Box Folder 45 1 Overseas Travel. Notes, Reports, and Agendas. 1956
MS-763: Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman Collection, 1930-2004. Series H: United Jewish Appeal, 1945-1995. Subseries 4: Administrative Files, 1945-1994. Box Folder 45 1 Overseas travel. Notes, reports, and agendas. 1956-1957. For more information on this collection, please see the finding aid on the American Jewish Archives website. 3101 Clifton Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220 513.487.3000 AmericanJewishArchives.org -2- Monument being surrounded by new buildings, a nd soon will be swallowed up. They all will be forgotten of what t h e ghetto meant a n d was , Bristol Hotel, ~s'"" ~ best, is old, dark, forced attempt at lights a nd mu sic in dining r oom. Room was little cell with primitive furniture - table . 2 c h airs , bed, one l ight. Talked with Haber by phone i n Wroclaw - make arrangements to meet in Lodz tomorrow. Will go by early train. 7 .:;[)ecember Train to Lodz - l ong talk with l ady in compartment - She director in Theatre, , profession, radio, etc . Aunt and uncle in Tel Aviv for 35 years - Hashomer HatzaJr (friends ~ of Benv Tow) - she went to visit them last year . They wanted her to stay . cried when she wo uldn ' t but understand her desire to go "home". Poland is ber home. She asked Saltzman why be didn't leave Cleveland for I srae l. She was born he~ s uffered here - "one is bound by bitter as well as sweet" . Afriend went to Montreal in 1936 , tri ed to persuade her to come - she refused , and is certain that while he i s better off materi all y , she i s happier spiritually ~Po l and.
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