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world — the only thing to do," • ticulture as head of landscap-
he says.
ing at Grofit's campground.
He was worried about liv-
Sitting in his apartment,
ing in the shadows of his older
Levy
indicates the various
brothers. "It turned out that
craft
and
building projects on
for the most part, people
which
he
and his girlfriend
didn't relate to me that way,"
Deb
Fass
are
working.
he says.
"I look around and think, if
There were other hurdles.
we were living in America
The opportunity to get to
and we had to worry about
know his brothers as adults
the
laundry and making
was difficult in Grofit's small-
three meals a day, who would
town atmopshere where
have time for this stuff?
everyone knows everyone
else's business. "Kibbutz is
"I'm not saying we're living
kind of a pressure cooker in
in a holiday village here. Per-
terms of social relationships,"
sonal allowances have been
Levy says.
cut for the last five years. But
And "the culture shock of
it's a way of life that allows
moving from one language to
you to tap human resources."
another and from the city to
The frantic pace of life in
collective living are difficult
the United States or even .
to overcome.'
Israeli cities is missing on
Like his brother Sam,
Grofit. "Things move slowly
Daniel has twin interests in
down here," Levy says. He en-
the humanities and science.
joys his job, but would like to
He was graduated form the
teach language or literature
University of Michigan with
some day.
a degree in English
"I've got time," he says. "I
literature. But he pursues his
wouldn't be down here if I was
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Los Angeles (JTA) — Amid
new claims that Josef
Mengele may still be alive,
both the American and
Israeli governments have
refused to close the book and
release their final reports on
the fate of the Auschwitz
death camp doctor.
Although almost four years
have elapsed since six
respected American experts
identified a body exhumed
from a Brazilian cemetery as
that of the infamous "Angel of
Death," two veteran Nazi-
hunters have raised new
doubts that the forensic ex-
perts may have been the vic-
tims of a hoax.
The doubters, according to
a lengthy review of the
Mengele case in the Los
Angeles Times, are Menahem
Russek, chief Nazi war crimes
investigator for the Israeli
government, and Simon
Wiesenthal.
Adding fuel to the specula-
tion is the refusal of the U.S.
Justice Department's Office
of Special Investigations to
release its final case report
under the Freedom of Infor-
mation Act, as requested by
the Simon Wiesenthal Center
in Los Angeles and a
Holocaust survivors group.
The Israeli government, too,
has refused similar requests.
'Nazi-hunter Wiesenthal
himself, who initially ac-
cepted the experts' findings,

told the Times he now sees
"the whole matter of Mengele
in absolutely another light —
it was too perfect."
He added that he has infor-
mation about "a possible new
man in a South American
country. They say that this is
Mengele."
Russek in Israel reportedly
has written a 60-page
memorandum in which he
contends that the six experts
were misled by a
sophisticated sleight of hand.
'Ib back up their doubts,
both men cite a meeting
among three Mengele
associates said to have taken
place in Bavaria in 1982 —
three years after Mengele
supposedly drowned off the
Brazilian beach in a swimm-
ing accident.
According to intelligence
reports on the meeting given
to the United States, Israel
and West Germany, the three
participants discussed what
would happen to Mengele if
he turned himself in to the
authorities.
These questions are distur-
bing enough to Hans-
Eberhard Klein, who heads
the West German investiga-
tion of the case, to have pro-
posed use of a new DNA
genetic "fingerprinting"
technique to determine if the
disinterred skeleton is that of
Mengele.
Klein also told the Times

