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Missions accomplished
Atlantans meet in Israel
Forty-eight Atlantans recently
returned from three separate
Atlanta Jewish Federation
Missions, which came together in
Israel to complete the journey.
One group of 16 went first to
Poland —to Warsaw and to
Cracow Twelve women,
representing Federation’s
Women’s Division travelled to
Prague, Czechoslovakia, and a
third group, made up of members
of the 1984 Campaign Cabinet,
went directly from Atlanta to
Israel.
Those Atlantans who went
behind the Iron Curtain to Poland
and Czechoslovakia were
profoundly moved by their
encounter with survivors of the
once thriving Jewish communities
there. Poland was described as a
country “where you see things that
are no longer there- ghosts of
what once was." Three and one-
half million Polish Jews were
killed in the Holocaust Although
Atlantans discovered a surviving
population of people who fear to
identify themselves as Jews, and
who distrust each other, they also
learned of a new generation of
Polish “Marranos”—secret Jews
who keep the traditions and
customs in secret, whose homes
abound with items of Judaica. but
who, out of fear, refuse to openly
acknowledge their Judaism.
In Czechoslovakia, as in
Poland, Atlantans had a sense of
being witness to the death of a once
proud, prosperous Jewish
community. In both countries,
leaders of the small, surviving
Jewish population have little hope
that in 15 or 20 years there will be
any Jews left in either Poland or
Czechoslovakia.
In Prague, the group toured the
State Museum, repository of the
largest collection of Judaica in the
world, gathered by the Nazis from
all over Poland in order to
document the “defunct race." A
small part of this incredible
collection, “Precious Legacy,” has
begun a two year tour of U.S.
museums beginning with the
Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D C.
The group travelling directly to
Israel experienced a unique feeling
of camaraderie, among themselves
and with Israelis, with whom they
visited. Their travels in Israel
focused on development in the
south and upon seeing firsthand
Israel's revolutionary achievements
in technology and agriculture.
The Federation’s Missions
Program is a vital component of
the campaign. The value of a
mission experience is reflected in
both the spirited dedication to
campaigning shown by mission
participants and the dollars raised
as a result of solicitation in Israel.
These trips resulted in a 35 percent
raise in giving among the men in
the Campaign Cabinet; a 61
percent increase in the Women’s
Division gifts, and a significant
commitment of new money to
Project Renewal
Mission participants included:
To Poland, then Israel: Sheryl
Bear, Perry Brickman, Shirley „
Brickman, Elliott Cohen, Joe
Cohen. Myrtice Cohen, Sanford
Cohn, Ruth Gershon, Mike
Gettinger, Cantor Isaac
Goodfriend, Betty Jacobson,
Robert Rinzler, Adam Skorecki,
Leon Spoils, George Stern. David
Sarnat, staff.
To Czechoslovakia, then Israel:
Loraine Berry, Lois Blonder,
Judith Cohen, Laura Dinerman,
Judith Kirschner, Dorothy
Medintz-SabIosky, Susan
Schoenbaum, Rae Sternberg,
Judy Zaban, Harriet Zimmerman,
Rosanne Zinp. Margaret Weiller,
staff.
Directly to Israel: Michael
Chorches, Renee Cobb, Sheldon
B Cohen, Mark Fisher, Meyer
Frankel, Oscar Grablowsky, Isaac
Habif, Bernard Howard, Alan
Kolodkin, Eugene Kout, Michael
G. Leff, Mark Lichtenstein, Mark
Murovitz, Michael Plasker, Mark
Popowski, Howard Sachs,
Raymond Schoenbaum, Jeffrey
Wener. Marilyn Shubin and Noah
Levine, staff.
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