6 . Friday, March 10, 1918

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Anti-Nazi Rally Due Sunday; Groups Back Holocaust Studies

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students know little
about the Holocaust, and
that American Nazis
push a virulent anti-
Black line."
The DFT proposal was re-
ferred to the board's cur-
riculum committee. The
DFT also presented the

board with curriculum
materials that have been
used in New York City for
the past 10 years.
The DFT asked for quick
action so that a resource
unit could be prepared for
the next school year.
At the same time, Detroit
area religious groups joined

Home
Alarm
Specialists

in creating an Interfaith
coordinating Committee
on the Holocaust, - to alert
the community to the cur-
rent need to understand the
Nazi Holocaust and to pro-
vide educational resources
for that purpose."

Comprised of the
Catholic Archdiocese of
Detroit, the Christian
Comthunication Council
of Metropolitan Detroit
Churches, the Council of
Eastern Orthodox
Churches, the Jewish
Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit,
and the Greater Detroit
Round Table of' the Na-
tional Conference of
Christians and Jews, the
interfaith committee has
issued an initial state-
ment entitled "The Mis-
sing Chapter: The

Holocaust And Why We
Must Study It."

Charles Benham, director
of the Greater Detroit
Round Table, said "Many of
us have forgotten or remain
uninformed of the anti-
Semitism, the anti-
Christianity and the racism
practiced by the Nazis, who
instituted genocide as a na-
tional policy," Benham said.

"We have tried to forget the
human gas ovens and the
planned extermination of
people. The human tragedy
of the Nazi era has been
missing from almost
everyone's education for the
past 30 years. And now we
find young people growing
up without a proper - know-
ledge of our history on
which to base their judge-
ments and their future,
thinking that the Nazis are

simply a different political
point of view!"
A variety of resources are
offered to schools and com-
munity and religious
groups by the Interfaith
Committee. These range
from audio-visual materials
and theological papers to
speakers (including Sur-
vivors of the Holocaust) and
college courses on the
Holocaust for under-
graduate and graduate
study.
The religious groups con-
stituting the committee
cooperated several years
ago in`conducting a confer-
ence for school curriculum
planners, to encourage
adequate instruction re-
garding the Holocaust and
its significance for young
people today. A second con-
ference this spring will
focus on curriculum guides

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Nationally syndicated
columnist Gary Wills took
the American Civil Liber-
ties union to task, in a
March 1 column, for the
ACLU's defense of the
Nazis' "right" to march in
Skokie.
Wills said, in part:
The American Civil
Liberties Union is caught,
by its liberal naivete, in a
bind of protecting the
"right" of Nazis to march
through a Jewish neighbor-
hood in Skokie, Ill. I respect
their labor and consistency,
but the rest of us live in a
different world.
The relevant body of
law in this case is not the
First Amendment but
nuisance statutes. People
are not allowed to wan-
der nude on downtown

Jewish Mayor
of Cork in NY

I Don't Want to Sell You A Car.
I Want to Help You Buy One.

You work hard for your money. So do I.
But I don't think that a low price alone is enough to get you to spend your
money at Jerry Glassman Olds, or any other car dealership.
I believe people want to buy their car from a dealership they can put their
trust in. A dealership, that'll work as hard for their money as they did. Making
sure things are right — before, during and after the sale.
When -yo4 visit Glassman Olds, well help you pick out a car that's right for
the kind of driving you do. Then well quote you a fair price. A price as low as
any in town. Maybe lower.
And, after the sale, you'll find our smiles are just as wide, our handshakes
just as friendly when you come in for a free warranty check.
That's the way I run things at Jerry Glassman Oldsmobile. Come in and see
for yourself.

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WITH GENUINE GM PARTS"

streets, or to defecate
there. "Flashers" are ar-
rested outside girls'
schools.
Public nuisance statutes
can be abused, but normally
they are not. The law is not
often invoked against un-
curbed dogs, unmuffled
cars, spitting on sidewalks,
endless car honking, or
noisy parties. But, after
warning and repeated of-
fense, the law can (and
should) be invoked.
I know that all my
parallels will be thrown
aside as irrelevant be-
cause the Nazis scream
their insults in words,
and the First Amendment
protects speech. Well, the
woman tortured by re-
peated obscene phone
calls is afflicted by
another person's speech.

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NEW YORK — The Lord
Mayor of Cork, Ireland, one
of 5,000 Irish Jews in a
country that is 95 percent
Catholic, visited New York
this week to promote Irish
agricultural products.
Mayor Gerald Y.
Goldberg is the son of
Lithuanian refugees. An
Orthodox Jew, his parents
spoke Yiddish at home. He
learned English at age six,
and didn't learn Irish until
he was 10.

Country of Origin

JERUSALEM (ZINSI —
Israel's Jewish immigrants
include 482,000 from
Morocco, 345,000 from Po-
land, 290,000 from
Romania, 259,000 from
Iraq, 248,000 from the
Soviet Union, 162,000 from
Yemen, and 75,000 from
other countries.

Is that speech protected
by the Constitution?
Retreating further, the
defenders of the Skokie
marches may say that the
First Amendment protects
opinion, as opposed to just
any kind of speech. Fine.
You send a letter to the
White House (with your
own return address on the
envelope) expressing the
opinion that the president
should be shot the next time
he ventures out; you will
find out very soon what kind
of protection you are enti-
tled to — namely, protective
custody.
The Nazis who want to
parade in Skokie are not
engaged in the rational air-
ing of views, but in the pro-
voking of irrational (but
predictable) responses.
They are, in effect, broad-
casting an obscene phone
call to a whole neighbor-
hood instead of to a single
house.

and teaching methods now
in use in various public and
private schools.
The committee also
plans extensive contacts _
with churches and
synagogues, schools and
community groups, to
encourage viewing and
discussion of a special
NBC television network
production entitled
"Holocaust," scheduled
for a four-part, nine-hour
presentation April 16-19.
For information, call
the Detroit Round Table,
869-6306.
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Anti-Nazi Strike
Commemorated

AMSTERDAM (JTA) —
The "February strike" was
commemorated Feb. 26 as it
had been for the last 32
years. The strike was staged
by workers on Feb. 26, 1941
on the occasion of the depor-
tation of the first 400
Jewish young men by the
Germans.
The strike did not reverse
the deportations and the
young Jews all perished in
Mauthausen within a few
months.
The strike was-also fol-
lowed by increasing anti-
Jewish measures by the
Germans and eventually by
Jewish mass deportations.
The strike, however,
Marked the beginning of
Dutch wartime resistance.

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