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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ellasen:' The Story of Two Hares
By ALLEN A. WARSEN
Reuben Bercovitch's
novel "Hasen" (Alfred A:
Knopf), is a story about two
boys, victims of the
Holocaust. Ritter, 13, and
Perchik, 12, are the story's
heroes.
Ritter was captured by
the Nazis and brought to an
extermination camp. Per-
chik and his mother, also
kidnapped, were trans-
ported to the same inferno.
But Perchik's mother
"pushed him off the train
into a stack of corpses. She
died here of typhus . . . His
father was dead already."
Dudie, his 10-year-old
brother, whom the two boys
tried to "free," died later
while working as a slave la-
borer.
From the stack of corpses
Perchik made his way to a
nearby forest where he met
Ritter and where the boys'
odyssey to fight to remain
alive began.
In the forest their home
was a hidden, hand-made
dugout; and their suste-
nance consisted of ber-
ries and hares they would
occasionally capture
with a slingshot or bow
and arrow.
catching
Incredibly,
hares (Hasen in German)
for the camp commandant
saved the boys' lives for a
while.
But as soon as a new
commandant took over the
camp administration, the
life of the young partisans
became perilous and un-
bearable. They were pur-
sued by Gestapo men and
their Alsatian police track-
ing dogs day and night. As a
result, the boys were always
on the run and continually
had to change their hiding
places.
Nevertheless, the boys'
courage and devotion to one
another remained stead-
fast.
In the hideouts they
Israelis Develop
Probe of Fetus
HAIFA (JTA) — A new
method to determine the
state of well-being of the
human fetus has been de-
veloped by researchers in
the Technion's Department
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The method is designed
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Israeli Creates
Map for Blind
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Academic institutions ab-
road are requesting samples
of a map for the blind de-
signed by a graduate of the
Bezalel Academy of Art,
Meir Eshel.
The map, currently on
display in Jerusalem at the
academy's exhibition of
graphic design, is based on
the "protrusion principle,"
similar to that of Braille, in
which city streets, alleys
and other thoroughfares are
projected.
would dream: "You
know, Perchik, if the war
goes on long enough, the
whole world might die,
and we'd be the only ones
left. . . We'd be able to go
anywhere. Find things in
empty kitchens to eat . . .
cheese, wurst, chickens
. . . Take a hot bath. Be
warm . . . I'll drink
milk," Ritter said. "And
juices. Apple. Orange.
Grape. With a lot of
sugar. And chocolate
bars. With nuts. Whole
nuts."
But the young heroes did
not live long enough to
realize their dreams. They
died fighting with their
bows and arrows.
"Hasen" is a small, con-
cise, well-written, and en-
grossing, though unrealis-
tic, novel. The author is a
screenwriter and producer
in Hollywood, Calif.
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