BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL Frauds, Miracles MSU scholar Waltzer to talk about his Holocaust archive findings. Keel Guten Cohen movie was being planned and the but had no last name. Rav Lau looked for him all his life." pages of documents in Germany's Bad Arolsen, which houses the Red Cross author and his wife had appeared on Oprah twice. Waltzer will discuss why a Holocaust survivor would spin a false story and what can be learned from the episode. International Tracing Service archives. One discovery he will speak about during a lecture entitled "No Angel at His other Bad Arolsen discovery is not on his Sept. 13 agenda. But know that it involves finding the man who saved the Fence: Finding a Holocaust Memoir Fraud" at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 13, at Congregation B'nai Moshe in West Bloomfield. Israel's former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Israel Meir Lau when he was a child in Buchenwald. Story Development Editor East Lansing p rofessor Kenneth A. Waltzer, director of the Jewish Studies Program at Michigan State University, has made several great discoveries among the 50 million While researching child survivors of Buchenwald at Bad Arolsen in June 2008, Waltzer made his disturbing dis- covery that the love story told by author Herman Rosenblat in his children's book, Angel Girl, was false. A Hollywood A protected children's bar- Kenneth Waltzer Among the first group of scholars to delve into the records at Bad Arolsen, Waltzer focused on the children of Buchenwald for a book he is writing. "I knew of Rav Lau's rescue from his memoir and his brother's," Waltzer said. "Both talked of a `Fyodor from Rostow,' Block 8. At Bad Arolsen, he found sev- eral Fyodors on the list, but searched for "Fyodor from Rostow" until he located the blond, blue-eyed Russian in the files. Lau, now chairman of Yad Vashem, wanted to honor Fyodor Michajlitschenko racks — Block 8 — was created in Buchenwald in the fall of 1943. Rabbi Lau On Jan. 20, 1945, Israel Meir Lau, then 7, was brought to live in the bar- racks. He was put in the care of an older boy, Fyodor, then 18, from Rostow in Russia. Because of Waltzer's findings, Fyodor Michajlitschenko was inducted Aug. 4 into Yad Vashem's list of Righteous Among the Nations. His daughter accepted the honor. He watched over him like a father," Waltzer said. "He gave him potato soup Waltzer will be glad to talk about this miraculous story after his Sept. every day; made ear muffs for him out of an old sweater. In the last days, he sheltered him with his body." 13 lecture, sponsored by the Cohn- Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University, Detroit, and Congregation B'nai Moshe. Seating is limited; for reservations, call (313) 577-2679 or e-mail: aa2690@ wayne.edu . After the war, Fyodor also looked for Lau, who he called Lulek, but to no avail. Enter Waltzer. He was drawn to find Fyodor and had lists of prisoners from as a Righteous Among the Nations. But Fyodor had died in 2006 — not before leaving a videotaped interview about his Buchenwald experience — including Lulek — with his family. Choose the right tools for the task t hand. - sreevk -;NrtNk keAS DLA ft:AA IONOW: seYvvk i k-lAe ooNek we've uksk- Ayeok silAce s4rokyk-eA. CPAS i-SAYIVeS 0%.‘ OkSSStt mfg duo, i-e0ktivk Gi s WIA-t^ k-V\e-or N,LF,s1,Aesses. ve kAs i-V\e vtd, alevtk - you,. Cokll 'As yeoky. owvi-tAvtli-y k-o woyltc. LAS yew., ■ v. clier.*S Nrely otAi - Why ov MELLEN, SMITH & PIVOZ PLC Certified Public Accountants Serving our community for 37 years 30600 Telegraph Rd. I Suite 1131 Bingham Farms, MI 48025-4531 I Robert E. Mellen, CPA Michael A. Pivoz, CPA Mark L. Smith, CPA Jeffry A. Campeau, CPA, ABV Peijin Harrison, CPA Lori A. Wigler, CPA, CFE Gerald A. Kirschner, CPA Lynne E. McKelvey, CPA Elizabeth M. Pietrangelo, CPA Jason L. Pivoz, CPA Dennis A. Reef, CPA Kevin S. Terry, CPA 1472490 38 September 10 2009