Re: your July 18 article, “District apologizes for Holocaust talk�:
After reading the article regarding the program at the Goebel Center, especially the pamphlet, “Did it happen?� I am amazed the officials who run the Conejo Recreation and Park District could put on such a program.
One of the things the Nazis did best was keep records. Anyone sent to a concentration camp had a number tattooed on his or her arm. Also, meticulous records were kept regarding gassing and torture and also country of origin and religion.
The written documents supporting the Holocaust exist in the United States, Israel and many of the countries of the world, as well as in museums that document exactly what happened and where it happened. So much for “Did it happen?�
I recommend that some of the paid and volunteer park staff be required to visit Auschwitz in Poland and tour the camp. This camp was not destroyed so that it could remind people that millions of human beings were tortured or exterminated by the Nazis. Furthermore, the Conejo Recreation and Park Department should be required to pay the expenses for that trip.
The phrase “Never again� came out of the people at the camps. Anyone in government would be well advised to remember that before producing a brochure titled, “Did it happen?� Shades of O.J. Simpson.
— Victorine Fineman, Thousand Oaks
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