Joan Campion
as Champion
of Righteousness
* * *

Children Lead
in Obviating
Prejudices

THE JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

Commentary, Page 2

The President's
Challenging
Sermon to
All Americans
* * *
Jerusalem
the Capital

of Jewish Events

Editorials, Page 4 I

VOL. LXXV, No. 18 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $12.00 Per Year: This Issue 30c

July 6, 1979

U.S. Leaders at Hebrew University

'Aissinger as Envoy of Peace,
Jackson as Freedom Fighter

Increased Aid for Russian
Jews in Local Allocations

Allocations of $6 million for domestic activities by its agencies,
decided upon by the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, include
increases to agencies serving the needs of emigres from Russia now
settled here. The chart below shows the total allocations approved by
Federation's board of governors on June 26.
(See detailed story, Page 16)

Agencies

Allocations from 1978 and 1979 Campaigns
1978-79

CULTURE AND EDUCATION
United Hebrew Schools/ Midrasha
$827,500
Akiva Hebrew Day School
40,440
Hillel Day School
77,640
Yeshivat Beth Yehuda
64,800
Jewish Community Center
850,000
Hillel Foundation - MSU
20,000
Hillel Foundation - U of M
40,400
Hillel Foundation - WSU
18,150
COMMUNITY SERVICES
Fresh Air Society
144,600
Hebrew Free Loan Association
4,519
Jewish Family Service
474,900
Jewish Federation Apartments
25,400
Jewish Home for Aged
317,600
Jewish House of Shelter
1,435
Jewish Vocational Service and
Community Workshop
278,380
Resettlement Service
837,611
Sinai Hospital
150,000
COMMUNITY RELATIONS
Jewish Community Council
223,100
CENTRAL SERVICES
Jewish Welfare Federation
278,155
Depreciation & Replacement
100,000
Professional Training Fund
1,200
National Dues (CJF, LCBC, etc.)
75,000
CAPITAL NEEDS
Various Agencies
750,000

1979-80*

$855,571
42,000
80,500
67,500
850,000
24,150
46,175
26,000

159,000
5,620
504,900
25,400
377,600
1,215

370,233
1,189,636
150,000

236,109

300,000
100,000
1,200
82,655

700,000

*Allocations are incomplete for national agencies, several overseas
agencies and Tamarack Hills Authority.

JERUSALEM (JTA) - Former U.S. Secretary of S tate Henry Kis-
singer left Israel Tuesday for Jordan, reportedly carrying with him a
message from Premier Menahem Begin to Jordan's King Hussein urg-
ing him to join the peace talks. Kissinger continued from Amman to
R'ad, where he met with Saudi Leaders.
Kissinger was one of nine distinguished academies and public fig-
ures who were awarded Hebrew University honorary doctoral degrees
Monday night. With him also was Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.).
It was Jackson who gave the main address in the ceremony,
receiving a standing ovation when he declared: "We will fight on
until the last Prisoner of Zion is free and until the last refusnik has
his visa." Jackson praised the extraordinary courage of Soviet
Jewish activists faced with the threat of prison sentences, labor
KISSINGER
camps and psychiatric wards. They manned the front line in the
battle for the Jackson Amendment, he said. Though tens of
thousands have been allowed to leave Russia since the amend-
ment became law in 1972, said Jackson, the battle for Soviet
Jewry was not yet over.
Congratulating the honorees, Premier Begin turned to Pere Michel
Riquet, a French Jesuit who saved hundreds of Jews from Nazi concen-
tration camps during World War II, and said, "It is not we who honor
you, but you who honor us by your presence here." Riquet, who spent
more than a year in Dachau and Mauthausen, has been a vocal suppor-
ter of Soviet Jewry's struggle in recent years.
Recalling that Jackson had once told him that he supported Israel
"because of the Holocaust," Begin said there were now some 130,000
Soviet Jews in Israel, "mostly thanks to you."
•
Begin then congratulated Kissinger, whom he described as "a child
of
the Holocaust, saved by a miracle." He believed that Kissinger would
JACKSON
"never forsake the moral duty toward the reborn Jewish state."
Kissinger had declared Sunday night that in the absence of
an American-Israeli understanding on the meaning of Palesti-
nian autonomy, the talks over the autonomy would become
even more difficult.
Speaking at a dinner given in the Knesset on the eve of the
conferment of the honorary degrees, Kissinger urged both Israel and
Egypt to reach an agreement on the meaning of the autonomy and the • -
The West German
self-government. Once such an agreement was reached, Kissinger
Bundestag on Tues-
said, both parties could live with tactical disagreements. "I am not
day voted 255-222 to
saying this because I have a precise idea (on the meaning of the
end the time limita-
autonomy and the self-government). I lay it only because if there is no
tion for the prosecu-
precise idea, the process of negotiations may become more difficult
tion of Nazi war crim-
than is otherwise necessary."
inals.
Story on Page 6.
(Continued on Page 6)

Statute of
Limitations
Abolished

Gentile Tribute to Gisi Fleischmann,
idartyred Rescurer of Nazi Victims

By JOAN CAMPION

(Copyright 1979, by Joan Campion)

(Editor's note: Gentile freelance writer Joan Campion of Bethlehem, Pa. was moved to research the life of Gisi
Fleischmann after reading Nora Levin's standard historical work, "The Holocaust." The article which follows
summarizes a book on Mrs. Fleischmann which Ms. Campion is now engaged in writing.)
One of the least known of the heroic figures of the Holocaust is Gisi Fleischmann of Slovakia, a woman whose intense
compassion and luminous humanity would seem to entitle her to a better fate than obscurity. This, in summary is her story.
The daughter of Judah and Jetty Fischer and the descendant of an old rabbinical family, Gisi Fleischmann was born in
1897 in Bratislava, where her family owned a kosher restaurant. After her death one of her associates was to describe her as
having had "a kind and charming character," and to note that she had been reared by her parents "in the spirit of Jewish
tradition."
Many of the messages she was to send later, in her desperate efforts to get help for the suffering Jewish community of
Bratislava, and for the Jews of all Europe, reveal an intelligent, sensitive, intensely compassionate human being, for whom
the events she witnessed and tried to forestall each day must have been felt with an especially keen impact.
In the letter to one of her daughters, written most likely sometime in the summer of 1943, Gisi Fleischmann
revealed both the depth of her personal anguish and the probable source of her inner strength:
(Continued on Page 56)

GISI FLEISCHMANN