.They got a taste of their own violence...
(what?)
The only Norwegian Jew deported in 1942 to remain alive, Samuel
Steinmann, states the proposal by the chairman of the board of the White
Buses, Rune Gerhardsen , over tours to Utøya is a demotion of the
Holocaust.
On Wednesday, Gerhardsen told Dagsavisen of his wish to arrange tours to Utøya
under the auspices of the White Buses . These tours may make Norwegian
youth understand the continuity of Adolf Hitler’s thoughts, via for
instance the Srebrenica massacres, to the thoughts of Anders Behring
Breivik, Gerhardsen said.
The only Norwegian Jew still alive of those deported in 1942 is displeased with Gerhardsen’s initiative.
“I feel like this is a demotion of the Holocaust’s gravity”, Steinmann says to the Dagen newspaper.
“The
concentration camps and Utøya are objects that are very far removed
from each other. One is about the persecution of Jews, the other about
being purely a terrorist incident”.
Guri Hjeltnes, the director of
the Holocaust center for the study of the Holocaust and minorities, on
her hand holds the opinion Gerhardsen’s idea is a good one.
“These
are exciting thoughts; I will praise the board over their initiative.
Then we can rather discuss what places should be visited”, Hjeltnes
says.
The White Bus foundation was established in 1992. The
foundation arranges tours for students to the Nazi’s KZ camps, in order
to increase the fund of knowledge over human rights and encourage
students to display personal responsibility. The foundation has taken
its name from the white buses employed to repatriate survivors post WW2.
Norway cannot discern the moral difference between genocide by society
and the act of one depraved person against society