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She met them through her work as a guide at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, where Israelis seek her out because she is one of the very few guides who make it clear that most of those who perished at the camp were Jews. During the years of Com- munist rule in Poland, the Jewish aspect of the Auschwitz tragedy was prac- tically ignored, and even to- day — despite recent visits to the site by the Israeli presi- dent and chief of staff — it tends to be downplayed by the Poles; Christina remains an exception. An Israeli travel guide who has brought groups to Christina over a dozen times, Rehovot resident Varda Mushlin is now hosting her on Christina's second visit to Israel. Their friendship has blossomed over the years, aid- ed by the fact that Varda's mother tongue is also Polish. Indeed, she still has a soft spot in her heart for Poland, perhaps because she spent her childhood there as a "real Pole." Varda's parents, who had escaped Auschwitz by fleeing to Russia during the Second World War, decided, upon returning to Poland, that their future children must be spared the suffering they had undergone, and, therefore, must not be told of their Jewish origin. Only in 1967, when Varda's family boarded a train at the Warsaw station — on the first leg of a journey that was to take them to Israel — were she and her brother informed of their Jewishness. Today, as one might expect, Varda has no questions about her identity as a Jew and an Israeli. But when she takes other Israelis to Poland she insists that they become ac- quainted with Polish culture, Polish cuisine and the Polish countryside — that they see Poland as more than just one big death camp. Going to Auschwitz, never- theless, remains a central, shattering experience for them, made somewhat easier, as Varda puts it, "because Christina cries together with us." This has a great deal to - do with the fact that being a guide at Auschwitz is much more than just a job to ? Christina; it is also the fulfill- ment of a pledge she made to her late father-in-law two decades ago, who asked her to--, help keep alive the memory of the Holocaust. A teen-ager in Oswiecim during the Second World War, he was appalled by the sight of the starving, ragged labor gangs that the Nazis brought out of the camp to work at fac- tories in the area. From time to time he tried to give them a little bread but was even-- tually caught in the act and sent to Auschwitz himself. From there he was shipped to the Mauthansen Concentra- - tion Camp in Austria, which was liberated by American soldiers in the spring of 1945. He was a sickly 68 pounds at the time and, never having fully recovered his health, he died before reaching the age of 40. Christina is proud to be following in her father-in- -' law's footsteps. ❑ Terrorists Fail At Stabbing Jerusalem (JTA) — Three days after the brutal stabb- ing of an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian terrorists attempted to kill another soldier, but failed. The attacker, 25, a resi- dent of the Rimal neighbor- hood in Gaza, approached the soldier with a knife and tried to stab him. However, ___ other soldiers spotted the at- tacker, fired at him and wounded him in the hand. He was hospitalized in Ashkelon. Earlier, an explosive charge went off near an army post by the Bureij refugee camp, close to the place where soldier Alon Karavani was kidnapped last Friday, stabbed and left badly wounded in an olive grove. No one was hurt. In the West Bank, an Arab man was killed, at the Eli junction south of Nablus, after an explosive charge j went off in his hands. He ap- parently was preparing to ctJ set the bomb against a Jew- ish target. In another incident, the army clamped a curfew on downtown Hebron, after a Jewish woman was wounded in a stoning attack.