Finding it harder to never forget

[ForestsBeatBushes]

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This week, the council met for its biannual session, with two Israelis, both camp survivors, taking part in the discussions - Prof. Yisrael Guttman, scientific adviser to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, and Noah Flug, secretary-general of the umbrella organization of Holocaust survivors in Israel.

Flug and Guttman spoke emotionally to Haaretz last night of their deep concerns following the council's discussions. One of the council's main recommendations this week was to approve a plan to establish an educational-research center at Auschwitz that will focus on educating for tolerance and fighting rising hatred around the world.

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"Someone visiting Auschwitz in the future will get the impression that the citizens of many countries were murdered there," Guttman says. "It's true, but it doesn't reflect the main issue - that those citizens were not murdered because of their nationalities, but because of their ethnic origin, because they were Jews."

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"During the meeting, when I spoke to the Poles,I did indeed express myself very harshly," Guttman says. "But I am in no hurry to lay the blame - and certainly not all the blame - at the feet of the Poles. There are enough Jews in the world whose ancestors died at Treblinka,
Majdanek and Sobibor and it is the duty of the Jewish people to take care of these places."


http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/358065.html

[SlavesandBulldozers]

1. does the Simon Wiesenthal center

investigate economic ties to the Nazi regime? If so, why aren't they subpoenaeing the Bushes instead of mourning alongside them?

[ForestsBeatBushes]

2. That's an excellent point.

Although the Center's Hall of Tolerance is especially moving, I question some of the leadership decisions of the SWC.

Perhaps the Holocaust Museum might be pursuing those ties; I don't know. However, I do know the link is very sensitive. Please recall that the USA recruited Nazi scientists to work at NASA after WWII. There are a whole host of ties between a whole host of countries that would prove extremely embarrassing. :mad:

[Eloriel]

3. And the CIA, and the RNC

Plenty of Nazis to go around. And George H.W. Bush was right there.

Eloriel