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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