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Henri Bulawko, president of the Association of Jews
Deported from France, wrote Fribourg:
I am certain that you did not know what
their past history was, but I do think you should have investigated such
matters before dealing with Germans of Lischka's and Becher's generation. At
any rate, now that you have been informed of the "character" of your German
partners, it behooves you to break off all relations with them – and to do
so publicly. Please understand that I am not being impulsive by intervening in
this sad affair, but my duty compels me to speak up. I shall await your
decision which, I hope, will be what the survivors of the death camps expect it
to be.
Michel Fribourg never gave an answer to Henri Bulawko
or to the Jews of Auschwitz. Those whose ashes served to fertilize the grain
fields of Poland did not carry the same weight as Becher and Lischka.
A
few days after I got out of the Cologne jail I was invited to the convention of
the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICA) in Paris.
The LICA had untiringly exposed racist aggression and anti-Semitic
persecution. It inspired others, especially the young, with its enthusiasm and
energy, and it took concrete and effective action instead of mouthing lofty
sentiments that led to nothing. Jean Pierre-Bloch had succeeded in bringing
forceful people into the LICA, and also a group of young people whom I found
very attractive. They had no pretensions, they liked action, they were braver
than many extremists of the right or the left. They themselves paid the costs
of their activities, and those who had more money helped the others. I made a
speech to them in which I said:
Without the concerted efforts of Resistance
and Deportee associations, my activities and those of my friends against Nazi
criminals would merely have aroused public opinion against us as agitators, and
I would still be in jail today as nothing but a troublemaker. As you all know,
I have used sensational methods because all others are worthless, and have been
so for a long time.
Today is the national day of commemoration of the
deportations. I am going to read you a few lines written in 1943 by a little
boy in Drancy. They are from a letter he wrote to God from his prison:
"God, it is You who rule and who see that justice is done. You reward
the good and punish the wicked. Believe me, God, because of You I have had such
good things. I have had a good mama and such a
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