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…www.detroitjewishnews.com May 7, 1999 Iyar 21, 5759 No 1 Suzi Romanik-Schwartz._ on Masada. . Community page 40 DEP s Week ► aria, Triumph A survivor returns to Poland, where he last saw his family. 24 In Times Of Need Serbian Jews, refugees in Hungary, anguish about their future. Miracle Mission 26 Personal Archeology A visitor sifts and savors the many layers of modern Israel. 26 No Average Trip The 1999 Miracle Mission a rpwar...…
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…A Survivor's Story t had been 55 years since David Bergman saw the stone mountain near the Plaszow concentration camp, off in the distance, past the cemetery. He remembers the 12 weeks he was imprisoned there as a 12-year-old slave laborer, hauling heavy rocks from the mountain to build a foundation wall for some barracks a mile away. He remem- bers being forced to carry the rock above his head as he walked. Now, after a ceremony by the Plas...…
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…PEACE-OF-MIND say, Now let me show you what happened during an act of cruelty.'- "Beyond that, every generation will take their own lessons from the Holocaust." Calling him a "one-man Holocaust-education industry," Rabbi Bergman said his father was a pioneer, lecturing in schools and making slide presentations Laurence, David and Rabbi Aaron Bergman and sculptures. pose at the gates of Auschwitz. David still teaches lessons, but questions sti...…
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