• , Berffen-Belsen Slaty ivbrs to Make Paoli/44a ere on 25th Year ojf Liberation NEW YORK Several hundred survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp will make a pilgrimage this summer to the site of the death camp on the 25th anniversary of its liberation by the British Army. What was one of Hitler's major concentration camps is today a cemetery for more than 100,000 Jews buried there in num- erous mass graves. In announcing the pilgrimage, Josef Rosensaft, president of the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations, said that for most participants it will be their first return to Bergen-Belsen. Jews tra- ditionally, "return to the graves of — "The award, said Rosensaft, "is being presented to Jerusalem by virtue of its . special significance in Jewish history and in recognition of the fact that the Holy City is the site of the largest and most mean- ingful memorials to the 6,000.000 martyrs, the Yad Vashem Hill of Remembrance and the Cave of the Holocaust and the Belsen Memor- ial, both on Mt. Zion." Those • A panel of writers, who serve on WASHINGTON (JTA)—President country in its dedication to safe- the international jury of the "Re- Nixon reaffirmed his support of guarding human rights and basic membrance Award" will partici- Senate ratification of the Genocide freedoms, both at home and throughout the world. The in- pate in a symposium on "The Treaty in a message to the Ad Hoc formed, active support of your token of respect and love," he said. federation will publish an addition- But because of their abhorrence of al five titles in its Remembrance the locale. the great majority of Library: "The Forest, My Friend" survivors have never been to Ber- by Dona Rosen; "Stalemate," by Services at the cemetery on July 1 will mark the beginning 'et a two-week commemoration of i the 25th anniversary of the liber- ation, highlighted by the presen- tation of the federation's 1970 Remembrance Award to the city of Jerusalem at the King David Hotel. se of "Helpless" Jews Itzhak Mar; "Poems of the Holo- caust" (Volume 2) by Aron Zeitlin; "Children of the Night". by Rachel Mintz; and "Never Never Forget," a Holocaust anthology. in Anti-Israel Campaign WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Jew- nard Direnfeld of Cleveland re- • In a statement issued in Washing- ish Veterans of the U.S.A. deplored ferred to a staged press conference "the cynical use of captive, help- held in Moscow this week in which from the, United States, Canada. less Jews in the Soviet Union to 40 Jews were paraded before the England, France, South Africa and exploit its anti-Israel policies." press to exhibit anti-Israel and South America also will Participate JWV National Commander Ber- anti-Zionist expressions. 'in services in Jerusalem at the Cave of the Holocaust and the Yad Vashem Hill of Remembrance. Nixon Reaffirms His Genocide Pact Backing Legacy of the Holocaust and its Meaning for Jewish Survival." Among the participants will be the laureates of the Remembrance Award, Elie Wiesel and Manes Sperber. Concurrently in New York, the their loved ones every year as a gen-Belsen since they were liber- ated. JWV Deplores Soviet Committee on the Human Rights committee for a direction which and Genocide Treaties which held this government is determined to a two day meeting in Washington. take is encouraging and reassur- In a letter to Herschel Halbert, jog." chairman of the committee, Nixon The 150 committee members said: "Your meeting comes at an important time, and serves to re- representing 53 organizations met mind all Americans that the ratifi- March 4 with the Senate Foreign cation of the Genocide Convention Relations Committee and urged at this time is in their national in- ratification of the "Convention on terest." President Nixon sent a the Prevention and Punishment of message to the Senate recently the Crime of Genocide" which has asking for ratification, been languishing in the Senate Nixon told the Ad Hoc Com - , committee since June 1948. mitiee: "The Un it e d States should stand second to no other J.W.V. SUPPLEMENT ton by Commander Direnfeld, the JWV pointed out that "the tactics now being used by the Russians. namely to force denunciations of fellow Jews in Israel by prominent Soviet Jews, is reminiscent of the Nazi era, when by force Hitler used Jews as pawns in his designs to exterminate the Jews of Europe." Commander Direnfeld pointed out 'there has been a state policy in the Soviet Union of cultural genocide against the Jews for a number of years. This policy has been expressed in terms of inhibit- ing cultural expression, discrimina- tion, _fear campaigns and threats against Soviet Jews who exhibit a desire to immigrate to Israel." "It is bacrenough," he said, "that 3.000,000 Jews are held captive in the Soviet Union. But to play upon their fears by forcing men to speak against their biothers is uncon- scionable. Friday, March 20, 1970-15 In Loving Memory of Marine Capt. Rubin Iden KILLED SEPT. 20, 1942 making the pilgrimage CLAD 1LC VIN +11-, Israel Population in '85 Predicted to Hit 3,500,000 TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Israel's Jewish population, increasing min- utely but steadily year to year. wilt grow to 3.500,000 by 1985, ac- cording to Prof. Reuven Bakki, chi e f government statistician, speaking at the annual conference of Israel's Central Statistical Bu- reau. Professor Bakki's figures are based both on natural increase and on teh expected immigration in the next 15 years. Eliezer Liv- neh, a writer on political and so- cial issues, is much more optimis- tic about the future. After a three- week visit to the U.S., Livneh wrote an article published in Ha- retz, predicting taht "millions" of- American Jews will be settling in Israel within the next decade. American Jewish youngsters. says Livneh, reject their parents, leaving them with but two options: losing their children or setting in Israel. 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