Joseph Rosensaft, the chairman of the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations, castigated Jewish leaders yesterday for what he said was their failure to respond vigorously to the recent desecration of a Jewish memorial monument and graves at the site of the former concentration camp, Rosensaft told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the desecration itself was not surprising but what was, “was the lack of action, response and protest by Jewish leaders and in the Jewish world generally.”
Rosensaft said, “I am now beginning to think that perhaps even Jews have learned nothing from the 1939-1945 era.” Asked what his organization of concentration camp survivors has done, Rosensaft said they would ask the authorities in Lower Saxony to place a round-the-clock guard at the site.
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