44 Friday, October 22, 1976

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The German Jew Benno
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of stainless steel.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Trifa Ouster From National Church Body
Sought by Jewish Youth Group, Rabbis

their complaint over the
Kaminskas was ac-
church group's stand cused of participating in
MICHAEL KAPLIT
would be placed on the "the selection of a group
NCC's staff meeting of approximately 400
Photography
agenda.
Jews at a location known
Weddings • Bar Mitzvas
In a related action, the as Shukstas Estate, for
Rabbinical Council of execution at another lo-
642-1039
America expressed dis- cation known as the Kup-
may that Trifa, who has ras Woods, in or about
been accused of par- July or August 1941," of
ticipating in the murder taking part in "the shoot-
of thousands of Jews and ing of approximately 200
Christians while a com- Jews at or near a location
by Infinity Disco
mander of the Romanian
known as the Bilum Es-
fascist Iron Guard in tate," and the "shooting
latest equipment
1941, has not been re- of approximately 60 chil-
moved or suspended.
dren at or near a location
call Dan Sandberg
The CJY, which is not known as Medziolkalnis
connected with Betar, con- Woods," in the same area.
353-6699
trary to a previous report,
Detlays was charged
disrupted a meeting of the
with being "employed as a
governing board of the member of the Latvian
NCC a week earlier and Legion from 1941 to 1944"
shouted demands for the and that while a member
removal of Trifa. That de- he participated in the
monstration, at which the
shooting of Jews in the
CJY was joined by mem-
Riga ghetto in October
bers of Betar and at which
1941. He was also charged
the Jewish Defense
with "selection of a group
League also became in- of Jews at a location known
volved, and the latest one as the Dwinsk ghetto for
were non-violent.
execution at another loca-
15075 Lincoln
Thompson, in his tion known as the
Lincoln Tower Apts.
Oak Park, Mi.
statement, noted that in-
Pogulanka Woods" earlier
Mon.-Fri.
vestigations by the U.S.
Needlepoint
that year.
10-5
Knit
immigration authorities
Maikovskis was iden-
Sat. 10-4
968-1015
Crochet
and by the Orthodox
tified as a member of the
Church in America failed
police department in Re-
to substantiate war
zekne, Latvia, in 1941 and
crimes charges against
1942 and that during
him. Declaring that the
those years he selected
NCC board was not a
groups of Jews for execu-
court, Thompson said
tion in the Pogulanka
Wholesale Distributor, of Womens Apparel
Trifa must be presumed
Woods.
innocent until proved
The INS ordered the
Has in stock
guilty.
three men to appear at
In Washington, the
hearings to show why
Reg. Wholesale
U.S. government accused
they should not be de-
three men of taking part
ported for concealing al-
Brand Name Pants
$18 $ 6.75
in Nazi World War II
leged war crimes in Lat-
programs to exterminate
via and Lithuania when
Shirts
$16 $ 5.75
Jews and opened deporta-
they applied for U.S. en-
tion proceedings against
try. The INS said it was
Gabardine Suits
$50 $21.75
them.
the first time the gov-
The Justice Depart-
ernment has, on its own
ment's Immigration and
initiative, taken deporta-
lots of other stock at wholesale prices
tion action against per-
Naturalization Service
sons accused of war
(INS) served summonses
Mon-Sat open 9-5
on Karlis Detlays, 65, a
crimes.
Latvian Living in Balti-
Meanwhile, the trial of
more; Bronius Kamin-
a Dutch war criminal will
skas, 73, a Lithuanian re-
begin the week of Nov. 22
siding in Hartford; and
in Limburg, Holland. The
Baleslays Maikovskis, 72,
defendant, Johan Loyen,
25100 Evergreen
355-5765
a Latvian living in
served as an SS guard in a
Mineola, N.Y.
forced labor camp for
Jews near Bobruisk in
White Russia during
World War II. He has
been charged with at-
rocities that caused the
deaths of thousands of
camp inmates.
In Brussels, Belgian
October 25 thru November 28
Jews have asked West
German justice au-
thorities to speed up the
•
legal proceedings against
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Ernst Ehlers, the former
Nazi police chief for war-
Day Care Roori174,
time occupied.Belgium..
Ehlers, believed to
have been responsible for
the artest, deportation
and murdtr of more than
25,0etrjews,
has- never
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DISCO PARTY

NEW YORK (JTA) — A
statement by William P.
Thompson, president of
the National Council of
Churches (NCC), that Ar-
chibishop Valarian Trifa
of the Romanian Or-
thodox Episcopate could
not be constitutionally
removed or suspended by
the NCC's governing
board, sparked two sepa-
rate actions within the
last few days.
Thirty-five members of
Concerned Jewish Youth
took over the executive
offices here of the NCC for
more than six hours last
week and left only after
receiving a promise that

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