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WERE FIGHTING FOR \OUR LIFE
iva Thatch
and her hus-
Be-
band,
nesch, tried to
recover in the Ger-
man hospital. It
wasn't really a hos-
pital, but rather a
monastery, convert-
ed by Americans into
post-war medical
units for Europeans
who survived.
It was 1945, short-
ly after liberation.
Malnourished and
sick, Mr. and Mrs.
Thatch had memo-
ries of Dachau and
Stutthoff. Nazi con-
centration camps.
Beatings, humilia-
tion, death. All of it
followed them into
the hospital after the
war.
They, like other
survivors, received
packages of clothing
and food from bene-
factors overseas. But,
for Mrs. Thatch, it Emma Lazaroff Schaver, at 39, went overseas to sing
was a woman from for survivors.
Detroit who made
the difference between life and months overseas the most im-
portant half-year of her life. In
spiritual death.
That woman was singer honor of her achievement and
many others, the Jewish Histor-
Emma Lazaroff Schaver.
After the war, Mrs. Schaver ical Society will present Mrs.
traveled from Detroit to Ger- Schaver with its fifth annual
many where she spent six Leonard N. Simons History
months performing for refugees Award. Featuring keynote speak-
in displaced persons camps. An er Zvi Gitelman, a University of
observant Jew and concert Michigan political science and Ju-
singer, whose many prestigious daic studies professor, the cere-
venues include Carnegie Hall in mony and subsequent luncheon
New York, Mrs. Schaver repre- will start at 11:30 a.m. June 11
sented the World Jewish Con- at Congregation Beth Abraham
gress in a campaign to bring Hillel Moses.
"I wanted to give (Holocaust
culture and pride back to victims
survivors)
a feeling that they
of the Holocaust.
"With food, clothes and med- were not what the Nazis said
ical supplies, we knew that the they were. They were not vermin,
world had not forgotten about not the scum of the earth, not the
us," Mrs. Thatch says from her worst of the worst," Mrs. Schaver
current home in. Commerce says.
She sang Yiddish songs, He-
Township. "But, when you are
given only physical things, you brew songs and other tradition-
still don't feel like a human be- al melodies for the survivors. The
"Partisan Song" was a favorite
ing.
"When Emma came, we felt among her audiences. Its lyrics
like we entered the world of hu- spoke of tenacity and moving for-
manity again. There she was, in ward. In the displaced persons
her American uniform, a gor- camps, Mrs. Schaver was
geous-looking woman. When she amazed at how quickly the vic-
didn't have an accompanist, she tims did just that.
Moved forward.
sat down and sang by herself.
The children attended schools
"I'm telling you, it was nour-
ishing," Mrs. Thatch recalls. "It and the adults learned skills for
was all prepared with love and future vocations. Jewish and
American programs helped the
with understanding."
Mrs. Schaver, who lives in downtrodden start all over again.
Southfield, considers those six The survivors applied the same