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Children in the Darkest Hour of Humanity Vol. 36-No.4 ISSN 0892-1571 March/April 2010-Adar/Nissan 5770 CHILDREN IN THE DARKEST HOUR OF HUMANITY ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON HOLOCAUST EDUCATION he Education Department of the American Society for Yad Vashem and its Jerusalem. “We work to put a face on individual Holocaust victims in order to intro- T Young Leadership Associates convened the Eleventh Annual Professional duce a human element to the story. Transmitting these messages is our hope for Development Conference on Holocaust Education. This year’s conference is the the future,” explained Eli Zborowski, Chairman of the American Society. largest in recent years with close to 200 educators in attendance. his year’s keynote speaker was Dr. Elizabeth Mundlak-Zborowski. Herself The Association of Teachers of Social Studies / United Federation of Teachers, T a child survivor, Dr. Zborowski made a presentation which included the which once again is co-sponsoring the Conference, points out that “This confer- screening of her film, I Was Lucky, and spoke of her life as a hidden child and ence is an invaluable resource for increasing awareness and sensitivity to intol- the reunification with her birth mother. erance and injustice, especially in today’s world.” Close to two hundred educators from the tri-State area, plus Texas and Ohio, This year’s conference focused on No Child’s Play, a look at the experiences of attended this year’s conference. “The lost world of European Jewry and the trag- children during the darkest hour of humanity. The conference looked at the stories ic consequences should be used as points of departure to educate younger gen- of these children through images, film, diary entries, and artwork. We were also erations of the importance of tolerance, understanding and the dangers of pleased to have on display the No Child’s Play exhibit, created at Yad Vashem in hatred and discrimination,” said Mr. Eli Zborowski. Elizabeth Mundlak-Zborowski, Cultural Director, American Society for Yad Vashem and hidden Ofra Biener and Rebecca Hanus, Members of the Young Leadership Associates; Caroline Massel, child survivor, delivered the keynote address to the over 200 teachers gathered at this year’s con- Chair, Young Leadership Associates of the American Society for Yad Vashem; Eli Zborowski, ference. Also pictured are Carolyn Herbst, ATSS/UFT Liaison; and Caroline Massel, Chair, Young Chairman, American Society for Yad Vashem; and Elizabeth Mundlak-Zborowski, Cultural Leadership Associates of the American Society for Yad Vashem. Director, American Society for Yad Vashem. Ilana Apelker, Education, American Society for Yad Vashem, presenting at an afternoon workshop Some of the 200 educators during the morning general session. to some of the educators. IN THIS ISSUE British Prime Minister honors Brits who saved Jews during Holocaust..................2 Germany fights to keep Holocaust organizer's files sealed......................................3 History writ small...........................................................................................................4 The unthinkable as a tolerance lesson........................................................................5 Sisters survived Holocaust death camp......................................................................6 Children of Nazi monsters speak.................................................................................7 Photo highlights from the Young Leadership Associates Winter Gala.................8-9 A mosaic of life and death...........................................................................................10 How diplomat’s paperwork saved lives in Holocaust...............................................11 Nazi perpetrators must face justice...........................................................................12 Stolen Holocaust art returned....................................................................................16 Page 2 MARTYRDOM & RESISTANCE March/April 2010 - Adar/Nissan 5770 HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS SUE HUNGARIAN RAILWAY NEW MUSEUM TAKES SHAPE AT HEART OF NAZI TERROR group of survivors and descendants The plaintiffs are asking for 240 million ive years after opening a sprawling plotted, along with the extermination of A of victims of the Holocaust is suing dollars for the stolen property and one bil- FHolocaust Memorial in the heart of European Jewry. the Hungarian state railroad company in lion dollars “as punitive damages reflect- the city, Berlin is preparing to inaugurate a By 1942, nearly 500 people worked US court for its role in transporting Jews to ing the heinous and zealous participation major new museum, this time targeting here, most of them simple pencil-pushers the Auschwitz death camp. by the defendants in genocide. the Nazi perpetrators. needed to keep the wheels of Nazi The class action suit was filed in a US “Even though discussion of money is The new “Topography of Terror” center oppression turning. district court in Chicago by attorneys rep- necessarily crass in the context of the rests on the site of the former headquar- The 58-year-old Nachama, who is also resenting the group of 95 plaintiffs. unspeakable evil that was inflicted upon ters of both the feared Gestapo and a rabbi, a historian and a former leader of The suit seeks 1.24 billion dollars in com- the Holocaust victims, nevertheless the Hitler’s elite SS force. the Berlin Jewish community, first came pensation and punitive damages. law is powerless to do anything other It replaces a provisional facility that upon the disused site in the 1970s while According to the document, the than to obtain financial restitution,“ law- already draws 500,000 visitors each year curating an exhibition at a museum next Hungarian railroad company “knowingly suit says. — one of the top 10 tourist draws in a city door. provided the trains for delivering 437,000 According to the plaintiffs, by US law the steeped in bitter history. His mother Lilli, a Holocaust survivor, Jews to their death in Auschwitz” between Hungarian railroad company can be sued While little remains of the original build- was shocked about his new workplace: March and October 1944. if it is “engaged in commercial activity in ings — merely a few “That is the most hor- Railroad employees are accused of “loot- the United States. cellars and pavement rible address in ing the plaintiffs’ possessions, valuables, “This final requirement is satisfied by the stones — the new Berlin,” he recounted. heirlooms, stock certificates, currency and fact that the defendant sells tickets and complex aims to It was here, just a jewelry from the plaintiffs’ luggage. passes for its railways through its agents explain how the Nazi stone’s throw from “Without the trains provided by (the in the United States,” the document reads. persecution appara- Hitler’s chancellery, defendant), hundreds of thousands of In the period 1940–45 some 1.3 million tus worked with ruth- that the Nazi leader- Jews could not have been transported to people perished at Auschwitz, 1.1 million of less efficiency. ship united the Auschwitz,” the suit charges. them Jews from across occupied Europe. “We are not here in Gestapo and the SS Pompeii — this is not as well as the Reich BRITISH PRIME MINISTER HONORS BRITS about seeing the View taken through a hole in a remaining por- Main Security Office, original architecture,” tion of the Berlin wall showing the which coordinated all WHO SAVED JEWS DURING HOLOCAUST museum“Topography of Terror” museum in central police and security ritish Prime Minister Gordon Brown pleased to create a new award to recog- director Andreas Berlin. forces from 1939 to B has honored more than 20 British nize those amazing British individuals Nachama told AFP 1945. heroes who saved the lives of Jews during who through extraordinary and selfless during a preview of the new building. Just a mention of Prinz Albrecht Strasse, the Holocaust. acts of bravery protected and rescued “Rather, it is about comprehending what as the street was known, was enough to It is the first time such recognition has been Jews and others in the Holocaust.” went out from this place: namely the Nazi drain the color from a Berliner’s face, con- bestowed by the state as a tribute to civilians Two of the award recipients accepted it terror that spread across Germany and juring up the image of the Gestapo “house who undertook extraordinary acts of courage in person: Denis Avey, 91, who as a Europe and cost the lives of millions of prison” where some 15,000 people were and self-sacrifice in order to help others. British prisoner of war risked his life and people.” held during the Nazi era. swapped clothes with a Jewish The 34-million-dollar museum — a Prisoners routinely suffered brutal mis- prisoner in Auschwitz, and Sir squat, light-filled structure — is nearing treatment during interrogations here and Nicholas Winton, 100, who res- completion ahead of its official opening on several were driven to suicide. For others, cued 669 children from May 6, two days before the 65th anniver- Prinz Albrecht Strasse was a transit sta- Czechoslovakia. sary of the end of World War II. tion to the concentration camps. Those receiving the award It will be free to the public. Chilling black-and-white identity photo- posthumously, whose relatives Its two steel-and-glass stories, built to graphs taken at the time of the detainees’ attended the ceremony and give the visitor the feeling of “floating” arrests will be prominently displayed in accepted the award on their above the site, will include a
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