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Friday, December 9, 1966
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OFF the RECORD
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
(A Seven Arts Feature)
CHILDREN ARE DELIGHTFUL . . .
It is said of the righteous of
the world that their courage in
confrontation with God in crisis
stems not alone from faith but
from the ability at a given mo
ment to speak God’s language.
How does one speak God’s
language?
Ask any child and you will
learn.
Or, more properly, ask Jer
ome, who seemingly troubled
about the difficulty of learning
Hebrew sat down and penned a
letter to God. “Dear God," he
wrote, “Did you have as much
trouble learning Hebrew as I
am? Are there any easy ways to
do it? I know you talk English
too so, I am writing in English.”
The Lord has many problems,
probably as many as there are
human beings. But how did he
handle this impish little lady who
wanted to know. “Why can’t you
even keep it from raining on Sat
urday all the time?”
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Still another child wanted to
know, “What is it like when you
die? Nobody will tell me, I just
want to know, I don’t want to
do it.”
And a little lady wants to
know, “Are boys better than girls?
I know you are one but try to be
fair.”
Then there are the philosophers
among the children who want
answers to more serious ques
tions. “Are you real?” asks Har
riet Ann. “Some people,” the
young lady reminds the good
Lord, “don’t believe it. If you are
better do something quick.” Still
another, a somewhat frightened
boy, asks God, “How do you feel
about people who don’t believe in
you?” Obviously in fear of of
fending God with the question
or else of creating the impression
that he himself was among the
unbelievers, the youngster advises
God that “Somebody else wants
to know.”
These gems are culled from
C H I L DREN’S LETTERS TO
GOD, by Eric Marshall and
Stuart Hample (Simon Sc Schus
ter). We adults think we have
troubles when in reality they are
as nothing as compared with the
secret burdens our children car
ry.
THEY'LL NEVER POROET . . .
The story of the Nazi anni
hilation of six million Jews has
been told many times. There have
been newspaper accounts, films,
speeches, documented reports and
literary works, notably Elie Wei-
sel’s haunting novels. Some have
been objectively factual; some
gruesomely stark; still others im
aginative fantasy. But none has
been more effective than the
hour-long documentary “Mem
orandum,” produced by the Na
tional Film Board of Canada in
the restrained understatement
that is so typically British.
Its American premiere was
held last week under the auspices
of the World Federation of Ber
gen Belsen. It stunned an audi
ence of some hundred survivors
into a silence that was deafening
in its impact. No amount of ap
plause could have been a
greater tribute to its producers
than the hushed silence that en-
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veloped its watchers.
“Memorandum” is a carefully
detailed and painfully moving
account of the Nazi death camps
that utilized German Army clips
as the background for a visit of
survivors to Bergen Belsen last
summer on the 20th anniversary
of its liberation by the British
Army. They had come to say kad-
dish for the men, women and
children they had left behind. As
Josef Rosensaft, New York busi
nessman who heads the Bergen
Belsen Federation said: “We shall
not forget and we shall not for
give.”
The Federation is cooperating
with the Canadian National Film
Board for the distribution of the
film in this country to both Jew
ish and other groups. When you
have the opportunity of seeing it,
don’t miss this picture which
points up German guilt for the
murder of the Jews as it plain
tively asks:
“And if it could happen in the
fairy land of Hansel & Gretel,
and the Pied Piper of Hamelin,
could it not happen anywhere?
And could it not happen any
where if it could happen in the
cultured land of Bach, Beethoven
and Schiller?”
Would that the millions of
Germans who are now electing
neo-Nazis in Hesse and Bavaria,
and thinking of an ex-Nazi,
Kurt Kiesinger as their next
Chancellor, be enabled to see this
film. In the name of the Free
World, of which they purport to
be a part, they too should “not
forget.”
LETTER FROM A RABBI . . .
The floods that engulfed the
Italian city of Florence have
brought still uncovered damage
to the Jewish community of that
city.
Part of it is told in the follow
ing letter from the Chief Rabbi
of Italy Dr. Eliahu Toaff, whose
son, Rabbi Ariel Toaff, is a stu
dent at the Bernard Revel Grad
uate School of Yeshiva Univer
sity.
“The situation of the city of
Florence in general and of the
Jewish Community in particular
is desperate. The surging flood
waters of the river Amo burst
into the main Synagogue of Flo
rence, Italian Jewry’s biggest
and most beautiful house of wor
ship and, reaching to the women’s
gallery, submerged all the Sifre
Torah and the entire collection
of books, incunabula and manu
scripts in the Jewish library. Im
mense damage was done by the
salty waters to approximately 280
Sifre Torah, 200 manuscripts and
15,000 volumes. Eighty Sifre
Torah were taken to Rome for
restoration the others, including
the books and manuscripts, re
main at Florence to be restored.
One thousand Jewish students
and librarians from all the world,
mainly from Israel and England,
came to Florence to help and are
working 12 hours a day. The
waters also destroyed the Jewish f loren “ immediate help
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