Metro
Hidden from page 23
• Catering available at all locations
• Coupons are for all locations
including Hercules Family Restaurant
at 12 Mile & Farmington
Visit us at
www.leosconeyisland.com
Receive
Receive
Receive
$100 Off $200 off
Total Bill
Over $10
Not valid with Specials.
Not valid with any other offers.
With coupon. Expires 09/30/06
Total Bill
Over $20
Not valid with Specials.
Not valid with any other offers.
With coupon. Expires 09/30/06
1O
Off
Total
Bill
Starkman Goldfein said that hav-
ing annual conferences about such a
terrible subject helps the survivors
find a balance. It allows one "to be
able to own and discuss the experi-
ence and put it into perspective, and
how it affected your life, but not to be
so stuck in it that it became the only
thing in your life she said.
"And anybody who doesn't talk
about it is cutting off a central part of
themselves."
Event chair Rene Lichtman of West
Bloomfield, called the conference a
huge success. "The feedback was tre-
mendous," he said.
Some 120 attendees visited the
Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills on Aug 28 before
leaving for the airport.
Reunions happen all the time at
these conferences, said Lichtman;
but everyone was surprised when an
HMC docent and three Dutch people
approached Marcus Arpels-Lezer, a
hidden child who lives in Amsterdam.
One of the Dutchman's family rescued
Jews in Amsterdam, and he was look-
ing for a Jewish child named Eckhardt
who stayed with his family.
When the docent brought him to
Arpels-Lezer to find out if he rec-
ognized the name, they recognized
each other. Arpels-Lezer hid with
foster parents in Amsterdam; and the
man was a nephew in the family, said
Lichtman. "They grew up together as
little kids." I I
Not valid with Specials.
Not valid with any other offers.
With coupon. Expires 09/30/06
Never Forget from page 23
so the soldiers would not hear
them.
With her mother recently dead
from typhoid and her father des-
perate for her safety, Bryn was
Receive
10 %0ff
Total
Food Bill
Dine-in only.
Not valid with Specials.
Not valid with any other offers.
With coupon. Expires 09/30/06
PRIVA TE
FULL BAR
43010 -R0.1AM) LAKE ROAD
WEST BLOOmFiLLL)
--
ROOM
I
CROSSWIN05 PLAZA
248-538-6°00
FULL SERVICE
CATERING
law
DESIGNS IN DECORATOR
WOOD & LAMINATES, LTD.
It Doesn't Have To Cost A Fortune...0nIy Look Like It!
•
•
•
•
•
interior Design- Service
Wall- Units
Bedrooms
Dining Rooms
Home Theatre
Kitchens & Baths
Offices
Woods
Formica
Stones
Lucite • Glass
Lois Haron Allied Member ASID • 248-851-69891
24
August 31 . 2006
sent into a new life
with a Catholic family.
She remained obedi-
ent to the advice of
her aunt, who explained that
the youngster would have to be
as gifted an actress as Shirley
Temple and lie to conceal her
identity.
"There are many consequences
to having a lost childhood, and
that's why these conventions are
helpful," the author explains. "I
wanted my book also to be helpful
as part of understanding the dif-
ficult experiences children of the
Holocaust went through."
Bryn, who details the Christian
rituals she had to practice, tells
about moving from place to place
to elude the Nazis. While there
were good times in attending
school, celebrating holidays and
experiencing days of fitting into
some new environments, there
also were times of rejection and
brutality.
"I wanted my book to show oth-
ers how some obstacles can be
overcome and how people handle
difficult situations," explains Bryn,
who struggled through deep anxi-
eties while reclaiming her Jewish
identity in Israel, where she met
her husband, Rabbi Nathan Bryn.
The author's severe problems
do not abate with her arrival in
America, and she wants readers
to know about the
new set of tragedies
she ultimately had
to face.
One of her three
children was born
with a disease that
led to his early
death, and her
husband came to
Facia Bryn
battle Alzheimer's.
The rabbi's condi-
tion caused family and community
friction at its onset, when his per-
sonality and perceptions changed
without awareness of the cause.
"I started writing this book
in the early 1980s and finished
the last two chapters one month
before it was published," says
Bryn, who pursued two unsuc-
cessful searches for her brother.
"I can say that I'm happy to be
alive and there can be a brighter
future for a person going through
trauma." PI