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Celebrating 50 years as Israel's host to the world
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every guest staying at a Dan Hotel during
our Jubilee year, from May 1, 1997 to
April 30, 1998, is invited for a free glass
of champagne at the hotel bar.
Every guest celebrating a 50th birthday
or a 50th wedding anniversary during
their stay at a Dan Hotel (from May 1,
1997 to April 30, 1998) is invited to a
dinner for two — The Special Jubilee
Menu — at the hotel. The guest will also
receive a complimentary gift.
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114,4,4€44411 Rae's,
King David Jerusalem
Dan Tel Aviv
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From: $123 •
Per person in double room
including breakfast + 15% service charge.
Rates effective March 1- July 1, 1997 (excluding April 18 -30,1997).
Rates based on a minimum of 7 nights in one hotel or a combination of two hotels or more.
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Israel Hotel Representatives (212) 752-6120
• or outside New York State Toll Free: 800-223-7773/4
• or FAX: (212) 759-7495
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• E-MAIL: danhtls@danhotels.co.il
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GABRIEL LEVENSON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
A
brisk half-hour walk or
a ten-minute bus ride
through the cobblestoned,
tree lined streets of one
small town in Germany spans
the past 200 years of the coun-
try's incredible history. The brief
journey from the main railway
station,in downtown Weimar, to
Buchenwald, at its northern
edge, is a descent from the shin-
ing peaks of a golden age to the
dark pits of the Holocaust.
Visitors to Weimar will find
that local authorities have made
no attempt to mask the ironic
contrast between a rich cultural
heritage of many centuries and
the more recent legacy of Nazism.
On the one hand, there is the
oft-proclaimed statement of
Goethe, perhaps the greatest of
German poets, who worked and
spent the last 40 years of his life
tore capital for the year 1999, and
a walking tour encompassing
only a few blocks offers pedestri-
ans views of Goethe's "good
things" — baroque palaces and
landscaped parks, museums and
monuments, libraries and con-
cert halls.
Goethehaus, for example, is
the three-story house on Frauen-
plan in which the poet lived and
worked from 1782 until his death
in 1832. It is now a museum, the
contents of which — Goethe's per-
sonal library and collection of
classical art, oak-carved furni-
ture, pewter gaslights and wood-
en cutlery — illustrate everyday
life in Germany during its era of
classicism.
A few blocks distant, on
Schillerstrasse, is Schillerhaus,
the squat mansion, now a muse-
um, in which the poet Friedrich
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Buchenwald survivors join U. S. soldiers in services in May 1945.
in Weimar: "Where else can you
find so many good things in one
place?"
On the other hand, road signs
all over town point the way to the
Buchenwald memorial on the site
of Hitler's first permanent con-
centration camp, where more
than 250,000 Jews, gypsies, ho-
mosexuals, political dissidents
and prisoners of war were incar-
cerated as slave laborers and sub-
jects of medical experiments
during the period from 1937,
when the camp opened, until
April 11, 1945, when tanks of the
U.S. Third Army smashed their
way into Buchenwald and liber-
ated the survivors. In the 18
frightful years of the camp's ex-
istence, almost 100,000 men,
women and children had been
murdered there. They were the
victims of work-induced exhaus-
tion, disease, deliberately im-
posed starvation, torture and
execution.
With ample reason, Weimar
has been de si gnated Europe's mil-
Schiller, Goethe's contemporary
and close friend, lived from 1802
until his death in 1805. Nearby,
on Theaterplatz, the largest
square in Weimar, is the famous
statue of Schiller and Goethe to-
gether, surveying the town they
helped make famous.
But the town is more than
Goethe and Schiller. Sightseers
can view as well Stadtkirche, the
cathedral visited by Martin
Luther in 1518 and containing
the Winged Altar tryptich paint-
ed in the 16th century by Lucas
Cranach the Elder, from whom
Goethe is directly descended.
Other great artists are memo-
rialized in Weimar, from Durer
to the Cranachs, Elder and
Younger, to Walter Gropius,
founder of the Bauhaus move-
ment of design and architecture.
And famous musicians who lived
and worked here are recalled in
such institutions as the old Bach-
stube Hotel, named for Johannes
Sebastian Bach, who served as
organist and leader of the