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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Bar-Ilan to Break Ground
for School of Economics
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Emanuel Rackman,
president of Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity, has announced the
establishment of a new
School of Economics and
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versity which will em-
phasize the teaching of
American methods of man-
agement and business ad-
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The new school will help
meet Israel's crucial need
for a corps of highly-trained
business executives, mana-
gers and administrators,"
Rackman said in an address
to some 500 people who
attended a dinner and aca-
demic convocation at the
Pierre Hotel last night.
The groundbreaking for
the new facility will take
place at commencement
exercises on the university's
Ramat Gan campus Thurs-
day. Building construction
is scheduled to be completed
by the end of 1985,
Rackman 'reported.
- Gifts totaling $3.5 million
toward the schools' goal of
$10 million were announced
at the dinner by Rackman
who conferred honorary de-
grees of Doctor of Humane
Letters on S. Daniel Ab-
raham and Jerome Stern,
New York industrialists
and philanthropists who are
among the five founding
chairmen of the new school.
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'Childhood' Anecdotes a Holocaust Memoir
By ALLEN A. WARSEN
Jona Oberski's "Child-
hood," published by
Doubleday and Co., is a
Holocaust memoir.
Born in 1938 in Amster-
dam, Jona was only five
years old when his mother
sewed the Yellow Star of
David on his coat as ordered
by the German occupiers of
the Netherlands
The memorialist relates
his Holocaust experiences
through the eyes of a child
and in the form of episodes.
Each episode has a title and
special charm. Thus, the
first episode, "Mistake,"
tells of Jona's mother con-
soling him on their way to a
concentration camp:
"Daddy had to go to the
office yesterday morn-
ing. Then they came to
get us, but you were very
sleepy. Remember? We
walked a long way. I left a
note for Daddy, because
they made a mistake, we
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The episode, "Jumping
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day party and the gift, a
jumping jack, his father
gave him. The party's hap-
piest moment took place
when "my father held his
arm around my mother's
shoulder, and all together
we watched the jumping
jack. I had to laugh every
time he spread his legs.
They laughed too."
"Shopkeeper" describes
an encounter between Jo-
ria's father and a formerly
friendly grocer who turned
anti-Semitic and refused to
sell the family groceries.
The grocer's boy attacked
Jona and pulled the hood off
his head, exclaiming: "Ha,
ha, what a crazy Jewish
coat."
head at a slant so as to look
him straight in the face. It
was really my father. I rec-
ognized his closed eyelids,
his nose, his mouth and his
ears . . . Quickly I gave his
hand a kiss, and then I ran
out of the infirmary."
Unexpectedly, in the
middle of the night, Jo-
na's mother woke him up:
"If we wanted to go to
Palestine," she told him,
"we'd have to be out by
the fence in two minutes,
ready to go into the
train." Instead, the train
took them to a small
Bohemian town far from
Bergen-Belsen where
they remained a few
weeks without food and
water.
Interestingly, the name of
the notorious camp,
Bergen-Belsen, is only once
mentioned in the memoir.
Just as unexpectedly, the
Russians appeared, freed
the people and transported
them to a farm that they
converted into a convales-
cent center. Sick people
were put in a barn, which
was used as a field-hospital.
There, Jona's gravely-sick
mother died.
Soon afterwards, a friend
of the family, named Trude,
took Jona to Amsterdam
where he was placed with
foster parents to whom he
dedicated his memoir. The
dedication reads: "for my
foster parents who had
quite a time with me."
Jona Oberski, who
lives in Amsterdam, is a
nuclear physicist, mar-
ried and the father of two
sons.
His memoir,."Childhood,"
written in Dutch, was trans-
lated into English by Ralph
Manheim, the recipient of
the McArthur Award. The
book has also been trans-
lated into numerous other
languages, including He-
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The other episodes de-
scribe the family's sud-
den arrest, internment in
Westerbork, In Holland,
from where they were
deported to Bergen-
Belsen. In that notorious
camp, the family was
separated — the fathei
was sent to the men's
camp and Jona and his
mother` to the women's
section.
Throughout their incarc-
eration in that death camp,
they saw the father alive
only once. However, Jona
had a hard time recognizing
him. "I know I've changed,"
said the father, "with my
beard and my bald head. Do
you still know me?" Jona
knew him "by the feel of his
hand."
When they saw him for
the last time, he was dead in
the camp infirmary.
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