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Addressing a Houston congregation, Menachem Rosensaft, chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, termed the President's insistence on going to the Nazi cemetery "so macabre and so awful that one can only wonder what possessed Reagan." If Reagan does not change his plans, Rosensaft warned, "I would want to organize survivors and American veterans to be at the gate of Bitburg, so that he should look into the faces of those he has terribly and permanently offended...
...right to exist -- expressed in language acceptable to Washington if not to Jerusalem -- has altered the political dynamics. The fact that five prominent American Jews coaxed Arafat until he finally got his rhetoric right in December demonstrated the changing role of American Jewry. When one of the quintet, Menachem Rosensaft, returned from the Stockholm meeting with Arafat, an effort was made to oust him as head of the Labor Zionist Alliance and member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. He survived the attempted purge, and remains a vehement critic of Likud policy. "I am particularly troubled...
...aging survivors at the meeting felt an urgent responsibility to keep the memory of their horrors alive by educating the younger generation about the Holocaust. Says Menachem Rosensaft, 34, chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors: "As the children of survivors, we have a special obligation to make sure this doesn't happen again. And one thing is clear: having happened, it can happen again...
...tragedy was strong. Visitors had been asked for tapes recording their experiences, and interviewers in four "oral history" booths worked nonstop taping individual tales of the Holocaust. An entire day was taken up by meetings of the 600 children of survivors who had come along. One was Menachem Rosensaft, 33, a New York lawyer who was born in a displaced-person camp at Bergen-Belsen, "a few hundred yards from the mass grave where Anne Frank was buried." Rosensaft is a leader of a second-generation survivor group: "We want to fight antiSemitism, to do something. The last time people...
...Hannah Rosensaft, a plump, cheerful passenger through the early journey, held back tears for as long as she could...
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