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Residential-Commercial 24 hours - 7 days All areas LICENSED 398-6308 00000000000 Survivors Report on Holocaust Assembly 40—BUSINESS CARDS BILL'S PAINTING ART — Private collector dispos- ing of large collection. Miro, Cal- der, Vasarely, Huntervasser, etc. Signed and numbered graphics, oils, drawings. Very moderately priced. 644-0966 Mrs. Fiedler Narrates Pops NEW YORK — Ellen Fiedler, Arthur Fiedler's widow, served as narrator for a recent performance of Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" with the San Francisco Pops Orchestra. The San Francisco Pops was founded by Fiedler in 1950. God has commanded time to console the unhappy. Friday, July 11, 1981 61 Detroit area participants at last month's World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in Israel shared their experiences with members of Shaarit Hap- laytah (Survivors of the Holocaust) at a meeting July 8 at the Laurel Woods Apts. club house. Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig, director of the Holocaust Memorial Center of Detroit, whose planned groundbreaking is scheduled for November, called the conference "a most momentous occasion." A member of the interna- tional executive committee that arranged the event, Rabbi Rosenzveig person- ally led a group of 56 per- sons to Israel. He estimated that close to 100 Detroiters were among the several thousand persons — Holocaust survivors and their families — who attended the four-day gathering. To meet again in Israel as free individuals was very dramatic, Rabbi Rosenzveig recalled. "These 10,000 people who were on the verge of death for six years during the worst time in history for Jews were gathered together in Israel where there is the greatest RABBI ROSENZVEIG freedom we have known in 2,000 years." Abraham Pasternak, another Detroiter who attended the conference, said he felt the same sense of connection or "Yiddish camaraderie" with the other survivors, beginning from the mo- ment he and his son Marty boarded the El Al plane in New York. Rabbi Rosenzveig said a main objective of the con- ference was simply for the survivors to get together and, hopefully, find or be found by someone they had known from the past. "Booths were set up for us to exchange information and to help us find loved ones and friends," said Pas- * * For him and the other participants, a moving mo- ment took place during clos- ing ceremonies at the West- ern Wall on June 18, when spokesmen representing the children of survivors worldwide accepted the le- gacy, passed on to them by their parents, to "never let the memory of the Six Mil- lion be erased." A testament to this effect was signed by participants and deposited in the Yad Vashem memo- rial. ABRAHAM PASTERNAK The Yizkor service at Yad ternak. All registered Vashem was a stirring members of the World event, said Pasternak. He Gathering were stored in a recalled that six children of computer, by country or ori- survivors lit a six-foot men- gin and place of imprison- ora in memory of the Six ment, to facilitate searches. Million. Concentration The computer also was camp songs were sung by a linked into the Israel Popu- Ladino choir of six Jews from Greece who were all lation Register. Pasternak had the happy survivors of Auschwitz. Rabbi Rosenzveig was experience of being "found" by a woman he hadn't seen among those at the confer- since 1946, when she stop- ence who had an opportu- ped to ask for directions dur- nity to visit several of Is- rael's Holocaust memorial ing the conference. A second objective of centers. In addition to the the World Gathering was famous memorial Yad Vas- to "show the world that hcin in Jerusalem, there are the Holocaust is not for- others established at Yad gotten," said Rabbi Mordechai, north of the Rosenzveig. He spoke of Gaza Strip; at Kibutz the importance that fu- Lochamei HaGettaot, on ture generations know the Acre-Nahariya high- way; and at Tel Yitzhak, in what took place. the Sharon east of Natanya. * Holocaust Parley A Celebration of Life, Survivors' Son Recalls World Gathering By HEIDI PRESS Rather than viewing the World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in Is- rael last month as a memo- rial, Bernie Kent of Franklin Village looked at it as a celebration of life. The 30-year-old account- ant and attorney and son of Holocaust survivors accom- panied his mother and brother to the Jerusalem assembly, where Holocaust survivors gathered for a once-in-a-lifetime event. "It was like a family gathering — a celebration of life. That's exactly what it was, emotional and joyous," Kent said. A member of CHAIM — Children of Holocaust Survivors Association in Michigan — Kent said he attended the world gathering because he has "always been interested in what happened" to his parents during the Nazi era. Kent said that he learned a little about the Hitler brutalities from his parents, but it was through his membership in CHAIM that he gained most of his knowledge of the period. Kent said that attending the Jerusalem parley was a continuation of member- ship" in CHAIM and added: "It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It will never happen again. They're too old." He said that he felt a "strong sense of commu- nity" at the gathering. "People were open and hon- est." Asked about how he (( tense experience. I wish the conference could have been 10 days in- stead of four." Kent will give a slide pre- sentation on his visit to Is- r rael for the survivors as- sembly at the next CHAIM meeting 8 p.m. July 27 at the Jimmy Prentis Morris Branch of the Jewish Com- munity Center. 111=16 OBI= 1 To: The Jewish News 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd. Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075 BERNIE KENT felt at the conference, Kent said "it was uplift- ing. I was proud and ex- cited about what was going on." He said that he visited Yad Vashem, the memorial to the Holocaust victims. "You walk out of there like a limp rag," he added. Kent said that he met with many children of sur- vivors as well as with the victims themselves. He said on the day for the children of survivors there seemed to be greater participation by Israelis than any other day. Nearly 1,000 persons par- ticipated. He said an international network of children of Holocaust survivors was es- tablished and plans are in the offing for a conference in about a year. The network will most likely be estab- lished in New York, he said, and plans are being made for a newsletter. Asked how he would sum up his feelings, Kent said that attending the gathering was "an in- WEI JUST From Paste in old label NAME Effective Date