Film Relates Needs of Mentally Retarded;
Jewish Residential Care Facility Urged
"Shma, Yisrael, Adonai Elo-
henu, Adonai Ehod . . ." Recited
by a woman of 49 whose home
since 1928 has been the Lapeer
State Home and Training School
and who has had two visitors in
the past 15 years. the Shma takes
on a new and eloquent meaning.
Yetta is one of two principal
figures in a new film viewed Wed.
nesday evening by almost 500 per-
sons at the Jewish Center. The
preview was a kickoff for a cam-
paign by the Parents' Association
for Jewish Residential Care in its
efforts to win support for a resi-
'dential facility for the retarded.
The emotional impact of the
titled "Barbara and Yetta,"
was felt at the conclusion of the
=bowing, when Milton J. Miller,
ormer president of the Jewis h
center, conveyed his own profound
-eaction and pledged his support
or such a facility.
Among the audience were par-
ents with their children, Center
-taff and a few community lead-
ers who had been specially in-
vited to see the film, which here-
after will be available for use by
organizations.
(The movie also will be shown
;n two segments on "Highlights,"
`, eeinning 9:45 a.m. Sunday on
Channel 2).
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Photography by Sidney' Siegel,
"Barbara and Yetta" relates
through two women the plight of
the retarded in the Jewish com-
munity.
As the film begins, the camera
follows an unseen "child" into
a delicatessen where her written
order is filled and, as a reward,
she is given a lollipop. The child,
the camera soon reveals, is Bar-
bara Mitteldorf, 25, a mental re-
tardate.
From ' Barbara's secure, happy
life in a Jewish environment—
with loving parents, and social
contacts at the Jewish Center—
the viewer is taken to Lapeer,
where Yetta Schneider lives out
her days in an institution devoid
of the experiences that make life
meaningful for Barbara.
Unlike Barbara, who despite her
acquisition of certain other skills,
can neither read or write, Yetta
can do both. In addition, she dis-
plays a remarkable memory. Per-
haps the most touching segments
of the color film are those in which
Yetta is shown on the grounds
of Lapeer, singing and reciting her
favorite poems.
Yetta and Barbara have been
out of the mainstream of Jewish
communal life. But they are Jew-
ish, and both are much aware of
that fact.
Barbara's parents, and others
like them, are looking ahead to
the day when they are not
around, when, should there be
no other recourse, their children
will become state wards.
The campaign has begun in
earnest to win a better life for
Michigan's 2,000 Jewish mental re-
tardates. Said Miller, "If we take
care of our educational and social
needs, as well as those of the
elderly in our community, then we
must take care of our mentally
retarded." Calling for establish-
ment of a residence, he called it
a matter of "tzed.;:,e—justice."
—C.D.
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Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday
Station: WWJ
Feature: Tenth and last in the
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Time: 9:45 a.m. Sunday
Station: Channel 2
Feature: "Barbara and Yetta,"
is a documentary film produced
by the Parents' Association for
Jewish Residential Care for the
Mentally Retarded. The film, pro-
duced in this community and writ-
ten and directed by Fred Doner is
a unique study of the quality of
life for the mentally retarded. It
will be shown in two parts with
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