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HOLOCAUST PROGRAM REMINDS SOCIETY TO FI GHT MASS MURDER
Oakland Press
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/01250 8/opi_20080125231.shtml
Jan 25 2008
MI
The Michigan chapter of the Zionist Organization of America is hosting
a special program Sunday to honor the United Nations International
Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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It's a program that you should attend, if possible. It will be
enlightening, although don't come to be amused. It will commemorate the
60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The 2:30 p.m. Zionist program is in the Holocaust Memorial Center
- Zekelman Family Campus, at 28123 Orchard Lake Road, on the west
side of the road just north of 12 Mile Road. For information, call
(248) 282-0088.
Admittance is free, but the information you will receive is priceless,
especially for anyone with an open mind and a heart for humanity.
Two speakers will be featured in the program, titled "Confronting Evil,
Now and Then, Terrorism and Nazism."
One speaker is Henry Gleisner of Oxford, a Holocaust survivor who
successfully escaped the ghetto in Lwow, Poland. He functioned with
false documents and worked as an interpreter in German construction.
In 1944, he joined the Italian Resistance, sabotaging a German
airfield. In 1945, he served with the American military government
in Austria and helped in the liberation and rescue of the Ebenese
concentration camp. He is the author of "Defying the Fates," a
chronicle of his life story.
Also speaking is Gleisner's grandson, Chief Warrant Officer Eric
T. Howe of California, a highly trained and decorated Marine Corps
officer. He enlisted in 1987 and has served at the American Embassies
in Panama; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; and Santiago, Chile. He also has
participated in several special operations; Operation Just Cause
(Panama), Operation Southern Watch (Iraq), Operation Vigilant Warrior
(Kuwait) and Operation Restore Hope (Somalia).
Through the years, numerous neo-Nazi and hate groups have tried to
deny the Holocaust ever happened. It's like trying to deny the sun
rises in the east and sets in the west, but it's frightening that so
many believe the lies.
That's why programs such as the one at the Holocaust Memorial Center
are critical today. It's important to remember what happened 60 years
ago and further back so that people don't forget and can try - and
that's a key little word - to prevent future occurrences.
Obviously, the controversial Armenian Genocide in Turkey, which began
in 1915, didn't prevent the Holocaust during World War II. And the
latter has failed to prevent such horrors as the Darfur slaughter in
Africa, where hundreds of thousands of people have been massacred.
That doesn't mean people and nations of good will and true humanity
should give up. That will only guarantee future butchery.
A holocaust or genocide by any other name is still the mass murder
of innocent men, women and children.
It should never be tolerated, accepted or denied.
As the title of the remembrance day program states, the "evil" needs
to be "confronted" head-on by every human whose heart has not grown
stone cold by prejudice and bigotry.
The day should be a remembrance and a commitment to continue to fight
the senseless annihilation of your fellow man.
Oakland Press
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/01250 8/opi_20080125231.shtml
Jan 25 2008
MI
The Michigan chapter of the Zionist Organization of America is hosting
a special program Sunday to honor the United Nations International
Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Advertisement
It's a program that you should attend, if possible. It will be
enlightening, although don't come to be amused. It will commemorate the
60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The 2:30 p.m. Zionist program is in the Holocaust Memorial Center
- Zekelman Family Campus, at 28123 Orchard Lake Road, on the west
side of the road just north of 12 Mile Road. For information, call
(248) 282-0088.
Admittance is free, but the information you will receive is priceless,
especially for anyone with an open mind and a heart for humanity.
Two speakers will be featured in the program, titled "Confronting Evil,
Now and Then, Terrorism and Nazism."
One speaker is Henry Gleisner of Oxford, a Holocaust survivor who
successfully escaped the ghetto in Lwow, Poland. He functioned with
false documents and worked as an interpreter in German construction.
In 1944, he joined the Italian Resistance, sabotaging a German
airfield. In 1945, he served with the American military government
in Austria and helped in the liberation and rescue of the Ebenese
concentration camp. He is the author of "Defying the Fates," a
chronicle of his life story.
Also speaking is Gleisner's grandson, Chief Warrant Officer Eric
T. Howe of California, a highly trained and decorated Marine Corps
officer. He enlisted in 1987 and has served at the American Embassies
in Panama; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; and Santiago, Chile. He also has
participated in several special operations; Operation Just Cause
(Panama), Operation Southern Watch (Iraq), Operation Vigilant Warrior
(Kuwait) and Operation Restore Hope (Somalia).
Through the years, numerous neo-Nazi and hate groups have tried to
deny the Holocaust ever happened. It's like trying to deny the sun
rises in the east and sets in the west, but it's frightening that so
many believe the lies.
That's why programs such as the one at the Holocaust Memorial Center
are critical today. It's important to remember what happened 60 years
ago and further back so that people don't forget and can try - and
that's a key little word - to prevent future occurrences.
Obviously, the controversial Armenian Genocide in Turkey, which began
in 1915, didn't prevent the Holocaust during World War II. And the
latter has failed to prevent such horrors as the Darfur slaughter in
Africa, where hundreds of thousands of people have been massacred.
That doesn't mean people and nations of good will and true humanity
should give up. That will only guarantee future butchery.
A holocaust or genocide by any other name is still the mass murder
of innocent men, women and children.
It should never be tolerated, accepted or denied.
As the title of the remembrance day program states, the "evil" needs
to be "confronted" head-on by every human whose heart has not grown
stone cold by prejudice and bigotry.
The day should be a remembrance and a commitment to continue to fight
the senseless annihilation of your fellow man.