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November 4, 1986
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 86 No. 51
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Linda StoryDaily Nebraskan
A volunteer for Helen Boosalis distributes campaign
literature Monday afternoon at 13th and O Streets.
Kay Orr campaign volunteer Brad Beam distributes
campaign literature near 13th and N Streets Monday.
Speaker charges Allies
concealed the Holocaust
By Kip Fry
Staff Reporter
. One evening, as David Wyman was
writing a book abotit the Holocaust
during World War II, he had to stop
dead in his tracks. As he was writing, it
dawned on him that the American
Christian community did little if any
thing during that time to help the Jews.
"The failure of churches hurt me
especially deeply," Wyman said. "I
broke down and I couldn't work. I
cried. I couldn't have written the rest
of the book if I hadn't learned how to
cry."
Wyman, professor of history at the
University of Massachusettts, spoke at
a seminar concerning the Holocaust
Monday night. His book, "The Aban
donment of the Jews: America and the
Holocaust, 1941-45" was on the best
seller list of the New York Times for five
weeks recently.
While news of the exterminations
first reached the U.S. in late November
of 1942, none of the stories ever made
the front page until the liberation of
the death camps in 1945, Wyman said.
Part of this was because the State
Department in the Franklin Roosevelt
administration resisted every effort for
rescue, Wyman said. They also later cut
off the flow of information for several
months, because the State Department
thought that further news would just
create more pressure to do something
about it, he added.
"The State Department didn't give a
damn about the Jews," he said. 'There
was absolutely no leadership from
Roosevelt about this, so they did
nothing."
While U.S. policy at that time was to
allow 60,000 Jews to immigrate every
year, that was soon cut by 90 percent.
Wyman said: So while 210,000 Jews
could have been saved from the Nazi
gas chambers by allowing them to live
in America, only 21,000 were able to
actually do so.
At the time, approximately 40 per
cent of the U.S. House of Representa
tives were anti-Semitic, which Wyman
says, was a reflection of the attitudes of
many Americans during those years.
"Anti-Semitism reached its peak
during these years," Wyman said.
The United States was not the only
one to ignore the pleas of the Jews, as
Great Britain had their own Middle
Eastern interests at stake. Consequent
ly, they would not lift a finger to bring
the Jews out of the concentration
camps, Wyman said.
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Dr. David Wyman speaks about the Holocaust Monday night
in the Nebraska Union.
predict
By The Associated Press
LINCOLN The two state party
chairmen are counting on different
sections of Nebraska to provide the
winning margin for their candidates in
Tuesday's gubernatorial election.
Both Democratic State Chairman
Tom Monaghan and GOP State Chair
man John Gale expressed optimism
that their parties' gubernatorial can
didate would lay claim to the gover
nor's seal. Democrat Helen Boosalis
and Republican Kay Orr were locked in
a close battle.
In separate interviews late last week,
both party chiefs also claimed that
their candidates held the llth-hour
momentum in an election that even
pollsters have said is too close to call.
"I think we have momentum, and at
this stage of the campaign that is the
most important thing you have," Mon
aghan said. "They (the Orr campaign)
peaked in September and have been
trying to hold on ever since."
Gale said Orr had reclaimed the
momentum, which he said shifted to
Boosalis only briefly last month, and
that Republicans were sensing that
they would recapture the governor's
mansion.
"Now that the issues have been
defined and the advertisement satura
tion has been achieved and the candi
dates have visited every corner of the
state, the general mood and feeling is
one of unity and optimism in the
Republican Party," he said.
In drawing statewide formulas for
victory, Monaghan predicted that
Boosalis would carry Omaha and Lin
coln and hold her own in the Republican-dominated
3rd District.
By contrast, Gale said Orr would
hang close in the 1st and 2nd Districts
and then pull away for victory in the 3rd
District.
Gale acknowledged that Boosalis
should have the edge in the 1st Dis
trict, which includes Lincoln. He said
Boosalis' name recognition as mayor of
Lincoln gave her a big advantage, plus
the Democrats have a strong voter base
there with state employees.
He said he hoped Orr would break
even in Omaha and carry the 2nd Dis
trict with a strong showing in the rural
counties of that district, which includes
Omaha.
Orr will be helped by the economic
prosperity under way in Omaha, which
is "going to turn out Republican voters,"
Gale said.
"I think the 2nd District will offset
the 1st District and the 3rd District
will sweep her in," said Gale, a North
Platte attorney.
Gale said he expected Orr to win 65
percent of the vote in the 3rd District,
which he called the bastion of the GOP
because it claims about 40 percent of
the state's registered Republicans.
Monaghan said, meanwhile, that
Boosalis needs to pick up about 52
percent of the Omaha vote, which he
said is within her grasp. Boosalis has
campaigned extensively in Omaha, a
traditional Democratic stronghold,
during the past few weeks.