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28 Friday, August 10, 1919

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Saul Friedlaender's Dramatic Story of Rescue
from Nazis, Escape from Conversion to Israel

An epic account of a
young lad's escape from the
Nazis, his being sheltered
by Catholics in France and
as a consequence converted
to Catholicism, his flight to
Israel and return to
Judaism, his nostalgic
quest for his origin and his
multiple eventual experi-
ences in Israel make "When
Memory Comes" by Saul
Friedlander (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux) a most memor-
able document.
The author, reminiscing,
recalling the tragic events
that preceded his coming to
Israel, where he now is pro-
fessor of history at Tel Aviv
University and of the Insti-

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tute of Graduate Studies in
Geneva, was seven years old
in 1939 when the Nazis in-
vaded Czechoslovakia. He
then had the name of Pavel.
His family was semi-
assimilated. Yet his recol-
lections later left im-
pressions of Jewish obser-
vances in his home.

SAUL FRIEDLAENDER

Two years elapsed be-
tween their exit from
Czechoslovakia and his
parents' deportation. The
anxieties, the false hopes for
survival, the submissions —
are the anguish in the
drama that makes the
Friedlaender memoir a
compelling element in the
study of the attitudes of the
Nazi victims for whom un-

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certainties turned life into tive story. It contains
terror.
flashes of the past inter-
Saul's experiences in the mingled with comments on
Catholic seminary add sig- the present.
nificance to another ele-
There are doubts about
ment in the drama of Jewish many things in Israel, yet
survival — the extent of they are related with a loy-
conversions of Jewish chil- alty to fact and a recogni-
dren who were in custody of tion of realism.
Catholic rescuers in France.
Prof. Friedlaender's me-
It may well be asked: were mories are nostalgic. There
there many who, like Saul, is a deeply moving account
fled from the church influ- of his return to Prague
ence to escape in Israel?
when his book on Pius XII
His parents were victims was published and he met
of the Nazis but before their again his governess. What
death they led their son to had been implanted in his
France. There, in a Catholic youth was inerasable.
seminary, he was baptised
Without bitterness, the
Paul Henri. He was even author comments on his
trained for the priesthood.
father's failure to realize
Finding solace in the what was happening to him
austere simplicity of and to other Jews in France
Catholicism, he decided when they were driven from
to become a Jesuit. One pillar to post before the
day Father L. told him tragic end under Nazi rule.
about Auschwitz and his He does comment that his
parents' deaths. The boy parents "should have been
took back his own name. in Palestine or in Sweden
Now, the impression of like my uncles and my
those days has been "re- grandmother, at least out of
duced to a fine dust and Hitler's reach."
blown away . . . perhaps I
But a letter from his
(preserve) in the very father quoted in the memoir
depths of myself certain indicates a turn to Zionism
disparate, incompatible under the impasse of what
fragments of existence was happening to his father.
... like those shards of
For the sake of rescue,
steel that survivors of Saul's father consented to
great battles sometimes his baptism. That's how the
carry about inside their boy of nine became Paul
bodies."
Henri Ferland. The urge to
It was after the libera- return to the Jewish fold,
tion, in 1948, before he was the dramatic events that
to graduate with honors followed, the embracing of
from high school, that he the linkage with Israel,
discovered his identity, fled combine to make this book a
from the school to Marseil- great work related to the
les and left for Israel on the bitter experiences merged
Altalena, the ship that was into pioneering. In its trans-
to gain an historic role in lation from the French by
the fight that was conducted Helen R. Lane the Fried-
by David Ben-Gurion laender book is a classic in
against the Irgun under the its sphere.
—P.S.
leadership of Menahem Be-
gin, who also was on the Al- Hadassah to Hear
talena.
He changed his name to Major Speakers,
Saul. He was the youngest
NEW YORK (JTA)
person on the Altalena, Deputy Prime Minister
which was loaded with Yigael Yadin of Israel,
ammunition intended for famed Nazi-hunter Simon
Israel's defense.
Wiesenthal of, Vienna and
Now, as Saul Friedlaen- Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.)
der, the author of this memo are among those who will
relates his experiences and address Hadassah's na-
comments on Israel, the life tional convention in
loaded with challenges in Chicago Aug. 19-22.
the Jewish state. The
Others scheduled to par-
achievements and the diffi- ticipate in the four-day an-
culties. It is not a consecu- nual meeting at the Palmer
House are: Gov. James
Thompson of Illinois;
Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne;
Dr. David Hartman of He-
brew University,
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NEW YORK — More
than 100 college and high
school students have been
attending special five- and
10-week summer classes at
the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America.
More than 20 classes in
Jewish history, theology,
philosophy, literature,
Bible and the Hebrew lan-
guage were offered.
The seminary's Summer
Institute program is now in
its 14th year.

ADL Seeks Halt to KKK
Activities in U.S. Military

NEW YORK — Citing USS Concord reportedly
several incidents of Ku has 20 Klansmen on
Klux Klan activity by mili- board and a cross burn-
tary personnel, the Anti- ing was reported on the
Defamation League of Bnai aircraft carrier USS
Brith has called on the De- America.
fense Department to stop
Other information on
members of the armed Klan activity mentioned in
forces from joining hate the letter included:
groups such as the KKK
• On June 16, a group of
and the Nazis.
armed, fatigue-clad soldiers
"There is no room within from Fort Hood, Texas,
the armed forces of the acted as "security guards"
United States for organized at a Klan rally and cross
bigotry and extremism," de- burning in Euless. Between
clared Nathan Perlmutter, 15 and 20 Fort Hood
ADL's national director, in enlisted men are said to be
a letter to Defense Secre- dues-paying Klansmen, and
tary Harold Brown.
recruiting has spread to
The ADL said it was ex- nearby Carswell Air Force
pressing concern about Base.
Klan activity in light of re-
• Two Army sergeants at
ports that KKK units have
been active in the Navy, Fort Carson, Colo. have re-
Army, Marines, and that portedly been heading a
recruiting of Klan members Klan unit there.
• The Marine Corps'
is under way within the Air
Camp Pendleton in Califor-
Force.
Perlmutter said there nia was rocked by racial vio-
have been reports of Klan lence three years ago,
activity aboard two At- caused in part by Klansmen
lantic fleet ships. The on the base.

Iranian Children Enrolled
in Israel Mission Schools

JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Education Ministry has
acknowledged that about 40
Jewish children from Iran
are presently attending
missionary schools in Is-
rael. The ministry said it is
investigating the matter on
the basis of a complaint by
Likud MK Moshe Katzay.

Twenty of the children
are studying at a mission-
ary institution in
Jerusalem and the rest at
an Anglican institution in
Jaffa. The ministry believes

they were enrolled by their
parents, possibly at the
encouragement of mission-
ary sources in Iran.
If the youngsters came to
Israel on tourist visas, as
many did during the Ira-
nian revolution, the Educa-
tion Ministry is powerless to
dictate where they attend
school. If they came as im-
migrants, however, the Is-
raeli authorities could in-
voke the compulsory educa-
tion law to force them to
leave the missionary
schools.

Pollution-Reducing Filter
Designed by Technion Profs

HAIFA — A new filter
that could reduce industrial
pollution, and solve prob-
lems in the operation of
coal-burning power plants
is being developed at the
Technion (Israel Institute of
Technology).
The "granular bed cross
flow filter" is more effective
than the filters most com-
monly used today. Those fil-
ters are capable of prevent-
ing large particles from
entering the atmosphere as
part of industrial exhaust;
but they do not stop the
smaller submicron parti-
cles.
"Since it does not stop
submicron particles, the
industrial filter is not doing
its required work — pre-
venting damage to human
lungs. The Technion de-
veloped filter stops these
particles," said Prof. Chaim
Gutfinger, head of the re-
search team.
Granular bed filters
are dust separation de-
vices. The ones de-
veloped at Technion use
sand granules as filter
media. Contaminated gas
containing solid or liquid
particles pass through a
bed of granular material
where the particulates

are separated. This pro-
cedure has been used ex-
tensively in water filtra-
tion - its use for airborne
material is relatively
new.
An important application
of the filter is in pressurized
coal combustion in power
plants. The hot exhaust gas
from the coal combustor
passes through a gas tur-
bine that generates power.
The gas, however, entrains
coal fly-ash that erodes the
blades of the turbine. By in-
stalling the granular bed
filters, this erosion process
is halted.
The Technion is Israel's
oldest university and its
only institute of higher
learning devoted fully to the
education of engineers,
applied scientists, and
physicians.

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JERUSALEM — Israel
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Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)
since April 1978.

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