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LEGACY and GRATITUDE He Annual Tribute Dinner of the Ing Remarks AMERICAN & INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES FOR YAD VASHEM Vol. 40-No.2 ISSN 0892-1571 November/December 2013-Kislev/Tevet 5774 The American & International Societies for Yad Vashem Annual Tribute Dinner LEGACY AND GRATITUDE he Annual Tribute Dinner of the ing remarks. contributions of Eli Zborowski, z”l. A This year’s dinner also recognized T American Society for Yad Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was member of the Jewish Fighters the tenth anniversary of the Columbia Vashem was held on Sunday, honored with the Yad Vashem Organization, Zborowski survived the shuttle disaster. Tributes to Petr Ginz November 10th. With inspiring Remembrance Award, given for his war in hiding along with his mother, and Col. Ilan Ramon were especially addresses from honoree Mayor visionary leadership and for his sup- sister and younger brother, and powerful, thanks to the presence of Michael R. Bloomberg, Chairman of port of Yad Vashem’s efforts to served as liaison between the Jewish Ginz’s nephew Yoram Pressburger Leonard Wilf, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau and Ambassador Ron Prosor. the Yad Vashem Council Rabbi Israel strengthen the cause of Holocaust ghettos and non-Jewish par- Meir Lau, Chairman of the Yad remembrance and education. Most tisan units. Upon arriving in Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev, recently the recipient of the presti- America, Eli immediately and Mauthausen survivor Ed gious Genesis Prize, Mayor began devoting time and Mosberg, the dinner marked thirty- Bloomberg has been a central figure resources to Holocaust two years since the Society was in empowering New York City as the remembrance. In 1981, Eli established by the Founding capital of tolerance, innovation and founded the American and Chairman Eli Zborowski, z”l, along growth. In 2005, Mayor Bloomberg International Societies for with other Holocaust survivors. was the official representative of Yad Vashem, and served as The program, entitled “Legacy and President Bill Clinton at the opening its volunteer Chairman from Gratitude,” was presided over by of the new Holocaust History Museum its inception, guiding it to Dinner Co-Chairpersons Marilyn and at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. raise over $100 million for Honorable Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of the City of New Barry Rubenstein, with Chairman of The evening program featured a the benefit of Yad Vashem. York, 2013 recipient of the Yad Vashem Remembrance the Board Leonard Wilf giving open- special memorial tribute to the life and He established the Diana and Award. Eli Zborowski Interdisciplinary Chair for Holocaust Studies and and Ramon’s son Tal Ramon, who Research at Yeshiva University, and performed a song he composed in IN THIS ISSUE memory of his father. In addition to Tal The American Society for Yad Vashem Annual Tribute Dinner............1, 8-9 endowed the Diana Zborowski Center Ramon’s appearance, the program Discovery of Nazi plundered art offers glimpse “into a dark story”............2 for the Study of the Aftermath of the The Nazi hunter................................................................................................3 Holocaust at Yad Vashem. included performances by HaZamir: The International Jewish High School Chronicle of Two and a Half Years in Auschwitz..........................................4 t the event, held on the 75th The vast reach of the Nazi Holocaust............................................................5 A anniversary of Kristallnacht, Choir, with moving renditions of "Eli, “Being Jewish meant being dead”.................................................................6 speakers reflected on the Shoah and Eli," written by the young paratrooper Poland’s dark hunt..........................................................................................7 emphasized the importance of educa- Hannah Szenes, and the "Yugnt Yad Vashem exhibit honors saviors of Jews in WWII.................................10 tion and legacy, ensuring that the Hymn," dedicated to the youth club in In going after Nazi criminals, Europe is still divided......................................12 torch of remembrance is assumed by the Vilna ghetto and written by parti- The Munich crisis through the eyes of cartoonists....................................15 the second and third generations. san Shmerke Kaczerginski. Page 2 MARTYRDOM & RESISTANCE November/December 2013 - Kislev/Tevet 5774 PAST TERRORS LIVE ON WITH HOLOCAUST’S CHILDREN pneumonia and malnutrition. Scores loss,” she said. “I carried that with me their offspring. But seven decades BY TIM MADIGAN, of her uncles, aunts, cousins and always.” after the war, there are a third gener- FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM friends were ordered to dig their own ecades later, Leslie faced the ation and a fourth. graves and then shot en masse. decision of when to tell her own Descendants remember the horror or the first-grade girl named D Brigitte’s father was sent to the con- daughter, 11-year-old Lauren. The girl but are increasingly inclined to talk Leslie, the playground antics centration camp at Dachau. Hitler, the F and her grandmother have shared a about something else, a new sense of seemed just that, a silly and harmless mother explained, was the German profound bond from the moment of healing and pride among the ones way for a few boys to spend recess. leader behind it all, the man who tried Lauren’s birth. who came after. That day in the 1960s, at the elemen- to kill all the Jews. “My hand was forced,” Leslie said. tary school in Fort Worth, the boys “She was aghast and mortified, hor- “Lauren was in kindergarten. I heard For decades now, survivors and started jutting their hands in the air rified, and understandably, because they were going to discuss the their descendants have been coming and shouting “Heil Hitler!” They this was many years after the Holocaust in Sunday school. I told her together around the world in formal laughed. Leslie had no idea what the there was a lot of sadness and informal ways, talking of the past, words and gestures meant. and death and that her looking to the future. At home after school she found her grandmother had been One new group is called mother, Brigitte Altman, sitting at her involved in it.” Generations, organized by the Dallas bedroom desk. Leslie began to Leslie has since tried to Holocaust Museum. Its mission state- describe the playground silliness. spare her daughter from ment says Generations is “committed “My mother had always been and the most haunting details. to educate our community and future still is mostly very calm, not easily But Lauren seems to generations by preserving the memo- upset,” the daughter, Leslie Magee, understand, one reason said. “But she was just horrified when she has always doted on ries of the past and keeping our fami- I mentioned this to her. She stopped her grandmother. lies’ voices alive.” what she was doing and she pulled “I’m very sad for what A handful of people were expected me aside.” This family photo shows Brigitte Friedmann’s family in she went through,” for its first meeting in June. More than Mother and daughter sat down on Lithuania. Only three members from Friedmann’s, (now Lauren said. “And I’m very a hundred showed up: survivors, sec- the bed and Brigitte spoke of a distant Altman’s), family did not perish in the Holocaust. grateful that she’s still ond, third, and in a few cases, fourth place, a small European country on Holocaust and in Fort Worth, some- here today. I don’t want anything bad generations. the Baltic Sea called Lithuania. The thing like this was going on on the to happen to her anymore.” “There was such excitement,” said country was occupied by the playground. I was shocked, and then They are complex feelings familiar Arlington artist Julie Meetal, the Germans during World War II. Brigitte there was this feeling of being deeply to thousands around the world in what daughter of Holocaust survivors and a had been a Jewish teenager then, saddened because someone that I is now an intergenerational story. founder of Generations. “There was herded by the Nazis into a squalid loved so much, my mother, had suf- Scores of studies have documented such a need for second and third gen- ghetto of 40,000 people. fered so much. how the trauma and horror did not just erations to get together and have She was one of only a few hundred “It hurt me to know that she had afflict one generation, how it was their voices heard.” to survive. Brigitte’s mother died of been put through such tragedy and often passed down by survivors to (Continued on page 12) DISCOVERY OF NAZI PLUNDERED ART OFFERS GLIMPSE “INTO A DARK STORY” the Third Reich by selling art that had then when he needed cash, the mag- ing to the U.S. National Archives. BY CARLO ANGERER been deemed degenerate by Adolf azine said. he Allies recovered and cata- AND ERIN MCCLAM, NBC NEWS Hitler. Much of the work was already Tlogued much of the art, which known from reproductions, said had been stashed by the Germans in undreds of works of art by Walter Grasskamp, a professor at the churches and other buildings. HPicasso, Matisse and other mas- Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. ters of the 20th century — seized by think the surprise will be bigger the Nazis, lost for decades and now “Iin terms of politics: who owned worth more than $1 billion — were it, how was it taken away, was it legal reportedly found among piles of rotting — obviously not,” Grasskamp said. groceries in a German apartment. “What about the original owners, The find would be among the largest where did they end? I think this is a in the worldwide effort, underway question as interesting as the value since the end of World War II, to for the art market.” recover masterpieces plundered by It was not clear why German author- the Nazis from Jews inside Germany ities kept the find secret for two years. and from elsewhere in Europe, con- The British newspaper The Guardian sidered the largest art heist in history.
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