Moffitt Honored by American Cancer Society


 (Continued from page 18) life. He was an Israeli agent,
 substances. You could wrap a he married a Sabra, a lawyer.
 thread around your wrist and They had a son, Danny, a rep-
 it would last a week or more, lica of his father. He went into
 eeaten slowly. medicine and is as success-
 His survivl railroad grew ful as his father, but he does
 and grew and his main prob- not know of his father's Nazi
 lem became that the Soviets hunter underworld.
 were as harshly anti-Semitic as The story winds down to a
 the Nazis. And, too, other Jews Rywlin-like finish.
 never trusted him, for they saw He called a conference of
 him as a Jewish collaborator. his residents 17 microscopes
 His way was treacherous. were set up on a circular table.
 The end of the war saw him He placed 17 slides.
 leading columns of liberated "Gentleman, you have a
 Jews to Palestine. The British slide lit on your scopr. What is
 were now his enemy. the disease? How long does the
 He continued to be the patient have to live?"
 numberone Nazicatcherinthe All 17 said, "Leukemia.
 Allied world. He caught them, The patient has six months
 he shot them on the spot. No to live."
 evidence. Just summary jus- "Thank you gentlemen. The
 tice! TheBritish likedthat, and slide is mine. I am the pa-
 he used it to influence them to tient."
 let the Jews in. Many of the young doctors
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute received a society award Here his story is vague be- fell apart. Many describe it
from the Greater Tampa Bay Unit of the American Cancer Society (ACS) ce he woked is maic on today as the worst dayotheir
 the U.$. Army. They bit as hard life. It was for me. I couldn't
which recognizes donors of $1o,ooo or more. ManyMoffitt staffandfaculty as everybody else. He entered believe it.
have served in leadershipo roles with the unit. Pictured: Nancy Newman, di the Army as a shortcut to get But; it was time Six months
rector, Patient Support Services; WiHiam Dotterer, vice president ofAncil- his citizenship. He did an in- carne and Rywlin went. We'd
lary and Medical Staff Services at Moffitt and board member at ACS; Melvyn ternal medicine residency and lost him. Nazis still lurking
Tockman, Ph.D., memberofthe RiskAssessment, Detection and Intervenon tre lloova r actice aboutinArgentinacould rest
 Sturned to Pathology. easy.
Program; and Mary Turey, manager, Psychosocial Oncology. "All this time you were hunt- I woke up refreshed. Was
 ing Nazis?" I asked, for this is that really Rwylin talking to
 the time that I got.to knw him me? Did he have an under-
 well. He was a Nazi hunter? He world life?
 Anywhere at Anytime LAW OFFICES (813) 653-2500 shot peple in cold blood? He never lied to.me so, yes,
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