Hardy, please explain why giving medals to the „righteous“ who put the=
ir lives at risk makes you furious?
Ruth
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On Nov 20, 2015, at 10:14 PM, Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
> Yes Sally,I am looking at it from all possible angles.
> In WW2 you had to be a "righteous" to save a Jew.
> Nobody wanted us ! Those who helped us were putting their life at risk.
> And we give them medals for it !
> This makes me furious !
> Can't help it .
> Hardy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-119918200-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-119918200-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Sally
> Bendersky
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 3:30 PM
> To: Hardy Breier; hedbren_at_zahav.net.il; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Cc: Jorge Schindler
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Samuel del Campo
>
> Dear Hardy,
> I invite you to take a look at Samuel del Canto's story from a different
> point of view than the one I think you are taking now:
>
> This man was a young diplomat who risked his life and lost his career in
> order to do what his consciousness dictated to him. Chile, or at least th=
e
> Ministry of Foreign Affairs, gave explicit instructions to prevent the
> "MEMBERS OF THAT RACE" (as written in official documents of the time) fro=
m
> receiving documentation that would allow them to emigrate to Chile. This
> reminds me of Gregory Wallance's book "America's Soul in the Balance". Yo=
u
> might remember that "our" Ruth Glasberg provided important information fo=
r
> that book. The US Ministry of Foreign Affairs had powerful enough members
> who prevented the evacuation of Transnistria survivors to let them emigra=
te
> to USA.
>
> Jorge Schindler is a young diplomat who is researching the issue because =
he
> thinks it is fair to uncover an unknown situation and to recover and hono=
r
> the public identity of a man who disobeyed racist orders and was accussed=
of
> taking money illegally and was fired from his job. Jorge thinks he saved
> several hundreds or maybe some thousand Jewish lives. His motivation is
> justice in general and acknowledgement by the Jewish community . This is =
why
> he is looking for people who might have been saved through del Canto and
> that would entitle him to be recognized by Yad Vashem as a "Fair man"
>
> According to information gathered by Jorge Schindler, it was the mayor
> Traian Popovici who ordered to stamp "under Chilean Protection" on the ho=
mes
> of many of those Jews who had been sent to the Czernowiz guetto and were
> thus saved. It is obvious, then, that the mayor and the Chilean chargé
> d'affaires were working in agreement.
>
> I think our group is a relevant source of information for Jorge. This is =
why
> I contacted him when I read Edgar Hauser's mail on the topic.
> I am copying to Jorge in order for him to check that the information I ju=
st
> gave you is correct.
>
> All the best,
>
> Sally Bendersky
> Chile
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