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This Week

6 MONTH CD

Friday March
Salutes Gay Rights

Street Named
For Diplomat

Washington A Friday, April 28,
reception in conjunction with the
Millennium March on Washington for
Equality will celebrate Reform
Judaism's decision to affirm gay and
lesbian unions through appropriate
Jewish rituals, and will honor the
advancement of gay rights in Israel.
The Twice Blessed Reception is
cosponsored by several Jewish groups
dedicated to promoting gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender rights,
including the Religious Action Center
of Reform Judaism.

Rome/JTA On the eve of Passover,
Rome named a street after a fascist
sympathizer who masqueraded as a
Spanish diplomat during World War
II and saved thousands of Jews in
the Budapest Ghetto.
Businessman Giorgio Perlasca had
volunteered to fight on the side of
General Francisco Franco during the
Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and
had received a citation from the
Spanish government for doing so.
He found himself stranded in
Budpadest during the German occu-
pation of the city in 1944 and was
horrified at the mass deportations of
Jews and other anti-Jewish persecu-
tions.
Using his citation from Spain, he
passed himself off as a Spanish
diplomat and, working alongside
Sweden's Raoul Wallenberg and
other diplomats from neutral
nations, he signed thousands of
phony passports and identity docu-
ments that protected Jews from
deportation.
Streets in several provincial Italian
towns have already been named for
Perlasca, who died in 1992.

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Feds Eye Another
Alleged Collaborator

Detroit/JTA—The United States
moved to revoke the citizenship of
an alleged Nazi collaborator living in
Michigan.
The Justice Department's Office
of Special Investigations says Iwan
Mandycz, 80, of Sterling Heights,
concealed his service as an armed SS
guard at two slave labor camps in
Poland when he applied for a visa to
immigrate to the United States in
1949. In November 1943, when
Mandycz was allegedly serving at the
Poniatowa camp, Nazi and SS troops
shot 14,000 Jews in a single day.

Voters Can
Register On-Line

New York—Hadassah, the Women's
Zionist Organization of America, is
offering on-line voter registration
through its Web site www.haciassah.org
It is part of the Hadassah Voter
Challenge 2000, Hadassah's national
effort to register as many voters as
possible in response to its concern
over declining voter turnout, especially
among Jews and young women.

Swiss Fund
Aids Survivors

Zurich/JTA The Swiss government
extended the mandate of a $180 mil-
lion fund for needy Holocaust sur-
vivors.
The fund, created in 1997 by the
nation's three largest banks, has paid
out nearly all of the money and is
expected to cease operating by the
end of the year.

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World Briefs

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Poland Honors
Ghetto Uprising

Warsaw/JTA
Poland's prime min-
ister paid tribute to the "heroic
struggle" of the Warsaw Ghetto
fighters who rose up against the
Nazis 57 years ago this month in the
first instance of mass armed resis-
tance in Nazi-occupied Polish terri-
tory.
"They openly defied the butchers
of Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor,
Chelmno, Majdanek and Auschwitz-
Birkenau," Jerzy Buzek said in a
statement coinciding with the
anniversary of the uprising. "They
had no hope of victory. They fought
for a dignified death."

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Quiz Show Asks
About Passover

New York/JTA—The television quiz
show "Jeopardy!" had a "Passover -
Seder" category in a show aired the
night before the first seder.
The most difficult question in the
category was, "The number of cups
of wine and the number of questions
asked at the seder."

