Flint Jewry Walks for Soviet Kinsmen
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16--Friday, October 30, 1970
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Richard S. Heitzner, Genesee
Community College public relations
director, has been named president
of the Michigan Association of Col-
lege Public Information Officers
for 1970-71. Heitzner has been pub-
lic relations director at Genesee
since 1966. He came to the college
in 1962 as an instructor of forensics.
He is a graduate of Eastern Michi-
gan University and the University
of Michigan.
Bat Mitzva
Barbara Weston, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Aaron Weston, will be
called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzva
Nov. 7 at Cong. Beth Israel.
A Walk-a-Thon on behalf of Soviet Jewry staged
Oct. 18 by youth and adults of Flint's Jewish
community, demonstrates its solidarity with kinsmen
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More than 200 members of the
Flint Jewish community joined in
a Walk-A-Thon in behalf of Soviet
Jewry Oct. 18. Youth and adults
paraded through downtown Flint
and gathered in the city commis-
sion chambers, thus joining with
the youth of Russia in proclaiming
their right to worship and live in
freedom. The Flint City Commis-
sion declared Oct. 18 as "Religious
Freedom Day," and Mayor Donald
Cronin issued a proclamation.
Reaffirming the "unequivocal
opposition of our country to acts
of repression and discrimination
against the Jewish people in the
Soviet Union," the proclamation
urged the United Nations and its
member states "to take action
through diplomatic means to assure
the right to freedom of thought,
conscience, religion, worship and
observance, without restrictions or
political harassment."
The resolution also called for "all
necessary action to insure prompt
and safe emigration for all Jews in
the Soviet Union and the removal
of all obstacles that prevent their
departure."
Messages were received from
Shaul Ramati, consul general of
Israel; Congressman Donald W.
Riegle Jr.; and Sen. Philip Hart.
A speaker for the program was
Dr. Jack Stanzler, chairman of the
community relations committee of
the Flint Jewish Community Coun-
cil. He said in part:
"Today we gather in brotherhood
to protest the loss of human rights
which rob a man of his dignity
and freedom to live as he wishes.
For many of us, and in all coun-
tries save one, this has taken the
form of anti-Semitism. With regard
to anti-Semitism, Russia, and the
Soviet Union, is second to no one.
"Anti-Semitism is as Russian
as vodka and Catherine the
Great. In 1890, a Russian official
said, 'The only solution to the
Jewish question in Russia Is that
one third should emigrate, one
third become Christians, and one
third should perish.'
"And today hundreds of Jews—
mostly young people, are in cus-
tody for daring to want to be Jews
in Russia—or for desiring to go to
Israel. Four were arrested within
the month. Evidence of their
crimes consisted of Jewish ency-
clopedias. Most ominous has been
the news of the nomination of Solo-
viev as prosecutor of 30 arrested
in Leningrad recently. He is in--
But what of the future? Is geno-
cide now unthinkable, or are
potential victims in the world go-
ing about their business, devoted
to their children, aspiring to a
better life, unaware of a gather-
ing storm?'
"Today here in Flint and through-
out the world we gather to ask one
question. We ask: What better way
for free men to honor the dead
than to guarantee that the Jews of
Russia, the principal survivors of
the Holocaust, endure."
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"My son Jeffrey, in announcing
this march at Sunday school, was
asked what good this effort does.
How can we change things? We
now know, as a result of these pro-
tests, that things are not as bad
in the Soviet Union as they might
have been. The Soviet Union is
sensitive to world opinion. They do
not like protests in Flint and 50 or
more other American cities where
Americans are told the truth about
conditions in Russia — how their
constitution is a lie. They do not
like to be picketed at the United
Nations. Accordingly, we march
today to tell our fellow citizens the
truth. Each city is a small group
as we are, but together we repre-
sent millions of people. That is why
we are here.
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'Twenty - five year s have
passed and the ovens of Aus-
chwitz have cooled, the 100,000
buried in Babi Yar lie murdered
in still unmarked graves. Arthur
D. Morse in 'While Six Million
Died' wrote of the apathy of the
world while the Nazis killed our
brothers. He now states, The six
million He in nameless graves.
Almost $350,000 has been spent
during the past year by the Na-
tional Conference of Christians and
Jews on programs for police and
community leaders dealing with
police-community relations and the
administration of justice.
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in the Soviet Union. The 201 participants carry
posters proclaiming the right of Russian Jewry to
live in freedom and obtain emigration to Israel.
famOus as the judge who in 1961
sentenced Jews to death for eco-
nomic 'crimes.'
"Even the words Jewish ques-
tion, Jewish problem, or Jewish
solution chill Jews who know any-
thing of history, for these have
been polite words for the slaughter
of millions of our brothers and
parents throughout the centuries.
Russia, historically, has the most
prominent role in this butchery.
"The Soviet Union is a double
threat to us. We now see clearly
that Soviet policies do threaten not
only those 3,000,000 Jews in Russia,
but almost 6,000,000 Jews, for
Russia is now actively involved in
supporting those who would eradi-
cate the 2,500,000 Jews of Israel,
in its support of the Arab states—
support with billions of dollars in
arms, thousands of technicians,
pilots, and of course missiles.
Perhaps I should not stop with
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survival — yours and mine — de-
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