MEDIA MONITOR
DADS AND GRADS
ALL SEIKO WATCHES
OFF
45%
NOW THROUGH FATHER'S DAY
aw
ant\ cotlat)
Nail
for tl
adult eltildrot of
Th,
the atrocities their pa rents connvitt.,..ti
litler's
haunted by
Style meets performance in this innovative analog alarm
chronograph. A two-toned gilt and cream dial with crisp
roman numerals features a subdial that displays alarm, stop
watch and timer. You'll never be behind
the pace with this dependably
•
accurate beauty. A rich, brown,
padded calf strap completes
the look.
Robert ALEXANDER
Jewelers
AWARDED CERTIFICATE BY GIA IN DIAMOND GRADING
A Third Generation of Quality and Tradition in Diamonds and
Diamond Jewelry, passed down from Norman Allan
32419 Northwestern Highway Farmington Hills, Michigan 48018
Located between Middlebelt and Fourteen Mile Road
313-855-0040 Hours: Monday-Saturday 10-6 Thursday 10-8
NOW AVAILABLE, THE FULL LINE OF MONT BLANC PENS
THE NEWLY REMODELED
AMERICAN SPEEDY PRINTING CENTER
25218 Greenfield Road
(Between 10 Mile and 1-696)
• CANON LASER COLOR COPIES
• HIGH SPEED COPIER C i gNI TINBLETSTFO OLT
• LAYOUT & DESIGN
Save
$5.00 on your next printing or copy order Over $30.00)
Unique
Eyewear
DOC
• •
OF WEST BLOOMFIELD
Dr. Howard J. Rosner, Optometrist
West Bloomfield Plaza • Orchard Lake south of Maple • 626-0200
30
9‘g4070
FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1990
casual
Ihring
modes
Contemporary
accessories for
over 36 years
544-1711
22961 Woodward, Ferndale, MI
Nivel tii tit %di
oe.
of reuniftration, sone of l
aro
ttsalotbte Ivo... their private Owl";
Oleic other iosed (loon, of
fur. oo
Children of the Reich: "We can only thank God we lost the war."
Nazis' Children
Speak Out
ARTHUR MAGIDA
Special to The Jewish News
B
ecause Germany's
crimes against the
Jews "were so awful
the world has concentrated
so exclusively on them,"
says the son of Hitler's top
deputy, Martin Bormann, in
the July issue of Vanity Fair.
"But in a terrible way,"
continues Bormann, who
bears the same first name as
his father, "that makes it too
easy on the Nazis. I think to
identify Nazism exclusively
with anti-Semitism is very
shortsighted. Our plans for
the world were so wide-
reaching, and so terrible,
that we can only thank God
we lost the war."
Bormann is one of nine
members of a unique
therapy group composed of
children whose parents had
killed or been instrumental
in the Nazis' destruction of
the Jews. The group was in-
itially formed by Dan Bar-
On, an Israeli psychologist
on a visiting professorship at
the West German Univer-
sity of Wuppertal. Group
members had never before
spoken to anyone of their
parents' legacy.
Bormann, who stands out
in the group because he was
the son of Hitler's closest as-
sociate, is treated "gingerly"
by the others. During the
war, a prisoner detachment
from Dachau worked on a
construction site next to the
school Bormann attended.
The prisoners, recalls Bor-
mann, "were really ill-
treated by their kapos
[prisoners who served as
overseers]. And so we hated
the kapos, you see, not the
"I loved my father," says
Bormann. "I certainly didn't
identify this horror with
him."
"Some 50 years ago," said
Bormann, "a few people cre-
ated horror, but far too
many, knowing about it,
tolerated it. It started then
just as now —with graffiti,
vulgar jokes, and knowing
winks. Then it was the Jews;
now it is the Turks and the
Vietnamese. The obscenity
of discrimination will only
be stopped if we accept in-
dividual responsibility for
never, in a single instance,
allowing it to go unchalleng-
ed. That, I think, is our task
— yes, as our parents' chil-
dren."
Jews' Future
Deemed 'Bleak'
The prognosis for the
American Jewish commun-
ity is "bleak," according to
Seymour Lachman, univer-
sity dean of the City Univer-
sity of New York, and Barry
Kosmin, director of the Nor-
th American Jewish Data
Bank of the CUNY
Graduate Center.
Writing on the New York
' Times op-ed page, the two
academicians observe that
American Jews':
• Religious identification
has "weakened" and there
has "been a steady decline in
synagogue affiliation over
the last generation."
• "Once-powerful secular
organizations," such as the