A fresh look at some of the stories we reported on in the past weeks.

$31,000
Fights
Hunger

LESLEY PEARL

STAFF WRITER

Little Girl j
Still Seeks
Loving
Home

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM

ASSISTANT EDITOR

ennifer still needs
somebody to love her.
Six months ago, in an
article on special-needs
adoption, The Jewish
News told the story of
an 8-year-old named
Jennifer.
Jennifer is mentally dis-
abled, and has been in and
out of foster homes all her
life.
Since Jennifer's birth,
social workers have been
looking for a Jewish home
for her. Several people

Eight
Straight
For Bonds

ALAN HITSKY

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

No
Charge
To Enter
Auschwitz

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM

ASSISTANT EDITOR

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persistent
espite
rumors to the con-
trary, Polish officials
say they have no inten-
tions of charging an entry
fee to Auschwitz.
Poland's President Lech
Walesa, responding to
queries by Knesset
Speaker of the House
Shevach Weiss, said
Poland never has charged
entry to Auschwitz or any
other death camp and
never considered changing
that policy.
Mr. Walesa suggested
the confusion may have

approved by the Michigan
Department of Health.
"In the meantime, we're
lightening the load of the
first truck. It's supposed
to hold only 8 tons, but
we've been filling it with
16," Ms. Anderson said.
Forgotten Harvest origi-
nated in August of 1990 as
a project of Mazon —
Jewish Response To
Hunger, but operates as a
non-denominational orga-
nization.
To make financial or
food donations, contact
Pat Anderson at 557-4483.

orgotten Harvest, a
nonprofit Jewish-spon-
sored organization
working to eliminate
hunger in the Detroit
area, has been awarded a
John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation grant
for $31,530. The funds
will go toward purchasing
a second refrigerated
truck.
Forgotten Harvest col-
lects 16 tons of food a
month from wholesalers,
vendors, hotels and
restaurants. The meals
are distributed to five

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agencies on a regular
basis, including Detroit
Rescue Mission Ministry
and Coalition On Temp-
orary Shelter.
Pat Anderson, adminis-
trative coordinator for
Forgotten Harvest, esti-
mates the second truck
will double the amount of
food being delivered.
However, new food donors
must now be found to fill
the truck.
Donors should be able to
provide 40 servings per
pick up, and their estab-
lishments must be

have expressed interest,
but so far, no one has
come forward to adopt the
little girl.
Jennifer has Sotos syn-
drome, a brain deformity
that limits her intellectual
capabilities. She has a
vocabulary of about 50
words and can in many
ways care for herself, but
she is expected to remain
functioning at a child's
level for the rest of her
life.
A pretty girl with dark

hair, Jennifer lives with a
foster family. She goes to
school each morning and
enjoys working puzzles,
playing outside and being
with other children.
For information about
adopting Jennifer, or any
other special-needs Jewish
child, contact Vicki
Krausz at the Jewish
Children's Adoption
Network, P.O. Box 16544,
Denver, CO 80216, or call
(303) 573-8113.

or the eighth consecu-
tive year, State of
Israel Bonds broke its
sales record in the United
States. National sales of
the Israel investments
reached $1.17 billion, with
the help of a near-record
$19.7 million in Michigan.
Local Bonds chairman
Jerome Soble credited sev-
eral major events during
the year for Israel Bonds'

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local success: an attor-
neys' dinner honoring
Dennis and Trudy Archer,
a medical division event
with Blue Cross/Blue
Shield CEO Richard
Whitmer as honoree,
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek's tribute to Eugene
Applebaum of Arbor
Drugs, and Women's
Division, Tam 0' Shanter
Country Club and other

synagogue functions.
The $19.7 million was a
9 percent gain over 1991,
said Hershell Wais, execu-
tive director of Michigan
Israel Bonds. It was sec-
ond only to 1987, when
single purchases of $5 mil-
lion and $2.5 million
helped boost Michigan to
$20.4 million in Israel
Bond investments.

sprung from collection
boxes at the entry to
Auschwitz. Visitors may
make contributions to
help maintain the facility.
Auschwitz was the
largest death camp built
by the Nazis. Established
in 1940 on order of
Heinrich Himmler, Ausch-
witz is located in
Oswiecim, near the border
of Upper Silesia. The first
transport — Polish politi-
cal prisoners — arrived on
June 14, 1940.
More than 261,000 per-
at
perished
sons

Auschwitz.
The death camp was lib-
erated on Jan. 27, 1945 by

the Soviet army and was
opened as a memorial-
museum in 1967. ❑