• • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• • • • • • • Dan Hotels Anniversary Special Celebrating 50 years as Israel's host to the world • c • • • • • During the Dan's 50th Anniversary Year, • 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. • • • • *err)s4' Afq,..z.v.€44‘444, Reikvt44 • • • • • • • • • • • Ironic Duality: Weimar : • And Buchenwald • • 114,4,4€44411 Rae's, King David Jerusalem Dan Tel Aviv Dan Carmel, Haifa Dan Accadia, Herzliya Dan Caesarea Dan Panorama, Tel Aviv Dan Panorama, Haifa Dan Pearl, Jerusalem Dan Eilat 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. • For information and reservations, w please call your travel agent or Israel Hotel Representatives (212) 752-6120 • or outside New York State Toll Free: 800-223-7773/4 • or FAX: (212) 759-7495 • INTERNET SITE: www.danhotels.co.il • E-MAIL: danhtls@danhotels.co.il • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 108 • 95 • 104 • 79 • 75 • 75 • 95 • 120 • • • • • • • • • • • 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 ••••••••••• • _Owe (qv/we/ MUSEUM OF JEWISH HER ITAGE, NY PASSOVER HIDDEN VALLEY Four Seasons Resort • 2000 acres • 18 hole championship golf • 12 tennis courts • indoor heated pool • sauna & whirlpool • free mountain biking • free fishing rods & boating • fitness & exercise room • supervised children's programs • 2 conducted Seders • Synagogue on premises • three (3) gourmet meals daily • Glatt Kosher, Cholov Yisroel • complimentary tea room • lavish buffets • Western Bar-B-Q • entertainment & Torah classes • special guest lecturers 810.968-8600 DISCOUNTED AIRLINE TICKETS DETROIT TO TEL AVIV Starting as LOW as $632.00 + taxes Minimum 20% Disc. on Domestic/European Destination Okemos Travel 800-798-7040 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