Boy's Survival in Holocaust Related in Slide Presentation Written and Produced Here How does a teacher trans- mit the lesson of the Holo- caust to a 13-year-old liV'ing a million light years from the nightmare? The answer may lie with David Bergman, a 42-year- old Holocaust survivor who was but 12 _when the Nazis overran his native Czechoslo , vakia. Bergman has prepared a slide-tape presentation, "To Hell and Freedom," which recounts his experiences in the concentration camps of occupied Europe in 1944-45. He was assisted with the pro- duction by Judy and Albert Karbal, the latter director of the Learning Resource Center at Cong. Shaarey Ze- dek. In one year, the year of his Bar Mitzva (observed aboard a cattle train speeding from Auschwitz to Plaszhau con- centration camp), young David was transported from Hungary , to Germany, to Poland, and back to Ger- - / •any. His miraculous sur- vival in Auschwitz, Reichen- bach and Dachau reads like a novel. The color slides, narrated by Bergman, include photo- graphs of the family he never saw again; copper sculp- tures the young engineer has created as a personal Holo- caust memorial; and artists' drawings of his experiences. There also are haunting photographs of the Nazis' vic- tims, the faces of children with whom an– American child might identify. Bergman and Karbal pur- posely avoided atrocity pic- tures to soften the impact on young audiences. But the ef- fect is striking, nevertheless. Describing how the Nazis split up his family, sending his mother in one direction, his brother and sister in an- other, Bergman says softly, "I didn't even have a chance to say goodby to them." Conveying in personal terms the -tragedy of the Six Mil- lion, Bergman recalls the horrible struggle for life on the cattle trains carrying Jews to the death camps. He relates how, on the fifth day aboard one of those trains, he passed out only to awaken and find a man sitting on top of him. With his last ounce of strength, young David arose, lifting the burden from his chest and reversing roles. The man who had been sitting on him now was underneath, and soon breathed his last. "For many nights afterward, I had nightmares," Bergman says. Of 150 who started the trip, three survived. The sound of the trains, which has never left his memory, is dubbed in, behind the slide narrative. Bergman had put his mem- ories into -writing and styliz- ed copper models, but it was Karbal who convinced him he should put the years of work into a taped presentation. It took another year of actual production. 10 Friday, March 1, 1974 — '4hey have shown the slides to a few Jewish and non-Jew- ish student -groups and report an excellent reaction, par- ticularly during the questions that follow. Now they hope to get the presentation pub- lished, so that it can be cir- culated to schools around the country. Bergman is determined that his family will not have died in vain, and that the memory will live on among the young. —C.D. Theological Seminary Executive Named Vorspan Urges Filling Gaps in Leadership WASHINGTON, D. C. — Religious, civic and citizens groups were urged to "help fill the vacuum of moral leadership created by the Watergate disaster" and, at the same time, "seize the un- expected opportunity of the moment to secure significant federal legislative solutions to neglected social problems in American life." Albert Vorspan, director of social action, Union of Amer- ican Hebrew Congregations, called upon the Jewish com- munity to join the old civil right - coalition of the '60s composed of religious, ethnic and labor organizations as a "social conscience" task force to bring about "effec- tive and badly needed" domestic, social and eco- nomic programs. He stated that such public opinion pres- sure coupled with President Nixon's needs to conciliate the Congress in light of Watergate makes this the "appropriate time to act." Ogden Reid Hits Blackmail MIAMI BEACH (JTA) — LAWRENCE A. TISCH Rep. Ogden R. Reid, (D:,' NEW YORK — Laurence N.Y.) declared here that the A. Tisch, chairman of the United States must be pre- board of Loews Corporation, pared to meet its energy has been named to the exec- needs without oil from Arab utive committee of the board countries rather than knuckle of. directors of' the Jewish to pressure for a policy Theological Seminary of change that could endanger America. His appointment Israel. "The United States was announced by Alan M. must never permit oil black- Stroock, president of the mail to influence by one iota foreign policy in the Middle seminary corporation. East," Reid told the 1,200 'delegates from the U.S, and Canada attending the three- day. annual Histadrut Eco- nomic Conference for Israel. "If necessary, - the United GENEVA — Israeli dele- States must become totally gates walked out of the open- self-reliant in energy." ing meeting here of a five- In a similar vein, Simon week conference slated - to Weber, editor of the daily update the rules of war. The Forward in New. York, the walk-out followed an insult only daily Yiddish-language by Moktar Ould Daddah, newspaper in the U.S., said president of Mauritania. that American Jewry "must Daddah, invited to address not relax our efforts, both the conference as the only politically and economically, chief of state present, ac- in behalf of Israel. Politic- cused Israel of "continuous ally, we must influence the aggression" and of "killing government of the U.S. not indisefiminately women, chil- to submit to blackmail, and dren and the aged" in the economically, we must sup- Arab lands she has occupied. sport Israel in all areas with MordeChai Kidron, head of even greater participation in the Israeli delegation, told the United Jewish Appeal, newsmen that the walkout State of Israel Bonds and was to protest the "utterly through the newest dimension disgraceful" statement made in giving—the Israel Hista- by Daddah, and his "abuse drut Foundation." of the privilege of addressing Weber •was honored by the the conference." leaders of the Labor Zionist The Israelis planned to re- Movement, Workman's Circle turn as soon as the actual and Israel Histadrut Founda- work of the conference be- tion. gins. The meeting of 117 nations - will focus on protecting Libyan Justice TUNISIA — The Afrique civilian noncombatants and insuring civilized treatment Presse news agency reported of captured guerrilla fighters that a Libyan religious court and other rebels involved in has sentenced two Tunisians to have their right hands civil conflicts. The new rules were set to amputated for theft. The report said the sen- supplement the four conven- tions of 1949 on the protec- tence, passed in November, tion of war victims. They are was the first since Col. being updated due to the Muammer Qaddafi ordered increase of guerrilla warfare. the observance of Koran law with regard to amputations THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS as punishment for crimes. Insults Spark Israel Walkout OLDSMOBILE CENTER 478-0590 NEW 1st OF MONTH SALE OLDSMOBILE SAYS WE MUST SELL 256 CARS THIS MONTH BUY TODAY SAVE HUNDREDS. 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