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It's learning programs for Senior citizens, support programs for the bereaved, self-help groups for inter-married couples and religious training from pre-school through High School. Temple Beth El is more than a building and Sabbath services. We're a good place to learn and to grow We're a good place to belong to. Temple Beth El We want to belong to your family. Telegraph & 14 Mile • Birmingham For inf6rmation, including how affordable membership can be, call Herb Maistelman 851-1100 86 Friday, March 13, 1987 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 11NNV %MN\ Testimonies Of Child Survivors Compiled New York (JTA) — In studies done till now on the Holocaust and its victims, one group has been neglected. They are the survivors who were children at the time. It is only within the last six years that a cumulative study has developed to deal with the traumatization of those who were no older than 13 when World War II began. In Sands Point, Long Island, a quiet suburb of New York City, a privately-funded study began in 1981 compil- ing testimonies of the chil- dren who came through the Holocaust, reaching out to archives and private in- dividuals in Europe, Israel and throughout the United States and Canada in search of written accounts of memories. The Jerome Riker Interna- tional Study of Organized Persecution of Children has to date collected 500 interviews with child survivors. Volunteer interviewers con- tinue to ferret out these peo- ple and record their personal experiences before, during and after the Holocaust. Specific interest in child survivors arose from the work of a husband-and-wife team directing the Riker Study, Milton and Dr. Judith Kes- tenberg. Milton Kestenberg is a New York attorney whose work in challenging refused West German reparations claims by Holocaust sur- vivors who claimed psycho- logical impairment led him to question the reasons for the refusals. In working on these claims, he found they had been re- fused because German-au- thorized psychiatrists contended they could not validate that the stated psychological problems were actually induced by the Holocaust. As Kestenberg questioned survivors about their experiences in order to refile their claims with the German government, the in- formation he gathered made him increasingly aware of the psychological makeup of child survivors and the emo- tional legacy passed on to their own children. Dr. Judith Kestenberg, the Riker Study project director, is a psychoanalyst specializ- ing in child development. In 1972, she founded Child Development Research (CDR), a non-profit organiza- tion, whose purpose is the prevention of emotional disorders in children. CDR runs a center for parents and children, babies, pregnant women, mothers with babies and/or toddlers up to age four. "Through these years,"she said, "we have learned to communicate with these babies and have taught parents to communicate with them. We invented methods of communicating with chil- dren non-verbally before they could speak fluently." CDR therapists work with move- ment, art and music thera- pists in order to study non- verbal communication with children. "It is this experience that gave us a new understanding of how babies think. These observations enabled us to begin to study on a new key how children felt when they were traumatized by the Holocaust," Dr. Kestenberg explained. Dr. Kestenberg repeatedly noticed that in therapy, the Holocaust experience was not factored into the behavior of survivors and their children as a contributing element. Moreover, psychotherapists conceded that they them- selves were guilty of minimiz- ing or ignoring altogether the Holocaust as a major con- tributing factor to mental illness, witnessed by the fact that therapists found it dif- ficult to identify with the im- pact the Holocaust had on their clients. The result was that the therapist became what one called "a partner to the denial of the impact." Psychotherapists in Amer- ica, said Milton Kestenberg, shared the resistance to the Holocaust and its experience with the rest of America. "This was taboo," he said, CALENDAR B'NAI B'RITH MICHIGAN SINGLES: Knob-in-the- Woods club house, 20800 Knob Woods Dr., South- field, brunch, speaker, 12:30 p.m. Sunday, ad- mission, 541-7289 or 968-8445. JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: 6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, Purim Las Vegas Night and Dance, 8 p.m. Saturday, admission, 661-1000. JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: 6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, runners symposium, 2 p.m. Sun- day, 661-1000, ext. 234.