European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. May 28, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 hidden children track lost relatives International gathering helps Wii jews in Ooi Anant search by George James the new York times. A looking for lost  a looking for my  these were just two of the hundreds of poignant notes tacked on five Large bulletin boards sunday outside the fifth floor meeting rooms of a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The notes spoke out even after almost 50 years about the separation loss and pain of jewish children who were taken Ireby non jewish friends or strangers after their parents were killed deported or forced to flee Germany and nazi occupied countries during world War ii. And the notes spoke not Only of their heroism in surviving but also of the heroism of the people who took great risks to protect them from the nazis. They were written by some of those who had gone to the Marriott Marquis hotel for the first International gathering of children hidden during world War ii hoping to find someone who could Lead them to lost relatives friends or rescuers. A this Board represents the endless search to find those people with whom they lived and survived really an Effort to recapture the past because there is very Little we have of our past a said Abraham h. Foxman National director of the anti defamation league of by Nai by Rith. He said he was a a hidden child a raised by a Christian Nanny in Vilnius Lithuania after his parents fled to escape the nazis when he was 2. Foxman one of the organizers said 1,600 people had come from All parts of the United states As Well As from Australia Belgium Canada France Germany Greece the Netherlands Israel and even Korea to attend the conference which was to end tuesday. Estimates of the number of hidden children vary from 10,000 to 100,000. On sunday the once children now older men and women and their children studied the Handwritten or typed notes and the fading photographs in silence and with reverence. Each note was a Short Story. A typewritten note on Orange Bond from Susi Fischer of Haifa Israel said �?o1 am looking for my sister Mathilda Jager. Mathilda was badly wounded in August 1941 in a Leshchik Poland in the Cross fire Between the German and the polish forces. I last saw her in the towns Hospital but the next Day i was  and there was the note from Rena Greenblatt 66, formerly of Warsaw Poland now Renny Kurc Honbaum of Chicago. A looking for Jurek Trajan Radomsky Poland lost  Kirchenbaum was 18 and her son was 2 when she last saw him in 1942. They had escaped taking a train to a concentration Camp and she thought it safer to leave him with her sister in Law whose husband was a jewish policeman. But the husband was shot by the nazis and the sister in Law was sent away. Kirchenbaum stayed alive by pretending to be a Catholic orphan and working on a farm. She and her husband Sam have visited Poland and the towns around the concentration Camps looking for a son who had Odd Navy Blue eyes and would be about 50. A i have three children now a she said about her two sons and a daughter who Are in their Early 30s, a but you still can to forget the one you lost in the  Rita Posalski 57, now of the Pelham Section of the Bronx did not put a note on the Board but she and her daughter Shelly 35, an accountant studied the notes for any leads to her Long lost twin sister. Natia. She and her sister were about to when their Mother was put on a farm and their father sent to a concentration Camp. But their Mother managed to place them with different polish families. A when i saw her the last time she was All dressed up crying and she was waiting for the police to come take her a she recalled. Rita Posalski then known As Rayzel Podchlebnik ran away and worked on a farm pretending to be a Christian girl called Regina Madaj Owna. T0" she lived for almost a year with a family called Jas Kiewicz who knew she was jewish and took care of her. Czeslaw Jaskiewicz is in his 80s now and one reason Posalski came to the conference was to find out How to nominate him for an award for his and his family a Lila kampf who attended the new York gathering holds a Rosary she was Given As a jewish girl in Poland to help disguise her As a Catholic. Kindness and heroism. About 100 such Christian rescuers were at the conference. Among those to be honoured tuesday was Gustane Collett 69, of Belgium who As a Young Man helped a roman Catholic priest hide hundreds of children. When asked Why he said a Why not if someone Falls in the Street do you not help him even if there Are so Many cars that you might get hit a East Germany took children from regime foes by new Day Berlin a a file discovered in the basement of a Berlin office building has provided proof that East Germany kidnapped the children of political offenders and put them up for adoption by approved communist families. The program Long denied by the East German regime was directed by Margot Honecker the wife of the country a former communist party chief Erich Honecker. The discovery comes As no Surprise to Barbel and Ota Griebel who campaigned fruitlessly Over 17 years for the return of their son and daughter. The children were 4 and 3 when they were seized in 1973 after the family was caught trying to flee to the West. The Case one of eight documented in the cellar file disclosed last week was the subject of top level International diplomacy in the 1970s but was dropped during a period of West East detente. Not until last Spring months after the Berlin Wall fell did the Berlin couple find Jens now 21, and Jeannette 20. The children were living in a town near the polish Border where they had been secretly adopted by a hard Jine communist couple a a it was a bittersweet reunion. A we waited fought hoped a said Barbel Grubel a red Cross employee a now j have the children Back a. And yet i Don t. They look like me but we re strangers.�?�. Berlin officials set up an office last week to help such parents track their children and they urged other District offices to comb archives for More documentation. For years East Germany dismissed periodic Western news stories about such forced adoptions As a Gross slander a. Quot its now Clear that the state acted As a kidnapper a Thomas Kruger berlins youth minister said at a news conference. The children who were kidnapped usually belonged to dissidents spies and those who tried to leave the country. Customers take it All off when strip show is halted Oslo Norway apr when police stopped an illegal striptease contest at a norwegian nightclub disappointed onlookers took off their own clothes in protest Over the weekend. Police had ordered six Amateur strippers at the so Maer discotheque in pors Grunn to get dressed following complaints about the shows. A i took my clothes off to protest against the police. It is ridiculous to Stop a strip show a a 25-year-old male Spectator told the Dag bladet news-4 paper on monday. It said men and women cast off their garments Era that most stopped the protest Short of their underwear. No one was charged with any offence. A i done to know what happened but when guests take All their clothes off it is going too far in my eyes a said Bent Rasmussen the nightclubs owner told Dag bladet. A but people did have fun and that what a most  hour delay in flight to leave plane a Madrid Spain apr passengers angry that Iberia personnel went to vote instead of flying them to new York finally took off monday a 24 hours behind schedule. Some had refused to leave the plane in protest. A a /. A a the event was the latest in a series of labor related incidents that have created havoc in Spanish airports Over the past month As unions pressure the state run airline to give in to their wage demands. A company spokeswoman who asked that her name not be used said there were problems and delays with a number of flights sunday when ground and flight Crews took four hours allowed by Law to vote in municipal and regional elections. Flight 951 was scheduled to depart sunday for new York at 1 30 p.m., but passengers were told there was a delay and they did not Board until 7 p.m., Slie said. Once on Board the 257 passengers including 70 cardiologists in route to a pacemaker convention were told the flight was cancelled. The airline offered the disgruntled passengers a meal and lodging for the night but 80 refused the offer and remained on Board. The flight Crew was obliged to remain with them but was changed before mondays departure. Iberia employees shut off the aircraft a air conditioning system around Midnight but the move failed to dislodge the protesters. The spokeswoman said a tension and a conflictive atmosphere caused by the ongoing labor disputes contributed to flight 951 is delay. Iberia a 22, my ground and flight personnel Are negotiating new contracts with the company and have held five strikes so far this month to obtain a 9 percent salary increase