Bloomfield links
Christian-Jewish relations with study of Holocaust
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 With the stage set from the
Communications Department production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" providing a dramatic backdrop, Sara Bloomfield MA '77, director of the U.S. Holocaust Museum and this year's commencement speaker at
JCU, on April 5 delivered a lecture entitled, "The Holocaust and the
21st Century." "The Holocaust cannot be understood outside the context of Christian-Jewish relations, and Christian-Jewish relations cannot be understood outside the context of the
Holocaust," she said, noting that John Carroll has joined with the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies in creating a cooperative program in the Humanities on the study of the Holocaust.
Click on the speakers to hear her address and answers to questions.
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Part I: Introduction, an overview of the Holocaust. (9 min., 13 sec.) |
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Part III: Nazism and the Holocaust. (7:56) |
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Part II: Anti-Semitism, a history. (5:01) |
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Part IV: Aftermath, the lessons of the Holocaust. (7:09) |
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Q&A |
Click on the image for the answer to each question. |
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1. Could you comment on the recent book, "Hitler's Pope," by John Cornwall on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust? (2:10) |
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7. Could you comment on the length of time it takes for the world to paid attention to the Balkans, Sudan and other situations of ethnic cleansing? (3:08) |
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2. Could you comment on American foreign policy during the Holocaust years? (1:59) |
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8. It is interesting that the Holocaust Museum is in the United States. I believe there's been a debate in Germany for 50 years on how to treat the past. How should they treat it? (2:28) |
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3. Why did it take so long after the war ended for America to respond and help the Jews? (2:55) |
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9. How do you assess the "revisionist" movement, people who contend the Holocaust never happened, and the Aryan nation movement? (3:01) |
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4. I am from India and I believe the Aryans originally came from India. Why were the Jews perscuted when you could
argue they're more Aryan than anybody? (1:02) |
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10. When the Holocaust Museum was designed, how were the different victim groups handled? (1:49) |
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5. People said they weren't aware. As there been any study into the knowledge of the common manany chance they were ignorant of what was going on? (1:24) |
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11. What's the most positive surprise you've had in your experience with the museum? (1:25) |
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6. Why was more attention paid to the Holocaust rather than other persecutions of peoples? (3:18) |
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12. Why isn't the question of the Holocaust thrown back at the Christians who did it? (3:43) |
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