THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Police Search for Two Men
after Los Angeles Vandalism
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — vandalism and the deface-
The Simon Wiesenthal Cen- ment. The actions are an
ter for Holocaust Studies outrage to Americans."
was defaced Jan 7 with Mayor Tom Bradley and
spray-painted swastikas Gov. Edmund Brown Jr.
and anti-Semitic slogans, reacted similarly.
The center was flooded
some of them written in
German. The center is lo- with calls from Chris-
cated at the Yeshiva Uni- tians offering to help
versity of Los Angeles clean the walls.
Police are seeking two
(YULA).
The outside walls of the young men who partici-
center's Holocaust Miiseum pated in a bizarre incident
were daubed wiht slogans at the center earlier.
According to museum
'hich read, "Death to the
ews," "Simon is a Mur- spokesmen, the two men
derer," "National Socialist entered the building wear-
White People's Party, ing Nazi uniforms, includ-
Awake," "Jews Beware, the ing storm trooper boots and
S.S. is Coming," and "Kill swastikas. The two ap-
proached a volunteer, a
Jews."
President-elect Reagan Holocaust survivor, and
sent a message to the center spoke of their fathers hav-
saying, "I am shocked at the ing served in the SS and
Buffalo Jews Will Boycott
Neo-Nazi, Counter Rallies
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Jewish Federation of
Greater Buffalo asked all
Buffalo Jews to boycott both
a rally planned by a local
neo-Nazi group and a
counter-rally by the Martin
Luther King Day Coalition
in the city's Niagara Square
last Thursday, the 52nd
birthday of the slain civil
rights leader, Federation
president Gail Kaplan said.
At the same time, Buffalo
Jews were asked to partici-
pate in a commemorative
gathering to honor King in
the city's Lafayette Square
the same day at noon or-
ganized by the city's Black
Leadership Forum which,
according to Mrs. Kaplan,
comprises all of the major
black organizations in the
community.
The rally in Lafayette
Square was co-sponsored by
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews and by
many' other community
organizations, including
the Jewish Federation of
Greater Buffalo, Mrs. Kap-
lan said.
was
hearing
A
scheduled last Monday in
Federal District Court in
Buffalo on an injunction
to ban the Nazi rally. The
New York City office of
the American Civil Liber-
ties Union filed a friend-
of-the-court brief on be-
half of the neo-Nazi
group.
Mayor James Griffin of
Buffalo refused to issue
rmits for the neo-Nazi
d the King Coalition
counter-rally in an attempt
to prevent violence. The co-
alition, however, said it was
going ahead with its rally.
The p6sitions of the fed-
eration and of the Buffalo
Board of Rabbis were stated
in two notices mailed to Buf-
falo's 7,000 Jewish families.
The Federation state-
ment urged Buffalo Jews
not to go to the Niagara
Square events, "even as ob-
servers."
The statement from the
Buffalo Board of Rabbis,
signed by its president,
Rabbi Sholom Stern, de-
Glared that "the people who
are singling out blacks
today as their targets of
hatred will tomorrow at-
tempt to launch their vit-
riolic hate campaign
against Jews."
how proud they were of that
fact. The two men were es-
corted from the building.
"These haters always
begin with spray paint,"
said Rabbi Marvin Hier,
head of the center. "Unfor-
tunately, as history has
taught us, white-washing
their slogans can only lead
to the most profound
tragedies." Security will be
tightened at the center and
at YULA.
Another possible connec-
tion with the vandalism,
center officials said, may be
the notorius California-
based "Journal of Historical
Review" published in Torr-
ance, Calif. In the winter
edition, published a few
days before the incident, the
journal called Wiesenthal a
Nazi collaborator and at-
tacked the center and the
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith.
The vandalism followed
the arrest and arraignment
of two neo-Nazis in connec-
tion with the Dec. 6 fire
which gutted the sanctuary
of Temple Beth David in
Temple City, about 20 miles
from Los Angeles.
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