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Reclaiming Her Past

he didn't even know she was Jewish until five years
ago. That's the story Manya Basauri, a 20-year-old
Hillel student from Kiev, told a Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit committee this week.
Basauri's grandmother worked for the Germans during
World War II as an interpreter, and hid the fact that she
was Jewish. After the war, she married a Russian officer and
started the so-called "Soviet life."
"When I was 15, my mother told me
the story. It was not exciting at first, it was
a very ordinary thing. Then when I started
to visit [the Kiev] Hillel, the situation
changed, and now I'm very proud that I'm
Jewish," said Basauri, who is a student at
Kiev State Linguistic University. "I've real-
ized that being Jewish is something very
important and special."
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A lot of Jews kept
secret that they were Jews and have
recently converted. Now they returned to
their roots. Some have gone to Israel,
some to this country, some have stayed,
she said.
"The Kiev Hillel is promoting Judaism,
Kiev Hillel
telling people to stay and raise a Jewish
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community in Kiev and the Ukraine. We
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have different activities to promote an
active Jewish life. Some want entertain-
ment, some want education, some want to become
Orthodox. We have lots of different opportunities."
The Detroit Federation has had a relationship with the
Kiev community since 1993, because the Jewish communi-
ties are similar in size, said Julie Zuckerman, a Federation
Israel and Overseas associate.
"The primary aims of the Kiev community are to build
bridges and linkages between the two communities, and to
oversee the Jewish renewal programs that are funded by our
community." D

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— Douglas Greenberg, head of Steven Spielberg's Survivors
of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, shingfrom video-
taping the testimony of 50,000 survivors to launching an
educational campaign against bigotry and intolerance, as
quoted by JTA.

'As the darkness of mourning engulfed Jerusalem, we
tried to offer an affirming flame of support and comfort."

— Bonnie Lipton, national president, following Hadassahs
annual convention in Jerusalem Aug. 5-9, during the Sbarro
pizzeria suicide bombing, as quoted in the Forward

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