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NEW YORK — The
president of the National
Conference of Christians
and Jews has called upon
the "millions of little
people" in this nation to do
the "work of developing
what we universally call
brotherhood, the respect for
one's fellow human being
and giving to others the
same rights and respect we
desire for ourselves."
In a message contained in
the materials distributed by
the NCCJ celebrating the
46th Brotherhood Week,
which begins Sunday, Dr.
David Hyatt said that the
potential for harmonious
solutions to common prob-
lems would thus dramati-
cally increase.
"Perhaps if we all
could participate in the
process of inter-cultural
and intergroup face-to-
face experiences, we
might be freed from fears
of living next door to or
being in the same school
or neighborhood with
people and families
whose customs differ
from our own," said
Hyatt.
He said that mankind
"still is bitterly divided in
the three Rs — race, reli-
gion and riches," and that
religious fratricide appears
to be the norm rather than
the exception in various
places in the world.
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Holocaust' Shown in France
PARIS (JTA) — French
television began showing
the NBC-TV "Holocaust"
series this week. A record
audience of some 15 million
people was expected.
The program was .shown
in spite of a strike by TV
technicians who decided to
air the program nonethe-
less.
French television first
turned down the film on ar-
tistic and historic grounds.
Heads of France's three
state-controlled channels
also claimed the price de-
manded by the producers
was far too high. -
It was only after a
series of mass protests
led by Health Minister
Simone Veil, herself a
former Auschwitz in-
mate, that one channel
decided to acquire the
rights and air it within
the framework of one of
its most popular pro-
grams, "Screen Files,"
which consists of a film
followed by a debating
panel.
r The showing of the series
has sparked interest about
the entire Holocaust period.
Magazines and newspapers
are giving front-page cover-
age to the period and recall
that 120,000 Jews were de-
ported from France, includ-
ing some 60,000 French na-
tionals, and that less than
3,000 returned alive.
Last week, French televi-
sion cancelled an interview
with Mrs. Lina Heydrich,
widow of former gestapo
leader Reinhard Heydrich
"in order not to provide a
platform from which former
Nazis or their relatives
could try to whitewash their
crimes."
The decision not to show
the interview was repor-
tedly taken after organiza-
tions of former resistance
fighters and deportees
lodged stiff protests with
the TV authority. (See
Commentary, Page 2.)
The French-dubbed
version of "Holocaust"
was also screened in Bel-
gium, where more than
1,000 persons demon-
strated last week in
Antwerp to protest rising
neo-Nazi activities.
"Holocaust" is also being
dubbed into Italian for
showing in Italy later this
year.
several times to the Soviet
Union, where he circum-
cized Jewish children
secretly. He distributed
prayerbooks, -mezuzot,
prayer shawls, etc.
Some 12 years ago he
was accused of being a
"counter-revolutionary
who perpetrated bar-
baric acts on grown-up
people and honest work-
ers."
Rabbi Bronstein was ar-
rested and tortured. The
Russian authorities wanted
to compel him to confess. He
suffered a heart attack, was
released and deported from
the Soviet Union. He de-
cided to fight for Jewish
human rights and against
the Soviet regime.
Rabbi Bronstein could not
visit the Soviet Union any-
more. But he sent emis-
saries to spread the Jewish
spirit among Soviet Jews. In
this way he succeeded in
saving the writings of the
sage of Poltava.
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TEL AVIV — When one
of the last great Torah sages
in the Soviet Union, Yit-
zhak Isaar Krassiltshikov
from Poltava felt 14 years
ago that his death was ap-
proaching, he asked Ameri-
can Rabbi Zvi-Bronstein to
visit him in the hospital in
Moscow.
After the Bolshevik Revo-
lution, the Russian rabbi
was forced to become an ac-
countant. In the hospital, he
confided to Rabbi Bronstein
that during recent years he
had secretly written a com-
mentary to the Babylonian
Talmud, the "Mishna To-
rah" of the Rambam. Under
his hospital bed were 20
volumes of his comments on
the Talmud.
Rabbi Krassiltshikov
asked Rabbi Bronstein to
take these volumes with
him and to promise him that
they would be published. A
few days later, Rabbi Kras-
siltshikov died at the age of
84. He had told Rabbi
Bronstein that he wrote the
comments for many years in
a cellar with the help of
candle light.
Bronstein
Rabbi
brought the hand-written
volumes to Israel. In 1977,
the first volume was pub-
lished. Talmud experts
all over the world ex-
pressed their admiration
for this work, which was
produced under inhu-
man conditions. The
comments were not writ-
ten for scholars and ex-
perts. The late Rabbi
Krassiltshikov suc-
ceeded in bringing the
Talmud closer to the
common people.
The comments were re-
viewed by Israeli rabbis and
printed in Bnei Brak.
Rabbi Bronstein told us
that in 1953 he was sent to
Poland as a mohel. In those
years there was an emigra-
tion from the Soviet Union
by former Polish citizens.
Many Jews used this oppor-
tunity to come to Poland.
They asked to be circum-
cized.
Rabbi Bronstein left Po-
land, but he kept his rela-
tions with the remaining
Polish Jews. He travelled
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