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Butcher, Baker, Catcher, Spy,
Poles And The Holocaust,
And A West End Prince
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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In World War II, Berg took on
another career: he became a spy
for the OSS (the forerunner of the
CIA).
(Army Corps of Engineers Maj.
Robert) Furman wanted to know
which German and Italian sci-
entists were alive, where they were
located, and what their travel
plans were. Berg was to learn
what he could about German se-
cret weapons, but he was never to
breathe the words 'radioactive' or
`atomic bomb :..He was al-
ways to be on the lookout
for recently constructed in-
dustrial complexes, and if
he found one, he should be
ready to provide diagrams
of its antiaircraft defenses.
vi ate
The Catcher Was a Spy
L GE A Iva
also focuses on Berg's mys-
terious life after the war
(he was famous for ap-
pearing and vanishing
with no warning).
ne child at the
Brooklyn Hebrew
Orphan Asylum re-
membered the
The Mysterious
painful meetings with his
father: "My father came to
Lite of
see me without fail every
month. Each time I saw
Moe Berg
him, I begged to be taken
with him. Once in a while,
he would cry too and apol-
ogize for having to keep me
Nit iolas Dawidoff here.
He said it would only
New York to Ukrainian immi- be for a short while. I remained
grants. The youngest child of there almost ten years."
Another orphan recalled un-
three, he was raised in West
Newark, N.J., where his father comfortable visits with his moth-
operated a pharmacy. It was a er: "I wasn't used to kissing and
popular place: "Women sat to- affection. I'd run away from my
gether gossiping on the long mother every time she'd try to
bench near the front door, kiss me. I wasn't used to this kind
teenagers ate banana splits and
egg creams at the soda fountain,
and children came in for penny
candy, unlacing their high leather
shoes to fish change from their
socks."
From the time he was a tod-
dler, Moe loved to catch. As a
young man, he found work with
the Brooklyn Robins, the Min-
neapolis Millers and the Toledo of female contact...The home did
Mud Hens. In 1923, he went to something to us and we never re-
the big leagues with the White ally got over it."
In These Are Our Children
Sox.
Berg's career - he was a third- (University Press of New Eng-
string catcher - was hardly mem- land), Reena Sigman Friedman
orable. But the press and radio profiles the Jewish orphanages
audiences (he was a frequent of the late 19th- and early 20th-
guest on quiz shows) loved the in- century America, and the young
tellectual, who had studied at the lives irrevocably shaped in those
Sorbonne, Princeton and Colum- facilities.
In general, Jewish orphanages
bia's law school.
oe Berg was a charmer,
an intellectual, a
mediocre baseball play-
er and a spy.
Berg, who played in the major
leagues from 1923-1939, worked
for the OSS to determine Ger-
many's atomic bomb capability.
The life of this mysterious figure
is the subject of the new The
Catcher Was a Spy (Pantheon
Books) by Nicholas Dawidoff.
He was born Morris Berg in
Berg's career - he
was a third-string
catcher - was hardly
memorable.
were not such terrible places, Ms.
Friedman writes.
A description of the Jewish
Foster Home of Philadelphia in
1920 noted that, "Tables seating
eight children and individual
comfortable seats are provided.
Linen tablecloths and individual
napkins are in use. Flower dec-
orations and pictures make the
room home-like and attractive.
Boys and girls sit at the same ta-
bles and converse freely. It was
noted that the children felt at
home and happy, and were not
at all self-conscious or backward
during the meal."
The homes were responsible
not only for the children's food,
clothing and shelter, Ms. Fried-
man notes, but for their moral
values, as well. The orphanages
taught the children to be loyal
American citizens — though of-
ten at the cost of alienating them
from their family members who
clung to Old World traditions.
(Children usually were placed in
homes because parents couldn't
afford to care for them on their
own.)
The author is on the faculty of
the Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College and is a contributing ed-
itor of Lilith.
new book on Auschwitz
tells the story of the Nazis'
most infamous death
camp — but not with a
voice with which most Jews will
recognize.
Auschwitz: A History in Pho-
tographs (Indiana University
Press) is a collaboration between
the Auschwitz-Birkenau State
Museum, Polish and British
scholars and the Indiana Uni-
versity Press. It presents the his-
tory of the death camp from the
Polish perspective.
First published in Poland,
Auschwitz comprises more than
300 photographs from the
archives of the Auschwitz-Birke-
nau State Museum. The pictures
chart the death camp from its cre-
ation to its existence during the
war (where more than 1 million
died between 1940 and 1945) to
its role today (the Polish govern-
ment in 1947 turned the site into
a museum), and includes photos
taken by the Nazis, aerial pic-
tures made by the Allies, and
rare, clandestine snapshots by
prisoners.
Auschwitz: A History in Pho-
tographs also features drawings
and paintings by artists impris-
A