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Call The Jewish News 354.6060 Dr. Mames Continued from Page 7 Those who knew Dr. Mames refer to him as Mr. Shaarit Haplaytah, for the years he devoted-to the group of survivors. He was a past president. "Nothing was too much for him to undertake," said Agi Rubin, also a Holocaust sur- vivor. "And he did it all with a smile on his face." Added survivor Abe Pasternak, "John Mames was the first to realize that no one was listening to us as survivors. He was a driving force in furthering the memory of the Holocaust. "He was a gentle person with a smile on his face," Pasternak said. "He was very persistent. He listened and he paid attention." As a member of the Jewish Community Council's com- mittee on the Holocaust, Dr. Mames regularly recruited survivors to speak before members of the Interfaith Youth Symposium on the Holocaust. He also coor- dinated the committee on the Holocaust for the Greater Detroit Interfaith Round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. For years he organized the annual Memorial Academy of Shaarit Haplaytah and the Jewish Community Council. "He could bring together people at opposite ends of the spectrum and, somehow, get them to speak amicably in a way that few people could," said Miriam Immerman of the Jewish Community Council. He served on the board of the Polish Americans and Jewish Americans Interfaith Roundtable and was a na- tional board member for the American Red Magen David for Israel. He authored several essays on the Holocaust and was also active in his con- gregation, B'nai Moshe. He was a former chairman for the State of Israel Bonds and the Alpha Omega dental fraternity, Detroit chapter. Among the organizations he served, Dr. Mames was a member of the American and Michigan dental associations, B'nai B'rith Albert Einstein Lodge, the Zionist Organization of America, the Friends of Israel Cancer Association, the Jewish Association for Retarded Citizens, the Friends of Soviet Jewry Ed- ucation and Information Center and the Ecumenical Institute for Jewish- Christian Studies. Wednesday was Dr. Mames' day off. And each Wednesday, Dr. Mames spent a few hours shuffling papers and doing other work at the Holocaust Memorial Center. Dr. Mames summed up his own sentiments on paper before receiving the Holocaust Center leadership award last month: "We, the survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, feel that it is our moral obligation and sacred duty to perpetuate the memory of our martyrs and heroes and expose and teach the grim lesson of this horri- ble period with all its grave implications. "Also the myth of non- resistance is a sacrilegious rage and cruel vilification at our Six Million murdered _people. Throughout the years, we attempted to dispel this myth and vicious slanders." In addition to his wife, Eva, and his two children, Dr. Mames is survived by his sister, Mary Rem of New York City and one grandson. Service in Detroit; inter- ment in New York.0 Child Abuse Continued from Page 7 the Jewish community. After getting a Skillman Foundation grant in 1988, JFS began its child abuse prevention program, which is funded solely by Skillman Foundation grants. Using individual, family and group therapy, Wineman, clinical coor- dinator Marilyn Hertzberg and three part-time social workers try to prevent families at high risk from abusing their children. A few children in the program already were being abused, she said. The red flag goes up when Wineman sees a single- parent family where economics is a problem, she said. Often the parent is isolated and has no extended family or the extended fami- ly doesn't offer much help. These circumstances may lead to spousal abuse as well as child abuse. Recently, Wineman got a call from a client who needed im- mediate shelter from an abusive spouse. In addition to therapy, the JFS program offers a homemaker project where one of eight volunteers goes to the home during the day or after school and becomes a family role model, Wineman said. Often parents have few cleaning skills or are too tired to clean the house after working. Continued on Page 22