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\_On training maneuvers in Missic professors, dedicated to preventing fuâ€" ~ tureatrocities such as those suffered by millions in European concentration ; a#ldui-ingthflwnquflWu. e‘ve never really articulated our "We‘ve never really articulated ';‘ ;c;nr Of our ‘objectives, if we ‘m‘n'd come up with the fact < that education is the key in the fight Keynote speaker at the seminar, Dr. _Leon Bass of Pennsylvania, told stuâ€" "dents of hisâ€"experience and involvment with the liberation of the Buchenwald, a WCHEC, said the seminar was a follow up to a holocaust seminar held last on in classroom., on The holocaust education committee, < which fiflli:ifl last year, consists of â€"_concerned citzens, business people, glme my s ie fengh io. in segregated black soldiers from white). talked of racism in general â€" of his Mu.um-m. â€" He toldâ€"ofthe horrors he encountered when the U.S. troops marched into the Confronting the horror concentration a + compelling fiasxhby&.mwhominm . S. Army at the time of the liberations; and shared experiences with survivors of the holocaust were all part of the dayâ€" long seminar, John Gamble, a teacher at Gait Colleâ€" focus of the day. A documentary film entilted. Now â€"You Are Free, which reflects upon the liberation of those in "You are now in a German concentraâ€" tion camp; not a sanitorium. If you don‘t ‘like it you can climb the electical fence. 'l‘he'?nlygatemhthroudxthachim- ney. They were told that they had a right to wliveâ€"Jewfixm‘veeh,pri:nl‘hlc :mhm and all others for three Caputa was interrogated by the Gestaâ€" po.mdmadudtuw:r’ixomndo d in carpentry saved him from theâ€" The living conditions were appalling. ’l‘hinmv:‘hththmnonthehreflow provided little comfort in the cold night. of "and industry. His backâ€" nommrpenu-yundhimfiomtb crematorium. â€" ‘The living conditions were apnalling. â€" 1n1989, when war activities in Poland "had ceased, Caputa made the decision to travel to France to join the Polish Army that wa‘s“fominq there. During his trip e fls 34 w/w“’?“â€"@vm' "T‘m â€" ; Cmm M v . Antoni Caputa was 33 when he arâ€" . forged in the camps fron gates. | The ‘rived at Auschwitz, _: "+ ul _"~ ameals were merely morsels of stale ‘It n&em 14, l:'wnd he" was M*Mh“& among group of Polish prisoners ; peop our transport ‘transported to the German concentraâ€" di:r.".%uu "People who had tion ‘camp b: j“l;oland.fln fiveâ€"year . lived a me"figimhwlfil f begun. _ ers â€" these people died. who ",Em,!hmvvuadivlfi&inl’olmd harder lives, these people could do the ‘had ceased, Caputa made the decision to work so the SS left them alone." t:lavelbmeinfl:Polish Army After two years in Auschwitz, Caputa Th at was WAL _ To Drig n uo ies Tsl +d . T Bord.t,intothelumdthew Number 318, a title which replaced his name for the years to come, stood with the other prisoners that day in 1940 and listened to the "greeting" offered by the near Weimar. in April of 1945. He mhwtomlmthfncdufi: Bfimfin';dmhaiptiondthe Mfimd‘tbonfonndblnlym to life in the camp â€" of the gas and incinerators, the evidence of mediâ€" cal experiments and the presence ‘of "I said to myself, ‘My God, what is this imn'iMWhom.lfgnml‘?wm "I walked those gates on that &nndlne"mumwhflm to as the ‘walking dead‘. I saw starved, and tortured, and denied all the basic things that:make life meanful. w skin and bone. They had faces with deepâ€"set eyes and going to walk thr W &Mlminflv to as the ‘wa shock of my life. Because you see, I was g:(_g!ulk through the gates of 1930s," Bass told the students. "But on this day in April, 1945, I was to have the "‘In all the time that I had been trained Tad decewel wiy we ware Auroioanks why we were war â€" noâ€"one ever told me what had 'lldfifidm hit head on by the racism of the â€" racism that he felt only subtly in his northern home. But after travelling overseas â€"â€" first to England, then France, and finally to Germany â€" Bass witnessed racism so Wflmhmnm to believe. Ni he had experienced â€" notthIi: his Iukf:und â€" had prepared him for what he saw at Buâ€" Army and an American soldier looki at "us. The prisoners were wild wi happiness â€" some kneeled thanking for freedom, others hugged each other, cried like.children and ran to kiss the U.S. tank and the soldier. That was the niudhy‘hmylifi.'t’h x Caputaâ€"was given the opportunity to an occupied Poland seemed pointless. arrived in Nova Scotia in 1948, worked on the Canadian Pacific Railroad for one year, and then moved to Waterloo. soliers surrounding them. While stopped E;l:&ll‘grmfunfiomofhud,m ""Somebody . yelled, ‘Americans!‘. we saw a miracle: a tank of the 3rd U.8. "I walked through those gates on that, and I saw in front of me what | now refer to as the ‘walking dead‘. bombed, he was moved to Pférse. . | In 1945, after five long years of horrific captivity, freedom came like a miracle. As the ally troops drew neared Pferse, theumpmevmhdmdthem ers were led out into the bush â€" was transported to Mauthausen. The animal thout water, tbdfuflifiuznmvin‘thomulvnw hN:;umbr_ of 1!:45; Caputa mk:l. death out a prigonets being Iransported to Decian Shortly afterwards, he was assigned to a 318 wdil give B uit ons t Porinhed wish â€" that someone had to survive and tell the story of unspeakable anguish ressing what she had been through es snn mt mok on rowrage, t mmmmflwmm "Life in the camp was harsh" she 20, she told her story, as did the other eight survivors with other groups of students. "I am a holocaust child survivor," she began. ‘"The holocaust can not and will not ever be forgotten. I hope that after runfiuwymmdwm mflmfiemwmwu "Today, when I look back on the past 50 years since I crossed the gate of R Aulchviu,ldonotregrumy&non taken after the 1939 campaign had ceased, to go to France. I have never Antoni Caputa lived w&.wflmn-:;o;:;rmay. year "'.b:' fi'l: am grateful to Hi every spent . camps. a with my beloved ones." reflects on that time. have they done â€" what is their crime that anyone would treat them like this‘. I didn‘t know â€" I didn‘t know." Miriam Somer sat in the audience with the students, as did eight other survivors of the holocaust. Through the film which so explicitly showed the horrors of the concentration camps, she wept openly â€" the unbearable memories she has tried so long to forget were on a mbfieb«m And she wept as confirmed what she and others had been forced to endure at the hands of Hitler and the Nazi party. Somer attended the seminar to share dents, and in a group of approximately SRemmare began. 1 the . fie often tries to forget ,Newmwmt's committee. He h(a;sajsomdppomd' _mt_hlJ: llll.llll‘!‘l' igration to Canada six peop! from Poland, and has written a book fifl:dhmfiefivhvjcbtbe% the Delegate of the Polish Governmentâ€" inâ€"Exile for Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo and a chairman d'_ 'the Nicolaus Rey Library He‘s 83 now, an active parishoner of the Sacred Heart Parish and a commanâ€" dant of the Polish Army Veterans Association. He is a representative of It‘s Wm”l) WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY class, the holocaust was history â€" it w-lnluw”qo.&n it became more of a reality for me. Today was a great inspiration, and I class, the holocaust was history â€" it w-d almost 50 years ago. But itbmumdumlityh’u:e.l Today was a great inspiration, t.hifikth.nby_'oduafingpopleyeun fight racism. We can never, ever let that class," said student K.uni:â€"u of Waterloo Collegiate Institute. "But 1 fi%&nmwdmn was , stirring, and full of tears, but the students expressed the valuable lessons they came away with through being so close to those who had lived through the holocaust. "We have studied the holocaust in thebohaumpmbledn' and that many people today y it ever hapâ€" pened. They discussed how war crimiâ€" nals should be punished, how antiâ€"semiâ€" tism and neoâ€"Nazi supporters are growing in numbers, and how another holocaust can be prevented. students concluded, was the key in the hltflclninlit.ltwouldhcfi’i(htn- ing, and sometimes lonely to take a stand against racism â€" to be the only one a group who does not laugh at a Antoni Caputa lived through a fiveâ€" year hell in German concentration camps. Now a Waterioo resident, he Monna Zentner, a WLU professor and member of the WCHEC, discussed how After seeing the film and listening to Bass‘s speech and Somer‘s testimony, several students expressed shock and outrage that the rest of the world could have remained silent while the holoâ€" caust was going on. "I‘m Jewish," said student Steve Krofâ€" chick of Eastwood Collegiate Institute, "and when I see and hear about (the holocaust), I get very angry. If 1 was there at the time, it could have hapâ€" pened to me." _ The group of students, with Somer and