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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): FOIA Number: 2003-0259-F 2003-0259-F FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Public Liaison, White House Office of Series: Jeavons, Kathy, Files Subseries: OA/ID Number: 07228 Folder ID Number: 07228-011 Folder Title: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council: Tour - Interfaith Council of the Holocaust - 8/7 Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: G 18 19 5 1 Sarah PLs. seeme right away, Bobbie As Generald Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet (George Bush Library) Document No. Subject/Title of Document Date Restriction Class. and Type 01. Memo Rex Scouten to Bobbie [Kilberg], re: Interfaith Council on 07/25/89 P-5 the Holocaust Student Exchange Program. (1 pp.) Collection: Open on Expiration of PRA Record Group: Bush Presidential Records (Document Follows) Office: Public Liaison, Office of Series: Jeavons, Kathy By Cap (NLGB) on 2/14/05 Subseries: Subject File WHORM Cat.: File Location: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council: Tour - Interfaith Council of the Holocaust - 8/7 Date Closed: 7/15/2003 OA/ID Number: 07228-011 FOIA/SYS Case #: 2003-0259-F Re-review Case #: 2005-0084-S P-2/P-5 Review Case #: MR Case #: Appeal Case #: MR Disposition: Appeal Disposition: Disposition Date: Disposition Date: RESTRICTION CODES Presidential Records Act - [44 U.S.C. 2204(a)] Freedom of Information Act - [5 U.S.C. 552(b)] P-1 National Security Classified Information [(a)(1) of the PRA] (b)(1) National security classified information [(b)(1) of the FOIA] P-2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office [(a)(2) of the PRA] (b)(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of an P-3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRA] agency [(b)(2) of the FOIA] P-4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or (b)(3) Release would violate a Federal statute [(b)(3) of the FOIA] financial information [(a)(4) of the PRA] (b)(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial P-5 Release would disclose confidential advise between the President information [(b)(4) of the FOIA] and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA] (b)(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of P-6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA] personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA] (b)(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement purposes [(b)(7) of the FOIA] C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed of (b)(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of gift. financial institutions [(b)(8) of the FOIA] (b)(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information 7/31 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON July 25, 1989 TO: BOBBIE KILBERY FROM: REX W. SCOUTEN, CURATOR SUBJECT: INTERFAITH COUNCIL ON THE HOLOCAUST STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM I am having the students in for a tour probably on the afternoon of Monday, August 7th. With the unique program and the interesting background of the exchange students, would it be advantageous for the President to meet them? P.01 JUL-25-89 TUE 10:36 OFFICERS Presentant JCRC Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia Smillery JCRC 50 th Anniversary The Sheridan Building 125 S. Ninth Street - Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215) 922-7222 hummer ********** DOAND or DIRECTORS TELECOPY COVER SHEET TO: MR REX SCOUTEN FAX Number 202 456 2883 FROM: RUTH LAIBSON, INTEREAITH COUNCIL ON THE HOLOCAUST DATE: 7.25.89 SUBJECT: EXCHANGE PROGRAM INFORMATION NUMBER OF PAGES, INCLUDING COVER SHEET 12 (TWELVE) If you have any questions about the materials being telecopied, please contact: RUTH LAIBSON Our telephone number is: (215) 922-7222 Our Fax number is: (215) 440-7680. Please note- - fax machine famined, this is a second trans mittal HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS lays' Name Edward - term Moder - MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS American Jewish Committee Both Sholom Women Judian Jhion Perform Beneficial Association Worrien America OR Amorica an Jowesh Congress Federation of Retorm Synagegues Labor Zionial AIRNICE Section National Main 100 Region Association of Jewish Holodavel o' Greater Mizroshi Country o' Women Women's American ORT. Survivors Golden SHOULD Chu Months Section National Code of Philadelphia Zionial Federation Philage this Region b na L 1111. Mana Council JUNIS' Women Phoneo worker NA anot Womans lo Agency Hno. H am Women's Council Jewish Campus Activities Brand Name a Federation of JAME' Service Add Council o' JCC Conservative Judiam ederation or Jewish Agencies Board of Rabbit o' Growter Jewish Lobor Committee Me' I Clubs MAR Shomim o' Philadelphia Workmens Circle Philadelphia Jewish We' Veterans IND SA Name Constation of United JAN Organization Cirustization Greater Philadelphia Birth not Mon address Wa' Voterans INGIAL Authority November District ! United Sr aprigue of America of Arright a ligitional Jowish Community Date JUL-25-89 TUE 10:37 P.02 Interfaith Council on the Holocaust Founded 1977 as the Philadelphia Coordinating Council on the Holocaust Honorary Chairpersons REV. MSGR. MICHAEL J. CARROLL REV. CHARLES A. CARTER, III SISTER GLORIA COLEMAN, SHCJ REV. JOHN F. HARDWICK Co-Chairpersons July 25, 1989 DR. LEON BASS Principal (1949-1982). School District of Philadolphia DR. JOHN RAINES Department of Religion, Mr. Rex Scouten Temple University Curator, The White House Vice-Chairpersons 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue DOROTHY FREEDMAN Memorial Committee for the Washington, D.C. 20500 Six Million Jowish Martyrs HAROLD KESSLER School District of Philadelphia Dear Mr. Scouten: J. WILLARD O'BRIEN Connelly Inatituto on Law and Morality, Villanova University The Interfaith Council on the Holocaust presents educational programs teaching the lessons of the Financial Officer BENJAMIN S. LOEWENSTEIN Holocaust and making them relevant to contemporary society. This outreach to the broad community of the Secretary Delaware Valley is accomplished through conferences, GEORGE S. FORDE, JR exhibitions, teacher-training workshops, seminars and Executive Director film presentations. RUTH LAIBSON Board of Directors Plans have been completed for an exchange program that ELAINE NAGLER ALBER REV FRANCIS W. BEACH will allow young people the opportunity to consider DR. CLAIR BROWN aspects of the Holocaust significant to their personal DR. GARY CLABAUGH REV. DONALD G. CLIFFORD. SJ lives. Thirty German and American university students DR RUFUS CORNELSEN have been selected to spend the month of August, 1989 MARK CUKER JOHN FOX together. Fifteen German students will travel to the EDWARD GASTFRIEND United States for a two-week period of interaction EVA GELERNTER WILLIAM GRASSIE with fifteen of their American counterparts. The DAVID GROSSMAN entire group will then journey together to Germany and BERNICE HAMEL RABBI RICHARD HIRSH Poland for another two week period. Emphasis will be DR GERALD M. HOGAN on an intensive encounter by both the German students MINA KALTER SISTER JOSEPHINE KASE. IHM and the American students with the difficult subject BJORN KRONDORFER of the role of second and third generation PETER LIACOURAS DR. SAMUEL MARCUS post-Holocaust youth in addressing their diverse pasts CATHERINE MIRSCH MARIAN and in finding the tools necessary to build on those VERY REV. HAIGAZOUN MELKONIAN SET MOMJIAN pasts for the future. The program's goal is to BARBARA MOSES provide a confrontation with both the past and the ESTHER POLEN ADENA POTOK future, which will`be a life-transforming experience. DONALD ROBINSON The participants will have an impact on young people HALLIE ESBIN ROSEN REV. J. BARRIE SHEPHERD as well as adults they encounter after the exchange NED SHULMAN program has concluded. Perhaps even the birth process DR. IRENE SHUR HEIKE SKOK for the next generation of Holocaust teachers in REV. DR. GERARD SLOYAN Germany and in the United States will result. DR. HARRIS SOKOLOFF BERNARD F. STEHLE REV. LOUIS H. TEMME BARRY E. UNGAR JOANNE WEAVER MARION A. WILEN RABBI DAVID A. WORTMAN 125 $. Ninth Street Suite 300 Philadelphia, PA 19107 (215) 922-7222 JUL-25-89 TUE 10:38 P.03 Mr. Rex Scouten Page 2 July 25, 1989 As a most important part of this program, the participants will be spending two intensive days in Washington, D.C., discovering, on a first-hand basis, the fabric of American democracy and the political system at work. The Interfaith Council on the Holocaust would be most honored with the opportunity to bring this extraordinary group of young people to the White House. We are arriving in Washington on Monday, August 7 at 1:00 p.m. and will be in the city until the evening of Tuesday, August 8. I am enclosing profiles of the American and German participants. We hope you find this material informative. Sincerely, Ruth Laibson Executive Director RL:Vj Enclosures JUL-25-89 TUE 10:38 P.04 PROFILES OF AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS INTERFAITH COUNCIL ON THE HOLOCAUST STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM - AUGUST, 1989 ISAC BLOCH Age 21. Jewish (orthodox). From Lido Beach, New York. Junior at University of Pennsylvania. Majoring in biomedical engineering. Raised in Mexico. "There comes a time when I have to find out about the 'Them' I've always been told about. Who are the children of these people my parents were separated from, and what are they like? (What are) their thoughts and feelings about what happened in the past, and what can be done for the future?" JULIE ELENA BLUE Age 22. Protestant. From Huntington, New York. Senior at Swarthmore College. Majoring in English. Product of an interfaith marriage (Jewish - Christian). "I am wondering what the experiences of the German students on this exchange program have been. I am anxious to find out how their experiences have affected their understanding of themselves, their culture, and other religious peoples." JUSTIN C. DePASQUALE Age 20. Roman Catholic. From Kingston, Pennsylvania. Sophomore at Dickinson College. Majoring in religion. Considering the priesthood. "What intrigues me most about the Holocaust is the fact that the tragic attitude which aided its destructive force has the same potential for reeking havoc in my own life - here, today in the present. The phrase which comes to my mind and seems most appropriate is, 'and the good shall do nothing. JUL-25-89 TUE 10:39 P.05 Profiles Page 2 ARIANE DIMITRIS Age 21. Jewish. From Jericho, New York. Junior at Bryn Mawr College. Majoring in the growth and structure of cities. Interfaith family (Greek Orthodox and Jewish Orthodox). "I am glad that the country chosen for the program was Germany. Not only is it at the core of the experience, but by visiting it, we will see that it is more than just a living museum. Just as the survivors of the Holocaust are a new people who have been changed by the experience, SO are the Germans." LEON DOW Age 19. Jewish. From Houston, Texas. Sophomore at Princeton University. Majoring in religion. Has political aspirations. "Too many times people have turned from history; too frequently people are so constrained by the particularity of their own situation that they cannot examine it in a larger context, in a historical scope. so why am I interested in this program? I hope that from such a program I would emerge with more fully developed answers to questions of philosophical and ethical norms, personal values, and the function and potential of government. JEREMY B. HALBERSTADT Age 19. Jewish. From Wilmington, Delaware. Freshman at University of Pennsylvania. Dual major in economics and anthropology. Lost family members in the Holocaust. "Preventing the injustices of the Holocaust from reoccurring is an obligatory prerequisite to universal human dignity and respect. Holocaust study and remembrance is the particular duty of today's youth, who are responsible for passing its message about the horrors of prejudice and hate to future generations." JUL-25-89 TUE 10:39 P.06 Profiles Page 3 DANISTA EULALIE HUNTE Age 21. Roman Catholic African-Caribbean. From Baltimore, Maryland. Junior at Vassar College. Majoring in science, technology and society - reads, writes and comprehends German well. "Teaching one another in an honest and caring manner is the only way to understanding each other. This can only be achieved through dialogue and communication. This program would allow that type of interaction to occur freely between people who would not have otherwise met. " OLIVER BENJAMIN KARP Age 19. Jewish African-American. From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Freshman at Goucher College. Majoring in English. Has studied both modern Hebrew literature and the ancient scriptures. "It is my most sincere desire to join those who are active in the effort to excise the occurrences of prejudice that if left alone will spread and kill. Thankfully, however, it is in the first stages of the disease of racism that we are most able and likely to cure and heal. History has shown us where the tendencies of scapegoating and stereotyping lead us, and if there are to be no more Auschwitzes or Dachaus, we must start in the schools." SUZANNE R. KAZENOFF Age 20. Jewish. From Rocky Point, New York. Junior at Swarthmore College. Majoring in English with high concentration of religion courses. "I want to be a participant in the program because my feelings about Germany and the Holocaust on an intellectual level deviate greatly from my feelings on an emotional level. I am striving towards a more tolerant perception. Dealing with German students, actually going to Germany and seeing/feeling Auschwitz for myself seems like a constructive and potentially rewarding starting point for my personal battle with the Holocaust." JUL-25-89 TUE 10:40 P.07 Profiles Page 4 SUSAN DIANE LEVY Age 19. Unitarian African-American. From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sophomore at Spelman College. Majoring in English. Has participated in Black-Jewish student exchange program. "I am very familiar with the saying, 'History repeats itself,' and I believe that it is only true if we, as leaders and young people, allow it to be so. I believe that with the power of knowledge of history and with strong leadership, history will not repeat itself but instead, will be made (to) create a better future." ADINAH S. MILLER Age 19. Jewish. From Bayonne, New Jersey. Sophomore at Haverford College. Majoring in history. In January brought teaching materials to distribute to Jewish communities in the Soviet Union. "Seeing the pit on Ratomskaya Street (Minsk) in which 50,000 Jews were murdered (during World War II) really made me rethink my perspective on the Holocaust and reconsider the role which our generation must play in keeping the history of the Holocaust alive. We must deal with how we can 'never forget' while still moving on to accept a new generation of Germans who cannot rightfully be held responsible for their parents' actions." KEINO ROBINSON Age 19. Baptist African-American. From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sophomore at Haverford College. Dual major in political science and economics. Has participated in Black-Jewish student exchange program. "I hope to create a better awareness within the majority population, by showing the pride that each minority group has in its respective background and culture. As a student of color, I hope to learn much about myself as an African-American, as well as about others. The opportunity would allow me to further my education on the plight of the Jews in Europe and compare the experience to Blacks during slavery in America. JUL-25-89 TUE 10:41 P.08 Profiles Page S LENA H. SCHAYE Age 21. Jewish. From New York, New York. Junior at Bryn Mawr College. Dual major in sociology and English. Has recently decided to become a practicing Jew. "I would value not only the incredible opportunity of communicating with the German students on their experiences, but the Jewish students as well. I think that I can offer to your program a unique outlook on what it means to be Jewish. In my search for a community to which I can belong, I have not rejected those people in my life who are not Jewish, but rather incorporated them into my newly discovered world. Their questions help me to explore my decision." JULIE-ANN SCHILLING Age 21. Roman Catholic. From Blairstown, New Jersey. Junior at Rider College. Majoring in journalism. Serving as an intern at the Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center at Rider College. "Today's young adults are the future of America. It is up to us to make a change for the better (in) the world today. It is not the memory of the Holocaust that people must not let die, but the idea that it takes every individual in and of himself to contribute to life, or to destroy it." KARIN VAN DERZEE Age 19. Congregationalist (U.C.C.). From Sherman, Connecticut. Sophomore at Dickinson College. Majoring in anthropology. Hopes to become a missionary. "Questions that the Holocaust should raise are not often uttered in this day and time. In words and discussions, my mind can block out what neither it nor my heart can comprehend: how could it happen? How could we let it happen? Within the proposed program, I will not be able to dodge these questions. As much as it scares me, I know that it is time once again to dust off our past and seek its truths and its prophecies, for the Holocaust speaks not only of yesterday, but of today as well." JUL-25-89 TUE P.09 FRIENKICII IVAUMANN PROFILES OF GERMAN PARTICIPANTS EXCHANGE DROGRAM: "HOLOCAUST" ANDROWSKY, BIRGIT Student at the Freie Universität Studies Special Education and Biology Member of a Baptist Church 21 years old "I hope to learn more facts about Holocaust from survivors. I think that will enable me to better understand German history. It is my opinion that, as a future teacher, I need to know much about the dark sides of our history, in order to be able to cope with current political events (Republikaner and other right-wing activities)." BERGMANN, JAN-MICHAEL Student at the Freie Universität Studies Law and Protestant Theology 22 years old "My expectations concerning the program come first of all from my interest in German history and thus in today's possible relationships with Jews. Furthermore, I am interested in the Jewish religion. At the moment my knowledge is poor, which I regret." BOMHOFF, HARTMUT Student at the Freie Universität Studies Modern History, Art History, and German Literature Also attends classes at the Department for Jewish Studies and the Center for Antisemitism Research 24 years old "I trust that the various lectures and discussions which are part of the program will shed some light on the behavior of European Gentiles and the reaction of the outside world during the Holocaust and help to explain how easily inertia can grip one's moral forces when confronted with crime and terror I hope that this seminar will remind us of the survivor's constant pain and encourage us to voice our special responsibility towards minorities and the weak, i.e. fighting racism and advocating Human Rights world-wide." GERDES, UTA Student at the Freie Universität Studies History and Protestant Theology Protestant 22 years old "The concept of this exchange program appeals to me particularly in that it is not only oriented towards facts and discussion, but it is an opportunity to experience Jewish life today - and that will help us to better deal with the past, partiularly in that with of the Holocaust " JUL-25-89 TUE 10:42 P.10 -2- GOERKE, GISA Student at the Freie Universität Studies Special Education (handicapped children) and Biology Protestant 23 years old "It is important to me to learn about the reasons for the Holocaust, to find ways for me to do something against the new rising of neo-Nazism in Germany. As a future teacher it is important to me to come to know all about those problems In my opinion, the dialogue between the young generations is fundamental step towards understanding and tolerance." EIMTERBÄUMER, STEPHAN Student at Münster Universität Studies Protestant Theology (hopes to become a pastor Lutheran 21 years old "From the program I expect that we'll deal with the subject that is - without being mentioned - at once in the back of my mind when I at first meet a Jew. There is very little opportunity here in Germany to work on this together with Jews. I hope that our international as well as multi-faith approach will help to overcome the paralysation that is characteristic for Germany in this regard To meet survivors of the Holocaust on the one had seems to me a great opportunity, on the other a difficult task that brings along a lot of responsibility. HERMES, CLAUDIA Student at Universität Bonn Studies Political Science, Spanish, and Ethnology Protestant 21 years old "I expect from the program an insight into the view of American Jews and some information about the so-called "Jewish Lobby" and its influence. The stay in a family of survivors and the Poland program will not be easy because of psychological reasons. People of my generation are not responsible for what has happened, but I am German and the grandfather's generation is still alive, so I really appreciate that those survivors will invite us to stay with them for a while and to enter into a painful remembering of the past. " - KNOOP, GESCHE Student at the Freie Universität Studies Languages (French and German) Grew up Lutheran 23 years old "The 'Deutsches Volk', an ideological expression which is JUL-25-89 TUE 10:43 P.11 because I can't duplicate the important factor antisemitism' which this people and I'm not able to understand its history. Especially was appropriate with the Fascists." MEZGER, ANNETTE Just completed the "Abitur" Hopes Protestant to study Theology following a social work year in a hospital Lives in Leinfelder 20 years old "I expect a good community with one another. I wish to get to know the Jewish culture, and a deepening with the subject of the Holocaust and the effects and consequences for today." MISERA, KATHRIN Student at the Universität München Studies Law and Philosophy Roman Catholic 21 years old "Above all. my reason for joining the programme is to meet concerned person and people who are affected themselves so that the Holocaust and its consequences of today become a personal concern of mine. Siegfried Lenz, the 1988 winner of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade Association, put the issue into the words: ' Auschwitz is put into our hands. It is put into our hands as well as the whole of the German history. To live in peace with it is an illusion. To be aware of and learn how to deal with this unrest, possibly to communicate it to others, is my main expectation and wish." RASPE, LUCIA Student at the Freie Universität Studies Americanistic Waiting on profile from Lucia. ROSEMEYER, BIRGIT Student at Göttingen Universität Studies Protestant Theology Protestant 21 years old " I hope that by the personal contact with young Americans_I will come to know the situation of the American Jews, how they live, how they manage the experience of the Holocaust (this concerns especially the German immigrants) and how they are or feel integrated in American society. Which cultural and political influence do they have? Does anti-semitism play and important part in America? Interesting might be also their relation to Israel and its present policy in the Palestinian question." JUL-25-89 TUE 10:43 P.12 SCHIRMER, MATTHIAS Student at the Freie Universität Studies Political Science Grew up Protestant (father is a pastor) 25 years old "From this exchange programme I expect a first look into the mentality of young American Jews, jewish life in the U.S., and intersting discussions with a generation that knows - like me - nazi barbarism and Holocaust only from listening and historical sources. Sure, Holocaust must never be forgotten and the million names of its victims too. Just young Germans have to keep this memory alive. But it is the same important to me, to search together for the factors that caused antisemitism and racism (and to start to cause them now again in Western Germany) SCHONEVELD, ESTHER Studying at the University in Leiden/Holland Studies Psychology and English Born in Jerusalem/lives in Holland Protestant 19 years old "I think I first became conscious of World War II and the name 'Hitler' when I came to Germany in 1980. After having lived in Israel and living in Germany, it began to interest me and it has done so ever since There is still a lot to learn and to try to understand and there is a lot to remember so we can try to prevent things like the Holocaust to happen again. I know we will all learn a lot." *Freie Universität is the University in Berlin-West