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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
THE COUNTRY> TRIBUTE TO WRITER JACK IN THE LEGISLATURE
Fucks A biography testifies
City Legislature honored yesterday as Outstanding Personality of the Human Rights of the writer and Auschwitz survivor Jack Fucks. "Jack is someone who brings not only a story but also a living body, which has had the ability to transform his biography in testimony," said Rep. Diana Maffia, driving the project.
The event took place at the San Martin Room of the Legislature and had the presence of Fucks, Maffía and Rabbi Daniel Goldman. The writer, 86, received warm expressions of affection from family and fellow travelers who came to greet him before the start of the ceremony.
"I have great admiration for the work of Jack, by its questioning spirit," confessed Maffía to present the award. Goldman stressed the value of providing testimony. "This is a tribute to all survivors who take goal is to continue telling, continue to count," said The rabbi, who said "the only way to transform the world is still mending." At that time he was given a diploma and Fucks the medal to his credit and outstanding personality.
"One day I lost my whole family," said the honoree. After I was sentenced to work. Luckily, I was also condemned to live, "he recalled. "There are days when it seems that happened yesterday and days it seems like it never happened. It seems that Jack Fucks in the Lodz ghetto in 1940 were not the same as that of 2010. Somewhere in that division was discontinued, "he said.
Fucks Jack was born in Lodz in 1924. At fifteen, the Nazis imprisoned him in the local ghetto until he was deported to Auschwitz and the "selected" to work. He was later transferred to Dachau, where he remained until the end of the war. He lived several years in the U.S. and in the sixties was installed in Buenos Aires. The first time she told her story in the camps was in an interview with Pagina/12, almost twenty years. Since then he has devoted to the study of the Holocaust. Yesterday, the receipt of the prize, returned to remember the horrors of war but ended on a hopeful note: "There are many young people, hopefully in the future to make up something and find some peace," he said.
Report: Federico Poore.
