Friday, November 18,1977
The Jewish Floridian and Shofar of Greater Holly wood
Page 5- A
Katz Views Jewish Life in Poland. Israel
Confronting the Past to Build the Future
By GREEK CASHMAN
There isn't anyone in
South Broward County who,
knowing Herbert D. Katz,
would doubt his commitment
to Jewish continuity and
survival. On a wider scale,
there isn't anyone on the
United Jewish Appeal
Executive Committee and
National Campaign Cabinet
who could fault his exem-
plary devotion.
Commitment is difficult to
measure. When a man gives
of his time, his talent, his
effort and his money in sub-
stantial qualities, others
describe him as fully com-
mitted.
BUT COMMITMENT has
no boundaries, as Herb Katz,
immediate past president of
the Jewish Federation of
South Broward, discovered
for himself en route to Israel
for the UJA 1978 Study
Conference.
Together with a group of
other UJA leaders, he par-
ticipated in a sub-mission to
Poland and Rumania. For
some of the group, it was an
historic pilgrimage to gain
some concept of the real
horror of the Holocaust
beyond anything they had
read in books, seen on films
or heard from survivors.
For Katz, it was even more
than that. He grew up on
stories about Poland. His
mother had been bom there,
and had told him many times
of the fearful experiences
which she had endured
during World War I, when
the Germans and later the
Russians came marching
through her home town,
looting and destroying what
little there was.
HAD SHE NOT emi-
grated from Poland to
America, Herb Katz himself
might have been a victim of
the Holocaust.
The realization of this hit
him with terrible force as he
toured Auschwitz and the
site of what was once the
Warsaw Ghetto.
The impact remained with
him throughout the intensive
week he spent in Israel, and
he was unable and unwilling
to shake off its effect. Seeing
the growth and development
of Israel in sharp contrast to
what had been destroyed in
Europe perhaps made him
more conscious of yester-
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year, and the steps that he
and other Jews must take to
ensure that it will never
happen again.
THIS DETER-
MINATION was reaffirmed
after he spent some time in
Kiriyat Shimona, a develop-
ment town on Israel's nor-
thern borders, which over the
years has been subject to
Arab terrorist attack. Kiri-
yat Shimona's population
lives in constant fear of
Katyusha rockets which
have taken lives and caused
extensive damage to people
and property. Only a week
before the Study Conference,
after a period of relative
quiet, Katyusha again struck
Kiriyat Shimona from across
the border. Yet Kiriyat
Shimona will not become
another Poland because,
today, there is Jewish
preparedness and Jewish
vigilance.
Recalling his experience in
Poland, Katz said, "In spite
of having read a great deal
about the Holocaust and
having seen lots of pictures,
the actual experience of
being in the gas chambers in
Auschwitz was over-
powering. I was afraid that
the gas might again come
through. This caused me to
heighten my awareness of
the great significance that
Israel has for the nurturing
of the great Jewish heritage
and tradition, not only as a
place for survival, but as a
place for growth."
To some extent, Katz con-
fesses, he was looking for his
roots in Poland, but he found
the flower in Israel.
AS TIRELESS A worker
as he has been in the past,
his future endeavors will be
even greater, prompted by
the memory of yesterday and
the promise of tomorrow.
He has great faith that the
1978 CJA-IEF campaign
results in South Broward will
reflect his community's
recognition "that the future
of Judaism depends on the
development of Israel."
Despite the incredible
achievements of the Israelis
themselves, "the continued
development of a peaceful,
progressive country is
possible only with support
from the Diaspora."
KATZ HAS NO doubt
that nothing will spell out
the message more clearly
than the reality of Israel.
"One has to really see, in
order to know."
Herbert D. Katz, immediate past president of the Jewish
Federation of South Broward, participating in a United Jewish
Appeal "Walk-a-thon" through Jerusalem during his recent
visit to the Jewish State as part of the UJA's 1978 Study
Conference.
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