Admissions against interest

Holocaust survivor shares story to honor others

Author speaks to students at CCC about his escape

By Sheridan Lyons

Sun Staff

Originally published May 9, 2004

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Leo Bretholz was old enough to remember but is young enough to tell his tale: seven years of eluding the Holocaust in Europe, after his mother persuaded her teen-age son to leave his native Austria in 1938 after it was annexed by Nazi Germany.

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Bretholz survived — although he has a 1978 French record book that lists him among the ghosts of Auschwitz. He showed the book listing the victims of the concentration camp in Poland, his yellow felt star and other items to more than 50 students and others at Carroll Community College last week.

“My name is here,” he said, pointing to the telephone directory-sized book, then to himself, but “I am here to tell the story.”

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SSC professor aims to debunk myths about Holocaust in book

By Jack Butterworth

Monday, April 19, 2004

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PEABODY — Salem State College History Professor Christopher Mauriello had a warning for those attending the Holocaust Center Boston North’s annual Holocaust commemoration ceremony Sunday afternoon, especially the 14 local survivors of the persecution and murder of 6 million Jews that occurred from 1933-1945, which he called “one of the most important moments in history.”

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Mauriello, who has a book in progress called “Nazi Myths,” said the Holocaust is undergoing in-depth study by historians — not the revisionists who deny the Holocaust ever happened, whom he dismissed with a wave of his hand — but by researchers whose findings may force the survivors and their families to let go of some of the feelings and memories they carry.

“There is anxiety about this,” he admitted, “but historians have to insist on accuracy in place of myths and misconceptions.” He said his talk and the myths he plans to bring forward are based on “consensus among historians” — in fact, he has asked German historians to review a draft of his book for accuracy.

He offered four popular myths about the Holocaust, which he has heard from students taking his course on the subject over the past seven years: Adolf Hitler and the Nazis invented anti-Semitism and brainwashed Germany with anti-Semitic propaganda; Hitler and the Nazis were dominated by the notion of a Master Race; Hitler’s evil imagination created the blueprint for the Holocaust; the Holocaust was run by a ruthless, technocratic, centralized Nazi regime.

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Study Shows Holocaust Survivor Children Not Traumatized

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14:45 Apr-14-04 / 23 Nisan 5764

(IsraelNN.com) A new study shows that children of Holocaust survivors, in Israel and abroad, do not suffer from psychological problems more than other people unaffected by the Holocaust.

The study, which looked at 4,418 subjects, was carried out by researchers from Holland’s Leiden University and from the Child Development Center of Haifa University.

The study examined whether or not the trauma of the Holocaust was transferred to the second generation subjects, manifesting itself in psychopathologies or psychological illness.

Holocaust survivor to speak at law school

Eva Clarke, education officer for the Holocaust Education Trust of London will present her lecture, “The Holocaust: One Family’s Story” on Tuesday, April 13 at 5 p.m. in the Wynn Courtroom of the I.U. School of Law.

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Clarke, born in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria in 1945, will be speaking about her family’s plight in the concentration camp, their post-war struggles in Czechoslovakia, her family’s flight to the UK in 1948, and her work with The Holocaust Education Trust in London.

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Source:

By Jennifer Prince,

Contributing Writer

www.sagamore.iupui.edu/33_28/news/holocaust.html

Webmaster note: American troops liberated Mauthausen on May 6, 1945.

Survivor wants to keep knowledge of Holocaust alive

By MICHELLE EVERHART, News-Sun Staff Writer

April 10, 2004

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Ira Segalewitz thought coming from Europe to America was like going from hell to heaven.

Segalewitz, 67, of Dayton, was born in Poland a few years before World War II started.

Before he was 4 years old, he and his mother had to escape deep into the Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union, where they had to live in a work camp to survive.

By the time he was 16, Segalewitz and his mother moved to the United States but they had already seen untold horrors.

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“We are trying to make people aware of the horrific events of that time,” said Barbara Wagle, coordinator of Clark State’s Interfaith Campus Ministry. “We want people to know that it really did happen and keep it alive. We have to educate the younger kids about this.”

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Holocaust survivor speaks of suffering

By GAYDA HOLLNAGEL of the La Crosse Tribune

Published — Thursday, February 12, 2004

www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2004/02/12/news/z02newsholocaust.txt

Holocaust survivor Nesse Godin travels thousands of miles each year to keep the promise she made to women who helped her survive persecution in Nazi concentration camps.

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Telling the story of the Holocaust has been her life’s work, said Godin, who came to the United States in 1950 with her husband, two children and her mother. Godin said her husband also is a survivor. The couple’s third child was born in the United States. She also has seven grandchildren.

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Her story begins with her pre-war life in Siauliai, Lithuania, where her parents owned a small store that sold dairy products. The city came under Soviet rule in 1940 and was occupied by the German army June 26, 1941, four days after the invasion of the USSR.

… By August, the Jews that remained were forced to move into a ghetto, and it was from there that her father was selected for deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed.

Godin, a teenager at the time, said she survived the ghetto, the Stuffhof Concentration Camp, four labor camps and the death march.

Her mother and two brothers also managed to survive, and the family eventually was reunited, except for her mother and one brother who wasn’t able to leave the Soviet Union until after their mother died.

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This book has haunted me since I found it in our local library. I am ordering a used copy since it is out of print. Basically the book is a copy of a kind of souvineer scrapbook made by someone on the staff of the notorious camp. It is mostly pictures by the camp official photographer. The pictures are actually quite prosaic & even nostalgic. It documents the various phases of the camp operation. The pictures of the dead & their disposal are not included but this actually heightens the effect. Pictures of groups of ordinary people most of whom were dead an hour after their picture was taken. The book was found by a camp survivor, became a famous artifact & rare document of the holocaust. The book is designed to simulate the original scrapbook. The pictures are accompanied by quotes from accounts from other books & captions which illuminate what is going on beneath the almost tranquil surface. I worked in a military film archives years ago which had footage taken during the camp liberation. This is far more disturbing.

Source:

Sterling Sharp (Susanville, Ca United States
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Webmaster note: This is the level of evidence typically given to support Holocaust extermination claims. Nothing is actually seen, but that just makes it all the more compelling!

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Man Who Warned of Holocaust Dies

By CLARE NULLIS, Associated Press Writer

Dec 03, 2001

GENEVA (AP) — Gerhart Riegner, who tried to alert the world about the planned Nazi Holocaust and later led the World Jewish Congress, died Monday. He was 90. Riegner died of pneumonia in a Geneva hospital, according to his spokeswoman Edda Bournot.

Riegner was known for his cable of Aug. 8, 1942, describing Adolf Hitler’s plan to deport an estimated 4 million Jews to Eastern Europe to anihilate them. The telegram was sent to the U.S. vice consul in Geneva, asking him to inform the U.S. government of the plan and to transmit the contents to Stephen Wise, president of the World Jewish Congress.

It was based on a phone call Riegner received in Geneva from a Jewish activist who said a German businessman had been told him of a plan “to transfer all the Jews of Europe — 3.5 to 4 million — to the East in order to exterminate them and resolve for once and for all the problem of Jews in Europe.”

The State Department tried to verify Riegner’s telegram with the Vatican and the Red Cross. Both said they knew of mistreatment and deportations of Jews, but not of a mass extermination plan. […]