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Israeli Colonel
To Speak At
Local Meeting
Martin Hoffman, president of the Columbus Council
of the Jewish National Fund,
announces that Colonel Meir
Doron, an emissary from Israel for the JNF, will be in
Columbus April 11-13 and
will speak at a public meeting on Monday, April 11, at
7:30 p.m., at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center.
FOCUS ON ISSUES
Col. Meir Doron
Col. Doron's* military
background includes 26
years of field and instructional positions. He fought in
the 1956, '67 and '73 wars and
is currently on a two-year
leave of absence from the Israel Defense Force in order
to fulfill the JNF mission.
As a military man, Doron
has a first-hand knowledge
of the JNF's work in Israel
and will relate how crucial
this work is to the security
and peace in Israel.
For more information
about the meeting, which is
free and open to the public,
call the JNF office at
231-1397.
Israeli Wins Tennis Match
NEW YORK (JTA)—Tennis history was made so far as
Israel is concerned last week, on the first day of Passover at
Monte Carlo, when Shlomo Glickstein of Israel, ranked 42nd
in world tennis, defeated top seeded Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia, generally regarded as the top player in world tennis,
6-2,3:6, 7-5, in the opening round of the $300,000 Monte Carlo
Open tennis tournament.	
Cyprus New Center For PLO Propaganda
BONN (JTA)—Cyprus is becoming the new center of Palestine Liberation Organization propaganda since -the PLO
was ousted from Beirut last summer, the daily Die Welt reported last week. According to the paper, the PLO has established, at great expense, a new information and communications center in the Greek part of the island, which is partially
occupied by Turkey. It has already moved its news agency,
Wafa, to Cyprus along with various publications. It is now
trying to get the Cypriot government to grant a license to the,
PLO radio station, "The Voice of Palestine," so that it can
resume broadcasts which previously emanated from Beirut.
Dutch To Open Memorial Center
AMSTERDAM (JTA)—A memorial center for the more
than 100,000 Jews deported by the Nazis from Holland during
World War II will be opened officially by Queen Beatrix on
April 12. The center, sponsored by a private, non-Jewish
group, is located at Westerbork in northeast Holland, the site
of a transit camp used as a staging area for Jews on their
way to death camps in Eastern Europe. The center will house
a replica of the Dutch Pavilion at the Auschwitz memorial in
Poland. The displays illustrate Jewish life in Holland before
World War II, the persecution of Jews during the German
occupation and life at Westerbork when it served as a way
station for Jewish deportees. Ohly'a'handful of Jews'who left
Westerbork survived.
Events Of World War II Probe
Humanity's Uneasy Conscience
NEW YORK (JTA)-A
strange phenomenon is taking place. The events of
World War II still reach out
to probe the uneasy conscience of humanity.. The
past refuses to disappear
into the nebulous recesses of
time or into the musty pages
1 of history books. Again and
again the reemergence of
events long past arouses
emotions and revives images and memories. Opinions clash; there is no letup.
Memories and feelings
were jarred anew with the
return to France of Klaus
Barbie, alias Klaus Alt-,
mann, the infamous
"butcher of Lyon." His return, after being expelled
from Bolivia, has given rise
to mixed reactions. Some
people are not exactly happy
that he was brought back to
France to stand trial for
"crimes against humanity."
Mixed Feelings About
Barbie's Return
As far as they are concerned,  he might as well
Conference On 'Women Surviving:
The Holocaust' Concludes In N.Y
NEW YORK (JTA)-The
first conference on "Women
Surviving: The Holocaust"
concluded an arduous and
often tense two days of eliciting testimony from survivors in an attempt to ferret
Professor Pollack Foresees
Difficult Summer For Israel
By Judith Franklin
Chronicle News Editor
Professor Allen Pollack,
an expert on both the Soviet
Union and the Middle East,
foresees a difficult summer
abrasive and aggressive"
than Westerners, he said,
noting, "They will throw
tomatoes if they don't like a
speech."   ■
The second is that the debate in which they are cur-
"Each group believes to the core of its soul that the
outcome (of the debate) will determine the way Israel
will be for generations to come."
for Israel. He predicts, in
fact, a "further inflaming of
passions" internally andt
externally,. an increase in
American pressure on Israel
to effect peace in the Middle
East.
' The author of several'
books on Middle Eastern and
Soviet affairs, Pollack is
uncomfortable about what is
happening in Israel for two
reasons, .he explained in an
exclusive interview with the
Chronicle recently. The first
is that, th? majority of
Israelis, being from Eastern
, European and Oriental countries,  are  more - "violent,
rently engaged is, he feels,
an ideological not a political,
one and as such, the stakes
are unusually high, with
each faction being convinced
it cannot afford to lose. -
According to Pollack,
three factions exist: the religious, the territorial and the
societal. The religious faction, he explained, feels that
life.in Israel must be based
solely on the Torah. The territorial faction'believes that
Israel must • exercise sovereignty over all land which
is a part of the Jewish state;
The societal, on the other
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out what was particularly
"female" about their experiences and behavior during
that traumatic era, revealing both the absence and the
urgency of serious research
on the subject.
The conference, held at
Stern College here recently,
was sponsored by the Institute for Research in History
and Programs in Public
Philosophy under a grant
from the New York Council
on the Humanities. Close to
400 people, the overwhelming number of them women
and a goodly number of them
survivors and survivors'*,
children, took part in the
gathering, some of them
traveling there from as far
away as the south, midwest
and London.
Dr. Joan Miriam Ringel-
heim, a Kent Fellow at The
Center for the Humanities of
Wesleyan University, convened the conference after
finding little research on the
subject, or indeed interest in
it by scholars in the past several years she has been
studying it. The history of
the Holocaust,- she said, was
incomplete without this information.
The conference format
was built around blocks of
questions asked of survivor
panelists by moderators as
well as members of the audience. The moderators' ques-
■
tions were rooted in the
premise that women had experiences in or responses to
the ghettos, concentration
camps and resistance
groups that were different
from those of men.
Four Major Issues
Four major issues came
up repeatedly in the questions directed at survivors
by panelists and participants: were women less or
more vulnerable during the
Holocaust because they were
women, what survival
strategies specific to women
did they employ, what was
the nature of women's resistance and what were relationships between arid
among women like?.
There was general agreement that women were more
vulnerable than men in
situations where they were
involved with minor children. Dr. Sybil Milton, archivist at the Leo Baeck Institute and one of the few scholars to make a formal presentation, on "Issues and-Resources," at the conference,
said that "women went to
their death with children"
when they underwent a
selection upon arrival at a
death camp. These women,
she added, were not necessarily  the  children's
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have remained in Bolivia,
where rightwing governments protected him since
his arrival there some 30
years ago. Too many skeletons are still in the closet,
some people feel, and it
would be better if these
skeletons were not exposed
to the glare of publicity.
For other people, the past
holds too many horrible,
traumatic memories of bitter days and nights, of despair and defenselessness.
These memories, these
nightmares return to the
fore, the psychic wounds are
reopened and an outcry
emerges that justice be
done.
Still others who went
through the same days of
torment and torture want to
forget. Too many years have
gone by. There is no use in
reliving a period in which a
"butcher" had free reign to
destroy thousands of
people—resistance fighters
and Jews—for which Barbie
now faces trial. His reign as
gestapo chief in Lyon was
during a controversial
period in France's history,
not exactly glorious days for
the French.
Barbie  conducted  his
butchery with the help of the
Vichy  government  which
collaborated with the Nazis
after the fall of France. That
government  sent  110,000
Jews to death camps; only
3,000 adults returned;  not
one child came back.
Jewish Resistance Fighters
In all the years of the Nazi
occupation   of  France,
Barbie reserved his' special
"treatment" for Jews. One
survivor has testified that he
hung them by their feet and
sent  them* to  agonizing
deaths. But he was just as
relentless and remorseless
about his treatment of resistance fighters, which included many Jews.   .
The rank and file of
French' Jews joined the general resistance movement,
but in addition, they had
their own underground unit
which fought the Germans in
a shadow war. There were
more than 6,000 persons in
this unit, recruited from all
walks of life. They were
sworn in on a small Bible
and a small blue and white
flag with a gold cord in the
form of a Star of David
stitched across it. More than
200 men and women died
fighting under this flag.
France never forgot the
heroes of the resistance
movement. Their deeds and
accomplishments have been
immortalized on postage
stamps that were issued
from 1947 until 1961. Jews
[who served in the Republic
and refused to submit to the
Nazi occupation have also
been honored.
A stamp issued in March
1960 paid homage to Pierre
Masse, a member of the
Senate. He served in World
War I, attained the,rank of
captain and became an official in the government
where he dealt with pensions
and military justice. In 1940,
Marshal Petain, head of the
Vichy government, issued an
order barring Jews from
serving in the French army.
An aroused Masse wrote a
letter to Petain asking him
whether he should remove
his brother's officer's insignia, a lieutenant killed in
1916, or the officer's insignia
of his son-in-law, a lieutenant killed in 1940, or that of
his  nephew killed  in  the
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Yom HaShoah Service To Include
Candlelighting By Area Children
The Yom HaShoah Holocaust Memorial Service taking place on Sunday, April
10, at 7 p.m. at Agudas
Achim will include a special
candlelighting by children
representing area congregations.
Many of the children are
descendents of Holocaust
survivors. They will each
light a candle to commemorate the Holocaust's victims.
The children participating '
are: Aaron Axelrod of Beth
Shalom, Miriam Aronovsky
of Tifereth Israel, Seth Hoffman of Beth Jacob. Saman-
tha Summer of Temple Israel, Avi Marocco of Ahavas
Sholom and Aaron Einhorn
of Agudas Achim.
The Yom HaShoah Service
guest speaker will be Rabbi
Abraham Feffer of Beth El
Congregation in Akron. Rabbi Feffer is a survivor of
ghettoes in Poland and of
Auschwitz and Dachau.
A special emphasis will be
placed, during this year's
service, on commemorating
those who fought and died in
the Warsaw Ghetto as this
year marks the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising.
Parking will be available
at Agudas Achim and on adjacent streets. The community is encouraged and in-,
vited to attend,     ' "  •
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