THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 1, 1980
To Understand, Forgive and Never Forget
Pupil Attrition
TEL AVIV (ZINS) —
Zevulun Hammer, Israel's
minister of education, says
that there are 1,194,000
elementary and high school
pupils in Israel. Some 85 pe-
cent attend elementary
schools but only 30 percent
are expected to graduate.
Hammer said some
18,000 young people are
now "drop-outs," neither
attending school or work-
ing. AW
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By MOSHE RON
The Jewish News Special
Israel Correspondent
TEL AVIV — Dr. Gizela
Perl lives in a small house
in Herzliya, surrounded by
trees and meadows. All is
quiet and beautiful, but be-
hind this rustic atmosphere
lies a deep human tragedy.
In Auschwitz she was
called "Dr. Gizi." The
women in the camp saw in
her an angel sent by heaven
to diminish their suffering.
Dr. Gizi alone saved the
lives of dozens of women
from the murderous hands
of Dr. Josef Mengele.
In 1946 she wrote a book
about her life in the camp. It
was one of the first
documentary reports about
the Holocaust; how
thousands were sent to
cruel death by orders given
from a writing table; how
the camp was decorated in
order to embellish death;
how clinics for children
were used to perform de-
vilish experiments; how the
sick were sent to their death
after cruel torture and suf-
fering.
Dr. Perl knew the truth
about the role of Dr.
Mengele. She was
brought into Auschwitz
in 1944 with her husband
and their 17-year-old son.
Her husband and son
vanished immediately.
She never saw them
again.
She was ordered to work
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in the clinic. It is impossible
to describe what was done to
human beings in this clinic
in the name of medicine.
Experiments were made
with pregnant women.
Flesh was cut, members
were torn apart. She had to
bring pregnant women for
inspection by Dr. Mengele.
She tried everything to
save their lives and to com-
fort theni. Women who have
survived Mengele's hell re-
member her well. They tes-
tified about her noble care
in the camps. Dr. Perl
treated typhus, dysentery,
eczema and nerve disorders.
She was a "hospital on two
legs." She did everything
possible to save lives.
Several months ago she
opened a clinic in Herzliya.
She tends her patients with
devotion and love. Some-
times she speaks sadly
about her own long suffer-
ing.
After her liberation she
began to look for her
husband and son. All her
hopes that they might be
still alive were shattered.
They were exterminated
together with millions of
their brothers and sis-
ters. Dr. Perl was broken.
A friendly priest took her
to a monastery near Paris
in order to enable her to
recover.
Later on she went to the
Jewish Agency in Paris
with the wish to go to Eretz
Yisrael. She was advised to
go first to America in order
to tell the people about what
she had seen and lived
through in the death camps
and mobilize public opinion
to support the establish-
ment of the state of Israel.
A British general wanted
to marry her. She could
have lived in luxury in
England but she felt that
this was not her way of life.
She went to America for
the Jewish Agency. For two
years she traveled from
town to town to raise sup-
port for Israel. With the
help of Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt she met the most
important people and did a
tremendous job for the state
of Israel. She told the
Americans about Au-
schwitz and Treblinka and
influenced their feelings
towards giving aid to Israel.
Later on, Eleanor
Roosevelt helped Dr. Perl
to return to her profes-
sion. She helped her to
get her diploma from
Transylvania. Survivors
from the death camps
told about her activities
in the camps. The U.S.
authorities allowed her
to work as a doctor.
Again Dr. Perl became a
healer.
Nine years passed. Dr.
Perl was a dedicated physi-
cian, but after work she was
a lonely woman, without
family. What she had gone
through had left deep scars.
She had reached an honora-
ble position in her profes-
sion, but she was lonely.
She could not find any
rest for her tired soul. She
could not forget what she
has lived through. She did
not wish to forget. One can
understand, even forgive —
but one could not forget.
Even today Dr. Perl car-
ries within her the wounds
of Auschwitz. But she did
not want to give in. She de-
cided to leave her practice,
honors, a professorship at a
university and go to Israel.
Rooms in her name were
built in the children's home
of "Benei Zion" in Rosh
Haayin and in the Shaare
Zedek Hospital in
Jerusalem.
She was awarded the
Dr. Yasski prize in com-
memoration of Dr. Chaim
Yasski, who was mur-
dered by Arabs in 1947 on
his way to the Hadassa
Hospital on Mount
Scopus.
IF
She has promised never
leave the tradition of the
Jewish people, whatever`
would happen to her. She
had promised her husbann
on parting at the railway
station of Auschwitz tha t ,
she would never return to
the city of their birth, Mail
morosz, Sziget in Carpatr
Russia.
Now she is living inIsrae
and looks for comfort and a
little joy in order to rr • 7ate
her bitter memories:
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WZO Issues
Program Guide
NEW YORK — The 15t1
annual edition of "A Guidf
to Israel Programs" was re
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Zionist Organization H
American Section, with
detailed listing of 224 pro,
grams ranging fro;;_
three-week study tours ti
two-year high school aw l
university courses as wel
as short and long-ter,
yeshiva study oppor
tunities.
The great majority of pro
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are under the direct au
spices of the Education an
Culture, Torah Educatio' l
and Culture and Youth de
partments of the WZO
Others are conducted by re
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rael Aliya Center and th.
American Zionist Youtl
Foundation.
The guide may be order&
from the Publications DE
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Organization — America:
Section, 515 Park Ave.
New York, N.Y. 10022
There is a charge.
New Dean
NEW YORK — Rabb
Sholom Burstein of Nei
York has been named dea:
of Yeshiva Bnei Akiva
Hadera, Israel.
Harold Silver Explains the Orig.:
of Name of Israel City of Tel Ain
A communication to the
Journal of Jewish Com-
munal Service, published
by the Conference of Jewish
Communal Service, traces
the origin of the name of the
Israel city of Tel Aviv and
the manner in which it was
so named.
Harold Silver served for
many years as director of
the Jewish Social. Service
Bureau of Detroit, the pre-
decessor of the Jewish Fam-
ily and Children's Service,
before settling in Israel. He
is a guest lecturer on social
services at the Hebrew Uni-
versity.
Here is the text of his
essay, written from
Jerusalem and published in
the Winter 1979 issue of
Journal of Jewish Com-
munal Service.
When Tel Aviv was
founded by a group of Jews
in 1909, their first thought
was to name the town Herzl
after the father of modern
Zionism. However, many
were afraid of the reaction by
e
translate into natur
sounding Hebrew. He pr J
posed, therefore, to use,
word of three syllables, w,
historic-symbol;
deep
meaning: Tel Aviv, a bibl e
cal Palestinian word conve.,
ing the meaning of the Ge
man original — "T
ancient ruin, "Aviv'
spring, or a ruin that is ;
surrected.
Sokolov knew of emir)
that Tel Aviv" heu -
nection with the Hot.,
The name appears only on
in the Bible. The proph(
Ezekiel (3:15), tells of h
HAROLD SILVER
visit to the exile commun.
the Turkish authorities. So "that dwelt in Tel Aviv,
some thought of calling it the Kvar Canal 6
"Alteuland," the German Babylonia) . ." But appa
title of Herzl's famous novel. ently he wanted to sell He;
Nahum Sokolov, a precise on the name and so tran
Hebrew scholar, had been ferred Tel Aviv fro
asked by Herzl to translate Babylonia to Palestine.
On 21 May 1910 the groi
the novel into Hebrew. In a
letter to Herzl, dated 1902, of householders decided,
Sokolov wrote that "Altneu- 25 votes, from among the
land," is a combination of who were in attendance,
three German words (Old- call the new settlement
New Land) impossible to the name of Tel Aviv.