12 Friday, April 1, 1983

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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CARICATURES

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Chuck Borshanian

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Holocaust Survivors' Event Contrasts With USSR

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will meet in the nation's
capital April 11-14. The
opening event of the gather-
ing will be held in the Wash-
ington Sports Center which
accommodates 20,000
people. About 8,000 people,
a third of them from the
"second generation" — chil-
dren of survivors — have
registered for the gathering
weeks in advance.
The National Jewish
Community Relations
Advisory Council is of the
opinion that this could wind
up as the largest Jewish as-
sembly ever held in the
United States. It has called
upon its affiliated groups to
assist in securing the
maximum impact.
Last year, President
Reagan spoke movingly
at the national com-
memorative ceremony at
the White House. There
were also official obser-
vances in 45 states, as
well as in most major
cities. Governors of a
number of states issued
official proclamations
designating "Days of
Remembrance of the Vic-
tims of the Holocaust."

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By a unanimous vote of
Congress — at the recom-
mendation of President Re-
agan — a U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Council was es-
tablished as an independent
government agency in Oc-
tober 1980. It is composed of
55 members appointed by
the President and five
members each from the
House and the Senate. In
addition, there are three
non-voting ex-officio mem-
bers, one each appointed by
the Secretaries of State,
Interior and Education. Elie
Wiesel is chairman of the
council.
The council has the man-
date to create a living
musuem and memorial to
the victims of the Holocaust
and to honor their memories
in annual Days of Remem-
brance. It is also authorized
to raise funds from 'private
sources to build a national
museum - memorial in-
Washington and to estab-
lish an education founda-
tion. It has already selected
a museum site and has ar-
ranged for transfer of title to
the buildings, which are
across from the Washington
Monument.
Consider this action by
the U.S. government and
compare it with the silent
treatment which the Soviet
government has been giv-
ing all these years to the
hundreds of thousands of its
own Jews who were mas-
sacred by the Nazis. Not a

single memorial has been
put up by the Soviet
authorities on the mass
graves of Jews. Even the
most gruesome two-day
slaughter of tens of
thousands of Jews in the
Babi Yar ravine in Kiev in
1941 has been ignored. No
tablet marks the site.
A disaster is now being
faced by Soviet Jews not
only because emigration
from the USSR has prac-
tically ceased — in
January the number of
Jews permitted to leave
the USSR was 81 — but
also because virulent
anti-Semitism is being
expressed in a variety of
ways, particularly in the
mass media.
The anti-Jewish cartoons
appearing in leading Soviet
newspapers are as inciting
and as obnoxious as those
which appeared in Der
Sturmer, the most vulgar
Nazi newspaper. Twenty
years ago, when the
Academy of Science in the
Soviet Ukraine published
the notorious anti-Semitic
book, "Judaism Without
Coloring," illustrated with
Sturmer-like cartoons — a
book which caused conster-
nation among Jews all over
the world as well as protests
from non-Jewish readers —
the Kremliii rushed to dis-
avow it by stating that the
book was not published in
the Russian language but in
Ukrainian, and was printed

not in Moscow but in Kiev.
It stopped its dissemination.
Today, such books appear
frequently in Moscow, in
the Russian language. No
protest from abroad leads to
their withdrawal. On the
contrary, they are being
encouraged by the ugly
anti-Jewish cartoons in the
Moscow daily press.
American Jewish leaders
feel that at no time in the
last 20 years has the posi-
tion of the Jews in the
Soviet Union been more
critical. They are of the
opinion that there is little
hope for an amelioration of
Jewish suffering in the
USSR in the year ahead.
They believe that
American Jewish effort
must be bent toward as-
suring that the issue of
Soviet Jewry is high on
the agenda of U.S.-Soviet
diplomacy. At the same
time, American Jewish
leaders also believe that
high-level discussions
and a more positive
Soviet response to the
Jewish concerns will not
take place unless Ameri-
can Jewry gives the
highest priority to pro-
grams that focus public
attention on the re-
- pressions of Soviet Jews.
It is their view that the
Soviet government still con-
tinues to be stung by public
exposure of their anti-
Semitic policies.

Holocaust Memorial Academy

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chairman of the day, indi-
cated that April 10 is the
27th of Nisan, which was
designated by the state of
Israel as the Yom Hashoa —
Remembrance
1 Holocaust
Day. A candle lighting
ceremony by the survivors
of the concentration camps
and ghettos, accompanied
by the children of Holocaust
survivors will be led by Mrs.
Popowski.
The candlelighters are:
Holocaust survivors Helen
Kozuch, Esther Lewkowicz,
Edith Roth, Szmul Jut-
kiewicz, Sam Rothenberg
and Philip Wimmer, ac-
companied by children of
Holocaust survivors Har-
riet Bakalar, Andrea
Mames, Marilyn Water, Dr.
Irving Gastman, Dr. Abe
Slaim and Milton Wohl.
Cantors Hyman Adler
of Cong. Bnai David and
Chaim Najman of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek, accom-
panied by Carole Lasser,
will chant memorial ren-
ditions.
Halpern will welcome the
assembly and brief greet-
ings will be extended by
MrS. Herbert Fealk, vice
president of the Jewish
Community Council; Henry
S. Dorfman, chairman of the
Holocaust Memorial Center
board of trustees and capital
endowment program
chairMan; Gustav Be-
renholz, associate chairman
of the Holocaust Memorial
Center special aifts commit-
tee; and Jack Waksberg,
honorary president of
Shaarit Haplaytah.

Also, Robert A. Arcand,
director of the Greater De-
troit Round Table of the Na-
tional Conference of Chris-
tians and Jews; Arthur
Weiss, Junior Division of
Shaarit Haplaytah; and
Bernard Kent, president of
CHAIM (Children of
Holocaust Survivors in
Michigan). Rabbi Morton
Yolkut of Cong. Bnai David
will also speak.
Rev. James R. Lyons, di-
rector of the Ecumenical In-
stitute for Jewish and
Christian Studies, will be
the recipient of the "Right-
eous Gentile Citation" for
"his outstanding efforts in
exposing, teaching and re-
membering the grim les-
sons of the Nazi Holocaust
with its universal, grave
implications . . . and for his
outspoken challenging
analysis of the roots and
causes responsible for the
unspeakable systematic ex-
termination of Six Million
Jews and millions of other
innocent helpless victims
. . .
The award will be pre-
sented by Dr. John J.
Mames, chairman of oral
history and Holocaust
studies (Education) for
Shaarit Haplaytah and
the Holocaust Memorial
Center.
Cellist Miriam Bolkosky,
age 12, will play musical
renditions and Shari Ferber
will give recitations. Rabbi
Charles H. Rosenzveig, di-
rector of the Holocaust
Memorial Center, will de-
liver the memorial address.
Norman Berkley, comman-

der of the Jewish War Vete-
rans' Department of Michi-
gan, will lead a colorguard
presentation.
A proclamation from
Governor James Blanchard,
messages and resolutions
from other dignitaries are
being issued and will be ac-
knowledged by Simon
Schwarzberg, past
president of Shaarit Hap-
laytah.
An exhibit of Holocaust
photographs will be dis-
played.
Dr. Mames and Rabbi
Rosenzveig pointed out that
this year marks the 40th
anniversary of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising (April 19,
1943). They emphasized
that "this brilliant and soul
stirring drama will forever
remain inscribed in the an-
nals of mankind's history. It
was an heroic, desperate
struggle not for military
glory but to uphold human
dignity in an inhuman
world of tyranny and bes-
tiality. It represents a mag-
nificent chapter in the his-
tory of Jewish resistance."

Job Training
for Falasha

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)
— A 26-year-old Falasha
Jew, who had never used an
elevator, or watched a tele-
vision show before coming
here late in 1982 has been
enrolled in a job training
program with the help of a
Jewish organization, to
teach him to repair complex
electronic equipment, in-
cluding computers.

