Friday, May 7,1993
GRIMSLEY HIGH LIFE
VOLUME LXrX, NUMBER 8
Professor uses Holocaust
evidence to combat
propaganda, ignorance
By Shani Levine
Between the years of 1939 and 1945,
Europe was taking part in the Holocaust -
the systematic and bureaucratic annihiliation
of six milUon Jews by the Nazis and their
collaborators. Today,
the Holocaust stands as a tragedy not only
for Europe but for the whole world. The
tortures, horrors, and murders that occurred
during Hitler’s attempt at annihiliating an
entire people must never happen again.
Therefore, the Holocaust has to be remem
bered.
And since the end of the Holocaust,
many people, both concentration camp sur
vivors and wimesses to the Holocaust have
campaigned to keep the memory of the
Holocaust alive in order to combat anti -
Semitism and racism. General Dwight D.
Eisenhower after visiting a concentration
camp shortly after its liberation said, “The
visual evidence and the verbal testimony of
starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so
overpowering... 1 made the visit deliber
ately, in order to be in a position to give first
hand evidence of these things if ever, in the
future, there develops a tendency to charge
these allegations to propaganda.” In addi
tion, thousands of books, movies, interviews
and speeches have been made in order to
keep the lessons of the Holocaust alive.
That is why the Roper Organization’s
survey which says that one in five Ameri
cans do not believe that the Holocaust was
possible is so disturbing. America’s lack of
knowledge on the facts of the Holocaust is
also not being helped by the increasing
number of people who are saying that the
Holocaust never happened through the use
of propaganda books and articles.
However, the struggle to educate people
about the Holocaust has not stopped. And,
on April 19,1993, exactly 50 years after
the heroic Warsaw uprising, 60 Grimsley
students embarked on a “Journey of Con
science” which carried them through Eu
rope and the Middle East. Guided by Dr.
Rollick, AssistantDirector for Jewish stud
ies at Harvard, the purpose of the “trip”
was to understand the Holocaust’s “most
importantlesson— that when good people
do nothing, evil people can literally do
anything and will do anything, “ Rollick
explained.
Through the use of slides Rollick trans
ported the students to various transit (camps
for important prisoners), death, and con
centration camps. The students were able
to “visit” the barracks in which the prison
ers were kept and saw the ovens which
cremated the bodies of the dead prisoners.
They also learned various statistics such as
the fact that 1,500,000 children were killed
in the Holocaust.
But the point of the presentation and
other Holocaust exhibits, such as the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington D.C., which opened on April,
22, 1993, is not to horrify the audience
with the evils of Nazi - Germany, but to
bring home the lesson that such evil can
happen. The way to prevent it is to be
vigilent and to constantly fight against all
of anti-Semitism, racism, or any other forms
of hatred and intolerance.
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TV, A
art by Chris Walker
Stay sober and drug-free
on graduation night to
win cash and prizes
By Susan Barham
featured inside
p.5 Mr. Saunders joins Giimsley
p.6 Comics make a comeback
pj Varsity baseball team has high hopes
p.8 Grimsley’s tennis team undefeated
Graduation night is a very exciting
time for seniors. It can also be one of the
mostdangerous nights for celebrating gradu
ates. For this reason, Grimsley’s RTSA is
sponsoring Rroject Graduation.
This is the third year Grimsley
has had Rroject Graduation.” This is an all
night drug and alcohol free celebration for
Grimsley’s graduating seniors,” says 1992
chairman Charlene Barham. This event is
held at the
Central YMC A on west Market Street and is
only open to Grimsley’sgraduating seniors.
Rroject Graduation lasts from 11:00 pm to
6:00 amon graduation night. Graduates are
allowed to leave but must sign out and
are not allowed back in. Also, those students
who decide to leave forfeit their chances to
win a door prize. These include such gifts as
money, telephones, answering machines, a
television, a dorm size refrigerator,
jewelry, and gift certificates. Winners are
notified when their name is drawn, but may
not pick up their prize until 6:00 am.
Rroject Graduation is a coopera
tive effort of Grimsley parents,faculty, and
the business community. Senior and
underclass parents can make monitary con
tributions. It is important that underclass
parents
support Rroject Graduation now so that it
will still remain a tradition when their chil
dren are seniors.
The 'YMCA will be filled with
activities for participating seniors such as :
a bingo room, a disk jockey, a make-up
demonstration by 1 Natural, a baby picture
contest, a casino room, volleyball, basket
ball, a caricaturist, photos, face painting,
fortune telhng, and free food all night long.
The General Chairs this year are Carolyn
Gordon, Reg Moore, and Charlene Barham.
Tickets will be on sale Meeting Day and will
also be sold in the Main Officefor $ 5.(X) a
person. Along with the tickets, students will
receive a t- shirt with a design by Elliott
Hundley. For further information, call
Carolyn Gordon at 852-3968.