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MS-603: Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum Collection, 1945-1992.

Series E: General Alphabetical Files. 1960-1992

Box 83, Folder 3, Holocaust, 1985.

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HE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE

date January 7, 1985

to Irma Krents

from Lorraine B. Meyer - (Philadelphia Chapter)

subiect "The Children of Izieu : A Jewish Tragedy"

We had ~ request from one of our members about the book noted above, published by the Association of the Sons and Daughters of Jews Deported From France, in Paris (see enclosed release).

Do you know if there are plans to publish it in English? Would Committee take such a project under consideration? Are there any plans to do so?

I look forward to your reply.

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An Archive Gives Faces To Nazis' Young Victims

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U lla.or ~lea. It - iD d.e ,_ of 3 pr:iyu IO Cad. wbo, UJ!aa a~. embodied an iftflllite ~ !bat rewarded tile good wltile puNslalaa the wtcked.

''It ts Uw\ks to you.·· tier lenu aaid. "tbat I had :a good life before, that I w.u spoiled, that I tiad prmy llliDgs !Mt others did aot bave.

" I only aslt you one thing." Ullane· wrote. " Lei my parmu be loSetber apio.. Protra tbem c- more tlwl me) so !bat I mi&ht see t!lem ap.ID u 500ll as possible. Lft lbem l'ftllnl -more time.

"I have so mudl contldeoce ill :PW that I give >'°" my tlwlkS in advaDce," the leuet CODclwled.

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uted for sale Ill baoltslDres. Coples aui be obtained tram the Assoc:i:ation at Uie Sons llDd Da113btars of Jews Deported Frocu Fn=:e, wbole ~II B.P. 104. 75722 Paris. Fraoce. . lbe ~ cmuains • DUTaUve ~ IDrY ot etforu - IJy J..s.IUl4 ,_ Jews alike to save cbildreD cbattllc the Nazi accupe.tlca Of Fruce, inclwlillg Ille autlall of bcales la. remote F reucll vUJages t.b:al, It was bopecl. would -cape Iba Qttmtion or the Gestapo :&1111 their many Freucll mll.aboi.tors. F- Ca&llatlc Sanuaer camp

l1lls - !be - wttll U!eu.. Wtlere lo l9C3 a ~ Cadiollc childttn's summer camp was oaavened Into a bome for Jewish dslldrm $to 17 ya.rs old. h1 most c:ases. tlldr parenu had bee! depo!'tl!d earUer. or the ddldren bad been Rllt from major IOlftla and dt!es for s:irety.

At 1%1~ U lbe tt.1>1odac:ed ~ graphs show, Ille chiJdmi led IOnl&-1.b!ng dose to nonzaal lives. But Uldr letten, aldl u lhac at Uliane Germ. stein. also revnl an •-or the

Mr. JOarsfeld's booll reveals wt the <nonJIOUI tragedy tbaI. despite ettoru slllgle -.Jewish child ill the IJ:IN to pn11ecuhe cllildreu botll ~ borne at IM time of tbe Gaupo raid l.Dd psycbologlClllly, was to aigWl - quickly T"eleaud. th~.

" II was untl\lJlkable," Mr. IOanreld "Mutbu, dear IDDtber, I !mow haW said today, "to hold Ole trial of Bartlie mucb you have suffered !or mo on thlJ wtdlout having Ille iwnes of bis vte>o bappy Mothel'I Day," Jacquois 8-t!ms. It was witlunli.able - to ~ gwgul. whu was ~ed to Aldebwtu to Ulen their Identity :as Jeoors." OD Apr11 1l. 19M, 1111 13UI binbd:ay.

Mr. IOarsfdd 141d that the book. WTote In one ltUU I.hat w survived. Wllicb ts ID frt'lldl, will no( be disut~ "I send )'Oil my bc5i wtsllel tram Ille

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TO! Lorraine B. fl.feyer

FROM:· Irma IL KreJits·

In reference to your inquiry abo.ut "The Children of Izieu'' book, I am. sending it along to Ql.nterna:tional Affairs •• .• . It· wa·s a good· questioni but addressed to t he nong department. · - · ·

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The WEWOHL does ·not-." have a continuing assignment with the Holocaust and a.atte·rs· pertl!lent to it .. · We had ·an HEW funded .. major project to develop oral me2oirs of Holocaust survivors in this country• . which culminat;ed with the book. ·1.'Voices -of . the Holocaust" . · · ..

However.,. J . am sure that the I .A.D·. will be able. to _give you al.1 the. information you ~re ~~oking for.

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Dear Fr.ie~v- ,,_ ;1----, n_ 10 January 1985

/ (/ ---, This between-serresters trip again ~f fords opportunity to celebrate the

opening of the new year with friend} - fare in person and sane by letter. This is the 5th year that I have wr~tt$~ Jerusalem" to mark Hanukkah/Christmas/New Year0 s, and again I :can'!report that spending even a few d~ys i ~~ng and ·ener.g,izi~. If any reader has not ye e tha~ilgri;tage, let me urge -1t u~ you: there is simply nothi g to ~ with ~xperiencing the Jerusa~ of today and recollect-ing_;:. in the City of Da.1id - the f<>fmati1 events of our C~and

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__.Qft.kial ~iness ~n this tr""'tp inclu ed thJ pnnu~{ meeting of the _____-rnternational Ca.mch of Yad Vashem -=-l:lle-rremorial to ·the martyrs and

heroes (including rfi..ghteous gentiles) during the Holocaust period (1933-34) . After ~ing the only Christian Council member for several years, I was delighted to ire joined again by Prof. Harry James Cargas of Webster University. I also bad the privilege of presenting a paper on "Anerican Protestantism and Antisemitism" to the President 0 s Circle - an occasional meeting of c60 rrembers of parliament, professors and other public leaders that hears and discusses a scientific paper. our colleagues at Hebrew University, Moshe Davis and Yehuda Bauer, have been instrurrental in the developrrent of this significant intellectual forum. President Herzog was a cordial host.

Quite independently, Marcie was invited to participate in an awards cererocmy rremorializing the Yarzeit of Rabbanit Sarah Herzog, the President0 s rrother. The cererrony, at which young waren came from all over Israel to receive citations and scholarships and Marcie was made an honorary member, was held at the Jerusalem college sponsored by Emunah Waren of Anerica.

Marcie also rnet with our colleagues on the staff at Yad Vashem to talk over plans for the summer Teachers Institute, where both of us have taught for several years.

Arrong other special events to be singled out for 1984 I would mention just three of general interest. First, the National Institute on the Holocaust has been given a new name: the Anne Frank Institute of Phila­delphia. The Institute has taken on a growing load of education aimed at the children of middle and high school age. Also, the Second Generation (sons and daughters of survivors) is taking an increasing role in Institute affairs. The Institute is Marcie0 s chief professional responsibility, and in recent weeks she has been very busy with camrittee rreetings of lawyers and architects and sponsors to get it permanently located near the other Freedom Shrines of Philadelphia. She has also been actively working with various programs associated with the National Memorial Museum being prepared in Washington, D. c. under the u. s. Holocaust MeROrial Council; a few weeks ago she gave the opening address at a meeting of directors of Holocaust Centers gathered at Yale.

Second, I celebrated with old friends - by mail - the SOth anniversary of the founding of the National Council of Methodist Youth. Founded as an independent youth l'!Overrent in Evanston in 1934, NCMY lasted (1934-40) until the youth work of 3 branches of Methodism - Methodist Episcopal Church, M. E. Church, South and Methodist Protestant Church - came under the control of the Board of Education of the new church. "The Methodist Church" was the union founded at Kansas City Uniting Conference in 1939 , at which Harriet Lewis and Richard Baker were the two youth delegates and Herman Will an alternate. ("The United Methodist Church" was formed out of a later union with the Evangelical and United Brethren Church. ) The NCMY worked in harness with other youth and student noverrents - both dencminational and political - during the Depression years on such issues as peace , racial justice, economic justice, educational and job opportunities for youth, etc. Hayes Beall (an early President) - now retired in Salem, Oregon -suggested the "reunion," and Herman Will (President 1938-40), now retired in Seattle, and Tom Pendell (saneti.rce Executive Secretary of NCMY), now retired in Santa Monica, helped to make the contacts with "old-ti.rcers. 11

We also celebrated in 1984, on the initiative of Dean Locke of the University of Washington, the SOth anniversary of the Synoo and Declaration in which the Ger:man Protestant resisters (at Banten/Ruhr, 29-31 May 1934) drew up their battleline of opposition to Nazism as an expression of heresy and idolatry. Hubert Locke was my partner in fcunding in 1970 the Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Church Struggle, which will celebrate its 15th Anniversary in Philadelphia on 10-12 Mardl 1985. The 1985 theme will be "Forty Years After" - af.ter the liberation, after the opening of the camps, after the end of the Third Reich, after the Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt, after the martyrdom of Anne Frank and Dietridl Bon­hoeffer and so many others • •• In Seattle in 1984 we were fortunate to have several hundred colleagues who have specialized in one way or another in the story and lessons to be learned fran the Holocaust and the Church Struggle - including sane GeJ:l!lan colleagues of the resistance like Heinrich Vogel , Franz Hildebrandt, Eberhard Beth:]e, Wolf-Dieter Zirnrcennann. We also had as one of our chief public speakers an impressive churchman, Bishop Desm::md Tutu, who shortly thereafter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Events and interviews were put on film by a crew frcm Hollywcx:xj corrananded by the son of my old colleague from post-war years in Germany, Richard Sol.berg - himself an authority on the church struggle wi th both Nazism and Canmunism. Ha¥ the wheel does turn!

Of family ~ I shall report only briefly. 1984 was a year of graduations. Marcie0 s two sons both graduated fran professional schools in 1984, Jonathan in Medicine and Robert in Law. Sarah, my oldest grandchild, graduated at the top of her class of 734 in Las Vega·s and opted to stay in the West to study. Thi s was the year, too, that my grandson Steve at 16 years of age "graduated" above his uncle Steve (6°4 11 over 6°2" - and both grandson ·and son towering over "Opa"!)

Thus retired colleagues and youthful prcrligies alike remind rre to be thankful for the gift of life, for colleagues and students I yet enjoy in teaching religious history, and for friends who will read this epistle.

Franklin H. Littell USA address: POB 172, Merion PA 19066

Jewish Exponen11june 15. 1984

Attending Ille ceremony proclalmlng "Anne Fran.II o.r·· (!ram leftl ere Miriam Noyitcll, rapreHnllng lareel; City Cou,.. cilman David Cohen; Aaron A. Gold, traHurer of Illa Anne Frank lnatltute; and Dr. Franklin Littell, founder and honorary cftol""•" of tt.e in•tltwte,

Institute name change to honor Anne 'Frank· By STEVE FELDMAN Of the Exponent Staff

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As the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles. so do i 1he first-hand accounts and lessons of the nightmore they I shared. Many i>coplc believe that lhe ·younger aener.ations must be educated about what happened and why - so that this tragic histo~· will no1 be repeated . ·

This was the 1hem• of a cer<m.ony Mond.ay arternoon in City Council chambers as Mayor Wilson Goode proclaimed .. Anne FrJnk Day:· marking the birthday of the girt who hid .,·ith her family from the Nazis for two years in the auie of an Amsterdam warthousc:.

ReptcjCnt ing the martyred Holocaust heroine al the cen:mony was the National Institute on the Holocaust. which later announced a name change 10 the Anne Frank Institute of Phibdelphia . • ··Tbc: faith and ~ords of a 12-ycar-old girl. livina thiough

one of history·s darkest periods .. . mo~ us b«aUJO she had the strcnJ!lh to sc:e. to n:member. to hope."' n:ad part of the proclamation:

-11 is this hope. this optimism. that the National Institute on tht HolOC1us1 wishes 10 con~ in the creation of an Anne, Frank House. as an interfaith Holocaust lcamina center:·

Marcicne Manleman. executive din:ctor of the Mayor's Commission on. Literacy. p~nted the proclamation on behalf of Goode to Mark Cuker. pn:sident-clect of the Sons and Daughters of Philadelphia Holocaust Survivors. .

"This city has n:ached out to survivors and their children. and 1hafs impnrtanr ro us:· Culcer said.

In 1975."P.hiladelphia became the lirst major school di11ric1 in the nation to include Holocaust studies in its educational curriculum.

Aaron A. Gold. tn:asun:r of the institute. strtsscd that the theme of the proaram was "n:memberins thl'Qugh education. Only throuah proper education can we eradicate bigotry and injustice . •. and ensun: that such • traaedy will never happen again - 10 any people anywhere.''

"As time runs out on our older generation. we look . incrcasinl!IY to our children and g"'ndehildrcn to n:latc the story and t~e lessons. of our darkest years:· Gold said.

Gold also paid tributt to Dr. Franklin H. Littell. founder and honor3ry chairman or the institute. calling him ... the father or Holocaust education in America."

· FrJnk's diary. found by her father after the war and published. has been read by millions around the world. providing lessons or the Holocaust and optimism in the ptcjCnCe of horror. .

LitteH founded the ecumenical institute here in.197S to teach all people and rutun: gcner.llions about the events or the Holocaust and to provide educational 5Crviccs. · The tzroup llas made Philadelphia the major center of

Holocaust education in Nonh America. The institut< also holds an annual confettncc on 1eachin1 the Holocaust.

After the procla~tion was made. Gold announced that the institu1e·s name had been changed to the Anne Fr:ink lristilute of Philadelphia. in order IO stn:ss .the lesson of the Holocaust to chilcftcn.

StudcnlS from a Pitman. NJ .. elementary sehool'closecl the program by n:citing poems written by childn:n who. like Fr3nk. perished at the hands of the Nazis.

Also participating in ihe cen:mony were Marcia Sachs Li11ell. executive din:ctor of the institute: Sister Carol Rittner. n:pn:scnting the U.S. Holocaust Council: Sondra Mevers. chairwoman of the Pennsylvania Humanitiu Coun­cil: · Miriam Novitch of the Ghetto Fishttr's Hou.Sc and

.rcpn:scnting'ls,.,el: Dr. GeorJe Fn:nch Jr .. din:ctor or Social Studies Education for the School District of Philadelphia: and Or. ln:ne Shur. secretary of the institute . .

The Rev. Wilfn:d P3shley of St. Rose of Lima Parish gave the invocation. anct Rabbi David Wortman. uecutive

. din:ct\>r of the Ph!ladelphia· Board of Rabbis. deliven:d the benediction. ·

15TH INTERNATIONAL ANNIVERSARY ffiNFERENCE 10-12 March 1984

"Forty Years After"

Sunday, March 10th

2 : 00 Registration, Book Display and "Film 4:00 "THE CONI'INUING TJ\SK" (cO-sponsored with the National Association of

Holocaust Educators) - Prof. Saul F.riedman (Kent State University) author of The Oberammergau Passion Play: A Lance at Civilization

6:00 15th ANNIVERSARY DINNER - Prof. Hubert G~ Locke (U of Washington), presidiny speaker, :Prof. Franklin H. Littell (Temple U) "Holocaust Education After °Forty Years in the Wilderness 0

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8:00 CONFERENCE KE~ (Richard Gingold Memorial Address, co-sponsored by the by the Sons and Qaughters of Holocaust Survivors) - Elie Wiesel

Monday, March 11th 9:00 "FORI'Y YEARS AGO: WHAT WERE niE AMERICANS OOING?" - Jewish Agencies/

The Goldberg C.am.r\i:ss,i .Qn·;RePPi;t · (~arq T.ai:i~ ... ~_yrn}.!!.. 'rh~ ·AIJJ3 . .,;:ican Churches (l<obert Ross, author of So It Was True) , "Pac if ism and Isolationism in Retrospect" - - .--, .. - .-. -

11:30 SEMINAR I - TEJV:HING THE HOLCX:AI.JST ·AND. ITS LESSONS - Middle School, Secondary Schools, Colleges, Gradua.te ·studies, Congregations

1: OU CONFERENCE LUNOiEDN - Speaker .- PrC?f • . _:Dav;id S • Wyman ( u _qf M.as.sach1;1s._e~J:..!§) auth0r of The ~nd9rur~.i:1t Of· th_e .. Je~!? . · ., :' . ·· • , , )

2: 30 THE CHURCH .srR~ ,\\ND ~ Jeyl!SH, J:>EX;)P,~:. ~s ~ ·~ FOUR DECADES (co-sponsored by the Nort:h. ~r.i.~n Se~t,iQn .. of t,he International Bonhoeffer Society) - "Th~. W~t~ss . .-.of. piet~ic.h .~o$~tt.er" "A Reappraisal of the Church Resistanc-e"

4 :3_0 .: ·I:.ESSQNS·_FOR.. THE PRO~SIOOS - Cle:r;gy; Journal.ists, Lawyers,_: <· ~ .r. :.;r t~c<.: · -~ , ·.:1 " -.P.oc.to:t:"S ~ f.. J'~1,1rses , T~qchers . .. .. . . :.·:·, .. ·,.-,;, -'·.: ~;~ .. :: .. ·

6:30 WAL.LENBERG~OI:NNER - . (.cG-sponsoreo,_.by .. tne. Wallen.berg. Carmi~tee .Pf ·Greater 1.1: · · ~ ·:·.·.'"'!.!: ~hiladelphia) - Dr. Harvey Rosenfeld (Pace University), author of Wallenberg:Angel of Rescue

8:00 PUBLIC LECTURE - Prof. Jan Karski (GeorgetCMn U) rressenger frcrn Auschwitz

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Y:UU :' I.COKING AKEAD - "To the Year 2024 • •• " - Prof. Harry James Cargas (Webster O) lU:uu:: .-: HOLOCAUST EDUCATICN (parallel sessions) - The Work of the Holocaust Centers

__ ; Co-Chainren: Williams Parsons ( "Faciny History andOUrselves"), Marcia Littell (Anne Frank Institute of Philadelphia) (Introducing the u. s. Holocaust Merrorial Council0 s Rep0rt on Allerican Centers of Holocaust Education) General Educational Developrrents: Israel, Germany, Denmark, Czechoslovakia •• •

12:30 BERNARD E O~ MEMORIAL cnNFERENCE LUNCliEx::>N, with Awards Cererrony; Speaker: Prof. Jaffe Eliach, author of Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust

An International Conference with the above and other outstandiny scholars and leaaers: James Wolf, Konnilyn Feig, Margot Stern Stran, Geoffrey Hartman, Irene Shur, Marvin Wolfgang, Michael Ryan, John Conway, Burton Nelson, Emil Fackenheirn, Leonard Swidler, Henry Frieolander, Wolfyang Gerlach, Elliott Wright, ,Alan Berger, Robert Wolfe, David Kirk, Richard LibJwitz, Ruth Zerner, Wolfgang Gerlach, Willard 0°Brien, Rutus Cornelsen, David Rosenberg, Henry Thanpson, Berel Lang, Deborah Lipstadt, David Rausch, Walter Renn and many rrore - fran Israel, Europe and Allerica •••••

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THE lS'IH INTERNATIQW. ANNI~Y C::OOFERENCE

10-12 March 1985 Philadelphia

"Forty Years After" (Carmerrorating the 4Uth anniversary of the end of the Third Reich •••

the martyrdom of Anne Frank and Dietrich Bonhoeffer • •• the opening of the camps •••

the joyous Second Life for the survivors)

Co-sponsored by the u. s. Holocaust Memorial Council, National Conference of Christians and Jews, Hamlin Institute, William o. rbuglas Institute, Anne Frank Institute of Philadelphia , National Association of Holocaust Eaucators et alia

Dr. Franklin H. Littell, Chairman 15th Anniversary Conference on

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