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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 30, 1992
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HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1992 7:00 P.M., SMITH HALL AUDITORIUM
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST
MEMORIAL SERVICE
WITH SPECIAL REFLECTIONS BY HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, EVA EDMANDS AND PROFESSOR WILLIAM TUTTLE
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The University of Kansas Commencement Video
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Holocast survivor remembers
TEL AVIV, Israel — During the death march, Irit Wizmit remembers, onlookers threw bread to the exhausted, starving Jews. The guards threatened to shoot anyone who picked up the bread. But some were too hungry to hold back.
The Associated Press
Jewish woman speaks of experiences after 40 years of silence
"The road became littered with rolls and bread and bodies," she said.
Wizitzer was sitting in a Tel Aviv university library, talking to a mix of students in T-shirts and older faculty members. Everyone listened raptly.
"I thought I had heard it all, that it was time to say "enough already." said Professor Dina Porat, a Holocaust scholar. "But the more I listen, the more I think there isn't a single testimony that can't teach us something new."
Oral memoirs like Wiznitzer's are a fixture of Holocaust Day. Far from dimming over time, they are becoming sharper, more detailed. The Israeli survivors are dwimling in number, from one in three Israelis 40
years ago to one in 10 today. Those who remain don't want to die with their tale untold.
Spring is the season when Israel reminds itself why it exists. It begins with Passover, celebrating the Israelites' Exodus from Egypt; then comes Holocaust Day beginning Tuesday night; a week later is Memorial Day for fallen soldiers, followed immediately by Independence Day, which next month marks Israel's 44th year of statehood.
The daily Maariv saw special significance in this year's Holocaust Day "with neo-Nazis raising their heads in Germany, a French judge acquiring a Nazi murderer ... and Mussolini's granddaughter getting elected to Parliament on a fascist ticket."
Many Israelis say they believe the Holocaust could happen again.
That, said Wiznitzer, is why she decided seven years ago to break four decades of silence — "to pass it on to her son" — that the Holocaust is not repeated."
She is a cultured, well-groomed
woman, a nurse by profession, still working at 68. Her soft, girlish voice vividly sketches herself at 13, when she was a frightened girl called Irka watching the German army march into her town in Poland.
Taken from her parents, she was sent to a forced labor camp to make parachutes. She loaded earth into trains, dug ditches and survived beatings, freezing cold and typhus. Near the end of the war she was one of 1,500 Jews who were death-marched around the German countryside for weeks until only 100 remained alive and she weighed 64 pounds.
Yet now she chooses to dwell on the small acts of kindness that broke the Nazis' rules.
She remembers the elderly boss at the parachute factory who smuggled a sandwich and fruit to her each day; the family that fed her after she escaped from the death march, and the people who threw bread from their windows as the procession passed through Czechoslovak towns.
Lithuanian-Nazi libel suit resumes
The Associated Press
MIAMI — In plush offices facing sparkling Biscayne Bay, lawyers are plunging into a dark, horrific past.
Piles of documents provide evidence that Lithuanian police during World War II so brutally assaulted and murdered Jews in towns such as Slutsk, Minsk and Khatyn that even their Nazi superiors were shocked.
"To bury seriously wounded people alive who worked their ways out of their graves again is such a base and filthy act that this incident should be reported to the Fuehrer," a Nazi commissioner said in a memo about a Lithuanian police battalion's 1941 massacre of about 8,000 people in Slutsk.
The documents are part of the defense in a $1.04 million libel suit filed by retired Lithuanian mining engineer Antony Gecas against Scottish Television over a 1987 documentary linking him to massacres of Jews and other civilians.
"It's a very small window we opened up into the heinous atrocities committed by the Nazis and their hired henchmen," said Alan Rohnick, a lawyer whose Miami firm, Greenber, Traurig, is defending Scottish Television. "This was the beginning of the Holocaust."
The Florida lawyers are helping their Scottish counterparts, relying in part on documents that have become available only in recent years from the archives of Eastern European nations and the former Soviet Union.
The trial resumed in Edinburgh, Scotland, Tuesday after a seven-week break and is expected to continue for up to a month.
Gecas, 75, who changed his name from Antanas Gecevicius when he moved to Scotland, said he had been defamed and subjected to harassment because of the documentary.
He said he joined the Lithuanian resistance after the Soviet Red Army seized his homeland in 1940. Like many Lithuanians, he said, he joined battalions formed by the invading German army as it drove toward the Soviet Union in 1941. He acknowledged becoming a platoon commander.
Gecas said the nationalistic Lithuanians were dedicated to battling the Red Army and its partisans. And he blamed communist propaganda for linking him to the atrocities.
Memos from the Nazis themselves, who oversaw slayings of hundreds of thousands of Jews in the Baltic states in 1941, use words such as "ghastly" and "sadistic" to describe Lithuanian police actions.
Reports to German supervisors tell of Lithuanian police offering to let Jewish victims go for a price, beating Jews with rifle butts and clubs and pulling rings from the fingers of corpse.
In a letter to his German superiors, Nazi official Heinrich Carl wrote, "In the future keep this police battalion away from me by all means."
Carl wrote that some Jews needed to be kept alive to maintain commerce. And he said he had to draw his pistol on one occasion to stop the Lithuanians 'indiscriminate killing and, on another occasion, order his own troops off the street because they were in danger of being shot by out-of-control police.
Raul Hilberg, a University of Vermont professor and key defense witness, said the documents pouring out of Eastern Europe offer new accounts of collaboration between Germany and the Baltic states.
He testified that Lithuanian units were used primarily for terror and secondarily for police operations.
Attorney Mark Schnapp said the case had brought him a new understanding of that tragic time.
"Igrew up Jewish, and you hear about the Holocaust your whole life. But to start putting the facts and details together, it's a very emotional experience," said Schnapp.
The KU Athletic Department, in appreciation for the overwhelming fan support of its various programs, announces a special two for one sale!
In conjunction with the Jayhawks' week of baseball with Wichita State and Missouri, the following KU memorabilia offered by the Athletics Department will be available on a "Buy One, Get One Free" basis
"Sixth Man / Beware of the Phog" T-shirts Big Eight Champions '92 T-shirts and caps Assorted KU sweatshirts, tees, and caps Basketball trading cards And More!!!
Where: Allen Fieldhouse Lobby, or Hoglund-Maupin Stadium When: Thursday, April 30th through Sunday, May 3rd, 9:00a.m. - 6:00p.m. (Wed. and Fri. until 10:00p.m.)