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map that there was a
synagogue at the camp. I had
not seen one synagogue in
Germany, but I was going to
visit this synagogue. I started
walking towards it with two
friends who were not sure
whether to accompany me or
let me go alone. We ap-
proached a tiny, sunken
tabernacle with a six-pointed
star on the top. We stopped to
look. I walked further, until
my nose was touching the
bars enclosing the synagogue;
a cement floor, an altar, lit
candles, dispersed flowers on
the floor. My two friends
walked up to me, one on
either side of we, and held
my hands. There were tears
in my eyes, and I knew that
my friends saw them. I
turned to walk away and
noticed their silent tears.
I walked out of the camp,
where so many had been kil-
led as political and religious
prisoners, and couldn't utter
a single word. I did not know
what to think. I did not know
what to say. I said nothing
and my face was expression-
less. I didn't know how or
why I wanted to be affected.
Maybe, it is because I am
Jewish and so much of my
history was slandered there,
or maybe it is because I am
fortunate enough to live in a
country where our existence
is dependent on individual
freedom.
A week later, I found my-
self in East Berlin, having
crossed the national border
and through Checkpoint
Charlie. I remembered my
German mother telling me
with tears in her eyes about
her family trapped in east
Germany, and how it is such
a shame that Germans don't
need a passport to enter
France and all other east
European countries, except
for East Germany. I was a
free citizen in a city whose
inhabitants couldn't leave.
East Berlin is a beautiful
city, unlike the dreary, desol-
ate land of East Germany.
But then again, it is only a
showcase.
To East Berliners, it is
merely a trap, just as West
Berlin is a trap to West Ber-
liners, living in a city in the
middle of a red sea.
My experience was every-
thing and more than I had
hoped for, from living with a
family in the northern Ger-
man countryside to being fol-
lowed by the East German
police in East Berlin.
I was one of 12 Americans,
coming from various back-
grounds, who took a hop, skip
and a jump into a country
which I had expected to be so
different from my own.
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MELBOURNE (JTA) —
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has voted to overturn the
1975 United Nations resolu-
tion which equated Zionism
with racism.
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