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Holocaust survivor Ursula
Korn-Selig will speak about
Italy and the Jews during World War
II at 7:30-9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 30, at
the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills.
Bettina is a New York-based
marketing executive who spent her
childhood summers in her family's
small Italian town, Campagna. Her
new book It Happened in Italy brings
to life the little-known story of how
thousands of Jews were saved during
World War II throughout the Italian
countryside, including in Campagna.
As Bettina began piecing together
small pictures, coincidences and
conversations, she brought together
a number of survivors, eventually
bringing these Jews back to Italy to
reconnect and thank their Catholic
neighbors and friends. Her reunions
have included meetings at the Vatican
with many cardinals and bishops, as
well as with Pope Benedict XVI.
Korn-Selig was a young German
who fled to Italy at the beginning of
World War II. In 1938, when Mussolini
signed the friendship pact with Hitler,
Italy enacted the racial laws and
Jewish children could no longer go to
school. In 1939, when the war broke
out, she was arrested, handcuffed and
put on a train to Umbria where her
mother, aunt and cousin were already
imprisoned.
In 1941, she went to the local semi-
nary to see the rector, Don Beniamino
Schivo Galieo, now monsignor, about
the plight of the Jews. In 1943, when
Italy signed a separate peace treaty
with the Allies and Italy was occu-
pied by the Germans, Korn-Selig was
arrested. As the prison was full, she
returned to Citte di Castello, and the
monsignor and the bishop planned
her escape.
A few days later, she was hidden in
the mountains in a Salesian retreat.
Through Bettina's research, Korn-Selig
discovered that her father was origi-
nally in Campagna — a fact she never
knew.
This lecture is sponsored by the
American Jewish Committee-Detroit
Office and co-sponsored by the
Archdiocese of Detroit, Holocaust
Memorial Center, Italian Consulate of
Detroit and Jewish Community Center
of Metropolitan Detroit.
Tickets are $20 and include a des-
sert reception. RSVP to the AJC, (248)
646-7686 or detroit@ajc.org.
Aish Honors
Bill Berman
Mandell "Bill"
Berman of Franklin
will receive Detroit
Aish HaTorah's first
annual Rabbi Noah
Weinberg Award for
Bill Berman
Jewish Continuity at
the dedication event
for Aish HaTorah's Margolick Family
Jewish Learning Center on Coolidge,
south of Lincoln, in Oak Park. The
event will take place at 5:45 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Berman has supported Jewish
resource for Jewish educational
research and evaluation. His name is
on the Hillel Center at the University
of Michigan. He founded the North
American Jewish Data Bank, which is
responsible for population studies that
have profoundly influenced the direc-
tions of education by identifying key
trends within the Jewish community.
Recently, Bill and his wife, Madge,
have dedicated a new commu-
nity theater to be built at the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield.
The Rabbi Noah Weinberg Award
for Jewish Continuity recognizes
individuals whose mission in life is
to combat a spiritual holocaust that
the community faces and who apply
energy and resources to stop it.
Information: Rabbi Simcha Tolwin
(248) 327-3579, simchat@aish.com.
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Jewish
Demography
Professor Sergio
DellaPergola, an
expert on Jewish
demography, will
speak on "Counting
Jews: Population
Sergio
Trends and
DellaPergola
Public Policy" at a
"Conversations with
Legislators and Civic Leaders" break-
fast briefing, at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Nov.
17, at the Oak Park JCC.
DellaPergola has published more
than 100 papers on demography and
Jewish issues.
The Jewish Community Relations
Council of Metropolitan Detroit hosts.
RSVP: (24.8) 642-5393.