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December 8, Email from Susan Llanes-Myers, Holocaust Museum

Eric,

Since there are numerous others on the staff that get your e-mails, please remove my name from you list. I have been inundated as of late with e-mails that make it difficult for me to get through a days worth of necessary information.

Keep up the good work!

Thanks.

Susan Llanes-Myers

Holocaust Museum Houston

Executive Director

December 9, Reply to Susan Llanes-Myers, Holocaust Museum

All right, Ms. Llanes-Myers, you’re off the list, after this farewell letter:

Did you know that there were German soldiers in World War II who actually refused orders to execute Jews – even though the soldiers knew that such conduct would mean their execution – and they were indeed executed.

As an American soldier – private, non-commissioned officer, and officer – I have been taught that the Constitution and Conscience were my reference points, and using them, I have refused to be part of the deliberate escalation of the Quicksand War by the more brutal, less-enlightened elements of the United States, Great Britain and Israel – and I have worked very hard against them. I thin we have been led to believe in the existence of an Axis of Evil to justify our silent creation of an Axis of Good.

I am committed to stopping the march of our Axis towards World War III. I understand that you’re busy with the rigors of administration, and lord knows, I’m not cut out to handle ‘em, so keep on keeping on, sister, but remember the admonitions of Moshe the Baedle in Elie Wiesel’s Night (the book’s only a hundred pages – everyone should read it), and remember the martyrdom of the German soldiers. It’s not always so easy, you know, to do the right thing, and a lot of people say they’re committed to principle when they’re not. [Editor’s emphasis, in all cases]

When you get a break from your administrative duties, think about how the self-deluding Hungarian Jews should have listened to importunate Moshe the Baedle, and how the blindly obedient German soldiers should have imitated the rebellious ones. It’s too bad that before World War II, when there was still time to do something, normal people were always too busy (or worried) to do anything. Why, your very museum is testament to the disastrous results, isn’t it? Well, visiting you folks a bit is a big part of why I’m importunate and rebellious.  Thanks for all your kind attention.

Shalom, Captain Eric May

PS: As a final tip of my cavalryman’s hat, here’s the editorial I wrote for you guys when you opened (I was there) for KPRC/TV, where I was the writer for General Manager Steve Wasserman.

Aired: Wednesday, March 6, 1996, 6:00 PM

Repeated: Thursday, March 7, 1996, Daybreak and Noon

Length: 1:02

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More than 2,000 people attended the opening of Houston’s Holocaust Museum last weekend, which commemorates the Nazi atrocities committed against Jews and others during the infamous Third Reich.

The museum has a special meaning for the hundreds of Holocaust survivors living in the Houston area. And it has special meaning for Houston’s Jewish community, many members of whom know that whole branches of their family trees were reduced to ashes in the death camps.

But the Holocaust museum has meaning for all people of all creeds, a meaning cried out by six million Holocaust victims: We must never forget the extent of man’s inhumanity to man.

Channel 2 encourages all Houstonians to visit the Holocaust Museum. While remembering the Holocaust is disturbing – as well it should be – the remembrance will help insure that we will never be indifferent toward hate again. And as death camp survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel once said: Indifference is the most dangerous thing in the world.

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