Page 6-Tuesday, December 5, 1978-The Michigan Daily Survivor describes death camp (Continued from Page 1) friends. Now she has rebuilt her life and is living in Buffalo with her husband, Kurt Klein and three children. GERDA WEISSMAN was 15 and living with her family in Bielitz, Poland, when the war came in Septem- ber, 1939. Her only brother, Arthur, had to register for the German draft, but he was later able to escape to Russia. fAlthougl they corresponded for a while, she never saw him again. Three years later she and her parents were moved to separate work camps. Her father also wrote for a while, but later the letters stopped coming. Klein said she refused to believe her family was dead. "One snowy evening in a concentration camp, when I was 18, I asked for one wish. I pictured the living room of my house during my childhood. My father would be reading, my mother would be doing her needlepoint, and Arthur and I would be doing our homework. "I USED TO think of those evenings as boring, but in that concentration camp I wished for just one more evening at home like that. This wish was my drive for survival. "The meaning of life can't be found in the heights of fame and fortune or in the depths of tragedy, but in the boring days known as everything." Klein clung to a few friends during her three years in camps. "We knew only hunger, pain, and barbed wire. But there was never a single suicide or ner- vous breakdown. I think this is a tribute to the spirit of young people. **************|******** *** * * 737 N. Huron, *. , (at Lowell, just east of the E.M.U. campus) Tonight & Tomorrow Only * MASQUERADE * * * Happy hour prices until bond starts playing * * Last chance to see them before Christmas at the Suds * Open 8:30p.m. **** *** ***** **** "THE LOVE, caring, and sharing in camp gave us reason to hope for the ultimate good of humanity." Late in 1944, 4,000 women from Klein's camp and from Auschwitz were put on a "death march" to Czechoslovakia in order to escape the advancing Allied forces. At the end of the march in the spring, only 120 sur- vived to be freed by the Americans on May 6, 1945. Klein's friend Ilse died on the death march, exactly one week before the liberation. "Ilse left me a legacy of memories. She gave me my life. She was 18 when she died. As I held her in my arms, she made me promise that I would keep on for one more week. I was freed after that one week." KLEIN MET her future husband, Lt. Kurt Klein, on liberation day. She said she and the other survivors were locked in a barracks to which the Germans had attached a time bomb. A night rain kept the bomb from exploding, and the next day the women were let outside with the news that the war was over. She remembers feeling nothing at all;' the six years of war had been emotionally draining. Lt. Klein came to usher the survivors to the hospital. Klein acted as an inter- preter, and she remembers the first words he spoke to her. "He asked, 'May I see the other ladies?' That was the fir- st time anyone had called us ladies for a long time. He held the door for me as we entered the barracks. That gesture restored me to humanity.". Like death, Klein sees the holocaust as a taboo subject. "The holocaust is like a dark, ominous cloud on the Jewish horizon. People' are afraid to touch it, afraid that it will spill out again." Klein has written a book about her experiences entitled, All But My Life. Recently she wrote a second book, The Blue Rose, about a mentally retarded child. She is one of the founders of the Blue Rose Foundation, which hopes to provide a facility in western New York where retarded young adults can farm and care for animals. Klein has received many awards for her work in community affairs. Her philosophy of life, she said, can be summarized: "When the night is very dark, the dawn is brilliant." Whiti ngf (Continued from Page 1) think he moves too far too fast. Another part of that opposition would support Hua because they don't think he deserves that kind of treatment." Whiting said any move by Teng to coopt power now would also set back Teng's own goal of attracting foreign investment. "Who would want to support a regime that can't hold its leaders in line for eight months?" Whiting asked. INSTEAD OF AN indirect attack at Hua, Whiting interprets the wall poster attacks on Mao as Teng's two-pronged attempt to clear his own name on the one hand, and to let the Chinese populace know they have a freer reign under the new leadership than under Mao. "Teng has been determined to really change people's behavior in China, a behavior that has been conditioned over ten years. (The Chinese) before had to look over their shoulder to see who was carrying a knife. So pushing the wall posters was one way of offering proof that the limits are greatly expanded." The Chinese citizens apparently showed last week that they would take full advantage of their new freedoms. Throngs of Chinese gathered daily to talk with foreign diplomats and journalists about domestic politics. Previously, Chinese were reluctant to give a foreigner the time of day. OVER THE weekend, the Chinese leadership apparently decided to bring the leash in just slightly, as the citizens were warned in official directives about letting the recent wave of wall posters and rallies get out of hand. Last week's events were coupled with a seemingly unrelated announcement from Peking this weekend that Chinese businesses will open in Japan next year. This unprecedented joint Sino- Japan business venture is an example of this regime's repudiation of Chairman Mao's self-reliance principle. Instead of condenning foreign technology as the first step in foreign domination, China - following the new modernization policies of Teng - is now openly soliciting foreign investment and shifting towards a more market-oriented economy. As for China's apparent new course away from self-reliance and towards ikternational trade and foreign investment, Whiting said, the trend "cannot be reversed. The basic policy has too many vested interests. THERE'S A tremendous amount of resistance to these policies and that ca be tapped," Whiting said. "It wa tapped in 1976 when the Gang of Fou went all out against Teng and hi policies as counter-revolutionary. Fo ten years, Chinese youth wer socialized into believing in Mao and th Gang of Four ideology." But Whiting believes tha "institutionalized democracy is boun to increase. It's one of the post-Ma regimes express pledges. There'll be n party other than the communist part5 but it does mean accountability. It doe mean wall posters, it does mea greater use of the media to expres grievances, letters to the editor, etc." The future of China, according t Whiting, may depend on the mortalit among the top leaders. Hua is 57-years old, Teng is 75. Should Teng proponent of the Chinese modernizatio policy - stay alive long enough to s his policies in motion, China will not b able to revert to its past attitudes according to Whiting. If, howevei there is a leadership change soon, th policies begun under Teng could b continued or totally abandoned in favo of a move back to self-reliance. As Whiting said, "We can only se China in futures of three to five years.' oresees freer China * SACUA' (Continued from Page 1), rules and regulations..." The Dec. 18 meeting will mark the second time the Faculty Senate Assem- bly has reviewed a policy proposal on intelligence agencies in the last year. -The 70 member group rejected a prop- sal last May because of numerous ob- jections by faculty members. The guidelines were sent back to the CLB for reworking at that time. Schedule Change - Tonite (not the 6th) ALAIN RESNAIS 1959 Hiroshima, Mon Amour An actress in Tokyo making an anti-war movie meets and falls in love with a Japanese architect. Immediately Resnais introduces us to things within things- the filming of a film within a film; an actress playing an actress in the midst of a part; an anti-war film within an anti-war film. Resnais subtly mirrors the many layered levels of our lives, carefully and skillfully placing the boxes within boxes, his meaning within layers of meaning. This film gives us a vivid insight into the reality of our world and thrust Resnais into the forefront of the nouvelle vogue and French Cinema. Cannes Film Festival. FRI-Kinky Sci-fi, A BOY AND HIS DOG SAT-Truffaut's THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN SUN-LIFE OF EMIL ZOLA & MRS. MINIVER CINEMA II TONIGHT AT 7&9 MLB 3 $1.50 Senator nearl killed ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Senate Majority Whip Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was seriously hurt and his wife, Ann, reportedly was killed yesterday when the private plane they were in crashed at Anchorage Inter- national Airport. Stevens was listed in serious but stable condition at Providence Hospital here, according to nursing supervisor Yvonne Cairns. She said he suffered possible head, arm and neck injuries. SHE SAID STEVENS was "alert and awake." Witnesses at the scene said Mrs. Stevens was killed. The Stevenses had five children. Irafts sp guidelines OBSERVERS WERE unable to that "there certainly have bee predict the chances of the current modifications in the direction I woul document receiving approval by the like to see it modified," but maintaine Assembly this time. However, most that "I'll have to be convinced we reall seemed optimistic that, after need such a document." discussions of wording and content, a NAYLOR ALSO sad he was unsur vote would be taken on the principles in the guideliens would be effective an the document. that he was apprehensive about" rule SACUA member Jesse Gordon, and on things faculty are not allowed to do professor of Social Work and which include "an implied punishmer Psychology, said he was "rather mechanism."' strongly" in favor of the document, Should the guidelines be approved though he did want to suggest some the Assembly, they must then changes. Gordon agreed with opponen- recommended to the Regents by t ts that the guidelines are an encroach- administration. The Regents must the ment of academic freedom, but he said approve the guidelines for them t he thought they are "an appropriate become University policy. one." SACUA Chairman and history Pro "Academic freedoms can only cover Shaw Livermore, who has acted as ir honorable activities," he said. termediary between the CLB and tl BUT ENGINEERING Prof. Arch administration for much of th Naylor, another SACUA member, said discussion on the guidelines, was o he would probably vote against the timistic about the possibility of such guidelines when the Assembly meets. recommendation. Naylor stressed that he had not "I think they (the chances) a thoroughly read the present draft and good," Livermore said. director of personne U CLASSES NOW FORMING FOR FEB. 3rd LSAT CALL or WRITE University L.S.A.T. Preparation Service 261-5728 in Livonia 33900 Schoolcraft Rd. Suite G-2 Livon ia. Michigan 48150 TI1S WEEK Great Places Travel Consultants 216S.4th Ave. Ann Arbor, MI ROSE BOWL PACKAGE TOURS AVAILABLE PIPPIN: The story of an extraordinary young man's quest for total self-fulfillment. His father is the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. 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In accepting the position, Thiry ends an absence of over four years from the University. Thiry joined the University staff in 1964, as assistant manager of staff benefits. Two years later he was named manager of staff and union relations, and was named assistant director of personnel in 1974. Thiry left the University in July of 1974 to accept the position of personnel director of the University of Rochester in New York. He is resigning from that position toreturn to Ann Arbor. Brinkerhoff chose Thiry from over 30 candidates recommended by a specifice selection committee. "Jim Thiry's homecoming will be welcomed at Michigan," said Brinkerhoff. "He is a highly capable administrator who knows our personnel operation, with the additional factor of having been in total charge of a similar office at another major university." Thiry feels that his experience at the University of Rochester has prepared him for the personnel directorship at the University. "There are a lot of similar characteristics in the quality and orientation of the two universities," said Thiry. "Although Rochester is smaller, it maintains a major medical program, runs a 750-bed hospital, and has a major part of the faculty involved ih ry CLIP AND SAVE CALL 769-1776 - mIVING IN THE PAST CAN BE WONDERFUL. in research projects." The first priority for Thiry when h starts work in January is reorientin himself with the policies and concern of the University. "I won't assume tha anything is the same," he said. "Just a people change, institutions an relationships change." As director e personnel, Thiry will be charged wit union and compensation matters, a well as dealing with non-instructions University staff. A native of Green Bay, Wisconsir Thiry is a graduate of the University C Wisconsin. He also studied at Indian and Purdue universities. 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