6 Friday, April 8, 1983 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS WJC Denies It Will Snub Warsaw Event An Officer and A Gentleman The Road Warrior Lady Chatterly's Lover Yes, Giorgio Blade Runner NEW YORK (JTA) — The World Jewish Congress Wednesday denied a report in the Wall Street Journal which claimed that the Jewish organization had canceled its plans to attend the eight-day commemora- tion of the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Up- rising to be held in Warsaw beginning April 15. Elan Steinberg, director of the WJC-American Sec- tion, said a delegation of six representatives of its execu- tive committee will partici- pate in the commemoration. Included in the delegation will be Kalman Sultnik and Dr. Gerhart Riegner, vice president and secretary general of the WJC, respec- tively. However, according to Steinberg, Edgar Bronfman, the WJC president, will not be among the members of the delega- tion to Poland. 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The Workmen's Circle, the world's largest Jewish fraternal organ- ization, said it will not participate in the cere- monies, and has called on American Jewish leaders "to renounce this event for the cynical insult it has become to all those martyred and who have survived the Holocaust." Marek Edelman, the only surviving leader of the ZOB (Zydowska Organizacja- Bojowa — Jewish Fighting Organization) and deputy commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has re- fused an invitation to join the honorary committee of the event because of its offi- cial government sponsor- ship. Edelman, a delegate to the first national congress of the now-outlawed sol- idarity trade union, was briefly interned by the Polish government when martial law was imposed in Poland on Dec. 13, 1981. Edelman, in an open let- ter to an underground Sol- idarity newspaper, said: "Forty years ago we did not fight merely to survive — we fought for life in dignity and freedom. To celebrate our anniversary here, where enslavement and humiliation is now the lot of the whole society, where words and gestures have be- com'e nothing but lies, would betray the spirit of our struggle." The Polish government has apparently gone to great effort to see to it that the commemoration is as memorable and re- warding as possible. It has assumed the cost of reconstruction, repor- tedly at a cost of well above $1 million dollars, of the old Warsaw syna- gogue. The building will be symbolically handed over to the city's Jewish community at the open- ing ceremonies. Also, on the same day, an exhibition will open at the Polish National Museum retracing the history of Po- land's Jewish community and its contributions to Polish culture and Poland's struggle for independence. Jack Benny, Eddie Can- tor, Danny Kaye, Sophie Tucker and Mel Brooks were born with the names Benjamin Kubelsky, Ed- ward Itzkowitz, David Daniel Kominsky, Sonia Kalish and Melvin Kaminsky, respectively.