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Vilna Ghetto Survivors
Protest Ex-Nazi Acquittal
AVIV (JTA) — Several
‘ mnrtvon of the Nazi oc-
i of the VUna Ghetto
■Mi* a formal protest this week
la Austrian Charge d’Affalre*
hoar agaMst the acquittal In Graz
Mum on charges of
murdering thousands of Jews in
the Ghetto.
The Austrian official, who met
the protesters at the Austrian
Embassy, promised to send a
cable immediately to his Gov
ernment on the survivors’ de
mand that Muror be triad again
Presentation of the demand fol
lowed a mass meeting of the
former Ghetto inmates, survivors
of concentration camps and
former partisans, all wearing the
yellow Mogen Dovld which the
Nazis forced Jews to wear In all
occupied countries Speakers at
the mass meeting said that the
acquittal was approved despite
clear evidence that Murer com
mitted the murders
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The Southern Isni^nte
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1963
NO. 28
Israel Presents Detailed Picture
To UN Body on Soviet Anti-Semitism
Three Jews, Two Non-Jews
Executed in Leningrad
fA (JTA) — A detailed
af Moacow s diacrimina-
>W)Mt Jews was pre-
Bunday at the cur-
of the United Ns-
Social Coun
cil hp Maohe Bartur, head of Is-
Mission to the
Office of the United
the delegates from the
Britain and Prance
of Soviet
of Jews, Mr. Bar-
the other speakers—did
■■Maa the Soviet Union by
la accordance with the UN
before the
of the BCOSCO
on furthering hu-
oatvtr, he aaid:
i afraid to
a apade or to call
that. I am re-
k» the moat d la
in one major
which claims
its basic
te nammawleatc with their rel-
ativea abroad.”
He cited the official and total
ban on the teaching of Hebrew,
and aaid that Jewish places of
worship “are constantly shut
down, prayerbooks are not avail
able, ritual requirements — like
unleavened bread for Passover—
are denied to them. This attitude
creates a climate of virulant anti-
Semitism accompanied by cam
paigns in the official press of that
country.”
The Israeli envoy quoted from
Lord Bertrand Russell’s recent
letter to Izvestia, which the Mos
cow government organ refused to
publicize, in which the British
philosopher said: ”1 hope that
Jews would be permitted full
cultural lives, religious freedom
and rights of a national group in
practice as well as in law.” The
envoy also cited Lord Russell’s
statement that he was “gravely
disturbed” by the fact that 60 per
cent of those executed in the
Soviet Union for "economic
crimes” were Jews.
te the conscience of
U represents-
af the natural
la avoid anpleasant sub-
rful political
the limi-
are so disturb
ing that It would mean a failure
duty and responsibility
Its grave character,
that the United Nations.
Ita Commission on Hu
ms Rights. will respond to the
argon! and grave nature of this
pruMaui with the greatest speed
M help restore the rights and as
pirations of s great and Isolated
A resolution involving the
status of Soviet Jews, aimed at
assuring consideration at the
1M4 session of the United Na
tions Human Rights Commission
of a declaration on religious in
tolerance, was adopted here un
animously at a conference of non
governmental organizations hav
ing consultative status with the
UN Economic and Social Coun
cil. The Soviet delegates at the
1M3 Human Rights Commission
session blocked such s declara
tion.
The resolution, which was of-
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(JTA)—A Latvian
mice at a meeting of the Na
tional Committee Against Naz
ism and Nazi Criminals last
month was fined $100 when she
was found guilty of trying to
break up the meeting. Mrs. Dag-
mara Vallena. 34, also received
a stern lecture from the judge
on the need to respect the
American tradition of free
qiasch and assembly
LOB ANGELES. (JTA) —
Charges that the John Birch So
ciety was anti-Semitic, fascist
and subversive were rejected
this week by the California Sen-
sts’s Un-American Activities
Subcommittee in a lengthy re
port. The SOO-pege report sum
med up the findings of an in
quiry extending over two years
on political and semi-political
activities in the state, a center
for a wide variety of such move
ments all along the political
fered by Dr. Maurice L. Perlz-
welg for the World Jewish Con
gress, noted that the last session
of the UN General Assembly
found it necessary to record that
it was “deeply disturbed by man
ifestations of discrimination based
on differences of race, color and
religion still in evidence through
out the world.”
The resolution addressed “the
most urgent appeal” to ECOSOC
to ensure that the 1964 meeting
of the Human Rights Commis
sion “shall take place, and to this
end authorize changes in the time
and place of the meeting to over
come technical difficulties.” The
issue of the situation of Soviet
Jewry was raised by several del
egations at the last meeting of
the Human Rights Commission,
but the Soviet Union managed to
postpone preparation of a dec
laration on religious intolerance
to the next year.
LONDON (JTA)— Three per
sons with apparently Jewish
names were among five Lenin
grad men who have been execut
ed by the Soviet Government on
charges of misappropr i a t i n g
$200,000 worth of pencils, foun
tain pens, rulers and other of
fice equipment, according to the
newspaper Soviet Russia, it was
reported here from Moscow.
The executions were announced
in a brief story in the newspaper
with only the barest details men
tioned. The three men with Jew-
ish-sounding names were 1 Zin
ger, Y. Kazakevitch and S. Krup-
kin. The five were convicted last
February after a four-month trial
in which 300 witnesses were
heard.
Those sentenced to death were
either factory managers or sales
men charged with being involved
in the wholesale swindling of
surplus goods over a five-year
period. Sentences of up to 15
years were imposed on dozens of
other defendants.
UJA Sets Up Young
Leadership Council
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
United Jewish Appeal has an
nounced the establishment of a
National Young Leadership
Council with a membership of
6,500 drawn from 5,000 com
munities throughout the country
as a permanent part of its cam
paign structure. The announce
ment was made at a press con
ference by Alan Sagner of New
ark, N.J., who is serving as
chairman of the group's govern
ing body, a 73-member Young
Leadership Cabinet.
In introducing Mr Sagner,
Rabbi Herbert A Friedman,
UJA executive vice-chairman,
said the development of the
Young Leadership Cabinet
stemmed from a recognition that
the new Jewish generation was
an American born and Ameri
can-oriented generation which
spoke an American language
frequently untouched by any
association with the historic
milieu of the East European
background of their parents.
"We must learn to speak their
language,” Rabbi Friedman said
He stressed that the UJA, was,
in terms of adult education, the
most important educational in
strument in the American Jew
ish community, “certainly in re
gard to Israel.” This instrument,
he said, and the fund-raising ac
tivities of the UJA was passing
into the hands of the younger
generation and if its members
were not imbued with Jewish
knowledge and Jewish values,
they would be leaders without
adequate background. An or
ganization has a responsibility
to work hard to mold its future
leaders and not to depend on
chance for those leaders. That
is the meaning of the Young
Leadership Cabinet.”
Mr Sagner, who is serving his
second term as general chair
man of the United Jewish Ap
peal of Essex County, described
the work of the new group as
that of “selling the UJA to the
present generation of American
Jews" and he said the effort
was based on appeals to reason
rather than to- emotion. “We are
competing not only for dollars
but also for the upcoming lead
ership,” he said. “Many able
young Jews are being attracted
to secondary Jewish and general
causes and lost to Jwish com
munal leadership for lack of
enough effort to attract them to
the aid of their people.”
Mr Sagner pointed out that
when young Jews became in
volved in the work of UJA and
made first hand visits to Eu
rope and Israel, they returned
with a better sense of priorities
as between local Jewish causes
and UJA needs. “We expect our
young leaders to be active at the
local Jewish level and also to
represent the UJA effectively at
the conference allocation table
when the time comes to idstri-
bute the funds raised largely on
the story of the needs of Jews
overseas presented through the
UJA,” he stated.
Rabbi Friedman presented a
"profile” of the membership of
the Young Leadership Cabinet.
He said the average age of the
members was 36 to 37. On the
average, each member had one
university or college degree.
The majority were children of
American-born Jews. Most of
them were in business, including
selling, merchandiszing, con
struction Other professions rep
resented included insurance,
banking and law and some engi
neers and other professional
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — A
group of Catholic, Protestant and
Jewish clergymen, eductors and
civic leaders in western Pennsyl
vania Monday assailed Soviet
anti-Semitism and urged the
Soviet Government to “lift its
official policy of oppression
against its Jewish citizens.”
In a strongly worded telegram
to the Soviet Ambassador in
Washington, the religious and lay
leaders charged that while most
other faiths are permitted the
“bare necessities” needed for re
ligious practice, the almost 3,-
000,000 Jews of the Soviet Union
“are denied minimal rights.”
Among the repressive measures
against Jews in the Soviet Union
listed in the telegram were: the
arbitrary removal from office of
synagogue presidents in six Sov
iet cities; the sentencing of Jew
ish leaders in Leningrad and Mos
cow for the alleged crime of
meeting with foreigners visiting
their synagogues; the closing of
scores of synagogues throughout
the country; the prohibition on
the manufacture or import of
Jewish religious articles; and the
fact that Jews are forbidden to
organize a central body or to con
tact Jewish groups in other coun
tries.
Among the religious leaders
who signed the telegram were:
Archbishop Benjamin, Bishop
William G. Connare, Bishop John
J. Wright, Rev. John Baiz, Rev.
Lester W. Bumpus, Rev. James
B. Cayce, Rev. Edward Cahill,
Rev. Robert Kincheloe, Rev.
N.R.H. Moor, Rev. Joseph Mor-
ledge, Rev. LeRoy Patrick, Rev.
Howard C. Scharfe, Rev. Fred
eric Schumann, Rabbi Frederick
C. Schwartz, Prof. Robert C.
Johnson and Vigdor Kavaler.
Pool Club Apologizes
For Barring Jewish
Negro Family
MONTCLAIR, N J (JTA) -
Owners of a pool who barred the
family of a Jewish Negro mem
ber of Temple Shomrei Emunah
of Montclair have apologized for
the action and pledged to dis
continue any discrimination, of
ficials of the synagogue have re
ported.
The synagogue had charged the
Preakness Pool Swimming Club
with barring the Negro family
and another Negro family invited
to a synagogue outing on June 2.
The pool owners defended the
action on grounds the pool was a
private one but the New Jersey
Division on Civil Rights filed a
complaint.
The letter of apology said “It
is with deep humility that we
beg your forgiveness for this un
fortunate occurrence. It is our
purpose and intent, commencing
immediately, that our club shall
be operated in a manner wherein
no discrimination will be shown
to any group or individual be
cause of race, color, creed, na
tional origin or ancestry.”
Rockwell Meeting In Detroit
Outskirts Broken Up By Police
DETROIT (JTA) — A mixed
crowd of sympathizers, antagon
ists and curiosity-seekers listen
ed to a rabble-rousing speech by
Nazi George Rockwell in mid-
June until Michigan State police
moved in and broke up a fight
which started when an onlooker
threw a rock at Rockwell.
The meeting was held in the
backyard of the home of Russell
Roberts, in Farmington, on the
outskirts of Detroit. Nearly 60
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