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Germany, Israel Mark 70 Years Since Kristallnacht by Melissa Eddy DECEMBER 2008 VOLUME 22 NUMBER 3 Germany, Israel mark 70 years Protest Against Mormon Rites on since Kristallnacht Holocaust Victims BY JEANETTE FRIEDMAN BY MELISSA EDDY, The Associated Press After more than 13 years of waiting for leaders of the Church of Latter Day BERLIN — “We must not be silent” about condemning antisemitism, German Saints of Jesus Christ to keep their word and stop posthumously baptizing Holocaust chancellor Angela Merkel victims and then listing them as Mormons in their genealogical archives, leaders declared recently as of the American Gathering (Sam Bloch, Roman Kent, Max Liebmann) spearheaded Germany and Israel by Auschwitz survivor Ernest W. Michel, marked the 70th anniversary of commemorated the 70th Kristallnacht with a press conference that expressed their unhappiness with the anniversary of Kristall- Mormon practice. nacht, the Nazi-incited riots Once Michel, honorary chairman of the American Gathering and executive against Jews. With concerts, vice president emeritus of UJA/FederationNY, found his parents’ names on the prayers and ceremonies, Mormon list, discussions began with church leaders to see if the practice could be participants vowed to honor abated and the names removed from Mormon records. There were two key Kristallnacht victims with issues driving his protest. First, as Michel noted, his parents were murdered as renewed vigilance. The riots Jews and not as Mormons; to list them as Mormons denigrates the cause of their are seen by many as the first death and shows a disrespect and disregard of history, as well as the Jewish step leading to the Nazis’ religion. systematic murder of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. Church elders argued that these rites do not change a person’s religion, in this At Israel’s weekly Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said case “Jewishness,” as one elder described it in a meeting in New York the previous Kristallnacht was “the turning point toward the inevitable destruction of a greater portion of the Jewish people in Europe between 1939-1945,” adding that Israel cont’d on p. 4 “will never forgive or forget” the crimes of the Nazi regime. At Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, survivors, their NORBERT WOLLHEIM, lll”fff, HONORED descendants, academics and the German and Austrian ambassadors to Israel The Norbert Wollheim Memorial: A Place of Commemoration and Information took part in a ceremony that also included a rare musical rendition of a work by was recently created on the grounds of the IG Farben building, now the Campus German-Jewish composer Robert Kahn, whose music was outlawed by the Nazis. Westend of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt. It commemorates the victims of IG Farben’s concentration camp at Buna-Monowitz (Auschwitz) and the people who shared the suffering of Norbert Wollheim. AMERICAN GATHERING CHALLENGES Norbert Wollheim POPE PIUS SAINTHOOD had a leading role in the Central Committee of the BY PHILIP PULLELLA Liberated Jews of Bergen VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - One of the most Belsen, and was involved influential groups of Holocaust survivors has in sending the Kinder- accused Nazi-era Pope Pius XII of keeping transportees to England. “silent in the face of absolute evil” and asked He was a leader of the the Vatican to freeze his sainthood process. World Federation of The New York-based group, The Ameri- Bergen-Belsen Survivor can Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Associations and among and their Descendants, announced a global the founding members of campaign to lobby Vatican ambassadors so that the American Gathering. Pope Benedict will put the sainthood process He also made important for his predecessor on hold. contributions to the work of the Claims Conference and served as president of “What we as survivors and their children the Fresh Meadows Jewish Center in New York. seek to convey to our friends at the Vatican is Designed by Professor Heiner Blum, photographic, video and audio displays our moral anguish and deep pain at this moment,” Elan Steinberg, the group's are set up under groups of trees in the park around the IG Farben building, now vice president, said in a statement. the university’s Institute for the Humanities and Cultural studies. A nearby pavilion “There were many individuals and representatives of the Church whose shining will also become a part of the installation. Above the entrance, brass letters will heroism during the terrible years of the Holocaust should be recognized, but display a row of figures—107984. It is Norbert Wollheim’s Auschwitz number. cont’d on p. 4 cont’d on p. 4 American Gathering of NON-PROFIT Jewish Holocaust Survivors U.S. POSTAGE PAID 122 West 30th Street, Suite 205 NEW YORK, N.Y. New York, New York 10001 PERMIT NO. 4246 December 2008 visit our website at www.americangathering.com TOGETHER 1 International Day of Commemoration TOGETHER in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust at the UN—10 a.m. December 2008 Volume 22 Number 3 Tuesday, January 27, 2009 c•o•n•t•e•n•t•s Registration is by email to [email protected] Germany, Israel Mark 70 Years Since Kristallnacht by Melissa Eddy...............1 American Gathering Challenges Pope Pius Sainthood by Philip Pullella..........1 or by fax to 212-963-0536; Protest Against Mormon Rites on Holocaust Victims by Jeanette Friedman....1 please submit your full name, affiliation, email address and Norbert Wolleheim Honored..........................................................................1 phone number. UN Commemoration.....................................................................................2 CIVS Comes to New York............................................................................3 Bilgoraj Landsleit Reunion by Yechiel Baum..................................................3 United Nations Holocaust 20th Annual International Conference of Child Survivors.................................5 Hadassah Rosensaft Remembered by Eva Fogelman....................................5 Remembrance Catholic Educators Study the Holocaust by Brandy Wilson...........................6 Instrumental in adovcating and finally witnessing a commemorative program Comic Book Idols Rally to Aid Holocaust Artist By G.G. Gustines...................6 becoming an annual program at the United Nations, the American Gathering of Polish First Lady by Jeanette Friedman........................................................7 Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants is pleased to announce the LBJ, Righteous Gentile by Lenny Ben David................................................7 forthcoming Holocaust remembrance activities at the United Nations. In keeping Holocaust Museum Plans Historicv Opening by Emily S. Achenbaum.............8 with the program’s overall theme of remembrance and beyond, a memorial ceremony Kindertransportees to Receive German Pensions by Ofer Aderet....................8 titled, “An authentic basis for hope: Holocaust remembrance and education,” will Blueprints Found for Auschwitz Camp by Eric Kirschbaum...........................8 be held from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, 27 January 2009. This is a Anyone Can Be Moral...by Heather Robinson.............................................9 phrase often used by Professor David Hamburg, Chair of the Secretary-General’s EU Presidency to Highlight Jewish Restitution..............................................10 Advisory Committee on Genocide Prevention, to assert that genocide prevention is Holocaust Welfare Fund Leaves Survivors in Lurch by Eli Ashkenazi..........10 indeed within the capacity of humankind. This theme will both honor the memory of Remarks of Ernest W. Michel.....................................................................11 the victims and recognize the positive trend toward Holocaust education around the Holocaust Heroes by Greg Bluestein..........................................................12 world, action by civil society to promote respect for diversity, institutional support The Findlings Family Reunion by Isabel Alcoff............................................12 for combating Holocaust denial and intergovernmental initiatives to help prevent The Flower by Sara Landerer Rosen..........................................................13 genocide. Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Chairman Announcements.........................................................................................13 of the Yad Vashem Council, will deliver the November 9th by Dr. John Rodden.............................................................14 keynote remarks and Ruth Glasberg Gold, a A Story by Heinz Hesdorffer......................................................................15 survivor of the camps in Transnistria, will share Another Collaborator Unveiled by DPA........................................................15 her personal experience during the Holocaust, The First Family by Sheldon P. Hersh.........................................................16 along with a WWII veteran from the former myjewishlegacy.com by Elyse Bodenheimer..............................................16 Soviet army. Guests may register by email at: Letters......................................................................................................17 [email protected] or by fax at David Friedmann by Detlef.Lorenz.............................................................17 212-963-0536. In Memoriam..............................................................................................19 EVENTS OF JANUARY 26 Searches
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