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Guides like Mr. Wertheim say
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Itai Tennenbaum, a tour guide
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Joseph and Reli Gringlas

liezer Ayalon traveled as
tour guide with Bus 5 on
the Michigan Miracle Mis-
sion, May 7-17.
To participants, he introduced
himself as a survivor of the Holo-
caust who came to Israel after
the war.
Joseph Gringlas of Southfield
was sitting in back of the bus
with his wife, Reit After an 11-
hour airplane flight from metro
Detroit to Eilat, the couple might
have dozed off, but Mr. Ayalon
then mentioned something that
jolted Mr. Grineas into a state
of full alert. Mr: Ayalon told the
group he was born in Radom,
Poland, and spent time in the
Blyzin concentration camp dur-
ing World War II.
So did Mr. Gringlas.
When the bus stopped at one
of its first sites, a kibbutz near
Eilat, the Southfield man seized
the opportunity to introduce
himself to his tour guide. Mr.
Gringlas explained that he, too,
was born in Poland, that he, too,
lost family members to the

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Nazis, that he, too, became
known by his prison number,
rather than by his name, in

Blyzim

Mr. Gringlas was No. 167.
Mr. Ayalon was No. 300-some-
thing.
"We started hugging each oth
er," Mr. Gringlas recalls from the
trip. "He was crying with me.
There were 21 buses and I was as-
signed to that bus with him. It's
unbelievable. It's very emotional
to come to Israel, especially when
you've gone through hell."
Actually, the two men can't
remember whether or not they
knew each other in Blyzin. So
many years have passed and
they were teen-agers at the time.
Nonetheless, they shared mem-
ories and the implicit under
standing that they were lucky
to reunite in happier times, in a
happier place.
Mr. Ayalan and Mr. Gringlas
plan to keep in touch.
"When I come to Detroit," Mr.
Ayalon said, "I have to go see
him." El

