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Moscow Becomes Home
To New Holocaust Center

Tour Recalls Denmark Rescue

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n October 1942,
Danish farmers, fish-
erman, taxi drivers
and others in tiny coastal
villages banded together
to hide Denmark's 7,800
Jewish citizens and
transport almost all to
safety in neutral Sweden.
In honor of the 50th
anniversary of the
Danish rescue, Friends of
Scandinavia Tours is
hosting a re-creation of
the rescue routes.
The two-week tours
begin this summer in
Copenhagen. They will
include retracing the res-
cue routes, plus meetings
with rescuers who hid
and transported the Jews

as well as rescued Jews
who now live in
Stockholm Oslo and
Helsinki.
The tour was designed
by Rabbi Frederick
Werbell, an authority on
Scandinavian Jewish his-
tory during World War II
and author of Lost Hero:
The Mystery of >Raoul
Wallenberg.
Departure dates for the
tour are June 16, July 1,
15 and 29, and Aug. 12
and 26. For information,
contact Friends of
Scandinavia Tours, 405
E. 63rd St., New York,
NY 10021, or call 800-
345-4373.

What's Up In Gaza

A

new brochure, pro-
duced by the Israel
Information Center
of Jerusalem, notes that
the Gross National
Product, the amount of
foreign trade and agricul-
tural yield, vocational
training and education in
Gaza, Ju- Labour Force
dea and
Samaria,
all have
increased
since 1967
when
Israel'
>began
adminis-
tering the territories.
In 1968, for example, the
GNP of the territories
included $47 million in
trade, transport and other
services; $43 million in
agriculture, forestry and
fishing; and $9 million in
industry. Today, those fig-
ures are $322 million in
trade; $265 million in
agriculture and $72 mil-
lion in industry.
The agricultural yield

Gaza
District
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jumped from about 25,000
tons in 1968 to more than
50,000 in the mid-1980s.
Vegetables, fruit, meat
and milk also increased.
Since 1967, industry in
the territories has been
steadily on the rise, the
booklet reports. In 1968,
the total
number of
exports
amounted
ra0,
to about
$50 mil-
lion. By
the mid-
1 9 8 0 s ,
that fig-
ure had reached $400 mil-
lion.
The booklet also notes
an increased labor force
(see illustration) and
employment.
The focus today in the
territories is no longer
distribution of food and
money to the destitute but
"occupational and physical
rehabilitation, designed to
help the recipients to help
themselves."

25,000 pomono
Letter lotto

Gaza
Dtstrott

25.000 p.n.s
Two? populotioe

Judea
Same.
3,68

Judea
Samara,
mrd
1980,

300 000

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Einstein, You're Minestein

An

d now for an update
on Round Up auction
ews:
In recent weeks the
Round Up reported on some
choice items of Jewish inter-
est for sale in New York.
Here's what they went for:
1) An inscribed Houdini
family Bible, sold at Swann
Galleries, cost a devoted col-

lector $8,880.
2) A platinum print
signed by Albert Einstein to
Mrs. Rabindranath Tagore
in 1926 went for $8,250.
3) A 1921 autographed
photo of Houdini sold for
$990.
4) An iron milk can
Houdini used in his escape
act went for $3,960.

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Calling All
Miracle Bulbs

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his is news to light
up your life.
For the past eight
years, ever since the
establishment of Congre-
gation Bais Chabad of
Farmington Hills, only
one light bulb has burned
in the synagogue's ner
tamid.
The 50-watt bulb burns
24 hours a day, every day
of the year. Rabbi Chaim
Bergstein, head of the con-
gregation, says the bulb
has yet to be changed.
Any other synagogues
out there have such long-
lasting lights? If so, please
let the Round Up in on the
news.

Booklet Focus
Is Child Abuse

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hel Children's Home
and Family Services
in New York has
created a new guide on
child abuse and neglect
that focuses on protecting
Jewish children.
The booklet follows a
three-year study by a task
force organized to study
child abuse in the Jewish
community. It includes
information about what
Halachah (Jewish law)
says about the issue and
how to respond to the
problem. It also discusses
misconceptions some may
have about reporting sus-
pected cases of abuse to
authorities.
For a free copy of Child
Abuse and Neglect — A
Responsibility of the
Jewish Community, write
Ohel Children's Home and
Family Services, 4423
16th Ave., Brooklyn, NY
11204 ....w........loomosolomploomik

f stranger things have
happened, we'd like to
hear about them...
Moscow reportedly has
just opened a new center
— the first of its kind in
the former Soviet Union
— whose goal is
strictly securing
and
studying
information about
the Jewish geno-
cide during World
War II.
The Russian
Research and Educational
Holocaust Center is head-
ed by I. Altman and is
officially registered by the
Russian Ministry of
Justice.
"There will be broad
cooperation with state,
scientific and public orga-
nizations in finding the
places of mass extermina-

tion in Russia and immor-
talizing the Holocaust vic-
tims," Mr. Altman told
Martyrdom and Resis-
tance, the newspaper of
the International Society
of Yad Vashem. "To
advance research,
we are also col-
lecting documents
from
private
archives
and
recording remi-
niscences of the
genocide victims
and witnesses. An infor-
mation bank is being cre-
ated on documents stored
in state and public
archives."
The center also will
help implement Holocaust
education programs in
Moscow schools and host
conferences and seminars.

Former Yeshiva Goes Home

T

he structure and
site of the former
Yeshiva Eitz Chaim
in Wolozin recently was
returned to the Jewish
community in a ceremony
featuring a formal procla-
mation from the govern
ment of Byelorussia
(today known as
Belarus).
The yeshiva was found
ed two centuries ago an d

continued to function
until World War II, when
the students and director
were murdered by the
Nazis.
After the war, the
Soviets set up a bakery
shop in the former yeshi-
va. The government of
Belarus has promised to
vacate the site in the
coming months.

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A Tale Of Two Fischbeins

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et ready, Israel, for
the wearing of the
green.
Israel's S . anz Medical
Center recently estab-
lished a department that's
sure to please environ-
mentalists everywhere.
Professor Alf Fischbein,
a former member of the
U. S . Environmental
Protection Agency, has
been named director of
the hospital's new depart-
ment of environmental
and occupational medi-
cine.
A native of Sweden,
Professor Fischbein has
experience in evaluating
the health effects of occu-
pational and environmen-
tal exposures and has
published extensively in
those fields. He continues

to work closely with the
World Health Organiza-
tion and also serves as
chairman of an Israeli
committee studying lead
in the human environ-
ment.
Meanwhile, Dr. Yoch-
eyed Fischbein of Netanya
has been named head of
Israel's first male fertility
laboratory whose method-
ology is consistent with
Halachah.
Dr. Fischbein, formerly
director of laboratory ser-
vices for the Mayo
Reproductive Unit at New
York Hospital, has suc-
cessfully counseled many
young couples who experi-
enced difficulty in conceiv-
ing and delivering healthy
babies.