• • ■ COMPILED BY ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Moscow Becomes Home To New Holocaust Center Tour Recalls Denmark Rescue I 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 1.8 AM! AtAAM 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 .00000 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. I Calling All Miracle Bulbs T 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 0 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. , A Tale Of Two Fischbeins G 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.