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BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY MOURNS THE PASSING OF
MORRIS FRIEDMAN
whose vision, along with that of his beloved Sarah,created the Fried-
man Yiddish Teachers Training Chair at Bar-Ilan. May his family be com-
forted by the many, many beneficiaries of his concern and kindness.
RABBI EMANUEL RACKMAN
BARBARA STOLLMAN
NEAL ZALENKO
Chancellor
Chairman, Administrative Committee
Rena Costa Chair in Yiddish Studies
General Detroit Co Chairmen
GENERAL YEHUDA HALEVY
Midwest Executive Director
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LESLIE M. GOLDSTEIN
National Executive Vice President
The Holocaust Memorial Cente r
Mourns the Passing of
ROSALYN SEGAL
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1991
KGB Head To Act
On Wallenberg Fate
Montreal (JTA) — The fate
of Raoul Wallenberg, the
Swedish diplomat who res-
cued some 100,000
Hungarian Jews from the
Nazis before disappearing
behind Soviet lines, may
soon be revealed, thanks to
the appointment of a reform-
minded chief of the KGB.
The new KGB head,
Vadim Bakatin, is likely to
release the intelligence
agency's secret files on
Wallenberg soon, according
to Irwin Cotler, a McGill
University law professor
who has championed efforts
to uncover the fate of the
Swedish war hero.
Mr. Cotler applauded the
appointment of Mr. Bakatin,
a one-time Soviet interior
minister, to the KGB post
last month, following the
failed coup attempt in the
Soviet Union.
"When he was minister of
the interior, he cooperated
with us in an unprecedented
way," said Mr. Cotler. "He
allowed us access to prison
archives, and the conclusion
at the time was that all
evidentiary trails led to the
KGB. Thanks to him, we
were closer to the truth than
ever before."
Last summer, an interna-
tional commission which in-
cluded Mr. Cotler and Mr.
Wallenberg's half-brother,
physicist Guy von Dardel,
visited Soviet prisons to
"search for the truth" on the
fate of the former diplomat,
who was last seen alive in
1945.
The Soviets had refused to
permit any outside in-
vestigations into Mr.
Wallenberg's whereabouts
for 45 years, until the com-
mission uncovered some
proof that he did not die in
1947 as the Soviets had
claimed.
The commission also found
that the Soviets had only
opened their first investiga-
tion of his fate in 1988 and
promptly closed it. Until
then, they had claimed to
have conducted prior in-
quiries into his disap-
pearance.
Two of the eight hard-
liners who served on the
"emergency committee"
that staged last month's at-
tempted coup played a
leading role in blocking fur-
ther investigations into Mr.
Wallenberg's fate: Boris
Pugo, who replaced Bakatin
last fall as interior minister,
and Vladimir Kryuchkov,
whom Bakatin has now
replaced as KGB chief.
"Pugo simply refused to
cooperate with us as Bakatin
had," said Mr. Cotler. "And
Kryuchkov refused to hand
over any more files. Our in-
quiry was stopped dead in its
tracks."
"Bakatin had told us that
the KGB was causing some
difficulties, but that if he
was ever in a position to help
us, he would," said Mr.
Cotler. "My sense is that we
are now on the threshold of
discovering what happened
to Raoul Wallenberg.'
Mr. Cotler was even more
confident because of Mr.
Bakatin's sincerity. "He
vowed that no one would
ever be able to say that they
had obstructed any in-
vestigation" and he
"promised that they would
do everything possible to
find out what happened."
"And to his word," said
Mr. Cotler, "Bakatin opened
up the prisons and files. I
have every reason to believe
that he was sincere."
Mr. Cotler said the Soviets
would come under interna-
tional pressure to come clean
on the Wallenberg case once
and for all during an inter-
national human rights con-
ference taking place in
Moscow from Sept. 9 to Oct.
4, under the auspices of the
Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe.
OBITUARIES 1"...1
Dorothy Sternberg,
Active In Bay City
Dorothy B. Sternberg,
formerly of Bay City, of Bur-
lingame, Calif., died Sept. 5.
She was 78.
The Detroit native worked
for 39 years in Bay City as a
legal assistant to her hus-
band, T. George Sternberg.
She served as treasurer of
Temple Israel in Bay City for
more than 20 years, worked
as the executive secretary of
the Northeastern Michigan
United Jewish Appeal, and
participated in Hadassah, the
Michigan Heart Association
and the Women's Auxiliary of
the Essexville-Hampton
Lions Club.
A 1930 graduate of Detroit
Northern High School, Mrs.
Sternberg later earned an
associate of arts degree from
Delta College in Saginaw.
She is survived by her son
and daughter-in-law, Alan
and Sandra Sternberg of
Orinda, Calif.; daughters and
son-in-law, Marilyn Ladin of
Orinda, and Adele and