THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12 June 18, 1976
Priest's Story Told on Holocaust Survival
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newspaper devoted a consid-
erable portion of a recent
front page to the personal
story of a Detroit Catholic
priest who survived the Hol-
ocaust and a separate arti-
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cle that summarized the
Nazi Holocaust.
Writer Catherine Haven
wrote about Father Frank
Tyminsk4 who retired May
31 from the active ministry.
Fr. Tyminski, as a Polish
priest, was incarcerated in
Sachsenhausen in 1940, and
was a prisoner at Dachau
from 1941-45. Of 2,200 Pol-
ish priests at Dachau, he
was one of 860 who survived.
Fr. Tyminski tells of dis-
crimination against the Pol-
ish priests by the Nazis and
other prisoner clergy, and
how he narrowly avoided
medical experiments be-
cause his health was not
perfect.
Eight priests from Da-
chau came to the Detroit
area after the war, and
each year they join others
in the U.S. and Canada for
an annual mass and reu-
nion.
In her summary of the
Holocaust, Catherine Haven
both criticized and praised
the Church for its role:
"German Church leaders,
in the meantime, main-
tained a policy of silence
toward the Nazi atrocities.
"While German Catholi-
cism clashed frequently
with National Socialism
both before and after Hit-
ler's advent to power, noted
Nora Levin in 'The Holo-
caust', anti-Semitism was
not a major issue of conflict.
" On Apr. 26, 1933,
shortly after coming to
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Mapam convention ended
with a decision to remain
within the Labor Alignment
for the time being.
At the same time, Mapam
will prepare for a separate
election list next year
should the partnership with
the Labor Party prove to be
imcompatible with its for-
eign and domestic political
goals. That will be deter-
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sands of priests, religious
and laity.
"This passivity of most
German clergy was broken
by some individual efforts
by churchmen to speak out
against the Jewish persecu-
tion. French, Dutch and Bel-
gium bishops and laity
spoke out against Nazism,
and Msgr. Angelo Roncalli,
later to become Pope John
XXIII, is credited with the
rescue of tens of thousands
of Jews."
Mapam Retains Labor Alignment Membership
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FATHER JOHN TYMINSKI
tions, and arrested thou-
power, Hitler had a talk
with Catholic Church dig-
nitaries and reminded
them that for 1,500 years
the Church had regarded
the Jews as parasites and
had banished them to
ghettos. He was merely
going to continue what the
Church had started, he
added.'
"Yet while he had signed
a concordat with the Vati-
can in 1933, Hitler also dis-
solved Catholic youth
groups and family organiza-
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mined by the course Labor
charts at its own convention
in December. Mapam will
reconvene afterwards to de-
cide the Alignment's future.
The three-day convention
here closed with the adop-
tion of a series of resolu-
tions that were tantamount
to a warning to the Labor
Party that the Alignment
could founder if no common
denominator is found be-
tween its constituents.
A resolution calling for
an immediate break with
Labor was not brought to a
vote during the conven-
tion.
The resolutions adopted
included a demand that the
government prepare an
overall peace plan that
would ensure Israel's secu-
rity while not adding any
territories. Israel was urged
to announce its willingness
to carry out large scale
withdrawals from the Sinai,
West Bank and Golan
Heights. The evacuated area
on the Heights should be
permanently demilitarized,
Mapam said.
Freedom of navigation on
the Red Sea should be as-
sured by some form of Is-
raeli presence at Sharm el-
Sheikh. Mapam would not
return the Gaza Strip to
Egyptian control but would
determine its future status
by Israel's security needs
and the wishes of the local
population.
Mapam proposed that
negotiations be conducted
with Jordan on the assump-
tion ,that-two, sovereign in-
dependent states — Israel
and a Palestinian Arab ent-
ity — will exist once the Pa-
lestinians have made their
political choice. Mapam
stated that the development
of Jerusalem and its sub-
urbs was of primary im-
portance to Israel. It ex-
pressed total opposition to
the illegal settlement at-
tempts by the Gush Emu-
nim.
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Dump Begin Drive
Started by Likud
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A
movement appears to be
developing within Likud for
the retirement of its veteran
leader Menachem Begin.
Begin, who heads the par-
ty's Herut faction, has been
asked, in several articles
and pamphlets published
recently, to step down so
that others may become
spokesmen for the non-La-
bor opposition.
These suggestions are
emanating from personali-
ties in the Liberal and Free
Center factions of the Liku
coalition. Prior to the estaL
lishment of Likud after the
Yom Kippur War, the Lib-
erals and Herut comprised
the Gahal alignment which
was in opposition to the
Labor Alignment.
Diana Ross Gets
Israel Award
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Entertainer Diana Ross re-
ceived the Israel Friendship
Award at the Israel Inde-
pendence Ball at the Wash-
ington Hilton Hotel on Sun-
day.