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•    :-By- . RABBI W. GUNTHERPLAUT
During these last few weeks I have been occiipied with aspects of Holocaust revisionism, the attempt by all sorts of people, with all sorts of motivations, to rewrite the story of the
' Second World War and, especially, of the fate that 'befell the Jews.
The revisionists' goal is always the same: to show the Holocaust as commonly portrayed did not take place at all. Admittedly, quite a few Jews died, but they did so as "normal" victims of war, which always engenders disease and starvation, but they did not perish because of any deliberate attempt to exterminate
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What about the thousand proofs to the contrary that fill every respectable library? Answer: Most of the ''documentation"_was purposely falsified
. by. Jews or other erieinieT^^ the Reich;
What about eye witness accounts, such as were rendered at Nuremberg? Answer: Such testimony was extorted or totally unreliable.
What about the gas ovens? Answer: Built by the Allies after the war to besmirch the good name of Germany and to secure reparations for Jews.
Rabbi Plaul
A uschwitz remains a prime subject
The subject of Auschwitz and its extermination apparatus is a prime subject for the revisionists. With large amounts of technical data they try to show that four million.people,(the number most often heard) could never have died at Auschwitz-Birkenau, because it would have taken too many years even to transport them on the single spur line to the camps. And similarly, burning iip four million would have taken far more time than when the camps were actually operational.
Now comes Prof. Yehada'Ba^^^ of the Hebrew University in Jerusaleih, recognized as one of the greatest students of the Holocaust^ who says that four million could indeed not have been killed iat Auschwitz, and that, by inflating the numbers of victims, we play into the hands of the revisionists; They are right, he says, when they show that four million could not have been killed at Auschwitz. He laments the fact some of the best known Israeli officials as well as Jews and Gentiles everywhere have uiiintehtionally fallen into the trap of exaggeration. Even an in^ scription at Auschwitz itself repeaisTlie error.
Canada asked to raise $35 million
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Quoting a French-Jewish scholar's carefiil analysis, Bauer says flatly: "There never were four million victims in Auschwitz" (Jerusalem Post; RbshHashanah edition); His concluision: The number of Jews gassed was 1;323,000, plus 29,800 who died in the camp from various causes, for a total of 1,350,0C)0 murdered, these figures are based on a variety of records, among them clandestine notations made by Jewish clerks who were assigned to the extermination process.
Whence the figure gf four million? In part from the assumption that the camp housed ^so huge numbers of Poles. But recent research has shown that from the eii'd of 1942 pn* Poles were shipped elsewhere. From 1943 on; Auschwitz housed mostly Jews, and they were generally gassed dnaitival.
• The exaggerated figure allows Polish sources to clairh that two million victims were Poles, which is to say that the Polish Holocaust was-like that of
The Jews, this in turn gave Cardinal Glemp the opportunity to insist that Auschwitz was as much a Polish problem as it was aJewish one. And, needless to add, all of this isjplendid grist-for tJije mills of the revisionists..     -   .    _ -
Six million desid is still the generally accepted number of Jewish Holocaust victims. But* says Bauer, we don't have to repeat an exaggerated figure for Auschwitz to niake that claim. It was dreadftil enough without it..
By
BEN ROSE
JERUSALEM -
The-Jewish Agency has approved raising $500 million in the Diaspora over the next five years to help finance the dramatic. increase in the number of Soviet Jews going to Israel. Z. The Israeli government has adopted a master plan costing $2 billion to offset the cost of housing, jobs and other services for the estimated 100,000 Jews expected from Russia in the next three to five years.
The Iargest-€ver Canadian delegation to the Jewish Agency meeting participated actively in the deliberations.
' 'The board was most impressed with the actions of the Canadians." said Walter Hess of Toronto, executive vice-president of the United Israel Appeal of Canada.
Though formal approval is still necessary, Hess told The CJN by phone from Jerusalem that Canada will be asked to raise $35 million in the next five years to help Israel absorb the new immigrants.
A meeting is scheduled .■ for Dec. 10 in Toronto;at' which delegates from Jewish communities across Canada will map a strategy for conducting the campaign.
the Israeli government is planning measures to raise the remaining $1.5 billion to pay immigrant
to block inquiry
MONCTON-
Moncton school teacher Malcolm Ross has asked the Supreme Court of Canada to hear his appeal of a decision allowing a public inquiry into complaints regarding his allegedly anti-Semitic writings.
The request will be heard by the high court on Nov.
11. ;
Ross, a math and-lang-uage teacher at Magnetic Hills Junior High School, has written several lx)Gks and public letters that claim the Holocaust did not occur
The writirigs prompted Moncton resident David Attis to filfe a complaiht with the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission alleging that, by continuing to employ Ross, the District 15 schoolboard is fostering a climate of discrimination;
An inquiry into the complaint was to be held by University "of New Brunswick law professor Brian Bruce, but ifwas blocked by legal challenges.
In September, the New Brunswick Court of Appeal, overturned a lower court decision and opened the door to a public inquiry.
The hearings-are scheduled to get under way on Jan. 8, pending the outcome of Ross' appeal to the Supreme -Court. • •    • •.
costs. One proposal is raising $500 million thrmigh commercial loans and another is to float a special State of Israel Bonds drive- for $100 million.
"We've never had as large a Canadian delegation, and they made a deep
impression'on the Agency's Board," Hess said.
Three Canadians hold seats on the board of governors, Phil Granovsky, of Toronto, chairman of the World Income Committee, Allan Offman of Montreal
and Hess, an ex-officio member. ."^-^—-
Other Canadians in the delegation, permanent or new members of subcommittees, are Joe Ain, Jack Rose, Neri Blopmfield, Julia Koschitzky, Donald Carr, Lou Sklar, Gerry Halpert and Schyler Sigel.
The Diaspora share of $500 million will come from the proceeds of the United Jewish Appeal in the United States and the Keren Hay«od elsewhere in the world. (Granovsky is chairman of the Board
of Trustees of Keren Hayesod.)
The number of Soviet Jews arriving in Israel has risen from 1,1(X) in September to an estimate of 1,700 in November. It is expected that this number will rise dramatically to 25,000 to 30,000 in 1990. To some extent, the exact number will depend on whether direct flights between Moscow and Tel Aviv by both Aeroflotand El Al are estabished in the next six to eight weeks, as is anticipated; :        - :
The forecast of900 arriving in Canada in 1989 is still firm, according to a UIA of Canada official, but an estimate for 1990 is difficult as the situation is changing. One important factor is that the transit camp near Rome where 20,000 Soviet Jews are awaiting processing will be closed by next March. Any Russian applicants to enter United States must now go to the U. S. embassy in Moscow. It's possible that an . increase^ in immigrants to Canada will result. —
latest Study
,-■ By ELLEN GOODMAN
BOSTON - ^. ■ _   : ■
During the early 1970s, a radical.notion arose that husbands should share the work at home. This idea, which set men hyperventilating all over America, was followed by the plague of lists.
''Up against the refrigerator door!,'' Mister. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, he would cook. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, she would do the laundry"."He would wash, she would dry; he would drive the kids to school, she would pick them up; they would live equally ever after.
thus began power struggles over the vacuum, wrangles over thedtye^^^ diapers, and the children in them. She would insist, he would resistr: Actively or passively. Progress was oftenfollowed by slippage. And articles about sharing housework were followed by articles about The Women's Lib Divorce. ■ _
Ah, how quaint it all seems now. So petty. Can you believe that we once argued over something so minor in the great scheme of the universe as changing the sheets, dear. That, love was limited by the list?   ■ '
Welcome to the late '80s..The lists have come down. So has the heat. There is an uneasy tnice or maybe simmering hostility in two-worker households.
He is doing more than his father and feeling underappreciated. She is doing more than her husband and feeling undervalued. There is a friction between women whose liv^ have changed faster than the men they share them with. There is a stalemate over the household.
Now Arlie Hochschild, a Berkeley professor, has written a book on the subject that puts work at home back were it belongs: in the context of marital relationships. The Second Shift, her study of two-career parents over eight years, describes what goes on in the hours before and after our "real jobs." .
She begins with what we know. The wage gap in.the outside world is mirrored by a leisure gap at home. Women are "working" on average one month a year more than their husbands. Some 20 per cent of men in her study shared the second shift equally, 70 per cent did more than a third and less than a half, and only 10 per cent did less than a third.
Even in the most egalitarian households, Hochschild suggests, women did two-thirds of.the daily jobs — cooking — while men did jobs without the same deadline — bills, repairs. When men shared,
they were more likely to take over childcare. leav- =
ing women with the same amount of housecare, =
a job they found much less satisfying. =
Through her intimate portraits of families, we =
get to dissect the emotional meaning of the work =
disparity, "When couples struggle," she says, "it =
is seldom simply over who does what. Far more =
often it is over the giving and receiving of grati- =
tude.'' What happens to gratitude when a wife =
wants help at home and a husband "gives her" the S paycheque that comes from more time at the office. ' =
Neither gets what they want. =
In one of the many small, telling observations =
of this book, Hochschild notes: "In my inter- e
views, a surprising number of women spoke of e
their fathers helping their mothers 'out of love' e
-or consideration . . . But not one man . . . made =
this link between help at home and love.'' e
In the '80s, she says', "more couples wanted to e
share and imagined that they did." But the quest e
to. keep reality in line with ideals sometimes e
stretched that imagination mightily. One of the cout =
plesdevisedanequal "division of labor''this way: e
he took care of the dog and garage; she took care e
of the child and house. They called it a deal. e
In the ba,sic deal of the '80s, most women whose e
husbands are not sharing have given up trying to. •=
change the division of labor. They have their own e
strategies for working the second shift.' "They were e
either supermoming, cutting back their hours at e
work or cutting back at home.''    ~— e
They stopped pushing their husbands to change, =
Hochschild believes, because "getting help at home " e
was second on their wish list after 'want fewer ten- e
sions at home.' " This fear of diyqr.ce quieted e
many women's demands. But at the same time =
women whose husbands didn't share thoughts about =
divorce more often, .and women who did divorce e
listed "neglect of home and child" as their chief e
complaint. e
I have always assumed that the argument e
about who works the second shift was less about e
labor relations than about personal relations. e
Not surprisingly, those men who "win" the ar- e
gumient about housework, whose wives work e
that extra month, lose a good deal to exhaus- =
tion and resentment. =
The bottom line of Hochschild's study is, after e
all, that difficult-to-quantify thing called happiness. e
What one thing did conuibute to marital happiness? 5
She reports unequivocably:~"the husband's will- =
ingness to do the work at homer-^Put that on the =
refrigerator door. Right where they used to post = the lists.                           -■ ■              ■ ■ •■ S
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