4B Friday, September 28, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS A Very i-lappy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family DR. & MRS. MATHEW BOROVOY & FAMILY A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family MARION & MAX SCHAFER We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year NEWS ZEE & RAY BERNSTEIN Israeli helps the despairing We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year BY JUDY KRAUSZ MR. & MRS. TAMARAC, EDWARD FLORIDA BURTON & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MAURIE & FLORENCE CASCADE , We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous , New Year . COOPER & LEHMAN PHYSICAL THERAPY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New. Year May the coming year be one filled with health, happiness and prosperity for all our friends and family. DAVE & ESTHER GOLDSTEIN To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity THE GREENS SEYMOUR & SYLVIA FURMAN We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year SZMUL JUTKIEWICZ & FAMILY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year ALICE & MAX KUSHNER We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year ELIZABETH, JEFFREY & HALLIE ROSENBAUM We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year ABRAHAM & TOBY SATOVSKY MAX, LORRAINE KAREN & ROBERT EPERNERIEI May the New Year Bring To All Our Friends and Family Health, Joy, Prosperity and Everything Good in Life HENRY & MALA D ORFMAN . Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness FLORENCE & IRVING HERMELIN Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness PEARL & HAROLD AUGUST, FLORI & LINDA SELTZER - Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness ARTHUR & FLORENCE SHULTZ - Tel Aviv — A spare, graceful man with arresting blue eyes and a gentle reserve, Patya Dagan, 61, is a healer of minds on the inti- mate terms with trauma, loss and death. As a psychologist with the Kib- butz Movement Guidance Center based in Tel Aviv, Dr. Dagan counsels patients with a wide range of problems. But it is in dealing with death, and particu- larly the death of loved ones as a result of war, that his help is most consistently sought. "My colleagues tell me that be- cause of the number tattooed on my arm I can make contact with patients," he said in a recent interview. "Perhaps that is so. They see that I smile, that I can talk about mundane things and they are reassured that it's possi- ble to adjust." Recently Dr. Dagan treated a couple, both Holocaust survivors, who lost a son in Operation Peace for Galilee in Lebanon. "Treat isn't really the proper word," he reflected. "How can anyone treat them? I become a sort of partner. I tell them that one doesn't ever overcome this kind of loss, one only learns to live with it. "My life is different from others. I live closer to death, with a greater awareness of its irrever- sibility. Sometimes getting up and out in the morning is a gigan- tic effort. But it's possible. "In Israel we are tremendously influenced by wars," he added. "We are probably the only country where so many mothers and fathers bury their sons. It is a total reverse of the norm, and it affects our entire society. We are always aware that we raise sons who will be soldiers. The fathers, too, serve in the reserves well into middle age. Consequently, there are many fears that are re- pressed." Dr. Dagan himself learned to deal with fear early in life. Reared in Prague, Czechoslavakia, he lost both his parents before World War II, while a teenager. His older brother and sister managed to leave the country just before the Nazi invasion but were unable to get him out. Alone, he joined a commune of Zionist teenagers and young adults without families and later lived in an agricultural training farm of young Zionists preparing to go to Palestine. IN 1941, at 19, the entire group was rounded up and sent to Theresienstadt. Dr. Dagan sur- vived three years at the camp. In 1944 he was taken to Auschwitz, and in January 1945, as the Rus- sians closed in, he was one of 4,000 inmates sent on a forced march. He was one of the few who sur- vived. After the war Dr. Dagan re- turned to Prague, where he enrolled in a theater school and studied psychology. He arrived in Israel in 1949 — one of thousands of Czech survivors — in a rescue operation organized by the American Jewish Joint Distribu- tion Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel. His Holocaust experience was many years ago but it is as close to him as the numbers tattooed on his arm. Yet he, his wife who also