4 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 28, 1980 Fundraising Started for Michigan Dorm at Technion Ten years after complet- ing the Detroit Mechanical Engineering Building on the Technion campus, the Detroit Chapter of the American Technion Society will announce on Sunday the launching of a new fund-raising project aimed at raising $600,000 to build a Michigan Dormitory as part of the Technion's $14 million student housing construction program. The Technion — Israel Institute of Technology is * vkrkAkk* , ,,, ',,k ' ,•",- % ' -..., Israel's oldest institution of higher learning and its only technological. university, ranking among the top 10 institutions of its kind in the world. Technion is Is- rael's principal source for innovations in the field of energy, agriculture, indus- trialization and defense. More than 8,000 students are currently enrolled at the Technion, of whom 2,000 are graduate and post- graduate students. But de- spite the dramatic growth of * ...*40804, The Michigan Dormitory will be part of Techn- ion's new housing complex which will eventually house 850 students. the university's physical plant over the past several years, according to Sam Rich, chairman of the Society's Michigan Dormit- ory Building Fund; "the in- stitution is facing a critical and increasingly urgent housing shortage for stu- dents and faculty alike:" "Unfortunately," Rich points out, "the Technion currently has hostel ac- commodations available for only 1,900 students, or about a third of those students who are eligible for on-campus housing." More than 70 percent of Technion's students come from outside the Haifa area, where the university is located. "Because of the general shortage of housing in Is- rael, especially in and around Haifa," explains Louis Milgrom, president of the Society's Detroit Chap- ter and a member of ATS's national board, "the cost of renting rooms outside the campus is extremely high, in fact, several times higher than the students' tuition costs, which are subsidized by the government." The Michigan Dormitory will provide accommoda- tions for 36 students in the forested surroundings of Technion's Mt. Carmel campus. The dormitory will contain 8,000 square feet of living and working space, in a four-story module in the institute's newest dormit- ory complex. Each student will have an individual room, with kitchen, living room and bathroom facilities shared among the residents of each five-student unit. The new building project will be announced officially at the 32nd annual meeting of the Detroit Chapter, to be held 6 p.m. Sunday at Cong. Shaarey Zedek. "The construction of dormitory rooms is a vital aspect- of Technion's growth," says Rich. "To have a comfortable and personal 'home base' that each student may call his or her own, a place to live in, to study in, to be one- self in, is a crucial ele- ment of a happy and fruitful academic career." The $600,000 Michigan Dormitory building project is one of a number of special fund-raising projects under- taken by the Detroit Chap- ter over the years, which have raised more than $2 million for the_Technion. Shown is an architect's drawing of the floor plan for a five-student unit in Technion's proposed Michi- gan Dormitory. Foundation Album Shows Jews Arriving at Concentration Camps . The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation has just pub- lished "The Auschwitz Al- bum," a book containing some 200 photographs showing Jews on their arri- val at the Augchwitz con- centration camp in the summer of 1944. The album, which has never been published before in its entirety (although several of the photos have appeared in other publica- tions), was uncovered acci- dently by an Auschwitz_ survivor in 1945. Lili Jacob, who found the document, kept it for 35 years before donating it to Yad Vashem, the Holocause memorial in Jerusalem, last August. The history of the album and the story behind its dis- covery is both complex and fascinating. Serge Klarsfeld, who did much of the research on the project, tells the story in a preface to the photos: "During the prepara- tion of this book (a vol- ume on the January 1980 Cologne trial of war crim- inals), we received a series of documents and photographs from Prague. They had been found and brought from the Jewish State Museum in Prague by an 18-year- old student named Em- manuel Lulin. We had sent him (with the help of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thomases of New Jersey) to Czechoslovakia in the summer of 1979 to study the remnants of Jewish culture as could be found in cemetaries and elsewhere. Lulin did much of his work at the Jewish State Museum in Prague, where we and our colleagues of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish De- portees-- from France have now had fruitful contacts. "I was startled to dis- cover, among the docu- ments from Prague, a group of 70 photographs showing the arrival of a convoy to Auschwitz. They all seemed to have been made by the same photographer. Cer- tain ones were familiar to me, having been reproduced in numerous works about Auschwitz and the Holocaust. But now, exam- ining them together, it oc- curred to me for the first time that perhaps these photos might come from the same source and that there might be others from this source which were as yet unpublished .. . "The first stages of my re- search led me to the follow- ing tentative conclusions: "Only two sources are known for photos of Jews at Auschwitz. There are three photos made by David Szmulewski, an inmate, showing nude women being led to the gas chambers and then showing the Sonder- kommando of the cre- matoria at work sorting the cadavers after the gassing prior to burning. These BEATE KLARSFELD photos were smuggled out of the camp by the under- ground movement. And then there were these photos from the Jewish State Museum at Prague. "Never, apparently, had - the photos from Prague been published in their entirety. This was a startling omission, given the fact that they are the only known visual record of the arrival of a convoy to Auschwitz. It is only through the evocative power of these photos that we can most directly attempt to imagine what it must have been like for so many countless Jewish families to arrive at the ramps of Birkenau-Auschwitz. The value of these photos is inestimable to' the Jewish people. That is why we decided to track down and publish all the photos we could find, as well as to ascertain their origin, while it is still possible, so that their au- thenticity could never be attacked. It was in this spirit that our Founda- tion had published, in 1978, a precise and de- tailed response to the would-be "revisionist" literature of the Holocaust "The Holocaust and the Neo- Nazi Mythomania" (The launching of the Final Solution — The existence of gas chambers — The number of victims) by Joseph Billig and Georges Wellers. "Our first move to bring to light all the Prague photographs was to publish the 70 that were then avail- able in the "addition" to the memorial book. Then, in April 1980, we again sent Emmanuel- Lulin to Prague to obtain all available photos of Auschwitz. Thanks to the cooperation of the staff of the Jewish State Museum, we were assured that, with the permission of the Minister of Culture, these photos would be re- leased to us at the end of June 1980 .. . "However, it seems that no one was ready to recog- nize the value of this docu- ment_for the Jewish people. Some people approached Lili wanting to buy it, but they did not understand the passionate attachment Lili had for her album. She could not sell it; she could only donate it. But to which institution should she do- nate it, if not that one dedi- cated to Jewish martyrs, the Yad Vashem Memorial. The book is not for sale, but a limited printing of 1,000 copies has been made available by the Klarsfeld Foundation free of charge to major libraries and Jewish organizations throughout the world. Copies may be obtained by contacting the Klarsfeld Foundation, 515 Madison Ave., New- York, N.Y. 10022. Romans' Negev Life-Style Seen TEL AVIV — An ar- cheological study at Tel Aviv University shows that the Romans took their cus- toms and life style with them even in the Israelite Negev Desert. Examination of archeological finds of Roman and of Jewish Negev settlements revealed a markedly different life style for each. The Romans apparently maintained a high and rela- tively comfortable life style. For entertainment, cock- fighting appears to have been the Roman custom, even in the Negev. Ar- cheologists discovered roos- ter bones with sharp points on- their feet, and which were bred for fighting, un- like domestic chickens which have no such sharp bones. The leg bone was im- printed with a round groove where a tight ring around the leg must have bound the trained roosters. • ... Wooden cages found at the same site were probably used to hold the fighting cocks. At the Roman .for- tress, near Ein Bokek, fish bones of various types were found from the Bay of Eilat, from the Mediterranean Sea and from sweet water ponds. Pork was -also a source of food for the Ro- mans. Clearly the Romans as far away as they were, were ac- customed to regular deliv- eries of much more than the bare necessities. A cock-fight scene from a First Century CE Roman oil lamp. It is believed the Romans used this form of entertainment in their Negev settlements.