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This Sabbath, the first day of Adar, 5737, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
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Candle lighting, Friday, Feb. 18, 5:50 p.m.
VOL. L.
No. 24
Page Four
Friday, February 18, 1977
The Nazi Crime in. Modern Garb
German archives are filled with data about the Six Million. The admission of guilt of
the mass murders came first from German sources, then were corroborated in the records
that were compiled by the United States in archives that are available in our nation's
capital and contain millions of documents as evidence. Archival collections of many na-
tions contain the facts of the horrors that were perpetrated by Adolph Hitler and his
hordes.
But haters ofJews and distorters of truth in many parts of the world have contributed
to the circulation of pamphlets questioning "Did Six Million Really Die?" And Arthur R.
Butz, an associate professor of engineering at Northwestern University, has become a
chief spreader of the libel against the Jewish victims of Hitlerism by giving emphasis to a
charge that the Holocaust is a Zionist fabrication.
He was repudiated by faculty and students at Northwestern and Provost and Chief
Academic Officer Raymond W. Mack made this declaration:
"I agree with faculty, colleagues and students who believe that distortion of well-
documented historical facts constitutes a contemptible insult to the dead and the be-
reaved."
Is there really a need for added violence of the Nazi crime to refute the outrageous
Butz distortions?
Immediately after the end of World War II distinguished Americans visited the camps
and witnessed the result of the Nazi bestialities. Here is a story that was among the many
published at the close of the war:
MA.Y 6, 1945
THE NEW YORK TIMES
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the sworn statements of wit-
messes and victims.
The conclusion is inescapable
that the Nazis had a master plan
for their political pr:son camps.
That plan was ba.ed upon a pol-
icy of calculated and organized
brutality. The evidence we have
seen is not a mete assembling of
IS Who Toured German Camps ineal
or unassociated incidents.
that hru-
Call for Punishment of Party 'It is convincing- proof
tality was the basic Nazi system
and Army Leaders
and method.
Thia brutality took different
forms in different places and with
Seacial is Tas Haw Teas Tram
nifferent groups. The basic pat-
WASHLNGTON. May 5—Eight- tern varied little.
Actual Nazi methods ran the
een American . editors and publish-
gamut. fr om delibei ate starvation
ire who toured German prison and
routine beatings to sadistic
camps at the invitation of Gen. tortures too horr ible and too per-
Dwight D. Eisenhower today urged verted to he publicly described.
the United States to adopt a strong Murder was a commonplace.
Prisoners whose only crime was
policy on war criminals and to em-
Sii?
power "speedily" the War Crimes that they disagreed or were
Cornmission to put such a policy pected of disagreeing with the
Nazi philosophy were treated
into effect.
The statement, released by the with uniform cruelty. When death
came. as to multiplied thousands
EDITORS CONDEMN
NAZIS' BRUTALITY
War Department while the news-
paper and magazine men were still
abroad, said the investigation can-
vinced them that the Nazis pur-
sued a master plan of "calculated
anck organized brutality."
TEXT OF STATEMENT
The text of the statement fol-
lews:
This delegation of newspaper
and magazine editors was brought
to Europe at the suggestion of
General Eisenhower to investi-
gate reports of German atroci-
ties.
We have visited and spent con-
siderable time investigating the
prison camps at Buchenwald and
Dachau. We have interviewed re-
cently freed political prisoners,
Slave laborers and civilians of
many nationalities. We have
studied a great mass of docu-
ments covering the German occu-
pation of France which contained
photographic evidence and testi-
mony taken in many places and
painstakingly authenticated with
of them It did, it must have been
of their position, be indicted as
war criminals.
In punishing these crimes the
historic principle of individual
and personal responsibility must
he preserved and all those re-
sponsible for these atrocities must
he punished in accord with the
accepted laws of civilized nations.
We strongly urge that United
Nations policy in regard to war
crint'nals be speedily agreed to
and the War Crimes Commission
speedily empowered to put those
policies into action.
As we witness the collapse of
the Nazis' experiment in ruthless-
ness and totalitarianism, we are
more than ever convinced that
there can -be no peace on earth
until the right of the earth's peo-
ples to life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness is recognised
and protected under. law.
Signed by:
Jruus Onto Alum, Tun New
Yoax
MALC01.11 SINOAT, Detroit Tree
Press.
Amor; CArrsit, Fort Worth : Star-
Telegram.
NORMAN CHANDLit, Los Angeles
Times.
a relief from worse than death.
By these tortures most of the
Jews in prison camps had already
been destroyed. After the Jews,
the most cruelly treated victims WILLIAM L. CHINIRT, Collier's.
were the Russians and the Poles. E. Z. DIMITMAN, Chicago Sun.
To the basic policy of brutality JOH N RANDOLPH WAIST, Hearst
toward political prisoners there
Newspapers.
were. however, no significant ex- Bet: Hass,. Saturday Evening
ceptions.
Post.
This, we believe, Is the inexo-
NIXT HIGH, Reader's Digest.
rable consequence of the whole STA
BIN
IlcKaLwAT, Washington Star.
Nazi-German philosophy. By this WILLIAM
I. NICHOLS, This Week
philosophy and the cunning and
Magazine.
-persistence with which it was
propagated the German mind be- L. K. NicHoLsox, New Orleans
Times-Picayune.
came contaminated and diseased.
For these crimes the German Jowl( Putatzsz, St. Louis Poet-
DispatCh.
people cannot be' allowed to es-
cape their share of the responsi- GIDDON SIITMOUR. Minneapolis Star-
punishment
must
be
bility. Just
Journal.
meted out to the outstanding • MIDIS SHoOP, Kansas City Star.
party leaders and the German rasvILE.T W. SMITH , American
General Staff,' to party otfice-
Magazine.
holders, to all members of the
Scri pps-Howard
STON
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Gestapo. all members of the SS WALK
Newspaper Alliance.
Elite Guard). Simple justice
W ALM. Houston Chron-
and the future peace of the world M. E.
icle.
require that all these, by virtue
The late Editor Malcolm W. Bingay of Detroit News and Detroit Free Press fame, who
was a member of this group of investigators of the Nazi crimes, was horrified by what he
had seen and learned. So were his associates. So was the entire civilized world. But on the
Northwestern University campus the appearance of a defender of the Hitler bestialities
has once again called attention to mass murders and is drawing the contempt of decent
people for an intolerable act. That defender of Nazism, in his attempt to whitewash the
most horrible crimes in world history, has lost the right of acceptance in human society.
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Leading Artists Depicted
'Art in Israel': New Definitive
Work Denoting Great Progress
A young Israel now is competing with the oldest of nations
in the progressive achievements of a long list of artists whose
works have gained widest recognition.
In "Art in Israel," an impressively definitive and richly
illustrated book (Schocken), Ran Shechori, a noted Israeli art
critic who is headmaster of the Israel State Art Teachers'
Training College, has gathered the works of the leading Israeli
artists and has provided a lengthy description of their works
and their backgrounds in their rise to eminence as artists.
The 151 works were splendidly reproduced for this volume
by Israel Zafni. They add immensely to the purpose attained by
this book in providing an appreciation of Israeli art.
There are 55 illustrations in full color and the 96 in black and
white are in two tones.
Art lovers of all nations will find great interest in the reve-
lation of the immensity of another achievement by the young
Jewish nation, whose many artists have inspired a market that
draws thousands of tourists who have introduced the products
from Israel to thousands of Jewish homes in the Diaspora.
Shechori's 38-page introductory essay adds significantry to
the value of this work. He analyzes the growth of the artistic
colony in Israel, introduces the many artists, defines their
works and deals extensively with the achievement that has
become a source of pride for Israel and for art lovers visiting the
country and spreading its art products globally.
In his introduction Shechori comments:
"What is the face of Israeli art today? A new generation of
artists is beginning to take its place on the gallery walls. The
most veteran of artists are still in their creative prime. Zaritzky
is deepening his personal style. Paldi is showing ever more
humor and grace in his infantile "monsters". Ardon often ex-
hibits new works in Europe and America.
"Castel and Rubin were among the prominent decorators of
the new President's Residence in Jerusalem. Kadishman, Beni
Efrat, Bucky Schwartz, Tumarkin and others have won recog-
nition abroad, and Israeli exhibition's tour the world.
"The country's art activities are altogether out of any prop-
ortion to the size of population and economic resources. The
Artists' Association alone has 700 listed members, and at least
twice that number are actively engaged in the visual arts out-
side the association. The recent waves of immigration, espi
cially from Soviet Russia, brought a large number of artists.
"Symptomatic of this situation is the staggering prolifera-
tion of galleries, and the scale of commercialization of art. Tel
Aviv alone has over 100 galleries.
"Does this momentum in art activity necessarily indicate
quality? That would indeed be difficult to answer. Like
anywhere else, there are good and less skilled artists. Many
have reached personal achievements of the highest order.
"Some.have integrated into the international art scene, and
others keep trying their hands at all the possible schools of
expression, ranging from the Russian social realism to concep-
tual art.
"The most significant fact is that, during less than 70 years,
an Israeli visual art has been created — an art that has a unique
character, for good or bad, and an ability to unhesitatingly
ilisplay impressive achievements."