„ SINAI HOSPITAL tis riti q 6 " RESCUE page 5 Women's Health Series Join us for an informative discussion presented by specialists in the field of women's health care. Lectures are held 7 - 9 p.m., the first and third Wednesday of each month at one of the following locations: First Wednesday Third Wednesday Sinai Hospital Zuckerman Auditorium 6767 W. Outer Drive (between Greenfield & Hubbell) Detroit Bloomfield Township Library L.H. Green Room 1099 Lone Pine Road (southeast corner of Lone Pine and Telegraph) Schedule of Topics December 1 Sinai Hospital Ovarian Cancer December 15 Bloomfield Township Library Contraception in the '90s These free lectures are open to the public. To reserve a seat, please call 1-800-248-3627 Another special Sinai program created just for women is Vital Woman. Sinai provides a speaker to come to your home and address up to 14 of your friends and neighbors. Call us for more information! Some of them displayed any- thing but gentleness while oth- ers exhibited rachmones (pity) and extraordinary solicitude. Because of them, we have with us people like Erna Gorman, Alex Ehrmann, Stefa Kupfer, Rene Lichtman, Maria Orlovs- ka, Jack Gunn and Fred Less- ing: child victims of the Holocaust who survived in hid- ing and who, despite the haunt- ing experiences, have created families, full lives and have be- gun to emerge from hiding. I think it is very important to emphasize the complexities of the context of these stories and how much these actions mean in that regard. It strikes me as imperative to recognize the un- certain varieties of motivations that drove the rescuers. That awareness may serve to under- score the totality of the Holo- caust, its all-emcompassing nature, the ease with which it subsumed everyone in Europe except a select few. Any consideration of the res- cuers is only half complete with- out a rudimentary knowledge of what the Holocaust was. It was less a function of religious anti-Semitism than of other sec- ular, thoughtless procedures. The quest for responsibility eludes us in a miasma of com- plicity that went from school children to university profes- sors, civil servants to technical advisers, scientists to soldiers. At a time when rescue again has become a public issue — rescue in Bosnia, for example — we might reexamine the com- plicated questions that sur- round the subject during the Holocaust. What was then un- thinkable has become com- monplace, routinely watched by each of us as we eat dinner. Yet who knows what to do about dy- ing children, murdered moth- ers, raped daughters, tortured people? Rescue, in all it facets, may demonstrate to us that the Holo- caust indeed has taught us few if any lessons. Against this enormous institutional tide stand the individuals; and there, perhaps, we can take some com- fort. 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Call us. s AIVIERICAN CANCER SOCIETY' Jews In Former USSR Fewer Than Expected Jerusalem (JTA) — There are fewer Jews living in the former Soviet Union than had previously been believ- ed, a survey issued by the Jewish Agency for Israel in- dicates. According to the survey, which was compiled by the Jewish Agency's unit for the former Soviet Union and Central Europe, there are 1.4 million Jews living in 200 communities in the re- publics comprising the former Soviet Union. The figure is sharply lower than previous estimates, which put the total Jewish population there at between 3 million and 5 million. "The survey is not scien- tific, it is not a census," said Baruch Gur, head of the unit that compiled the survey. But he said the new figure, compiled by agency repre- sentatives working in the field in cooperation with local authorities, is a reliable one that reflects "self-identified Jews." The survey, which breaks down populations by com- munities, "gives an impor- taut demographic picture" of the size and locations of Jew- ish communities within the former Soviet Union, he said. According to the survey's findings, the number of emigrants from the Central Asian republics and the Caucasus could rise because of ethnic conflicts that arose following the collapse of the Soviet Union on Dec. 25, 1991. The survey indicated that there are some 80,000 Jews living in such tension-ridden areas. Of that total, 17,000 Jews live in the republic of Georgia, 32,000 in Azerbai- jan and 30,000 in the nor- thern Caucasus. About 650,000 Jews live in Russia and 150,000 in the southern Islamic republics, according to the survey. Mr. Gur said he believes that if present patterns of instability continue within the republics of the former Soviet Union, 120,000 Jews will emigrate annually dur- ing the next five years and that 70,000 of them will make aliyah to Israel. ❑