The Forgotten Holocaust

EDITORIAL: College loans get a boost INSIDE: SPORTS by stimulus, page 4 One-legged wrestler DETOUR: Lamb of God’s ‘Wreath’ should places first, page 6 not be ignored , page 3 Since 1960 Volume 85, Issue 16 Wednesday March 4, 2009 DailyThe Student Voice of California StateTitan University, Fullerton DTSHORTHAND Eggs on concrete About 350 high-schoolers from four districts will storm Cal State Fullerton today. They bring their eggs, cata- pults, foil barges, paper cars and working windmills. They also bring their engineering knowl- edge and creativity to compete in the 26th annual Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achieve- ment/Engineering and Com- The forgotten holocaust puter Science Day (MESA Day) tournament at the campus. Deported from Poland to a forced labor camp, one refugee found her peace in America The most-watched event each year is the EggXpress egg drop. Using only materials specified by the national MESA head- BY Carly CRETNEY AND Jesica eastman quarters as protection, students Daily Titan Staff Writers must keep eggs unbroken and [email protected] unchipped after their packages plummet from the top of itting in her elegant Chino Hills home, the guards could throw out all the dead. Moth- Raymond’s mother buried him herself, while the Humanities-Social Sciences Eddy Raymond looks like the grand- ers were forced to throw their babies out into very ill with Pellagra, a vitamin deficiency disease Building to the concrete court- mother everyone wants to have. With the snow,” Raymond said. “One woman passed causing skin lesions, confusion, paralysis and can yard six stories below. No flota- her dog, Coco, jumping on the brown around a handkerchief and lead to demen- tion devices, like parachutes, al- leatherS couches, Raymond modestly explains that asked if everyone would spit in tia, according lowed; the packages must plunge she created most of the art in her home. With it so her baby could have some- “We were all horrified by the to Webster’s at the speed of gravity. the walls decorated in original acrylic paintings, thing to suck on...of course the (German) holocaust. I feel there Medical Dic- Below, judges, with hand it is difficult to imagine that Raymond’s child- baby didn’t make it,” she said. “ tionary. With wipes close at hand, immediate- hood was horrific. When Raymond, her par- was another holocaust happen- her mother so ly open the packages and count Her story is one the American public does ents, sister and brother arrived ing in Russia that is never talked ill, Raymond the number of eggs – and the not know much about, Cora Granata said, a at a labor camp in Khristofo- and her sister number of those still unbroken. about, and it happened at the Cal State Fullerton professor of history and the rovo, Archangel’sk, in Serbia, same time.” were taken to adviser of the European Studies Society. “So they were near starvation and “ an orphanage. many ordinary peoples’ lives were dramatically had developed boils, abscesses, – Eddy Raymond The orphans Researchers create robot uprooted during the war and this is one of those rashes and bleeding gums. survived by stories,” she said. At the labor camp, every WWII Survivor begging, work- that can alter DNA code Growing up in Poland, in an area now con- person, including children, was ing in collec- sidered Ukraine, 5-year-old Raymond and her assigned heavy labor. Food was tive farms and UWIRE – Forget R2-D2 and family were deported during WWII and suffered rationed to morsels of bread, no medical care following the crowds. C-3PO – New York University through the Holocaust caused by Stalin and Hit- was provided and the freezing winter was un- Many children died at a spot known as the researchers have developed an en- ler. bearable. Valley of Death. tirely different and exciting kind “We were all horrified by the (German) holo- Because of the cramped conditions, death was “Here nature conspired against life. The in- of robot. caust,” Raymond said. “I feel there was another inevitable. credible heat would start at the beginning of the A team of chemists from NYU holocaust happening in Russia that is never talk- “One of the victims was my little brother year … the land would turn into a desert as the and China’s Nanjing University ed about, and it happened at the same time.” who died a year after our deportation, and who water dried up,” Raymond said. “The orphan- has created a two-armed nanoro- Stalin and Hitler had an agreement to divide just turned four years old. His last words were age turned into a death camp. A deadly silence bot with the ability to alter and Poland, Raymond said at a lecture at CSUF late begging for food – ‘Just one little potato,’ he descended upon it, uninterrupted by the sound exchange pieces of genetic code. last week. pleaded, but there was from children.” The catch? Their device has to be Raymond’s speech none to give him. We all It is at the Valley of Death, Raymond nearly small enough to work on a mo- was of a larger se- The reality of the experience sat by him and watched died from Typhoid. Coffins were in short supply, lecular scale. ries by the European was painful from the very begin- helplessly as he took his so bodies were taken out in their underwear and Built from DNA, the new “ Studies Society. “It ning. They were constantly un- last breath,” Raymond thrown into mass graves in the desert. nanorobot measures approxi- was designed by the said. Soon after, India offered amnesty for the or- mately 150 x 50 x 8 nanometers. European Studies der surveillance, constantly under Soon after her broth- phans, separating Raymond from her mother. And that’s tiny: a nanometer is a Society out of the cu- very, very cruel regimes, and they er’s death, Stalin gave Her mother joined the Polish army so she could billionth of a meter. riosity for the recent were unable to control anything the family and other de- leave as well, Raymond said. As they waited to Computer processors and cir- past,” Jacqueline Al- portees amnesty because be put on a ship, stronger people pushed onto cuitry can also benefit from im- varino, president of about their lives. Even those who he needed soldiers and the boats while some who barely clung to life provements in nanotechnology. the ESS, said. “We survived bared the scars forever. wanted to cover up the crawled within inches of freedom. When inside Nanomachines inside comput- so often read in his- – Lynn Sargeant, “ outrage he had commit- the boat, suffocating like the cattle cars, the bod- ers could allow for more binary tory books, but never ted, Raymond said. ies of the dead were thrown overboard. states, allowing for double the experience the first- History professor Without food, money “They followed the ship for miles in its wake,” current computing speed. hand account”. or transportation, Ray- Raymond said about the corpses. The new device’s arms reside Targeted by the mond’s family joined the Arriving on the Persian beaches of the Caspi- within an origami-like rectangu- Russians because her hundreds of thousands an Sea in summer 1942, the Polish throngs were lar array. The arms store differ- family owned land, Raymond and her family of other Poles emerging from the prisons all over given some short-lived relief. ent pieces of information; while were snatched from their home in the middle the Soviet Union streaming to the south, where “We were inoculated and given a proper diet; DNA has previously filled that of the night and were crammed into cattle train an army was said to be forming. dirt was scraped off our bodies, hair was shaved niche, other species such as pro- cars with hundreds of people. The walls of the The journey started in August or September off, lice-infected clothing was burned,” she said. teins and chemical components train car were boarded up and froze over. Dur- 1941 and lasted until March 1942, with untold Approximately 600 people, mostly children, could theoretically be placed in ing the six-week journey, the conditions were casualties along the way, Raymond said. “By died just after finding freedom. The authorities the arms. deplorable. There were no bathrooms, just a this time my sister and I, like zombies, almost moved the crowds because of their size and dis- hole in the floor. They had to collect snow out catatonic, needed constant direction to eat and eases farther south, where Raymond was taken of the same hole so they could drink, and as the sleep,” she said. to Tehran, Iran. Fistful of Steel temperature rose the bugs came out of the walls. Her father tried to sign up for the army, but “No one knew the state they would be in,” Everyone was covered with insect bites and weak was dying of Typhoid and was taken away for Raymond said about the refugees. at Cal State Fullerton from malnutrition, she said. treatment. Her mother found him in a pile of “The trains would stop between stations so dead bodies outside the hospital. See WAR Page 2 This YouTube clip is a flash- back to 1992 with Rage Against the Machine performing “Fistful of Steel” in the Becker Ampithe- atre at Cal State Fullerton. WEATHER TODAY TOMorrow GRApHiC By Austen Montero /Daily Titan Editorial Director High: 64° High: 65° Eddy Raymond and her parents, brother and sister, began her journey in Kalus, 100 miles southeast of Lvov, Low: 47° Low: 47° which is now Ukraine.

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