IT IS unfortunate that Bogusia Wojciechowska's Nov. 18 letter, "The Holocaust's other victims," seems to be the last word. She praised Beverly Beckham's Nov. 4 piece on Auschwitz, which had omitted mention of the systematic murder of Jews there. Charles Glassenberg had written to protest Beckham's oversight ("Glaring omission in Auschwitz piece," Nov. 11). The intent of Wojciechowska's letter may not have been to fuel historical revisionism, but that is its effect.
It is undeniable that Auschwitz-Birkenau will forever be synonymous with unspeakable horrors, suffering, and the epitome of human depravity.
But the passage of time should not distort the singular fact that the Nazi military-industrial complex was laser focused on the plan developed at the 1942 Wannsee Conference, the Final Solution of the Jewish Question, which was designed to wipe the Jews off the face of the earth. Even as the Nazis were being beaten on the battlefield toward the end of World War II, they did not divert resources from the plan's diabolic objective.
Tragically, as Wojciechowska points out, there were millions of victims at Auschwitz, and it is true that not all the victims were Jews. But all Jews were victims.
DAVID S. GREENFIELD
Waban
