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Holocaust survivor to share his
story with
By Mandie Gavitt
CCC staff
fined for
breaking
election
Arts &c Culture Editor
“My little brother 'at- the age
o f eight was taken to Auschwitz.
W hen I take a shower every day
I look at the showerhead I say to
myself, “W hat went through the
mind of my litde brother, at the
age of eight when he was taken
to Auschwitz, and pushed into
a gas chamber- ana instead of
water, cycline B gas choked him
to death/ How much-did that
little boy suffer?”
Hplocatist survivor Alter
Wiener is no stranger to the cfu;
elty mankind is capable o f com
mitting. Thirteen when World
War II began, W iener spent
three years in concentration and
labor camps until , he-was liber
ated at the end o f the war.
Wiener will visit Clackamas
C om m unity
College
on
Thursday to tell his story.
At the time o f liberation,
Wiener weighed only 80 pounds.
young hoy. He needs a mother.’ -
They slapped on her face, she
fell unconscious arid they took
me away. I . never saw her again.
,” said Wiener. Rachel was mur
dered in Auschwitz along with
Wiener’s eight-year-old brother.
In total of 123 members of
Wieners, family were murdered
during World War II; most o f
.these family members lived in
the same town as Wiener.
Today ■ .Wiener lives ‘ in
Hillsboro, in a sparse one-bed
room apartment. His .home is
pristine, with minimal belong
ings. There’s a television, but
Wiener said it is really only used
to watch the news. Newspapers
on his table range from The New
YorkTimes to Willamette Week.
A blender sits out on the kitchen
counter. He couldn’t live with
out it" as. it prepares most of. his
meals; he has no teeth lefts most
— W le tf^ r was» th e s o le su rv iv o r
o f th e m w e re k nocked, o u t w h e n .
o f .his immediate family. .His he was punched by a German.
mother had died when Wiener
At the age o f 85, Wiener
was a young hoy »and his father knows about Facebook and
was murdered on Sep. 11, 1939 email, which helps him speak to
,ar the start o f the war.
younger generations who grew
After the death of his father, up with online communication.
Wiener was raised by his beloved He travels to various middle
stepm other > Rachel. W hen schools, high schools, churches
•Wiener was 1.5, Nazis stormed and even prisons to share his
his home, taking Wiener with story of what it was like, to .sur
vive the Holocaust.
them,
“ My stepmother pleaded
with Germans: ‘Don’t take him
Please see WIENER, Page 5
away from me, he is such a
Above: A lter Wiener in Tel-Aviv, Israel on August 4, 1959.
Below: À fa m ily photo o f W iener’s uncle M a x ’s fu n era l in Haifa,
Palestine in 1959. Right: A current photo o f Wiener.
. Alter Wiener will speak in the McLoughlin
Auditorium Thursday Oct. 27 from noon to 2 p.m.
Electric vehicle
charging stations
come to CCC
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By Patty Salazar
News Editor
“Briefly, from a moral,
philosophical and religious
perspective,» I believe and
that in order for the greater
good to be achieved in our
society, our organizations,
especially government as
represented by its officials,
should follow and.play by
the rules. It is important
to avoid potential conflicts
o f interest. Moreover, it
is incumbent upon citizens
to be watchful,” said Hugo
Grimaldi, an accounting
instructor at Clackamas
Community College.
C C C staff members
were fined by the Oregon
Secretary o f State’s office
for breaking election laws
for the $139 million ballot
bond measure in May.
“I hereby request an
investigation into these
links since they appear to
clearly violate. Oregon state
law regarding neutrality in
bond election information,”
stated the complaint filed
to the Secretary of State by
instructor Dean Darris, his
wife Tara Darris, his former
student, Mario Smith and
Grimaldi.
Now, five months later,
the Secretary o f State office
has fined Joanne Truesdell,
the president o f C C C ;
Tamera Barry a commu
nication specialist; Janet
Paulson, the public relations
official for CCC and Shelly
Parini, the dean o f college
advancement. They were
all notified on Thursday.
Truesdell, Barry and Paulson
were fined $7.5- Shelly Parini
was charged $175. As dean
o f college advancement,
Parini was in charge of over
seeing and. coordinating
bond information activities
for the May bond election.
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