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WOODWARD AVE., BIRMINGHAM. 44/ 48009 (3 1 3) 644-8565 Monday to Saturday. 9 am to 6 pm Metro Dealer for Over 35 Years 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