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Don't let the Jewish Holocaust be watered down
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BobW
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The Shoah has already been watered down and it is too late to change the trend under current arrangements. Two main events contributed to placing the Shoah into the footnote section of history.
The opening of America's Holocoast Museum in Washington, D.C. served to eclipse Israel's role in the memorialization. The legitimate question is why a museum to the Holocoast was opened in the national capital of the United States. If there are legitimate reasons, would not the same rationale apply to the Cambodia killing fields? Remember, public funds and public approvals are involved and needed. The memorialization of America's slavery is involved also.
Does America's Holocoast Memorial Day not reflect on those Americans lost in the Japanese death camps of WWII?
The second major event was the greatest immigrantation wave since the Eastern Europeans were introduced to Ellis Island. With massive Mexican and Asian immigration, America's link to Europe has been severed.
In a short time, under current trends, Holocoast Memorial Day will become a great day for shopping.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on February 12, 2005 11:14 AM
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hiddennook
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I see you've added the RSS feed (yay!--now back on subject)
I've been to the Holocaust Museum in Israel...and it is a frightening reminder of what happened. Once inside you hear them repeating the names of every child who was killed in the holocaust via audio. There are so many that it takes two years to repeat the same list!
Also, in one section they have six candles lit in a room full of mirrors. It makes it frightening because you see all of the little flames everywhere. Our generation must never forget...otherwise we will be doomed to repeat history all over again. Selah!
Posted by: hiddennook on February 12, 2005 01:15 PM
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Marty
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The opening of America's Holocoast Museum in Washington, D.C. served to extend the facts to the world. Thousands from around the US and the world that come to DC learn the facts, take them with them, and spread the facts around thr world from whence they came.
By bet is that most of these people would have and will never set foot in Israel. Wherever the facts can be told, it must be told.
On this one BobW, and with all due respect to your love for Jews and Israel, we disagree.
Posted by: Marty on February 12, 2005 08:12 PM
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BobW
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Shalom Marty,
It is fair to disagree.
I attended a Holocoast Memorial Day service and a couple of the follow-on workshops. More time was spent re the Japanese-American internment camps in the US (eg Heart Mountain) and the major plans to add America's slavery history to the Museum as the world's "worst holocoast".
Visitors to Washington, D.C. leave with perceptions not grounded in fact.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on February 13, 2005 02:16 AM
Don't let the Jewish Holocaust be watered down
Patrick Dempsey
It often appears to me that there can be no Remembrance of the Jews within the Holocaust, or the very struggle for Jewish existence without the Holocaust, unless reference is paid to all those other nationals murdered by the Reich or by intolerances elsewhere. As an author on the Holocaust I am heavily involved, each year, with the Holocaust Memorial Day and find this anomaly strange.
I think this sums it up adequately, without the need to dilute the very efforts the Nazi's entered into to select Jews above all others. There must be a case for simply remembering the Jews of the Holocaust?Even the chosen slaughter of 33,771 Jews of Kiev at Babi-Yar must have its gentile element. Like Elie Wiesel has said,
Can we allow the Jews their grief, without referencing our own, especially when that Jewish grief in history has been so marked, and the reference point given as the Holocaust? Yet we insist that we suffered too? This appears as a preponderance toward age old anti-Semitism, which has been the commisssioning evil of civilisations chequered past.
Maybe in the dilution of the reference to the Jewish catastrophe we seek to disguise 'christian' participation? Our inhumanity cannot be disguised so easily! It almost appears as an attempt to deny the Jewish 'exclusivity' within the Holocaust, while acknowledging that Jews as well as others were indeed murdered.
But surely the case for remembering is that anti-Semitism holds the key to all that we seek to learn from the Holocaust, and it is the hatred of the Jewish Semite People that we wish to learn from in order to prevent other atrocity's from happening. Already that is too late, but is that because we have not chosen to reflect totally upon what was a Jewish Catastrophe perpetrated by a wholly 'christian' community?
Maybe the lesson to be taught will emerge from the 'Shoah' of the Jewish People, unless that proves too exclusive for the 'christian' community to bear?
Posted by Ted Belman at February 12, 2005 08:26 AM