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The Canadian Champion, Tuesday, Apnil 16, 2002 -21 Methods of studying Holocaust in question - fromn SCHOOL BOARD on page 3 "Therefore, Ibis type of storytelling, and especially for uneducated 12 and 13 year olds, is implanting the seed for hale against the Germans." Last November, Mr. Junger spent a clas peniod aI St. Gabriel's elementary recount- ing his harrowing time in Nazi-mun concen- tration camps during the Second World War. A Romanian-hom Jew, Mr. Junger was 13 when he was deported from Hungary, along with his parents, to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland ini 1944. He said he neyer saw his parents again shortly after arriving at the infamnous con- cenlration/death camp complex. Mr. Junger's recollections and thoughts appeared in tbe January 20 issue of The Burlmngton Post, The Champion's sister newspaper. Some time lter the newspaper received four letters of complaint, two fromn local residents, another from Brantford and one from the samne German-Canadian associa- tion thal had written the sebool board. Tbeir content runs the gamnut from a belief that grade 8s are 100 young 10 hear war atonies to questioning Mr. Junger's memory to accusing Mr. Junger and the Catholic board of hate-mongering of al Gennans to dlaims the Allies murdered many Germnai PoWs and ousright denial of the 1-olocaust. 'Me latter statement in particular hoils the blood of Mr. Junger, nonnally a soft- spoken and articulate mndividual. "We're (Holocaust survivors) not ail hal- lucinatmng, hie said. "'Me Germans have accepled historical hlame for wbat lhey have done." Most historians and Holocaust experts believe six million Jews died as a result of the Nazis' genocidal plan dubbed the 'final solution.' "There is nos one scintilla of embellisb- ment," Mr. Junger said about bis concen- tration camp remarks. He can't understand bow any national person cas deny the Holocaust. "lt's like saying that on September Il no Arabs wene involved un piloting those planes," he said of last year's terrorist attacks on the United States. Mr. Junger, who still camres on his armn the tattoo of a number fromn his concentra- tion camp days, said hie only hegan recounling bis wartime memnories about six or seven years ago. Since tben he has talked to St. Gahriel School pupils on sev- eral occasions with no complaints fromn anybody, he said. In mid-February he addressed an assemhly of Nelson High School students. The community relations director for the Canadian Jewisb Congress, Ontario Region, praised the scbool board for offer- ing an Anne Frank study unit complement- cd hy a talk fromn a fsrst-hand witness to the Jewish war expenience. "Canada bas the second largest (Holocausl) survivor cotnmunity in tbe world and I think il's an extremely proac- tive developmenl," said Len Rudner. "The Holocaust is the moat documented case of mass murder in human history. To say that the Holocaust neyer happened is a statement of anti-Semitism." FIBSTPROFESSIONAL M collision & Paint mtev. Boespc " Customer SatLisato Guaranteed " Photo lmaging &Computenlzed Paint Faciliy " We GUARANTEE Your Vehicle Completion Date *FuIly Lien. Collision p R 1 HURRICANE CRYSTAL LAMPS ý FHU R J if à [Table Top