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Before a packed crowd of 1,058, Kedem tells about his childhood experiences living in Nazi concentration camps. Kedem discussed the effects of racism and blind hatred during his speech, which took place during Racial Ethnic Harmony Week. (Photo by Todd Feeback) harmony week 31
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harmony (Continued from page 29) was amazed to find out that in some areas they felt similarly. During the week, students were invited to attend meetings for Black Student Union and express their opinions through poetry at the Oct. 3 UPC-sponsored poetry reading. Zev Kedem spoke of his experiences as a Holocaust survivor and drew an overflow crowd of 1,058 to Forum Hall. Kedem, an engineer and documentary filmmaker, served as a consultant to Steven Spielberg ' s 1993 Oscar-winning epic, Schindler ' s List. Kedem said he dealt with years of internalizing the trauma after seeing the film. I discovered a language (through the film) to at least discuss what happened to me, he said. Kedem was 8 when his family was forced by the Nazis to live in the over-crowded ghetto of K rakov and later the work camp Plaszow in his native Poland. The degradation, even to a child during the Holocaust, was so difficult, so insidious that I would not speak about it for 50 years, he said. The only objective for a child of that age was to see if you could beat the system and live for another day. At Plaszow, Oskar Schindler enlisted Dr. Leon Gross, Kedem ' s stepfather, to treat his factory workers. Subsequently, Kedem and his mother were placed on Schindler ' s list. When Schindler moved his factory to Brinnlitz, Czechoslovakia, Kedem was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where a number was immediately tattooed on his forearm. I had tears of joy and a little discomfort, he said. I realized that if the Nazis had investe d enough to put a number on us, then they weren ' t going to kill us — that night, anyway. Stressing the evils of blind hatred, Kedem discussed the extreme levels of racism he endured. It wasn ' t just destroying one nationality— it was denigrating and humiliating people to levels lower than that of humans, he said. Kedem was cared for by American soldiers after fleeing Auschwitz at the end of World War II. A generation later, he found his mother, Selma. As part of the last generation of Holocaust survivors, Kedem believed there was a message for everyone in his experience. We must never forget the evil that happened to that little boy and millions of others like him, and, most importantly, we must never let it happen again, he said. His message was heard by an audience of mixed racial and ethnic groups. I was astounded by the crowd outside, Libby Rittmaster, senior in Spanish and Latin American studies, said. They weren ' t just coming because it was a Jewish issue but because it was a world issue. I think it struck a deeper core. Racial Ethnic Harmony week ended Oct. 7 after students walked in unity from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through campus. Zev Kedem, Holocaust survivor, visits with Alexandra Thome, sophomore in economics, in Forum Hall Oct. 6. Kedem, whose life was spared by Oskar Schindler in Poland, was an adviser to the movie Schindler ' s List. I discovered a language (through the film) to at least discuss what happened to me, Kedem said. (Photo by Todd Feeback) 30 harmony week
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