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A group of 60 teen-agers, four
rabbis and one educator are
heading east for a journey
D back in time.

JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER

PHOTOS BY DANIEL LIPPITT

Left: Zelig Barr, 17, and Ari Lerman, 16, tag their luggage.

Above: Arnie Gross adds a finishing touch to daughter
Lindsey's backpack.

ara Cimmino and Andi Lipton felt secure
about their background in Jewish histo-
ry Wednesday as they prepared to take
off on a two-week journey through the
death camps of Poland and the memori-
als and military bases of Israel.
And yet, both agreed, they were not
prepared in another way for the horrors they will see
and hear about in Poland.
"Emotionally, I don't know if we're ready," said
Cara, a senior at Andover High School.
"It's hard to believe so many people were killed,"
said Andi, a senior at West Bloomfield High School.
"[Poland] is basically a burial ground ... It's some-
thing I think I need to see as a Jew."

The two teens were among 60 Who 'chatted and
milled around a Northwest Airlines gate Wednesday
waiting to board a flight headed for Warsaw. The
group is part of the Teen Unity Mission, Detroit's ver-
sion of the March of the Living Program.
After the actual March of the Living from
Auschwitz to Birkenau, the teens will head for Israel
for the second week of the trip.
Aaron Klemanski, also a West Bloomfield High se-
nior, said he can't wait to get back to Israel, where
he spent five months last year. Poland will be "hard,"
he acknowledged, noting that even with the required
dozen hours of study with a University of Michigan
history professor prior to the trip, "you can't teach
emotions; no textbook can tell you how to feel." ❑