milgram and Browning. Never mind the fact that I asked my students to think hard about what they thought Wiesel (I *think* that the following notion is Wiesel's; please correct me if I'm wrong) meant when he said something (and here I'm paraphrasing) that perhaps the worst crime that the Nazis committed against the Jews is that they turned the Jews into killers.
Yes, there are differences among different acts of violence, and there
certainly are differences among us all. No doubt about that. But it is not
for nothing that a survivor whom I recently interviewed wrote a book
entitled
_Are We All Nazis?_
Even if violence can be or *seemingly* can be justified, it is a disease,
and
its use spreads the disease. Violence never works to establish lasting
peace. Socrates knew that. Frankl knew that. Wiesel knows that. Do we?
Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
School of Humanities and Languages
Irvine Valley College
5500 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92720
Phone: 714-559-3206
Fax: 714-559-3270
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 13:20:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust education effects
From: Stephen Feinstein <feins001@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
HarrietThe
question of what difference will it make is always a difficult one,
especially in light of the ineffectiveness of contemporary American and
European responses to events like Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, and so forth.
Obviously, both American Presidents and European leaders have waffled on
these subjects, and there is a problem in terms of the evolution of
international human rights and the question of who polices them. There
are special problems now with armies from democratic countries, for
whenever the army has a minor problem, the executive branch feels votes
slipping away.
There are some answers, however, aside from intervention (remember the Germans themselves could not conquer Yugoslavia):
From: Gaston L Schmir < glschm@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU >
> From: William M. Thomas < wmthomas@STRAUSS.UDEL.EDU >
>
> The "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" (15.9.35)
> lists the punishment for Jews marrying Germans as _Zuchthaus_ and the
> punishment for "extramartial intercourse" [ausserehelicher Verkehr]
between
> Jews and Germans as _Gefaengnis_ or _Zuchthaus_. My dictionary lists them
> both simply as "prison," but the law is clearly making a distinction
between
> the two. Could anyone explain the difference to me?
>
> William M. Thomas
> wmthomas@strauss.udel.edu
> Dept of History, U of Delaware
>
Gaston L. Schmir
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 14:46:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: QUERY: Herschel Grynszpan
From: Jerzy Halbersztadt < HALBERUW@PLEARN >
In 1992 Karol JONCA, Professor of the University of Wroclaw, published an extensive monograph "Noc krysztalowa i casus Herschela Grynszpana"(in Polish). He analyses in detail the Nazi preparations to the court action against Grynszpan after his extradition from France in 1940. One chapter is devoted wholly to the historical evidence and information on the possible survival of the W.W.II by Grynszpan. Jonca reports the afterwar investigations of the Zentralle Stelle ... in Ludwigsburg (A.Rueckerl), research of F.Kaul, L.Steinberg, R.Thalmann, E.Feinermann, R.Hilberg and others. The opinions are contradictory but there is no evidence that Grynszpan survived the war (except the press sensations). The family of Grynszpan declared several times the lack of contact with him after the war. The last interview given by his family was published in "Jerusalem Post" on 12 November 1988.
Jerzy Halbersztadt, University of Warsaw
and the Director of the Polish Program
of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
01-682 Warszawa, Kiwerska 16/8, Poland
tel/fax (+48 22) 33-79-21
e-mail: halberuw@plearn.edu.pl
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 14:46:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Recompensation for Holocaust Survivors in Poland
From: Jerzy Halbersztadt < HALBERUW@PLEARN >
Till now, I have not contributed in the discussion on the recompensation for Holocaust Survivors in Eastern Europe. It is my feeling that this matter outstrips partially the mission of the Holocaus-L. But, the contribution of Steve Paulsson of 26 April (who's postings I generally admire) needs some corrections.
It is not true that "POLAND ENACTED A LAW LIKE THIS (recompensation for survivors - J.H.) SEVERAL YEARS AGO. WITHOUT MENTIONING JEWS, THE LAW PROVIDES FOR THE RETURN OF PROPERTY CONFISCATED BY THE COMMUNISTS OR NAZIS TO ITS PRE-WAR OWNERS".
Poland did not even start to solve the problem of former owners (contrary to Czech Republic or Hungary) independently whether they are of Polish, Jewish or other nationalities. The reasons are easy to listen. There is no other country where this question would be so complicated and so economically and politically dangerous. Changes of the territory of the Polish state between 1939 and 1945 and the modernisation of the country after 1945 resulted in that 1/2 of Poles started to live in new places allotted by the Polish administration (generally with breaking of standard property rights). The pre-war properties (buildings, apartments, factories, etc.) were mostly destroyed and rebuilt after the war using the state, communal or private (different than owner's) funds.
Let's take an artificial example, but not far from the reality. A small Jewish factory given by Nazis to a German (let's call him Schindler) had been substantially destroyed in the final stage of war. The Jewish owners disappeared in Holocaust, but their relatives survived. They decided to leave Poland as soon as possible. In 1946 (not having even the proper inheritance documentation) they felt forced to sell the remnants of the factory to a Pole for a ridiculous, symbolic price. New owner started to rebuild the factory and in two years he employed 42 workers. In 1948 the factory was been confiscated by the Communists. They confiscated a few other real estates near to factory, too. Twenty years later the factory was been modernised and enlarged to a quite impressive business with hundreds of employees, though using outdated technology. Now, the relatives of former Jewish owners claim the recompensation, because they feel brutally deprived of the family inheritance. The Polish owner who rebuilt the factory after the war denounces the confiscation as an act of a communist lawlessness and demands the return of his property. Few hundred workers of the factory led by eloquent activists of "Solidarity" protest against the idea to give the factory ("rebuilt and modernised with our hands") to "exploiters" and demand to give it to the employees' ownership company. All these solutions are being contested by the Polish Ministry of the Ownership Transformation on a ground that they do not give the inflow of a new capital that is necessary for modernisation of the factory and making it competitive in a new open market. The ministry prefers to sell the factory to one of the foreign or new Polish companies or to make a joint-venture with one of them. It may result in that all the solutions listed above will block each other and the factory will simply go bankrupt.
The result of this tangle of contradictory interests caused that all the governments born from the "Solidarity" after 1989 and two subsequent post-communist governments did not find necessary courage even to try to solve this matter.
In the current situation only a past VIOLATION of law valid in Poland (it means mostly bills from the communist time, still) gives the chance to go to the justice court and to win a return of the property. In our example a Pole whom the communists had confiscated the factory can expect the positive verdict. The communist "Bill of Nationalisation" of 1946 allowed confiscation of factories above 50 employees, but after 1947 many smaller businesses were "nationalised". Now, these enterprises could be returned only if they have not been substantially changed later (means they are ruins, now) and there are no other claims. Otherwise, the case has to wait until the expected "Bill of Reprivatisation (or Recompensation)" will be passed by the Parliament.
As the property of houses is concerned the situation is even more complicated, because they are full of inhabitants settled in by the communist administration conformable to the past and actual laws and regulations. These inhabitants are protected by law. Thus, the only result of getting back a house means mostly the obligation to cover the maintenance costs without the chance to get any profits in next years.
The former Jewish property confiscated by Nazis was mostly nationalised after the war as "post German property (mienie poniemieckie)" or "abandoned property". Now, it is very difficult to prove Jewish claims (Steve Paulsson presented the most important reasons).
Passing of "Bill of Reprivatisation (or Recompensation)" was simply impossible (I my humble opinion) during first years after communism due to unstable economic situation and a lack of funds for recompensations. Now, a discussion of experts, governmental officials and politicians was initiated. It is difficult to foresee the results. It seems that parties of the left that dominate now are not ready to accept the return of property in kind. The decision to give special bonds (changeable into the shares of privatised state enterprises) to individuals who claim property is most probable. It is almost certain that the Jewish claims will be regulated in the same manner as claims of Poles and others. No special treatment of Jews can be expected when hundreds of thousand (may be even millions) of Poles did not receive the recompensation for their losses during the war and under the communism for the forced labour in Germany and in Soviet Union and for other Nazi or Soviet crimes (Germany never acknowledged the claims of Poles, contrary to Jews). The size of possible claims is so enormous that recompensation other than symbolic can hardly be expected. There is a tendency to limit the right of claim only to Polish citizens.
The separate question is the return of property of religious organisations. The Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches were granted special bills that allow them to get their former property. In the nearest future the similar bills should be granted to the Protestant Churches and to the Union of Jewish Religious Communities. The latter should get back synagogues, cemeteries, buildings of religious schools, buildings of religious communities, etc. The question of property of former Jewish organisations, parties, etc. is discussed, too. Probably, this property could be given to a foundation that will care for the monuments of Jewish history and culture in Poland.
Jerzy Halbersztadt
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 16:55:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Units assigned to death camp duty
From: Dr. Watson Holloway < holloway@S1500.BC.PEACHNET.EDU >
Could someone point out a good source or post information regarding German miliatry units that where assigned to death camp duty: how they were chosen, what ranks of officers and enlisted men were responsible for what tasks, and so forth?
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:42:11 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: myers@einstein.susqu.edu Subject: Query: grants
I am posting the following on behalf of a non-computerized colleague:
A Holocaust resource center is currently being created at Susquehanna University. The center is to be a multidisciplinary and collaborative effort to support teaching the Holocaust both at the university and in the area public schools. We have some funding for materials and speakers, but are looking for more to acquire larger specialty collections and newer materials (as they become available). The goal is to create not just a Holocaust center, but to expand it to also include other genocidal experiences. If you are interested in funding this project, or know someone who might be able to help, please contact:
Dr. Jack Longaker, Dept. of History, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA 17870.
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:43:31 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Stephen Feinstein <feins001@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Subject: Re: QUERY: Zuchthaus and Gefaengnis
In-Reply-To: <199505051905.OAA41022@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
Hans Globke was in charge of making sense of the Nuremberg Law. He died
only, I think, in 1965, after serving in the Adenauer Government.
Something on his life should have something about his bureaucratic views
of the law of sept. l5. Our former chairman, Ed Peterson, Prof. of German
History, interviewed Globke many years ago. You might want to contact him
to see if he has notes on this:
E.N.Peterson@uwrf.edu
Stephen Feinstein
> From: Gaston L Schmir < glschm@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU >
>
>
> > From: William M. Thomas < wmthomas@STRAUSS.UDEL.EDU >
> >
> > The "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" (15.9.35)
> > lists the punishment for Jews marrying Germans as _Zuchthaus_ and the
> > punishment for "extramartial intercourse" [ausserehelicher Verkehr]
> between
> > Jews and Germans as _Gefaengnis_ or _Zuchthaus_. My dictionary lists them
> > both simply as "prison," but the law is clearly making a distinction
> between
> > the two. Could anyone explain the difference to me?
> >
> > William M. Thomas
> > wmthomas@strauss.udel.edu
> > Dept of History, U of Delaware
> >
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> >
> My dictionary also lists both words as "prison" but adds, for Zuchthaus,
> "for
> capital offenders" and specifies "penitentiary" in U.S. usage.
>
> Gaston L. Schmir
>
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:45:21 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Stephen Feinstein <feins001@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Subject: Re: Israeli Law declaring Yom HaShoah
In-Reply-To: <199505052205.RAA42933@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
Does anyone have the exact text of the Israeli law establishing Yom
HaShoah. I recall it starts with a story of a grandfather and child
walking and the child asks "where is the State." The reply is something
like "when you find a grave yard, the state is nearby."
Any help?
Stephen Feinstein
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:52:54 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Jim Mott <U15607@UICVM.BITNET> Subject: Re: Holocaust Education Effects
From: RJPrys@aol.com
In his thought-provoking post, Stephen Feinstein writes, among other things:
>>So what now? we have to focus of what Hilberg talks about in his book PERPETRATORS, VICTIMS AND ONLOOKERS and Brownings ORDINARY MEN, as well as Pearl and Sam Oliner's THE ALTRUISTIC PERSONALITY to figure out how we avoid the faceless, depersonalized type of carrying out of orders which occured in Nazi Germany when ordinary people became the killers and ethical/religious systems were stripped of their viability.<<
I would like to highlight one part of this excerpt from Stephen's post: "to
figure
out how we avoid the faceless, depersonalized type of carrying out of
orders which occured in Nazi Germany when ordinary people became the
killers."
In his excellent book on Reserve Police Battalion 101, Browning makes it quite clear that a number of the "actions" involved ordinary men coming face to face with their victims, walking them to the execution sites, talking with them during this journey to murder, and so on. Faceless? Hardly. Personal, direct contact with their victims? Quite clearly. Pulled the trigger anyway?
Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
School of Humanities and Languages
Irvine Valley College
5500 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92720
Phone: 714-559-3206
Fax: 714-559-3270
One thing that we have found as a benefit of Holocaust education at our school, with 9th graders, is that it increases their capacity for moral thinking, partly by providing them with a moral vocabulary so that they can conceive of their relations with others differently. We have not necessarily found a corresponding change in behavior. One of our former students was tossed from his high school, in part, for being involved in some racist incidents.
Steve Cohen
Dear Dr. Sepinwall,
You ask an interesting question. I see it in two ways: are you speaking about Jews, about me and my son... about the possibility of if it happening to us again? This is one side of the question. If you are speaking about Pol Pot or Stalin or Edi Amin, Bosnia, The Cultural Revolution, now Ruanda and how many more, then yes it has happened. That is, if one assumes that the need to kill masses of people is at the root of the problem. Fakenheim once asked why did they do it (speaking of the Nazis et al). Do we just ascribe it to evil, as if that finally were that? Or do we start looking for the root causes in mankind.
And if we continue to define what happened to us as the only Holocaust, how do we relate to the other incidents of mass destruction? I think we need to demystify Holocaust, give it a small h: holocaust. It needs to be seen as a special form of genocide. Perhaps the failure of the Holocaust community (survivors, historians, policemen, poets, film makers, dramatists etc) to demystify is one of the reasons your survivor was needing to just be treated as a normal person. Perhaps its time to call it holocaust with a small h. You, know, as I write this, I'm afraid, afraid that some survivors will be offended, hurt and will call me a traitor, a revisionist... a goy. After all I wasn't there.
Best,
Alan Jacobs
Independent scholar, writer, psychotherapist
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:55:29 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: andrew s bergerson <asb2@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies 1995
The Student Coordinating Committee,
together with the Goethe-Institut of Chicago,
are pleased to announce the Fourth Annual
Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies
to take place from
the 18th to the 20th of May, 1995
at
the Goethe-Institut of Chicago
410 N. Michigan Ave, Ste. 230
Chicago, IL 60611
At this student-run conference, 75 papers of original research will be presented by graduate students from 12 academic departments at 16 different universities. The roundtables are organized by interdisciplinary themes which focus on specific issues within the culture, history, language, politics and society of Central Europe. A complete listing of presentations, presenters and other activities is included here.
We gladly welcome both professional and non-academic guests to our panel discussions and activities. For more information or a hard copy of the program, please contact Andrew S. Bergerson through the following media:
asb2@midway.uchicago.edu -email
312/684 8078 - voice mail
5456 S. Blackstone Ave, Chicago Il 60615 - snail mail
312/684 5719 - personal telephone
or call the Goethe-Institut of Chicago at
312/ 329 0915 - tel
312/ 329 2487 - fax
Thursday, May 18, 1995
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Registration
Welcoming Remarks:
MGSGS Coordinating Committee
Angela Greiner, Goethe-Institute/Chicago
Keynote Address:
"Inhibited Rapprochement and Bent Identity: The Year 1947
in German Literary History"
Gunter Holtz, Freie Universitat Berlin
Wine and Cheese Reception
Friday, May 19, 1995
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration, Introductory Remarks,
Coffee and Bagels!!!!
9:00 - 12:00 a.m. MORNING SESSION
PANEL 1: SEXUALITY AND THE BODY (Part I) Auditorium Moderator: Mila Ganeva, University of Chicago
Jeff Gorder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The Face of the Disenfranchised: The Unlinking of Goethe's Reality Respondent: Teresa Sanislo
Gretchen Junker, University of Chicago
Why Woman Dances
Respondent: Susan Funkenstein
Teresa Sanislo, University of Michigan
Gymnastics for the Youth: Physical Education, Civility, Gender and
Educational Reform in Late Eighteenth Century Germany
Respondent: Jeff Gorder
Mike Sosulski, University of Chicago
Trained Minds, Disciplined Bodies: Konrad Ekhof and the Reform of the
German Actor
Respondent: Stephen Mark Carey
PANEL 2: DE/POLITICIZING
Room 1 Moderator: Mike Spicka, Ohio State University
Raymond Brod, University of Illinois - Chicago
The Meaning of Mayerling
Respondent: Bryan Machin
David Ellis, University of Chicago
A Foot in Each Kingdom: Political Theology and the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung
Respondent: Alan Krinsky
Alan Krinsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Was Nazism a Secular Religion?
Respondent: Langeheine
Volker Langeheine, Michigan State University Political Culture in Reunited Germany: Parties and Elections Respondent: David Ellis
Bryan Machin, Michigan State University Daily Life Politics and Victimization in Eastern Germany 1933-93: Remembering the Third Reich and the GDR after the Wende Respondent: Raymond Brod
PANEL 3: NARRATION AND MEMORY (Part 1)
Room 2 Moderator: Maria Snyder, Washington University
Joe Perry, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign Mastering the (Christmas) Past: Manhood Memory and the German "War Christmas." Respondent: Melissa Feinberg
Brian Smith, Michigan State University
Conquering Reality: Narrative Perspective and its Function in Brigitte
Reimann's Franziska Linkerhand
Respondent: Leonard Gadzekpo
Maria Snyder, Washington University
The Spaces of Remembrance: Herder and German Collective Memory
Respondent: Joanna Dunn
Jeremy Straughn, University of Chicago
To Master the Past: Narrative Strategies of Identity in the Life Stories of
Former East Germans
Respondent: Lambro Bourdimos
K. Julia Karolle, University of Wisconsin-Madison Im Wort/Sinn: An Analytical Approach to 'Migrantenliteratur' in the FRG Respondent: To Be Announced
PANEL 4: GERMANY FACES EAST
Library Moderator: Kevin Wood, Washington University
Jan Behrends, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Heiner Muller's View of Russia
Respondent: David Pickus
Jim Bjork, University of Chicago
Become What You Are: Constructions of Nationality in the Upper Silesian
Plebiscite 1919-21
Respondent: David Cameron
David Cameron, University of Minnesota
Russia's Place in the Economic Diplomacy of the Weimar Republic
Respondent: James Bjork
David Pickus, University of Chicago
Joachim Christoph Friedrich Schulz and the Vice of Poland
Respondent: Jan Behrends
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:00 - 4:30 p.m. AFTERNOON SESSION
PANEL 5: SEXUALITY AND THE BODY (Part II)
Audiorium Moderator: Mila Ganeva, University of Chicago
Stephen Carey, Washington University
Weder Lust noch Freud: Rape as Gender Marker in Grimmelshausen's
Landstoertzerin Courasche
Respondent: Mike Sosulski
Todd Ettelson, University of Michigan
Nazi Constructions of Homosexuality and The "Night of the Long Knives"
Respondent: Gretchen Hansen Junker
Susan Funkenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison Deconstructing the Butt: Reassessing Josephine Baker's Performances in Berlin Respondent: Todd Ettelson
PANEL 6: HISTORY AND TEMPORALITY
Room 1 Moderator: Ebba Christina Luchterhand,
University of Kansas
Judith Leeb, University of Chicago
Cynical Times in Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (video)
Respondent: Kevin Wood
Stewart Slafter, University of Chicago
The Thirty Years' War and the Comet of 1618
Respondent: David Goldberg, University of Michigan
Kevin Wood, Washington University
Breaking the Speed Habit: Elusive Binary Systems in Sten Nadonys Die
Entdeckung der Langsamkeit
Respondent: Judith Leeb
Greg Fried, University of Chicago
Perptual Peace and Perceptual Polemos: Kant and Heidegger on the
Teleology of Human Freedom
Respondent: Ebba-Christine Luchterhand, University of Kansas
PANEL 7: NARRATION AND MEMORY (Part II)
Room 2 Moderator: Maria Snyder, Washington University
Leonard Kodzo Gadzekpo, Bowling Green State University Aesthetic Affinity in Contemporary German Poetry and Painting Respondent: Brian Smith
Lambro Bourodimos, University of Kansas "Gelebte Literatur in der Literatur" in Wielands Don Sylvio (1764) and his Prose Fairy-tale Die Entzauberung (1805) Respondent: Jeremy Straughn
Joanna Dunn, University of Chicago
Zahlen and Erzahlen in Johannes Bobrowski's Levins Muhle
Respondent: Maria Snyder
Melissa Feinberg, University of Chicago Nelze Zapominout: The Czechoslovak Communist Party and the (Re)making of Lidice Respondent: Joe Perry
PANEL 8: VALUES AND TASTES
Library Moderator: Raymond Brod, University Illinois/Chicago
Anne Eaton, University of Chicago
"False" Taste and the Problem of Autonomy in Kant's Critique of Judgment
Respondent: Jennifer Jenkins
Gary Finder, University of Chicago
Education through Punishment: Opposition to Juvenile Justice Reform in
Wilhelmine Germany
Respondent: Anne Grevstad
Anne Grevstad, University of Wisconsin-Madison Photomontage, Stage Sets, and the Proletarian Mother: John Heartfield's Committment to a Confrontational Didactic Art Respondent: Stephen Grollman
Stephen Grollman, Washington University Studies in Egoism and Altruism: Der Untertan and Madame Legros Respondent: Gary Finder
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The 'Kitsch Collections': Cultural Reform , National Culture, and the
German Middle Class in 1900
Respondent: Anne Eaton
FRIDAY EVENING
8:00 p.m. At the Film Center, The School of the Art Institute
Columbus Drive at Jackson Boulevard
Film : PARACELSUS, from the film series
"THE MINISTRY OF ILLUSION: GERMAN FILM 1933-1945"
($5 Admission Fee)
Saturday, May 20, 1995
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Coffee and Bagels!!!!!
9:00 - 12:00 a.m. MORNING SESSION
PANEL 9: SPACE AND ENVIRONMENT
Auditorium Moderator: Glenn Penny, University of Illinois-Urbana
Andrew Donson , University of Michigan
The Development of Social Identity in Germany: Home Towns and the
Conceptions of Hegel, Marx, and Tonnies
Respondent: Jeffrey Wilson
Dan Inkelas , Northwestern University
"Landscapers" or "Ecologists"" SS Resettlement Planning in Occupied Poland,
1939-42
Respondent: Tom Lekan
Tom Lekan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Nature Preservation and German National Identity 1890-1933 Respondent: Dan Inkelas
Jeffrey Wilson, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Nature and Nation: Forests in the German Imagination Respondent: Drew Bergerson
Drew Bergerson, University of Chicago
Learning How to See: The Pragmatic Construction of Space in
Alt-Hildesheim, 1900-1950
(Slides and Sound)
Respondent: Andrew Donson
PANEL 10: ETHNIC ENCLAVES
Room 1 Moderator: Joe Perry, University of Illinois-Urbana
Jonathan Gumz, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Constraints on German Counterinsurgency Policy in the Independent State
of Croatia 1941-44
Respondent: Wayne Bowen
Todd Herzog, University of Chicago
A Woman's Place is in the Colonies: female desire and the limits of male
colonial discourse
Respondent: Martin Lorenz-Meyer
Martin Lorenz-Meyer, University of Kansas The German Community in Baltimore, Maryland and the 1860 Presidential Elections Respondent: Gregory Mann
Gregory Mann, Northwestern University
Africans Troops on the Rhine
Respondent: Todd Herzog
Wayne Bowen, Northwestern University
Spaniards and Nazi Germany: Visions of a New Order
Respondent: Jonathon Gumz
PANEL 11: DISCURSIVE PRACTICES
Room 2 Moderator: Sandra Alfers, University of Nebraska
Keith Alderson, University of Chicago (Slides)
A Reflection of the Medieval World through the "Mirror of the Saxons"
Respondent: Jeanne Schueller
(Slides)
Hillary Hope, University of Chicago
Jews and Judaism unter dem Strich: the treatment of jewish issues in the
feuilletons of the Neue Freie Presse
Respondent: Alejandro Meter
Alejandro Meter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln German-Jewish Assimilation and the Search for Identity Respondent: Hillary Hope
Wendy Norris, University of Chicago
Fighting Back with Laughter: Imagining Alsatianness 1902-1919
Respondent: To Be Announced
(Slides)
Kim Betz and Jeanne Schueller, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Effects of Brain-Storming in L1 and L2: A Pilot Study Respondent: To Be Announced
Jeanne Schueller and Brenda Heintz, University of Wisconsin-Madison On the Question of Franconian Influence on Old Saxon Phonology Respondent: Keith Alderson
PANEL 12: ESTABLISHING LEGITIMACY
Library Moderator: Niklaus Steiner, Northwestern University
Jim Porchik, Michigan State University
The Debate over the Rearmament: 1949-1955
Respondent: Benita Blessing
Benita Blessing, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bildung and Nationalism in the SBZ
Respondent: Jim Porchik
David Goldberg, University of Michigan
The Failure of the West German Left in the 1950's
Respondent: Stuart Hilwig
Stuart Hilwig, Ohio State University
Democracy on the Barricades: The West German Extraparliamentary Opposition
and the Springer Press 1967-1968
Respondent: David Goldberg
J.A. Lindstrom, Northwestern University
Jonathan in the Crawlspace with the Leadpipe: Economy and Allegory in Wim
Wenders' The American Friend
(video)
Respondent: Mark Spicka
Mark Spicka, Ohio State University
The Creation of West German Industry's Self-Image during the Economic
Miracle: Toward an Industrial Community
Respondent: Julie Lindstrom
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:00 - 4:30 p.m. AFTERNOON SESSION
PANEL 13: PUBLIC DISPLAYS
Auditorium Moderator: Andrew Donson, University of Michigan
Jonathan Huener, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign Memory Illuminated/Memory Denied: Poland and Auschwitz 1945-47 Respondent: Holly Humphrey
Holly Humphrey, Ohio State University
The Staging of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich
Respondent: Jonathan Huener
Ebba-Christina Luchterhand, University of Kansas
Interpretations of 'Biedermeyer'
Respondent: H. Glenn Penny
H. Glenn Penny, Unversity of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign
Contingency and Contexts: German Ethnographic Museums and the Production of
Identities, 1870-1914
Respondent: Ebba-Christina Luchterhand
Warren Rosenblum, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Politics , Culture, and the Revision of State Power: The Great Police
Exhibition of Berlin 1926
Respondent: Jeff Smith
Jeffrey Smith, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign The Politics of Patriotic Management: The Imperial Commemorations of 1913 Respondent: Warren Rosenblum
PANEL 14: NATION AND IDENTITY
Room 1 Moderator: Jeremy Straughn, University of Chicago
Kevin Krause, University of Notre Dame
National Identity and Voluntary Associations in Bratislava, 1867-1948
Respondent: L.J.Hilton
Matti Bunzl, University of Chicago
The Making of a Prophet of Ancient and Noble Culture in Fin-de-siecle
Vienna: Richard Beer-Hofmann between Politics, Literature, and Judaism
Respondent: Renata Wilk
Paul Hanebrink, University of Chicago
Mander, Es Ist Zeit! The Image of Andreas Hofer in Inter-war Austria and
South Tyrol
Respondent: Ian McNeely
L.J. Hilton, Ohio State University
The Viability of UNRRA: International Response to Displaced Persons in
Germany 1944-51
Respondent: Kevin Krause
Ian F. McNeely, University of Michigan
Scribes and Citizens: Writing, Political Culture, and Local Society in
Wurttemberg, 1770-1830
Respondent: Paul Hanebrink
Renata Wilk, Universtiy of Wisconsin-Madison Felix Nussbaum: The Crisis of Jewish Identity in Germany 1925-39 Respondent: Matti Bunzl
PANEL 15: CONTESTING REALITIES
Room 2 Moderator: Benita Blessing, University of Wisconsin-
Madison
Sandra Alfers, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Im Blickfang der Femme-fatale: Beobachtungen und Auswirkungen der Blick Kontakte und Blindheit bei Wedekinds Simson und Delilah Respondent: Mila Ganeva
Richard Block, Northwestern University
Selective Affinities: Ludwig Klages and Walter Benjamin
Respondent: Sandra Alfers
Mila Ganeva, Chicago
Die Pantherfrau: Dokumentarliteratur, Frauen-Literatur or Extension of the
Notion of Socialist Realism?
Respondent: Richard Block
Adam Lowenstein, Chicago
The Golem: A Demon in the Dream of Weimar Cinema History
Respondent: Kevin Saari
Kevin Saari, Kansas
Dialectics and the German Naturalist Play: Gerhart Hauptmann's The Weavers
and the Creation of Character
Respondent: Adam Lowenstein
PANEL 16: AVANT-GARDE
Library Moderator: Mike Sosulski, University of Chicago
Christine Kiessling, University of California/ Santa Barbara Rosa Schapire: (Proto) Feminist Art Historian? Respondent: Lambro Bourodimos, University of Kansas
Timothy Pursell, Indiana University
Culture and Society in a German Home Town: Avant-garde Art Patronage in
Turn-of-the-Century Westphalia
Respondent: Robert Wenzel
Robert Wenzel, University of Michigan
In Doblin's Case: Understanding the Psychiatric Case History as Literature
Respondent: Timothy Pursell (Overhead and Sound)
4:30 -5:00 Closing Remarks
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Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:57:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Herb Effron <herb@seagopher.com> Subject: Reference to apology for Lutheran Church's role
Regarding the report of "PAstor Murdoch Macpherson's apology for what the Lutheran Church in Germany had permitted ..." (below) ...
If Dr. Sepinwall (or other conference attendee) could send or direct me to a source for a transcript of Pastor Macpherson's remarks, I would appreciate it.
I think I will want to read his remarks before publicizing/cablecasting the Inquiring Mind program-on-videotape of Robert Ericksen's presentation: "Christians and Jews In Nazi Germany".
For those not familiar with this topic, Bob's first book, _Theologians Under Hitler_, and his ongoing references in the presentations re: the role of the Lutheran Church's official spokesmen during the Nazi era are quite germane.
Herb Effron
>From: Dr.Harriet Sepinwall < sepinwal@LIZA.ST-ELIZABETH.EDU >
>
>I am reflecting on the conference held yesterday at my college,
>"The Legacy of the Holocaust on New Jersey and American Society".
>All of the speakers were excellent. Dr. William Helmreich's plea that
>Survivors be treated as people (ordiniary people at that) rather than
>as "Survivors", PAstor Murdoch Macpherson's apology for what the
>Lutheran Church in Germany had permitted--and his pledge "Never Again",
[deleted]
While I am committed to Holocaust education and have many reasons to feel
that it can make a difference, I still found myself reflecting on her
questions long after I left yesterday.Indeed, I find myself still thinking
of it today. Dr. Harriet Lipman Sepinwall
>Holocaust Education Resource Center
>College of Saint Elizabeth
>2 Convent Road
>Morristown, NJ 07960
>sepinwal@liza.st-elizabeth.edu
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Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 09:12:37 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Michael Thaler <mmt@itsa.ucsf.EDU> Subject: Re: Earliest Reference to "Holocaust" X-cc: Multiple recipients of list HOLOCAUS <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.ucsf.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199504291455.HAA121700@itsa.ucsf.EDU>
The noun 'holocaust' in the English language has been traditionally defined for at least 750 years as a religious sacrifice on a large scale, usually by fire, a 'burnt offering'. During the past 200 years,the term began to denote the massacre of a large and usually defenseless group of people. This secular sense of the term became quite popular in the 19th century. It is therefore not surprising to find the term applied to descriptions of massacres of Jews, as in the 1855 reference you cite, as well as non-Jews (eg.L.Ritchie, WANDERING BY THE LOIRE,1833:"Louis VII once made a holocaust of thirteen hundred persons in a church").
However,I assume that the curious claims of 'earliest reference' which
regularly surface on this list, and elsewhere,refer specifically and
exclusively to the contemporary use of the term 'holocaust' (and more and
more frequently 'Holocaust') to Third Reich's "Final Solution to the Jewish
Question" which resulted in the physical destruction of more than 2 of every
3 European Jews in the years 1939-45.
Herewith is my entry for'earliest reference'honors as defined above:
"The inflammatory fever which has been consuming Germany in recent years threatens a holocaust, a wholesale incineration. It is a terrifying disease. Its symptoms are visions before midnight, phantasms of sleep that walk by day. The progress of the disease can be examined in several books commented elsewhere in this journal. One is Mr. Warburg's account of racial persecution, described by our reviewer as one of the grimmest records of inhumanity ever written...There is really no cause for laughter in such darkness of the mind. The joke has reached flash point..."
This precisely contemporary yet prescient vision of 'holocaust' appeared in an editorial in the LONDON TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT on August 26, 1939, the penultimate issue before the outbreak of WWI.
So much for intentionalists and functionalists...
Michael Thaler
On Sat, 29 Apr 1995, Charles
Fishman, SUNY Farmingdale wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> The earliest use of the term "Holocaust" to describe the genocide of
the
> European Jews was previously thought to be 1941 (Cf. William Connelly's post
on
> this topic in the list archives). However, I believe the following paragraph
> (p. 22) from Joseph Leftwich's anthology, _The Golden Peacock: A World
Anthology
> of Yiddish Poetry_ (Thomas Yoseloff, 1961), provides evidence that the term
was
> in limited use at a far earlier date:
>
> "Zunz's book _The Sufferings of the Jews in the Middle Ages_,
originally
> published in 1855, appeared in English translation in 1907 (the time of the
> pogroms when Bialik wrote 'The Slaughter Town'). Rabbi George Kohut who
edited
> Zunz's book began his Preface: 'The angel of death is still brooding
over the
> camps of the dispersed congregations of Israel. The days of the Black Death
and
> the Crusades are again upon us. In one Russian town, . . . we are informed by
> an eyewitness, there was a holocaust of Jewish souls, and the martyrs went
> singing to their doom. Does it not recall the tragedies of the Dark Ages,
when
> the children of Israel, led to slaughter, perished "as consecrated hosts of
the
> Lord" chanting the Alenu prayer? They even begged that their musicians and
> singers be allowed to lead them to death, as to a dance. They wished to serve
> God in their last moment in the spirit of the Psalmist, who said, "Serve the
> Lord with gladness, come before His presence with singing."'"
>
> --Charles Fishman
>
>
> SUNY, Farmingdale * * * "If the Sun & Moon should doubt, > Farmingdale, NY 11735 * They'd immediately go out." --Blake
> ```````````````````````````````
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>
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 10:20:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust education effects
From: Michael Thaler < mmt@ITSA.UCSF.EDU >
Since you asked to be corrected:
"Never mind the fact that, at the time, we were studying the work of Milgram
> and Browning. Never mind the fact that I asked my students to think hard
> about what they thought Wiesel (I *think* that the following notion is
> Wiesel's; please correct me if I'm wrong) meant when he said something
(and
> here I'm paraphrasing) that perhaps the worst crime that the Nazis
committed against the Jews is that they turned the Jews into killers."
I don't believe Wiesel ever said that. Personally, I only wish it were true. A little more killing by the Jewish side might have resulted in a lot less killing by the German side. I dreamed of it in the midst of the slaughter, and it would be a bit too disingenuous to pretend otherwise now. The quotation is most likely a peculiarly deformed echo of Golda Meir's words after the 6-day war: 'The one thing I can never forgive the Arabs is turning out (Jewish) boys into killers'.
Michael Thaler
>>One thing that we have found as a benefit of Holocaust education at our
school, with 9th graders, is that it increases their capacity for moral
thinking, partly by providing them with a moral vocabulary so that they can
conceive of their relations with others differently. We have not
necessarily
found a corresponding change in behavior. One of our former students was
tossed from his high school, in part, for being involved in some racist
incidents.<<
But what accounts for the self-deception to which Steve alludes here? I would like to hear from others on the list (including Steve) who have grappled with this problem.
Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
School of Humanities and Languages
Irvine Valley College
5500 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92720
Phone: 714-559-3206
Fax: 714-559-3270
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 13:10:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust
From: Stephen Feinstein <feins001@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Announcement from Rabbi Max Shapiro and Karen Schierman, Center for Jewish-Christan Learning, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.
The Annual Scholars' Conference will take place at the University of St.
Thomas campus in Minneapolis, Marc 3-5, 1996. Main topics is: CONFRONTING
THE HOLOCAUST, A MANDATE FOR THE 2lST CENTURY. Sub themes are:
Vatican and the Holocaust
Impact of Holocaust on Jewish-Christian relations
Christian stake in Holocaust education and memory
Religious teaching, seminary curriculua, educating the clergy
War crimes trials:
--Meaning of Nuremberg trials in the Modern World
--What now? Genocide Today
--Why post-Nazi terrorism?
--Democratic Self-protection
--Hostility to foreigners
Artistic response, public monuments:
--proliferation of museums and maintaining concentration camp
memorial sites
--music
--Holocaust in film
--art
--Holocaust Museums versus Jewish Museums versus Jewish themes
integrated into secular and local museums.
New Unresolved Questions:
--the Churches and anti-Semitism
--post-Holocaust theology
--reading the Bible after the Holocaust
--anti-Semitism and the Bible
Perpetrators, Bystanders, Victims, Rescuers and Survivors:
--listening to survivors
--who will be the voice of the future.
Papers related to conference themes, proposals for panels and
discussions, exhibits, and papers generally related to the mission and
work of the conference are invited.
Proposal for papers or panel discussions are due by August 1, l995 and
will accepted in the form of a single page abstract, accompanied by a
brief author's biography. Please include 3 copies.
SPECIAL NOTE: There will be special sessions for secondary school
teachers and University teachers. Kosher dietary laws will be observed at
all conference meals.
For further information and submitting abstracts and
proposals: Rabbi Max A Shapiro
Conference Chairperson
Center for Jewish-Christian Learning
Mail #FOD
University of St. Thomas
2260 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN.,55105
Phone: 612-962-5780 or 1-800-326-68l9
FAX: 612-962-5790
Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 14:15:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: QUERY: Zuchthaus and Gefaengnis
From: Leo Goldberger <gberger@xp.psych.nyu.edu>
I believe that Gefaengnis is better translated as jail; whereas Tuchthaus is
a
type of prison that included hard labor. Leo Goldberger.
> From: Gaston L Schmir < glschm@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU >
>
>
> > From: William M. Thomas < wmthomas@STRAUSS.UDEL.EDU >
> >
> > The "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" (15.9.35)
> > lists the punishment for Jews marrying Germans as _Zuchthaus_ and the
> > punishment for "extramartial intercourse" [ausserehelicher Verkehr]
> between
> > Jews and Germans as _Gefaengnis_ or _Zuchthaus_. My dictionary lists
them
> > both simply as "prison," but the law is clearly making a distinction
> between
> > the two. Could anyone explain the difference to me?
> >
> > William M. Thomas
> > wmthomas@strauss.udel.edu
> > Dept of History, U of Delaware
> >
>
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 15:03:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: swastika
From: Paul Lawrence Rose < PLR2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU >
The recent book I mentioned on the list is:Michael Quinn, The Swastika:Constructing the Symbol, Routledge, UK, 1994. Some of it is rather jargonized symbiotics-speak, but there's a great deal of new German material in it. Paul Lawrence Rose PLR2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 15:28:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust education effects
From: Susan Erony <erony@ai.mit.edu>
I, too, was at an excellent conference last week, "Articulations of History: Issues in Holocaust Representation". It was organized by the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, in conjunction with two shows, "Between Spectacle and Silence: The Holocaust in Contemporary Photography" (Joseph Biel and Richard Kraft, Aharon Gluska, Melissa Gould, Barbara Rose Haum, and Tatana Kellner) and "The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning" (James E. Young). The version of the question, "Now, after all of the beautiful words, what will this result in...what difference will it make?", that came up for me was, "What do we do with all this research and study and concern?" I have never heard or come up with a good answer to such questions, except for this, that the alternative to the attempt to do something is unacceptable. We have no guarantees, or much evidence at all, that teaching about the Holocaust or racism or Pol Pot will do anything to prevent repetition of inhumanity and atrocity. But I can not help but think that if no one preserves, analyzes, talks, and teaches about this spectrum of culture (an unfortuate part of culture, to say the least), then the tide of human behavior as refuse will completely drown us all. I have often wondered why I focus my art work on the Holocaust and Eastern European Jewish culture, when I could actually be making a living painting portrait commissions and chronicaling the Industrial Revolution in the United States. Just as with other people I know who seriously focus on such subjects, doing so feels like a mandate. If we do not make art and poetry and educate as best we can after Auschwitz, then the barbarians will have truly won.
Still, I was
>somehow even more affected by the query of one of the
survivors
>in attendance who , after the conference ended, praised the
>quality of the presentations and lauded the sensitivity of the
>speakers. She asked me, "Now, after all of the
> beautiful words,
>what will this result in...what difference will it make?" While
>I am committed to Holocaust education and have many reasons
to
>feel that it can make a difference, I still found myself
>reflecting on her questions long after I left yesterday.Indeed,
>I find myself still thinking of it today.
>Dr. Harriet Lipman Sepinwall
>Holocaust Education Resource Center
>College of Saint Elizabeth
>2 Convent Road
>Morristown, NJ 07960
>sepinwal@liza.st-elizabeth.edu
>
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 09:29:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Dumbarton Oaks Symposium
From: Elaine Reuben < ereuben@CAIS.CAIS.COM >
This information may previously have appeared, but I just learned about it and have not seen in my few weeks on the list. Forgive me if I repeat what's already known.
The 1995 Landscape Architecture Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks will be devoted to PLACES OF COMMEMORATION: THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN. The symposium will discuss the role of landscape architecture in the design of commemorative places intended to help shape and construct people's memory and identity.
There will be two days of presentations, May 19 (in the words of their announcement) dealing mainly with civilian commemorative sites (gardens, parkways, cemetaries, the Astronauts Memorial), and May 20th with places of more political character. Presentations focus on the 19th and 20th centuries.
Several presentations on May 20th (at least as listed in the preliminary program) may be of particular interest: on German commemorative practice, Nazi totenburgen, concentration camp memorials and the landscape design of Bergen-Belson, these followed by presentations on American battlefields and Vietnam memorials.
Unfortunately, for anyone reading this notice who was not already aware of the symposium, registration closes May 10. Presumably, however, information from/about it will also be available after:
Studies in Landscape Architecture,
Joachim Wolschke-Bulman, Diretor
Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20007
202-342-3280
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 10:04:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Holocaust Etymology: Comment
From: Burt Bledstein < bjb@uic.edu >
Holocaust Etymology: comment
Burt Bledstein
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 10:14:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Value of teaching
From: Suzanna Hicks < hicks@WEBB.PSYCH.UFL.EDU >
I would like to add a layperson's perspective to this whole discussion about the value of teaching about the Holocaust and inhumanity in general. I agree that we have no guarantee that our efforts will prevent repetition of such horrifying events. But I believe -- with great conviction -- that the voices of hope and love and strength MUST be passed on and spread through following generations. The more well-known voices such as Frankl, Wiesel, Anne Frank, Corrie ten Boom (sp? sorry) must be heard and I really believe that teaching about the Holocaust *involves* that particular human testimony, as well as the stark facts of horror.
There is a young woman's diary and collection of letters (Etty Hillesum - from Holland I think) that I discovered in my early 20s and her writing has inspired me ever since. Just a regular young woman who perished in the Holocaust because she was Jewish. Horrifying waste of life. Yet her testimony is one of joy and love and hope until the very end. She writes (in the camps) about women giving birth in that hellish environment and having their babies ripped away from them ... that was her reality ... and yet her spirit was alive and she was caring for (physically AND emotionally) the people who were around her. She threw letters from a train I believe -- I mean until the end her spirit continued to love and that blows me away, personally.
I won't continue on this vein because I realize that I could conceivably start pouring out my own feelings and convictions, but no one on this list needs to hear that. I just want to make the point that while I'm convinced that teaching about the Holocaust is valuable in the sense of pointing to the horror and saying: this must never happen again. It must stop. It is even *more* valuable in the sense of shining lights on very real, everyday people who were murdered in the most vicious ways, but yet whose spirits could not be completely extinguished. And I believe THAT is a message that's valuable for every generation to hear.
-Suzanna Hicks
University of Florida
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 13:14:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Annual Scholars' Conference (correction)
From: Stephen Feinstein < feins001@MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU >
Correct number is 1-800-328-6819 x5780
On Tue, 9 May 1995, Dr. Harriet Sepinwall wrote:
> Dear Stephen:
> Thank you for posting the information about the March 3-5, 1996
> Annual Scholars' Conference to take place in MN. I just
> telephone the 800 number, but was told that I had reached
> a bank. Can you check the number and post it again.
> I called: 8--
> 800-326-6819.
> Thanks!
> Harriet Sepinwall
> College of Saint Elizabeth
> Holocaust Education Resource Center
> 2 Convent Road
> Morristown, NJ 07960
> sepinwal@liza.st-elizabeth.edu
> sepinwal@liza.st-elizabeth.edu
>
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 13:54:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust education effects
From: T. L. Dale < Dykola@AOL.COM >
RE: Susan Erony - and her comments about why we as artists and teachers teach what we do and create what we do...
I for one must say that growing up I found the attrocities of WW2 to be very interesting. It interested me that (as a 12 year old) one man could accumulate such horrific power and be able to attain death at his fingertips for anyone HE saw fit. I have carried this interest on with me in life, and it has branched on to "smaller" effects...such as child abuse (sexual and physical) and so on.
I, as a writer, have done some pieces on aspects of the holocaust, on
Vietnam, and on child/physical/sexual abuse (in all aspects of life). In
all
these pieces that I have written, I have tried to get them to a larger
audience. Often times, I find that people do not wish to publish them as
they hit to close to home...yet, if we do not convey the actual feelings of
what has happened to people in the past and present, how can we expect
anyone
to understand?
Again as a writer, I can honestly say I've had some wonderful experiences in sharing my work with larger audiences than just one or two people. When people come up to me and tell me that they've experienced what I have portrayed and that they are greatful that someone could express it in such a way, that in itself is worth all the work. I know that other's are learning from what I have to say.
I have not been through any of these attrocities; I learn from what others teach and hope to teach others in return.
I applaud all who are trying to teach and educate on the holocaust and all other subjects I have mentioned and those that haven't been. Without all of you, chances are the world would be a more heartless place.
T. L. Dale
I want to respond to the issue of what will come of all the education, research, conferences, artwork on the Holocaust. My post is longer than I'm used to writing on this list. so forgive me. -- it is natural, I guess, to put a moral imperative on Holocaust memory, because it is memory of a crime, however I think it's a dead end. Why do we teach anything ???
I taught a Holocaust memory class this year for the first time. It has been a very rewarding process. In the beginning of the class I ask the students why they take this class and to draw associations, verbal or visual, to the Holocaust. The most common answer to 'why' is 'so it will never happen again.' It's so automatic, it makes me sick. It's so pat, and some of these students have grandparents they have never even sat down with to listen to their story!
I don't teach this topic because I'm trying to pass on a lesson. Sorry. I teach this topic because first of all, it haunted me and wouldn't leave me alone, and I keep trying to put it to rest. I realize now, I never will.
Knowing that about myself, I consider the students that come to my class and want to study this topic for whatever reason, or maybe finding out the reason is why they come to the class.
There are many important things that have been learned from studying the Holocaust, that have contributed to the world. there is no ONE lesson that comes from studying the Holocaust. If a survivor shares his or her story, and they see that this makes a difference to those listening, that is one answer to the question. Creating new memories of the sharing of memories, that is community. But, to prevent another Holocaust? or undo the effects of this one? or make this a better world? or never again??? ........................can't promise that.
besides, in Judaism, the imperative is 'never forget,' not 'never again.'
lucia
@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Susan Erony writes:
>>If we do not make art and
poetry and educate as best we can after Auschwitz, then the
barbarians will have truly won.<<
Who are the barbarians? Put differently, who isn't a barbarian or doesn't possess the capacity to be one? Are "we" really so different from "them"?
Tonight, I'm teaching Fred Katz's book _Ordinary People and Extraordinary
Evil_. The class will also hear from Dr. Hans Askenasy, the author of _Are
We All Nazis?_ This should be an interesting class, especially since Hans
will be reading from his correspondence with Dr. Gilbert, the psychiatrist
who examined Hoess and found him to be--yes, clinically normal. What Hoess
did was barbaric (i.e., supervise and eagerly help orchestrate the
extermination of millions of people), if we take barbaric to mean evil or
uncivilized (though I'm always sobered by the fact that the word's etymology
has to do foreign speech); Hoess himself, it seems, was not a barbarian
(just
ask his wife and kids, or the camp inmates who cleaned his villa).
On the whole, I think that Susan makes some excellent points in her post; I
want to be clear about that. But, as I've mentioned time and again, I'm
becoming increasingly suspicious that teaching our students (for example)
about the Holocaust (for example) will make much of a difference in how they
subsequently behave as human beings. I at least have seen no evidence to
suggest that, *because* they have studied the Holocaust, most of my students
have become more compassionate human beings who actively fight to help
victims. In fact, most seem to remain in a state of self-deception about
the
extent to which, notwithstanding their sympathies for the victims and their
outrage at what happened, they themselves participate in quotidian and often
subtle acts of promoting evil (who *doesn't* participate in such acts!?).
On
the other hand, I *have* discovered that the few truly compassionate
students
who come to the class already committed to fighting for peace and justice
seem to take away from the class a renewed and more heightened sense of
commitment.
Let me quote from Katz's book: "Mourning and massive commemorations confer little or no immunity against future social horrors. Teaching about horrors relies heavily on the assumption that people will experience such revulsion that they will, under no circumstances, engage in such horrors, that revulsion will serve as a vaccine against committing horrors. Yet one thing we learn from the life of Hoess is that a person can have a real sense of revulsion about murderous activities, yet engage in them with alacrity and fervor" (124).
Let's not forget that very, very educated, informed persons orchestrated the
Final Solution. What these people lacked was not knowledge or education,
including, obviously, intimate knowledge about the fate of the victims
(concerning some of the "actions" perpetrated by the men in Reserve Police
Battalion 101, the term "intimate" [or personal] is quite apt indeed). What
they lacked, among other things, was compassion--*true* compassion, which
involves one's feeling inextricably linked to the Other and which arises out
of profound understanding, which itself is grounded in one's being presently
and fully aware and mindful. It's not clear to me that horrors will no
longer occur even in a community of truly compassionate persons; on the
other
hand, I think that we certainly could do worse than to try living mindfully,
with our eyes fully open, in an attempt to reach a state of profound
compassion for others.
Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
School of Humanities and Languages
Irvine Valley College
5500 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92720
Phone: 714-559-3206
Fax: 714-559-3270
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 16:54:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust education effects
From: Franklin Littell <FHL%TEMPLEVM@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU>
Harriet Sepinwall raised a fundamental philosophical question: "What good does our research, writing and speaking do?" I would like to enter two possible answers. The first is theological: We do and say what is right regardless of any immediate evidence of effectiveness. That is, true goodness cannot be cunning or calculating. The second is more philosophical, and difficult to put forward since there has been such a reaction against the idea of progress (due, I think, to widespread confusion between Progress and Providence).
The second point is this: many widespread practices in human affairs were "sins" long before they were recognized as "crimes" and penalties were set to confront them. Such are duelling, widow-burning, feuding, infanticide, cannibalism, infibulation, chattel slavery, genocide, drawing & quartering, human sacrifice... It takes long centuries before a society's conscience has been elevated to the point where people recognize that something is basically WRONG, and not like an earthquake or a flood but rather by human action (a CRIME). Then laws must be articulated to penalize the wrongdoing for the sake of social justice and also to cause second thoughts in those tempted to so the same. But there is a time lag between the point where a CRIME is identified and penalties enacted, and the point when the laws can be enforced. That is where we are with "genocide," long a sin but only since 1951 defined as a "crime." Only the first steps have been taken toward enforcing penalties for the crime.
The encouraging thing is that everyone feels guilty about "Bosnia:" two hundred years ago those who heard of it would simply have assumed "that's the way things are." Moreover, two hundred years ago - except for a very small part of the globe - what ordinary people heard and thought about it would have made no difference whatever. Rulers by divine right considered it beneath their dignity to ask what their subjects were thinking.
Yes, although wars - both civil and international - have grown more terrible, in some limited social practices in some limited geographical areas progress has been made. - Franklin
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 09:20:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Request: Videos for Middle School
From: Jean G. Zeldin < shoahed@CRL.COM >
The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education has recently produced a video appropriate for 7-12 graders. To receive information, please call (913) 491-9665 and we will mail you an order form and description. The tape is 38 minutes long and includes narrative, witness testimony, and archival footage. It comes with a resource packet and sells for $30 plus tax and shipping.
Jean G. Zeldin
Executive Director
Midwest Center for Holocuast Education
Tel (913) 491-9665
Fax (913) 491-9742
E-Mail SHOAHED@CRL.COM
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 11:30:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Women and the Holocaust [x H-Women]
The following items appeared this week on H-Women:
Jim Mott
Holocaus Editor
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 08:26:18 -0500 From: Cheryl Malone <malone@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: Women and the Holocaust (fwd)
For a book by a Dutch woman in the Resistance, see Diet Eman, *Things We Couldn't Say* Eerdmans Pub Co. She lives in western Michigan and there is also a play based on her book, I think.
I also saw a book recently in a catalogue with a title something like *Women in the Holocaust* but I have no more information.
Lynn Japinga, Hope College
JAPINGAL@hope.cit.hope.edu
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 08:27:19 -0500 From: Cheryl Malone <malone@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: Women and the Holocaust (fwd)
From: Jen-Der Lee <JENDER@pluto.ihp.sinica.edu.tw>
I don't know any scholarly work on this subject. But when I travelled in Amsterdam last summer, I visited the Anne Frank's house, and read about her hiding during the German occupation. A very important person who helped her and her family was a woman employee in the factory of Anne's father. I don't have her name right now, but I believe it is easy to check in any book about Anne's story. The woman helped because she was courageous not because she was home all day. There is also a novel based on a true story named "The Hiding Place" tells about how two sisters who ran a clock shop with their father in Amsterdam helped the Jews during German occupation. Hope this helps.
Jender Lee
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 08:29:48 -0500 From: Cheryl Malone <malone@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: Women and the Holocaust (fwd)
A couple of starting points for women & the holocaust:
Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland
Renate Bridenthal et al, eds, When Biology Became Destiny
Ute Frevert, Women in German History (a survey; you'll just find a bit on
your topic)
Alison Owings, Fruaen: German Women Recall the Third Reich (written by a
journalist -- I believe-- with a popular audience in mind -- the others
above are written by historians)
Joan Ringelheim, "Women and the Holocaust," Signs 1985:741-61
Koonz's article in Becoming Visible: Women in European History
Vera Laska, ed., Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust
Stephenson, Jill, The Nazi Organization of Women
Jill Stephenson (again), Women in Nazi Society
(Stephenson's works address the problem of the Holocaust less
explicitly but are still very useful on the subject of women's
participation in the machinery of the Nazi state)
The above list focuses on historical literature, since that's my field. There is,however, also a vast literary and autobiographical literature on the subject. (A course with this focus is offered at my university.)
The subject of women and the Holocaust is NOT one on which a well-meaning professor can plead paucity of materials. Indeed, the materials currently available are only a beginning. But the subject of women's share of responsibility in the functioning of the Nazi state -- with the Holocaust as an ever-present subtext -- has given rise to heated disputes, and these disputes have left a paper trail both in English and in German for any who care to know about it. You might want to read a little about this controversy before digging into the full-length books, just to get a flavor of things. See:
Atina Grossmann, "Feminist Debates about Women and National Socialism," in Gender & History 1991
Adelheid von Saldern, "Victims or Perpetrators? Controversies about the Role of Woemn in the Nazi State," in David Crew, ed, Nazism and German Society.
When I was an undergraduate, I approached my advisor about doing an honors thesis on women in Nazi Germany. He said there was no point; there was nothing out there. He was wrong; Jill Stephenson's material, for example, was already appearing. He just wasn't keeping up with the literature. I took his word for it & dropped my idea for an honors thesis. This probably represented no great loss to the historical literature, but it WAS a lesson (once I realized what had happened) about how vulnerable students are when we, as professors, fail to keep up with recent developments in the field. Certainly now, after nearly 20 years of German-language writing on women in Nazi Germany, and after nearly 15 years of English-language writing, there's not much excuse for leaving students wondering whether anything whatsoever is known about the subject.
--Elizabeth Heineman
Dept. History
Bowling Green state University
Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 22:51:57 -0400 (EDT) From: JEZ@vms.cis.pitt.edu
In response to the query on women and the Holocaust, here are some titles:
Alexander, Caroline. Now You Are Sara. Port Angeles, Washington: Ben-Simon
Publications, 1993.
Deutschkron, Inge. Outcast: A Jewish Girl in Wartime Berlin. Jean Steinberg,
translator. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1990.
Leitner, Isabella. Fragments of Isabella. New York, 1978.
Lixi-Purcell, Andreas. Women of Exile: German-Jewish Autobiographies since 1933.
Contributions in Women's Studies, 91. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1988.
Milton, Sybil. "Women and the Holocaust: The Case of German and German-Jewish
Women." In When Biology became Destiny, edited by Renate Bridenthal. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984; reprinted in Different Voices: women and
the Holocaust, edited by Carol Rittner and John K. Roth. New York: Paragon
House, 1993.
Rosen, Sara. My Lost World: A Survivor's Tale. The Library of Holocaust
Testimonies. London, 1993.
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 08:34:19 -0500 From: Cheryl Malone <malone@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: Women and the Holocaust (fwd)
For a remarkable account by a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Hessisch-Lichtenau, see Judith Magyar Isaacson, *Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor* (University of Illinois Press, 1990).
Sarah McMahon
Bowdoin College
smcmahon@polar.bowdoin.edu
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 09:02:09 -0500 From: Cheryl Malone <malone@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Women and the Holocaust (fwd)
I have done quite a bit of research on Hitler's Germany and prostitutes--the way they were treated and utilized. Some references that might be helpful for research on women and the Holocaust are: Sex and Society in Nazi Germany by Hans Peter Bleuel; The Jewish Feminist Movement in Germany by Marion Kaplan (for background info up until 1938). Another book that might be of interest is Life in the Third Reich by Richard Bessel (ed.). Hope this is helpful to Ms Simpson and others.
Pam Casto pnc9454@utarlg.uta.edu grad. student in humanities at UT-Arlington
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 10:53:31 -0500 From: Cheryl Malone <malone@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: Women and the Holocaust (fwd)
From: Melissa Walker <mwalker@acad.bryant.edu>
"The Hiding Place" mentioned by Jen-Der Lee was written by a Dutch woman named Corrie Ten Boom.
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 10:54:11 -0500 From: Cheryl Malone <malone@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Women and the Holocaust (cont.) (fwd)
From:JEZ@vms.cis.pitt.edu
In yesterday's list, I only included references to Germany; here are other Holocaust/women references, dealing with non-German people and/or places.
Judy Zimmerman
Appleman-Jurman, Alicia. Alicia: My Story. New York: Bantam, 1994.
Atkinson, Linda. In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh, 1921-1944. New
York, 1985.
Boas, Jacob. "Etty Hillesum: Fron Amsterdam to Auschwitz." Lilith, 23 (Spring
1989): 24-32.
Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, Otto H. Frank
and Mirjam Pressler, eds. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Gies, Miep, and Alison Leslie Gold. Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the
Woman who Helped to Hide the Frank Family. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.
Gurdus, Luba Krugman. The Death Train. Holocaust Library. New York, 1978.
Hay, Peter. Ordinary Heroines: Chana Szenes and the Dream of Zion. New York:
Putnam, 1986.
Kamel, Rosa. "Interrupted Lives, Inner Resources: The Diaries of Hannah Senesh
and Etty Hillesum." Women's Studies Quarterly, 17, no. 3-4 (1989): 45-58.
Keren, Nill. "The Family Camp." In Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, edited
by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., 1994.
Kovay, Heda Margolius. Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968.
Plunkett Lake Press, 1973.
Leitner, Isabella, and Irving A. Leitner. Isabella: From Auschwitz to Freedom.
New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1994.
Meed, Vladka. On Both Sides of the Wall. Holocaust Library. n.p., 1972.
Peleg-Marianska, Miriam, and Mordecai Peleg. Witnesses: Life in Occupied
Krakow. New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991.
Rittner, Carol, and John K. Roth. Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust. New
York, 1993.
Rosenberg, Blanca. To Tell At Last: Survival Under False Identity, 1941-1945.
Urbana, Ill., 1993.
Sender, Ruth Minsky. The Cage. New York: Macmillan, 1986.
Senesh, Hannah. Hannah Senesh: Her Life and Diary, Marta Cohn, translator. New
York: Schocken, 1973.
Strzelecka, Irena. "Women." In Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, edited by
Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington,
D.C., 1994.
Szwajger, Adina Blady. I Remember Nothing More: The Warsaw Children's Hospital
and the Jewish Resistance, Tasja Darowska and Danusia Stok, translators, London: Collins-Harvill, 1990.
Tec, Nechama. Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1984.
Weinstein, Frida Scheps. A Hidden Childhood: A Jewish Girl's Sanctuary in a
French Convent. New York: Hill and Wang, 1990.
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 10:54:52 -0500 From: Cheryl Malone <malone@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Women and the Holocaust (fwd)
From: Mary Todd <U51573@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU>
The suggestions already submitted on women and the Holocaust have been very inclusive. One of the basic collections that I don't think has been mentioned is Vera Laska's _Women in the Resistance and the Holocaust_. I'll also mention that I interviewed survivors and read survivor literature for my masters' thesis (1990): "Hope Against Hope: The Spiritual Resistance of Jewish Women in Nazi Deathcamps," an early stab at imposing a gender lens on the camp experience.
Mary Todd
Women's Studies
The University of Illinois at Chicago
marytodd@uic.edu
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 10:55:15 -0500 From: Cheryl Malone <malone@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: Women and the Holocaust (fwd)
A very interesting short piece is Jill Stephenson's "The Wary Response of Women" (pp.167-75) in _The Nazi Revolution: Hitler's Dictatorship and the German Nation_, ed. Allan Mitchell. [Problems in European Civilization Series, Heath and Co.]
Connie Wawruck-Hemmett
wawruck@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 11:00:37 -0500 From: Cheryl Malone <malone@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Women and the Holocaust
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a home page on the World Wide Web. The URL for it is http://www.ushmm.org.
It includes a link to regional and local resources; the student who originally posted the query was at New Mexico State U, I think. Although there is no New Mexico resource listed, the relatively nearby El Paso (Texas) Holocaust Museum and Study Center is listed, with an indication that it holds audiotapes of interviews with survivors.
Cheryl Malone
The University of Texas at Austin
(and H-Women)
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 12:14:40 -0500 From: "Steven Mintz, U. Houston" <SMintz@UH.EDU> Subject: Re: Women and the Holocaust
From: IN%"LIVELY@library.uta.edu" "Donna Lively" 10-MAY-1995 11:36:07.87
Another personal narrative is __Playing for Time__ by Fania Fenelon. It was originally published as __The Musicians of Auschwitz__ in London, but since a tv movie was aired with the __Playing for Time__ title here in the U.S. I guess the American publisher felt that it had greater recognition value. It deals with the experiences of the female members of the band composed of prisoners which played to sooth the fears of fellow prisioners as they were being filed into the gas chambers.
Donna Lively
Lively@library.uta.edu
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 14:23:05 -0500 From: Cheryl Malone <malone@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Women and the Holocaust (fwd)
From: MELANIE GUSTAFSON <MGUSTAFS@polyglot.uvm.edu>
For information on women and the Holocaust: Contact Doris Bergen at the University of Vermont. She teaches an intermediate lecture course and an advanced seminar on the Holocaust as well as courses on European women in the twentieth century. In the fall she will be teaching a seminar on women, gender and Nazi Germany. She's extremely generous. Call her at 802-656-4495.
Melanie Gustafson
Department of History
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405
(802) 656-4422
MGUSTAFS@polyglot.uvm.edu
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 18:34:03 -0500 From: "Steven Mintz, U. Houston" <SMintz@UH.EDU> Subject: Query: Why were sashes worn by NAWSA yellow?
From: IN%"zztuck@acc.wuacc.edu" "Sara Tucker" 10-MAY-1995 16:05:27.55
A query has just come my way for which I ask help. Apparently all the sashes worn by the NAWSA were yellow. Why, standing for what? And apologies if this has already been covered in the recent 75 year celebration discussion. I am a faithful and enthusiastic h-women reader, but recently I admit skimming is sometimes all I've been able to do...
Sara Tucker
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 18:35:08 -0500 From: "Steven Mintz, U. Houston" <SMintz@UH.EDU> Subject: Re: Women and the Holocaust
From: IN%"khewitt@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu" "hewitt karen m" 10-MAY-1995 16:28:00.41
The University of Illinois Press has published several titles that might be of interest. Two have already been mentioned: Judith Magyar Isaacson, SEED OF SARAH: MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR, and Blanca Rosenberg, TO TELL AT LAST: SURVIVAL UNDER FALSE IDENTITY, 1941-45. Another title, this one an anthology, includes stories and poems by men and women, some of whom are survivors, Milton Teichman and Sharon Leder, TRUTH AND LAMENTATION: STORIES AND POEMS ON THE HOLOCAUST. All are available in paperback.
Karen Hewitt
Senior Editor
University of Illinois Press
1325 S. Oak St.
Champaign, IL 61820
217-244-4687
email: k-hewitt@uiuc.edu
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 08:44:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust Etymology: Comment
From: Michael Rothberg < MPRGC@CUNYVM >
Burt Bledstein suggested that the term "the Holocaust" came to be
accepted by scholars of the Nazi genocide during the 1950s. I would like to
have citations of such usage if possible. My impression has been that
although
the term holocaust was certainly used earlier, it didn't really become
canonized until the mid to late 1960s in the United States. Obviously, other
countries and other languages have their own histories of naming, but i'd be
particularly interested in getting more citations from the American context.
Thanks, Michael
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 08:59:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: 26th Annual Scholars Conference bulletin
From: FRANKLIN LITTELL < FHL@TEMPLEVM >
Forwarding to colleagues the following bulletin -
Subject: 26th Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the
Churches
FROM: Dr. Marcia S. Littell, Director
[This information is a supplement to Stephen Feinstein's announcement of Monday, May 8, 1995, on the 1996 Conference, to be held March 3-5 1996 at the University of St. Thomas.]
The Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches was
founded in 1970 by Franklin H. Littell and Hubert G. Locke as an interfaith,
interdisciplinary and international organization. Devoted to remembering and
learning from the Holocaust, and encouraging the participation of educators
from both campuses and local communities, its mission is to promote
scholarly
research by both Jews and Christians that examines issues raised by the
"Final Solution."
The Conference moves to a different geographic location each academic year. The permanent office is based in Merion Station, Pennsylvania.
The 1996 hosts will be The Center for Jewish-Christian Learning at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul Minnesota. The 1996 Host and Conference Chairman is Rabbi Max Shapiro. Karen Schierman is the 1996 Conference Coordinator.
Persons interested in sponsoring a future Scholars' Conference or
having their names added to the mailing list should direct inquiries to:
Dr. Marcia S. Littell, Executive Director
Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Post Office Box 172
Merion Station, PA 19066
May 11, 1995
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 09:14:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Polish Foreign Minister/Yad Vashem
From: Charles Fishman <FISHMAN%SNYFARVA>
Excerpt from Israel Line 05-11-95
********Forwarded Message********
POLAND'S FOREIGN MINISTER VISITING ISRAEL, WILL PARTICIPATE IN YAD VASHEM CEREMONY
Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski met Wednesday with
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to
discuss political issues, MA'ARIV reported.
Bartoszewski promised that Poland will continue to support Israel
fight against anti-semitism and terrorism.
The Polish Foreign Minister is an honorary citizen of Israel and
the recipient of Yad Vashem's "Righteous Among the Nations" award.
Bartoszewski will participate today in a ceremony at the Yad
Vashem Holocaust memorial. In the ceremony, hundreds of Holocaust
victims' private belongings will be officially transferred to Yad
Vashem. The items are from the museum at the former Nazi death camp
Auschwitz.
~~
Charles Fishman * Fishman@snyfarva.cc.farmingdale.edu
Distinguished Service Professor * * * (516) 420-2031 (Voice)
Dir., Visiting Writers Program * * * (516) 420-2051 (Fax)
SUNY, Farmingdale * * * "If the Sun & Moon should doubt, Farmingdale, NY 11735 * They'd immediately go out." --Blake
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Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 09:44:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust education effects
From: Alan Jacobs < ajacobs@INTERACCESS.COM >
I don't think that teaching history will stop anyone from comitting murder. Perhaps what we need is to teach people why the SS did it? Perhaps engage students in this question, let them speculate. Nothing like engaging them in the speculation because then they have to think. Scaring or horrifying them only gets them to turn away from it, denial being what it is. Most of us here have plenty of horror stories and images in our heads. I don't think it enough, for whatever my intense preoccupation with the subject. So I am proposing here the question... Why did they do it? Why, socially, psychologically, spiritually or in any other way you choose to define it.
Alan Jacobs
Psychotherapist
Holocaust & Genocide Independent Researcher
Writer
Chicago Il.
ajacobs@interaccess.com
voice: 312-477-2296
Fax 312-348-8518
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 12:19:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Value of teaching
From: RJPrys@aol.com
At the end of her very interesting and passionate post, Suzanna Hicks writes:
>> But
I suspect that as my little ones get older, my tendency will be to shine
lights on the voices of hope and spiritual survival. I can't imagine not
wanting to pass on that legacy.<<
I, too, try to help my children live meaningful, compassionate lives. However....
Though what I'm about to say might surprise some members of the list who
might think that I'm Franklian to the core, I would ask Suzanna and others
who share her views if they will also pass on to their children the stories
of victims who do not, by "our" standards, seem particularly heroic or who
did not either have or retain a sense of spiritual hope, love, and so on.
And if we pass on these stories, too, do we do so non-hierarchically? That
is, do we tell our children, "Now, another survivor wrote such and such;
this
is another, and not necessarily a better, view of life in Auschwitz"? Or do
we privilege one type of testimony over another? And if we do that, why do
we do so?
One survivor whom I interviewed told me that, after the war, he decided to become a physician. Why? Because, having suffered such trauma himself, he wanted to heal the world? No. Not even close. Among other things, he wanted to figure out a way to poison the German water supply in retaliation for what had happend to him and his people. My hunch is that Ted Kopple won't invite this survivor to tell his story on _Nightline_. Nor will he be used in an ad requesting funds for a humanitarian cause. There's no underlying sense of redemption in his testimony, no sense of sustained or renewed hope, and certainly not much to recommend from the standpoint of spirituality. In fact, there's much raw pain and deeply felt hate. But his story and perspective are
real--as real as is Frankl's.
To repeat what I've said in previous posts: Frankl's testimony is valid for
Frankl and, to be sure, for other victims. But, as Langer correctly argues,
it is not a universal perspective on victimage. For now, I'll leave aside
my
problems that I see in Langer's views, great as I think that these problems
are, since they're not relevant to this discussion. I'll simply close by
saying that I think that we can indeed learn from studying and teaching
about
the Holocaust: we can learn, for example, that we ourselves are capable of
manufacturing the sort of evil that we see in the Holocaust (to paraphrase
Fred Katz); we can learn how evil operates bureaucratically; we can
understand how and why ordinary persons, such as we ourselves, participate
in
evil acts; we can learn that violence is internal, mimetic, and contagious;
and, just as important, we can learn how to take steps to avoid our becoming
participants in evil acts or, once in them, how to extricate ourselves from
them (though sometimes doing so seems very hard or well nigh impossible).
Other than these (and sundry others of a like sort), I see no redemptive
lessons coming out of the Holocaust. I see no silver linings in this dark
cloud. In saying this, I don't mean to downplay the validity of the
Franklian view, or even to suggest that, as someone who "wasn't there," I
have the right to say that I fully understand such a view. On the other
hand....
Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
School of Humanities and Languages
Irvine Valley College
5500 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92720
Phone: 714-559-3206
Fax: 714-559-3270
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 12:19:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Value of teaching
From: Lior Zylberman < administ@zylber.recom.edu.ar >
Para ensenar acerca del Holocausto o hablar del tema no se debe ser necesariamente judio;es suficiente con ser un "ser humano". Creo que nunca sera suficiente hablar de este tema a nuestros alumnos no solo para que comprendan el horror de las acciones que el hombre es capaz de emprender contra el projimo,sino para prepararlos justamente para poder luchar en el futuro,en forma sabia y consciente no solamente contra el antisemitismo,sio cotra todo tipo de discriminacion,desde la racial hasta la fisica. Y estas ensenanzas deben continuar y profundizarse en el futuro,dado que desde que el mudo entro en el llamado "postmodernismo" y el "neoliberalismo",el Hombre se covirtio en menos solidario,chauvinista,xenofobo. Y ello lo encontramos tanto en muchos paises europeos como en el propio Estados Unidos. Por ello,el aprendizaje del drama y la tragedia que fue el Holocausto debe servir para luchar contra toda esta intolerancia,para que ella sea desterrada de los corazones de los hombres para siempre. Y nada mejor que empezar con las generaciones mas jovenes...
Abraham Zylberman ---
Abraham Zylberman
administ@zylber.recom.edu.ar
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Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 12:19:00 CDT
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From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com>
Subject: Re: Holocaust education effects
From: "Dr.Harriet Sepinwall" <sepinwal@liza.st-elizabeth.edu>
In the week since our conference took place, I have appreciated hearing the responses to my posting on this list. There is much to consider as we attempt to do justice to Holocaust scholarship and to Holocaust education. The evaluations of attendees have finally reached my desk. These were very positive. Many said that the conference should be "repeated". While I don't think it is possible to do this exactly this way again, we are reviewing the raw footage of the videotape to see what we might do with it to ha share with others.
I invited the students I teach in my interdisciplinary course, "American Culture Studies": to attend the parts of the conference which fit into their schedules. I would like to share the written reactions of two of them.
This from a first year student...
"I never really knew much of the Holocaust until now. I learned of
all the suffering, illnesses and deaths ...and most of all heart
aches that took place because of prejudice and hatred. So many deaths
were caused by the Holocaust, and until this eminar I had no idea
that the death rate was as high as it was. Our class has
concentrated a lot on immigration to America and on the prejudice
faced by immigrants. The Holocaust was a perfect example of what
you get our of hatred and prejudice."
This from a senior who is preparing for a career in teaching... "Film documentaries are good teaching tools. Viewers can see and hear actual testimonies. Drama is more troublesome. While it can reach more people, it may not necessarily be historically accurate. Common pitfalls in drama are cheap sentamentalism .... Monuments are needed to counter the extremists who deny the realt [Dity of the Holocaust. The Nathan Rappaport Monument at Liberty State park examplifies that the Holocaust relates to American history.... I see that Holocaust survivors who came to the U.S. may have had non-typical immigrant experiences. It took approximately 20 years for the pain to subside to a level at which Survivors cu could publically talk about their experiences. Now, these experiences are being chronicalled in centers throughout the U.S. because what happened in Nazi Germany happened to the world. As a culturally diverse society in the U.S., we must study and learn from history so the radical fringe doesn't tear us apart or ascend to power.... I (now) realize that one can't generalize about the "survivor experience".... As a teacher, I would have students look at current nativist sentiment/movements in the U.S. to determine: Could this happen here?
Several of my students volunteered to help my [De next years with all the work which goes into planning and setting up Holocaust workshops for teachers. These are both underga undergraduates and graduate students. They told me how moved they have been by all of the programs they have attended this year-- and have shared weith with me their desire to learn more-- ad and to get others to learn with them. Perhaps this work will have results.... My stg students say that the work I do is important...and that they want it to be their work as well. Maybe that's what I need to see as a result of Holocaust education. In Judith Miller's book ONE BY ONE, she points out how significant small numbers can be...and how they have the potential to grow into bigger numbers. So many people on this list are doing so many important things and reaching out to so many more people. If we keep at it, maybe we can make a difference....
Harriet Lipman Sepinwall
College of Saint Elizabeth
Holocaust Education Resource Center
2 Convent Road
Morristown, NJ 07960
sepinwal@liza.st-elizabeth.edu
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 12:29:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust Etymology
From: Richard Reiman <rreiman@tiger.SGC.PeachNet.EDU>
I, too, have wondered about the origins of the phrase "* The *
Holocaust" in American popular usage and historical writing. Michael R.
Marrus, in his book The Holocaust in History (Hanover: University Press of
New England,
1987), writes that the term was "widely used only since the 1960s..." (p. 3)
He
cites a source I have not read, but perhaps it sheds some light on this
question of
etymology in the American context:
Gerd Korman, "The Holocaust in American Historical Writing," Societas 2 (1972), 251-70.
Good luck,
Richard Reiman
South Georgia College
Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 16:44:22 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Jim Mott <U15607@UICVM.BITNET> Subject: Bibliography of Righteous Gentiles
From: Gaston L Schmir <glschm@minerva.cis.yale.edu>
> From: EnvConsl < EnvConsl@AOL.COM >
>
> In re: Righteous Gentiles.. could anyone send me a bibliography of works,
> sources? Thank you. EnvConsl@aol.com
>
URL
http://www.cs.cmu.edu.8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/rescuers.
html
WHOSOEVER SAVES A SINGLE LIFE...
The Holocaust is a history of overwhelming horror and enduring sorrow. Sometimes it seems as though there is no spark of human concern or kindness, no act of humanity, to lighten that dark history. Yet there were acts of courage and kindness during the Holocaust which can offer us some hope for our past and for our future. Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem, has honoured more than 11,000 rescuers (Fogelman, 1994), and many more cases await their consideration.
This bibliography lists works in English which discuss the lives and actions of rescuers during the Holocaust. Individuals, groups, and in the case of Denmark, almost an entire country, reached out. People like Andre Trocme, the minister and spiritual leader of the village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, probably fit most closely to our stereotypes of those who will help. Trocme was clearly motivated by ethical and religious convictions. Yet many others, who could have been expected to hold similar beliefs, failed to act. Less expected is an Oskar Schindler , the opportunistic businessman who made a fortune using Jewish slave labour - and spent that fortune again to save the lives of those in his factory. What did they have in common?
What was it that lead some people to reach out and help others, to become rescuers, while most of the population around them did not? What was it, about individuals and societies, that led them to act on behalf of strangers? Perhaps, if we can begin to understand this, we can begin to build societies in which such actions are more likely to occur, and in which Holocausts are less likely to happen.
Bibliography:
* Bartoszewski, W. & Lewin, Z. The righteous among the nations. London: Earls Court, 1969.
This book deals with displaced persons and the border crossings en route to Palestine.
* Bauminger, A.L. The righteous. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1983.
An excellent introduction to the history of the Holocaust. 'The Last Chapter' reviews rescuers and rescue attempts as well as the liberation of the camps. Very useful bibliographic notes and references.
This is an authoritative study of the rescue efforts of the Cimade, a group which helped people to escape throught the mountains of France into neutral Switzerland.
This work discusses the work and writings of Kurt Huber, of the White Rose, a philosophy professor in Germany who opposed the Nazis.
A sociological account of how genocide happens. Her concept of the universe of moral obligation is helpful in understanding why some chose to rescue while others remained indifferent.
a good understanding of the political context in which American policy developed.
Curriculum guide and anthology on the Holocaust with units on rescue.
When the Nazis attempted to deport Denmark's Jewish population to the death camps, citizens throughout the country spontaneously formed an underground network, and almost the entire Jewish population of 8000 people was ferried to safety in Sweden.
Fogelman examines the stories of rescuers to show how external conditions and internal motivations lead them to rescue people, as well as how rescuing affected them psychologically, during and after World War II.
A chronicle of the work of Varian Fry and the Centre Americain de Secours who helped Jews, particularly "persons of exceptional merit", to escape legally and illegally from Vichy France.
=20
*** Gies, M. with Gold, A. Anne Frank remembered: The story of
the woman who helped to hide the Frank family. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.
=20
* Goldberger, Leo (Ed.) The rescue of the Danish Jews: moral
courage under stress. New York: New York University Press,1987.
=20
An interdisciplinary collection of essays, including
first-person accounts, which explore the question "Why did the Danes risk their lives to rescue their Jewish population?"
=20
* Green, G. The legion of noble Christians: The Sweeney
survey. New York: Trident Press, 1965.
=20
* Greenfeld, Howard The hidden children. New York: Ticknor &
Fields,1993.
=20
This book describes the experiences of Jewish children who
were forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust, who survived to tell about it.
=20
*** Gross, Leonard. The last Jews of Berlin. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1982.
=20
A brilliantly orchestrated account of those who rescued Jews
in Hitler's Berlin.
=20
* Gut Opdyke, I. with Elliot, J.M. Into the flames: The life
story of a righteous gentile. San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo
Press, 1992.
=20
*** Gutman, Y. & Zuroff, E. (Eds.) Rescue attempts during the
Holocaust: Proceedings of the Second Yad Vashem International Historical Conference, Jerusalen, 8-11 April, 1974. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1978.
=20
*** Haesler, A. The lifeboat is full: Switzerland and the
refugees, 1933-1945. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969.
=20
* Haestrup, Jorgen. The secret alliance. 3 volumes. New York:
New York University Press, 1985.
=20
* Haestrup, Jorgen. Passage to Palestine: Young Jews in
Denmark 1932-1945. Odense: Odense University Press, 1983.
=20
*** Hallie, Philip. Lest innocent blood be shed: The story of
the village of Le Chambon and how goodness happened there. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
=20
Quietly, peacefully, and in spite of both the Vichy government
and the Nazis, the small Protestant village of Le Chambon, in the
mountains of southern France, organized to save thousands of Jewish
children and adults.
=20
=20
* Henry, Frances. Victims and neighbors: A small town in Nazi Germany remembered. South Hadley, Mass.: Bergin & Harvey, 1984.
=20
* Herzer, Ivo. The Italian refuge: Rescue of Jews during the
Holocaust. Washington: Catholic University Press, 1989.
=20
a fine collection of essays on Italian rescues.
=20
*** Hilberg, Raul The destruction of the European Jews:
Revised and definitive edition. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1961; New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985.
=20
definitive history of the Holocaust, based primarily on German
documents
=20
*** Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, victims, bystanders: The
Jewish catastrophe 1933-1945. New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
=20
* Hoffman, P. The history of the German resistance: 1933-1945.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978.
=20
* Horbach, M. Out of the night. New York: Frederick Fell,
1967.
=20
* Huneke, Douglas D. The Moses of Rovno: The stirring story of
Fritz Graebe. New York: Dodd Mead, 1985.
=20
* Iranek-Osmecki, K. He who saves one life: A documented story
of the Poles who struggled to save the Jews during World War II. New York: Crown, 1971.
=20
* Isaacman, C. Clara's story. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication
Society, 1984.
=20
** * Jens, Inge. At the heart of the white rose: letters and
diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl. New York: Harper & Row, Pub., 1987.
=20
Though not directly involved in rescue attempts, the German
White Rose group are notable for their public opposition to the Nazi movement and its actions. "We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace."
=20
*** Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's list. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1982.
=20
A novelization based on the actual testimony of the
Schindlerjuden - those whose lives were saved by German profiteer Oskar Schindler.
=20
* Kimche, Jon & Kimche, David. The secret roads. London:
Secker and Warburg, 1954.
=20
This work discusses illegal immigration to Palestine.
=20
* Kren, George M. & Leon H. Rappoport. The Holocaust and the
crisis of human behavior. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1980.
=20
*** Laqueur, Walter.The terrible secret: Suppression of the
truth about Hitler's Final Solution. Boston: Little Brown, 1980.
=20
An authoritative treatment of what was known by perpetrators,
victims, and bystanders (including the Vatican and the Allies) and what was done with that knowledge. Laqueur's distinction between knowledge and information is pivotal to understanding inaction.
=20
* Lampe, David.The Danish resistance. New York: Ballantine,
1960.
=20
* Le Boucher, F. The incredible mission of Father Benoit.
Translation by J.F. Bernard. New York: Doubleday, 1969.
=20
* Lester, Elenore. Wallenberg: The man in the iron web.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984.
=20
* Leuner, H.D. When compassion was a crime: Germany's silent
heroes 1933-1945. London: Wolf, 1966.
=20
*** Lifton, Betty Jean.The king of the children: A biography
of Janusz Korczak. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988.
=20
an excellent source for both his life and the experience of
children in the doomed ghetto.
=20
=20
* Lowry, L. Number the stars. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989.
=20
* Macaulay, Jacqueline R. & Leonard Berkowitz (Eds.) Altruism
and helping behavior. New York: Academia Press, 1970.
=20
*** Marshall, R. In the sewers of Lvov. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1990.
=20
*** Marton, Kati. Wallenberg: Missing hero. New York: Random
House, 1982.
=20
* Melchior, Marcus. A rabbi remembers. New York: Lyle Stuart,
1968.
=20
* Meltzer, Milton.Rescue:The story of how Gentiles saved Jews
in the Holocaust. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
=20
A recounting drawn from historic source material of the many
individual acts of heroism performed by righteous gentiles who sought to thwart the extermination of the Jews during the Holocaust.
=20
* Muus, Flemming. The spark and the flame. London: Museum
Press, 1957.
=20
* Nogueres, Henri. Histoire de la Resistance en France. Paris:
Robert Laffont, 1967-1976.
=20
This month-by-month study of the Occupation is both
encyclopedic and microscopic.
=20
* Oliner, S. Restless memories. Berkeley: Judah L. Magnes
Museum, 1979.
=20
* Oliner, Samuel P. & Oliner, Pearl M. The altruistic
personality: rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe: what lead ordinary men and women to risk their lives on behalf of others? New York: The Free Press, 1988.
=20
A study of the social psychology of rescuers and their values.
=20
*** Orenstein, H. I shall live. New York: Beaufort Books,
1987.
=20
* Orlev, V. The man from the other side. Translation by H.
Halkin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
=20
* Paldiel, Mordecai. The path of the righteous: gentile
rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Hoboken NJ: KTAV, 1993
covers the conference on rescuers sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
* Rose, L. The tulips are red. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1978.
* Roth-Hano, R. Touch wood: A girlhood in occupied France. New York: Four Winds Press, 1988.
This book contains personal memories of Hans and Sophie Scholl of the German White Rose movement, from their sister, Inge Scholl; the text of the leaflets which they wrote and distributed, opposing the Nazis; and documents related to their trial and execution.
* Ten Boom, Corrie. The hiding place. New York: Bantam, 1974.
2
comprehensive and insightful, built on a strong foundation of earlier work and research: a work of passion and power.
This book is considered the definitive work on the rescue of the Jewish population of Denmark. Of all the countries of Nazi-occupied Europe, only Denmark rescued virtually all its Jewish population.
mmbt@andrew.cmu.edu (last updated March 9, 1995)=20
Gaston L. Schmir
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Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 11:39:53 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Susan Erony <erony@ai.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Holocaust education effects
>From: Richard Prystowsky < RJPrys@AOL.COM >
>
>Susan Erony writes:
>
>>>If we do not make art and
>poetry and educate as best we can after Auschwitz, then the
>barbarians will have truly won.<<
>
>Who are the barbarians? Put differently, who isn't a barbarian or
doesn't
>possess the capacity to be one? Are "we" really so different from
"them"?
The term "barbarians" may not have been the best choice for me to use. Not surprisingly of late, Adorno's ideas on poetry after Auschwitz, in all stages of their development, have been often discussed in art and Holocaust contexts. I think they are always somewhat in my mind; thus, so too are forms of the word "barbaric."
I think we all possess the capacity for barbarism, and certainly, the ranks of National Socialists included doctors of many disciplines, immensely talented artists, people of education and culture. As we know, physicians were instrumental in legitimizing race theory. Classical music was played at death camps. The film, "The Architecture of Doom" develops the idea of National Socialism as an aesthetic movement in a fascinating and provocative way. Civilization is obviously no guarantee against barbarism, to use the word again. I liked Pichard Prystowsky's words about "living mindfully"; doing so is a legitimate goal.
I also thought I was clear in my post that I think education about the Holocaust no guarantee of positive effect. I apologize if I was not. What I was trying to say was that I find the alternative of not educating about and addressing such subjects unacceptable. I know that I have many personal (and psychological) reasons for focusing on the Holocaust in my art. Like Lucia Rudenberg, I can not put it to rest, either. But, I imagine that as long as I hear survivors asking questions about "what do we do?" and "what difference will it make?", I will feel obliged to give those questions some time.
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 11:41:45 CDT
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From: Lior Zylberman <administ@zylber.recom.edu.ar>
Subject: About a library's rules
In-Reply-To: <199505081813.NAA32829@tigger.cc.uic.edu>; from Mott,
Jim at May 08, 95 09:10 AM
Not far away,I read the rules of a library in a ghetto. I lost the
information and I would like now to get it again,because it's can be
very interesant for my students to know about the life and the internal
cultural organization in the ghetto.
Somebody can help me? Many thanks...
---
Abraham Zylberman
administ@zylber.recom.edu.ar
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Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 11:43:48 CDT
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From: Franklin Littell <FHL@TEMPLEVM.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Holocaust Etymology: Comment
In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 12 May 1995 08:44:00 CDT from <jimmott@spss.com>
As to when "the Holocaust" came to be used as a specific reference to the Nazi genocide of the Jews: the forthcoming issue of HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES will carry my article "Inventing the Holocaust." Among other things I deal with the question, since I discovered in my Journal a reference to "the Holocaust" in August, 1949 (while I was with OMGUS). I can only conclude that American Jewish chaplains and workers in the DP camps were already using the word with that specificity. - FHL
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 11:45:33 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Stephen Feinstein <feins001@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Subject: Re: Holocaust Education Effects
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Just a quick reply. We may never be able to prevent Holocausts by
dictatorships through are teaching. But I believe we can probably do it
within a democratic framework. So, within that framework, one must
reflect on how humane relationships can be created, taught, perpetuated,
and made to withstand assaults whether they are frame fraternity
initiations or armed militas who maybe want genocide. The tension on the
other side is freedom of speech and other freedoms which might prevent
cracking down on groups that dislike the system and use its very freedoms
to destroy it. But we also cannot become Robespierres, using the
guillotine to expand human freedom. In the end, there will always be
psychological types who will talk to their victims before killing
them--ordinary people. The bigger problem is the failure of foreign
policy in a democracy, especially when the President fears that a soldier
receiving a hangnail in battle will lead to a referendum to recall the army.
If one seeks interventive policies to stop genocides, there has to be a
lot of rethinking about who services in the army or other parts of the
state apparatus.
Stephen Feinstein
On Sat, 6 May 1995, Jim Mott wrote:
> From: RJPrys@aol.com
>
> In his thought-provoking post, Stephen Feinstein writes, among other things:
>
> >>So what now? we have to focus of what Hilberg talks about in
> his book PERPETRATORS, VICTIMS AND ONLOOKERS and Brownings ORDINARY MEN,
> as well as Pearl and Sam Oliner's THE ALTRUISTIC PERSONALITY to figure
> out how we avoid the faceless, depersonalized type of carrying out of
> orders which occured in Nazi Germany when ordinary people became the
> killers and ethical/religious systems were stripped of their viability.<<
>
> I would like to highlight one part of this excerpt from Stephen's post: "to
> figure
> out how we avoid the faceless, depersonalized type of carrying out of
> orders which occured in Nazi Germany when ordinary people became the
> killers."
>
> In his excellent book on Reserve Police Battalion 101, Browning makes it
> quite clear that a number of the "actions" involved ordinary men coming face
> to face with their victims, walking them to the execution sites, talking with
> them during this journey to murder, and so on. Faceless? Hardly. Personal,
> direct contact with their victims? Quite clearly. Pulled the trigger
> anyway?
>
> Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
> School of Humanities and Languages
> Irvine Valley College
> 5500 Irvine Center Drive
> Irvine, CA 92720
> Phone: 714-559-3206
> Fax: 714-559-3270
> ============================================= 38
> From: SAC@aol.com
>
> One thing that we have found as a benefit of Holocaust education at our
> school, with 9th graders, is that it increases their capacity for moral
> thinking, partly by providing them with a moral vocabulary so that they can
> conceive of their relations with others differently. We have not necessarily
> found a corresponding change in behavior. One of our former students was
> tossed from his high school, in part, for being involved in some racist
> incidents.
>
> Steve Cohen
> ================================================
> From: ajacobs@interaccess.com (Alan Jacobs)
>
> Dear Dr. Sepinwall,
>
> You ask an interesting question. I see it in two ways: are you speaking
> about Jews, about me and my son... about the possibility of if it happening
> to us again? This is one side of the question. If you are speaking about
> Pol Pot or Stalin or Edi Amin, Bosnia, The Cultural Revolution, now Ruanda
> and how many more, then yes it has happened. That is, if one assumes that
> the need to kill masses of people is at the root of the problem. Fakenheim
> once asked why did they do it (speaking of the Nazis et al). Do we just
> ascribe it to evil, as if that finally were that? Or do we start looking
> for the root causes in mankind.
>
> And if we continue to define what happened to us as the only Holocaust, how
> do we relate to the other incidents of mass destruction? I think we need to
> demystify Holocaust, give it a small h: holocaust. It needs to be seen as a
> special form of genocide. Perhaps the failure of the Holocaust community
> (survivors, historians, policemen, poets, film makers, dramatists etc) to
> demystify is one of the reasons your survivor was needing to just be
> treated as a normal person. Perhaps its time to call it holocaust with a
> small h. You, know, as I write this, I'm afraid, afraid that some survivors
> will be offended, hurt and will call me a traitor, a revisionist... a goy.
> After all I wasn't there.
>
> Best,
>
> Alan Jacobs
> Independent scholar, writer, psychotherapist
>
>
>
>
> ajacobs@interaccess.com
>
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 12:03:59 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Gaston L Schmir <glschm@minerva.cis.yale.edu> Subject: Re: The Saint Louis
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In 1939, some 930 German Jewish refugees aboard the Hamburg-Amerika passenger liner Saint Louis headed for Cuba were denied entry there and eventually returned to Europe, where they were given asylum in England, France, Holland and Belgium. Most of those in the latter three countries later fell into the hands of the Germans. I am looking for information concerning the eventual fate of the Saint Louis passengers, i.e. how many survived the war. Anyone knowing of published or unpublished data on this subject is asked to let me know.
Gaston L. Schmir
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 21:05:39 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Steve Paulsson <gsp3@leicester.ac.uk> Subject: The War Against the Jews
While we're on the subject of Holocaust etymology: who can come up with the earliest use of the above phrase, which is often wrongly attributed to Lucy Dawidowicz? The earliest concrete reference I have is in the diary of Chaim Kaplan, sometime in 1942 (if memory serves). I believe that a pamphlet with the same title was published in London during the war, and I also have a hazy memory of encountering a pre-war usage. Can anyone provide anything more concrete?
Steve Paulsson tel. (44)116 252 2802 Associate Director fax (44)116 252 3986
Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH England E-mail gsp3@le.ac.uk
Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule. (Dickens, Great Expectations)
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 21:07:25 CDT
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Subject: [FWD] 'Kristallnacht' Legislation in NJ
SUBJECT: 'Kristallnacht' Legislation in New Jersey
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/* Written 11:10 PM May 12, 1995 by vrm3@pluto.njcc.com in
igc:soc.culture.jewish.holocaust */ /* ---------- "Kristallnacht Legislation Introduce" ---------- */
Here is the complete text of the New Jersey Kristallnacht Legislation that was introduced a few days ago:
SENATE, No 2015
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
Introduced May 11, 1995
By Senators BENNETT, INVERSO, Singer, Sinagra, Lynch,
Palaia, Scott, Matheussen, Gormley, LaRossa. Adler,
Cardinale, Kyrillos,Ciesla, Martin, and DiFrancesco
AN ACT designating the night of November 9-10 in each year
as Kristallnacht Memorial Night in New Jersey, amending
P.L.1991, c.193 and supplementing Title 36 of the Revised
Statutes.
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the
State of New Jersey:
1. (New section) The Legislature finds and declares:
a. On the night of November 9-10, 1938, organized gangs
of Nazi Gestapo agents instigated a horrible wave of wanton
destruction aimed at Jews, Jewish synagogues, homes and
shops in almost every town and city in Germany;
b. That night, Kristallnacht - "The Night of Broken
Glass," witnessed some of the most brutal acts of
intentional savagery ever committed by a sovereign
government against a religious minority;
c. This barbaric and unprecedented event was coordinated
and stimulated by the Gestapo, the dreaded secret police of
Adolph Hitler and his tyrannical Nazi government which ruled
Germany, for the express purpose of burning Jewish
synagogues, destroying Jewish property and arresting as many
Jews as possible;
d. The gruesome pogrom resulted in the burning of 119
synagogues, of which 76 were completely destroyed; the
destruction or looting of 7,500 Jewish shops and homes; and
the death of at least 36 Jews and the serious injury of at
least 36 more;
e. On that same night of horror, 20,000 Jews were
systematically rounded up "for their own protection" and
sent to the heinous concentration camps of Dachau,
Oranienburg-Sachenhausen and Buchenwald where their heads
were shaven and they were forced to wear coarse prison suits
stamped with the yellow Star of David and where death was a
frequent and brutal visitor;
f. To compound the senseless tribulations suffered by
Jews on Kristallnacht, the Nazis forced them to pay 25
million marks for the destruction of their own property and
levied an additional fine of one billion marks, supposedly
for their "crimes" against the state;
g. Kristallnacht for the first time confirmed to the
world the truly evil nature of the Nazis and the
totalitarian German government of Hitler, and it served as
a horrible and ominous omen of how that government was in
later years to coldly murder six million Jews and others
in a mindless attempt at the genocide of an entire religious
minority; and
h. It is imperative for the current generation of
Americans and residents of New Jersey to remember th
brutality of Kristallnacht and its importance as a portent
of the Holocaust which later destroyed six million Jews and
millions of others.
2. (New section) The night of November 9-10 in each year
is designated as Kristallnacht Memorial Night in New Jersey
in honor of the innocent victims of that Nazi outrage. On
the night of every November 9-10, the State Capitol Joint
Management Commission, established pursuant to P.L.1992,
c.67 (C.52:31-34 et seq.), shall ensure that each room and
office in each State building within the Capitol Complex
remains lit for the entire night as a remembrance of the
terrible events of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust, and as
a symbol of hope that humanity will finally unite to put an
end to genocide. The State Capitol Joint Management
Commission shall consult with the New Jersey Commission on
Holocaust Education, established pursuant to P.L.1991, c.193
(C.18A:4A-1 et seq.), on increasing public awareness of
Kristallnacht Memorial Night in New Jersey.
3. Section 3 of P.L.1991, c.193 (C.18A:4A-3) is amended
to read as follows:
3. The commission shall have the following
responsibilities and duties:
a. To provide, based upon the collective knowledge and
experience of its members, assistance and advice to the
public and private schools with respect to the
implementation of Holocaust education and awareness
programs;
b. To meet with county and local school officials and
other interested public and private organizations, including
service organizations, for the purpose of assisting with the
planning, coordination or modification of courses of study
dealing with the subject of the Holocaust;
c. To survey and catalog the extent and breadth of
Holocaust and genocide education presently being
incorporated into the curricula and taught in the school
systems of the State, to inventory those Holocaust
memorials, exhibits and resources which could be
incorporated in courses of study at various locations
throughout the State, and, upon request, to assist the State
Department of Education and other educational agencies in
the development and implementation of Holocaust and genocide
education programs. In furtherance of this responsibility,
the commission shall be authorized to contact and cooperate
with existing Holocaust and genocide public or private
nonprofit resource organizations and may act as a liaison
concerning Holocaust and genocide education to members of
the United States Senate and House of Representatives and
the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly;
d. To compile a roster of individual volunteers who are
willing to share their knowledge and experience in
classrooms, seminars and workshops on the subject of the
Holocaust. These volunteers may be survivors of the
Holocaust, liberators of concentration camps, scholars,
clergymen, community relations professionals and other
persons who, by virtue of their experience or interest,
have acquired personal or academic knowledge of the
Holocaust and who are willing to share that knowledge with
students and teachers;
e. To coordinate events memorializing the Holocaust and
to seek volunteers who are willing and able to participate
in commemorative events that will enhance student awareness
of the significance of the Holocaust; [and]
f. To prepare reports for the Governor and the
Legislature regarding its findings and recommendations to
facilitate the inclusion of Holocaust studies and special
programs memorializing the Holocaust in educational systems
in the State; and
g. To advise and assist the State Capitol Joint
Management Commission, established pursuant to P.L.1992,
c.67 (C.52:31-34 et seq.), for the purpose of increasing
public awareness of the annual observance of Kristallnacht
Memorial Night in New Jersey.
(cf: P.L.1991, c.193, s.3)
4. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill designates the night of November 9-10 in each
year as Kristallnacht Memorial Night in New Jersey in honor
of the innocent victims of that Nazi outrage. On the night
of every November 9-10, the State Capitol Joint Management
Commission shall ensure that each room and office in each
State building within the Capitol Complex remain lit for the
entire night as a remembrance of the terrible events of
Kristallnacht and the Holocaust, and as a symbol of hope
that humanity will finally unite to put an end to genocide.
The State Capitol Joint Management Commission shall consult
with the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education on
increasing public awareness of Kristallnacht Memorial Night
in New Jersey and the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust
Education shall advise and assist the State Capitol Joint
Management Commission for the purpose of increasing public
awareness of the annual observance of Kristallnacht Memorial
Night in New Jersey.
Designates the night of November 9-10 in each year a
Kristallnacht Memorial Night in New Jersey.
David Dickerson / / / ddickerson@igc.apc.org
"In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness." - Elie Wiesel
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 21:08:34 CDT
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Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET>
From: David Dickerson <ddickerson@igc.apc.org>
Subject: [FWD] Holocaust Symposium in England
SUBJECT: Goldner Holocaust Symposium in Wroxton, England
FORWARDED FROM: soc.culture.jewish.holocaust
/* Written 5:04 AM May 10, 1995 by lgrob@aol.com in
igc:soc.culture.jewish.holocaust */ /* ---------- "Holocaust Symposium in England" ---------- */
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The First in a Series of Biennial Symposia
THE ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY IN THE AGE OF
SHOAH
The Goldner Holocaust Symposium at Wroxton,
England
WHEN: June 7-10, 1996
WHERE: Wroxton College of Fairleigh Dickinson
University, Oxfordshire, England (80 miles
northwest of London, near Stratford)
WHAT: An international, interdisciplinary,
interfaith, and intergenerational
symposium on the Shoah
This symposium will feature a broadly-conceived praxis
orientation toward tikkun olam, the repair of the world. From a base in the study of the Shoah, participants will develop projects to address the questions: How are we to respond in word and deed to a radically transformed world, the post-Shoah world in which "business as usual" no longer applies? How are we to utilize our learnings from the Shoah in order to face, responsibly, the genocidal potentials inherent in our own world? The symposium will thus afford scholars the opportunity to applytheir research findings to concrete human situations in the present day.
Scholars will pursue projects which call for personal, pedagogical, and/or political action, as well as more traditional scholarly activity. For example, proceeding from a foundation in Shoah scholarship which calls for a renewal of ethical and spiritual concern in our everyday praxis, participants may wish:
a.) to reflect on the broad dimensions of conflict among nations and to formulate innovative responses to specific instances of such conflict. The Shoah prompts us to rethink the meaning of "national interest." How can a politics of the spirit address world conflict?
b.) to examine the new ethnic rivalries that promise to reconfigure the European continent. The Shoah alerts us to the dangers of an ethnic politics. What might constitute what some have termed a "covenantal politics" leading to authentic community? How might we envision a European community constructed on the basis of such a covenantal politics?
c.) to consider creative responses to pressing domestic issues. The Shoah teaches us the need to speak out in the face of injustice. How might personal accountability be added to mere technical accountability in such typically bureaucratic contexts as health care reform,housing initiatives, immigration policies, etc.?
d.) to explore issues surrounding teaching and learning in the contemporary classroom. Academics and others with advanced academic degrees played leading roles as perpetrators of the Shoah. How can our schools and, in particular, our universities be invested with fundamental concern for the dignity of the other person?
The number of attendees at this symposium will be limited to 35. There will be no formal presentations of papers. Attendees will meet in morning and afternoon "working groups," organized according to concerns manifest in their project submissions. Evening panels will summarize and expand upon the proceedings of the day.
The symposium is designed to stimulate ongoing and sustained collegial work.Participants in working groups commit themselves to communicate with one another after the close of the symposium; ideally, the same group of participants will reconvene at Wroxton in June 1998, and at two-year intervals thereafter, to extend and deepen their projects. Articles and/or books may result from the collegial efforts of working group members.
PROPOSALS
In your proposal, please describe the type of project or work you wish to pursue, including its conceptual rationale, substantive focus, and the projected path toward its realization. Explain how your proposed project will benefit from the type of symposium described in this announcement and how you anticipate contributing to the work of the symposium.
Criteria for acceptance include:
Please limit your proposal to 600-750 words, and add a biographical statement of no more than one page in length. The language for the symposium is English. The deadline for proposal submission is August 1, 1995 All proposals will be evaluated by Sept. 15,1995.
Please submit your proposal to each of the co-organizers:
Dr. Henry Knight
600 S. College
Tulsa, OK 74104-3189
Phone: (918) 631-2546
FAX: (918) 631-2066
E-mail: KNIGHTHF@CENTUM.UTULSA.EDU
Dr. Leonard Grob
Office of the University Core Program - T120F
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Teaneck, New Jersey 07666
Phone: (201) 692-2408
FAX: (201) 692-2729
E-mail: LGROB@AOL.COM
After a proposal is accepted, a $50 registration fee will ensure your place in the symposium. Registration fees are due within 30 days of receipt of the acceptance letter.
A generous donation from the Goldner family of Englewood, NJ, has provided for room and board at Wroxton, as well as travel between Heathrow Airport and the College. Attendees will be responsible for all other travel expenses.
Limited space is available for spouses or partners who wish to accompany symposium participants. A fee of $280 will be charge to cover room and board expenses of each guest. Guests may avail themselves of the opportunity for chartered bus travel to and from Heathrow Airport without charge.
FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE ORGANIZERS.
David Dickerson / / / ddickerson@igc.apc.org
"In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness." - Elie Wiesel
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 14:50:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Value of teaching
From: Aharon Meytahl < power@actcom.co.il >
Abraham Zylberman writing: "... el aprendizaje del drama y la tragedia que fue el Holocausto debe servir para luchar contra toda esta intolerancia, para que ella sea desterrada de los corazones de los hombres para siempre. Y nada mejor que empezar con las generaciones mas jovenes...," expresses a noble desire.
He and other participants in this thread imply that teaching the Holocaust with a concrete aim of helping the students to become better human beings is possible. For this to be true, there must be a valid and proven theory both of teaching and learning and of human individual and social action. I doubt very much if we have them. The greatest human minds, Moses, later prophets, Socrates as well as more practical educators like Matthew Arnold and host of others have attempted from the beginning of civilization to find a way to mold human nature into what each of them considered a desirable end, to no avail at least in the long run. Educating for moral values is not a sufficient means for moral conduct. Martin Heidegger and other German men of letters attended excellent liberal gymnasiums, which did not prevent them of being ardent supporters of Nazi doctrines. They even refused to renounce the Nazis after the war ended.
We teach the Holocaust because we study it. We do that simply because we have the will and determination of understanding of what exactly and how it happened. We do it because to some extent the Holocaust defines us, as Jews, as Poles, as Germans, as clergymen, as human beings, even as antisemites. We have the feeling, or some of us do, that the Holocaust is a milestone of human history in which whatever happens after the event is different from what took place before it. We do it because we think that memory is important, that forgetting would be collaboration with the perpetrators after the fact. And we do it because of plethora of other reasons some of which we are aware of and are not conscious of others. We teach what we think is important to study. This does not mean that by doing that we have to achieve an immediate practical result. If we teach it thoroughly, conscientiously, and if we adhere to the facts even if they are painful or unpleasant, if we avoid making rush judgments, certainly of the victims, but also of the bystanders and even the perpetrators, somehow, sometime, some of the students will learn something of value. If this happens we should be gratified.
Aharon Meytahl
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 17:00:58 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Dr Vera Ranki <verar@sulaw.law.su.OZ.AU> Subject: Nazi Criminal Code
I wonder if anybody can help me: I'm after the English translation of the Criminal Code in force in the Nazi Reich. In particular: the definition of `dangerousness' under the Code.
Thanks,
Dr Vera Ranki
University of Sydney
Faculty of Law
173 Phillip Street,
Sydney, NSW 2000,
AUSTRALIA.
Telephone: 61 2 225 9230 (direct)
61 2 232 5944 (switch)
61 2 221 5635 (fax)
E-Mai1: verar@sulaw.law.su.OZ.AU
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 17:02:23 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Dr Vera Ranki <verar@sulaw.law.su.OZ.AU> Subject: Nazi Criminal Code
----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I wonder if anybody can help me: I'm after the English translation of the Criminal Code in force in the Nazi Reich. In particular: the definition of `dangerousness' under the Code.
Thanks,
Dr Vera Ranki
University of Sydney
Faculty of Law
173 Phillip Street,
Sydney, NSW 2000,
AUSTRALIA.
Telephone: 61 2 225 9230 (direct)
61 2 232 5944 (switch)
61 2 221 5635 (fax)
E-Mai1: verar@sulaw.law.su.OZ.AU
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 17:02:51 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Charles Fishman, SUNY Farmingdale" <FISHMAN@SNYFARVA.BITNET> Organization: FROM SUNY FARMINGDALE, NY 11735 Subject: Count Bernadotte: Forwarded Message
>From Israel Line 05-15-95
*******Forwarded Message*******
ISRAEL PAYS TRIBUTE TO SWEDEN'S COUNT BERNADOTTE FOR SAVING JEWS DURING HOLOCAUST
Israel paid tribute Sunday to Sweden for its efforts in saving thousands of Jews during World War II, YEDIOT AHARONOT reported. In a ceremony at the Tel Aviv Museum entitled "Back to Life," special attention was paid to Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte for his efforts in saving thousands of Jews. After the war, Bernadotte was assassinated during a visit to Jerusalem. Speaking at the ceremony, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said he was deeply saddened by the assassination of Count Bernadotte and, on behalf of the Government, denounced the action. Sweden's Princess Christina, Bernadotte's sons, and Deputy Swedish Prime Minister Mona Sahlin attended the ceremony. The newspaper also reported that Sahlin cut short her visit after Israel insisted that she not meet with Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini at the Orient House in Jerusalem. KOL YISRAEL reported that Foreign Minister Peres said Israel opposed Sahlin's meeting with Husseini since the nature of her visit was ceremonial, not political.
SUNY, Farmingdale * * * "If the Sun & Moon should doubt, Farmingdale, NY 11735 * They'd immediately go out." --Blake ``````````````````````````````` '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 17:07:22 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Suzanna Hicks <hicks@webb.psych.ufl.edu> Subject: list of resources
Not sure if this will help anyone, or if you all already know each other but here's something I ran across recently. A list of Holocaust museums, memorials, libraries, etc... Not a complete list, in my mind, because E-MAIL and FAX #'s are missing. But here you go.
ALLENTOWN JEWISH ARCHIVES/HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER
702 North 22nd St.
Allentown, PA 18104
ANNE FRANK CENTER, USA
584 Broadway, Suite 408
New York, NY 10003
AUSCHWITZ STUDY FOUNDATION, INC.
P.O. Box 2232
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
BABI YAR MEMORIAL FUND
7, Nemanskaya Street
252103, Kiev 103, Ukraine
BEIT LOHAMEI HAGHETAOT
Kibbutz Lochamei-Haghetaot
D.N. Oshrat
25220 Israel
CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES BROOKDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
765 Newman Spring Rd.
Lincroft, NJ 07738
THE DALLAS MEMORIAL CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES
7900 Northaven Rd.
Dallas, TX 75230
DAYTON HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER
100 East Woodbury Dr.
Dayton, OH 45415
EL PASO HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTER
405 Wallenberg Dr.
El Paso, TX 79912
FORTUNOFF VIDEO ARCHIVE FOR HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES
Sterling Memorial Library
Room 331-C
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520
HOLOCAUST AWARENESS MUSEUM
Gratz College
Old York Road & Melrose Ave.
Melrose Park, PA 19126
HOLOCAUST CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE JEWISH FEDERATION
McCarthy School
70 Lake Street, Room 108
Peabody, MA 01960
THE HOLOCAUST CENTER OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
639 14th Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94118
HOLOCAUST EDUCATION AND MEMORIAL CENTRE OF TORONTO
4600 Bathurst St.
Willowdale, Ontario
CANADA M2R 3V2
HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER AND MEMORIAL MUSEUM OF HOUSTON
2425 Fountainview Dr., Suite 270
Houston, TX 77057
HOLOCAUST/GENOCIDE STUDIES CENTER
Plainview/Old Bethpage
John F. Kennedy High School
50 Kennedy Dr.
Plainview, NY 11803
HOLOCAUST LEARNING CENTER
David Posnack Jewish Center
5850 South Pine Island Rd.
Davie, FL 33328
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS
4255 West Main St.
Skokie, IL 60076
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL RESOURCE AND EDUCATION CENTER OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
851 North Maitland Ave.
Maitland, FL 32751
HOLCOAUST RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF MOSCOW
Bulatnikovsky pr. 14-4-77
Moscow 113403, Russia
HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER AND ARCHIVES QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
222-05 56th Ave.
Bayside, NY 11364
HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER OF KEAN COLLEGE
Thompson Library, Second Floor
Kean College
Union, NJ 07083
-Suzanna Hicks
Univ. of Florida
Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 17:08:02 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Suzanna Hicks <hicks@webb.psych.ufl.edu> Subject: resource list part 2
Continued... (didn't want anyone's machine to explode!)
HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER KEENE STATE COLLEGE
Mason Library
229 Main Street
Keene, NH 03431
HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER OF MINNEAPOLIS
8200 W. 33rd St.
Minneapolis, MN 55426
HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER
Bureau of Jewish Education
441 East Ave.
Rochester, NY 14607
HOLOCAUST STUDIES CENTER
THE BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
75 West 205th St.
Bronx, NY 10468
JEWISH HOLOCAUST MUSEUM AND RESEARCH CENTER VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
13 Selwyn St.
Elsternwick
Victoria 3185, Australia
LEO BAECK INSTITUTE
129 East 73rd St.
New York, NY 10021
A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST-MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE
342 Madison Ave., Suite 706
New York, NY 10173
MARTYRS MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM OF THE HOLOCAUST OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION
COUNCIL
6505 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF LIBRARY BALTIMORE HEBREW UNIVERSITY
5800 Park Heights Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21215
THE MONTREAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTRE
5151 Cote Street
Catherine Road
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3W 1M6
OREGON HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER
2900 SW Peaceful Lane
Portland, OR 97201
RHODE ISLAND HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
JCC of Rhode Island
401 Elmgrove Avenue
Providence, RI 02906
ROCKALND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES, INC.
17 South Madison Ave.
Spring Valley, NY 10977
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER
9760 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY HOLOCAUST STUDIES CENTER ALLIANCE FOR THE STUDY OF
THE HOLOCAUST
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
ST. LOUIS CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES
12 Millsonte Campus Dr.
St. Louis, MO 63146
TAMPA BAY HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER
5001 113th St. (Duhme Rd.)
St. Petersburg, FL 33708
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
(15th St. and Independence Ave.)
Washington, DC 20024
VANCOUVER HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND REMEMBRANCE
950 West 41st Ave.
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada V5Z 2N7
THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY HOLOCAUST ART COLLECTION
Vanderbilt University
402 Sarratt Student Center
Nashville, TN 37240
YAD VASHEM-THE HOLOCAUST MARTYRS' AND HEROES' REMEMBRANCE AUTHORITY
P.O. Box 3477
Jerusalem, Israel 91034
ZACHOR HOLOCAUST CENTER
1753 Peachtree Rd., NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
-Suzanna Hicks
Univ. of Florida
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 09:05:52 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Daniel Keren <dkeren@mathcs2.haifa.ac.il> Subject: Fate of SS-members from Auschwitz
I was wondering if anyone has a list of the SS-members from Auschwitz who were tried by the Poles in the "Cracow Trial" in 1947. I know they included Hoess, Grabner and Liebenschel, all of whom were executed. But who were the others, and what was their sentence? For instance, whatever became of Palitzch, and of Voss, who was in charge of Kremas IV and V?
Also, have some of the testimonies given by the SS-members in that trial been translated to English?
Many thanks,
-Danny Keren.
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 09:09:38 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Thelma Leal <tleal@SONPO.SONS1.utmb.edu> Subject: Query: Role of Nurses
I have reviewed the Women & Holocaust information, but I was wondering if anyone knows about any specific references or resources concerning the role of nurses who were in the concentration camps, prisoners as well as those helping the Nazi doctors. I am helping Dr. Darlene Martin, Director of our Center for Nursing Ethics, Law & Policy who is currently conducting research on nursing ethics during the Holocaust, and I have found several articles from European journals but unfortunately not in English. I have also accessed the Holocaust Memorial Museum's Archives but have found little information about the specific role of nurses during the Holocaust. I would appreciate any assistance or direction with this matter.
Thelma Leal
Research Assistant
University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing
Center for Nursing Ethics, Law & Policy
301 University Blvd.
Galveston, TX 77555-1029
E-Mail: TLEAL@beach.utmb.edu
FAX: (409) 772-5864
Telephone: (409) 772-8335
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 09:12:07 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: DPespn@aol.com Subject: can anybody give me a first or second hand account
I'm looking for somebody's first or second hand account of the occupation by the Germans. My intrigue is in the conditions and what it was really like as your homeland was taken over and changed. What this ment to the inhabitants and the conditions they now faced. If anyone could help me find or give me such an account or at least one anecdote i would greatly appreciate it as i will be basing an interrogative paper on what the effects of the Nazi regime were. Thanks to those who can help.
send any responces to dpespn@aol.com or respond if you would rather mail such an account.
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 12:43:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Query:Penzik;Antisemitism and Necrophilia
From: Saul Issroff < 100142.3356@COMPUSERVE.COM >
In 1944 an Abraham Penzik wrote a pamphlet in Polish,(published by himself
in New York) entitled ' Antysemici i Nekrofile , Uwagi o Kwestji Zydowskiej
w
Polsce'. ( Antisemitism and Necrophilia). Abraham Penzik's address was given
in 1944 as 362 Riverside Drive, Apt 10A New York 25.Does anyone know why
this was written, what the content related to and who was Abraham Penzik?
Did he have
any descendants?
Posted on behalf of Benny Penzik (fax +44 : 171 6241242) . E-mail replies
can
be sent to
Saul Issroff 100142.3356@Compuserve.com or Sauli@delphi.com
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 11:32:03 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Richard Ashley John Tidyman <rtidyman@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au> Subject: Address Query: Ephraim Zuroff
In-Reply-To: <199505162222.RAA55909@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
I was wondering whether anyone could provide me with the address (fax, email, etc) of Ephraim Zuroff at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel.
Thanks,
Richard Tidyman
Centre for Comparative Genocide Studies
Macquarie University
Sydney
Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 12:44:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: can anybody give me a first or second hand account
From: Charles Fishman <FISHMAN%SNYFARVA>
A first-hand account of conditions in Poland under the Occupation can be
found
in several books by Czeslaw Milosz. Look at _The Witness of Poetry_
(Harvard
University Press, 1983) and his Nobel Lecture (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1980).
Milosz is mainly concerned w/the impact on himself and on other poets and
intellectuals, but he certainly evokes the "feel" of those times.
--C.F.
~~
Charles Fishman * Fishman@snyfarva.cc.farmingdale.edu
Distinguished Service Professor * * * (516) 420-2031 (Voice)
Dir., Visiting Writers Program * * * (516) 420-2051 (Fax)
SUNY, Farmingdale * * * "If the Sun & Moon should doubt, Farmingdale, NY 11735 * They'd immediately go out." --Blake
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Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 10:16:53 CDT
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From: Gary S Weissman <weissman@csd.uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: Query: Role of Nurses
In-Reply-To: <199505171429.JAA45950@tigger.cc.uic.edu> from "Thelma Leal" at
May 17, 95 09:09:38 am
Dear Thelma Leal,
You may be interested in _In the Hell of Auschwitz_ by Judith Sternberg Newman (NY: Exposition Press, 1963, 1978).
The back cover of this book says that "Although she experienced incredible physical and mental sufferings, Miss Sternberg's life was spared because her nursing skills were useful to the Nazis."
Hope this is helpful.
Gary Weissman
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 10:17:28 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Myrna Goldenberg <myrnag@umd5.umd.edu> Subject: Re: Query: Role of Nurses
In-Reply-To: <199505171428.JAA45911@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
I am interested in learning what you learn. I have found virtually nothing about prisoner nurses and presume that that is becuase I've read mainly about the death camps where there was no real infirmary and thus no need for nurses. Also, all the memoirs I've read talk about prisoner doctors who ministered as best they could. Have you looked at the material on Nazi Doctors. You might find something in that field. Try Doctor Trial material. Please keep me posted too. Myrna Goldenberg myrnag@umd5.umd.edu
On Wed, 17 May 1995, Thelma Leal wrote:
>
> I have reviewed the Women & Holocaust information, but I was wondering if
> anyone knows about any specific references or resources concerning the role
> of nurses who were in the concentration camps, prisoners as well as those
> helping the Nazi doctors. I am helping Dr. Darlene Martin, Director of our
> Center for Nursing Ethics, Law & Policy who is currently conducting research
> on nursing ethics during the Holocaust, and I have found several articles
> from European journals but unfortunately not in English. I have also
> accessed the Holocaust Memorial Museum's Archives but have found little
> information about the specific role of nurses during the Holocaust.
> I would appreciate any assistance or direction with this matter.
>
> Thelma Leal
> Research Assistant
> University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing
> Center for Nursing Ethics, Law & Policy
> 301 University Blvd.
> Galveston, TX 77555-1029
> E-Mail: TLEAL@beach.utmb.edu
> FAX: (409) 772-5864
> Telephone: (409) 772-8335
>
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 10:18:16 CDT Reply-To: "William C. Daroff" <wcd@po.CWRU.Edu> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "William C. Daroff" <wcd@po.CWRU.Edu> Subject: Judaic sites in Europe
I believe that a few months ago someone posted a good book for touring Jewish historical landmarks in Europe.
Does anyone have the name of that book, or any other which is recommended? Thank you very much.
--
William C. Daroff
Case Western Reserve University
WCD@po.CWRU.Edu
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 10:18:57 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Alan Jacobs <ajacobs@interaccess.com> Subject: Re: Query: Role of Nurses
Dear Thelma,
You might try Przeglad Lekarski (the Journal of the Krakow Medical Society) Each year for about thirty years one issue was devoted to medical aspects of Oswiecim.
Editor
Przeglad Lekarski
ul. Kopernika 15
31-501 Krakow
Poland
Also I would try the Auschwitz Museum. They must have some information on this.
Best,
Alan Jacobs
Independent Researcher
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 10:21:03 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Charles Fishman, SUNY Farmingdale" <FISHMAN@SNYFARVA.BITNET> Organization: FROM SUNY FARMINGDALE, NY 11735 Subject: New Memoir of Interest
Colleagues,
Zdenka Novak's memoir, _When Heaven's Vault Cracked_, has just been published by Merlin Books (Braunton Devon, England), ISBN 0-86303-680-5. Zdenka Novak was born in Zagreb in 1919. After the German occupation, she escaped to Susak, where she joined the Partisans. In 1945, she returned to Zagreb to discover that her parents, sister, and husband had been killed by the Ustasha. Ms. Novak remarried, emigrated to Israel (1948), and received her Masters in English literature from Haifa University.
I met Zdenka in Haifa this past January. I believe you will find her story compelling.
--C. Fishman
Knapp Hall * * * "Those who are alive receive a mandate SUNY Farmingdale * from those who are silent forever." Farmingdale, NY 11735 --Czeslaw Milosz ``````````````````````````````` '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 11:51:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Rebellion of the heart
From: Alexander Soifer < asoifer@eleven.uccs.edu >
Dear Colleagues:
On 27 April my city held the Holocaust Memorial, with testimonies of survivors, reading, music and an exhibit of the Holocaust artifacts and photographs obtained from Israel and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles by Focus on the Family (reported on May 14, 1995 in "Gazette-Telegraph")...
Are you familiar with Focus on the Family and its founder Dr. James Dobson?
He is a riising star of Christian fundamentalism, promising to reach (or
surpass) the level of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. A few years ago
Dr. Dobson moved his 100+ million dollars radio broadcast empire from
Pasadena, California to Colorado Springs. He wants to see public school
quite Christian (and last November about 40% of school boards' candidates
were
in favor of teaching creationism instead of or in addition to evolution),
abortions outlawed, homosexuals all converted into non-sinners (and surely
kicked-out of the US army immediately and NEVER having any protection from
discrimination - the so called Amendment 2 to Colorado Constitution),
Colorado Springs not having a civil rights ordinance, and Republican
leadership
representing his views (or else be "thrown out of office").
Otherwise he is a sweet man...
Well, Dr. Dobson asked for - and received - Holocaust artifacts and photographs from Israel and the Simon Wiesenthal Center for our city's Holocaust Memorial. My mind says "fine, for a change he is doing good for the City. Isn't this what I would like him to do?"
But my heart is bleeding because Dr. Dobson is trying to turn the clock back and bring this country to theocracy, and homosexuals (for what they are, not even for what they do - sounds familiar?) - to genozid. And dear to my heart Simon Wiesenthal Center and Israel give Dr. Dobson credibility by supplying HIM (granted, for a noble cause) with symbols of the Last Holocaust...
My heart rebels against my mind. Have you experienced this before?
Yours faithfully,
Alexander Soifer
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Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 11:51:00 CDT
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From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com>
Subject: Search for bookstores
From: UUMY03A@prodigy.com (MS BRENDA M KATZ)
I am a publisher in Albuquerque, NM, and I am trying to acquire a list of various jewish bookstores and interest groups worldwide. If anyone has this information, could you please contact me at my E-mail address? Thanks for your help.
Brenda Katz
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 12:56:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Women and the Holocaust [x H-Women]
From: "Froma I. Zeitlin" <FIZ%PUCC@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU>
A remarkable recent book is Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, Strange and Unexpected Love (published by Ktav last year). I taught it in my class this past year and had her come as well. It's gotten a lot of attention. Also, Giuliana Tedeschi, There is a Place on Earth (memoir of Auschwitz by an Italian Jew, and very distinguished). There are also several collections of testimony: Women int he Holocaust: Jehoshua Eibeshutz and Anna EilenbergEibeschutz, eds. Women of Theresienstadt, Ruth Schertfeger. Several book collected, compiled, translated and edited by Lore Shelly: Secretaries of Death (about women in Auschwitz used as secretaries for the SS); Auschwitz-Nazi Civilization: 23 women prisoners' accounts. Also by LS: Criminal Experiments on Human Beings in Auschwitz and War Research Laboratories: 20 women prisoner accounts. Two superior works by Anna Langfus, semi autobiographical: The Lost Shore, The Whole Land Brimstone.
And there are many more. Froma I. Zeitlin
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 13:00:33 CDT Reply-To: silversa@bcvms.bc.edu Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Sam Silverman <SILVERSA@bcvms.bc.edu> Subject: Moabit prison
Can anyone refer me to sources of information on Moabit prison in Berlin and its activities, especially around 1942/ Sam Silverman, SILVERSA@BCVMS.BC.EDU
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 13:01:16 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Myrna Goodman <mlgoodman@ucdavis.edu> Subject: Re: Judaic sites in Europe
In-Reply-To: <199505191521.KAA62524@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
Dear William Daroff,
I have found "Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide to Central & Eastern
Europe," by Ruth Ellen Gruber a useful and comprehensive source. The
publisher is John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-54612-7.
Myrna Goodman
UC Davis
mlgoodman@ucdavis.edu
On Fri, 19 May 1995, William C. Daroff wrote:
> I believe that a few months ago someone posted a good book for
> touring Jewish historical landmarks in Europe.
>
> Does anyone have the name of that book, or any other which is
> recommended? Thank you very much.
>
> --
> William C. Daroff
> Case Western Reserve University
> WCD@po.CWRU.Edu
>
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 13:02:42 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Larry Laufman, Ed.D." <llaufman@bcm.tmc.edu> Subject: 1995-05-12 President Remarks at Babi Yar Kiew Ukraine [fwd]
The following was distributed on the UKRAINA list on Mon, 15 May 1995:
> THE WHITE HOUSE >
> Office of the Press Secretary > (Kiev, Ukraine) >____________________________________________________________________ >For Immediate Release May 12, 1995 > > REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT > HONORING THOSE WHO DIED AT BABI YAR > > Menorah Memorial > Kiev, Ukraine
>
>12:12 P.M. (L)
>
> THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Rabbi. To the people of
>Ukraine, and especially to the veterans of World War II and the
>children who are here.
>
> Here on the edge of this wooded ravine, we bear witness
>eternally to the consequences of evil. Here at Babi Yar, almost 54
>years ago, more than 30,000 men, women and children were slaughtered in
>the first three days alone. They died for no other reason than the
>blood that ran through their veins. We remember their sacrifice, and
>we vow never to forget.
>
> In late September 1941, the Nazi occupying army ordered
>the Jewish population of Kiev, together with their valuables and
>belongings. "We thought we were being sent on a journey," one survivor
>recalled. But instead they were being herded to the ravine, stripped
>and shot down. By year's end, more than 100,000 Jews, 10,000 Ukrainian
>Nationalists, Soviet prisoners of war and gypsies had been exterminated
>here.
>
> The writer, Anatoly Kuznietzov, was a child in Kiev during
>the war. He remembers the day the deportations began. "My grandfather
>stood in the middle of the courtyard straining to hear something. He
>raised his finger -- do you know what? -- he said with horror is his
>voice. They're not deporting them -- they're shooting them."
>
> Years later, Kuznietzov brought the poet, Yevgeny
>Yevtuschenko, to Babi Yar. And that night, Etuschenko wrote one of his
>most celebrated poems: "Over Babi Yar there are no memorials. The
>steep hillside, like a rough inscription. I am frightened. Today I am
>as old as the Jewish race. I seem to myself a Jew at this moment."
>These words speak to us across the generations -- a reminder of the
>past, a warning for the future.
>
> In the quiet of this place, the victims of Babi Yar cry
>out to us still. Never forget, they tell us, that humanity is capable
>of the worst, just as it is capable of the best.
>
> Never forget that the forces of darkness cannot be
>defeated with silence or indifference. Never forget that we are all
>Jews and gypsies and Slavs. Never forget.
>
> May God bless this holy place.
>
> END12:17 P.M. (L)
Larry Laufman, Ed.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza - ST 924
Houston, Texas 77030 USA
Email: llaufman@bcm.tmc.edu
Tel: (713) 798-5387 Fax: (713) 798-3990 ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 12:13:04 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Charles Fishman, SUNY Farmingdale" <FISHMAN@SNYFARVA.BITNET> Organization: FROM SUNY FARMINGDALE, NY 11735 Subject: Re: Search for bookstores
I would also be extremely interested in obtaining this information. Please post this info to the list or post it to me at the address given below.
--C.F.
Knapp Hall * * * "Those who are alive receive a mandate SUNY Farmingdale * from those who are silent forever." Farmingdale, NY 11735 --Czeslaw Milosz ``````````````````````````````` '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 12:17:56 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Jim Mott <U15607@UICVM.BITNET> Subject: Need Info on Resistance Group Emericana
From: aip@tmx.mhs.oz.au
I have recently come across an article published in Hungary concerning the activities of the anti-Nazi Hungarian resistance group Emericana, which I have since learnt claims to have saved 3000 Jews from the Arrow Cross and the Nazis. Does anyone have any information concerning this group, in particular its physical defence of "protected houses" ?
Jeremy Jones
aip@tms.mhs.oz.au
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Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 10:59:11 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Comments: A VAX cluster with VMS V5.5-2, PMDF V4.2-10 & MU V3.2 From: Robert Michael <RMICHAEL@umassd.edu> Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, USA Subject: Holocaust course on Internet
Dear Listmembers,
I will be teaching next fall a Holocaust course on the Internet. I
have bveen teaching at UMASS Dartmouth the History of the Holocaust
over the past 12 years, and so I am very experienced teaching the
material. I also have almost everything on disk. But, I am searching
for Internet sites, WWW sites, and so forth of material relevant to
the Holocaust.
Please send any information and suggestions to me at
Collegially,
Robert Michael
Professor/History Dept.
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 11:01:10 CDT
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From: "A kiss is just a kiss,
a sigh is just a sigh..." <SRM1198@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU>
Subject: Re: use of films in Holocasut classes
I have used films in my hebrew school class and I find that the facts and stories etc. go so far, but to see re-enactments, to see children their own age 'go through' the stuff I find to be incredibly effective. Of course, other things work as well, but to see the films is a whole other ball game and seems to make things much more relatable for them.
@}-'-,-- If music be the fruit of life,
Let us eat drink and be merry. --'-,-{@
Yerushalayim shel zahav, v'shel n'choshet v'shel or
Halo l'chol shirayich ani kinor
SRM1198@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu Rica Mendes, Oberlin College
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Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 11:02:37 CDT
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From: "A kiss is just a kiss,
a sigh is just a sigh..." <SRM1198@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU>
Subject: Anne Frank Remembered
While I was in London, I went to the St. Paul's display on Anne Frank (right before VE Day). It was sponsored byt eh Anne Frank Educational Trust. It was excellent! They were advertising a special, as well, that aired in the UK on VE Day taht gave an EXCELLENT background on her, her family, her friends and in so doing, gave an EXCELLENT background on Dutch Jewry in Amsterdam.
It will be aired here in the States in early June (June 7?) on the Disney channel. It is excellently done and I HIGHLY reccommend it - especially to those who are involved in undergraduate education - I plan on making a tape and using it with my hebrew school class.
@}-'-,-- If music be the fruit of life,
Let us eat drink and be merry. --'-,-{@
Yerushalayim shel zahav, v'shel n'choshet v'shel or
Halo l'chol shirayich ani kinor
SRM1198@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu Rica Mendes, Oberlin College
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Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 11:03:49 CDT
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From: Lucia Ruedenberg <lucia@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
Subject: Jewish resources on the net
X-cc: Dov Winer <viener@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
Regarding requests for info on Jewish resources on the net: I wrote an article that appeared in the Spring 1994 issue of _Shofar_ that outlined the basic sources for things Jewish on the net (much of it is now out of date, addresses old, etc. but the basic picture is still valid).
There are several nodes, but a good place to start is with the JewishNet. which just moved to a new url on the web, and their list is a place for announcing new sources and requesting sources. the web site lists all Jewish discussion lists and provides links to all the major other Jewish nodes. see the announcement below. the address for subbing to the list is at the bottom.
lucia
@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Shalom,
I am very pleased to announce that the new URL for the
JewishNet - Global Jewish Information Network is
====================
URL - http://jewishnet.net
====================
This homepage is presently organized around the main Jewish
services in the network:
WWW servers, Gophers, FTP archives, Libraries, Usenet News and
Mailing Lists.
The new server is still being developed with new "specific
content areas" being planned for the near future.
Among other new features, information concerning more
than 300 mailing lists of Israeli and Jewish interest, is now
available. The lists have been categorized by content areas.
You will be able to subscribe to the list of your interest from
the page wich describes it.
If you know of any Jewish interest resource wich has not been
included please let me know so as to establish the necessary
link.
I thank you very much for your interest,
Best regards,
Dov Winer
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Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 11:22:36 CDT
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From: Jim Mott <U15607@UICVM.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Can anyone give me a first or second hand account?
From: "Robert T. Moore" <RTMOORE@PCAD-ML.ACTX.EDU>
Hello, Sir!
You might try the following accounts:
German Rule in Russia by Alexander Dallin
Russia at War by Alexander Werth
Paris During the Occupation by Alfred Price
Hope this helps.
Terry
Please indicate to what purpose you intend to use the material? Are you a
student, researcher, etc?
Yori Yanover
Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 11:39:56 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Gabriela Klaber <msklab@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> Subject: Re: Search for bookstores
In-Reply-To: <199505191652.LAA62254@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
Dear Ms. Katz,
We here at the Melton Center at the Hebrew University have a well stocked research center pertaining to Jewish education. Why don't you visit our home page http://www2.huji.ac.il/www melton/top.html , you might find something of interest. You could also try the Jewishnet homepage at http://Jewishnet.net/.
I hope this informatiomn was helpful.
Gabi Klaber Morgenstern
Senior Librarian
On Fri, 19 May 1995, Mott, Jim wrote:
> From: UUMY03A@prodigy.com (MS BRENDA M KATZ)
>
> I am a publisher in Albuquerque, NM, and I am trying to
> acquire a list of various jewish bookstores and interest
> groups worldwide. If anyone has this information, could you
> please contact me at my E-mail address? Thanks for your
> help.
>
> Brenda Katz
>
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 09:54:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Holocaust Course Teaching Materials
From: John Holsberry <hmf222@aol.com>
I would like to share with you info about a source that I use in my American History classes that is very adaptable to secondary and post-secondary groups. It is entitled, THE HOLOCAUST: Can It Happen To Me? The course was developed for the Florida Department of Education by the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center, Inc. 3000 N.E. 145th Street Miami, FL 33181-3600. Telephone 305/940-5690; Fax: 305/940-5691. The Project Director was Rositta E. Kenigsberg.
The 3-ring binder has 10 lessons, which I think are thorough and can be expanded. Student handouts, teacher and student suggested readings, and audio-visual materials are listed. There is also a listing of resource centers in about all of the states ,and in some cases, regional.
I am sharing this information with you in case you have inquiries as to educational materials. Too, I was not quite sure about posting this on the discussion group. Feel free to do so.
John Holsberry
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 16:40:53 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Mark Lindsay <lindsaym@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> Subject: Journal subscription
Hello fellow-list members!
Given that my current research concerns the Holocaust, primarily ecclesiatical resistance to it, I suspect that the "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" journal would be most helpful to me. Unfortunately, the library here at UWA doesn't subscribe to it, and it's a pain getting inter-library loans all the time. Could someone please tell me who I need to contact to subscribe to the journal myself?
Many thanks,
Mark lindsay.
Mark Lindsay (lindsaym@uniwa.uwa.edu.au)
Ph.D student, History Dept.
University of Western Australia.
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 16:41:44 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: DRJOANE@aol.com Subject: Re: JEWISH BOOKSTORES
AFIKOMEN-JEWISH BOOKS & ART
3042 Clarement Avenue
Oakland, CA
(510) 655-1977
BOB & BOB'S
151 Forest Avenue
Palo Alto, CA
(415) 329-9050HOLOCAU
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 16:50:04 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: David Dickerson <ddickerson@igc.apc.org> Subject: Anne Frank WWW Site Closed
Greetings!
Those of you with World Wide Web access may recall that an Anne Frank Web page was announced in the HOLOCAUS list last fall:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/tdnguyen/Anne_Frank.html
For the first time in a few weeks, I tried to access this Web page this weekend and received the following notice:
> Anne Frank homepage is not accessible
>
> Due to copyright issues, and at the request of the
> copyright owners, we have been asked to remove the Anne
> Frank pages from our server.
>
> Sorry, but we don't know of another site that duplicates
> the information which used to be accessible here. If you
> know of an official Anne Frank homepage, please pass the
> information along to us.
>
> Thank you.
>
> webmaster@cs.washington.edu
I wanted to pass along this information to the members of HOLOCAUS who may have made a note of the URL for this site.
Cordially,
David Dickerson
David Dickerson / / / ddickerson@igc.apc.org
"In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness." - Elie Wiesel
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 16:52:26 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: David Dickerson <ddickerson@igc.apc.org> Subject: Simon Wiesenthal on Prodigy (May 24)
Greetings!
For the information of HOLOCAUS subscribers who have accounts with the commercial on-line service, Prodigy (or know someone who does), I just wanted to mention that Simon Wiesenthal is scheduled to be the live guest on Prodigy's "Chat" service this Wednesday, May 24, at 5:00 PM EST. I believe he is to be in the "Common Interests" area, perhaps in the "Auditorium."
I am sorry I can't provide more definitive information, but I don't personally have a Prodigy account. If anyone can provide more details, I'd be very grateful.
In closing, I'd like to mention that Holocaust deniers with Prodigy accounts plan to "attend" Mr. Wiesenthal's talk and ask questions. I assume, however, that this type of forum on Prodigy is moderated, although I, of course, don't know what the policy will be on the types of questions allowed.
Cordially,
David Dickerson
David Dickerson / / / ddickerson@igc.apc.org
"In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness." - Elie Wiesel
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 10:14:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: H-Net Guide to WWW info & sites May 23, 1995
H-Net Guide to WWW info & sites May 23, 1995
[H-Net would like to keep this Guide updated. Please send your suggestions to H-Net@uicvm.uic.edu]
WWW INFO. WWW = World Wide Web = addresses on the Internet with graphics & text.
behind the times.
their own web browsers. You can use them from your home machine (service costs about $15/month, with no additional phone charges.)
from the base prompt type LYNX.
Arrow keys: Up and Down to move.
Right to follow a link; Left to go back. O)ther cmds H)elp G)oto P)rint M)ain screen Search: / o)ptions Q)uit to email yourself a document: P for print
WWW sites of interest to humanists:
the most useful site, covering nearly all the WWW. updated daily (over 30,000 sites)
guide to history sources. You select the item you want, click, and connect direct to it. Use LYNX or WWW
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/WWW_history_main.htm
excellent guide to worldwide history sources (based at U Kansas)
* 1492 Exhibition*
* AAS: American Antiquarian Society (US)
* ABAA: The Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America
(Catalogue Seaches by Speciality (US)
* ABZU: The Ancient Near East (US)
* Academe This Week
* African-American Mosaic (US)
* African Art Graphics Files* (US)
etc etc
3. http://www.culture.fr
The French Ministry of Culture WWW homepage offers a
remarkable starting point for anyone wishing to learn about
France or Cyberspace in general, with an ambitious plan for
future expansion and an already - extraordinary collection
of online images.
4. HTTP://www.usask.ca = U Saskatchewan
5. Assoc Asian Studies: http://www.easc.indiana.edu/~aas 6. Houghton Mifflin publishers: http://www.hmco.com 7. http://www.virginia.edu/ U of Virginia 8. other Recommended Internet Destinations for Historians
The following sample internet destinations were recommended by
various H-Net list members. (H-Teach 4/8/95)
WEB SITES:
1. Association for History and Computing, Groningen, the
Netherlands: http://grid.let.rug.nl/ahc/
2. Cardiff's Movie Database:
http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Movies/moviequery.html
3. Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.merit.edu 4. Demography statistics: http://opr.princeton.edu (link to data
archive through European Fertility Project) 5. Global Network Navigator (commercial, but useful):
http://gnn.com/gnn/gnn.html
6. Higher Ed Web Pages List (over 1000 university web page
locations): http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html 7. IHR-Info (Institute for Historical Research), London:
ihr.sas.ac.uk:8080/ihr/ihr0101.html 8. International Affairs Resources:
http://www.pit.edu/~ian/ianres.html 9. Mississippi State -- historic documents, esp Latin America:
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/index.html 10. Ohio State History Home Page:
http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/humanities/history/histdep.html 11. United Nations Development Databases: http://www.undp.org 12. World History Standards Debate:
http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/world_history/archives/stndrds.html
13. H-Net web page? --not yet folks
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 21:48:16 CDT
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From: George M Kren <kreng@ksu.ksu.edu>
Subject: Re: Journal subscription
X-cc: Multiple recipients of list HOLOCAUS
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Journal dept, Oxford University press 1-800=445-9714
On Mon, 22 May 1995, Mark Lindsay wrote:
> Hello fellow-list members!
>
> Given that my current research concerns the Holocaust, primarily
> ecclesiatical resistance to it, I suspect that the "Holocaust and Genocide
> Studies" journal would be most helpful to me. Unfortunately, the library
> here at UWA doesn't subscribe to it, and it's a pain getting inter-library
> loans all the time. Could someone please tell me who I need to contact to
> subscribe to the journal myself?
>
> Many thanks,
> Mark lindsay.
>
> Mark Lindsay (lindsaym@uniwa.uwa.edu.au)
> Ph.D student, History Dept.
> University of Western Australia.
>
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 21:51:32 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Richard Kool <rkool@cln.etc.bc.ca> Subject: Re: Holocaust course on Internet
While Robert asked for personal communication around his request, I thought that this information might be of interest to others.
Ken McVay has a huge amount of material on a site now accessible via the web. Try him out at URL http://199.60.231.65. His materials involve very large and significant FAQ's, particular files relating to documetns and transcribed texts, and data on individual Nazis and fascists.
BTW, for those of you that know Ken and his work, you may be interested to know that he has just been awarded the Order of British Columbia- the highest civilian honor that the Province of British Columbia can bestow on an individual. As well, his work in the creation of the Nizkor Project is being recognized by a wide range of groups across Canada and the United States.
Richard Kool
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 21:52:55 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: william david cain <cain@unm.edu> Subject: Rudolf Vrba and Rudolph Kastner
I am presently reading Rudolf Vrba's survivor account _Escape from Auschwitz_ (Grove Press, 1964. ISBN 0-394-62133-6).
Vrba was one of the inmate registrars at Auschwitz. His job there was to record for the Germans information on the incoming prisoners, those who were not sent directly to the gas chambers. In April of 1944 he escaped from the death camp, made his way to Czechoslovakia, and on April 25th testified at the Zilina headquarters of the Jewish council. Present were Oscar Newmann, Oscar Kransnansky, Erwin Steiner, and a Mr. Hexner. From the book:
"For hours I dictated my testimony. I gave them detailed
statistics of the deaths. I described every step of the
awful confidence trick by which 1,760,000 in my time in
the camp alone had been lured to the gas chambers. I
explained the machinery of the extermination factory
and its commercial side, the vast profits that were
reaped from the robbery of gold, jewellery, money, clothes,
artificial limbs, spectacles. . ."
[p.319 in the paperback]
His point in all this was to warn the Hungarian Jewish leaders not to passively allow the deportation of one million Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, the deportation that was to begin in May.
Vrba's testimony was verified and then accepted by the Cz. Jewish community leaders, who then quickly passed it along to the leaders of the Hungarian Jewish community.
Does anyone on H-HOLOCAUS know if the report written from Vrba's testimony was preserved? It would be interesting to read a transcript of this document. Also, concerning the Hungarian Jewish leader who received Vrba's report, Dr. Rudolph Kastner, Vrba believes that Kastner cut a deal with Eichmann in Hungary. Kastner would suppress the truth about what "resettlement" really meant, and Eichmann, in turn, would allow Kastner and 1,684 others chosen by Kastner to emigrate to Palestine. Dr. Kastner was later killed outside his home in Tel Aviv in March of 1957. Does anyone know of possible sources of information on Dr. Kastner and the trial in Israel in which he was involved? Also, especially to any readers of H-HOLOCAUS who may have been in Israel in 1957, was the Kastner killing widely reported in the Israeli press? Was it widely discussed by the Israeli public? Was his killer ever identified?
Thanks for all help on these subjects.
Bill Cain
cain@unm.edu
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 21:54:22 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: David Dickerson <ddickerson@igc.apc.org> Subject: UseNet Access via E-Mail
Greetings!
Many months ago, a fellow subscriber of HOLOCAUS asked me if there was a way he could access the UseNet news group <alt.revisionism> via e-mail. (As most of you know, the <alt.revisionism> group is frequented by Holocaust deniers, whose antisemitic lies are countered by folks such as Ken McVay.)
This weekend I was investigating various e-mail distribution lists and I came across the list, REVISIONISM, which is for the UseNet conference, <alt.revisionism>.
If you cannot access UseNet via your academic institution or commercial service provider (which is the best method, since you can be selective about which messages you receive), you can access the <alt.revisionism> group via e-mail.
To subscribe to the REVISIONISM list, send the following single-line e-mail message:
subscribe revisionism <Your Full Name>
to the following address:
Incidentally, you can also subscribe to the UseNet news group <soc.culture.jewish.holocaust>, via Warren Burstein's SHOAH list, by sending the following command:
subscribe shoah <Your Full Name>
to the same address (listproc@shamash.nysernet.org).
Major commercial on-line services, such as CompuServe and American Online, offer UseNet access to their subscribers. Many colleges and universities, and computer bulletin board systems, also offer UseNet ("News") access. Before subscribing to a UseNet conference via e-mail, you should check with the administrator or support staff of your particular system to see if you have UseNet access. This method offers greater flexibility than e-mail redistribution and will also keep your incoming e-mail from being inundated by messages -- an important consideration, particularly if you pay a commercial service for incoming e-mail messages.
I hope this information is useful. Please let me know if you need clarification or have any questions.
Cordially,
David Dickerson
David Dickerson / / / ddickerson@igc.apc.org
"In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness." - Elie Wiesel
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 22:02:12 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Avigail Abarbanel <enercomp@ozemail.com.au> Subject: Early refernces to the word "Holocaust"
I am currently writing an Honours thesis which deals with the way the mainstream Australian press reported the Kristallnacht. As I was going through old newspapers I came across two references to the word Holocaust. The references are from 1939 prior to the commencement of the War therefore they do not relate to the Shoah. I do, however, think it is quite interesting to know how the term was used in the English language before it came to describe the Jewish genocide.
The first reference is taken from the Sydney Morning Herald 4 January, 1939. On page 12 I found a story about the Christmas road toll. The headline reads: "The Holiday Holocaust". The second comes from the Sydney Daily Telegraph 4 August 1939 page 6. Readers who were born on 4 Aug 1914 the day WWI started were invited to write letters to the paper and share their thoughts. John F Thornhill writes the following: "I see nations mobilised as for war and feel a nervous tension more acute than any since the holocaust of 1914-1918".
Cheers,
Avigail Abarbanel
Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 22:03:31 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Avigail Abarbanel <enercomp@ozemail.com.au> Subject: Journal subscription
To subscribe to "Holocasut and Genocide Studies" you need to write to:
Journals Department
Oxford University Press
2001 Evans Road
CARY, NC 27513
USA
Fax: 919-677-1714
The current "special" price for overseas subscription is US$39 (regular price US$49) for a 1 year subscription - 3 issues.
One reference that might be of interest to you is:
Phayer, Michael, "The Catholic Resistance Circle in Berlin and German Catholic Bishops During the Holocaust" in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1993 Vol 7 No2, pp 216-229
I have a copy which I can post to you if you e-mail me your address. Macquarie University is an active subscriber and their call number for this journal is: D810.J4.H6428. The phone number of the "Current Serials" section in the library is : 02-850 7517
All the best, Avigail
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 11:20:21 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Daniel Keren <dkeren@mathcs2.haifa.ac.il> Subject: Re: Rudolf Vrba and Rudolph Kastner
# Also, especially to any
# readers of H-HOLOCAUS who may have been in Israel in 1957, was the
# Kastner killing widely reported in the Israeli press? Was it widely
# discussed by the Israeli public? Was his killer ever identified?
The Kastner case became famous before he was murdered, due to the libel suit he took against a Holocaust survivor who accused him [Kastner] of cooperating with the Nazis by hiding the truth about Auschwitz from the Hungarian Jews.
Kastner's killer was captured shortly after the assassination. He's still alive (he spent a few years in jail). Recently, he was interviewed on Israeli TV, after a three-chapter docu-drama on Kastner was aired. I forgot his name though. He doesn't regret what he did.
Kastner's granddaughter, by the way, is a well-known media figure in Israel (hosting TV shows, etc).
The Kastner affair did draw a great deal of attention, and it still does today. There does not seem to be a consensus on him; some regard him as a saint, some as Satan.
-Danny Keren.
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 11:22:12 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Mark Lindsay <lindsaym@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> Subject: Journal subscription
Hello all!
I'd just like to thank everyone who has so quickly replied to my query
re: "Holocaust & Genocide Studies". You've all been most helpful, and I
appreciate it very much.
Cheers.
Mark Lindsay,
Mark Lindsay (lindsaym@uniwa.uwa.edu.au)
Ph.D student, History Dept.
University of Western Australia.
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 11:24:02 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Ben S. Austin" <baustin@frank.mtsu.edu> Subject: Contemporary Holocaust Poetry
Friends,
My wife and I recently read Milton Meltzer's fine book, Never To Forget. Laura was moved by the accounts of the slaughter of children and wrote the following poem. Does anyone know of other contemporary Holocaust poetry?
Ben Austin
And the child held her hand
A child tiny for almost eight,
Deep blue eyes that dominated his face,
When he explained new events to her,
that funny doggy,
that pretty rock,
And the freckles on his cheek,
Noone saw a sunrise more perfect,
to her,
She so vividly smells the fragrence of
his hair,
his ears,
his breath in the morning
She vividly hears that little heartbeat,
that was hers
always hers,
and the laughter,
that raspy little laugh,
when he caught her in a conundrum.
All this,
But this is merely the surface,
As she watches her little God sheared,
and stripped,
For the gas chamber.
Laura Forgette Austin
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 11:26:03 CDT Reply-To: s.m.bromberger@sheffield.ac.uk Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Simon Bromberger <S.M.Bromberger@sheffield.ac.uk> Organization: University Of Sheffield Subject: New WWW pages
This to notify any interested individuals that I have set a Web page
of links for the following resources:
activism, ethnic studies, anti-fascist and related subjects.
The pages will be a bit bare until the completion of my current round of exam oriented torture. However there is already a large list of sites to browse. Any constructive sugggestions will be most appreciated, particularly regarding ommissons, or comments on any of the selected sites.
The address is as follows, and can be accessed via Lynx,Cello,Mosaic, Netscape etc...
URL: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/union/susoc/cass/homes/hi/hi923139/simon.html
Simon Bromberger
University of Sheffield
E-Mail: S.M.Bromberger@shef.ac.uk
URL: URL:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/union/susoc/cass/homes/hi/hi923139/simon.html
S-Mail: Politics Dept
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
United Kingdom
S10
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 17:11:25 CDT
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From: "Charles Fishman, SUNY Farmingdale" <FISHMAN@SNYFARVA.BITNET>
Organization: FROM SUNY FARMINGDALE, NY 11735
Subject: Re: Contemporary Holocaust Poetry
I, too, like Meltzer's book. Re Holocaust poetry, there is a great deal
available right now. Here are a few anthologies:
Florsheim, Stewart. Ghosts of the Holocaust (Wayne State Univ. Press, 1989). Fishman, Charles. Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (Texas
Tech Univ. Press, 1991).
Schiff, Hilda. Holocaust Poetry (St. Martin's Press, 1995).
Striar, Marguerite. Rage before Pardon: Poets Bearing Witness to the Holocaust
(forthcoming, Paragon House).
Much else is available, and I am preparing an extensive bibliography, which I will post here, though it is in-progress, should there be sufficient interest.
I am currently looking for poems on the Shoah by poets from South Africa, the Baltic countries, Morocco, Scandinavia, and Asia. A number of Australian colleagues have been very helpful regarding work that has been done in their country, and I would welcome information, and recommendations, pertinent to poets and poetry of the nations and regions indicated above.
--Cordially,
Charles Fishman
Knapp Hall * * * "Those who are alive receive a mandate SUNY Farmingdale * from those who are silent forever." Farmingdale, NY 11735 --Czeslaw Milosz ``````````````````````````````` '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ========================================================================= Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 17:29:30 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: "Guillaume de Syon,IndScholarofHst" <GP_DESYON@ACAD.FANDM.EDU> Organization: Franklin and Marshall College Subject: query on Saloniki jewry
Besides the base sources such as those by Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, are there any others that might provide information on the history, number, status in 1941 of the Jewish community in Saloniki? How accessible might the Greek archives be?
Guillaume de Syon
History Dept.
Albright College, PA
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:46:40 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Bruce Schneider <Benzion1@aol.com> Subject: ostrava
I am seeking sources of information on members of Jewish community in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, just prior to German invasion
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:50:55 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Jim Mott <U15607@UICVM.BITNET> Subject: Re: Contemporary Holocaust Poetry
From: Simon Wiesenthal Center Library/Archives <simonwie@CLASS.ORG>
An anthology came across my desk this week that I think is worth noting. Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness. Edited and with an Introduction by Carolyn Forche'. New York : W.W. Norton, 1993.
The anthology contains not only Holocaust poetry (Sachs, Kolmar, Radnoti, Levi, Orten, Celan, Borowski, Pagis, Brueck and Klepfisz) but also poetry from the Armenian Genocide, World War I, the Soviet Union, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Eastern and Central Europe, Dictatorships in the Mediterranean, the Indo-Pakistani Wars, the Middle East, Latin America, the Civil Rights movement in the US, Korea and Vietnam, South Africa and China. All in all, over 700 pages of poetry.
Paul H. Hamburg
Reference Librarian
Simon Wiesenthal Center Library
9760 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
TEL: 310-553-9036, ext. 292
FAX: 310-277-5558
simonwie@class.org
Ben Austin recently asked about contemporary Holocaust poetry. The obvious authority here is fellow listserver Charles M. Fishman at SUNY Farmingdale. Charles probably is compiling a voluminous list of references already, so I won't duplicate his efforts.
Roy Schwartzman
University of South Carolina
docroy@aol.com
I have written some poems on the holocaust. I will mail them to you.
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 09:25:57 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Jim Mott <U15607@UICVM.BITNET> Subject: Re: Query on Saloniki Jewry
From: "Guillaume de Syon,IndScholarofHst" <GP_DESYON@ACAD.FANDM.EDU> > Subject: query on Saloniki jewry
> Besides the base sources such as those by Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, are
> there any others that might provide information on the history, number, status
> in 1941 of the Jewish community in Saloniki? How accessible might the Greek
> archives be?
>
> Guillaume de Syon
> History Dept.
> Albright College, PA
The Jewish Community in Salonica published a book entitled 'Memorial' regarding Nazi atrocities against Jews in Salonica during the Holocaust. I don't have the exact reference at hand, but you might right: Communaute Israelite de Thessalonique, 24 Rue Tsimiski, B.P. 10098, Thessaloniki, Greece; or you might also try the Jewish Museum of Greece, 26 Queen Amalias Avenue, 10558 Athens, Greece.
Stanford J. Shaw sshaw@ucla.edu Professor of Turkish and Judeo-Turkish History University of California Los Angeles, CA, 90024
You might want to look at Michael Molho, "In Memoriam: Hommage aux Victimes Juives des Nazis en Grece", Second Edition, Salonika: Communaute Israelite de Thessalonique, 1973. 469 p.
Gaston L. Schmir
Two sources in Greece might be Nikos Stavroulakis, Director of the Jewish Museum in Athens (address is 36 Amalias Avenue), and the Centre for Historicazl Studies of Salonika Jews (housed in the synagogue, Yad le Zikaron, 24 Vassileos Irakliou St., Salonika). this information is in the Jewish Chronicle Jewish Travel Guide for 1993, which has some additional information.
Denise Gluck
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives
There is a Yizkor (Memorial) book available from the Saloniki
community. It is written primarily in Ladino, as I remember it.
It was edited by David Recanati, and published in Tel Aviv in
the Jewish year 5732. The title is "Zikhron Saloniki: Grandeza
i Destruyicion de Yeruchalayim del Balkan." A library with a
good collection of Yizkor books, such as the New York Public
Library or that of Brandeis University (where I saw it) should
have it. You can probably get it through interlibrary loan.
There also is, or at least was in 1991, a Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek
Studies, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Oriental Studies,
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, England. You could try
writing to them.
Sam Silverman, SILVERSA@BCVMS.BC.EDU
Write: Yitzchak Kerem, Historian on Sephardic and Greek Jewry in the Holocaust, POB 10642, Jerusalem 91102, Israel, mskerem@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Eric Epstein, PSU-Harrisburg
You may want to investigate some of the Sephardic Jewish organizations for source material. One such oranization is Sephardic House, based in New York. You may also want to call the Spanish & Portugese Synagogue in NYC. I believe that one of the rabbis wrote a book on the Saloniki Community.
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 09:30:20 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Rochelle Genia Saidel Plonski <rgsaidel@cat.cce.usp.br> Subject: Refugees in Portugal
I am seeking information about Jewish women who found refuge in Portugal
during the Holocaust, and then immigrated to other countries--e.g., US,
Israel, or Latin America-especially Brazil. If anyone has sources of
documentation, names of books, or names of women available for
interviewing, please let me know. I need the information for a
project I am working on at the Center for the Study of Women and Gender
at the University of Sao Paulo. Thank you.
Rochelle G. Saidel
rgsaidel@cat.cce.usp.br
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 09:37:07 CDT
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Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
From: Franklin Littell <FHL@TEMPLEVM.BITNET>
Subject: Re: list of resources
In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 16 May 1995 17:07:22 CDT from
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Dear Colleagues: The list of Holocaust Education Centers published with good intent by Hicks@Webb.psych.ufl.edu is VERY incomplete. For starters, it omits the two oldest in the country: the one Jaffa Eliach started in Brooklyn in 1975 and the one we started six weeks later in Philadelphia: the Philadelphia Center on the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights. It also omits the oldest physical plant of a Holocaust Museum in the country, which is in Detroit.
There are over 70 centers in the country now. Get the Directory edited Dr. Wm. L. Shulman, Queensborough Community College, Bayside NY 11364- 1497. FHL
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 17:21:16 CDT
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From: "Charles Fishman,
SUNY Farmingdale" <FISHMAN@SNYFARVA.CC.FARMINGDALE.EDU>
Organization: FROM SUNY FARMINGDALE, NY 11735
Subject: Re: Contemporary Holocaust Poetry
Paul,
I own a copy of Forche''s _Against Forgetting_. Most of the Holocaust poetry included there is there because Carolyn asked me what to include . . . BTW, she's currently editing a *prose* companion volume to _Against Forgetting_.
Thanks for writing.
--Charles
Knapp Hall * * * "Those who are alive receive a mandate SUNY Farmingdale * from those who are silent forever." Farmingdale, NY 11735 --Czeslaw Milosz ``````````````````````````````` '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ========================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 17:21:51 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: "Irving P. Leif" <0004519212@mcimail.com> Subject: Re: Contemporary Holocaust Poetry
THe best book of Holocaust poetry is really a prose poem in book form. It is called "Holocaust" and is by Charles Reznikoff. The book was published by The Black Sparrow Press.
Reznikoff is one of this century's great Jewish writers and poets.
Holocaust is well worth reading (it is based on a reading of the Nuremburg transcripts by Reznikoff) as is all the work of this writer.
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 17:22:58 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: John Conway <jconway@unixg.ubc.ca> Subject: Re: Rudolf Vrba and Rudolph Kastner
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Dr Vrba is, I am glad to say, very well and can be reached c/o Dept of Pharmacology, Medical Sciences Building, University of British Columbia, VAncouver B.C. V6T 1Z3,
He will certainly be able to tell you about the present state of the documentation. The best available transcript is in the latest edition of his book entitled _44070_, which also has a concluding essay by myself, putting the report in its context. A German text of the Vrba-Wetzler report appeared in _Zeitgeschichte_ August/Sept 1981.
For the Kastner debate see, R.A.Braham, -The Politics of Genocide_ Vol 2.
The original publication of the Vrba-Wetzler report in English took place in November 1944, and was issued in Washington by the War Refugee Board. As such it is extensively referred to in the literature, but the full text is seldom given. For example, only one page found its way into the Nuremberg Trial records.
Hope this helps.
John S.Conway
jconway@unixg.ubc.ca
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 18:30:21 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: "William M. Thomas" <wmthomas@strauss.udel.edu> Subject: QUERY: Nazis & archaeology
Yesterday, Iwas helping proctor a final exam for an anthropology professor I know & he asked me about Nazis & archaeology. All jokes about _Indiana Jones_ flicks aside, are there any scholarly treatments on this subject?
Will Thomas
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William M. Thomas
wmthomas@strauss.udel.edu
Dept of History, U of Delaware
The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of
the use of camera and pen alike.
--Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 18:34:17 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Maid Marian <marion.grau@student.uni-tuebingen.de> Subject: Information on the History of Jews and DPs in South West Germany
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I am writing a paper on the History of Churches and Jews/DPs in the Stuttgart area predominantly after the HOlocaust, about Entnazifizierung, Dp camps, the churches's reaction to the Holocaust, the relationship of churches to the Jewish community, the development of the Israelittic Religious community as it is now in Stuttgart. If anybody has any information on any of these topics, books, articles, or even knows persons who lived in Stuttgart, were DPs there, lived there after 45, or similar, I would be very grateful. I am a student at the University of Tuebingen, Dep. of Prot. Theology and the paper is for a seminar in church history after 1945.
Marion Grau, University of Tuebingen, Germany
There has been a number of new books on Holocaustrelated topics in Germany recently. If anybody is interested I will be happy to give tips.
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 18:36:04 CDT
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From: "Charles Fishman,
SUNY Farmingdale" <FISHMAN@SNYFARVA.CC.FARMINGDALE.EDU>
Organization: FROM SUNY FARMINGDALE, NY 11735
Subject: Re: Contemporary Holocaust Poetry
I agree w/Irving Leif when he states that Charles Reznikoff is "one of this century's great Jewish writers and poets," but I have a similar reaction to his designating Reznikoff's _Holocaust_ as "the best book of Holocaust poetry . . ." as I do when certain professors claim that the greatest Holocaust poem is Paul Celan's "Todesfuge" ("Death Fugue"): absolutes don't speak to the truth. Reznikoff was a fine editor (Jewish Frontier) and just happened to publish my own first poem on the Shoah, "A Morning at Dachau," written in Munich in 1966. _Holocaust_ was a breakthrough volume not only because Reznikoff made use of the War Crimes Trial records but also because he showed that an entire book of poetry could be devoted to the Holocaust by a writer who was neither a European nor a KZ survivor. Sections of _Holocaust_ will appear in _On Broken Branches: World Poets on the Holocaust_ (no projected publication date at this time).
Reznikoff's complete poems are available in two volumes from Black Sparrow Press, ed. Seamus Cooney: Vol. I, 1918-1936; Vol. II, 1937-1975.
--C. Fishman
Knapp Hall * * * "Those who are alive receive a mandate SUNY Farmingdale * from those who are silent forever." Farmingdale, NY 11735 --Czeslaw Milosz ``````````````````````````````` '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' ========================================================================= Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 18:38:14 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Richard Kool <rkool@cln.etc.bc.ca> Subject: Re: query on Saloniki jewry
In 1987, I went with some musicians touring in Macedonia. Our base of operations was in the port city of Kavalla, east of Thessaloniki. I had read that there had been thousands of Jews in this city prior to the war, and that very very few had returned home from the camps. One day, I set out to look for the Jewish community, and found little. The old shul was marked with a mogen david, but was un-used. I went to the municipal museum, and asked the people there if there were any artifacts left from the Jewish community. They told me quite emphatically that no, there was nothing left. WHen I walked into the museum proper, the first thing I saw was a large sabbath plate with a mogen david on it- more Jewish artifacts were also on display.
Later on the tour, we had a day off from our performance because of the religious festival of the Assumption of the Virgin (this was in mid-August). I asked our interpreter, a wonderful and kind young woman studying law and philosophy at the University of Thessaloniki, to tell me more about this holiday. She began to explain this Greek Orthodox holiday to me, and then paused. "Are you Catholic?" she asked. "No" I said. "Are you Protestant then?" she continued. "Nope". "Well then, what are you?" "I'm Jewish." She immediately took about five steps backwards and looked really shocked. "Jews and Greeks don't get along very well" she said. "The Jews used to let the Turks into the cities to murder Greeks."
I was shocked, and tried to play down the event. I was not prepared to experience this level of anti-semitism in Greece, especially in a young woman I liked who had herself likely never been knowingly close to a Jew before.
There are few Jews in Thessaloniki- if this was the kind of reactions that Greeks had towards their Jewish neighbors, I can now understand why.
Richard Kool
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Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 16:04:05 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: yitzchak kerem <mskerem@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> Subject: Re: query on Saloniki jewry
Cavalla had almost 2,000 Jews before the Bul;garians deported them to Treblinka
where they were gassed immediately. Many Jewish landmarks in Cavalla.
Some appear in my past travel guide on Jews of Greece. Salonikan Jewry was
one of most vibrant Sephardic communities in world. Greek history usually
ignores their presence, but htey were a majority/plurality for some 450 years.
The HJews and Greeks got along well relatively in MAcedonia until 1922
when soem 100,000 anti-Semitic Asia Minor refugees were brought to Salonika and
changed the nature of the city and region. Until then Salonika had a Jewish
majority. The Greek-Ortohodox then went on an anti-Semitic crusade in the 1920s
and 1930s. The Greek accusation was typical of rumors that the Greeks would
spread aginst the Jews historically. The Jews were traditionally devoted to the
sovereign, and enjoyed Ottoman rule and resetned Greek rule. The Greeks
had a long history of blood libels, and violence against the Jews. In the
Greek-Turkish conflict, the Jews received the brunt of the Greek-Orthodox wrath
since they usually sided with the Turks and often fought with them. When the
Jews
of the Greek Peninsula sided with the Turks during the Greek Revolution, some 9
Jewish comunities in the Peleponnese and Attica regions were decimated by the
Greeks Greeks.
Yitzchak Kerem
Jerusalem
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 16:05:16 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: yitzchak kerem <mskerem@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> Subject: Re: query on Saloniki jewry
There exists a lot of latent anti-Semitism in greece and particularly
connected to Greek-Ortohodox stigmas gainst Judaism. However, one should
not jump to conclusions. The Greek peopel made a concerted effort to save
the Jews of the south of Greece in 1943-1944. Some 10,000 were saved.
Most of theJews in the north were deported. The reasons are numerous...
Greece also played a very important role in illegal immigration to
Palestine from 1934-1947. During WWII Greek shippers played altruistic roles
in sending boats full of Jews to Palestine from Rumania.
Yitzchak Kerem
Jerusalem
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 16:07:04 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Eric Epstein <eepstein@igc.apc.org> Subject: Re: Rudolf Vrba and Rudolph Kastner
Yechaim Weitz recently wrote on "The Herut Movement and the Kasztner Trial" in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Winter 1994.)
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 16:08:48 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Alan Jacobs <ajacobs@interaccess.com> Subject: Re: Rudolf Vrba and Rudolph Kastner
Iremember some time ago reading a book by Ben Hecht entitled "Ther Black Book (I think). There has been a lot of pro and con about the book. I think it is out of print for many years. But it does discuss the Kastner business as well as the trade of trucks etc. for Jews (to be sent to Palestine), Eichman tried to make with the allies, through the Jewish Committe head in Budapest in 1944, Joel Brand. Hecht claimed that the Jewish Committee spoke with Brand in Turkey (he was flown there by the special arrangement of Eichman), decided not to accept the offer, or were instructed not to, as the British did not want to deal with the Arab response to a quarter of a million Hungarian jews, coming to Palestine. They were, of course, being pressured by the Arab interests and were protecting their oil and other colonial interests there.
Alan Jacobs
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 16:12:16 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Stanford Shaw <sshaw@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: query on Saloniki jewry
There is a very long history of Greek anti-Semitism, worse than any other religious or ethnic group. The 'blood libel' accusation against Jews was invented by the Greek Orthodox church in ancient times. Jews were severely persecuted when the East Roman (Byzantine) empire became Greek. Under Ottoman Turkish rule, Salonica (Thessaloniki) accepted so many thousands of Jewish refugees from Spain and other parts of western Europe that it remained the only city in the world with a Jewish majority. This came to an end starting in the late 19th century when Greeks began to migrate out of the Kingdom of Greece northwards into Ottoman Salonica, where they immediately began to persecute the Jews. This accellerated when Greece conquered Salonica in the first Balkan war (1912). Jews leaving Salonica immigrated either to the Ottoman capital Istanbul or to Izmir (Smyrna), which developed a large Jewish population for the first time since its Jewish community had been largely wiped out by the Byzantine Greek empire. Jews did remain in Salonica as a minority until the Nazi occupation, when they were largely wiped out, as they were throughout Nazi occupied Greece. Greece was the only European country where the natives did absolutely nothing to help the Jews. Within the Ottoman Empire Greeks regularly mounted blood libel attacks against Ottoman Jews, who were protected by the Ottoman government. See Stanford J. Shaw, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic (NYU Press, 1991), and Turkey and the Holocaust (NYU Press, 1992).
At 06:38 PM 5/27/95 CDT, you wrote:
>In 1987, I went with some musicians touring in Macedonia. Our base of
>operations was in the port city of Kavalla, east of Thessaloniki. I had
>read that there had been thousands of Jews in this city prior to the war,
>and that very very few had returned home from the camps. One day, I set
>out to look for the Jewish community, and found little. The old shul was
>marked with a mogen david, but was un-used. I went to the municipal
>museum, and asked the people there if there were any artifacts left from
>the Jewish community. They told me quite emphatically that no, there was
>nothing left. WHen I walked into the museum proper, the first thing I saw
>was a large sabbath plate with a mogen david on it- more Jewish artifacts
>were also on display.
>
>Later on the tour, we had a day off from our performance because of the
>religious festival of the Assumption of the Virgin (this was in
>mid-August). I asked our interpreter, a wonderful and kind young woman
>studying law and philosophy at the University of Thessaloniki, to tell me
>more about this holiday. She began to explain this Greek Orthodox holiday
>to me, and then paused. "Are you Catholic?" she asked. "No" I said. "Are
>you Protestant then?" she continued. "Nope". "Well then, what are you?"
>"I'm Jewish." She immediately took about five steps backwards and looked
>really shocked. "Jews and Greeks don't get along very well" she said.
>"The Jews used to let the Turks into the cities to murder Greeks."
>
>I was shocked, and tried to play down the event. I was not prepared to
>experience this level of anti-semitism in Greece, especially in a young
>woman I liked who had herself likely never been knowingly close to a Jew
>before.
>
>There are few Jews in Thessaloniki- if this was the kind of reactions that
>Greeks had towards their Jewish neighbors, I can now understand why.
>
>Richard Kool
>
>
Stanford J. Shaw sshaw@ucla.edu
Professor of Turkish and Judeo-Turkish History
University of California Los Angeles, CA, 90024
Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 16:17:19 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Andrew Quinn <asq@computek.net> Subject: thesis topic
In his book, THE AFTERMATH: LIVING WITH THE HOLOCAUST, Hass writes: Finally, because of their unique background, many children of Holocaust survivors feel a poinnant sense of responsibility to those who were murdered. They must ensure the continuity of the Jewish people (p. 133). I am interested as a possible thesis topic to look at this sense of responsibility which I will call internalized guilt, and to see whether thses survivors, their children, and their grandchildren took this guilt and either became extremely religious or they rejected their Jewish roots as a result of a) experience in the camps, b) second generation so effected by their parents that they either rejected or accepted the ideas of Judaism, and c) the third generation having an obligation to their grandparents by becoming religious.
As you can see this thesis idea is extremely rough, I am almost positive this is a relitively unexplored area (Psyc Lit turned up maybe two articles and Social Work Abstract, none). But if anyone out there can give me some more leads it will be appreciated. My internet address and my email address through school follow. Either is a sufficant way to reach me.
Finally, are there any CD-ROM titles that are exclusively for the Holocaust?
Andrew Quinn
asq@computek.net
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:05:21 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: "Ben S. Austin" <baustin@frank.mtsu.edu> Subject: Re: QUERY: Nazis & archaeology
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950526110713.23279A-100000@strauss.udel.edu>
On Sat, 27 May 1995, William M. Thomas wrote:
> Yesterday, Iwas helping proctor a final exam for an anthropology
> professor I know & he asked me about Nazis & archaeology. All jokes
> about _Indiana Jones_ flicks aside, are there any scholarly treatments on
> this subject?
>
> Will Thomas
> \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////
>
Will,
You might check an article entitled "Germany's Nazi Past: The Past as Propaganda" by Bettina Arnold, Archaeology magazine, July/August 1992.
Arnold claims that the goal of SS archaeologists was to create an image of Germany's past that would instill racial and national pride. This was one of Himmler's big projects -- the SS had quite a few "archaeologists" on staff. Archaeological evidence that did not conform to Nazi dogma was ignored or suppressed.
"...the legacy of the Faustian bargain struck by German archaeologists with the Nazi regime should serve as a cautionary tale beyond the borders of a unified Germany: Archaeological research funded wholly or in part by the state is vulnerable to state manipulation...."
Ben Austin
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:06:36 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Stephen Feinstein <feins001@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Subject: Re: QUERY: Nazis & archaeology
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950526110713.23279A-100000@strauss.udel.edu>
There was an article in a journal last year about Nazi manipulation of anthropology and archeology to prove various Nazi theories.I cannot give you a citation at the moment, but such scholarship does exist. Stephen Feinstein
On Sat, 27 May 1995, William M. Thomas wrote:
> Yesterday, Iwas helping proctor a final exam for an anthropology
> professor I know & he asked me about Nazis & archaeology. All jokes
> about _Indiana Jones_ flicks aside, are there any scholarly treatments on
> this subject?
>
> Will Thomas
> \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////
> William M. Thomas
> wmthomas@strauss.udel.edu
> Dept of History, U of Delaware
>
> The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of > the use of camera and pen alike. > --Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
> ___________________________________________________________________________ >
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:08:34 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: "BILL THE CAT-- L. HUBER - SAA" <whuber@sadis01.kelly.af.mil> Subject: Nazi Archaeology
> >From: "William M. Thomas" <wmthomas@strauss.udel.edu>
> Subject: QUERY: Nazis & archaeology
>
> Yesterday, Iwas helping proctor a final exam for an anthropology
> professor I know & he asked me about Nazis & archaeology. All jokes
> about _Indiana Jones_ flicks aside, are there any scholarly treatments on
> this subject?
>
> Will Thomas
Hi Will,
While visiting Mauthausen in 1992, I noticed a display in the museum that covered an archaeological project ordered by Himmler at that cite using prisoners to do the excavation work. Himmler got the idea that he could find archaeological evidence to support the Aryan superman idea. I am not aware of any published report on his "findings". They had photos of the excavations and some of the artifacts recovered. Mostly bits of undecorated pottery as I recall.
Cheers, Bill Huber / whuber@sadis01.kelly.af.mil
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:13:26 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: David Knoll <tristram@NetVision.net.il> Subject: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
I am looking for information about the attempts of Angelo Roncalli to help and
to save
Jews during the holocaust and his attempts to help release the Jewish children
in the
monesteries.
Angelo Roncalli (b. Nov. 25, 1881, d. June 3, 1963) was apostolic delegate
to Turkey and Greece from 1935 to 1944. He was also nuncio to France (1944-53)
He was elected pope in 1958 and served as pope until his death in 1963. He is
also
known as John XXIII.
David Knoll
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:17:51 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: yitzchak kerem <mskerem@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il> Subject: Re: Query on Saloniki Jewry
I invite any of you interested in additional info on Greek Jewry to contact
me. ican refer you to my publications and others. You can also subscribe to my
monthly e-mail
monthly e-mail publication on Sephardic Jewry. On July 16, I will give a lecture
at Cambridge on future directions for Greek Jewish Holocaust research at the fi
first international confernece on Greek Jewry.
Yitzchak kerem
mskerem@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:22:07 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Howard Gershen <howard@boxhill.com> Subject: Re: query on Saloniki jewry
> From: Richard Kool <rkool@cln.etc.bc.ca>
>
> Later on the tour, we had a day off from our performance because of the
> religious festival of the Assumption of the Virgin (this was in
> mid-August). I asked our interpreter, a wonderful and kind young woman
> studying law and philosophy at the University of Thessaloniki, to tell me
> more about this holiday. She began to explain this Greek Orthodox holiday
> to me, and then paused. "Are you Catholic?" she asked. "No" I said. "Are
> you Protestant then?" she continued. "Nope". "Well then, what are you?"
> "I'm Jewish." She immediately took about five steps backwards and looked
> really shocked. "Jews and Greeks don't get along very well" she said.
> "The Jews used to let the Turks into the cities to murder Greeks."
I seem to recall that on a recent visit to Greece, the Jewish Museum in Athens had an exhibit about the history of the Jews in Greece. That exhibit, I believe, mentioned that the Jews supported the Turkish rulers of Greece before the Greeks achieved their independence. It was a case of the Jewish community working with the leadership of the country in an attempt to better conditions for the oppressed Jewish community. Since the Jews (by implication, if not by act) were supporting the Turks before and during the War of Independence (which, I'm sure, was not viewed by the Jews as a sure thing, so they could back the Greeks only to discover they were on the losing side and have even more problems than when they started), it is easy to see how this history could be distorted over the decades and become a basis for modern Greek attitudes toward the Jews. Any Christian/Jewish tensions would further aggravate the situation.
Howard Gershen
howard@boxhill.com
Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:23:48 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: David_G._Klevan_at_USHMM@INETGATE.ushmm.org Subject: salonika jewry
Last summer the Ghetto Fighters House (Lochamei HaGhettaot) in Israel
had an exhibit on Salonika Jewry before and during the Holocaust. I
am not sure what kind of resources they may have outside of the
exhibit, but they're definitely worth contacting.
Their address is:
Mobile Post Asherat 25220
Phone: 04-920412, 04-925542
Tel Aviv Office:
102 Arlozoroff Street
Tel Aviv 62097
Phone: 03-228696
Sincerely,
David Klevan
dklevan@ushmm.org
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Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 15:26:19 CDT
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From: Amcha <amcha@jer1.co.il>
Subject: Re: Refugees in Portugal
Dear Rochelle,
At this point I can offer one woman, and one book. The woman is my mother
who found refuge in Lisbon, among other places. The book is "The Animals
are in Cages" published in 1945 by a man named Hoffmeister, I believe. I
will try to find the exact reference. My mother lives in Jerusalem, after
arriving in the US for a short stopover on the way to then Palestine. The
"short stopover" lasted only 30 years... If you have questions I can put
to her, let me know.
John Lemberger>
> I am seeking information about Jewish women who found refuge in Portugal
> during the Holocaust, and then immigrated to other countries--e.g., US,
> Israel, or Latin America-especially Brazil. If anyone has sources of
> documentation, names of books, or names of women available for
> interviewing, please let me know. I need the information for a
> project I am working on at the Center for the Study of Women and Gender
> at the University of Sao Paulo. Thank you.
> Rochelle G. Saidel
> rgsaidel@cat.cce.usp.br
>
>
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Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 17:10:44 CDT
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From: Paul Lawrence Rose <PLR2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Contemporary Holocaust Poetry
In-Reply-To: FISHMAN AT SNYFARVA.CC.FARMINGDALE.EDU -- Sat, 27 May 1995
18:36:04 CDT
May I recommend an astonishing poem by the late Abba Kovner which is the only one I know that combines the sense of loss with hope in such a moving way. The poem is The Ballad of the Seven,and a trs. from the Hebrew by Sam Bloch appears in Midstream, January, 1992, p. 48. (Kovner was a Jewish partisan leader from Vilna). P L Rose
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 17:12:27 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Maid Marian <marion.grau@student.uni-tuebingen.de> Subject: Book Review No. 1
In-Reply-To: <199505291815.SAA17108@david.jer1.co.il>
It seems that a number of people are interested in some book reviews and I have been asked to comment them for those who don't read German.
Not all of these books are brand new but they are good and interesting. There is an large number of children's books and fiction/biographies on the topic of the Holocaust, however I will mostly cover non-fiction.
Koenigseder, Angelika and Wetzel, Juliane:
Lebensmut im Wartesaal: Die juedischen DPs im Nachkriegsdeutschland
(Courage to life in the Waiting Room: THe Jewish DPs in Germany
after the War.)
Frankfurt 1994
This volume covers the "largely unknown" History of some
140,000 European Jews, who lived in Dp camps. the books wants to revise the impression that there wasn't any Jewish life in Germany after 45. It deals among other with the HArrison-report on the situation on refugee camps and what followed the report, the Jewsih mass exodus from Eastern Europe, American-Jewish Help, Help to selfhelp, The Central Comitee of Liberated Jews, it deals with two camps in extenso, Foehrenwald and Belsen.
Denzler, Georg/Fabricius, Volker
Christen und Nationalsozialisten
Christians and Nazis
Frnakfurt, reedited 1993.
This book deals with the relationship between the chuches
and the Nazis from the Weimarer Republik to the third Reich and after the liberation and the "confessions of guilt". I deals with both catholic and protestant churches, there are sections on euthanasia and the Jewish genocide. It includes also a lot of original documents fromthe time.
Haase, Norbert and Paul, Gerhard
Die anderen Soldaten
The other soldiers
Frankfurt, 1995
This one is brand new and deals with those of the
Wehrmacht soldiers who did desert, escape, run over to the allies and went on fighting for them, sabotage and so on. First section deals with how these soldiers were punished when caught, the second section deals with the deserters themselves and the third with the reception of deserters and the change of public opinion. (which means that the ideological defamation of deserters gave way to positive recognition, more or less)
So much for now,
Marion Grau, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 17:13:12 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: David Dickerson <ddickerson@igc.apc.org> Subject: Re: List of Resources
I would like to thank Dr. Suzanna Hicks <hicks@webb.psych.ufl.edu> and Dr. Franklin Littell <FHL%TEMPLEVM@UICVM.UIC.EDU> for the information about Holocaust-related organizations.
Members of the HOLOCAUS list might also be interested in knowing that you can access an on-line directory of the organizations which are members of the Association of Holocaust Organizations:
The Association of Holocaust Organizations was established in 1985. Its purpose is to serve as a network of organizations and individuals for the advancement of Holocaust programming, awareness, education and research.
This directory is available via the World Wide Web site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (http://www.ushmm.org/); the specific URL for the directory is a follows:
http://www.ushmm.org/organizations/list.html
(I would recommend, however, that you take the time to browse the rest of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's very impressive Web site, in addition to taking advantage of this useful directory.)
Here is a sample entry from the directory, for the Holocaust Resource Center and Archives at Queensborough Community College; you will note that Dr. Littell indicated that a directory of Holocaust organizations is available from Dr. William L. Shulman, the Center's director:
HOLOCAUST RESOURCE CENTER AND ARCHIVES QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
ADDRESS: DIRECTOR/PERSON-IN-CHARGE
56th Avenue & Springfield Blvd. Dr. William L. Shulman, Dir.
Bayside, NY 11364 Claire Hertzberg, Assoc. Dir.
Ronnee Berger, Assist. Dir.
Staff: Salaried 2
Phone: (718) 225 - 1617 Volunteer 15
Fax: (718) 631-6306
DAYS AND HOURS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC:
Monday 8:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday through Thursday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
(one Sunday per month 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.)
(open July and August by appointement)
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1983
TYPE OF ORGANIZATION: Resource Center
LIBRARY: 5,000 volumes catalogued, 375 videotapes catalogued, periodicals
ARCHIVE: 235 audiotapes catalogued, artifacts, microfilm and microfiche collection (includes doctoral dissertations, The New York Times, The London Times and The Jewish Chronicle)
PUBLICATIONS: quarterly newsletter, educational guides, bibliographies, videography, exhibit catalogues
SERVICES: Lecture series, photographic and documentary exhibits (in-house and travelling), art exhibits, speakers' bureau, program consultation, student and teacher conferences, oral history interviews, group programs, curriculum development, tracing counselling, video loan program.
Please let me know if you need additional information or if you have any questions. I will be happy to assist in any way I am able.
Cordially,
David Dickerson
David Dickerson / / / ddickerson@igc.apc.org
"In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness." - Elie Wiesel
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 17:17:18 CDT
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From: "Shafer,
Ingrid. Univ. of Sci/arts of OK" <FACSHAFERI@MERCUR.USAO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
Comments: cc: dialogue@vm.temple.edu
On 30 May 1995 15:13:26 CDT, David Knoll <tristram@NetVision.net. il> asked "I am looking for information about the attempts of Angelo Roncalli to help and to save Jews during the holocaust and his attempts to help release the Jewish children in the monasteries."
The following relates only in part to the question, but it does address a number of efforts recently made by the Catholic church to acknowledge responsibility for much of the mindset that led to the Holocaust and to try to atone for past sins.
I am currently in the process of translating _Judenstein: Das Ende einer Legende_ (Werner Kunzenmann, ed.) published by the Catholic Diocese of Innsbruck earlier this year. The book provides background, history, and documentation of the official removal from pilgrimage status of a place near Innsbruck known as _Judenstein_ and a chapel dedicated to the veneration of Anderl von Rinn, a tree-year old boy supposedly murdered by Jews in the 15th century.
This opportunity means much to me because I still remember official school hikes to the place in the early 1950s and my revulsion and outrage even then at the absurdity of the story and enormity of the accusation. For some reason I could never accept that Anderl von Rinn was in fact a victim of ritual murder, and I was angry at my church for this kind of officially sanctioned invitation to hating Jews.
The book's editor, Dr. Kunzenmann writes:
This book documents the ways of thinking and actions of
people who over many centuries have excluded, stigmatized,
and killed Jews. It documents the guilt of the Church that
allowed an fabricated cultic belief--the lie of ritual
murder--to turn into veneration of a "blessed one." In
addition, alas, it documents a momentous connection: the old
_Judenstein_ (Jew stone) also psychologically prepared the
path for the Holocaust.
This book, however, also documents the thoughts and actions
of people who have recently labored to work off this sad
mortgage by setting the record straight concerning the
unjustifiable veneration of a "Blessed One" and in the
reinterpretation of the meaning of the _Judenstein_. It is
now dedicated to [Christian] penance and reconciliation with
the People Israel.
The book has a preface by Bishop Reinhold Stecher of Innsbruck who worked to stop the practice almost since he was appointed bishop in 1981. Stecher began his public campaign against antisemitism in the Austrian church with a 1985 sermon in which he cited a Tyrolean statute of 1603 according to which Jews who were caught a third time without wearing the yellow circle that distinguished them as Jews--plus wives and children--were to be permanently expelled from Austria. Stecher reminded his congregation that the horrors of the twentieth century were rooted in history.
The book is introduced by a prayer Pope John XXIII wrote shortly before he died. He expressed the hope that it would be said in all Catholic churches.
Forgive us the Curse!
We now recognize that for many centuries our eyes were
covered with blindness, so that we no longer saw the beauty
of Your chosen people and no longer recognized the features
of our firstborn brother. We admit that the sign of Cain is
on our forehead. For centuries, Abel was lying on the ground
in blood and tears because we had forgotten Your love.
Forgive the curse that we unjustly pronounced over the name
of the Jews. Forgive that we crucified You again in their
flesh.
Concerning Kunzenmann cites Reinhard Neudecker in Rene'
Latourelle, _Vaticano II, Bilancio & Prospettive -- 25 Jahre
danach 1962-1987-, Vol. II, p. 1301 (Pontifica Universita
Gregoriana, 1987):
"The decisive push for the Council's Declaration (on the Relation
of the Church with the Jews) originated with Pope John XXIII,
called also by the Jews "papa buono." During the period of Nazi
terror, while he was apostolic delegate in Bulgaria and Turkey he
saved thousands of Jews from deportation. . . . In October 1960
he greeted a delegation of American Jews with the biblical words,
"I am Joseph your brother."
When I posted part of this material on the net on INTERREL (Interreligious Dialogue), a list I co-own, a subscriber wrote back that his wife had shown him a photocopy of a page from a book _Antisemitism_, p. 471 with the prayer, published in John XXIII's _Journey of a Soul_. It credited Fredrich Heer [sp.? could be Friedrich], _God's First Love_ from which it borrowed the prayer. I apologize for the vagueness of this reference, but it's a starting point.
Never again,
%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%* % Ingrid H. Shafer, Professor of Philosophy & Religion % % Mary Jo Ragan Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies % % U of Science & Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, Ok 73018 % % fax 405/224-3044 tel (o)405/224-3140 (h)405/224-3988 % % e-mail: facshaferi@mercur.usao.edu & ihs@ionet.net % %*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*
P.S. All the translations from the German are mine and tentative.
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 17:17:58 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: Stanford Shaw <sshaw@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
I was fascinated by the story of Angelo Roncalli and his work with both
Turks and Jews while he was in Turkey. See my recently published study:
Turkey and the Holocaust: Turkey's Role in Rescuing Turkish and European
Jews from Nazi Persecution, 1933-1945 (New York University Press, New
York/Macmillan and Co, London, 1992)pp. 274, 277-278, which explains how
Roncalli helped the Jewish Agency, other Jewish organizations based in
Istanbul during the Holocaust, and Turkish government officials in
contacting, helping, and saving Jews in Eastern Europe and Greece; Also
Peter Hoffmann, "Roncalli in the Second World...." Journal of Ecclesiastical
History, vol. XL (1989), pp. 74-99; Vittoro Ugo Righi, Papa Giovanni sulle
rive del Bosforo (Padua, Italy, 1971); Roberto Morozzo della Rocca,
"Roncalli Diplomatici in Turchia e Grecia, 1935-1944," Cristianesimo nella
Storia, VIII/2 (1987), pp. 33-72.
Stanford Shaw, Professor of Turkish and Judeo Turkish History, U.C.L.A.
I hope this helps.
At 03:13 PM 5/30/95 CDT, you wrote:
>I am looking for information about the attempts of Angelo Roncalli to help and
> to save
>Jews during the holocaust and his attempts to help release the Jewish children
> in the
>monesteries.
>Angelo Roncalli (b. Nov. 25, 1881, d. June 3, 1963) was apostolic delegate
>to Turkey and Greece from 1935 to 1944. He was also nuncio to France (1944-53)
>He was elected pope in 1958 and served as pope until his death in 1963. He is
> also
>known as John XXIII.
>
> David Knoll
>
>
Stanford J. Shaw sshaw@ucla.edu
Professor of Turkish and Judeo-Turkish History
University of California Los Angeles, CA, 90024
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 17:18:38 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.UIC.EDU> From: "Peter Hidas, Dawson College" <PHIDAS@runt.dawsoncollege.qc.ca> Subject: Re: Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
You should look up
Peter Hoffmann, "Roncalli in the Second World War: Peace Initiatives,
the Greek Famine and the Persecution of the Jews." THE JOURNAL OF
ECCLESIASTIC HISTORY 40, no.1 (January 1989).
Peter I. Hidas, Montreal