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Gray's New Ecology Movement
LT. ROY F. GREEN
AUXILIARY will meet
12:30 p.m. Saturday at the
MCL Cafeteria in the Tel-12
Mall. Members of the auxil-
iary recently serviced the D.
J. Healy Home by entertain-
ing 27 children there with
refreshments and games.
Leading the group were
Mrs. Bernard Hoffman,
past president of the auxil-
iary and the Department of
Michigan, and Mrs. Harold
Weiss, past auxiliary presi-
dent.
Wishing Our Friends & Customers
Friday, March 21, 1975 45
World Meeting
TEL AVIV — A world
assembly of Jewish war vet-
erans will be held in Jerusa-
lem next Jan. 25-30, to com-
memorate the defeat of Nazi
Germany. The meeting is
being planned by veterans
groups in the U.S., Aus-
tralia, Belgium, Canada,
England, France, South Af-
rica and Israel.
Bayit to Present
Historical Film
The movie "Strike" will be
shown at the Beit Cafe 8
p.m. Tuesday at the Bayit,
16845 Muirland.
The movie, directed by
Sergio Eisenstein, presents
a chronicle of a mass strike
in Russia proceeding the
RuSsian Revolution. Re-
freshments will be served.
Martin Gray has re-
sponded to the two personal
tragedies in his life with two
best selling books and a
French foundation dedi-
cated to the removal of both
spiritual and world pollu-
tion.
life (see Jewish News,
March 14, page 22).
The Dina Gray Founda-
tion, he said, is an ecological
foundation, "but I also want
to clear pollution from
man's mind. I feel I am an
intermediary now. People
don't listen to Martin Gray,
but to what I now repre-
sent."
In Detroit last week to
promote his latest book,. "A
Book of Life" (The Seabury
Press), Gray said he hopes
millions of people will read
his books and share them
with others.
Gray is independently
wealthy, and says the book
royalties are going to the
Dina Gray Foundation to
educate children to prevent
fire. He lost his wife and
four children in a forest fire
around their home near
Cannes, France, in 1970,
when Mrs. Gray drove the
family car over a cliff while
trying to take the children
to safety.
His foundation, with the
help of the French Minis-
try of Education, has dis-
tributed 10 million pham-
plets to school children on
fire prevention. He is also
campaigning on the slo-
gan, "A child, a tree — a
school, a forest," in the
hopes of having each
French child plant a tree
each year.
"If a child plants a tree,"
Gray said, "he'll never de-
MARTIN GRAY
stroy a forest when he
grows up. I remember
planting trees in Israel as a
youngster through Karen
Kayemet, and it has always
been with me."
Gray's first book, "To
Those I Loved," deals with
his personal tragedies of los-
ing his family in the Holo-
caust, and his wife and chil-
dren in the fire. "A Book of
Life" answers thousands of
letters in response to the
earlier book, telling of
Gray's own philosophy of
He has made a special
appeal in France, and now
in this country, for people
to share the books with
someone else, or donate
the books to a library.
Gray said Israelis bought
the book and donated it to
soldiers in the army.
His short range goal is a
world-wide Arbor Day, with
everyone planting trees. His
second goal is a changing of
people's values.
As for carrying on after
the death of his family,
Gray says, "Strength comes
from what I give . . . like a
boomerang, the more I give
the more I get in return.
Most people have this
strength, but don't realize it
and don't know how to use
it. I think my books help
people discover this
strength in themselves."
—ALAN HITSKY
Director of HIAS in Rome
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Mrs. Evi Heller, shown right, visits with Mrs. Sol
Grossman and Sam Lerner of the Resettlement Service
during her three-day Detroit visit. Mrs Heller, director
of the Rome office of United HIAS, is on a five-week
North American tour to see the services provided for
Russian emigres who are helped by her office.
Evi Heller, director of the
Rome office of United
HIAS, completed a three-
day visit in Detroit this
week to see the services
provided her clients in
Rome: the thousands of
Russian Jews who are proc-
essed in Rome before they
arrive in the U.S.
Mrs. Heller, on a five
week tour of U.S. and Cana-
dian cities, visited the Jew-
ish Family and Children's
Service, English language
classes at the Jewish Com-
munity Center and the Jew-
ish Vocational Service and
Community Workshop.
Hungarian-born but a
resident of Italy for most of
her life, she has worked on
immigration for HIAS and
the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee since 1946.
She said she is visiting
North America in order to
be able to answer her 4,000
clients' questions more
easily on what they can .ex-
pect in the U.S. and Can-
ada.
Her 36 full-time and part-
time employees handled
approximately 4,000 Rus-
sian Jews last year, helping
them with accommodations,
and mainly with the formi-
dable . paperwork necessary
for emigration.
Of the 3,200 who left
Rome, 2,800 came to the
U.S. after spending an aver-
age of three months in
Rome.
"The delay is much longer
now," Mrs. Heller said, "but
we expect a large number to
come in April and May be-
fore the end of the fiscal
year."
She explained that the
Russian Jews arrive in
Rome very confused, and
many react with obstinacy
or depression. "Many of
these people have never
left their Russian villages
before, she said.