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They were on a high, a violent irrational mood, getting great satisfac- tion in the destruction. "Outside the street was be- ing paved. People were throw- ing paving stones at the synagogue and breaking win- dows. We had to cross the street through the mob. It was chancy. If they had decided to turn on us, there was nothing we could do. But someone said, 'Let the children pass: and they did. "We took a taxi to the Jewish nurse's residence where we took refuge for the remainder of our stay," Cohn said. Cohn's father saught sanc- tuary in the Mexican con- sulate, then spent three weeks hiding in Germany. "Then the Gestapo found us and told us that, unless my father returned, none of the Jewish men from Essen who had been arrested would be released;' Cohn said. "He came back and my mother and I hid behind a tree while he was at Gestapo headquarters. "My father was released and, after six weeks, so were the men in the concenration camps;' she said. "My three best friends were able to leave Germany on the children's transport to England. Their parents were left behind and perished. "Because clergyman did not need visas, we were able to find sanctuary at Central Synagogue in New York. A year later, as a defiant response to the Nazis, my father founded Habonim," Cohn said. For Cohn, and even those suspected the end might be near, Kristallnacht shattered illusions and innocence. Echoing Anne Frank, Cohn said, "like all children you have faith in the goodness of people. I never saw adults before on a spree of deliberate destruction. Out went my childhood notions about the integrity of human nature." Cohn said she learned cer- tain lessons from Kristall- nacht that must be passed on. "When you are a witness, you feel a responsibility to say what people are capable of, to describe the evil side of human nature;' she said. "This is not random violence, like being held up and shot. This is organized government activity. You must warn people that this is what happens when a govern- ment decides to destroy all synagogues. And it must not be allowed to happen again." I HEALTH Attention Parents: You Are What You Eat Located on Farmington Road just South of Maple Road in West Bloomfield • 661-1700 Stop by at your convenience DO YOU HAVE ANY GIFTS TO SEND? DOWN WRIT "FACTORY TO YOU SAVINGS" COUPONS I SHIPPING 50 t OFF ! 15% OFF GIFT WRAP 1 (Limit 1 Pkg.) L (Limit 1) Expires Nov. 11, 1988 J Come to . . . MAIL WORKS PLUS! 33290 W. 14 Mile Rd. • At Farmington Rd. • West Bloomfield 737 8910 Mon.-Sat. 9-6 p.m. - 60 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1988 • Custom Made Down Quilts • Quilts & Pillow Remade, Renovated & Cleaned • Merino Wool Mattress Pads • Down & Feather Pillows • Quilt Covers (Duvets) • Custom Made to Order I rRAURIG'S • i4,7 QUILT & PILLOW SHOP 547-2660 2 2 ° " FE warm MON.-F10. *304; SAT. 10:00400 \* Ramat Gan, Israel — How does diet affect behavior? Can eating the right foods improve your memory? These are two of the scien- tific puzzles that a behavioral scientist at Bar-Ilan Univer- sity here is trying to solve. Professor Shlomo Yehuda of Bar-Ilan's psychology depart- ment reports that a series of experiments he has recently completed provide dramatic support for the theory that we are, indeed, what we eat. In his psycho-pharmacology laboratory, Yehuda has kept a 12-year record of the fluctua- tions in intellectual capacity, memory and sensibility among a group of youthful subjects, relating these varia- tions to diet and eating habits. He and fellow scien- tists are using computers to evaluate the accumulated data. One study tested 200 14-year-old volunteers. The finding: children who ate breakfast before they came to school scored significantly higher in memorizing classroom material than those who skipped the day's first meal. Reversing roles by turning the breakfast group into non-eaters and the non- eaters into breakfasters con- firmed the finding: eating at the start of the day is direct- ly related to the ability to commit school material to memory. Yehuda also discovered that a deficiency of acetylcholine — a chemical normally found in the brain — could lead to memory loss and a decline in intellectual potential among aging subjects. The scientist then set out to find a substitute that could enter the brain through the cir- culatory system. Yehuda found what he was looking for — the chemical lecithin. Testing the substance on aged rats, he discovered that a diet rich in lecithin could significantly improve the ability of rats to learn and to remember. Does lecithin affect humans in the same way? Yehuda is cautious. "A long series of ex- periments must still be made before we can say if our lecithin findings can be ap- plied to humans," he says.