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26

JAMES D. BESSER

Washington Correspondent

I

t was back to the drawing board

for Bill Clinton's Mideast strate-
gists in the wake of the latest
setback in their push for a big
Syria-Israel breakthrough — the indef-
inite postponement of a new round of
talks originally scheduled to begin this
past Wednesday.
The administration believes several
events — including the leak of the
secret U.S. draft to an Israeli newspa-
per — have led to a new round of
public posturing just when
Washington hoped they would get
down to serious negotiating.
The new U.S. strategy: take a low
profile and let them get it out of their
systems.
In private, Israeli officials say the
leaked document might have been a
strategic misstep. Yet, they add, the
big factor is Syrian President Hafez
Assad's retreat to traditional demands
that nothing be discussed until Israel
commits to a full withdrawal from the
Golan Heights.
"We've been in this movie before,"
said Joel Singer, an Israeli negotiator
during earlier talks with Syria. "I've
seen so many similar situations in the
past, and eventually an agreement was
accomplished.
"On the other hand, Syria is differ-
ent. Over and over again, they've
managed to step out of meaningful
negotiations. Maybe it's going to hap-
pen again; maybe they're just not
ready:"
Officials in Washington say the
leaked document showed new flexibil-
ity by the Syrians. And that, they
argue, forced the always-reticent Assad
to retreat to old, hard-line positions.
But Singer and others say the holdup
also casts doubt on whether Assad is
ready for an agreement.
For its part, the Clinton adminis-
tration avoided pointing fingers.

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The tattered, mostly handwritten
notices on the bulletin kiosk told a
more personal story than the regular
Holocaust conference of an Elie
Wiesel address, panels and exhibits.
"Is there anyone who was in Bad

Reichenhall? Anybody know the
name Faigenblat?" "Looking for peo-
ple who lived in Fuehrenwald, 48-
51." "My father was the baker in
that camp."
This week's "Life Reborn" conference
on the Displaced Persons camps, spon-
sored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum and the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee, brought
together scholars, liberators, DP camp
workers and former residents.
One goal: to shed light on an
aspect of the Holocaust largely
ignored by historians.
The conference also had an intense-
ly personal dimension as former camp
residents, including many children
born in DP camps, sought to connect
with others who shared such a unique
experience.
Dora Friedman, a Florida professor
born in Kazakhstan, came "to take in
the DP experience outside of my own
voice and to hear Yiddish being spo-
ken."
Standing outside meeting rooms,
her attention was drawn by a cluster
of women nearby. "I heard someone
say 'and that's why my mother threw
me over the wall.' That's why I came
to this conference; you don't hear sto-
ries like this every day."
Both scholarly and popular
accounts of the Holocaust "miss this
time when people regained control of
their lives," said Menachem Rosensaft,
a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council
member and conference planner born
in the Bergen-Belsen DP camp.
Many survivors spent more time in
DP camps than in Nazi-enforced ghet-
toes and concentration camps, he said.
Yet the 1945-1951 period is largely
missing from Holocaust scholarship.
Addressing that imbalance, he said, was
a primary purpose of the conference.
The conference also helped curators
fill in some blanks. One example:
Museum officials were circulating
copies of a remarkable album of pho-
tographs taken by a South African
relief worker at Bergen-Belsen. The
album turned up a few years ago in
the collection of the Netherlands
Institute for War Documentation;
museum officials wanted to identify as
many of the subjects as possible.
Some of the people are at this con-

