European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday september 9, 1985 Eric Strom 13, it is from the  during his a  u  Nuh a  listens. . Boy celebrates bar Mitzvah As his ancestors Krakow Poland up a 13-year-old Ameri can boy saturday celebrated Krakow s first bar Mitz vah the jewish manhood ceremony in 35 years. I never thought i d have my bar Mitzvah in Poland just like my ancestors Eric Strom of Stamford,conn., said. This bar Mitzvah is a proof that the jewish nation  declared new York rabbi Nusham Edelbaum to the congregation of 100 attending the ceremonies Forstrom. The nazis wanted to wipe us out from this Earth but they  before world War ii Krakow had a nourishing jewish Community of 60,000. But now there Are 200 jews left with Only about 30 attending services regularly in the City s 15th-Century remu synagogue Poland i oldest jewish House of won hit. Tire is a of 6 i lion je5 in pol � d before world War ii but about 4 million were killed by the nazi holocaust and in the entire nation there Are presently 6,000 jews and no rabbis. A group of american jews from the new York based federation of jewish philanthropies visited Thi City last april and asked what they could do for the dying jewish Community Here. Send us a bar Mitzvah Send us life replied Kra Kow jewish Community Leader Mariya Jakabovich. Eric whose descendants left Poland several generations ago came to Krakow with his parents and grand parents last week for the ceremony the traditional late of passage to manhood and responsibility. In Poland Eric dressed in a dark Blue suit with a badge from a polish american Friendship association read out he brew passages during the ceremony. I d like to than you All for coming Here for my bar Mitzvah to my family and All polish jews said Eric with a smile atthe end of the ceremony. However the ceremony was marked with a bittersweet sadness for some of the polish jews who attended and remembered the persecutions they had suffered. It reminds me of my bar Mitzvah said Edward Barbary a 65-year-old jew who was imprisoned in soviet labor Camps in Siberia and had to have both his Frozen legs amputated. There is no Hope that someone Young from our Community will Ever be bar Mit Vahed in this City he said. The United states Consul to Krakow Michael met Enka was among those attending the ceremony the first in Krakow in 35 years according to jewish Community leaders. Krakow s last rabbi died two years ago and the ceremony was presided Over by Edelbaum and the boy s own rabbi Emily Korzenik of Scarsdale . At one Point Edelbaum who is an orthodox rabbi left the synagogue altar to protest Kraenick t presence because orthodox rabbis do not believe in women being rabbis. But Korzenik said the ceremony showed that the the life of the jewish people goes on together and in  Pope makes Day trip to Liechtenstein Eschen Liechtenstein a Pope John Paul ii Ona one Day vat to Liechtenstein vowed sunday Iii the lat Bolic Church will never relax its strict teachings on abortion As he condemned those who kill the child in the Mother s  using some of his strongest language to Date the pontiff it fore a crowd of 30,000, including Many from neighbouring Switzerland and Austria and nearby Ger Many at a morning mass in this tiny Mountain nation. O j,1 28lh Forgon we for be Leader of the world s800 million catholics. The Catholic Church will not Stop repeating All these fundamentals a abbreviated and without restriction John Paul said during his homily. He then repealed the Church s condemnation of living together outside marriage unfaithfulness in marriage the increasing divorce rate the misuse of marriage an abortion. After the mass during the weekly sunday Blessing the Pope returned to the Issue of abortion. He called for valuing the anti abortion movement above environmental causes saying save the unborn human being from the threat of the born Man who usurps the right to destroy and kill the child in the Mother s  he reminded the crowd of the Church s teaching that the human embryo is from the first moment of Concep Tion a gift particularly worthy of  i Call upon you to give special recognition to the growing child in the womb As a compete human being he said. During the mass cowbells clanged from grazing herds in nearby Mountain pastures overlooking the nation s Only snort stadium about four Miles North of the capital of Vaduz. Liechtenstein is one of the world s wealthiest countries benefiting from the Sale of postage Stamps tourism and the thousands of letter Box companies registered Here to the pontiff made note of that fact in his arrival address calling on Liechte steiners to break away from the self ish world of material goods. He arrived in Liechtenstein by helicopter from Zurich wind world today Sale of 310 Maverick missiles to Germany approved by Dod Washington