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15-year-old Israeli airline stowaway
is turned in by his Romanian grandmother
Tel Aviv (JTA) — A 15-
year-old boy stowed himself
away aboard a Romanian
Airline plane to Bucharest
recently and spent a month
there with his grandmother
before being reported to the
authorities and sent back
back to Israel.
The incident has been
kept quiet till now, with
many red faces at both
Ben-Gurion Airport in Is-
rael and the Romanian cap-
ital's airport and investiga-
tions about security proce-
dures at both places have
been started.
The youth arrived at
Ben-Gurion Airport from
his home in northern Israel-
one day at the end of May
without a ticket, passport or
boarding card. He walked
past passport control and
security guards, boarded
the plane and took a vacant
seat.
The air crew, who are
supposed to count
passengers, apparently
failed to do so. When a secu-
rity guard aboard the plane
asked for his boarding card
the youth pointed to a group
of elderly tourists behind
him and said: "My grand-
mother has it."
During the flight, the
stowaway ate and drank
with the other passengers
and is now reported to have
enjoyed the flight
thoroughly. In Bucharest
the youngster mingled with
the tourist group. Passports
-were not checked individu-
ally as the tour agent pre-
sented them all to the
authorities in a batch.
The boy stayed a month
with his grandmother in
Bucharest and, according to
the story he told Israeli
police later, "nagged her to
death and caused a lot of
trouble." The grandmother
could finny not take it any
more and reported her
grandson to the police, who
sent the boy back to Israel
on the next flight.
He was detained and
questioned by the Israeli
police, 'who are now consid-
ering what steps to take
against the boy who is a
minor but, being over 12,
can be charged with illegal
exit from the country.
The boy had flown to
Romania with his parents
on a visit to his grand-
mother last August. It is not
known what steps his par-
ents took to try and find him
when he failed to' return
home last May.
Sabin honored
by B'nai B'rith
Washington — Dr. Albert
B. Sabin, whose develop-
ment of an oral polio vaccine
has led to the virtual elimi-
nation of the crippling dis-
ease, will be honored by
B'nai B'rith International
at the organization's bi-
ennial convention here next
month.
Dr. Sabin will receive
B'nai B'rith's Dor L'Dor
(Generation to Generation)
award for "outstanding
achievements in the service
of humanity, which uplift
and ennoble us and genera-
tions to come."
The Wall of Silence in Between
BY MAURICE CROLL, M.D.
They sit in conclave.
In their cherished abode. Safe.
The family of four, in
Their own family den.
Silence dwells here, as
A goddess
In supreme command of all.
Oh, yes, they speak of sundry things.
Things of day to day;
Of the dreaded holocaust
They cannot speak.
The parents fear the words
Now buried deep in their
Scarred hearts.
The words so painful, searing,
Awesome, torrid, scorching,
Of the days they fought
To merely exist
In the days of the dreaded
Holocaust.
The children stare pleadingly, .
But no words come forth.
Here lives a wall of silence,
Of utter silence.
The children stare pleadingly,
But no words come forth.
Here lives a wall of silence,
Of utter silence.
The unholy, illegitimate wall
Of the holocaust. '
A third wall in Jewish history,
Growing in heighth and width
With every fleeting minute.
I must not bring this awful hurting
To you.
It is enough that I have suffered
Through it with father.
No words I know can tell s
Of the stark terror.
I can no longer find their roots.
It must die with me.
Maybe in time . . . maybe . . . time.
Mother, if you let this silence
Live between us
Then Hitler is still in command.
His destruction continues.
,
Silence reigns throughout
And with each moment grows
In multitudes beyond
Human calculation.
The mother and father, not knowing,
Branded for daily death,
Still suffer from that
Most awful shame
In a world gone mad
With killing.
Bereft of all humane instincts.
The world must bear this
hellish shame.
It will not die in time.
It will not ever go away
From the hearts that care.
The world looked on in
Abject horror,
And it was silent, too.
The father and mother sit,
Enveloped in a
Thick, impenetrable wrapper
Of heavy silence.
The words of catharsis
Cannot surface
To find their way to the living,
Their children.
The words that do not speak
Are locked deep, air-tight,
In their scarred hearts
Beyond belief.
This is the wall that
Hitler built—perhaps inadvertently.
But still it lives
As a destructive, breathing,
Dragon of fire
That still continues
To destroy.
•
So long as silence dwells
In this house,
So does the presence of Hitler,
And his evil, dwells with them.
My daughter—Yes, you—
Are a part of me and
Always will be.
I have tried a thousand times
To speak
That part of any heart which
Is scarred. It is dead.
The words are buried, so deep
I cannot .. .
Mother, we must not become
A nation of mourners,
For we have mourned enough
For all time to come.
no more on our knees.
They are worn out.
Mother, I plead with you and Dad,
For all time to come,
Let us speak out our hearts
Together,
All the needed words.
Let Hitler and His evils
Dwell here no longer
Then can we march together,
As one strong family unit
March through thii wall of
Silence.
Then will it crumble, smashed,
As surely as if missile-destroyed.
Then can we live again , . .
As mourners no more.
Yes, daughter you are right.
One week from 'today
We shall assemble once again.
For us—our "D" Day.
And I will speak.
ADDENDUM: "They cannot speak" refers only to the holocaust.
I served four years in the armed services of the United States
Army and Air Corps in the Second World War.
I found when I came back from overseas I could not speak of any
of my experiences, even to my wife who was a second lieutenant
in the Army Nurse Corps.
The organization of the First International Conference of Chil-
dren of the Holocaust Survivors met in New York City.
Menachem Rosensaft is the Chairman. He is a New York attor-
ney. He stated that there are about 500,000 children of the
survivors in the United States and Canada. His organization, at
present, has 6,000 members.
CREDITS: The latter portion of the Addendum is from The Jewish News, June 1,
1984.