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this week to the 49th anniver-
sary of Kristallnacht and the
12th anniversary of the
passage of the U.N. resolution
3379 equating Zionism with
racism.
In response to the Interna-
tional Association's efforts,
the Michigan State Senate
passed a resolution labeling
this week Combat Anti-
Zionist Week. On Monday,
Sen. Jack Faxon, (D-
Farmington Hills) formally
presented the resolution to
Ronald Sandler, a local at-
torney active with the Inter-
national Association.
Sandler told The Jewish
News he hopes the obser-
vance of Kristallnacht will be
repeated year after year. "It's
important to focus upon a pro-
cess by which a western na-
tion like Germany turned in-
to a nation of killers — and it
happened rapidly," said
Sandler, who refers to both
Kristallnacht and the U.N.
resolution as attempts at the
"delegitimization and
dehumanization of Jews."
Kristallnacht is credited as
the foreshadow of the destruc-
tion of European Jewry.
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1940s, the first and only Jew
to walk the runway as Miss
America and later a strong
supporter of the State of
Israel and other Jewish
causes. Next to Albert Eins-
tein and Hank Greenberg,
she was "one of the most
famous Jews in America."
Her book, a social study
that mixes the early
biography of a 1940s Jewish
beauty queen and the
cultural history of the
mid-20th Century, was
authored by playwright/jour-
nalist Susan Dworkin, a con-
tributing editor of Ms.
magazine (and married to
former Detroiter Morris
Dworkin.) Dworkin, 46,
thought of the work as an ex-
ploration of her own roots. "It
opened up the past for me like
a lightening bolt, making lit-
tle experiences in my life
more meaningful," she said.
Standing side by side at the
Book Fair in their first — and
rather emotional — public ap-
pearance, Dworkin and Myer-
son led the packed hall (and
those latecomers forced to
watch on closed-circuit
screens upstairs) through a
tear-filled, abbreviated ver-
sion of the story that led to
the Bronx beauty and the
book.
The middle daughter of
Russian immigrants, Myer-
son grew up in a one-bedroom
apartment at the all-Jewish
Sholom Aleichem apartment
project. "We were Yiddish to
the core," reflected Myerson.
Her father, Louis, was a
painter and her mother,
Bella, was an overprotective,
never satisfied disciplinarian
who pushed her daughters to
study both piano and flute.
"I want to be a lawyer,"
Myerson once announced to
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her mother, who quickly
replied:
"You'll marry one."
But men were few and far
between during those war-
torn years of Myerson's late
teens. After finishing Hunter
College, it was her older sister
Sylvia who secretly entered
the 21-year-old, strikingly
tall and attractive Bess into
the Miss New York competi-
tion which eventually
brought her to Atlantic City
to be named Miss America, a
title she would never rid
herself of.
In 1946, she married retur-
ning war veteran Allan
Wayne, later buying herself
out of the marriage after
Wayne turned to alcohol. In
1962, she married entertain-
ment lawyer Arnold Grant.
They were divorced, remar-
ried and divorced again in
secrecy. She has one daughter
and one grandaughter.
Though she has worn many
hats in the last four decades,
from game show celebrity
(The Big Payoff and I've Got a
Secret) to New York's commis-
sioner of consumer affairs and
finally cultural affairs, she
was never able to displace her
crown.
In good times, and most
recently in bad times, she has
always been referred to as
Miss America, 1945.
After 20 years of nudging
by Newmarket publisher
Esther Margolis, also a
former Detroiter, Myerson
and Dworkin spent the last
two years recapturing the
tumultous year of 1945, when
World War II ended and the
truth of the six million began
to unfold — the year that a
poor Jewish girl from the
Bronx took the title in Atlan-
tic City.