Cemeteries in Poland, Babi Yar Are in Danger of Destruction
20—Friday, Jaw. 12, 1973
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Would the face of nature
The depravity of the busi-
ing World War II by the old, "the last historical
Nazis in Poland, the Soviet traces of the Jew's of Poland be so serene and beautiful if ness classes of our country is
Union, Hungary and Czech- will be effaced," Javits said. man's destiny were not not less than has been sup-
equally ao? — Henry D. posed but infinitely greater.
oslovakia.
Thoreau.
—Walt Whitman.
The senator noted
that Centers for Elderly
Ceder Avot "has for some
NEW YORK (JTA) —The
time been endeavoring to ob -
lain reparations for the des- Associated YM-YWHA,c of
truction of these cemeteries•, New York, responding to the
b u t that "unfortunately, findings of a study of self-
these efforts have not met help activities among the
with success." aged in New York City, has
on most items in store
applied for $1,300,000 in city
Complete Line of
Javits
said that many funds to open 13 "satellite
Jewish graveyards in Poland, centers" throughout the city.
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JERUSALEM (JTA i — Is- European states. But a for- Belz, are endangered.
can be helped to end their
rael officials revealed that eign ministry spokesman
With the destruction of conditions of isolation and
the Israel Foreign Ministry afterwards conceded that these graveyards, many of and loneliness, Associated
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has been applying pressure these contacts have already them more than 1,000 years Ys reported.
on other nations to urge' begun, and a "favorable re-
East Germany to assume re- sponse" has been produced
sponsibility for the Holocaust in some quarters.
and to pay reparations.
The Israelis would like
The question of East Ger-
man responsibility has arisen other nations to hold off giv-
in the past few weeks with ing diplomatic recognition to
the likelihood that a flock of East Germany until it ac•
states will now extend diplo- cepts its responsibility for
matic recognition of the East the Holocaust and makes
6-
German government in an suitable payment to the Is-
about-face of the past 25 raelis as West Germany al-
ready
has
done.
years, following the realiza-
tion of West German Chan-
The Israelis have made it
cellor Willy Brandt's ostpoli- clear that they will not vote
tik.
for East German membership
The Israel government, at in the United Nations, or ex-
a recent cabinet session, tend diplomatic recognition
asked Foreign Minister Abba to the East German state un-
Eban to apply pressure on til it meets both of these
the United States and West conditions.
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Alcksandr Solzhenitsyn of errors among Western states-
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fatuousness and ineptness"
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Solzhenitsyn has been ac•
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militarism and mocking the
disarray and blunders among
BONN (JTA) — The pub-
the Russians, writes Theo- lic prosecutor at the Frank-
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furt Nazi war crimes trial
involving six former mem-
bers of the Frankfurt police
batallion 306 asked for sen-
tences ranging from four to
15 years for the accused.
The accused are Adolf
Petsch, 15 years, charged
with complicity in murder- IF
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Senator Ja cob K. Javits
• (R. N.Y.) recently told the
Senate that Poland has con-
fiscated the cemetery of
Lvov and built a park on its
site and warned that Rain
Yar is in danger of being
converted into an amuse-
ment park if no action is
taken.
Javits said the situation
was brought to his attention
by the Ceder Avot section
of the World Center of Euro-
pean Rabbis, which plans to
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Isr •I for the martyrs, for
those who no longer have
gravestones, and for the
more than 2,000 cemeteries
which were demolished dur-
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