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Greater Detroit Council
cordially invites you to attend our
DONOR LUNCHEON
12:00 Noon
Wednesday, October 30, 1991
CONGREGATION ADAT SHALOM
29901 Middlebelt, Farmington Hills
Speaker:
Dr. Yitschak Ben Gad
Consul-General of Israel to the Midwest
Photo by Ze'ey Ackerman.
movement).
But despite these differen-
ces, the two families were
very close. Every Friday
night, the Franks came to the
Goslar's home for dinner, and
they were always their guests
at the Pesach seder. "Mr.
Frank couldn't read Hebrew,
but years later, in a hospital
in Auschwitz, he said Kid-
dush on Friday nights be-
ause he had heard it so often
at our table that he knew it
by heart," Chana recalls.
Every Sunday, Chana
would go Anne's house to get
the schoolwork she missed on
Shabbat. Afterwards, they
would go to Mr. Frank's office
to play with the telephones
and pour water on the pas-
sersby from the upstairs
windows.
This changed when Chana's
mother gave birth to her baby
sister. Then, the girls, in-
cluding Anne's older sister
Margot, would meet at Cha-
na's house to bathe the baby
and take her for a walk.
What was Anne like? "She
had a great sense of humor,
and she was full of life. She
couldn't stop talking in class
and she was always getting
writing assignments as
punishment.
"My mother always said,
`God knows everything, but
Anne knows better: "
Anne was spoiled and girl-
ishly vain, remembers Chana.
She loved pretty clothes and
she was always playing with
her hair.
Neither Anne nor Chana
were particularly good stu-
dents, unlike Margot who
graduated at the top of her
class and was always receiv-
ing academic awards. Even
though Margot was older, she
never socialized, while Anne
was always thinking about
boys.
Did Anne show a flair for
writing (in addition to her
diary, she wrote nine chil-
dren's stories that have been
translated into many lan-
guages)? "Not at all," says
Chana. "When I visited the
school in 1957, I asked the
principal whether he or the
teachers thought she had
shown literary talent as a stu-
dent. He gave a very inter-
esting answer, which I think
is true: 'Under normal cir-
cumstances it would have
taken a great deal of time for
her to become a great writer,
but under her conditions, the
isolation and pressure, she
developed very quickly.' "
The girls' close friendship
continued until July 1942.
Chana saw Anne and Margot
on the last day of the school
year at an assembly, at which
Margot was given an award
for her high marks. The
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Chana Pik, a childhood friend of Anne
Frank's.
Franks didn't come over for
Shabbat dinner and on Sun-
day Chana's mother sent her
to Mr. Frank's office to get
some spices.
"When I knocked on the
door, Miep, their employee,
answered. She said, 'Didn't
you know, they left for Switz-
erland?' I was surprised be-
cause Mr. Frank had always
been an optimist — he said
the Americans or the British
would come to our rescue. But
apparently, Margot had re-
ceived papers ordering her to
appear in a labor camp and he
decided it was time to
escape?'
When Chana later learned
that her close friend had gone
into hiding together with
another family, did she feel
betrayed that her family
hadn't been offered a haven?
"No. They couldn't possibly
have taken us with them.
They were not allowed to
make any noise during the
day, they couldn't even flush
the toilet. I had a two-year-old
sister and my mother was
pregnant:' (Her mother died
giving birth to the baby girl
she was carrying.)
Chana and her family were
rounded up in 1943 and sent
to Bergen Belsen. 'No years
later, in the final months of
the war, a large convoy of
prisoners from concentration
camps in Poland were
brought to Bergen Belsen.
They were kept in tents, and
separated from the veterans
by a wall.
"We weren't allowed to ap-
proach the wall, there were
guards in towers who would
shoot anyone who tried. But
at night we risked it and
talked to the voices on the
other side of the wall. One
day, someone told me that
Anne Frank was in the tent
camp, so I went there that
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