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the day after Tann's letter
was printed defending Israel's
actions in the administered
territories. A friend of Tann's
was hassled at the rally, and
Tann's name was mentioned
several times by the Palesti-
nian supporters.
The Friday rally was the se-
cond on campus in recent
weeks, and Tann said that
Arabs from South Bend, Ind.
were brought in for the
demonstration. She
estimated that WMU has
500-600 Jewish students "and
many more Arab students."
Tann has asked ADL to
send her a packet of fact
sheets. She is encouraging
her friends to write letters to
the Herald, and she is work-
ing to have Arab and Jewish
professors write side-by-side
columns in the paper as was
done during the Lebanon War
in 1982.
Tann based her letter to the
editor last week in part on
her experiences in December
during a two-week visit to
Israel and the territories,
sponsored by B'nai B'rith.
She defended Israel's right to
defend herself against rioters,
and pointed out that guns
were used against the rioters
only as a last resort. She also
took the professor to task for
failing to mention the
Palestine Liberation
Organization's terrorism
against their own people and
their opponents.
*Taken from an actual letter.
LOCAL NEWS
U-D Will Study
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1988
he National Institute
on Aging has awarded
a two-year, $80,000
grant for the study of Helpers
in the Holocaust (righteous
gentiles) to Elizabeth Midlar-
sky, psychology professor at
the University of Detroit.
Midlarsky, who is Jewish,
first joined the faculty at the
University of Detroit in 1978
and is currently Director of
the Center for the Study of
Development and Aging, a
position she has held since
1981. She has been a practic-
ing psychotherapist for the
past 20 years, and has com-
pleted numerous research
projects. The most current is
a grant also funded by the
National Institute on Aging
which examined Altruism
and Helping Among the
Elderly.
"Studying the aging, says
Midlarsky," is a natural move
from the trends and behavior
of childhood development to
the study of values and the
meaning of life in the older
years!'
Midlarsky has worked on a
similar, international project
with Samuel Oliner of Hum-
boldt State University. But,
says Midlarsky, "This study is
particularly significant
because it is the first time the
federal government has sup-
ported an examination of
these helpers." She will be
talking to survivors and vic-
tims of the Holocaust as well
as to non-Jews who helped
them.
Many different kinds of peo-
Elizabeth Midlarsky
ple worked to rescue Jews
during the Holocaust. Often
overlooked are the many
"good neighbors" whose ac-
tions made the difference bet-
ween life and death for the
Jews who they hid, sheltered,
fed or protected in other ways.
The Detroit-Windsor region is
home to many immigrants
from Poland, Italy, Germany,
Lithuania and the Ukraine
who lived through the
Holocaust. Midlarsky hopes
to identify and verify as many
of these helpers through sur-
vivors living in the area, as
well as local parish priests.
"Rarely, do helpers come for-
ward and identify
themselves?" says Midlarsky,
"because they do not see their
. actions as anything extraor-
dinary?'
The pilot portion of the
study indicates that those
people who were helpers 40
years ago and are still help-
ing others today. Only when