Germans Reject Serge And Beate
Klarsfeld RR Exhibit
Real life "Nazi Hunters" or a
pair of Yiddish clowns?
Their Exhibit At The Paris
Station
The Paris Jews Sat Out The War
A Moveable Shrine
Twenty Years Ago They Tossed
These Clowns Into The Street
How Could Anyone Doubt The
Authenticity Of This Photograph?
A Jew Crawls Out Of An Oven?
This Picture Was Taken In 1995
A Jewish Photographer Placed
The Skulls For Effect
One even has the jaw attached
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Germany Rejects 'Nazi Hunters' And Their
Exhibit
Claudia Keller
Sunday November 12, 2006
The Observer
It was her first trip by train, and she will never forget it.
German SS-men were yelling outside, and the cattle wagons had bare
wooden floors instead of seats, with observation slits instead of
windows. Edith Erbrich remembers how an SS man ordered her father to
lift her and her sister up because her mother, standing outside the
train, wanted to see her once more. 'My father told us that mummy
cannot join us, she has to take care of the house,' she said.
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Erbrich was seven years old when she, her sister and her father were
deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp in Theresienstadt,
Czechoslavakia. She survived. Some 11,000 other Jewish children died.
Now a new exhibition about their fate has sparked an extraordinary and
bitter dispute between the German government and the state-owned
national railway.
The exhibition, put together by anti-Nazi campaigners Beate and Serge
Klarsfeld, was inspired by stories such as Erbrich's and has already
been shown at 18 French railway stations. Now the couple want to show it
at train stations across Germany, but Hartmut Mehdorn, the chief
executive of Deutsche Bahn, the national railway, has refused.
Serge Klarsfeld defended his exhibition: 'The aim of it is not to lock
the past up in a museum, but to confront the people in public with it.
In France more than 100,000 people have seen the exhibition. They all
have been respectful; there have not been any security problems at all.'
Go look at the 'Cattle Cars'
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