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ZOA Division
Head Chosen
Holocaust Meeting Splits Into Two Camps
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
NEW YORK — Dorothy
Serels-Soloff, of Westches- network for children of sur-
ter, has been elected vivors of the Holocaust will
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president of the national be created as a result of the
women's division of the "First International Con-
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America. Mrs. Soloff had Holocaust Survivors,"
served as president of ZOA's which took place in New
New York women's division York last week and was
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rector of Zachor, the
Holocaust Resource Center,
sponsor of the conference,
said that it has taken 30
years to reach the stage of
survivors' children becom-
ing a definable group. These
children have grown up and
are leaving home now, and
many of their parents are
dying prematurely as a re-
sult of their concentration
camp experiences, he said.
The children want to carry
on their parents' heritage.
Participants at the con-
ference chosen at ran-
dom and interviewed by
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency said that they felt
that the emphasis was
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chological, rather
than equally divided be-
tween mental health as-
pects and creative, active
responses.
Michael Levien, 37, a
New York City school ad-
ministrator and survivors'
child, said that he didn't
think of himself as "abnor-
mal" and that he felt that
the conference labeled him
as "diseased."
"I feel that a parameter of
who I am is being placed on
me," he said. "I never felt
the need for a support net-
work. My father went
through severe reactions,
but we grew up healthy."
He expresied the fear
that the group at the confer-
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Mengele Victims
at Conference
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Two survivors of Dr. Josef
Mengele's experiments at
Auschwitz, Marc Berkowitz
and Alex Dekel, were
among the delegates at the
First International Confer-
ence on Children of
Holocaust Survivors.
Mengele, the "Angel of
Death" who is still believed
to-be residing in Paraguay,
selected some 400 children,
especially twins, for exper-
iments. Six pair of these
twins were liberated from
Auschwitz-Birkenau, and
Berkowitz, who has a twin
sister, believes that only
two pair are now living.
Now 47 years old but
looking much older, he lives
here with his wife and two
children. His sister, also liv-
ing in the area, has three
children.
Baring his arm to re-
veal a tatooed number
A7739, he had a copy of a
certificate with his name
and number signed by
Mengele, stating that he
was used for experi-
ments. Berkowitz wears a
neck brace which is
necessary because of
these experiments, in-
volving injections into his
spine. His sister also has
related medical prob-
lems.
Arriving in Auschwitz in
the beginning of 1944 at the
age of 11, Berkowitz and his
sister were liberated by
Soviet forces in December of
that year, during a death
march to Buchenwald. "If
Mengele is still free, that
makes the world a prison for
humanity," he said.
Dekel, 48, is a caseworker
for HIAS and a free-lance
journalist. Although one of
the 400 children selected for
experiments, Auschwitz
was liberated before
Mengele got to him. He was
part of the death march to
Mauthausen.
ence was "creating its own
pathology."
Paula Ruth Kass, 25, a
survivor's child who is
now affiliated with the
West Palm Beach, Fla.
Jewish Federation, said
that she felt many people
at the conference had
never confronted the
issue before, and they
were "walking around in II
shock."
Six months in a support
group of survivors' chil-
dren in Boston had helped
her to understand her iden-
tity as the child of a
Holocaust survivor, she
said. "Now, I'm ready for ac-
tion," she concluded.
Throughout the confer-
ence, a tension was appar-
ent between those who
wanted to emphasize the
psychological and those who
were activists, Greenberg
admitted. The groups had
wanted two separate con-
ferences, he explained, but
he felt it was important for
them to interact.
New BBYO
Camp Director
CHICAGO — Bnai Brith
Youth Organization has
appointed Leonard H.
Keilin as full-time director
of the Bnai Brith Beber
Camp, Mukwonago, Wis.
The camp is named in honor
of Sam Beber, founder of
AZA.
Sheldon Ranz, a leader of
The Generation After, a
New York City-based group
of survivors' children, said
that his group was boycot-
ting the conference. "We are
activists," he said. "Zachor
and most other survivors'
children's groups are not.
Zachor looks upon children
of survivors as a market,
and is taking them from im-
portant work into
psychotherapy or a distor-
ion of it. Activity is the best
herapy."
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