National Fund to Honor Leonard N. Simons Soviet Designs for Babi Yar Tablet
at Dinner June 8; Plan Forest in His Name Fail to Note Victims Were Jews
In recognition of his many serv-
ices to this community, his Jewish
activities and his dedicated efforts
in behalf of Israel, the Jewish
National Fund will honor Leonard
N. Simons at a testimonial dinner,
June 8, at the Sheraton-Cadillac
Hotel.
The JNF Council announced
this week that a forest in Simons'
honor will be planted in Israel.
The announcement stated that a
number of Simons' friends already
LEONARD N. SIMONS
have planted gardens of trees in
the planned Simons Forest and an
opportunity will be given to all
his friends to join in this effort.
Simons, who was born in Youngs-
town, 0., July 24, 1904, is asso-
ciated with Lawrence Michelson in
one of Michigan's leading adver-
tising agencies, Simons-Michelson
Co. advertising agency which they
established in 1929.
Among the many recognitions
given his efforts include two
honorary doctorates awarded to
Simons—an LLD given him by
Wayne State University in 1957
and a DHL by Hebrew Union
College in 1964. He is a Fellow
of Brandeis University.
Testimonials accorded him in-
clude honorary membership in
Jewish War Veterans, American
Legion testimonial award, St.
Cy p r i an Protestant Episcopal
Church citation, Fred M. Butzel
Award of Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, Probus Club outstanding citi-
zen award, Lions Club citation,
Bnai Brith Detroit Lodge "Man
of the Year," WSU Mackenzie
Honor Society, ADL Democratic
Living Award, Michigan Historical
Society award, Detroit Board of
Education citation, and citations
from Red Cross, U.S. Air Corps.
U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Nurses'
Corps and War Shipping Adminis-
tration. He holds gold medals from
U.S. Treasury as advertising direc-
tor of the Michigan War Finance
Committee in World War II and
from the U.S. Army 6th Service.
A testimonial resolution was
adopted in his honor by the City
Council.
He serves on the boards of
American Friends of the Hebrew
University, Marygrove College,
Sinai Hospital, Jewish Home for
Aged, U of M Hillel Foundation,
WSU Hillel Foundation, Detroit
Round Table, Jewish Publication
Society of America, WSU Press,
ADL, Michigan Cancer Foundation,
Jewish Welfare Federation, De-
troit Service Group, Detroit His-
torical Society, National Founda-
tion for Infantile Paralysis, Jewish
Historical Society, Joint Distribu-
tion Committee.
He is vice president of the
Detroit Historical Commission
and serves on the boards of City
National Bank and Associated
Breweries.
He is a member of Franklin
Hills Country Club, Standard City
Club, Adcraft Club, Bankers' Club
and the Masonic order.
His previous community roles
include the presidency of Temple
Beth El, treasurer of Board of
Commerce, vice president of De-
troit Grand Opera Association,
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chairman of United Negro College
Fund, chairman of Allied Jewish
Campaign and crusade chairman
of American Cancer Society, board
memberships of United Foundation
and Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.
His hobbies are historical
studies, travel and book collecting.
Simons was married Jan. 21,
1930, to the former Henriette
Lieberman. They have two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Morton (Mary Louise)
Zieve and Mrs. Monte (Susan)
Nagler. They have three grand-
children.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ten
designs for a memorial to be erect-
ed at Babi Yar, where between
70,000 and 100,000 Ukrainian Jews
were massacred by the Nazi occu-
pation forces during World War
II, are on display in the Kiev
Architects Club, the Soviet Em-
bassy announced.
In photographs of the proposed
memorial designs made available
here through the Novosti Press
Agency, an official Soviet service,
the victims of the massacre are
not identified as Jews.
here, declared that the new Con-
One of the proposed designs has
vention is "of emotional and his- the words, "Babi Yar" carved on
torical importance to Israel." a stone in four languages, one of
Pointing out that 90 per cent of
Israel's population is composed of
Jews "who belong to an ancient French Leaders in Israel
people which has been the classic to Study, Meet Abba Eban
victim of religious and racial bigot-
PARIS (JTA) — Five members
ry for 20 centuries," Comay re-
of
the French Chamber of Deputies
called the Hitlerian holocaust as
he prepared to sign the anti-racist left Tuesday for a 10-day study of
cultural, social and family affairs
document.
in Israel. The delegation is to
In addition to Israel, the UN confer with Foreign Minister Abba
members which signed the Con- Eban on steps to be taken by their
vention Monday were Byelorussia, government and by Israel for im-
Central African Republic, Greece, plementation of the latest in a
the Philippine Islands, Poland, series of Franco-Israeli cultural
Ukraine and the USSR. The in- exchange pacts.
strument will go into force after a
minimum of 27 states had ac-
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The U.S. delegate in his open-
ing address, took other oblique
steps against the USSR, without
mentioning the Soviet government.
Noting that another agenda item
deals with freedom of information,
he called upon all countries to
permit "the right to publish do-
mestically, and to send abroad,
any idea, paper, book — fiction or
non-fiction, parody, camouflaged
satire or caricature — no matter
how favorable or unfavorable to
one's government."
All understood Abram to be re-
ferring, in that context, to a recent
case in Moscow where two authors
were given heavy prison terms for
writing critical works published
outside the USSR. "We are not
really sure," he said, "that a par-
ticular human right subscribed to
on paper means the same thing to
each nation."
Another item on the commis-
sion's agenda, in addition to those
pinpointed for priority by Abram,
is a proposal for implementing
the recently adopted Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Intolerance. That instru-
ment was opened for signature
only Monday, with Israel among
the first to sign the document.
The agenda includes also drafts
of steps to be taken to insure for
all people everywhere their right
to leave their own country or re-
turn thereto — aimed partially at
giving Soviet Jews the right to
emigrate; and various moves to
insure protection for all minorities
and the elimination of various
types of prejudice.
One item not on the agenda may
be added, in the opinion of some
of the commission members. That
would attempt to name anti-Semi-
tism specifically as a prejudice to
be formally condemned. Efforts to
pass such a condemnation as part
of the convention against racism
were defeated by the Soviet Union
last fall.
Ambassador Michael S. Comay,
Israel's permanent representative
French Nazis Adopt 'Sign'
BB Council Backs UN
on War Crimes Pact
JLC Asks Investigations
of Police in Birch Society
NEW YORK—The Jewish Labor
Committee entered the controversy
over police membership in the
John Birch Society with a request
to Mayor Lindsay that the city
investigations commissioner be di-
rected to initiate a probe into the
extent and propriety of police
membership in the society.
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This new keyholder holding a
postage stamp bearing Adolf
Hitler's likeness is being used as
a sign of recognition by the 500
members of the French Nazi
Party.
ISRAEL-15 DAYS
NEW YORK (JTA) — Support
for a proposed United Nations in-
ternational convention that would
bar statutes of limitations on war
crimes and crimes aganst human-
ity was expressed by the Bnai
Brith International Council at its
executive committee session here
Monday.
The proposed convention favored
by the Council would also bind
signatory nations to assist each
other in the prosecution of war
crimes through extraditions and
the "unconditional submission" of
evidence to participating countries
having jurisdiction in a war
crimes case.
Maurice Weinstein, of Char-
lotte, N.C., chairman of the In-
ternational Council, reported
here that a memorandum detail.
ing the proposed Convention had
been submitted to the United Na-
tions Human Rights Commission
by the Coordinating Board of
Jewish Organizations.
Another CBJO memorandum
recommended to the Commission
that anti-Semitism be "singled out
for specific condemnation" in a
draft convention on "The Eilimina-
tion of All Forms of Religious In-
tolerance" on the commission's
agenda.
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dication that the Nazi victims the
memorial was designed to com-
memorate were Jewish.
This design was described as the
joint submission of three artists,
A. Rybachuk, V. Melnichenko and
A. Miletsky. Selection of the win-
ning design is expected to be an-
nounced soon.
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