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Woodward South of Maple Mon. • Wed. & Sat. 10-6 Thurs. & Fri. 10-9 Sun. 12-5 • 647-0550 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS OP-ED SPRING IS Flint Oak Brook Square 3192 Linden Road Across (nun Genessee Valley Mall Mon . Fri & Sat 10-9 Tues Thurs 10-7 Sun. 12-5 • 733-8730 Peace With Neighbors Continued from Page 7 deaths of millions of Poles and Ukrainians. True, not all died in Nazi concentration camps, but millions did, and most suffered from the rav- ages inflicted by the German war machine during battles and during times of occupa- tion. But I do not wish to discuss Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians at any length here. I do, however, want to discuss the relationship of American Poles, American Jews, and American Ukrainians. I should best begin by recount- ing the efforts that all three communities have made to work together in recent years. In about 1977, Father Ronald Modras and Father Leonard Chrobot, through the auspices of the Detroit Jewish Community Council, began to meet primarily to enlist our help in dealing with the defamatory nature of the Polish jokes then being circulated. These discussions led to a meeting at which the "Orchard Lake Statement" was formulated. This declara- tion, named after the locale of the meeting, St. Mary's College at Orchard Lake, Michigan, was written primarily by Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum of the American Jewish Committee with the approval of all Polish Ameri- can and Jewish American leaders present. This docu- ment, in essence, proclaims the dedication of both com- munities to the eradication of ethnic and religious defama- tion and stereotyping; to the preservation of human rights in all nations; and it ac- knowledges the right of Israel to exist in the hostile environment of the Middle East, and expresses the hope that a free democratic society be allowed to emerge in Po- land. The Orchard Lake meeting led to the formation of the National Polish American/ Jewish American Task Force co-sponsored by the Polish American Congress and the American Jewish Committee. This group, since 1979, has met at leaSt trimestrally in cities like Detroit, Washing- ton, D.C., Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukee. Our April meeting was -held again in Pittsburg and the next is scheduled for Los Angeles in the fall. About 30 to 50 individuals usually attend and are representative of the business, academic, civic, political, cultural, and Harold D. Gales is co-chair of the National Polish-AmericanlJewish American Task Force and a member of the national board of governors, American Jewish Committee. religious segments of both communities. Our local De- troit area group, known as the Dialogue, was joined by members of the Ukrainian American community about five years ago. This group has sponsored a yearly obser- vance of the September, 1939 German invasion of Poland which is essentially a memo- rial service for the victims of the Holocaust and others whose deaths resulted from subsequent Nazi imposed re- pression. Each of these pro- grams has been recorded in its, entirety by Radio Free Europe and broadcast im- mediately to its entire net- work. The 1986 observance, held in September, was pre- ceeded by a tour of the Holocaust Memorial Center, and the program was con- ducted in the Jewish Com- munity Center. Space does not permit a de- lineation of the number of agenda items discussed at all of the task force meetings held since 1979. In the main, topics included the impact of the movie Shoah and the Demjanjuk trial in Israel and means of preventing in- creases in defamatory attacks on Polish and Ukrainian Americans; Holocaust study curricula and the importance of promoting their use in both public and parochial schools; as well as reports from members of the national Holocaust Memorial Council. These meetings have also in- cluded cultural events such as concerts in which Polish folk singers and Jewish klezmer bands have per- formed, and also a program which featured Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz reading his poetry, In the main, a large number of those from each of the com- munities have worked to- gether,- recognized the many similarities in their cultural backgrounds that exist, and have come to understand each other's sensitivities. The question might legiti- mately be asked, "Why all this effort?" And it is, best answered by stating that the American Jewish Committee has long recognized the cen- trality of ethnic, cultural, and religious pluralism to the continued strength of Ameri- can society. Pluralism is nur- tured by understanding, and by the acceptance of, dif- ferences. This understanding and acceptance is reached through the process of effect- ing coalitions. The security of the American Jewish com- munity not only lies in the perpetuation of our democrat- ive society, and, to an extent, in the political and economic influence which Jews can engender, but also in the firm alliances we can create. It is to this goal that the task force is dedicated. 4 -1 4 4