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Robert Frank,
Active At Beth El
Robert A. Frank, of South-
field, died April 26. He was
38.
A graduate in computer
science from Alfred Univer-
sity, Mr. Frank received a
master's in business from
Wayne State University. He
was former chairman of Tem-
ple Beth El's Torah Study
Group, a member of Temple
Beth El's Men's Club, active
with Temple Beth El Mazon
and an usher during Shabbat
services. He also was past
chairman of the Frank Foun-
dation, which supported
many charitable organiza-
tions, and was a lover of the
musical arts.
He leaves his wife, Deborah;
son and daughter, Michael
and Margaret Sullivan;
parents, Robert L. and Mary;
brothers and sisters-in-law,
Edward and Sarah of Portola
Valley, Calif., Randall and
Ellen of Ann Arbor; sisters
and brothers-in-law, Amy and
Alan Rosenblatt of Short Hill,
N.J., Betsy and Michael Ross
of Raleigh, N.C.
John S. Berman,
Of Lasky Firm
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John "Jimmy" S. Berman,
of Orchard Lake, died April
22. He was 60.
Mr. Berman was the
founder in 1951 of the Park
Furniture Co., which merged
in 1973 with the Lasky Fur-
niture Co. Mr. Berman serv-
ed as Lasky president and
CEO.
Mr. Berman was a life
member of Temple Israel, and
was active with the Allied
Jewish Campaign and the
Crohn's and Colitis Founda-
tion of America.
He leaves his wife, Bernice;
sons and daughters-in-law,
Richard and Marilyn of West
Bloomfield, Robert and Cindy
of West Bloomfield, Ron and
Bunny of West Bloomfield,
Kenneth and Kimberly of
Farmington Hills, Andrew
and Shelley of Novi; sister,
Molly Grekin of Sarasota,
Fla.; nine grandchildren.
War Hero
Dies In Rome
New York (JTA) — George
Mandel-Mantello, who as a
Salvadoran diplomat during
World War II saved numerous
Jews and non-Jews from the
Nazis, died April 26 at his
home in Rome. He was 90.
Mr. Mandel-Mantello, a
Romanian-born Jew who ob-
tained Salvadoran citizen-
ship in 1939, was regarded
as one of the unsung heros of
the Holocaust. It was not un-
til 1989 that he was first
commended for his wartime
deeds, by being presented
with the Eleanor Roosevelt
Human Rights Award.
As first secretary of the
Salvadoran Consulate in
Geneva from 1942 to 1945,
he mass produced and
distributed some 15,000
Salvadoran citizenship pa-
pers to Jews and non-Jews
throughout Nazi-occupied
Europe. About 95 percent of
the holders of these papers
are believed to have surviv-
ed the Holocaust.
During the summer of
1944, when the Nazis and
their Hungarian collab-
orators began deporting
100,000 Jews a day to
Auschwitz, Mr. Mandel-
Mantello obtained firsthand
reports from two escapees.
He then circulated to the
international media his
"Auschwitz Protocol," a 30-
page description of the camp,
complete with statistical
data and descriptions of the
killings. Some 1.6 million
Jews are believed to have
died at Auschwitz.
This report led to interna-
tional calls by world leaders
to halt the deportations.
Following the war, Mr.
Mandel-Mantello helped
church and political figures
escape from Communist
Hungary through Switzer-
land.
Funeral services for
Mandel-Mantello were held
this week in Jerusalem.
NEWS
rm.. .
Students Charge
Censorship
Rome (JTA) — Students at
a junior high school in nor-
thern Italy have complained
angrily that their edition of
Primo Levi's Auschwitz
memoir, If This is a Man,
has been censored.
Pupils attending the Can-
dido Cezzano school in the
city of Bergamo made the
complaint in a letter to the
left-wing local newspaper, Il
Manifesto.
They pointed to passages
in the original work dealing
in blunt terms with bodily
functions and mentioning
homosexuality that do not
appear in their school edi-
tion. They said they were
offended by the "needless,
counterproductive,
disrespectful censorship."
But the Einaudi
-publishing house insists the
deletions were made by the
author in school texts.
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