Sioux City Community
to Undergo Self-Study
Congress Resolution Honors
Ghetto Struggle for Freedom
SIOUX CITY (JTA)—An effort
to determine what the needs of the
Sioux City Jewish community will
be during the next decade and a
half is the goal of a community
self-study by the Sioux City Jewish
Federation. The self-study will in-
clude an evaluation of the federa-
tion-sponsored Jewish center, one
of the few in the United States
without a dues-paying membership
or membership-elected board.
The decision to make such a
study, which will be directed by
Lynn Arkin, followed a series of
presentations by outside experts
who were invited to come here to
help assess the strengths and weak-
nesses of the center program and
status.
Thirty-nine per cent of the able-
bodied adults making up the Jew-
ish community had active com-
munal service roles. Those adults
constitute the pool from which
leadership is recruited and they
are growing in number each year,
even though the Jewish community
itself is static and perhaps shrink-
.' ing.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
U.S. House of Representatives
unanimously adopted a concurrent
resolution Moday honoring the up-
rising by the Jews of the Warsaw
Ghetto 25 years ago. The resolu-
tion was offered by Rep. Emanuel
Celler, New York Democrat, chair-
man of the House Judiciary Com-
mittee.
It declares "that it is the sense
of Congress to recognize and ac-
knowledge the world significance
of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising as
a reaffirmation of the ineradicable
determination to fight for freedom
from oppression and that Congress
joins in commemorating on April
25 the 25th anniversary of the War-
saw Ghetto uprising against the
Nazi occupation forces by the be-
leaguered and outnumbered Jews
of the Warsaw Ghetto."
Rep. Celler later officially
opened an exhibit commemorat-
ing the ghetto struggle at the
international headquarters build-
ing of Bnai Brith. He said at a
ceremony there that it was
"sadly ironic that Warsaw, the
very city that so herioc a mani-
festation of man's indomitable
spirit, is now once again the
scene of anti-Semitic outrages
perpetrated in the name of a
different brand of totalitarian-
ism." He presented the first
copy of the newly-adopted Con-
gressional resolution to Bnai
Brith for its archives.
Poland's anti-Jewish campaign
was also -Condemned by Rabbi Jay
Kaufman, executive vice-president
th. The rabbi accused
of Bnai Bri
the Polish Communist regime of
"making a mockery" of the hero-
ism of the ghetto fighters.
He said Polish authorities have
"indulged in shocking distortions
of history with propaganda state-
ments that few Jews were en-
gaged in the epic struggle." He
said that Polish distortions "juggle
history with a tyrant's abandon
and ignore the fact that the Jew-
ish fighters' organization and the
ghetto remnants of Polish Jewry in
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Cracow, Bialystok, Wilna, and
other cities were denied arms or
any meaningful assistance by lead-
ers of the Polish underground or
government in exile."
The exhibit contains 150 pho-
tographs and documents compiled
by Yivo Institute for Jewish Re-
search.
In Jerusalem, the head of the
Jewish Agency's aliy a (immigra-
tion) department charged at a
press conference. that the Polish
government had suppressed an
announcement by the Jewish
Agency pledging full responsi-
bility for the traveling arrange-
ments, expenses and absorption
of Polish Jews wishing to im-
migrate to Israel.
According to S. Z. Shragai, the
Polish authorities are trying to
discourage Jewish emigration and
Jews in Poland are afraid to ap-
ply for passports lest they will
suffer reprisals. Polish Commu-
nist Party Chief Wladyslaw Go-
mulka said in a speech earlier this
month that his regime would per-
mit those Jews who wanted to, to
leave Poland.
In Mexico City Jews were anger-
ed by the action of the Progres-
sives, a • Jewish pro - Communist
group who took part in ceremonies
honoring the freedom fighters of
the Warsaw Ghetto under the spon-
sorship of the Polish ambassador
to Mexico.
Elsewhere in the city, various
groups held commemoration cere-
monies honoring the 25th anniver-
sary of the Warsaw Ghetto up-
rising. The Bund, the Jewish So-
cialist Party, and the Society for
Culture and Help held a memorial
meeting while a rally was held for
the general public at the Jewish
Sport Center, Nidchai Israel, the
Ashkenazi congregation, held a
mass meeing Thursday to honor
the martyrs who died in the ghetto
rebellion.
In Rio de Janeiro, 'a commo-
tion broke out at a Warsaw
Ghetto commemorative meeting
sponsored by a Jewish leftist or-
ganization, and the Polish cul-
tural attache interrupted his
speech and abruptly walked out.
"It's a lie," and "Get out of
here," were shouted by the aud-
ience when the Polish diplomat
told the gathering that the Polish
regime was not anti-Semitic. When
he declared the "Zionist reaction-
aries concocted a lie about Po-
land," a commotion ensued.
The Polish official stopped his
talk and stormed out of the meet-
ing, which was sponsored by Yikuf
the Yiddish Culture Farband of
Brazil. Several persons in the audi-
ence left in protest over the be-
havior of Yikuf members.
Normally, it is the Polish am-
bassador who addresses the yearly
Warsaw G h e t t o remembrance.
However, for this year's meeting,
he sent the Polish cultural at-
tache in his place.
In Buenos Aires, several left-
wing Jewish organizations broke
away from the organized Jewish
community program to observe the
25th anniversary of the uprising
and held their own meetings. In
one such meeting in Buenos Aires,
the first secretary of the Polish
Embassy was among the speakers.
In Mendoza City; the Polish consul
attended.
In Jerusalem where a hall con-
taining the names of some 1,500,-
000 victims of the Holocaust
was opened Monday night in the
Yad Vashem. Menahem Beigin,
minister without portfolio, branded
as falsehoods, assertions by the
Polish Communists that the Poles
had helped save the Jews from
slaughter at the hands of the
Nazis. "What was done to us will
be remembered down to the last
generation," he said.
The Detroit Department of Parks
and Recreation last year staffed
25 senior citizen facilities, offering
an average of 300 man-days of ac-
tivity a month to 25,000 retirees.
WJCongress Publishes
Booklet on Ghetto Revolt
LONDON (JTA) — An illus-
trated booklet describing Jewish
resistance to the Nazis in the
Warsaw Ghetto was published here
by the World Jewish Congress to
mark the 25th anniversary of the
ghetto uprising. The booklet, edited
by Jack Winocour, contains arti-
cles by WJC President Dr. Nahum
Goldmann and by. two survivors of
the Warsaw Ghetto, Jonas Turkow,
a Yiddish actor, and Haim Frim-
mer. There are photographs of
the ghetto in the final stages of
the revolt.
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