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VOL.59   NO.20
MAY14.1981-IYAR10
TWO SECTIONS
elmut Schmidt Reaffirms
African Mions Hally Behind Israel
GENEVA (JTA)—African nations attending the World
Health Organization (WHO) annual conference which opened
here last week have unexpectedly rallied behind Israel
against a coordinated attempt by the Arab states and their
allies to have Israel barred from the conference and eventually expelled from the WHO.
Reagan Fully Supports Israel
. BOSTON (JTA)—A high-ranking State Department official
assured a group of Zionist leaders that the Reagan Administration clearly supports Israel and that there "never has
been an American President instinctively sympathetic to
Israel" as President Reagan.
WiesentMH _
Extremists Are ieiorting To
'Level .of Bireet Mien8 -
WASHINGTON,
(JTA)—Left and right
political extremists are
resorting to the "level of
direct action" in a
resurgence of new-Nazism
and anti-Semitism in Europe
and much of their
propaganda material comes
from the United States,
Simon Wjesenthal, declared
here. The 72-yearrpld Nazi-
hunter from Austria. urged
that the U.S. adopt
legislation against racial
hatred as a means to help
prevent the, spread of anti-
Semitism.
Wiesenthal received a
standing' ovation from
approximately 2500 persons,
mainly of college age,, at
George Washington
University here where he",
spoke last week under'the
auspices of the B'nai B'rith
Hillel Foundation on the
campus. The . extremists
operating in France,
Austria, Germany, the
Scandinavian countries and
other areas of Europe
"cannot exist without the
printed propaganda" from
the U.S., he said. The
material,is supplied in six
languages and is sent to a
mailing list of 50,000
addresses in Europe.
Wiesenthal noted that
West German police
recently raided 2000
apartments late- one night
and found weapons,
munitions and propaganda
in the German language
printed in the U.S. and also
in Canada. The consequences, he said, include the
desecration of Jewish ceme-
, teries, daubing swastikas on
Jewish buildings and killings
' of foreigners, including in
nocent 'Vietnamese  in
Hamburg.
Wiesenthal said he found a
15-year-old German boy with
a leaflet printed in Lincoln,
Neb. He said the boy told
him that U.S. policy, has
changed and Americans now
admire Hitler.-Speaking of
the rights under the First
Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution,- ■* Wiesenthal"
said the publishers of hate
material in the U.S. are
"abusing the freedom they
have." He. noted that while
there is world-wide
cooperation against the drug
traffic ,''no, cooperation
exists against the poison
being supplied to young
people, and in the schools" in
the .form of anti-Semitic,
propaganda.
In response to a student's
question; he. urged
Americans to write to their
Congressmen and to editors
to help offset the wave of
anti-Semitism now,; stirring
the political climate. He said
German authorities have
received 3000 letters, most of
them "not anonymous"
providing information on
Nazi activists during -World
War II.
Responding to a question,
Wiesenthal said the
American television docu-
drama "Holocaust" was
"very, very important." He
lauded the Swedish
diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg
who saved 100,000 Jews from
the Nazis in Hungary during
World War II. He said that
Soviet statements that
Wallenberg died in prison in
Budapest "up to now are not
convincing evidence of his
death."
BONN (JTA)-Chancellor
Helmut Schmidt has made it
clear that he is standing by
his positions on the Middle
East, including self-determination for the Palestinian
people and association of the
Palestine Liberation Organization in the Mideast peace
process, notwithstanding an
official protest from Israel
and a bitter personal attack
on him by Premier Menachem Begin.
However, in a lengthy
policy statement to the Bundestag last week, Schmidt
seemed to take a conciliatory approach to Israel and
to acknowledge the special
relationship existing
between Bonn and Jerusalem which Begin accused
the Chancellor of forgetting.
He said he would not respond
directly to Begin's charges
"precisely - because I am
aware of the special moral
and historical quality of Ger-
Wa'n-rsraeli' relations:" "-'"■'"'
Nevertheless, at meetings
with the parliamentary factions of his Social Democratic (SPD) and Free
Democratic (FDP) coalition
.parties in the Bundestag and
with his Cabinet,. Schmidt
defended his view that the
Palestinians deserve self-
determination and the right
to establish their own stateif
they wish,.,
. He insisted that.the PLO
should bea party to Western-
initiated peace moves in the
Middle East to keep it,from
-falling into Russian hands.
He deplored the fact that the
Palestinians and Israelis
have each refused to recognize the other.
Schmidt also defended his
remark that West Germany
has a special commitment to
the Palestinians driven from
their homes on the West
Bank, an assertion that
infuriated Begin. According
to observers here it is based
on a theory gaining ground
in Bonn circles that since the
Third Reich was in a way responsible for the creation of
the State of Israel, it also had
a responsibility for the
"Palestinian tragedy"
which its successor had a
duty to help mitigate.
Referring to his recent
visit to the Middle East in his
Bundestag statement,
Schmidt said that he and the
Arab leaders he met agreed
on the need for a comprehen-
sive peace settlement from
which   "Israel  was  not ence and said he continued to
excluded."  He noted that hope for a comprehensive,
Israel is celebrating the 33rd just peace and that in this he
anniversary of its independ- (continoeo on page u)
A photo from the information desk at HIAS will be part of the YIVO Institute's
"Images of Polish Jewry: Arts and Culture" to be on display at the Conference on the
Shtetl.
Arts Display Andfilm ©n Polish Jewry
Af Conference Or. Is IM#H litis Sunday
Two visual entities—one a
movie, the other, a photographic display—will be
shown at the Conference on
the Shtetl to be held by the
Melton Center for Jewish
Studies at The Ohio State
University and The Jewish
Center on Sunday, May 17, -
from 1-6 p.m. at The Jewish
Center) 1125 College Ave.
The film, Image Before
My Eyes," is a  90-minute
documentary using photos,
music, interviews, and home
movies of the time to give
viewers a feeling for the
richnessand variety of life in
Jewish Poland before it was
destroyed in the Holocaust.
After three years of research
by Dr. Lucjan Dobroszycki
and Dr. Barbara Kirshen-
blatt-Gimblett of YIVO, a
young filmmaker, Josh
Waletzky, was able to put the
film together in 1980 in order
to recreate Jewish life of the
over three million rich, poor,
religious, secular, city and
shtetl dwellers in Poland.
The film recently played at
the Manhattan II theatre in
New York and received a
glowing review in the New
York Times.
^ The photographic celebration of the artistic.and in-
(CONTINUEO ON PAGE 7)
Center Invites Community
Groundbreaking for The New Jewish Center, 1125 College Ave., will take place tomorrow morning, Friday, May 15, at.9:30 a.m. Center members and friends are invited to*
participate in this milestone for the Columbus community.
Bea Roth and Dr. James Tennenbaum, chairpersons of the Groundbreaking event, and
their committee have planned a program which includes honoring those Center leaders
who have played important roles in the campaign and building design .process.
. Melvin Schottenstein will represent the Leo'Yassenoff Foundation, whose recent'
$700,000 challenge gift has enabled the Center to begin construction and for whom the
New Jewish Center will be named. Campaign Chairman David Roth and Campaign Associate Chairman Irving Schottenstein will represent the campaign leadership. Other
honorees will be Michael Talis, Construction Committee Chairman; Dr. James Tennenbaum, Immediate Past President; William Goldman, Center President; and Barton
Schachter, Executive Director.
A highlight of the morning will be a performance by the Center's preschoolers. Other
festive surprises are planned.
■ Community members are invited to participate in the Groundbreaking event, to sign
an historical scroll to be placed in the cornerstone of the New Building and to attend a
reception following the formal program.
Construction is underway for our New Jewish Center. It's Time... We're Building It!
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