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...article "A Survivor of the Holocaust" I presented Rudolf Vrba's views on Zionism and on collaboration during the holocaust-period. To assume, as Ms. Rosenberg does, that I share those views is to read an element into the article that is simply not there. In fact my personal opinions on these subjects are largely the same as the authors of these letters. Nonetheless, it was my intent to write an objective and even sympathetic character sketch of Vrba. This did not represent an endorsement of his position...
...Writer/Director Paul Morrissey, "She has fiendish beauty." Then he described Monique's role. "She gets loved to death. Monique makes love to the monster, and he embraces her so passionately that he crushes her backbone. It's all in 3-D." Dimensions intact, Monique turned up at Rudolf Nureyev's opening night with the National Ballet Company of Canada in Manhattan last week on the arm of Warhol. Hugging them both, but not enough to crush their backbones, she declared, "I love Rudolf," then added, "I love Andy too, but in a different...
...charge of this transformation is Rudolf Leiding, 59, a onetime repair-shop manager who became chairman of Volkswagenwerk three years ago. Though 5,500 Beetles had continued rolling off the assembly lines each day until last week's shutdown, Leiding has been gradually shifting some of Volkswagen's eggs out of the Beetle basket. Volkswagen's subsidiary, Audi NSU Auto Union AG, formed in 1969, now offers medium-priced and expensive (up to $5,360) sedans, most notably the Audi 80, called the Fox in the U.S. Sales of these cars are rising faster than anything else...
...anger and frustration that has built up in Rudolf Vrba during the last 30 years has left its mark. Vrba has made a conscious effort to keep himself totally unaffiliated: he is anti-Zionist, anti-communist, and even somewhat anti-Semitic, particularly with respect to American Jews. A pessimist by virtue of experience, he terms Israel "a potential Auschwitz," speaks of "Zionist megalomaniacs," and says that nothing is more repugnant to him than middle class American Jews demonstrating for Soviet Jewry. ("Let them go to Israel themselves, not send Russian Jews to fight there...
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Rudolf Vrba is his triumph over his past, his refusal to have allowed Auschwitz to destroy his life. Undoubtedly few of his colleagues in the gastrointestinal research unit at Mass General are aware that he is a key figure in the entire holocaust period, that he is a man who took it upon himself to try to stop the extermination of European Jewry--perhaps the only individual who can make that claim. And this is the way Vrba wants it. His past, though always with him, is a private matter. So for that matter...