1994_02 The Daily Collegian February 1994

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Friday, Feb. 25,1994
THECOLLEGIAN
News—3
LETTER: If not killed, where did the Jews 90?
house by'the City, and contains
310 pages. This volume details
and documents what happened to
the approximately 4,500 former
German Jewish citizens of Mainz
and vicinity immediately before
and during WWII.
The last 50 pages are perhaps
the most provocative. They con¬
tain a series of lists: The first of
these is a list of those Jews who
were able to leave (1,252)—names,
dates of departure, and where they
were headed. Imagine the eerie
feeling I experienced when, after
50 years, I discovered my name on
this list. •   v '
The subsequent lists are of those
who didn't make it. The pages are
actual reproductions of the origi¬
nal Gestapo orders used to deport
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the Jews of Mainz to Concentra¬
tion camps—who was to go, and
when. Each page contains the
names, birth dates, occupations and
erstwhile addresses of the victims.
The first contingent—a group
of 1,000 (589 women and411 men.
including 77 chilelfen)—were
shipped from Mainz in March of
1942 to the Piaska Concentration-
Camp, near Lublin, Poland. In Sep¬
tember of that same year almost all
the remaining Jews from Mainz
(2,071), were shipped off, mostly
to the notorious Theresienstadt
Concentration Camp, near Prague,
Czechoslovakia. Fifty-three more
were deported to Theresienstadt
in February of 1943.The last listis
of 19 former Jewish citizens of
Mainz who had emigrated to
France earlier where they were
subsequently apprehended, seat
back, and shipped to Auschwitz.
The authenticity of these lists'is
verified by the signature of Michel
Oppenheim, the Gestapo official
in charge.
What all this amounts to is that
of the roughly 4,500 former Jew-
( i sh citizens of Mainz and its envi¬
rons, approximately 28 percent
managed to get out while 72 per¬
cent were summarily arrested and
shipped off to concentration
camps.
Mainz, of course, is not an iso¬
lated case. There is irrefutable evi¬
dence that similar deportation oc¬
curred from all over Germany and
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from all those territories occupied
by the Nazis during WWII.
It is only natural to ask, "What¬
ever happened to all those people?"
because NONE of the deportees
from Mainz has ever been seen or
beard of again. NOT A ONE. The
answer, of course, isthat they were X
murdered.,    y
The following is a quote from
the book: "Nach dem 10. Februar
1943 waren in Hess en nur noch
Juden vorhanden, die lnMiscnebe -~
lebten..." ("After Feb. 10,. 1943,
the only Jews still living in Hessia '
were the products of mixed mar¬
riages...") This is so because the
Germans were not as hard on the
handful of half-Jews as they were
on full-blooded Jews—although
by February ^f 1945, the half-Jews,
of Mainz were also orderetf ar¬
rested.
One such half-Jew, Helmut
Grunfeld, son of a Jewish father
and Christian mother, tells his story i^
in the book. His eyewitness ac¬
count gives the reader^vivid pic¬
ture of the fate of the Jewish citi¬
zens of Mainz during this period.
He tells how in 1934 when he was
only six years old, he was expelled
from public school and had to at- -
tend school in the basement of the .
Synagogue; how the Synagogue
was torched ojlNov. 9/10, 1938
(Crystal Night); how his father
was constantly being arrested
while his mother persistently tried
to get him out; how, once the war
started in 1939, Jews were given
• special ration cards which allowed
•them only minimal rations; how
they had to obey special curfews—
were not given clothing allow¬
ances, not allowed to attend the¬
aters or concerts, had all motor
vehicles, bicycles, radios, furs and
pets confiscated.
He goes on to tell of how they v
were made to wear yellow stars on
the left side of their chests; were
not allowed to use public transpor- -
tation; were specially abused after
each showing of the notorious anti-
Jewish hate film "Sweet Jew" pro.
duced by Veit Harlan and shown
in the UFA Cinema in Mainz; how
in*March, 1942, he, Helmut was
forced to help the special police
round up and load into cattle cars
the first contingent of 1,000 Jews .
(see above) at the freight depot in
Mo m bac h, a suburb of Mai nz; how
he worked in the "Israelite Hospi¬
tal"; how in that same year in Sep¬
tember he had to help with the
second round up and deportation
He pushed a handcart of thin
soup he had prepared at the hospi¬
tal to relieve the hunger of those in
this shipment; how many of the
senile and moribund at the hospi¬
tal ended it all with overdoses of
sleeping pills; how the residences
and effects of all deportees were
confiscated; how after the first air
raid on Mainz, the population
blamed Herr Lahnstein, the
earstwhile Jewish owner of a big .
department store who had fled to
England some years earlier and
whom they accused of "showing
the bombers the way to Mainz*.
He was made to work in a lug¬
gage factory; how his mother tried
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