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Harris To Head
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GARY ROSENBLATT

Editor

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avid Harris, Wash-
ington representative
of the American Jew-
ish Committee, will be the
next executive vice presi-
dent of the organization, ac-
cording to officials in New
York.
Mr. Harris succeeds Ira
Silverman, who stepped
down from the top post last
month due to ill health after
two years in office.
Leaders of the Committee
are hopeful that Mr. Harris
will bring stability to the na-
tional organization, which
has had its problems in re-
cent years. After decades of
financial stability and wide-
spread involvement in a host
of activities, the Committee
has had three executive vice
presidents with brief
tenures. Citing serious
deficits, the organization
this past year cut back on its
range of activities, reduced
its number of employees and
ceased publication of its
quarterly magazine, Present
Tense.
Mr. Harris is a highly
respected, high-profile
leader in Washington who
served as the coordinator of
the massive Soviet Jewry
march on Washington in
December, 1987. He has
been involved in Soviet
Jewry activities since 1973,
when as a part-time teacher
of English as a second lang-
uage he felt emotional ties to
the Soviet Jews he taught.
He served as an exchange
teacher in the Soviet Union
in the mid-1970s, having
studied Russian as an
undergraduate and graduate
student.
Professionally, Mr. Harris
has served as deputy direc-
tor for international rela-
tions for the Committee and,
prior to that, was director of
the Washington office of the
National Conference on
Soviet Jewry.
Professionals who have
worked with him and
observed him give Mr.
Harris high marks for his in-
tellect and his excellent re-
lationship with the press.
"He's not a Washington in-
sider like Bookie [former
AJCommittee Washington
representative Hyman
Bookbinder]," said one
Capitol Hill staffer, "but
he's very bright, very
polished and professional."
Mr. Harris had been the

David Harris:
Succeeds Silverman.

Committee's leading can-
didate for the top post since
Mr. Silverman stepped
down, but had been reluc-
tant to leave Washington for
New York, friends say.
There were reports that he
had sought to convince the
Committee to move its
headquarters to Washing-
ton, but in the end agreed to
move to New York.
Mr. Silverman will con-
tinue as head of the Com-
mittee's Institute of Human
Relations.

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Witnesses
Are Sought

New York (JTA) — The
Australian government is
seeking witnesses for two
war-crimes investigations.
The first investigation in-
volves the activities of the
Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and
its local auxiliaries in
Smolensk, Russia, during
the period of 1941-1943.
Witnesses to the persecution
of Jews during that period or
witnesses with any informa-
tion about the activities of
the SD and police in Smolen-
sk are being sought.
The second investigation
involves the activities of the
Ustashi in and around Sara-
jevo, Yugoslavia, during
April-December 1941.
Those with knowledge of
the identities of the leaders
of the Ustashi or the ac-
tivities of the Ustashi in that
city, and those with informa-
tion of the Ustashi court
martial (Pokretni Prieki
Sud) in the area of Sarajevo
during 1941, should contact
Elliot Welles, Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith, 823 United Nations
Plaza, New York, N.Y.
10017.

