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The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, January 7i 1982 - Page 11
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IN MEMORIAM
: "MYMOM^   /. STOLBERG, GOLDIE
We who love you will never forget. Her hfe was unselfish; For others she Uved. Not to receive but always to give. Helpful and willing so thoughtful and kind. These beautiful memories she left behind. Gone is the face we love so dear. Silent is the voice we love to hear. Through all our troubles she helped us along. If we live like her we will never go wrong. On Earth she was loved, in Heaven she rests. God bless you dear Mother, you were the very best.
"MY DAD " STOLBERG, ALEXANDER
If love could save you would have lived. There is nothing so treasured and nothing so rare as the love that a, Father and Daughter share. Through joys, through laughter, through sorrow and tears, they develop a closeness, that lasts-through the years. The love that I'-shared need not. be spoken. It's a wonderful bond that will . never be broken. So wherever I go, whatever I do, always Dad, I'll be thinking of you. Silent tears till the end of time: For a wonderful Dad. J'm proud wa,s mine. Memories forever.
,   Lovingly remembered ' , ;
- Daughter Faye
Grandcliildren
Malcolm
Victoria Randall and.Lisa Airst
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/-.siiii;-.     THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THE CITY OF NORTH YORK
PROGRAMSAND SERVICES
SPECIAL EDUCATION
The.Board of Education for the City of North York has established the North York Bill 82 Planning .Committee to develop a comprehensive plan for the future delivery of services to •exceptional students.       _ .
Written suBmissions are invited to the Planning G.ommittee^fom any-groupsF^or individualsVe-
.^garding special education programs and services;
.Oral pfesehtations- will be scheduled on the evening of Thursday,_28'January, commencing at 7:00 p.m. in open forum in the Assembly Hall at the North York Board of Education Administration Centre, 505b Yonge Street, Willowdale, Ont. M2N 5N8.
Any group or person who wishes to make a submission or presentation should inform the Committee chairman in writing. Please forwai-d communicationsv-vto arrive not later than 20 January, 1982,to:
D; C. Gray, Chairman of Bill 82 Planning Committee, The Board of Education For The City' Of North York; 5050 Yonge St., Willowdale, Ontario M2N 5N8.
G. R. McCleary, ( "'^ k. Kiminger, Chairman of the Board   Director of Ej^ucation
By JOAN ALEXANDER
TORONTO —
"We'd rather dance than eat," says Rose Wolfman daring a short break from a vigoroos dance practice. Nodding In motoal agreement are her folkdancing contem-porarles, a groap of 21 senior citizens, ageisi 60 to 77, who make ap the Chai International Dancers. Under the artistic direction of Teme Keinennan, their standards of capability and professionalism make age more a matter of grace and rhytlmi tliian one of growing old.
Three years ago. with a New Horizons grant from the government, the Chai International Dancers troupe was born. This was after lOyearsof a morning folkdancing class sponsored by the Good Age Club at the northern branch of the Jewish Community Centre.
■'It was time to put it together,'' says folkdance co-ordinator Kemerman. "It was time to costume it. And I was determined." she adds frankly, "that this group would earn its
reputation by what it did and not because of age. They don't need sym-. pathy. ■ .
"1 don't treat these dancers differently than any other. You'd~be ainazed at what they can-do. 1 trust them to sujper-vise themselves . . . and they do. 1 totally forget their age," she added.
And so the dancers eagerly respond to Ker-nerman's choreographic '. demands and a rigorous dance schedule. Twice a week for 2-hour sessions they work to polish and add to their repertoire, which includes. Mexican,/; English country, and Israeli folkdances with a strong emphasis on the latter. They are now working on a Russian piece as well as a nOvelt}; jazz piece choreographed to Scott Joplih's Maple Leaf Rag.
The dancers waltz, hora, step, side-step and perform a number of intricate variations on these movements. "Look at how chassidic she is," whispers Kernermari as one of her dancers sways spryly on niihblefeet.
"This is a oniqae group. Square dance is one thing,
:   ;  :     {Andrew Ozeniuun photo] JCC's Chid International Dancers would rather dance than eat.
but this is folkdance," explains Kemerman, who studied modern dance with Jose Limoni Hanya Holihe and Doris Humph-. rey. "This group lias the reputation of putting oh an excellent show; Not only, good for senior citizens. But a goodshow!" -Last year, the dancers
presented more than 20 ' performances, intluding spots on television, at Ontario Place, senior citizens' homes, the Leah Posluns theatre and a Jewish day school. Ker-nerman recalls, as she leafs through Chai : memorabilia, that the students were incredulous
when the dancers performed a piece that they themselves had recently learned. ' 'Their mouths fell open. They said things like, 'they don't dance like old people.'"
Tvvo years ago. the troupe performed with the Jewish Folk Choir in the musical,  Benjamin Der
Dritter. "They were wonderful ."says Kemerman. "They called upon thpir European backgrounds, did their own costumesi and carried the bulk of the market scene." Indeed, the troupe earned rave, reviews along with Dance Ontario's observation that "the love and joy that
36 years later, sister's grave found in Bohemia
n> DAVID BIRKAN
THORNHILL, Ont. —
An unmarked mass ^' i i- in C/echobiuvakia of 9l JcHish girls wais discovered recently by a Toronto-area Holocaust survivor. It is a 30 ft. by 40 ft. untended cleiarahcie, overgrown by weeds, in the middle of the Catholic cemetery of Strakonice.
"1 finally found my sis-» ter," said Roman Ziegler,
.54. He is the last surviving member of a family of eight children. His parents and most of his brothers and sisters perished iri the Holocaust.
Ziegler's search for his sister culrninated in the discovery oif the grave,
Ziegler was liberated on. May 8,- 1945. from the
. SportschUle camp in Reichenbach, lower Silesia. About a year later, he found out through a letter from a U.S. soldier, that his sister Bala was still alive; in Czechoslor vakia. He had last seen her in 1941. when she was taken to' a labor* camp in Greenberg. Lower Silesia.
The family home was in Dombrovna. near Katto-wice. in Lower Silesia's coal and steel heartland. There were 5,000 Jews there before the Holocaust. According to Zieg^. ler, who visited Dombrovna in November, there are no Jews there now.
In February, 1946. Ziegler smuggled himself into Czechoslovakia, was caught and spent the next six weeks in the jail of the small bordertown of Ryb-: nik. In June. 1946, he wound up in a displaced persons camp in Bavaria.
He sent letter, after letter. He receivecl word .
• that his sister died of typhus in Strakonice. a town in Bohemia about 75 miles southwest of Prague. She was 21 years
^d. _^
2^Ier was^brought to. Canada with a group of orphans by the Canadian Jewish Congress hi 1948.
The exact fate of his sister weighed heavily on
Jiim over the years. He planned avtour of Auschwitz, and other sites in
Poland, and to visit his cousins in Israel. in November. Czechoslovakia hadthe highi-st p'u.-u>-, 111 I'i/^ue. ■ si;;! hub about 5,00(> Jews, tie was told there wab no comv munication with the Jews of Strakonice or Pisek, the nearby town in whose hos-
pit .lithe sister had stayed.
Zu jjit:r persuaded Frani Kraus. the head of '■>.€ -.'wu Icwish • . . ries u- .i^cunipany liiiii . 10 Strakonice. Al-liiough sympathetic, the town's officials coiild find no pertinent documentation thai might guide'liim
By BEN ROSE
TORONTO —
Persons or groups preaching discrimination should be barred from .North York schools and classrooms, a task force on: race and ethnic relations has recommended to the North York Board of Education. It also recommends that teachers be required to advise their principals of all proposed vishs to schools by individuals, groups or associations.
The writing of racial or ethnic graffiti should be treated as both a racial incident and vandalism and the person found responsible should be dis-. ciplined, the task force proposes.
It recommends .procedures under which school staff witnessing a racial or ethnic incident intervene immediately and further proposes that all incidents reported to staff must be investigated. "Discretion does not extend to refusr ing to investigate reports of an incident or to ignoring an incident," the report says.
Victims of racial incidents should be allowed to seek support and assistance from people outside. the school system if they are uncomfortable within -the board's own prode-.
cures, the report recommends.
The task force said no textbooks, films or other materials should be used in North York schools which contain. stereotyping'based on race, color, religion or ancestr>-;
It recommends that the board condemn any expression of racial or ethnic bias in any form by its students, staff or trustees and that h develop programs to promote positive att it ides toward religious and racial diversity and cultural heritage.
This school system is not a racist system," the report stated. "However, we cannot pretend that racism does not exist. It does j. and the existence of a need to assess oiir policies and practices is unquestioned."
Disciplinary action against stutients. teachers or staff who will not alter their rascist behavior should include suspension of students and dismissal of staff, the report said.
The 7-member task force included K. Kmzin-ger, director~of'^ucatioin and Turstee M. Waese, vice-chairman of the board.   _ '
to his goal.
The hospital's records were also of no use. She had been there, if at all. he was tqld, 35 or 36 years ago; hospital records are destroyed as a matter of routine every 10 years. Besides, ias a transient, his sister would have been the subject of a rninimum of documentation.
Finally, he encountered Strakonice's two rerriain-ing Jews —- an elderly couple in the 80s., Yes, they remembered that in 1945 a group of Jewish girls, exhausted, starving and at the point of death, had been taken through the town to the hospital. They referred Ziegler to the local Catholic cemetery.
Theire, the aged attended led Ziegler and Kraus to the clearing marked only by patches of weeds.' "1 was digging the graves here in those days," he told the two. "There are 91 Jewish girls buried here."
The Catholic tombstones immediately sur-
rounding that spot all bore 1945 dates. Ziegler noted.
"1 said kaddish," he told The CJN:
Z3egier said he would try to raise the funds needed to erect a fence around the clearing to separate it from the other graves, as required by Jewish law, and to:pat njp a memorial stone. "The Prague commnnity can't finance it," he said.
Ziegler estimated, that $3,000 to $4,000 woiilcthe needed m all. "If 1 get hJlf of that, I'll put up the other half myself." he said.
Rabbi Mark Shapiro, chairman of the Toronto Jewish Congress Holocaust Remembrance Committee, told The CJN.that he, would recommend the project's adoption at the committee's next meeting, in early Februarj-. While the committee can not raise funds, he said he would publicize the newly found grave and its needs via other Holocaust re-membrancexx>mmittees in North America.
"We must let as many ' people know of it as we
can. It is possible that someone, sfiy, in New York or Oklahoma, is a relative of one of these girls. It would be a religious duty for hiih to con^ tribute to the project," said Shapiro.
More information can be obtained directly from Ziegler at his home address: 88 Apricot St., Thomhill. Ont., UT 1C8. The photic number is (416) 881-0988.
radiates from this group ; would make many sea-. soned professionals blush with envy." ; -7 For matiy-of the members. Kemerman" says, participation is a wonder-. ful new release for their energies; For example, Sarah Dronsky, a retired : bookkeeper with two married children, says: "I returned to my first love, which was ballet. This was close to it and now it draws me like a magnet." . Another dancer. Bertha Safer, says: "'I'm getting together with a group that is kind and considerate* We are very warm and friendly towards one another. If we don't see each other for a while, it's arms around the neck."
Indeed, Harry and Sadie Sobel, one of three married couples in the troupe, performed with theu- co-dancers at their own "50th wedding anniversary celebration. And Joseph Wolftnan says with good humor: "I'm having a ball. It's the first time I have the chance to dance with someone other! than my wife."
All members of the troupe are chosen by Ker-nerman and this adds to the pride associated with the whole venture. "They wouldn't be here if they didn't want to be. There's no such thing as apathy.
.. These people are warm and giving; they're beautiful .. . a pleasure. 1 have only superlatives for them," she says.
Although Kernerman , says they aire just beginning "to pave the way for acceptance." the dancers are hard at work in pre-•paration for upcoming performances, including benefit shows at Baycrest and Crippled Children's Hospital.
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