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October 20, 2009
I WILL NEVER STOP SAYING "NEVER AGAIN."
By Profesor Martin Danenberg "El Quijote del GED"
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Consul General Asaf Shariv of Israel told an overflow audience in Queensborough Community College's Kupferberg Holocaust Center that he will never stop saying "Never Again." Holocaust survivors were there and one told her story of almost being killed then finding the bodies of various family members and burying them with the help of a Polish person. She then quickly hid in a wall for four weeks in a house because that house was suddenly occupied by the Germans. She spoke remember things, telling the people present about the pain of hunger and thirst. Yes we say to ourselves today I am hungry I will go eat at home or eat out. We order a drink with ease and ask for a refill without thinking about real thirst. She spoke about having only ten pieces of bread to eat inside that wall, rationing the bread and eating only one ounce a day. She had no water and she barely survived.
I stood there thinking about that and how people survived because they were able to get into Latin American and the Caribbean. I thought to myself that the things I was hearing could have happened to family members who were able to escape. I quickly thought about the St. Louis and people being returned to Europe to die. I have read that we Jews had illegal immigrants in the United States in the 1940's. Thank goodness! People were helping family members in spite of immigration restrictions. There are solutions to defusing the violence that exists today (in this article).
I recently read about a Holocaust survivor who said he would rather be victim and perish with his parents and family than be perpetrator. I share these thoughts with you because while it seems to many that the world is a better place, we have had tremendous genocide that is highlighted at the new Holocaust Center (Rwanda and Darfur for example). As I write more innocent victims are being killed, even here at home. Galen D. Kirkland, Commissioner of Human Rights of New York State, spoke to the audience about the killing or Marcelo Lucero on Long Island. I am known for my work in education, particularly GED, but I have been partnering with the father of Sean Bell and networking with the Joselo Lucero, the brother of Marcelo Lucero. Jews, African-Americans, and Hispanics must unite to make things better. Arthur Flug, Executive Director of the Kupferberg Holocaust Center, told the audience it is not enough to say "Never Again" and then sit back and do nothing to help. We need millions of good deeds. We need solutions. We need the stories of the Holocaust survivors all over YouTube so hundreds of millions of people can watch and learn.
I will be doing an educational workshop in Sosúa (I have known about how Jews were saved in Sosúa for about eleven years and since I stepped on Dominican soil I have been giving back), Dominican Republic on October 31. So in a few days, I will be trying to make a difference in the lives of millions of people. I hope that the educational improvements that I suggest will impact on communities, reducing the violence to victim and potential perpetrator.
A child grows up and kills people. Stalin in his youth participated in choirs, but he turned toward gangs and violence. Why? Why do so many children change and mobilize themselves to kill? Perhaps it begins with the words, "I am going to kill you!" African-Americans and others are calling to the elimination of the "N" word. The word "kill" will not be ended. This is an imperfect world that we live in and I suggest that we try to get the schools across the United States to watch the footage available in the Holocaust Center and that elected officials (including New York City council members) tell their constituents that undocumented immigrants have rights based on law and federal court decisions. We have to defuse the tremendous violence in this country and we are not going to do it one person at a time. Whether the victims name is Moshe or Marcelo should not matter. Whether the violence comes from community or police should not matter. Remembering is not enough. This is a call to action!
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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Profesor Martin Danenberg October 20, 2009 08:20 AM