UJA. National Conference Adopts Max M. Fisher's Proposed Goal Of $75,600,000 for Coming Year 2 Detroiters as National UJA Leaders: Community's Fund-Raising Standards Editorial Page 4 Detroiters Max M. Fisher and Mrs. Harry L. Jones assume national United Jewish Appeal leadership . . . Noteworthy increases in generosity mark initial fund- raising effort . . . Urgency of needs told at New York sessions of UJA. Detailed Story Commences on This Page HE JEWISH A Weekly Review The Vatican and the Anti-Jewish Ritual Murder Libel of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd. Vol. L, No. 17 — VE 8 9364 - — Detroit 48235 — Dec. 16, 1966 Commentary Page 2 a *1 -- 0 °$6.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c PLO Obtains Communist Arms Without Charge; UN Backs UNEF A Jewish News Exclusive Nazi Terrors in Russia Recalled in Ehrenburg's Newest Memoirs; Diaries Gathered for 'Black Book' Facts . relating to the Nazi terror in Russia and the horrors that were especially imposed upon the Jewish population when the USSR was invaded by the German armies, are told in a chapter from the last volume Of the memoirs of Ilya Ehrenburg, "Men, Years, Life," which has just been published in Russia. A translation of this revealing chapter in Book Five by the famous Russian-Jewish writer has been prepared by Novosti Press Agency—(APN)—and has been released ex- clusively to The Detroit Jewish News by the Russian Embassy in Washington. The revealing accounts of the survived victims of Nazi- ism, the story of the witnesses who described the wholesale massacre of Jews in Nazi-occupied territories to Ehrenburg, follow: By ILYA EHRENBURG At the end of 1943, I began, with V. S. Grossman, to compile a book of documents which we conditionally called the "Black Book." We decided to collect diaries, private letters and stories of victims who had survived by chance or witnesses of the wholesale annihilation of Jews carried out • by the Hitlerites on occupied territory. We drew writers Vsevolod Ivanov, Antokolsky, Kaverin, Seifullina, Per et s darkish, Aliger and some others into our work. I received data from reporters oft army and divisional newspapers, such as Captain Petrovsky (Konnogvardeyets), V. Sobolev (Vperyod na Vraga), T. Startsev (Znamya Rodiny), A. Levada (Sovetsky Voin), S. Ulanovsky (Stalinsky Voin), Cap- tain Sergeyev (Vperyod); Krasnaya Zvezda correspondents Korzinkin and Gekhtman; Col. Melnichenko and Senior Lieutenant PaVlov of the Military Justice, and hun- dreds of frontliners. Ehrenburg I put quite a bit of time, energy and heart into my work on the - Black Book." At times, as I read a diary or listened to a witness' story, it seemed to me that I was in the ghetto, that it was "Extermination Day," and I was being driven to a ravine or a ditch. I have kept some of the letters, diaries and notes. On rereading them now, 20 years later, I still experience the horror and agony. I cannot understand how we could have lived through it all, where we took the energy to live. I am not speaking of death, or even of the mass murders. but of the realization that a thing like that could have been committed by men in the mid-twentieth century, by resi- dents of a civilized country. One of the prisoners of the Riga ghetto wrote in his notes that the well known historian, S. M. Dubnow, then 71 years of age, had lived in his barrack. Among the ghetto's commandants was Johann Siebert. who had studied at Heidelberg University. Before the war Dubnov had delivered lectures in Heidelberg on the history of the Ancient East. When Siebert learned that his former teacher was in the ghetto, he went to see him and laughed long and mer- rily: "In my youth I was foolish enough to attend your lectures. The tripe you told us! You wanted us to soften up and believe in the triumph of humanism. Preposterous!" Johann Siebert would not refuse the pleasure of attending Dubnov's execution. That is the ghastliest thing of all. It means that universal literacy, university auditoriums and highly-developed technique are not sufficient to keep men from going wild. I dreamed of publishing the "Black Book," and will now cite a few pages from it not for the purpose of tormenting myself and my readers, but because we must remember what happened: therein lies a pledge that men will not allow its repetition. The evacuation in the western regions proceeded in disorder and under difficult conditions. The stronger men were far away. Fighting, At the very outset of the war the Germans captured Byelorussia, the Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia—countries where many Jews had lived from time immemorial. In some cities like Vilnius, Riga and Minsk, the Hitlerites killed the Jews gradually, within two or three (Continued on Page 40) U.S. Firms Do Not Fear Arab Boycott (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) LONDON—The Jordanian government has issued instructions to merchants and import officials to prevent importation of products of the Coca Cola corporation and Ford Motor Company for trading with Israel, it was reported here Tti,s- day from Amman. The orders were in line with a decis- ion of the 24th Arab League conference in Kuwait on Nov. 20 to impose the anti- Israel boycott on imports of the two American firms for their refusal to stop operations in Israel. The soft drink firm has franchised a bottling opera- tion in Israel. The motor firm is nego- tiating for assembly of Ford vehicles by an Israeli firm. . Officials of the Coca Cola and Ford enterprises in Jordan reportedly indi- cated little concern over the boycott orders. They said their plants in .Jordan had enough spare parts to last for the next two years. TEL AVIV (JTA)—Premier Levi Esh- kol declared that Israel faced "not an economic crisis" but a "testing time of efficiency in all branches of industry. agriculture and science." He expressed that view of Israel's cur- rent economic squeeze at a ceremony in, Nazareth where the first locally as- sembled Chrysler-Dodge trucks were presented. The vehicles are being as- sembled for Irael's defense ministry. The premier said that "whatever we have permitted ourselves during the past 18 years, we can no longer afford in the future." "More efficiency, cheaper labor and better products are needed," he added. "This is our test." The Nazareth as- sembly plant is producing the vehicles from parts received from the U.S. BONN, (JTA) — The Palestine Liberation Army has received light weapons from Communist China and heavy armaments from the Soviet Union, all without cost, Ahmed Shukairy, chair- man of the Palestine Liberation Organization, under whom that anti-Israeli military force oper- ates,told a German interviewer in Cairo. The interview, published in the Bonner Rundschau, quoted Shukairy as saying that some PLO soldiers trained in Communist China have already joined his forces in the Middle East. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) — The General Assembly's administrative and. budgetary committee voted a 1967 budget for the United Nations Emergency Force, totaling $14,000,000. The sum had been recommended by the commit- tee's advisory committee and was $304,000 less than the amount requested for UNEF's opera- tions by Secretary-General U Thant. In another resolution, the committee in- creased UNEF's 1966 budget by $1,146,000 above the allocation already made for this purpose, bring- ing UNEF's total budget for 1966 to $16,146,000. UNEF is the international peace-keeping force that stands on guard between Egyptian and Israeli borders on the Egyptian-controlled side of the Gaza Strip and at Sharm el-Sheikh, in the Sinai Desert. overlooking Israel's Gulf of Akaba route to the Red Sea. (In Amninn. capital of Jordan, a government spokesman said that Jordan has made it a condi- tion before the Arab Defense Council last weekend to have the United Nations Emergency Force with- drawn from the Egyptian-Israeli border, if Jordan is to admit Iraqi and Saudi Arabian troops into its territory for "protection" against Israel. The Jor- danian stipulation appeared to check the plans of other Arab countries to extend their troops fur- ther along the Israeli frontier, since it was unlikely that the United Nations would remove its forces and risk a further increase in Middle East ten- sions.) (Related stories, Page 5) Detroiters . Play Major Roles in Setting nigher Standards for UJA Support; Appeal by Fisher Secures Vast increases Inaug U rating '67 Drive By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ NEW YORK — American Jewry's increased interest in Israel's security and in assuring the ab- sorption by Israel of large numbers of additional settlers, as well as the integration of the tens of thou- sands of recent arrivals, became evident at the United Jewish Appeal conference held here during the last week. The deep concern in the major American Jewish philanthropic effort was especially expressed at the pre-conference dinner held Dec. 8, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, at which a sum of 56,900,000 was pledged, the total representing an increase of more than 10 per cent over last year's giving. Included in this sum are gifts by a small group of Detroiters totalling $724,000. Since these con- tributions total more than 10 per cent of the entire amount subscribed that night—every gift having been marked by a substantial increase over last year—the demonstration of loyalty to a great humanitarian cause was most heartening to the Detroit representatives. Max M. Fisher, who was re-elected national general chairman of the UJA for a third year, as the presiding officer at the sessions; and the Detroiters who are at the initial dinner that inaugurated the 1967 campaign — Alfred Deutsch, the next Allied Jewish Campaign chairman; Maxwell Jospey, Irwin Green, Paul Borman, Walter L. Field, Alan Schwartz, Paul Zuckerman, Irving Rose, David Handleman — were enthusiastic over the first gifts and expressed confidence that they augur well for the coming drive in Detroit. The unprecented response, in the form of gifts ranging from $10,000 to $200,000 from representa- tives from more than a score of communities, came in response to an appeal by Fisher who indicated the urgency of the present needs and called upon his associates in the UJA to uphold Israel in that, nation's current crisis. The UJA sessions were held at the New York Hilton Hotel. The Dee. 8 dinner, however, had to be transferred on short notice to the Waldorf Astoria because reservations swelled from 400 to more than 600. (Continued on Page 14)