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 Our Torah Says: "For man is as a tree of the field" (Deut, 20:19) . .. ie man's life is similar to the tree that grows in the field. Just as a tree has roots, branches, fruits and leaves, so too does a human being have roots, fruits — which are deeds — leaves — which are his words. PLANT TREES IN ISRAEL IN THE NAME OF YOUR LOVED ONES Perpetuate the memory of family and friends . . . celebrate Bar Mitzvah . . . honor any happy event by planting trees in the forests and Border Settle- ments of Israel! 22100 GREENFIELD RD. OAK PARK. MICH. 48237 PHCiNjEl 399-0820 Attention Bnai Brith Lodges Members and Friends THE PRESIDENTS' BRUNCH Is This SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 11 a.m. Labor Zionist Institute 19161 Schaefer YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO COME AND HONOR YOUR LODGE and COUNCIL PRESIDENTS (Deserving Tree Chairmen Will Also Be Cited) EVERYONE WELCOMED Admission: Minimum Purchase of 1 Tree ($2.50) Honor your lodge president by planting trees in the Bnai Brith Martyr's Forest in Israel Your tree purchase will be credited to the new Detroit B'nai B'rith Victory Forest & • 1. - • 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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