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Rabbi David and Alicia Nelson will conduct a
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for Shabbat. The activities will focus on topics
such as Jewish values, beliefs, traditions and
observances. The program will be followed by a
kosher wine-and-cheese tasting.
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Holocaust conference tries to stress moral issues
rather than property claims.
Elan Steinberg, executive director
of
the
World Jewish Congress and a
Washington Correspondent
key figure in uncovering data about
Swiss gold and other looted assets, said
his week's Conference on
that the conference was aiming "for a
Holocaust-Era Assets was
balance to show this is a moral as well
originally planned to zero
as a material struggle. I think every-
in on the rapidly expanding
body here understands that."
list of stolen Jewish
In an opening
property and the gov-
ceremony
on
ernments that have
Monday
night
at
balked at returning it.
the
Museum,
sev-
But growing unease
eral speakers tried
among Jewish leaders
to shift attention
over the relentless
away from ques-
focus on property and
tions of stolen
not "moral restitution"
property.
led planners to
"All the money
reshape the agenda for
in
the
world will
the four-day meeting,
not
diminish
the ---,
which is sponsored by
pain
we
feel
for
the U.S. Holocaust
the death of one
Memorial Museum
Jewish child in
and the State
Birkenau," said
Department.
survivor
Elie
Miles Lerman,
Secretary of State Madeleine
Wiesel.
chair of the U.S.
Albright addresses the Holocaust
Impetus for the
Holocaust Memorial
ConJrence.
added
focus on
Council, confirmed
education
also
that growing concern
came from efforts by Swedish Prime
about the overwhelming focus on
Minister Goran Persson, who respond-
money had resulted in a change in the
ed to polls showing widespread igno-
conference agenda.
rance of the Holocaust in his country
"Survivors are entitled to get what
with
an aggressive education program.
was stolen from them or their parents,"
The
surge in Holocaust education
he said. "But we believe Holocaust edu-
in
Sweden,
several museum officials
cation is more important; we believe the
said, generated strong pressure to
last chapter of the Holocaust cannot be
expand the education component of
gold and it cannot be bank accounts."
this week's conference.
JAMES D. BESSER
T
No Stolen Art, DIA Official Says
Remember...
CHANUKAH STARTS DECEMBER 13TH.
Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8:45 p.m.
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. Sunday from 12 noon to 5 p.m.
Detroit Institute of Arts officials say they are aware of the global concern
about artworks plundered from Jews during the Holocaust and that they
are confident that no such works are in the Institute's collection.
Officials said they had not conducted any special search for such works
because the normal processes already in place provide for intensive scrutiny
of the history of any pieces acquired.
"In each and every instance we are careful to check the provenance of
whatever comes in," said Maurice D. Parrish, interim director at the
Detroit Institute of Arts,
He said the museum's paper trail on modernist paintings, which are
the bulk of the works stolen in Europe, show that most of them arrived
before 1938.
— Harry Kirsbaum
D
12/4
1998
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