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Capitol ceremonies U.S. remembers the Holocaust by Joseph Polakoff TSI’s Washington correspondent WASHINGTON—In ceremonies under the dome of America’s capitol marking the annual Day of Remem brance for the 11 million victims of the Holocaust, including six mil lion Jews, Gen. J. Lawton Collins remembered “a great Jewish sold ier,” who was killed in action in France while fighting the German forces in 1944 in World War II. “Lightning Joe” Collins, now 90, was wheeled to the podium in the hallowed rotunda and helped to rise because he wanted to say something about his long-dead comrade, Gen. Maurice Rose, commander of the Third Armored Division in the Seventh Army Corps, which Collins had led. In a speech of only 40 words, the old soldier said firmly to the hushed audience that crowded into the rotunda, “Gen. Rose fought with great distinction. He was killed in action at Paderkorn (in Normandy). He was the son of a rabbi.” Collins was then helped back to his wheel chair amid prolonged applause. Collins and Lt. Gen. William Quinn, who was the Seventh Army’s assistant chief of staff in the war in Europe, and the present Army chief of staff, John Wickham, accepted the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council’s first Eisenhower Libera tion Medals on behalf of the Amer ican soldiers who liberated the concentration camps in 1945. The Eisenhower Medal also was presented to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas, who was twice decorated for heroic achievement and was severely wounded as a soldier in World War 11. Standing by as the medals were given was David Eisenhower, grandson of President Eisenhower, who had commanded the Allied armies in Europe. The awards which the Council will make annually for outstanding contributions to the fields of human rights and freedom, were presented to the four recipients by Elie Wie- sel, who had just been appointed by President Reagan to a second term as the Council’s chairman. The sides of the medal show Eisen hower in his World War II uniform and Wiesel’s words: “For the dead and the living we must bear wit ness.” Vice President George Bush, Dole, Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Wiesel, three survivors of the death camps—Sigmund Strochlitz, Ben jamin Meed and Miles Lerman — and Kitty Dukakis, wife of the Mother's Day May 11th % Flowers Say Avant-Garden Elie Wiesel Massachusetts governor and a member of the Council since its formation in 1980 as a federal agency, spoke of the evil of the Holocaust era and appealed for permanent remembrance so it might not be repeated. Flags of 10 U.S. Army divisions that liberated death camps were unfurled at the ceremony. The U.S. Army Band and Army chorus of 24 male voices joined in the ceremony as well. As he has at all previous ceremonies in the rotunda. Cantor Isaac Goodfriend of Atlanta, him self a survivor, chanted, “Ani maamin,” (“I believe”) and “El mole rachamim,” (memorial prayer). He sang the Star Spangled Banner to open the program and “The Par tisan’s Hymn” to close it. Twelve senators and representa tives took part in the lighting of six tall candles to commemorate the six million Jews who perished. Mark Talisman, the Council’s vice chairman who chaired the program, emphasized that all of America’s 50 states and their gov ernors have this year observed Remembrance Days. The United States is the only country outside of Israel to mark the Holocaust as a nation with annual ceremony. Congress has unanimously voted use of the rotunda for the cere monies. Bush, who addressed the rotunda program for the third time, said, “Our challenge today is to insist that time will not become the Nazis’ friend,” that “time will not face our sense of the specificity or the uniqueness of the Holocaust,” and that “time will lead us to make the Holocaust into an abstraction. Our challenge today is to remember, always to remember, the Holocaust.” Protesting the continuing “abuses of man,” Wiesel referred to Kurt Waldheim’s explanation of his Nazi association to exemplify failure to remember the past. “The former highest official of the United Nations, who is now running for president of Austria, finds refuge in oblivion,” Weisel said. “What is this, if not political cynicism on the highest level? Has the world learned nothing from its recent past.” “We do not advocate remem brance simply as a form of self- indulgence, or as submission to melancholy,” Wiesel said, “but as a means of redemption of the future, a future that has been so jeopard ized by the past.” He said, “The mission of man and the purpose of his life is to oppose and negate death rather than offer it his blessing.” Wiesel’s remarks were inter rupted by the screams of a woman, who was forcibly ejected from the rotunda. A statement she had given to a newsman prior to the incident charged West Germany had refused to “pay us any kind of restitution for experiments done upon us by Josef Mengele,” the German doc tor who had experimented with inmates of the death camps. She asked for congressional hearings on “Mengele-gate.” The woman was later identified as Eva UalleifUiew Ranch Horsemanship Camp for girls 7-17. atop Lookout Mountain Cloudland, Ga 30709 700 acres of trails, hunt fields. 6 barns, 5 rings. 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