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January 2008
January 2008 Volume 21 Number 4
WHAT’S INSIDE
Survivor Advocacy Groups Split on Proposed Legislation
Of Memory and Remembrance by Sam E. Bloch
The New Museum at Bergen-Belsen by Menachem Rosensaft
Jewish Foundation for the Righteous by Roman Kent
I Came to Bergen-Belsen by Gloria Bloch Golan
Pakistan Attacks Survivors
Claims Conference News
Applying for New German Government Ghetto Labor Compensation Fund
It Happened in Prague
Monument Men Honored
Winds of Change in Holocaust Museum by Manar Fawakhry
Poland’s Hidden Jews by Vanessa Gera
Stella by Dr. Salomea Kape
In Memoriam
An Appreciation of David Kranzler by Jeanette Friedman
Tribute to E. Edward Herman by Helen Z. Schwimmer
Hafner’s Paradise
Announcements
Holocaust resisters weren’t only those who carried weapons by Jeanette Friedman
Kupferberg Holocaust Center
Remembering the Horror by Audrey-Marie Winn
Letters
Searches: contributing editor Serena Woolrich, Allgenerations@ aol.com
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MTV videos take look at Holocaust
‘People like us’ themes from Arnold
By Christine McConville
Monday, January 28, 2008
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It’s a typical rush hour and commuters are crammed into a subway car, when the train slams to a halt.
Suddenly, soldiers with dogs and machine guns order everyone off the train and into two huge lines on the platform.
“That could be the Green Line, and those people could be us,” said Roger Baldacci, an executive vice president at the Boston advertising agency Arnold Worldwide, and one of the creative minds behind the two new jarring videos about the Holocaust.
The 30-second spots use contemporary images and scenes to teach young people about the Holocaust, the state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime.
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime killed nearly two out of every three European Jews. Many were rounded up on city streets, and then shipped to concentration camps via train.
Unfortunately, Baldacci said, many of today’s youth don’t know about the Holocaust. So Arnold used an in-your-face, educational approach to let kids know about it.
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Dr. Roman A. Ohrenstein, Auschwitz and Mauthausen survivor, has been honored as a Distiguished Professor and Author by
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology , Volume 66-4 , which dedicated its October 2007 issue to Roman A. Ohrenstein.
and expresses special appreciation for his original work in Talmudic economics.
“We honor him in this issue of the AJES by publishing his autobiographical sketch ” My Life, My Times and My Research ” as well as “The Talmudic Doctrine of ‘ The Benefit of a Pleasure ‘: Psychological Well-Being in Talmudic Literature ” with the Frontispiece of his portrait “
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Holocaust Inversion
By MANFRED GERSTENFELD
January 28, 2008
Solemn ceremonies around Europe marked yesterday’s Holocaust Memorial Day. But 63 years after the liberation of Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, one of the most perfidious forms of contemporary anti-Semitism is Holocaust inversion — the portrayal of Israelis and Jews as modern-day Nazis. The charge is that Israel supposedly behaves toward the Palestinians as Germany did to the Jews in World War II.
This distortion of history is particularly widespread in the Muslim world. But it is also gaining currency in the West, where it is no longer just the domain of the extreme Left. Last year, a German bishop visiting Israel compared Ramallah to the Warsaw Ghetto. Portuguese Nobel laureate for literature José Saramago in 2002 compared Ramallah even to Auschwitz.
Cartoons are a particularly popular medium to express such distortions. Portraying Jews as Nazis, Israeli prime ministers as Hitler and the Star of David as equal to the swastika is almost routine in the Arab world. This trend has also reached Europe, where during the anti-Iraq war protests, for instance, many demonstrators held placards depicting similar images. In the Netherlands you can now buy T-shirts and greeting cards showing Anne Frank wearing a kaffiyeh, the traditional Palestinian headdress, wrapped around her neck like a scarf. In other words, the Palestinians are the new Jews, which makes the Israelis the new Nazis.
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