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odd, odd collector folk, she
says.
Like the man who insisted
on buying a Victrola. This
happened back in the days
when Mrs. Fishman and a
friend owned the Bargain
Box, an antique store in De-
troit that has since closed.
The Victrola didn't work.
Mrs. Fishman told him so.
But the man demanded that
they let him try it out. So,
while her friend snuck to the
shop's back room and turned
on a radio, Mrs. Fishman laid
the needle on the record.
Voila! The music played.
Mrs. Fishman broke the
secret seconds after, but the
man didn't care. He bought
the broken Victrola.
Practical jokes aside, Mrs.
Fishman doesn't play games
with her reputation. She
knows it's everything in this
business.
"I cannot come into a mall
and misrepresent some-
thing," she said.
To screen out scams, she
interviews dealers and sur-
veys their merchandise. If, af-
ter one show, a dealer proves
dubious, she doesn't invite
him to another.
At some shows, Mrs. Fish-
man has a licensed apprais-
er on hand. For $1, customers
can have their purchases pro-
fessionally evaluated.
As for retiring, Mrs. Fish-
man won't give it a second
thought.
"I love this business," she
says. "I will continue as long
as I'm able to. I don't think of
retiring because I don't know
what I'd do with myself." ❑
Martin Bormann's Son
Meets Survivors
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The son of
notorious Nazi leader Mar-
tin Bormann has left Israel
after a four-day unpublicized
visit aimed at reconciling
children of Nazi criminals
with children of Holocaust
survivors.
Martin Bormann Jr., the
eldest son of the man who
played a leading role in car-
rying out the extermination
of European Jews in his
capacity as Hitler's aide,
joined eight other children of
Nazi war criminals in
meetings with nine children
of Holocaust survivors at a
four-day symposium last
week.
The symposium was held
at Neve Shalom, a model
community in which Arabs
and Jews live and work
together. It was arranged by
a Ben-Gurion University
psychologist, Professor Dan
Bar-On, who is author of a
book about the guilt felt by
descendants of Adolf Hitler's
henchmen.
Professor Bar-On said he
organized the symposium to
see whether the offspring of
criminals and those of their
victims can coexist.
Mr. Bormann Jr., who is
63, is a former priest and
current theology teacher. He
was quoted in the daily
Yediot Achronot as saying
he found it easier to face
Israelis, whose anger and
pain he could accept, than
present-day neo-Nazis in
Germany who seek to harm
him.
Mr. Borrnann said he was
not recognized when he
visited the Yad Vashem
Holocaust Memorial in
Jerusalem.
"My feeling was one of
mourning, especially at the
place where the names of
children are listed," he said.
"A painful thought went
through me, that there are
thousands more victims
nobody knows about. Entire
families were erased."
The elder Bormann was
sentenced to death in absen-
tia at the Nuremberg war
crimes trials in 1946, but
where and when he died re-
mains unclear.
One common opinion, held
by the younger Bormann as
well, is that the Nazi leader
committed suicide in
Hitler's bunker at the end of
World War II.
However, there was recent
report that he died of cancer
in Paraguay in 1945.
Mr. Bormann Jr. said he
had mixed feelings.
"He was a good father to
his children, and on the
other hand he was an
unknown quantity to me. I
knew then that he had a
high position but not what
he really did," Bormann Jr.
said.