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"Why do an interview? There*s nothing to say. I was born, I work . . ."Peter Dacher hesitated on these words, leaving the rest to the imagination.
Dacher offers the uninitiated a foreboding and at times harsh welcome to his Clark Dr. printing house. If his decidedly German accent and cold stare — through glasses delicately perched on the tip of his nose -- don't intimidate you, his companion, a long-haired dachshund called Sebastian, who barks constantly, most certainly will.
Just below the surface, however, emerges the personality of a modest and charming man, who prefers doing good deeds to being recognized for them.
Rows of plaques decorate the narrow entrance hallway leading to his office. He has been recognized on numerous occasions for his many years of service to both Vancouver's Jewish community and Israel.
Dacher insists that his involvement with the community was a chance, happening. "In 1979,1 received a call
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froni Susan Brown of Histad-rut to do some work. Then Yehuda Levy of JNF needed some printing. After a while, jobs came oneafter the other,** he said in a recent Bulletin interview.
In 1981, he visited Israel for the first time as part of a JNF
impression of the community. "They-=ibok after you. I've nev6r felt out of place with nothing to do all evening at the various fundraising dinners I attend/ People ailways aSik me who I am, and if Fm not sitting with anyone, to join with them."
PETER DACHER at his print shop.
tour. There he met Survivor David Ehrlich, who now resides in Vancouver. "He is a terrific friend and supporter of Israel, and a wonderful guy," Ehrlich, who befriended Dacher at that time, told The Bulletin.
Dacher enjoyed Israel and its people immensely. "With every passing year, 1, too, say to myself: *Next year in Jerusalem.' " He plans to return soon.
Asked what it is like to work with the local Jewish community, compared to the community at large, Dacher responded without hesitation: "It's nicer, better."
His experience with Ehrlich — immediate cameraderie and a sense of belonging ~ concurs' with his general
Dacher believes that anti-Semitism arises from lack of understanding. "If people knew Jews there wouldn't be any. It comes from ignorance."
Suddenly, a thought came to him. He rose and walked to an adjacent desk, where he located an anti-Semitic and racist hate letter postmarked from a Chicago suburb.. He „ pointed to a typewritten greeting: "Frohe Ostern" (Happy Easter) and asked, "How could they have known I was German?" (He forwarded this correspondence and others like it to Canadian Jewish Congress director Erwin Nest, whom he has known and worked with for many years.)
Paul Peter Dacher was born in Wulfrath, Germany, a
farming community, in 1936. After the war, there were no Nazis in Germany, he noted sarcastically. "Many said they were forced to join the Nazi party. But this was not so."
Dacher was too young to remember much about the war, but he recalls one incident. "Mother was asked to join the party by a local Nazi leader. When she declined, he demanded: *You must do something for the Fuhrer!* She brought her children — my sister and 1 — before him and declared: *This is what I've done for the Fuhrer.'"
Dacher grew up in his home town and later went into the printing business there. While on vacation in Spain in 1964, he met Marilyn from Vancouver.
They married and lived in Germany for a few years, moving to Canada in 1968. Dacher Printing has been in operation in Vancouver since 1973.
The presses were running, the telephone was ringing, Sebastian was barking. On the way to the door, Dacher pointed out his favorite plaque on what he affectionately calls "The Wailing Wall."
It reads: "JNF proclaims Mr. and Mrs. Paul Peter Dacher as Chai Jerusalemites and in so doing places their names on the Wall of Honour in Ramot Park inscribed therein for all eternity."
TEL AVIV--Labofbrgan^ izations in Kiev have signed ah agreement with Histadrufs i^pat Hoiim sick fund to share information on the treatment jof victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disas^ ter,^Vif^/2 reported.
Israeli expertise has been ^ provided for use in a mother-child care centre near Kicy which is treating Chernobyl victims.
Nearly 200 Jewish childrea from cities in the Chernobyl region were recently brought to Israel by the Chabad Luba-vitch organization. They are the first of 3,000 children who were expected to be brought to the religious township of Kfar Chabad to receive medical treatment for radiation-associated sickness. JTA
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presence of G-d and Fourth Ave. to sing the praises of unsung heroes," Vancouver Sun columnist Denny Boyd, the evening's guest speaker, said that the word "hero" can have several meanings.
"In wartime, men are called heroes for killing each other. What about the medic who crawls through the same gunfire to save one person's life?" Boyd asked.
..Canada is "very lukewarm" a^out heroes, according to Boyd. "(Insulin discoverers) Banting and Best, who saved thousands of diabetics, including myself, aren't heroes," he said.
The Sun columnist noted that the dinner came on the 10th anniversary of the death by cancer of one-legged Marathon of Hope runner Terry Fox, whom he described as "a great Canadian hero."
Said Boyd: "1 can remember that when he died, 1 tried to sum up his life. The best 1 could say was that Terry Fox was an ordinaryJ)oy-Who did extraordinary things."
"1 am happy^ that 1 chose Canada, that 1 chose Vancouver, that 1 chose this community," said Melul in accepting his award. Tapper gave special thanks to his wife. Daphne, and his family.
Although B.C. Solicitor General Russ Fraser, whowas invited to the dinner, could not attend, he sent a message which said: "1 have known Alan Tapper for many years and am pleased that he has been honored in this way."
Donations to the B'nai B'rith Women Children's Home in Israel were made in tribute to the honorees by B'nai B'rith Men and Women of B.C.
Dave Wolochow, who delivered the invocation, recollected how he had visited the centre of Na'amat activities several years ago whilein Jerusalem for a Bar-Mitzvah. He, had heard that Na'amat would take pictures of babies or childreii helped by speciric Spiritual Adoption donations, but wasn't sure if the offer was then still in effect.
"I had a cheque from a Louis Brier Home resident, with instructions to take a picture of the baby (who was the recipient)," Wolochow recalled. Though he was unable to get a photo of the child who was being "spiritually adopted," he was shown the range of Na'amat's projects by some of its workers.
"It was really a heartwarming experience. They're doing very rewarding work for children from preschool on," he said. Describing Na'amat-Pioneer Women as "the model for all organizations" in yancouver^ Wolochow stated they "are really to be commended,"
The dinner was organized by Susan Landau-Chark. convenor of the recent Pioneer Women-Na'amat Men's nCampaign, whose beneficiaries include israePs Timon Vocational Schools.
The singing of O Canada and Hatikvah was led by Barbara Minuk.
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