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orders had been issued for the
execution of all the remaining Jews
in Cracow. It was then that he
prepared his famous list of
essential workers. Through larger
and larger bribes and increasingly
desperate acts of heroism, he
succeeded in the transfer.
It was harrowing, as his three
hundred women laborers were
arbitrarily sent to Auschwitz by
his enemies, and he had to work
hard and fast to extricate them. He
is the only person on record known
to have gotten Jews out of
Auschwitz. He did it in spite of the
fact that the German officials with
whom he dealt knew that his
Moravian factory would never go
into production.
The years from 1939 to 1945 of
Schindler’s rise marked the only
time in his life that he distinguished
himself. He was unknown before
the war, and he never re
established himself afterward. In
time he became dependent upon
the Jews he had saved. They had
immigrated to Israel and to a
number of other countries. Many
of them prospered. They were only
too glad to provide for his needs
and they did so generously until his
death in 1967.
Much of his life was an enigma.
He was more faithful to his
“Schindlerjuden” than to his wife.
No doubt he got some enormously
perverse satisfaction from playing
and winning games where the
stakes were human lives, including
B’nai B’rith Jacob
plans Jan. retreat
Two Jerusalem-based scholars.
Rabbi Nota Schiller, Ph.D., and
Rabbi Dovid Refson, Ph D., will
highlight “The Jack Berliner
Memorial Retreat—Shabbos at
the Hyatt: A Weekend of
Discovery," Jan. 28-30, at the
Hyatt Hotel on Hilton Head
Island.
The two-day program of
lectures, discussions and music is
sponsored by Congregation Bnai
Brith Jacob of Savannah and is
open to Jewish adults throughout
the South.
Rabbi Schiller is dean and one
of the founders of Ohr
Somayach/Tanenbaum College,
the largest organization in the
world offering traditional Jewish
education to adults with little or no
background in Jewish studies. A
native of Brooklyn and Far
Rockaway, N.Y., Rabbi Schiller
attended Ner Israel Rabbinical
College in Baltimore and Johns
Hopkins University. He served as
executive director of Ner Israel in
Toronto, Canada, before settling
in Israel in 1970.
Rabbi Refson is dean and
founder of Neve Yerushalayim
College for Women, the largest
institution in the world offering
English-speaking women an
introduction to traditional Jewish
sources of knowledge. Originally
from L.ondon, England, Rabbi
Refson received a doctorate in
philosophy from the University of
Florida. He has been involved in
Jewish education in Israel for the
past 20 years and has participated
in the education of thousands of
women who had little or no
previous knowledge of traditional
Judaism.
During the course of the
weekend, the two rabbis will
discuss topics including: “Israel
After 34 Years—Where Do We Go
From Here?”; “Where Have All
Our Children Gone—Assimilation
In America”; and “The Family
Unit In Crisis—Building
Marriages That Work.” In
addition to the lectures there will
be a melave malka and an outdoor
cookout by the beach on Saturday
night. Both will feature the music
of Yossi Lieber, a singer/guitarist
who is a veteran of nine record
albums of music with Jewish
themes. Throughout the weekend,
workshops, classes and discussions
will be led by Rabbi Avigdor
Status and the staff members of the
Jewish Learning Exchange, Ohr
Somayach/Tanenbaum College’s
American program for adult
education.
Chairmen of the event are Susan
and Jay Rosenberg; co-chairmen
are Rita and Alan Asher, all of
Savannah, Ga. The cost is S75 pier
person. A special program will be
offered for children and young
adults. The cost for children under
10 is $15, children over, $25.
Registration closes Jan. 12.
For more information and
registration, call 1-912-354-7721,
I-912-354-7091, or toll free 1-800-
431-2272, or write the Jewtsh
Learning Exchange, P.O. Box 334,
Monsey, NY, 10952.
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his own. He employed every trick
in the book, but he did so to save
Jewish lives and to defeat a system
from which, ironically, he had
everything to gain.
Whatever his sizable personal
moral lapses, he believed above all
in the sacredness of human life. He
took seriously the Talmudic
dictum, which was known to him,
that “He who saves the life of one
man saves the whole world.” For
this he will never be forgotten.
Copyright 1982 loteph Cohen
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