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Ant*****!
Touring the Zachor Holocaust Center.
Zachor Holocaust Center exhibit
puts focus on past, present, future
by Vida Goldgar
More than 500 people lined up
at the Atlanta Jewish Community
Center Sunday evening to make
their way slowly through the rough
wooden doors, designed to resem
ble the dreadful boxcar doors of
Holocaust transport, into the new
Zachor Holocaust Center. Conver
sations begun in line in the hall
stopped suddenly as visitors entered
the exhibit. Only occasional
whispers broke the silence as, in
solemn procession, viewers studied
the photographs, documents and
other exhibits, arranged in chrono
logical order from pre-war days
onward. The last exhibit, a mas
sively enlarged photo of Atlanta
survivors of the Holocaust and
their families today, highlights the
celebration of survival aspect of
the Zachor Center.
Many of the exhibits will be
remembered from the display at
last spring’s Israel EXPO. How
ever, their new setting, designed by
Ben Hirsch, and the impact of a
number of three-dimensional addi
tions heighten the effect. Among
the latter is a brick ghetto wall with
globs of cement testifying to the
speed of construction. Above hangs
a photo of a real ghetto wall under
construction. There is an 1800
Vlasin, Czechoslovakia, Torah set
in a recess of a painting of flames
and an original wire sculpture of a
tree executed by Jane Leavey,
Federation’s staff coordinator for
Zachor, which exemplifies the
message that if the roots are strong,
a tree (or a people) can survive
devastation and bloom again. The
message was also implicit in the
gleaming smooth exit doors, con
trasting with the rough “box car”
entrance.
At a brief and simple ceremony
before the tour began, representa
tives of the organizations whose
cooperative efforts brought the
Zachor Holocaust Center to real
ity addressed the audience. The
remarks of Elliot Cohen, chairman
of Zachor, which are printed in
part below, gave a meaningful ex
planation of the purpose of the
center. Other speakers were Gerald
H. Cohen, president of the Atlanta
Jewish Federation, who especially
praised Elliott Cohen’s determined
efforts on behalf of the Holocaust
Center; Harris Jacobs, first vice
president of the AJCC; Ben Hirsch,
president of Hemshech, Organiza
tion of Survivors from Nazism;
and Saba Silverman, president of
Children of Holocaust Survivors.
Cantor Isaac Goodfriend led the
“What you will see tonight
represents the efforts of those who
feel the imperative to tell and retell
the story of the Holocaust, and to
teach its lessons, so the words
NEVER AGAIN will be applied to
all people at ail times.
“The Holocaust was unique to
the Jews because they were
slaughtered for no reason other
than the fact that they were Jews.
But remember that almost 30,000,000
other human souls also died because
of the hatred and fanaticism born
of the same evil.
“It is the purpose of the Zachor
Holocaust Center to explain that
the experience of the Jews—al-
though unique in the annals of
man’s inhumanity to man—carries
universal lessons. What you will
see is not a museum; it is a teaching
aid—a physical representation to
bring words to life; a visual and
kaddish. Each spoke with feeling,
but the brevity of their remarks
pointed up the fact that the Zachor
Holocaust Center tells its own story.
The Zachor Holocaust Center is
open to the public Monday- Thurs
day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
Sundays from noon to 4 p.m. There
is no admission. For more infor
mation, call the Federation, N73-
1661.
audio experience involving not
strangers but people in our com
munity.
“Let me be candid with you:
There are many people—Jews and
non-Jews alike—who lack enthu
siasm, even interest—in projects
relating to the Holocaust. Their
reasons are as varied as human
nature itself. ! believe that to some
it raises some questions of guilt by
acquiescence. To some, it is only the
Jews magnifying their plight while
ignoring the trouble of others. To
some it is the fear of calling atten
tion to the Jews in our ‘assimi
lated’ society. Perhaps saddest of
all, there are those who do not see
the need to be reminded about an
historical event in which they were
not involved and which, so they
believe, can not happen again.
“It is the purpose of Zachor to
teach these people the truth—more
important, to teach it to their
children.”
Chairman’s remarks
by Elliott Cohen
