THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Incident of Violence at Nazi Survivors Rally
Deplored by Participants, Called Unjustified
Mere presence of Donald
Lobsinger, the ultra-con-
servative critic of liberal
movements in this country,
at the public meeting of the
Survivors of the Nazi
Holocaust, held at Temple
Emanu-El developed into
an outburst of anger that re-
sulted in bloodshed.
At least two members of
the audience, the command-
ing officer of the Jewish
War Veterans and the head
of the Detroit Committee
for Soviet Jewry deeply
-plored the "uncalled-for
Adent."
Jerry Rogers, who heads
the committee on aid to
Russian Jewry, said that
the latter came to the meet-
* with two companions, a
very heavy set man and a
woman. He had a tape re-
corder with him.
The meeting proceeded
calmly, Rogers reports,
with guest speaker Dave
Diles, Hy Shenkman, Wil-
bert Simkovitz, Eliot Char-
lip and Martin Rose giving
brief speeches.
None of the platform had
the slightest idea of what-
was happening in the rear.
It was when Diles was leav-
ing the hall that one of the
survivors jumped up, point-
ed at Lobsinger, shouted
"Nazi," and then the brawl
commenced.
Lobsinger was badly beat-
en when the fists began to
clobber him and a chair
was thrown at him. The
heavy set man he came
with was beaten reportedly
into semi-consciousness.
One woman was hurt, anoth-
er had a slight heart failure
and was taken to a hospital
in an ambulance.
When the police arrived
the incident was over, hav-
ing lasted a few minutes.
Rogers reports that when
he went to the police head-
quarters in Oak Park to re-
port on the incident, Lobsi-
nger also was there. Then,
Rogers quotes him, he said,
"No TRUE American can
be a Nazi." Rogers said
that Lobsinger placed the
emphasis on "true."
Rogers asked Lobsinger
why he brought a tape re-
corder and Lobsinger said
that when he quotes anyone
he wishes to be correct.
Rogers had previous expe-
riences with Lobsinger dur-
ing demonstrations when
they were on opposite sides
of questions that arose re-
garding Israel, Russian
Jewry and other matters.
Lobsinger had been at Jew-
ish meetings in the past. He
attended a lecture at Cong.
Shaarey Zedek, asked a
question, was answered and
there was no incident.
Leonard Green, depart-
ment commander of the
Jewish War Veterans, ex-
pressed shock over the lack
of respect for a synagogue
where the meeting was held
and the failure to grant the
right of assembly to a vis-
itor.
He had personally inter-
ceded to prevent two of the
people in the audience from
contributing to what, as he
said, could have become a
mass and bloody riot.
Green said that, of
course, he disagrees with
Lobsinger's views but that
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he resents anyone acting
violently towards a person
attending a meeting which
was advertised as open to
the public without an admis-
sion fee.
Green condemned the
emotional outburst as unjus-
tified. He said it was pos-
sible that some one was
seeking notoriety because
Diles is active in the radio
and television media, and
he expressed the hope that
nothing as undemocratic
will recur.
The JWV Commander
may have aided in ending
the brawl because he bodily
threw out of the hall two of
the distrupting element who
created the issue Sunday
evening. Lobsinger sim-
ilarly was assisted to get
out of the hall.
When Lobsinger came to
po lice headquarters he was
batte red and bloodied.
From police headquarters
he had gone to Providence
Hospital for first. aid to,
patch up his wounds.
Charlip, who presided at
the meeting, also deplored
what had happened because
it introduced a negative
note in a significant expres-
sion of sad recollections of
the Holocaust by the survi-
vors from Nazism.
Charlip said that the
more than 600 people in at-
tendance were under the im-
pact of tragic recollections
of what had happened to
them and their families. He
said the meeting discussed
the plans for a memorial to
the victims of Hitlerism
and it may have been under-
standable why the presence
of a reactionary who has
been involved in many in-
cidents affecting the liber-
alism of this nation should
have irked those who
showed their emotions with
pmstestations.
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