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...down. But it endured, changed its name to honor the Dutch schoolgirl-diarist murdered by the Nazis, and is now jammed to capacity with 200 students who get lessons in Hebrew, Jewish history and Bible study as well as regular subjects. They came to Anne Frank, says director Rozsa Berend, ``because they wanted to be Jewish...
...officials. Having survived the war, many Jews throughout Eastern Europe came to a terrible conclusion: whatever the regime, it was best not to be Jewish at all. ``If they spit at you long enough, you feel like you must really be guilty of something,'' says Anne Frank school director Berend. ``Most of the Jews of my generation went through that psychological misery...
...Ivan Berend, a former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and now a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, describes Soros as a "man on a mission," an heir to the powerful East European tradition of intellectuals guiding a political transformation. "He has become consumed with making a difference," says Berend, former head of the Soros Foundation in Hungary...
...think Liem fired him [in violation of]free speech, said Anna Fateeva-Berend '92-93. "Ifhe fired him it is because he is not considerateenough and [in that] he did the right thing...
...brushstroke took on a slashing angularity, his colors a staccato spectrum. He studied his own face in 50 oils and 60 etchings; none bear the mark of flat tery, and many show a skeleton looking over his shoulder. His moodiness could only be broken by his wife, Charlotte Berend, a painter 22 years younger than he, and he replied by painting her 81 times...