14 Friday, March 9, 1919
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
'Among Men and Beasts, an Impressive Holocaust MerriOIP""
noteworthy contribution to
Paul Trepman's memoir, the liteature on the
"Among Men and Beasts" Holocaust.
(A.S. Barnes and Bergen
Translated from the Yid-
Belsen Memorial Press), is a dish by Shoshana Perla and
Gertrude Hirschler, the
memoir covers the period
My Mother
1939-1945.
always taught
Trepman begins his nar-
me to . . .
rative with a description of
the Nazi invasion of Poland
dress warmly, eat the right .
foods, pick good
and his escape from War-
company, work hard, he
saw. He recalls with feel-
fair with my customers,
ings of nostalgia the Jewish
always give them extra
neighborhoods
and their
value for their money .. .
landmarks, such as the
"I always follow her
Great Synagogue and the
advice. That's why I'm the
headquarters of the Jewish
country's top Cadillac
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salesman.
'Thank twit. Mother!' "
Tlomatzka, that he had to
pass while leaving the city
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of his birth.
cau me or zertte nit tit:
Trepman recounts viv-
idly his escape route, and
desscribes the towns, vil-
lages and hamlets that
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companions remained
alive. "Thank God," one
of them, an unbeliever
said, and together with
the others murmured
"the Shema Yisrael
prayer."
After weeks of wander-
ing, he finally reached
Lwow (Lemberg) in the
Russian sector. There he
met Prof, Moses Schor, chief
rabbi of the Warsaw Great
Synagogue (martyred in a
Soviet prison camp),
Eliyahu Maziur, president of
Warsaw's pre-war Jewish
community council, and Dr.
Ostersetzer, the author's
teacher at the Tachkemony
Rabbinical Seminary.
After a brief stay in
Lwow, - TrePman left for
Zablotow in the western
Ukraine where he obtained
a teaching position in a local
school. But soon afterwards
he was fired because his
Passport contained a clause-
forbidding criminals, poten-
tial subversives and "refu-
gees from the German sec-
tor" to hold government
positions.
In 1941, when the Ger-
mans occupied the Russian
sector, Trepman secured a
false passport and returned
to Warsaw where he found
life "reduced to vegetation.".
Nevertheless, "there
still were in the ghetto
men and women with suf-
ficient spirit and stamina
to risk their own lives to
aid the weak and the dy-
ing. They worked in the
soup kitchens, smuggled
food into the ghetto from
the outside, cared for the
sick and looked after the
homeless."
Impressive is the author's
account of the ghetto's
clandestinely - organized
educational system. It corn-
prised all levels.
Intensely moving is this
account: "The educators in
the ghetto, aided and
encouraged by Adam Cher-
niakow, head of the Juden-
rat (Nazi-imposed commu-
nity council), were deter-
mined that their children
should have a playground.
They cleared away the de-
bris of three houses that had
been completely destroyed
in the air raids at the begin-
ning of the war and con-
verted the site into a small
Capucci Barred
- MEXICO CITY (ZINS) —
Following his release from
Israeli prison for gun run-
ning and assignment to
Latin America by the Vati-
can last year, Archbishop
Hilarian Capucci toured
every Latin American coun-
try except Mexico.
Mexican authorities de-
clared him persona non
grata.
park. They set out paths, a
swimming pool complete
with diving boards.
"There was also a dining
room for the children, and
an office and living quarters
for the playground super-
visor . . . The playground
was the one place where the
children were able to laugh
and sing, to enjoy their
birthright of happiness."
The teaching staff con-
sisted of former univer-
sity professors, the histo-
rians Meir Balaban and
Ignatz Schipper, and the
Talmudist Rabbi Son-
nenschein who would
expound the Talmud in
Hebrew.
Trepman, however, did
not remain in the ghetto
very long. Having a non-
Jewish - appearance and
speaking Polish without an
accent, he left the ghetto
and joined the Polish un-
derground. But was caught
and deported to Maidanek.
He records graphically
his experiences in that
death camp, and describes,
inter alia, the inmates'
struggle for survival, and
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the respect they showed the
Greek Jewish prisoners "for
their devotion to each other
and _for their ability to
maintain their dignity as
Jews and as human beings
even amidst the surround-
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mander; Anton Tuman, a
graduate of the University
of Berlin and a lawyer. On
his order the camp's 22,000
Jewish inmates were ex-
terminated on Sept. 3;1943.
Trepman was the only Jew
who remained alive. No
wonder, he still ponders
over the reason for his sur-
vival:
"Perhaps," he writes,
"providence intended that I
with my false 'Aryan' iden-
tity and non-Jewish ap-
pearance should be spared
from that slaughter so that I
alone, having witnessed it,
should live to record this
one event which otherwise
might have been omitted
from mankind's testimony
against Hitler."
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