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Project To Tally
Jews At Arlington
Mr. Poch has criteria for de-
Washington (JTA) — Almost
200,000 U.S. war veterans are termining who qualifies as "us"
buried at Arlington National at Arlington. Even if a headstone
Cemetery. No one knows how carries an obvious Jewish name
such as Jacob Goldberg, Mr. Poch
many of them are Jews.
That's why every weekend will not include it on his list if it
Ken Poch hikes through Arling- lacks the all-important six-point-
ton's endless rows of marble ed Star of David.
"If the family does not want to
headstones, searching for stones
marked by a distinctive six-point- acknowledge the person's Jew-
ed star. Under those markers lay ishness, I can't force them to do
the bodies of American Jewish it," he said.
Upon finding a veteran's stone
soldiers, some of whom died in
battle, all of whom fought for with a Star of David, Mr. Poch
their country and earned the writes down the deceased's name
right to be buried at the nation's and pertinent information, snaps
a photo of the headstone and puts
official military cemetery.
Operating strictly on his own its all into a thick black binder.
Ms. Shenkle said that with the
time, money and motivation, Mr.
Poch hopes to compile a list of all exception of Japanese Americans,
Jewish veterans at Arlington, the no other ethnic or religious group
burial site of such renowned keeps track of its dead buried at
Americans as George Patton and Arlington.
When Mr. Poch finishes his re-
John F. Kennedy.
Since starting the project last search he intends to publish a
June, Mr. Poch said he has lo- book that will also examine the
cated approximately 300 Jewish parallel roles that Jews have
veterans buried at Arlington, played in American life and wars
with more than two-thirds of the since the Civil War.
To that end, Mr. Poch said, he
cemetery's vast grounds still to
has been trying to learn more
be searched.
Mr. Poch's research has stirred about some of the Jewish veter-
interest among Jewish War Vet- ans buried at Arlington, but he
erans of the United States and has run into a stone wall from the
Arlington's own historians. Nei- cemetery's historians, who are
ther group owns a list of Jewish prohibited by official policy from
veterans buried at the hallowed releasing any personal informa-
fion without family approval.
cemetery.
Mr. Poch says anyone with in-
"I think he's going to turn up a
lot of interesting stories," said formation about a Jewish veter-
cemetery historian Kathryn an buried at Arlington can
Shenkle, who sees the list as a po- contact him at 11556 Rolling
Green Ct., Reston, Va. 22091. His
tential aid to tour guides.
When visitors ask if any no- phone number is (703) 391-0554
table Jews are buried at the
cemetery, Ms. Shenkle has been
short on answers. "Hyman Rick-
over, father of the American nu-
clear navy, buried at Arlington,
is famous, and I didn't know he Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel has for-
was Jewish," she said.
mally rejected a U.S. request to
An amicable, unassuming extradite former Israeli air force
man, Mr. Poch seems an unlike- Brig. Gen. Rami Dotan, who was
ly candidate to while away his convicted of receiving kickbacks
weekends climbing cemetery hills from U.S. defense contractors.
and examining tall-standing
"We have told them, before
monuments. During the week he they submitted any formal ex-
works at an advertising compa- tradition request, that we would
ny in Reston, Va., where he also not comply because he was an Is-
lives.
raeli citizen when the crimes
While he did serve a two-year were carried out," Justice Min-
army stint in the early 1960s, he istry spokeswoman Etti Eshed
never saw combat and has no said.
friends or relatives buried at Ar-
She said the extradition re-
lington. Mr. Poch simply thinks quest would not be honored, in
that American Jews' contribu- part, because Dotan was already
tions to the armed forces have tried in Israel.
been underappreciated.
In March 1991, Brig. Gen.
"People have looked at Jews' Dotan pleaded guilty in Israel to
contribution to art, literature and 12 counts of corruption and
science. But stereotypically, Jews bribery, including having illegal-
are considered weak people," he ly acquired $12 million in bribes
said. "I just wanted to see how and kickbacks from U.S. compa-
many of us are here, in Arlington nies he selected to supply equip-
Cemetery."
ment to the Israeli air force.
Israel Rejects
U.S. Request