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A TELLING
TALE
On Monday,
April 20, at 8 p.m.,
The WB television
network, in con-
junction with
Holocaust Remem-
brance Day, will air
a special episode of
Aaron Spelling's
"7th Heaven,"
titled "I Hate You."
The award-win-
ning segment
addresses the dev-
astating impact of
hatred, as told
through the
remembrances of a
Holocaust survivor.
In the episode,
young Simon
(David Gallagher)
goes against his
In the "Seventh Heaven" episode "I Hate You," Eric (Stephen
father's (Stephen
Collins) convinces Holocaust survivor Mrs. Kerjesz (Rita
Collins) wishes
Zohar) to tell her story of pain and survival.
and asks his friend,
Mrs. Kerjesz (guest
ents. The only way out is through the
star Rita Zohar, a real-life concentra-
chimney.'"
tion camp survivor), to tell her story
Mann hopes that one day people
to his class. She ultimately agrees
will stop hating and we will all live
after learning that a student in
together in peace. "No one should be
Simon's class doubts the Holocaust
allowed to spew hatred," she says. And
ever happened.
she believes that the family episode of
Mrs. Kerjesz's story is actually the
"7th Heaven" beautifully sends that
true account of Holocaust survivor
message.
Elisabeth Mann, who shared her expe-
— Linda Bachrack
riences with "7th Heaven" executive
producer and writer Brenda Hamp-
ton.
Mann, a septuagenarian living in
Los Angeles, was taken from her home
in Hungary in 1944 and shipped to
Auschwitz along with her parents and
13-year-old brother. She was the only
member of her family to survive.
an
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To this day, Mann remembers every
to enhance classroom lessons,
call the Anti-Defamation
detail of her incarceration. She closes
her eyes and imagines she is there,
League, (248) 355-3730.
especially when she tells her story to
schoolchildren and groups at the
BLOOMING BROOCH
Simon Wiesenthal Center.
By day, business owner Suzanne
"We would look up at the black
Stern
toils in her Albuquerque, N.M.,
smoke in the sky," she says, "and the
scientific
research firm, conducting
guards told us, 'There are your par-

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experiments alongside engineers, craft-
ing parts out of sterling silver.
But, like a mad scientist, albeit a
creative one, she often sneaks away to
a room way in the back where she
stashes the tools of her artistic trade.
Stern "constructs" jewelry from glass,
precious metals and stones, plastic
buttons, even ivory piano keys.
"I live with engineers, so the ther-
mal and electrical experiments we do
are reflected in my work," she says. "I
see all these weird things lying
around on the floor and they end up
in my jewelry. I strive to be as
mechanically creative as I am visually
creative."
Stern, who is not Jewish, has
designed a special series of sterling sil-
ver jewelry called "Flowers for Magda,"
in honor of a survivor of the Auschwitz
and Bergen-Belsen camps. The flower-
shaped brooch in the photo is represen-
tative of her work. Crafted of silver
with a lampworked glass cabochon, an
ivory piano key overlay and ruby-stud-
ded petals, the delicate flower is similar
in design to the jeweled pieces of
Tiffany and Lalique.
"The sorrow that touched me more
than all the others ... is that Magda
does not know where her mother and
sister are buried," says Stern. "She can
never bring a stone or a flower to
record her presence at her loved ones'
graves. These flowers are for Magda.
They represent

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One of Suzanne
Stern's delicate "Flow-
ers for Magda."