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Fragile History

Continued from preceding page

each other again.
This very day I remember;
this very day I will not for-
get. This is the day that left
an indelible mark on my life.
This is my testimony that I
commit to my children and
my grandchildren and to my
world Jewish community. I
ask you, in turn, to remem-
ber — never to forget.
— Morton Wolin

or Morton Wolin,
the photographs
are almost holy.
Lined neatly in an
old album, they show a
round-faced, pretty girl, a
brave-looking young man
with determined eyes, a gen-
teel mother and an erudite
father.
It's all Mr. Wolin, of
Southfield, has left of his
mother, father, brother and
sister, who perished at the
hands of the Nazis.
Many of the photos were
taken at the last minute.
Nobody knew when they
would all be together again.
Morton Wolin was born in
Baranowicze, Poland, on
July 4, 1920. He attended
public school in the morn-
ing, Hebrew school in the af-
ternoon. Poland, he recalls,
was an inferno. "It was a
poisonous atmosphere of
anti-Semitism," he says. "I
never had a peaceful day
there. They always called
me 'dirty Jew.' "
Yet his home life was
"stimulating, beautiful," es-
pecially on Shabbat and
Jewish holidays, when the
Wolin home was filled with
friends and guests.
"Every Friday night, in-
variably, we would pick up
a poor man who was visiting
town and who was hungry,"
Mr. Wolin recalls. The des-
titute men would line up at
the synagogue; by the end of
the evening, each had a
place to go for a meal.
"Mom and Dad made each
Jewish holiday an exciting,
family happening," Mr.
Wolin says. Weeping, he re-
calls "the beauty and solem-
nity of Rosh Hashanah and
Yom Kippur." Despite the
anti-Semitism in Poland, "I
learned that being a Jew is
a positive, meaningful ex-
perience."
His home also was strong-
ly Zionist, and Mr. Wolin re-
members going to Zionist
youth camp "all in prepara-

tion that someday we will
immigrate to Israel." It is a
passion that has never left
him: "It's very, very painful
how many of us today can be
sitting idly by and not have
that commitment," he says.
By the late 1930s, it be-
came "very evident to all of
us that World War II was in
the making." The oldest son,
Morton, was sent to live ,
with a grandmother in
Chicago, in hopes he would
one day be able to bring over
the rest of the family.
Through 1941, Morton re-
ceived letters from his fam-
ily. "Then suddenly they
stopped." The Red Cross told
him everyone had died.
In the United States, Mr.
Wolin built a career, mar-
ried and had two children. •
He also remained silent
about much of his past.
"Whatever little I shared
has maybe not been
enough," he says today. But
whenever he started to
speak, "I thought: this is be-
yond my capacity."
"I grew up always know-
ing my dad had lost his fam-
ily and rather keenly felt
that loss," says his daugh-
ter, Jennifer Wolin Patter-
son. "And it was painful to
think about his pain." Not'
wanting to hurt her father,.
she asked few questions.
Mrs. Patterson now wants -
very much for her two sons
to know of their lost great-
grandparents. "I'm trying to
instill in Dad the need for
him to tell them about the -
family," she says. "I can't."
In the past few years, Mr.
Wolin has begun showing
his grandchildren his fami-
ly photos, along with maps
of where he once lived.
The word Mrs. Patterson
uses most often when speak- •
ing of her need to hear her
father: urgent. When she
learned of the book project,
she raised the idea of writ-
ing something with her fa-
ther. When her mother died
soon after, he agreed.
Initially, Mr. Wolin spoke
of his experiences in a dry,
detached manner, address-
ing facts and figures and.:-
historical truths. "It's much
less painful to talk about •
world tragedy than to talk
about your own," he said.
But his daughter pressed .
him. "She told me I was run-
ning away from myself," he =.
says. "Jenny was very, very