leaves people thinking she is
quite tough.
"I consider showing
weakness an unforgettable
sin," Mrs. Ehrmann said.
"That facade kept us alive,
and I can't drop it."
Mrs. Salinger, and the
others, openly discussed
their stories — • stories each
said were kept private for
years.
"I was fortunate to marry
a non-survivor," Mrs. Sal-
inger said. "I was able to put
the horror aside, yet not to
forget.
"I put it aside and talked
little about it," she said.
"But it is part of my life. I

have this tremendous need
and desire to connect with
my past."
She didn't talk about it.
Rather, she spent many
hours in private, writing her
memoirs. Recently, the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Council
accepted Mrs. Salinger's
written recollections of the
Holocaust.
For Dr. Dwork, whose
"children" were under age
16 during the war, resear-
ching, interviewing and
recording hundreds of now-
adult child survivors of the
Holocaust has become a
"personal and professional
obsession." ❑

Milford High Gets
Lesson In Judaism

AMY J. MEHLER

Staff Writer

S

tudents at Milford
High School ask tough
questions about Jews
and Judaism. They want to
know why there are Jewish
guys and girls who won't
date non-Jewish guys and
girls. They want to know
why Jews don't accept Jesus
as their Messiah. They want
to know if it's true that all
Jews are wealthy.
Danny Yolkut, 17, Amy
Zwas, 15, and Jamie
Pearlberg, 17, high school
students at Akiva Hebrew

Everyone wanted
to know why the
boys wear
yarmulkes.

Day School in Southfield,
answered every question
posed to them last week by
three different sections of
the Milford High
multicultural literature
class.
"We came prepared, pretty
much ready for anything,"
said Jamie, president of the
Akiva student council.
Akiva's visit to Milford
was the result of a chance
meeting at Meadowbrook
Theater several weeks ago
between Alice Davies, who
teaches the literature class,
and Ed Codish, a high school
English teacher at Akiva.
They met while attending a
performance of Inherit the
Wind.
"I approached him because
of his yarmulke," Mrs.
Davies said. "We got to talk-
ing about where he was from
and why he wears a yarmul-
ke, and it occurred to me
that my class on

multiculturalism would
benefit immensely from
meeting him and his
students."
Mr. Codish talked it over
with Rabbi Zev Shimansky,
headmaster of Akiva.
Ultimately, "I think the
Akiva students learned as
much as the students from
Milford did," Mr. Codish
said.
Akiva students introduced
themselves, then spoke
about three separate topics.
Mrs. Davies said for the
majority of her students it
was the first time they had
learned anything about
Judaism.
Danny spoke about the re-
lationship between Israel
and American Jews; Amy
spoke about the divisions
within Judaism and Or-
thodoxy; Jamie spoke about
the effect the Holocaust had
on American Jewry.
Then the three answered
questions.
Everyone wanted to know
why the boys wore yarmul-
kes. Some remembered see-
ing them before, but had
always wondered about
them. Others had trouble
pronouncing the word. "Why
do you wear that yamaha?"
one girl asked.
"We wear it as a sign of
our religious devotion to
God," said Danny. "Why
don't girls wear them?"
someone else asked. "Most
Orthodox, married women
cover their hair," Amy said.
"And most women cover
their heads in synagogue."
"The yarmulke has tradi-
tionally been a religious
male symbol which
originated from Eastern
Europe," said Danny.
Others wanted to know
what a day at Akiva was
like. "Well, we start about
7:30 in the morning," Jamie

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