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FEATURE
Holocaust victim opens up to history class
each other. Nothing but pity.”
with hatred,” said Marth Cunn history class people who were eye
students to see an eye witness to
Conditions were so bad that ingham.
witnesses to tremendous events.
an event that we talk about in
they would literally pray for
She was actually one of the last general terms that we really can’t
It is indeed a special event to
Diana Golden, holocaust vic bombs to be dropped on them. have Mrs. Golden speak at the
ones to remember this vividly and experience unless we were there.
tim and prisoner in the Auschwitz Anything to finish the horror, but class. Said instructor Don Eps
is willing to talk about it. It’s a She provides this experience.”
death camp, gave a candid talk
it never came. It was just the tein, “It is very rare to get in a
tremendous experience for
In the end Mrs. Golden was
on Wednesday, Feb. 17 for the beginning.
lucky to survive. About 90 per
Jewish History-Holocaust class.
cent of the people who entered
They, arrived at Auschwitz
For two hours she described the
three days later. The camp is
the camps never left. She was in
horrors and attrocities commited
located in south Poland at the
captivity for nine months whereas
on the victims in the camp.
border of north Germany. They
most people could not survive
, “The amount of absolute
more than three.
barely had the strength to stand
menace, and without any feel when they got there. “We were
To this day she still wonders
ings. I don’t know what kind of
walking skeletons,” Golden said.
about the motives of the Nazis:
people they were. I don’t know
At the camp the Germans sub
“I still say today, ‘Why in the
how they could close their own
jected the prisoners to all types of
world did they have to take us all
human instincts -- to be so
terror. “It was to what extent a
the way from there (Rhodes) -
perverse. I see no reason,”
person can undergo the punish
Why did they have to uproot us?
Golden said.
ment.
Dehumanization,
They could have killed us where
Golden was young when the
psychological torment as well as
we were. Even now I resent the
Germans came to her home land,
mental - not speaking of the con
fact that we were made to suffer
the island of Rhodes, off the ditions of our feelings.”
so much, and ultimately without
coast of Turkey. While Mussolini
The Germans would try to
hope. They had no right to do
photo by Both Coffey
was in power life for the Jews was break up and seperate families to
this.”
Diana Golden, death camp prisoner in the German
at least tolerable.
destroy any self confidence the
holocaust, spoke to the Jewish History-Holocaust class
After Italy surrendered, “Our
prisoners might have. They
Feb. 17.
fate was decided. Someone came would take 400 to 500 girls to the
from Greece. I don’t know who it showers at a time - the shower
was, but I do know it was a man room not much bigger than a
with a white shirt. He was direc master bedroom. Some got to
ting traffic - he spoke Spanish, bathe, others didn’t. They were by Lisa Graham
Jones, who ‘is learning to
heavy wind,” she said.
he spoke Greek, and he spoke made to shovel rotting potato Staff Writer_____________________ ____
The Moghaddam twins come substitute pool for snooker, also
Three students from England
Italian. He said, Get in line. We peelings, “The smell was so
from Brighton. Firouze’h had favorable comments for
asked, where are we going? He putrid, so horrible that we had are here on campus this year. described it as a coastal town and Oregon people. “The people are
said, ‘You will know when you feelings to throw up.” And some Sandra Jones and sister and bigger than Portland. Firouze’h very down to earth here,” she
get there. Don’t ask questions!’ ” of the work wasn’t work at all: brother Firouze’h and Ramin is majoring in business and ac said. “Texans I found rather
They were. to take two bricks, Moghaddam, all came to Oregon counting while her brother is ma loud. Oregonians are nice
which were as cold as blocks of originally to visit, but liked it so joring in bio-chemistry.
people.”
“When you are in ice,
and press them close to their much they stayed.
The differences in slang was
Firouze’h, a recent fan of
Jones, a history major from
such a hell really abdomens and carry them to
basketball, commented that something all three noticed quick
you feel like nobody another pile. Then, the next night Liverpool, said she was taken Oregon people were friendly but ly. “In England wasted means
they were to do just the opposite, back by all the open space. much taller. Ramin didn’t find tired. It’s not quite the same
cares.”
carrying the bricks back to the Ramin’s impression was the the people taller but did say that meaning here.” Jones said.
same. “Except for the houses,” people were friendlier. He said, Ramin said that at first he had
first pile.
Golden’s family was taken to a
he said, “the walls are thin, they
They were whipped continually
“I was downtown and all these trouble buying cigarrettes. “I
boat where they were to travel to
don’t use bricks. Everytime a people kept saying ‘hi!’ I’m going kept asking for fags at the store
day
and
night.
It
was
at
that
the city of Piraeus in Greece. “It
neighbor sneezes I have to take
was eight „days of horror,” she point where she nearly lost all an Anacin.” Lack of brick hous *who are these people, do I know and all they’d do is give me dirty
described, “people were dying hope. “When we got in we knew ing startled Jones too. “They them?’ In England you just don’t looks.”
the war was ending. But when
go around saying ‘hi.’”
everyday. It was a living hell.”
look frail, like they’ll fall down in
They were marched for a you are in such a hell - really you
number of miles and many were feel like nobody cares. The best
literally beaten or marched to thing I can do is die. Just let me
by Cam Hussey
death. Then they were loaded on die in peace.”
. ,
But she didn’t lose hope: “I Feature Editor
to trucks and taken to a
Clackamas Community Col
couldn
’
t
die.
I
had
two
younger
detention-transit camp. They
lege may have a student com
would live there for three days sisters with me and a cousin. If I
died, my younger sisters would peting in the Deaf World Olym
before again being moved.
pics in New Zealand.
. On the third day Golden’s probably do the same.”
Gary Holt, a drafting and
grandmother died. “I had mixed
autoCAD major, has been in
feelings. There was crying, but on “I couldn’t die. I had _____ ________
vited to try out as a wrestler for
the other hand I said, ‘Grandma,
two younger sisters the Deaf World Olympics, which
your suffering is over. I’m glad
with me and a will be held in December 1989.
you are no longer suffering.’ ”
Tryouts for the team will be held
• Her family and other prisoners cousin.”
this April. Holt has been wrestl
were taken to trains and were
ing for nine years. He was the
Later,
Golden
was
moved
to
a
shoved into boxcars that still had
eastern champion for the deaf
camp
in
Germany.
There
she
“the filth of animals” in them.
and won a bronze medal at the
There were as many as 90 people worked in a factory making
College Open Wrestling Tourna
machine
guns
until
the
end
of
the
to a boxcar. They were only fed a
ment in Canada.
little soup and one slice of bread war. The food was not much bet
Holt feels good about being in
ter, but the living conditions
each day.
vited to try out. “I’m very happy
were.
The only water they have on
Student reactions were of with myself,” he expressed.
the train smells - everything is
Holt feels that his chances of
disbelief. Said Kris Wagenknetht,
filthy - people were dying, “It is “You go through a lot of emo making the wrestling team are
a complete breakdown of human
tions like: incredible, this can’t be “half and half’, and stated,
emotions. You want to help.. .But happening. You want to deny “It’ll be a challenge.”
there is nothing to be given.”
Holt grew up here in Oregon.
that it was as bad as it was, or
The trains would stop at night that it even happened. You either He attended Ogden Junior High
and the prisoners would be exer believe it or it’s a total denial. In School his seventh grade and
cised. The German soldiers *
* the end you want to cry. What freshman years, (he skipped the
would treat them like they would happened to the Jews happened eighth grade) and went to Oregon
treat taking a dog out to relieve to the entire world. There’s no Gty High School his sophomore
year.
itself.
getting around it.”
Holt has been at CCC two
There were lice everywhere,
“I was amazed at what a
“You could see the lice flying beautiful, compassionate woman terms. He said he enjoys school,
photo by Roger Hartcock
around. Huge body lice. We were she was. She had such love for “fine, nothing bothers me.” Holt
scratching all over.” “In this humans and human kind that I practices with the CCC wrestling
CCC drafting and auto CAD major Gary Holt will be trying
kind of misery it is such a horror
just impressed. I question team, but has not competed in his
out in April for the Deaf World Olympics.
that all that we can feel is pity for whether or not I would be filled own match yet.
Clackamas Community Collegi
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by Michael L. Walker
Staff Writer
English find Oregon friendly
Holt to try for Deaf World Olympics
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