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claaaea have all of the standard
stereotypes about Jews,” the
teacher said ruefully to me on
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the classroom. Unfortunately I
knew that ADL’s research
published in the volume Adoles
cent Prejudice had confirmed
with hard statistics the ap
praisal she was making.
Students in the eighth, tenth,
and twelfth grades are highly
prejudiced toward Jews and
blacks, readily accepting the
bigoted, grab bag of stereotypes.
“That’s very sensitive of you.
You’re right. Just say
‘traditional’ stereotypes.
Listeners will know all too well
what you mean.”
The teaeher, Mrs. Jan
Christopher, sociology and psy
chology teacher, Clarkston High
School, DeKalb County Schools,
explains on the program why she
was motivated to devote many
classroom hours to the subject of
the Nazi’s attempted extermina
tion of the Jews during World
War II. “My students consider
the period 'ancient history.’ They
are incredulous that it really
happened. There is a certain
fascination with the horrible,
but they don’t know the facts.”
One of her students, Laurie
Erwin, the school’s star gym
nast, also appears on the
program. She optimistically
voices the belief that her genera
tion would “never let such
brutality occur again.”
Others on the panel are Helen
Spiegel, who was a teenager in
Nuremberg when the
Nuremberg laws were passed,
and Aubrey Morris of WSB.
There is impuMtoned discussion
about the need to question
values, to raise the issue in
education of one’s personal
responsibility in society when
injustices are present.
The ADL program on the
Holocaust, described on the
August 14 radio program, is
available to all Atlanta area high
schools. It has been used in
eleven of the twenty-two DeKalb
High Schools; in several of these,
for a second year. At least a
week of classroom time is
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In the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after its liberation.
who died in the Nazi concentra
tion camps will not go un
remem bered."
ADL’s study of history text
books indicate very few of these
books give adequate content to
the Holocaust. The majority
relegate the subject to footnotes.
The participants in the program
talk of the need to remedy this
distorted view. Their discussion
can be heard on WSB Radio,
August 14, 10:30 to 11:00 p.m.
(Ms. Cantor is Southern Educa
tion Director of the Anti-
Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith )
devoted to an exploration of the
implications today of the
Holocaust.
The study is concluded with
the students writing essays ex
pressing their thoughts on the
subject. They are eloquent and
moving, making Helen Spiegel
and others who fled Europe and
now share their experiences in
the classroom feel their visits
“however painful are impor
tant.” Mrs. Spiegel concludes,
‘This is a way to insure that the
Six Million Jews who died so
brutally and five million others
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were rejected by the U.S.
WALTHAM, Mass. - Prof.
David Hyman, historian and
author of a new book on the role
of America during the Holocaust
period, told a seminar on the
“Holocaust and Rescue’’ at
Brandeia University here that
pleas for American aircraft to
destroy the Nazis’ crematoria
and the rail lines leading to the
death camps were brushed aside
by top-level Washington of
ficials.
The first such request for a
bombing attack was made in
June 1944 to the War Depart
ment, Wyman said, adding: “It
called for bombing the deporta
tion rail lines between eastern
Hungary and Auschwitz,” in an
ticipation of a German mass
transfer of some 800,000
Hungarian Jewa to the death
center.
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the proposal, Wyman said, “ex
plaining that it could be ex
ecuted only by the ‘diversion of
considerable air support essen
tial to the success of our forces
now engaged in decisive
operations’.”
In actual fact, Wyman states,
“the decision was made without
asking the Air Force commands
in Europe whether the proposal
might be feasible — instead the
rejection was based on an inter
nal memorandum dating back to
the first weeks of 1944.
Wyman explained that the
“essence of the memorandum
was that the forces would not be
used in rescuing victims of
enemy oppression, except when
rescue might occur as a
by product of regular military
operations. This statement
quietly and effectively removed
the military from participation
in rescue efforts.
The historian added: “The
War Department’s assertion in
1944 that bombing the gas
chambers would necessitate con
siderable diversion of air power
does not stand up to the facts.
On August 20,1944, a fleet of 127
of the 16th Air Forces’s Flying
Fortresses rained destruction on
oil refinery targets inside the
Auschwitz complex.
“The same target was struck
again on September 13 by a force
of 96 Liberators. Assignment of
a half-dozen of those bombers to
hit the gas chambers and
crematoria, located about four
miles away, would have con
stituted an almost imperceptible
diversion of air power.