I UP FRONT
Zeltzer Named Butzel Awardee
George M. Zeltzer will receive the
Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award at
the Jewish Welfare Federation's 61st
annual meeting Sept. 30 "for his
dedication and commitment to
Detroit's civic and Jewish communal
life?'
Zeltzer, chairman of the Federated
Endowment Fund, was president of
Federation from 1978 to 1981 and
also served Federation as executive
vice president and endowment fund
director. He is a member of Federa-
tion's Executive Committee and a
former chairman of the conference of
Division Chairmen and Culture and
Education Division.
Zeltzer is president of the Na-
tional Foundation for Jewish Culture
and former president of the Sholem
Aleichem Institute. He is a board
member of the American Jewish
Historical Society, and has served the
American Association for Jewish
Education, the Jewish Teachers
Seminary and the Institute for Jewish
life.
Historic Village To Establish
Library With Brandeis Books
Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig and Dr. Goetz von Boehmer
HMC Acquires Um Books
Listing German Victims Of Nazis
The Holocaust Memorial Center
has obtained two volumes compiled
by the West German government that
list the names of 170,000 German
Jews who died in the Holocaust from
1933 to 1945.
The books were compiled by the
International Archives as a ten-year
project for the West German govern-
ment. Copies have been made
available to Yad Vashem in Israel.
The HMC obtained copies through
West Germ _ any's Detroit consul, Dr.
Goetz von Boehmer, free of charge.
"It is important for people to
know the names," said Rabbi Charles
H. Rosenzveig of the HMC. "It is im-
portant to document the Holocaust?'
The • books are also valuable for
Holocaust survivors, he said, because
they list the names of German Jews,
their birthplaces, the cities where
they were taken from and where they
were taken to. Rabbi Rosenzveig said
his cousin found his mother's name in
the volumes, and learned for the first
time to which camp she had been
taken. The rabbi hopes West Ger-
many's cataloguing effort will
ultimately include all the victims of
the Nazis throughout Europe.
The volumes were presented just
prior to the dedication and public
opening last week of the HMC's Mor-
ris and Emma Schaver Library-
Archive. The majority of the HMC's
collections have now been catalogued
and are available to the public. They
include 10,000 documents, communi-
ty memorial books, Nazi trial records,
as well as collections on European
Jewish history and Judeo-Christian
relations.
The library is open Sundays,
Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to
4 p.m., and Wednesdays noon to 8 p.m.
The materials do not circulate but
copy service is available.
with his plans to enrich the area. He
wished to do something more perma-
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nent for the 100 families of Hendricks
Township.
"When you reap the harvest of
Goldstone transformed this in-
your land, you shall not reap all the
clination into an idea when he decid-
way to the edges of your field, or gather
ed to establish the first library for the
the gleanings of your harvest. You
community.
shall not pick your vineyard bare, or
"We Jews are people of books," he
gather the fallen fruits of your
said. And so will the people of Hen-
vineyard; you shall leave them for the
dricks Township be, thanks to
poor and the stranger . . . "Levitieus,
Goldstone. With an unemployment
19:9.
rate as high as 50% in winter months,
On August 15, 1986 George
the county lacks 'the financial
Goldstone stood at a roadside park on
capability to build a library through
US 2 to witness the culmination of ex-
taxation, he explained. To remedy
tensive effort. Two years earlier, a this problem, Goldstone helped form
friend had approached him for his
the Hendricks Township Library
assistance in designating the small
Association for which he acts as
village of Epoufette in the Upper
secretary-treasurer.
Peninsula a Michigan Historic Site.
The association plans to provide
While attending the ceremonial Mass
a "nucleus to get started?' The left-
to honor the site the Bloomfield Hills
overs from the 26th annual Brandeis
attorney felt slightly unsatisfied.
University National Women's Com-
Although his goal to have the
mittee, Greater Detroit Chapter, Book
Michigan Department of State
Sale will provide the building blocks.
dedicate the old fishing village,
lb be held during Tel-12 Mall
located on Lake Michigan, 25 miles
hours August 20-26, the sale will in
west of the Mackinac Bridge, was
complete, he was far from finished Continued on Page 12
JENNIFER TAUB
ROUND UP
Fund Raisers
Warn Shamir
New York (JTA) — Seven
Diaspora Jewish leaders, in-
cluding the heads of the ma-
jor fund-raising organizations
in the U.S. and Canada, have
urged Premier Yitzhak
Shamir of Israel and his
Likud Party to abandon their
efforts to amend the Law of
Return in a manner which
would define Jews according
to strict Orthodox tenets.
The amendments sponsored
by the ultra-Orthodox parties
with Likud backing were
defeated in the Knesset a
week ago. Another vote on the
controversial "Who is a Jew"
amendment is scheduled for
next Wednesday.
The Jewish leaders sent a
cable to Shamir warning that
the proposed change would
"irreparably damage the sup-
port of Israel and its institu-
tions by Diaspora Jews" and
cause "a terrible rift" among
the Jewish people.
The signatories were Jerold
Hoffberger, chairman of the
board of governors of the
Jewish Agency for Israel;
Max Fisher, founding chair-
man of the board of governors;
Henry Taub, chairman of the
United Israel Appeal; Martin
Levine, president of the
United Israel Appeal of
Canada; Shoshana Cardin,
president of the Council of
Jewish Federations; Martin
Stein, national chairman of
the UJA; and Alex Grass,
chairman of the board of the
UJA.
War Criminal
In Scotland
London (JTA) — Britain
may send officials to the
Soviet Union to examine
claims that a Lithuanian liv-
ing in Scotland murdered
more Jews in World War II
than Klaus Barbie, who was
recently sentenced to life im-
prisonment by a French court
for crimes against humanity.
Officials conceded this was
a possibility after receiving
documents from the Los
Angeles-based Simon
Wiesenthal Center on the
war record of Antanas Gecas,
a 71-year-old retired mining
engineer in Edinburgh.
Gecas is alleged to have
ordered and ,participated in
massacres of Jews in
Lithuania where more than
200,000 were killed under the
Nazis, many by members of
special units of Lithuanian
police in which Gecas has ad-
mitted he served. Gecas has
repeatedly denied killing any
Jews himself and says he was
unable to prevent the ac-
tivities in which his unit took
part.
UN Urged
To Open Files
On Ex-Nazis
United Nations (JTA) —
Britain and Canada joined
Israel and 11 other nations _
last week in requesting that
the files on Nazi war crim-
inals compiled by the United
Nations War Crimes Commis-
sion be opened to the public.
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