THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 4, 1977 29
Simon Wiesenthal at Shaarey Zedek Nov. 18-19
Cong. Shaarey Zedek's
Cultural Commission will
feature guest speaker Simon
Wiesenthal, Friday evening
and Saturday morning Nov.
18-19.
The "Great Weekend"
event is sponsored by the
Sarah W. Davidson and Wil-
liam M. Davidson families.
At 8 p.m. Nov. 18 Wiesen-
thal will speak on "Murder-
ers Among Us." He will
speak on "The Sun Flower"
on Nov. 19.
Wiesenthal, one of the sur-
vivors of the Nazi death
camps, has dedicated his
life to documenting-the gen-
ocide that occurred in
Europe under Hitler and
hunting down the per-
petrators of that- crime.
He was born on Dec. 31,
1908 in what is now the Lvov
Oblast section of the
Ukraine. He graduated
from the gymnasium in 1928
and applied for admission to
SIMON WIESENTHAL
the Polytechnic Institute in
Lvov. He was turned down
because of quota restric-
tions on Jewish students.
He went instead to the
Technical University - of
Prague, from which he
received his degree in archi-
tectural engineering in 1932.
Wiesenthal escaped the
Ostbahn Camp in October
1943, just before the liquida-
Israelis Getting More Divorces
JERUSALEM (JTA)—
The marriage business is in
a slump but divorce is
booming-in Israel according
to the 1976 "Statistical
Abstract" published by the
Central bureau of Statistics
Sunday.
About 29,500 marraiges
were performed last year
compared to 32.300 the year
before, a decline of nine
Synagogue
percent. But divorces were
up more than nine percent
in the same period and the
few-weddings-more-
divorces trend is expected
to continue this year.
Married couples are also
having fewer children.
According to the published
figures, the average Israeli
family dropped from 3.9 to
3.7 persons during the past
12 years.
Services
CONG. BETH ACHIM: Services 5:15 and 8:15 p.m. today.
Rayna Handelman, Bat Mitzva at late services. Services
8:45 a.m. Saturday. Steven Bloom, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8 p.m. today. Rabbi Hertz
will speak on "Your Three Names." Services 11 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Schwartz will speak on "The Loneliness
of a Long-Distance Liver." Howard Abrahams, Bar
Mitzva.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 6 p.m. today and 0 a.m.
Saturday. David Yellen, Bar Mitzva. (Charles Aaron
became Bar Mitzva at Oct. 29 Shabat morning services.)
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. Rabbi Wine
will speak on "Castro, Smith, Vorster and Mengistu."
Brian Kest, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m.
Saturday. Michael Geller, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m.
Saturday. Gary Naftaly, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8 p.m. today. Rabbi Loss will
speak on "Choosing a Proper Wife." Carol Wiatrak, Bat
Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday.
;;TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Barbara
Klein, a temple vice president, will speak on "Marc Cha-
gall at 90." Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Candace and
Michelle Dangoor, Bnot Mitzva. • -
CONG. MISHKAN ISRAEL NUSACH H'ARI: Services 5: 15
p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Gottlieb will
speak on "Kindness and Sincerity."
CONG. T'CHIYAH: Services 10 a.m. Saturday, conducted
by Mr. and Mrs. Barry (Susan) Stein.
Regular services will be held at Adat Shalom Synagogue.
Cong. Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield, Cong. Beth Abra-
ham Hillel Moses—Detroit and West Bloomfield, Cong.
Beth Isaac of Trenton, Temple Beth Jacob, Cong. Beth
Jacob-Mogain Abraham, Cong. Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tik-
vah, Cong. Beth Tephilath Moses of Mt. Clemens, Cong.
Bnai Israel of Pontiac, Cong. Bnai Israel Beth-Yehudah,
Cong. Bnai Jacob, Cong. Bnai Zion, Cong. Dovid Ben
Nuchim, Downtown Synagogue. Temple Emanu-El, Livonia
Jewish Congregation, Cong. Shaarey Shomayim (10 Mile
Jewish Center), Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Shomer Israel (13440
W. Seven Mile), Cong. Shomrey Emunah, Young Israel of
Greenfield, Young of Oak-Woods and Young Israel of
Southfield.
tion of the inmates there.
Very few of the prisoners
survived the westward trek
and the series of winter
marches from concentration
camp to concentration
camp. which ended at Mau-
thausen in upper Austria.
As soon as his health was
sufficiently restored, Wie-
senthal began gathering and
preparing evidence of Nazi
atrocities for the War
Crimes Section of the U.S.
Army.
In 1954, the office in Linz,
Austria was closed and its
files given to the Yad
Vashem archives in Israel,
except for one — the dossier
on Adolf Eichmann, chief of
the Gestapo's Jewish
department, who had super-
vised the implementation of
the "final solution."
Encouraged by his suc-
cess in the Eichmann case,
Wiesenthal re-opened the
Jewish Documentation Cen-
ter, this time in Vienna, and
concentrated exclusively on
hunting war criminals.
Wiesenthal's book of
memories "The Murderers
Among Us," was published
in 1967. In 1973 his "Sails of
Hope" was published. As
founder and head of the
Jewish Documentation Cen-
ter he has ferreted out
nearly 1,000 war criminals.
There is no charge for
either lecture and the public
is invited.
Emanu-El Honors
Its New Members
Temple Emanu-El will
mark its New Member Sha-
bat with services, study
groups and an oneg Shabat
beginning at 8:15 p.m. today
in the temple. All are
invited.
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will. the slave of your con-
science.
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Temple Sponsors
Humanist Forum
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CH/WIDIC
The Birmingham Temple
will present the first of a
three-part Humanist Forum
series 8:30 p.m. Monday in
the temple.
Eleanor Driver, former
director of the Continuum
Center at Oakland Univer-
sity, will speak on "Partner-
ships-Adventure or
Monotony. -
There is a charge, and the
public is invited.
Meanwhile, the temple
will present - An Evening of
Gilbert and Sullivan" 7:30
p.m. Nov. 13 in the temple.
For tickets, call Richard
Margolis, 543-4661, or the
temple, 477-1410.
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