THE JEWISH NEWS LISPS 275-5201 Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with the issue of July 20. 1951 Copyright „g "- The Jewish News Publishing Co. Member of American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, National Editorial Association and National Newspaper Association and its Capital -Club. Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865. Southfield, Mich. 48075 Postmaster,.Send address changes to The Jewish News, 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 Second-Class Postage Paid at Southfield, Michigan and Additional Mailing Offices. Subscription $15 a year. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Editor and Publisher ALAN HITSKY News Editor CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ Business Manager HEIDI PRESS DREW LIEBERWITZ Associate News Editor Advertising Manager Sabbath Scriptural Selections This Sabbath, the seventh day of Krisan. 5741, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues: Pentateuchal portion, Leviticus 14:1-15:33. Prophetical portion -, II Kings 7:3-20. Candle lighting, Friday, April 10, 6:49 p.m. VOL. LXXIX, No. 6 Page Four Friday, April 10, 1981 BIGOTRY WITHOUT LIMITS Bigotry has no limitations. It often appears to be growing, even within the spheres of civilized society. It is on the rampage. The evidence is in what appears to be the expanding campaign to deny that there was a Holocaust. Dramatization of the heroic account of the role that was played by Raoul Wallenberg in-the rescuing of tens of thousands of Jews reveals one of the most moving accounts of anti-Semitic terrorism on the part of both the Nazi barbar- ians in Hungary and their Hungarian cohorts. Yet there were the sick minds who utilized the occasion to repeat anew the hate-inspired de- nials that Jews were ever molested. The venom keeps spreading in some ranks, and is given credence in what may well be an effort at reviv- ing the Nazi ideology, that what is charged against Hitlerism is a Jewish invention. This is happening in spite of the official Ger- man record. It is the German source that pleads guilty to the mass murder of Eleven Million, the Six Million 'Jews among them. This is inerasa- ble. The tragedy is that it is heard and therefore must be listened to, compelling repudiation. A most responsible West German periodical, the German Tribune published in Hamburg, in its March 1 issue, carried an account of the trials of Majdanek criminals: "Majdanek concentration camp, the venue of war crimes that have been the subject of pro- ceedings at a Dusseldorf court for more than five years, was many things to many men. It was, for instance, a row of stables where thousands of Jewish prisoners slept on straw in summer and vegetated under paper bags in winter if they were lucky. It was also a courtyard where SS men had labor gangs assemble, number off and be de- tailed for duties every morning and evening beneath the gallows. It was a spot known as the rose garden where prisoners were selected and detailed for life or death. And crematoriums and gas chambers and barbed wire and high-voltage lines and death blocks and invalid blocks. "It was a special model hospital laid on for inspection by the International Red Cross and any number of mass graves hidden away in the forests a few miles distant. "Majdanek concentration camp was on the northern outskirts of Lublin, Poland, and-be- tween December 1941 and spring 1944 it cost more than 250,000 people their lives. "Most were victims of organized mas murder, being killed by carbon monoxide poisoning or Zykon B, a mixture of cyanide and hydrogen, in what were said to be baths. "Epidemics, hunger and thirst were the death of many more, but a substantial number were beaten to death, hanged, drowned and shot in frightful episodes of inhuman excess by SS guards. "After Dusseldorf court proceedings lasting five years and two months public prosecutors Weber and Amberg have begun to summarize the evidence heard more than 35 years after the event." It is one of the immense tragedies of this gen- eration that this had to be recorded. It is re- printed from a German source. It is an official record. Yet there are the sick-minded who would deny it with the intention of reviving the barbarism of an era that is chronicled in human records among the beastly occurrences of all times. Multiplying the recollections of the tragedies is the necessity to keep reminding the genera- tions following the Nazi terror, lest it be forgot- ten. As long as the bigoted are on the rampage, these facts must not be forgotten. Lest even a fraction of the world population should forget them, let it be repeated. The sick minds who would deny them may overlook the record. The civilized world must not, will not! UNESCO CENSORSHIP Addressing the mid-year meeting of the Inter-American Press Association, in St. Philip, Barbados, Miami Herald Editor George Beebe charged that UNESCO was trying to exclude the West from its decision-making process in achieving what has been termed as the New World Information Order. The accusation is that a protection proposal made by UNESCO contrary to its earlier rejection resulting from protests by Western editors, including the United States, against the Soviet-Third World attempt to impose censorship on news, was in Beebe's words "a deluxe booby trap" and would allow governments to control the press. This expose of UNESCO corresponds with the anti-Israel discriminations that were practiced by that United Nations agency. It was in re- pudiation of the earlier actions that the U.S. Senate voted to withdraw financial support from UNESCO. While such support has since been restored, the renewed attempts by the UN agency to impose a censorship on the free press could well be a signal to American legislators to give credence to undemocratic aims which threaten freedom of the press. The U.S. Senate is duty-bound to review the problem and if the suppression of freedoms is the aim of the major- ity dominating the UNESCO, American dollars should be withdrawn. This country must not be a party to medievalism and suppression of the free flow of news throughout the world. GUN CONTROL In the ABC-TV interview from Israel, Sun- day, Moshe Dayan made a strong appeal for gun control. American Jewish organizations overwhelm- ingly share that view. If an Israeli general can advocate gun control, considering that in his country self-defense is much more compelling than anywhere else, than the lesson should be properly learned also in this country. Even if the President is reluctant to support the movement, there should be pressure for gun control. `Our City' Makes Jews of San Francisco Proud "Our City" expresses pride. It is the history of a community that began with a pioneering spirit and now thrives on memories. This is the story of the Jews of San Francisco elaborately detailed as a venture that grew out of the era of pioneers whO invaded and literally captured the frontiers. Irena Narell, the author of "Our City," published in San Fran- cisco by Howell-North Books, is prominent in her home town as a television and radio broadcaster. Her compilation chronicled the pioneering families, and their descendants retain importance-in the history of San Francisco and the records of the Jewish community. While the chief characters in the book are the Gerstalls and the Slosses, the events that marked their activities create a history of interest to American Jewry: The pioneering families came to San Francisco during the Gold Rush era. They were involved in the growth of the community and are deservedly rated as the creative forces of "Our City." There are numerous legacies perpetuated in the stories of these families and the numerous others who were the creative forces of a great city. Personalities like the Zellerbachs, the records of some of them figuring prominently in California history, Adolph Sutro, Levi Strauss and a score of others, keep recurring in the development of the city and the state. An interesting chapter in "Our City" not to be ignored deals with the achievements of Strauss. He was 24 when he came to San Fran- cisco. He brought merchandise from New York, sold it for gold dust, then turned to making canvas. But the need was for pants and that's how he became the manufacturer of Levis, the pants which retain his name to this day. How he enrolled tailors, established a manufactur- ing dynasty and created a name for himself and his family is recorded fascinatingly in this volume. The founding of synagogues, the philanthropic activities, the relationships between the original settlers, the German Jews, and the subsequent arrivals from Eastern Europe, add to the American scene the Jewish participation in creative efforts. While the economic growth is linked with the Jewish seal( and the closeness of their allied activities with the non-Jews, many the resultants also leading to mixed marriages, the over-all effectS echo the experience of Jews on a larger scale, in some respects continuity of Jewish interests, in others the eventual threat of disap- pearance from the Jewish scene of pioneers who have built cities and industries. Family charts, unusual portraits in dress of the early era, a bibliography which denotes the extensive research done in the ac- cumulation of material for this volume, all emphasize the vastness of the subject and the dedication of the author in making her . subject a labor of love. Many manuscripts provide the informative backgrounds for this story, in addition to oral statements with reminiscences by legators, descendants of the pioneers, historians. The indexed personalities and events add factual data about a great city and its Jewish community and its noteworthy personalities. The author should be credited with not pulling punches when recording the generosities of the immensely wealthy. The philan- thropic are credited, the niggardly exposed. These facts attest to a great story entitled "Our City."