Heroism During Holocaust Related (Continued from Page 8) on to work camps. Despite her ef- tians, Ruch Oporu. She said the forts to keep the children with her movement's cardinal rule through- (To make them look younger, and out the entire occupation was: If consequently ineligible for work you are given a child to save, you camps, she would tell them to must save that life even at the stoop over), only 12 children were cost of your own. left when the Allies arrived. Later, as a prisoner in Ausch- Her work did not end with the witz, she would apply that prin- war; she immediately set about ciple many times. organizing a soldiers' home for re- Mrs. Ciesielska isn't certain how turning men, and to this day en- she and her husband were caught, gages in a number of humanitarian but in spring 1942 her counterfeit projects. work came to a close. Mrs. Ciesielska isn't certain how Early one morning, the Gestapo her name came before the Yad arrived at her office-apartment in Vashem officials, but early in 1967 Krakow. She managed to hide the she was invited to Israel to accept photographs of two Jews whose the medal of the Righteous Among false identification papers were the Gentiles and to witness the being prepared; however, two planting of a tree in her and her others who had come to the Cies- husband's name, on the., Yad ielskis for aid were not so lucky. Vashem avenue. They were taken away, and the As a guest of the government, Gestapo settled down to wait for she was escorted throughout Is- more. rael, including the soldiers' home No other Jews arrived that day, that is a counterpart of the one but the Ciesielskis were already she had organized in Poland. implicated. They were arrested for There, Moshe Dayan greeted her interrogation. It was the last time with bread and salt—a Polish, and Mrs. Ciesielska saw her husband. Jewish, custom upon entering a Her son Januscz, 4, was released new home. One day, she was taken to a to wander without food or shelter. For four days he slept under a new building, from which three bridge and finally, suffering from children emerged with a bouquet hunger, stole a beet and ate it and a greeting in faltering raw. The underground found him Polish: "Welcome to the thres- and kept the boy till the end of hold of our new Ciesielski School." the war. The highest honor, the warmth Today a physician in Warsaw, Januscz recalls how he shock with extended by the people of Israel, remorse for his crime of thievery, is what makes her want to return. She said the Israelis offered her Mrs. Ciesielska said. After four months of question- any job she desired if she would ing and torture, whose scars re- remain. But her son is still in main, Mrs. Ciesielska still had Poland. "I really am too young not provided the Gestapo with to retire," she added. Four months after she arrived the information they needed about the false identification in Israel, she was ordered, with re papers. She was removed from gret, to leave immediately. Dis- Krakow prison to Auschwitz, mayed that she might have done where she would remain the next something wrong, Mrs. Ciesielska three years. left. One week later, she learned In September 1944, as the last why she lied been sent home: the of the Warsaw ghetto survivors Six-Day War broke out. Being one of 935 Zanikei Umot were being rounded up, Mrs. Cie- sielska took on a new responsi- Olam, as Yad Vashem refers to bility. Five hundred children, age them, Mrs. Ciesielska insists that 2 14, who had been separated from there were many Christians who their mothers were placed under laid their lives on the line to save Mrs. Ciesielska's voluntary super- Jews. She said she knows no vision in Auschwitz. For half a Polish family that didn't have year, until liberation in March some member who tried to help, 1945, she managed to keep all but but she admits that there were three alive, with the aid of the "evil people in all nations" and some who saved Jews did so only underground. To her sorrow, however, when for money. liberation appeared imminent, What motivated her own hero- most of the children were moved ism? Two factors. "First, I sud- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS suddenly realized, today they, to- morrow we. "Second," Mrs. Ciesielska said, "I saw so many horrible things being done to the Jews. How could I not help? I suppose it was Chris- tian conscience." • LAST DAYS—HURRY! .SMOKE SALE! Due to a fire on our block we are having • • Brandt Says He Kneeled Before Warsaw Ghetto Monument to Ask Pardon for Crimes BONN (JTA)--Chancellor Willy Brandt said in a magazine inter- view that when he kneeled and laid a wreath on the Warsaw Ghetto memorial monument last week he "wanted to ask for par- don in the name of our people for a million-fold crime which was committed in the misused name of the Germans." Brandt's gesture, which was pic- tured on television and in the nress, has aroused controversy in West Germany. according to the Hamburg weekly, Die Welt, which published the interview. Die Welt also published the results of a public opinion poll that showed Germans to be sharply divided over the appropriateness of the gesture. The poll, conducted by the Al- lensbach Demoscopic Institute, re- ported that of the 500 persons who responded, 41 per cent approved and 48 per cent disapproved. U. 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The two students spending the year in Israel after completine their academic study requirements at the post-graduate university here, are Rabbi David Clayman and- Walter Pick. Rabbi Clayman, who was former spiritual leader of Ramat-El Con- gregation in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia, majored in the field of history and his thesis is titled, "Henry Morgenthau, Sr.— The Zionist Activities of an Anti- Zionist." Pick, who served as a major in the Israeli Army and is a mem- ber of the staff of the "Jewish Encyclopedia," majored in Middle East studies. The thesis he is writ- ing in Israel deals with the "De- velopment of Railways in Pales- tine the 19th and 20th Centuries." In addition to Rabbi Clayman Dropsie in June, is engaged in post-graduate studies at the He- brew University in Jerusalem. Dr. Abraham I. Katsh, president of Dropsie, said that the educa- tional ties between the local in- stitution and Israel scholarship are being further strengthened by the fact that a number of Israeli scholars and educators are serving as advisers to doctoral candidates to guide them in preparing their Ph.D. theses in this country. While they have already com- pleted their terms as visiting pro- fessors at Dropsie here and return- ed Israel, ties are still being main- tained as advisors to the doctoral candidates here by Dr. Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, in the field of Bible and Semitic studies; Dr. Jo- seph Nevada, in political science; and Dr. Avraham Shaanan, in modern Hebrew language and lit- erature. Dropsie University is the only graduate institution of its kind in the United States completely dedi- cated to the study of Hebrew, bib- lical and Middle East languages and Pick, Rabbi Alex Shapiro, and cultures, and for higher Jewish who received his PhD degree at education. 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