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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE May 9, 1980
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Cantor Goodfriend named
to U.S. Holocaust Council
Cantor Isaac Goodfriend of
Atlanta was one of 13 survivors of
the Nazi camps named to the
newly created United States
Holocaust Memorial Council
which was signed into effect last
Friday by President Carter. The
60-member Council is comprised
of 50 citizens from various parts of
the country and 10 members of
Congress, five from the Senate and
five from the House of
Representatives.
The Council was established to
implement the recommendations
of the United States Commission
on the Holocaust which was
created in November 1978 by the
president to investigate and make
recommendations for an
appropriate national memorial in
Washington. Last fall, the
commission submitted a report
with proposals and specifics for the
project.
1. Construction of a national
Holocaust Memorial Museum
in Washington.
2. Educational foundations to
pursue educational work of issues
.pertaining to the Holocaust.
3. A Citizens Committee on
Conscience to receive reports of
actual or potential acts of genocide
Cantor Isaac Goodfriend
anywhere in the world.
The president approved the
recommendations with the
understanding that funds for the
museum would be raised from the
private sector.
Elie Wiesel, who chaired the
earlier commission, has been
appointed chairman of the new
Council. Mark Talisman,
Washington director of the
Council of Jewish Federations, is
vice chairman.
Twenty-five of the 60 members
are not Jewish. Kmong these are
Tibor Baranski of the Catholic
Charities of Buffalo, who has been
honored by Yad Vashem for
helping save Hungarian Jews
during the Holocaust; Victor
Borge, pianist/entertainer, who is
active in the organization which
honors Danes who helped save
Jews in Denmark during the war;
Constantine Dombalis, Dean of
the Greek Orthodox Cathedral;
Dorothy Haight, national
president of the National Council
of Negro Women; Theodore
Hesburgh, president of Notre
Dame University; and Bayard
Rustin, president of the A. Philip
Randolph Institute.
Jewish members, in addition to
Goodfriend, Wiesel and Talisman,
include Marver Bernstein,
president of Brandeis University;
Alfred Gottschalk, president of the
Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion; Irving
Greenberg, executive director of
the Conference of Jewish Studies
in New Yoik; Dr. Gershon Cohen,
chancellor of the Jewish
Theological Seminary; Dr.
Norman Lamm, president of
Yeshiva University; Frank
Lautenberg, national chairman of
the United Jewish Appeal;
Franklin Littell, chairman of the
Institute on the Holocaust in
Pennsylvania; and Abraham
Sachar, past president of Brandeis
University.
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