THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, October 5, 1979 22 U.S. Holocaust Commission ssues Report cr WASHINGTON — The President's Commission on the Holocaust last week presented its final report to President Carter. Among its recommendations were establishment of a National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and a Committee on Con- science to alert the world to all potential acts of genocide. The 34-member commis- sion concluded several months of study and public hearings aimed at deter- mining the form of a U.S. memorial to the Holocaust and the means for creating and maintaining it. Rep. Jim Blanchard (D- Pleasant Ridge), who was one of 10 members of Con- gress and the only one from Michigan to serve on the commission, said "Our recommendations are an important first step toward establishing a fitting memorial that appropri- ately pays tribute to those who suffered. It will also serve to enlighten present and future generations about the horrors of the Holocaust. It is especially important that we never allow the lessons of the Holocaust to be forgotten. "The next step is to ensure that this report does not simply gather dust. There is still a great deal of work to be done to turn the recom- mendations into a reality. It is going to take a com- mitment from the federal government as well as substantial private sup- port to meet our goals." The commission has pro- posed that the museum con- tain an educational center to provide teacher-training programs on Holocaust- related subjects and re- search facilities and arc- hives for scholars of the Holocaust period. The commission also recom- mended that a period of time be officially set aside each year to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. JAMES BLANCHARD bolizes our most fervent hope." He noted that "10,000 human beings were /being murdered and burned every day" in the death camps close to urban centers dur- ing the Holocaust. "How was that possible?" he asked. "We don't know the answer. The commission be- lieves we must seek an an- swer," he said. President Carter, in his response, said "that those who perished in the Holocaust were "victims of the most unspeakable crimes in all history." He said that all civilized people must see to it that "never again will the world stand silent Or look the other way" at the "terrible crime of genocide." CHIROPRACTIC Life Center 25950 Greenfield, Lincoln Center Oak Park OPEN 6 DAYS A WEEK , Blanchard has introduced a bill to designate April 13-19, 1980, as "Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust." Author Elie Weisel; commission chairman, noted current threats to the Jewish people and those made by the Nazis 10 years before the Holocaust began. "Words must be taken seri- ously," he said. We must take seriously all those who threaten the Jewish people today. Jerusalem sym- 968-3977 BASIC OFFICE CALL ... 90 FAMILY PLAN $ 10 first member second member or more $2 FAMILY MAXIMUM ... .$12 .$2 IQEDICARE PATIENTS . Bring ideas in and entertain 'them ,royally, for one of them may be the king. —Mark Van Doren • • Freud, Schoenberg, Einstein,Mahler,liafka... USSR Anti-Semitism in Art There were hundreds like them—Jewish cultural giants who were trapped and terrorized by the Holocaust. These are their stories: Of Einstein —who was branded a menace to "Aryan physics - ...Of Alfred Doeblin —who fled to a new faith...Of Lasker-Schuler —modern Germany's greatest lyric poet who died penniless in Jerusalem. Prophets Without Honour is filled with unforgettable accounts of the few who escaped and the many who did not. The collective biography of a generation of genius, it is an exciting "intellectual adventure. - *Lucy Dawidowicz I "Grunfeld has put the whole awful, somehow ennobling story together with a quiet passion and a wealth of —ALFRED KAZIN unexpected details." "fascinating ... [a] moving achievement:' —JOHN LEONARD The New York limes (Editor's note: The fol- lowing article is re- printed from the Sep- tember issue of "Jewish Currents.") The huge painting shown above, six feet wide by nine feet high, hangs in the Cen- tral Gallery in Minsk, cap- ital of Byelorussia in the USSR and was last seen there in May by a U.S. tourist. The Central Gallery title for this work by a ) Soviet painter, Mikhail A. Savitsky, is Two Murder- ers." Against a background of a gas oven, there is shown a pile of naked corpses. At the left, a helmeted German c soldier stands grinning. At the right, a skeletal concen- tration camp inmate in striped uniform and with a Star of David on his chest, stands grinning. "Two Murderers," the Nazi and the Jew! This de- praved "work of art," this moral and intellectual obscenity, is the result of the constant Soviet prop- agenda that the Zionists col- laborated with the Nazis in destroying the Jewish people! In theN.Y. Times June 27, accompanying a re- production of this paint- ing with the apparently mistaken title, "Summer Theater," the Moscow correspondent Craig R. Whitney wrote: "Despite protests in Minsk and in Moscow that the painting was both anti-Semitic and a gross distortion of history, the painting was not withdrawn. It was even printed in the jour- nal Literatura i Mas- tatstva, the organ of the Byelorussian Ministry of Culture." Whitney adds that this particular painting "was part of a collection depicting the brutalities of the Nazi occupation of Byelorussia," and "scores of people protest (ed) to the authorities." NCJW to Hold Training Parley NEW YORK — More for institute delegates will than 400 women from be held Oct. 16, during around the country will 'which time Rosalynn Car- meet in Washington, D.C., ter will be presented with a Oct. 15-17 for the National special NCJW award, hon- Council of Jewish Women's oring her contributions to 10th biennial joint program voluntarism in the field of institute, an intensive ad- mental health. Sen. Henry vocacy training program M. Jackson (D-Wash.) will that will include legislative receive NCJW's Faith and and federal agency brief- Humanity Award "for his leadership in the field of in- ings._ A White House reception ternational human rights." A Background to Freud, Kafka, Einstein and Their World BY FREDERIC V. 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