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The Holocaust Revisited: Feeling the Pain

Diana Sevanian

Signal Staff Writer

1/29/2005

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In 1976, I married the son of a concentration-camp survivor — a non-Jewish, former Russian soldier. Through the years, I heard many of my father-in-law’s camp memories. I knew Ara Sevanian had been beaten and starved, hauled off semi-conscious for mass burial with a heap of lifeless Jews and others who’d shared his rickety horse-pulled cart.

I knew that the Nazi soldier driving that wagon recognized my classical-musician father-in-law from a concert he performed for Stalin before the war. Amazingly, that German guard decided instead to let Ara live and play for the troops.

Evidently the guy preferred Mahler to murder.

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Diana Sevanian is a Signal staff writer. Her column represents her own views, and not necessarily those of The Signal.

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Note: It’s difficult to decide which is more fantastic — a Nazi soldier at a concert for Joseph Stalin in the USSR, or a concert-goer’s ability to remember the face of one musician out of an orchestra after many years and in utterly different circumstances.

Sharon: World Didn’t Help Stop Holocaust

• Israeli Prime Minister Says Jews Can Only Rely On Themselves

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Jan 26, 2005 3:14 am US/Pacific

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In a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday that the world “didn’t lift a finger” to stop the Holocaust.

Sharon said Jews learned a lesson from the genocide that they can only rely on themselves.

In unusually harsh remarks to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, Sharon noted that when the Nazis began deporting Jews from Hungary to the Auschwitz in large numbers in 1944, Allied forces did not bomb the railroad tracks leading to the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. He said that over a period of several weeks, more than 600,000 Jews from Hungary were killed in Auschwitz.

“The sad and terrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being killed,” Sharon said.

“At the time of the most terrible test, friends and benefactors didn’t lift a finger,” he said. “This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust.”

“The state of Israel has learned this lesson, and since its founding, it has defended itself and its residents, and provides safety to Jews everywhere. We know that we can only rely on ourselves,” he said.

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Note: Although it’s not mentioned in this article, Sharon must really be ticked off at the Zionists in Germany and elsewhere at the time, who likewise “didn’t lift a finger.” The most reasonable assumption is that no one did anything because the rumors of mass extermination were not true; that is, there was nothing to do. If we don’t have evidence to support claims of mass extermination now, the evidence certainly wasn’t available back then!

Auschwitz Survivors Fight to Keep Memory Alive Despite ‘Opening Wounds’

2005-01-25

Associated Press

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JERUSALEM–A museum painting of a barefoot girl holding up a pair of shoes led Bracha Ghilai to break a half century of silence about what befell her in Auschwitz.

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In Auschwitz death was always close and survival depended on fluke.

Ghilai said she survived one “selection” — when the Nazis weeded out the weak and sick for extermination — by pleading with a fellow inmate to open a barracks window when she was running a temperature. She crawled through the window to safety.

Like all children too young to work, 10-year-old Martha Weiss was selected for death when she arrived at Auschwitz in 1944 but the Soviet army was approaching and the SS diverted her group from the gas chamber after Soviet planes flew over. She said she and her older sister Eva spent their last month in camp doctor Josef Mengele’s notorious experimental ward.

“He would tell little children to sit on his lap and tell them to call him ‘uncle,’ ‘uncle Mengele’ and sometimes give them a sweet and in the same tone of voice that he said ‘I’m uncle Mengele’ he would tell the officials to give them a lethal injection,” Weiss said.

“So when he approached my sister, I threw myself on him. I had enough sense to know that it was dangerous but he happened to be in a good mood and it didn’t matter to him if he killed Eva Weiss or whether he killed the next person, so she survived.”

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The Nazis began evacuating Auschwitz 10 days before the Soviets arrived, forcing some 60,000 prisoners into the Polish forests on “death marches” during which many thousands were murdered or died of cold, hunger and exhaustion.

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Webmaster note: Interesting that there was danger inside the barrarks, but safety outside, where presumably she wasn’t supposed to have been, in the heart of an “extermination camp.”

Gas Chamber Survivor Who Found Love at Belsen

By Laura Elston, PA

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Fri 21 Jan 2005

2:47am

(UK)

Gena Turgel entered the gas chamber at Auschwitz and lived to tell the tale.

In the winter of 1944, the 21-year-old was made to strip naked with her mother inside the concentration camp’s extermination block and wait, but miraculously the deadly poison was never released.

“We were trembling. I didn’t know where we were. Inside, it looked terrible. A woman came in that I recognised from a previous camp. She was very shocked I was there and went out again.

“We waited a while and then water came through the walls. It was wonderful. For many weeks we had had no water on our backs. We were all drinking it.

“As we came outside, the women there said how wonderful it was to see us. They screamed with happiness. I didn’t understand what they meant. I said ‘What are you shouting about?’

“They said ‘Don’t you know? You were in the gas chamber.‘ I lost my voice. I couldn’t produce any saliva.”

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Psychology of Holocaust examined

By SUZAN CLARKE

THE JOURNAL NEWS

(Original publication: January 10, 2005)

www.nyjournalnews.com/newsroom/011005/a0110auschwitz.html

NEW YORK — All of Holocaust-era German society — including military, governmental, civilian and corporate sectors — bore responsibility for the Nazi atrocities committed against Jews, leading scholars discussing the psychology and mentality of the time said yesterday.

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Webmaster note: It’s good to be the victor — you get to say anything you want about the vanquished. Given corporate involvement in the war effort in the U.S., can you imagine the claims that could have been made if the shoe was on the other foot? Also, note that the “leading scholars” are only concerned about “atrocities committeed against Jews.” No other victim groups need apply. Finally, the “atrocities” were committed by “Nazis,” that is, members of the Nazi political party. So, not only are these “leading scholars” attempting to make the Holocaust Jewish-only (years of claims that “the Holocaust” includes non-Jews notwithstanding), but they are also attempting to label every German of that time as a “Nazi.” Pretty nuanced, huh?

Daughter brings mother’s Holocaust stories to students

By Kelley Bruss

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Posted Jan. 07, 2005

www.greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_19327311.shtml

ASHWAUBENON — Andrea Rabinovitz lost her mother in 1999 — but she’s determined that her mother’s stories about the Holocaust not be lost.

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She told about 265 Parkview Middle School students that the descendants of Holocaust survivors have a responsibility to pick up stories where their parents left off so the world won’t forget.

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Her uncle Erwin was sent to the Dachau concentration camp in the early ’30s and was shot for stepping on the grass — after a guard had told him he could no longer step on the concrete.

He died in a Munich, Germany, hospital.

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Stern: Wearers of orange star deny Holocaust

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

Dec. 24, 2004
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Major General Elazar Stern, head of the Israel Defense Forces Manpower Division, told Channel 2 on Thursday that settlers wearing the controversial orange Star of David are “Holocaust deniers”.

“This isn’t our people. If you like, they belong to those who deny the Holocaust,” said Stern.

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