24 Friday, August 22, 1975

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Fate of Missing Chilean Jew Is Still Unknown

NEW YORK (JTA) — The
mother of Luis Alberto
Guendelman Wisniak, a
missing Chilean Jew, has

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convinced Argentinian au-
thorities that a badly muti- tive in left-wing politics,
lated corpse found near disappeared in October,
Buenos Aires is not the body 1974. Perelman, who was a
of her son, the Anti-Defa- friend of a political activ-
ist, was listed missing ear-
mation League of Bnai lier
this year.
Brith revealed.
Chilean
government offi-
According to Rabbi Mor-
ton M. Rosenthal, director cials, who acknowledge that
of the ADL's Latin Ameri- Silberman was in the San-
can affairs department, the tiago penitentiary serving a
3-year sentence imposed
development raised new
speculation about the fate of c wo weeks after the military
oup in September 1973 con-
Guendelman, one of four
end that he has escaped
missing members of the
Chilean Jewish community with the help of friends and
hat they do not know his
believed to be in jail or to
have died while in custody. h resent whereabouts. This
The others are Diana c as been disputed by those
Aaron, Juan Carlos Perel- h lose to Silberman who say
e has been seen in several
man and David Silberman.
g overnment detention cen-
The corpse was found t
with personal documents c ers since his supposed es-
ape, Rabbi Rosenthal said.
identifying it as _Guendel-
man and a sign which said w Members of his family,
"Executed by the MIR," a la ho had visited him regu-
left-wing revolutionary hi rly at the prison, last saw
group. Argentinian police le m in September, 1974. He
declared that the body was to ft the jail on Oct. 4 in cus-
not his after Guendelman's n dy of six military person-
mother examined it at the to el who allegedly were to
him to another facility
morgue and forensic tests fo r ke interrogation.
disclosed that it contained
Silberman's disappear-
bones which had been surgi-
cally removed from Guen-
,
delman when he was a child.

Guendelman, according
to an affidavit signed by
his wife, was arrested by
Chilean intelligence offi-
cials in September 1974
and has not been seen
since, Rabbi Rosenthal
reported. A high Chilean
official has denied that he,
Miss Aaron or Perelman
were ever arrested and
disclaimed any knowledge
of their present location.
Miss Aaron, who was ac-

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Israeli Flier

BY RHODA SHAMES
(Written when an Israeli fli er
was shot down near Cairo

What goes on in your heart,
Israeli Flier'
When your plane is shot down
and you must bale out?
Is unrest in your heart like the
tide that is 'within me?
It really can't be `naught' like
what most think about.
I'm not being partial singling
out 'Israeli Flier,
The concern for all is touched
within me,
But 'Israeli Flier' you are just
my Flier,
That is why you're closer to me,
definitely!
What is in your mind when you
are a speck over depths;
Or a minute atom unseen for
eyes below.
Do you wonder if prayers are
lifting up to heaven;
Do you think that man has no
concern to show!
`Israeli Flier', more than all,
stout-hearted,
Your mission to others, peri-
pheral to compare.
For centuries there has been
wars, conquest without rea-
son.
But Israel's purpose is but with
God, to share.

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ante has had international
repercussions because of
him prominence during the
Allende era as general man-
ager of CODELCO, the na-
tional copper corporation,
and general manager of the
world's largest copper mine,
Chuquicamata.

Silberman and Guendel-
man are among more than
1,000 Chileans who were
arrested after the coup and
are now listed as missing.
The government-con-
trolled Chilean press
claims that more than 100
missing persons who fled
the country were subse-
quently killed_ by leftists
security forces in Argen-
tina and elsewhere.

This contention, however,
has been challenged by the
Committee of Cooperation
for Peace, a human rights
organization sponsored by

Catholic, Protestant and
Jewish clergy. The commit-
tee, in a lengthy statement,
declared that: "The deaths
of such a high number of
Chileans — which is alleged
to have occurred in violent
form in various countries —
cannot be accepted as long
as no complete and serious
investigation is made."

Imprisoned on Dawson
Island with 35 other promi-
nent Chileans, he was de-
tained for almost two years
without trial. Although the
political charges were
dropped, he was fined
$4,000 and sentenced to 500,
days in the Santiago pene-
tentiary for reportedly
evading $2,800 in income
taxes.
Twenty-eight Jews jailed
Contending that he is
since the coup, allegedly for serving a sentence for tax
political reasons, have been evasion, rather than for a
released and subsequently political crime, the Chilean
left the country, according government has refused to
to Rabbi Rosenthal. He said release Kirberg, despite ap-
that one of the few who re- peals by the presidents and
mains in custody is Prof. many faculty members at
Enrique Kirberg, whose Brandeis, Harvard and
continuing detention has M.I.T., as well as an offer of
aroused worldwide protest.
a teaching position from
Kirberg, the former Rector Columbia University. The
of the State Technical Uni-
United Nations Commission
versity, was arrested in his on Human Rights has also
office on the morning of the
appealed for his release,
coup, Sept. 11, 1973.
Rabbi Rosenthal reported.

There Are. Nice People Too

BY DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)

There are wars and crime
and anti-Semites and had
people but there are also
nice things and nice people.

Rohert E. Lee, for in-
stance, vas a very nice man.
Congress has voted to rein-
state his citizenship. He was
the commanding general of
the Confederate army dur-
ing the Civil War and
shortly after the end of that
war, Lee asked that he he
reinstated as a citizen. It's
heen a little slow doing it—
it's more than 100 years
now, but Congress has fin-
ally acted. One should never
give up hope.

Why do we say Lee was a
nice man? For one thing,
Lee was not a hater. He was
commander of the Confed-
erate forces, but he _ did not
hate the Yankees.
a
Southern officer expressed
the hope that all the Yan-

keel would be killed, Lee
sharply reprimanded him.
When one of his own of-
ficers turned down the
application of a Southern
Jewish solider for a fur-
lough that he might attend
the High Holy Day Serv-
ices, Lee overruled the of-
ficer and urged him to be
more sensitive to the reli-
gious feelings of others.
A man who doesn't hate
others is a nice man. The
stigma of slavery of course
is attached to the Southern
Confederacy. However, Lee
was not a slave owner, In
fact, most Southerners were
not. Only about 15 percent
of the Southerners had
slaves. Unfortunately, the
15 percent who owned the
slaves wielded the most
power.
Many Southerners had
voluntarily freed their
slaves. Judah P. Benjamin,
a Jew who was Secretary of
War and later Secretary of
State of the Confederacy 25

Federation, School End Legal Battle

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)
— A two-year legal battle
over funding between the
Jewish Welfare Federation

and the Hebrew Academy, a
day school, has been settled
without trial with the as-
sistance of a superior court
judge.

The day school filed suit
two years ago, charging that

the federation had refused
to give the school $40,000 for
the 1973-74 academic year.
Under the agreement, sub-
ject to final approval by the
federation board this
month, the Hebrew Ada-
demy will receive $26,000.

The
federation
also
agreed to consider applica-
tions for funding from the
day school for the 1976
fund-raising campaign and

agreeded to refrain from
efforts to coerce the federa-
tion by activities likely to be
potentially harmful to fed-
eration fund-raising activi-
ties. The academy also
agreed to cooperate fully
with the federation in its
fund-raising- activities and
to comply with all federa-
tion procedures in connec-
tion with applications for
funding- .

years before t he . ‘var urged
the abolition of slavery.
Benjamin made his argu-
ment on economic grounds.
He held that slavery was
retarding- the commercial
and industrial progress of
the South.

The Northern abolition-
ists all condemned slavery
on moral grounds. Of
course, it was a - moral
wrong, but the economic
argument, that it was hurt-
ing the South itself, might
have been more fruitful.

When Benjamin was
Secretary of War, he was
sometimes attacked on the
score of his Jewishness,
but Jefferson Davis al-
ways backed him up. In-
terestingly enough, on
their first acquantance,
Davis had shown a good
deal of hostility to Benja-
min, but the hostility
changed to warm friend-
ship.
Maybe we have to change
our opinion about another
military man. It was only a
few months hack that Gen-
eral George S. Brown
seemed to have won a first
place among the anti-Sem-
ites by telling an audience
that Jews control the banks
and newspapers of the coun-
try.
The other day he sang a
somewhat different tune.
Appearing before a Senate
committee, he opposed the
giving of the 14 batteries
with some 500 missiles, val-
ued at some $350 million to
Jordan.

MEMORIAL SERVICE

Sunday Aug. 24th 1975 2 p.m. sharp

Young Israel of Oak Woods
24061 Coolidge Oak Park

For Men, Women & Children
Killed by the Nazis in Mass Graves

thereafter. The academy

cities from all over Wolline, Ludwipol,
Sarne, Rokitno, Bereznitze to Stolline — all
Polesie.

Who makes another do a
noble deed, His action doth
his neighbor's act exceed.
—The Talmud

P. Stollman, M. Broder, H. Shlomper, S. Golden
Rabbi Feivel Wagner

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