N.Y. Art Commission Turns Down Plans for 2 Memorials to the Six Million

NEW YORK (JTA) — Several
Jewish leaders and organizations
issued strongly worded protests
here last weekend against the City
Art Commission's rejection of de-
signs for two Riverside Park
monuments to the 6,000,000 Jews
slain by the Nazis and to the War-
saw Ghetto martyrs.
Dr. Joachim Prinz, nresident of
the American Jewish ( ongress and
chairman of a steerit !, committee
of 34 Jewish organ rations sup-
porting construction ,f the mem-

orial, sent a telegram to Mayor
Wagner urging his intervention
and expressing "profound shock"
at the Art Commission's decision.
Rabbi Max Schenk, president
of the New York Board of Rab-
bis, wrote the mayor, criticizing
the views of Eleanor Platt,
sculptor and Art Commission
member, who opposed one pro-
jected memorial on the grounds
that it was "unnecessarily large"
and "might encourage other spe-
cial groups that wanted to erect
memorials on public land."
Rabbi Schenk called on Mayor
Wagner to disassociate himself
e from what he termed Miss Platt's
"unfortunate remarks."
David Dubinsky, the president
of the International Ladies Gar-
ment Workers Union. also joined
the mounting wave of protest by
calling the Art Commission's deci
sion "nit-picking that is insensi-
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tive to the magnitude of the tra-
gedy."
Representatives of all the or
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ganizations involved in the con-
struction of the monument met
Sunday to plan their next move,
according to an announcement by
Alexander Donat. vice-president
of the Warsaw Ghetto Resistance
Lirganization, the group that origil
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memorials.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep.
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publican, introduced legislation
that would ban further United
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donesia. Rep. Harsha said: "Ameri-
cans are sick and tired of being
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He continued: "We keep giving
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the example of kowtowing to Nas-
ser that has resulted in West Ger-
many's cancelation of arms ship-
ments to Israel. "The United
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and counsel for the resistance
cide in London in 1943, after learn-
group, denounced the decision
ing that the Nazis had finally
and said "the monument com-
smashed all Jewish resistance in
memorating the Warsaw Ghetto
the Warsaw Ghetto. Rappaport de-
struggle will be built."
signed this work also.
The Workmen's Circle urged the
The City Parks Department de-
mayor to call a public hearing to scribed the Zygelboim work as "a
determine whether members of bronze figure engulfed in thorns
the Commission "should not be and flames, sharply leaning to the
reversed and censured." It called front as if about to fall; emerging
the decision one reflecting a "cal- from the inferno are heads and
lous disregard of tragic historic hands calling to humanity for res-
events."
cue."
Sen. Bookson, challenging the
Miss Platt criticized the War-
decision. said that "the people
saw Ghetto monument as "exces-
who have given their lives in the
sively and unnecessarily large."
struggle for freedom have won the
She added that "even if it were
right to be memorialized in the
to be smaller and in better taste,
City of New York and the City
artistically, I believe that by ap- .
will have this monument." He
proving it, and the Zygelboim
charged that, when representatives
sculpture, we would set a highly
of the resistance group tried to
regrettable precedent." The War-
meet with the commission two
saw Ghetto group said its mem-
months ago. a representative "re-
bers
had pledged $100,000 to-
fused to meet with the organiza-
ward the cost of the monument.
tion."
New York City Park Commis-
The Riverside Park site was set
aside by the city in 1946 for the sioner Newbold Morris declined
comment on the commission deci-
two memorials.
The larger one was to be a sion but said he understood that
51.000,000, 40-foot high concrete two sentiments were expressed at
sculpture, for which funds would a Jan. 28 meeting. One was that a
be collected by the Warsaw Ghetto city park was not a place "for re-
minding people of anything so un-
Resistance Organization.
pleasant." and the other that
It would have two scrolls bear-
"monuments in the parks should
ing inscriptions of episodes of
be limited to events of American
Jewish martyrdom and the names
history."
of Nazi death camps and sites of
He conceded that there was a
Jewish resistance. This work
statue of Joan of Arc in one city
would have been cast by Nathan
park. and one of King Jagiello of
Rappaport, the artist who design-
15th Century Poland in another
ed the memorial on view at the
park.
site of the Warsaw Ghetto in
The Jewish Labor Committee
the Polish capital.
The second memorial was offer- urged to Mayor to lend his "assist-
ed by the Arthur Zygelboim Memo- ance in gaining a reversal" and
rial Committee to honor the Polish pointed out that there are 26
Jewish leader who committed sui- monuments to non-Americans in
New York City, including seven
Germans and seven Italians.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10—Friday, February 19, 1965

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