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VOL.64   NO. 11
MARCH 13,1986-ADARII2
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
Former UN Secretary General Waldheim
Accused Of Having Active Nazi Past
The performers (1. to r.) Suzanne Toren, Adrienne
Cooper and Leonard Wolf will appear in "The Flight of
the Golden Peacock" March 30 at 2 p.m. at the Jewish
Center. The celebration of Yiddish story and song will
be performed in English and Yiddish.
'Flight Of The Golden Peacock'
Celebrates Richness Of Yiddish
Leonard  Wolf,   Suzanne
Toren and Adrienne Cooper
perform in "The Flight of
the Golden Peacock" March
30 at 2 p.m. in the Roth/Resler Theatre of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center; The
program, performed in Yiddish and English, will be a -'
, J. celebration of the richness of
[lr Yiddish story arid song.
M-    The  format  for   "The
Flight  of  the  Golden
Peacock"  is  designed for
audiences  which  have no
knowledge of Yiddish as well
as those with an extensive
knowledge of the language.
First a piece of literature is
read in English and then
again in Yiddish, allowing
for the richness of the language to add a new dimension to the work. "We have a
dual goal: appreciation of
the lesser known Yiddish
writers and the actual hear-
ing  of  the  Yiddish
h language," said Wolf.
"The roll call of distinguished writers in Yiddish is
much larger than Sholom
Aleichem, Sholom Asch and
Issac Basevis Singer. We
work with writings by
Yankev Glatstein, Itzik
Manger, Kadya Molodowski
and Dovid Bergelson, just to
name a few," continued
Wolf.
In addition to being director of the Golden Peacock
series, Wolf is a novelist,
poet and translator of Yiddish poetry and fiction. The
author of several books; he
teaches at the''Max Wein-
reich Center for Advanced
Jewish Studies and the New
School of Social Research,
Toren is an actress with
experience on and off Broadway. For the last several
years, she has been a major
interpreter of Yiddish literature in performance readings. She has appeared on
television and radio and has
been instrumental in
developing audio materials
for the blind,    <•
Soprano Cooper received
her training at the Rubin
Academy of Music in Jerusalem. She has performed in
concert, on radio and television and has recorded in
Israel and throughout the
U.S. She is currently assistant director, of the YIVO
Institute for Jewish
Research arid "an instructor
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NEW YORK (WNS) —
Former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim served on the staff, of a
German army general in
1943 who was, described as
"perhaps more implicated in
Jewish deportations than
any other Wehrmacht commander," the World Jewish
Congress revealed recently.
The documents follow the
disclosure in Vienna that
Waldheim, now a conservative candidate for the Presidency of Austria, had an
active Nazi past. Documents
published in Vienna show.
Waldheim in his youth as a
member of the Nazi SA and
the National Socialist Student Organization.
Waldheim had denied
membership in either but
later conceded that he had in
fact joined the groups in
order to protect his family.
Waldheim's association with
the SA was in his pursuit of
horseback riding. The records of Waldheim's de-Nazi-
fication process in 1946 confirmed that his association
with the SA was solely in
Hadassah Medical Organization
Donor Event Planned For April 6
. Jana Robbins, who appeared as Fanny Brice in
Funny Girl for Gallery
Players last summer, will be
guest artist at the Champagne Buffet Supper, the Annual Donor event of the Columbus Chapter of Hadassah, on Sunday evening,
April 6, at Winding Hollow :
Country Club.
. This event, culminating
the fund drive for the Hadassah Medical Organization in
Israel, promises to surpass
the event of last year, when
."Steppin" Out," a musical
comedy revue, was the entertainment of the evening.
"The best gets better,"
stated Helen Nutis, donor
chairwoman, "and we are
proud to give this culminating event for the many
donors for the two hospitals
in Israel... Ein Karem and
Mt. Scopus. Hadassah's role
is helping to absorb almost
2,000 young Ethiopians into
Israeli life and the physicians in the Department of
Social Medicine of the
Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center are serving as advisors to the project
on curriculum planning and
 (CONTINUED ON PAGE 15)
pursuit of his passion for
horseback riding.
The WJC documents disclose that Waldheim served
on Gene Alexander Loehr's
staff at Salonika, Greece, in
March, 1943, when at the
same time Wehrmacht
trains were carrying
2,000-2,500 Jews to Auschwitz
nearly every day. Waldheim
has denied knowing of any
deportations.
"I regret these things most
deeply, but I have to repeat
that it is really the first time
that I hear such things happened," Waldheim told The
New York Times. "I never
heard or learned anything of
this while I was there. I hear
for the first time that there
were deportations of Jews
from there."
According to the WJC, documents and testimony at the
Nuremberg trials established that Loehr arid personnel under his command
supervised the 1943 deportations, to Auschwitz of the
large Jewish community in
Salonika. The operation,
conducted with SS assistance, began in mid-March
1943 and was largely over by
mid-May, by which time
more than 42,000 men,
women and children had
been transported to Poland,
where most were gassed
shortly after arrival at the
death camp. Loehr was subsequently hanged as a war
criminal.
Meanwhile,  in  a  report
from Athens, Joseph Low-
inger, head of Greece's Jewish community, expressed
surprise and disbelief over
allegations that Kurt Waldheim participated in the deportation of 42,000 Jews from
Salonika to Nazi death
camps in Poland in 1943,
when the future United Nations Secretary General was
an officer in the Wehrmacht. ■
Lowinger, president of the
Central Jewish Council, the
representative body of
Greek Jews, was referring to
media reports in the United
States that Waldheim was in
Salonika, where most of
Greece's 70,000 Jews lived
during World War II, while
the deportations were being
carried out.
"It is the first time that I
have learned that Dr. Waldheim was in Thessalonikil
(Salonika) and that he com-
Israel To Seek Extradition
Of More Nazi War Criminals
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Justice Minister Moshe Nis-
sim said last week that Israel would seek the extradition of more Nazi war criminals living abroad but only if
there is sufficient evidence
to place them on trial.
The first accused war
criminal ever extradited to
Israel, Ukrainian-born John
Demjanjuk, a retired auto
worker from Cleveland,
Ohio, was brought to Israel
by U.S. marshals" recently
and was remanded in cus
tody last week
salem court.
by a Jem-
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Nissim said his Ministry is
engaged in a concerted effort to gather all available
information on other alleged
-war criminals residing in the
U.S. But Israel has not asked
for'their extradition because
there is presently not enough
evidence to convict them,
Nissim said.
Demjanjuk, 65, has been
confined to an isolation cell
at the Ayalon prison in
Kamla, southeast of. Tel
Aviv, He is accused of having been a guard at the Treblinka death camp in Poland
and to actually have operated the gas. chambers
Where hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed
during World War II. He has
been identified by survivors
, as the guard known as "Ivan
the Terrible" because of his
brutal treatment of camp inmates.
mitted such crimes," Lowinger said. "I don't want to
become'Dr. ■•Waldheim's advocate, but I wonder," he
said, adding that Waldheim's name never came up
among the Nazis involved in
the persecution of Greek.
Jews.
"How come the famous
Austrian Nazi-hunter Simon
Wiesenthal does not know
about Waldheim?" Lowinger asked.
Waldheim's denial was
supported by Wiesenthal,
who heads the Vienna-based
Nazi war crimes documentation center. He said that he
had heard rumors of Waldheim's involvement with
'Nazis before. But neither the
Public Prosecutor's Office in
West Germany nor Eastern
or  Western  intelligence
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 15)
Some Space Still Available
For 'Especially For Women*
At Jewish Center March 16
There may still be some
space available for women
to register for Sunday's
"Especially For Women"
program to be held, at the
Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center
March 16, from 11 a.m.-5:30
p.m. This year's program,
sponsored by Sally's and
Jolen's Shoes, will feature
Cheryl Krueger as the
luncheon keynote speaker.
Krueger is the president
and owner of Cheryl's
Cookies, Inc. She will be
speaking on the "Ups and
Downs of Going Out On Your
Own." Over the past five
years, Krueger has
developed Cheryl's Cookies,
Inc. into an operation with 14
stores in five states.
The  program  will  also
feature other speakers on a
variety of subjects, including: Deborah Fodor from the
Center for New Directions,
on- "Entering  the  Workforce"; Dr. Norma Barneby
on ".'Sexuality"; Gail Sutton
, on "Beginning. Yoga Technique"; Dr. Diane Tallo on
VOsteoporosis";   Carol
Luper on "Women in the
Media"; Sue Guy oh "Financial Planning"; Dr., Elaine
Filusch  on  "Starting  an
Exercise Program Safely";
Gloria Zelizer, M.S.W-. on
"Enriching   the  Woman
Alone";   Gail  Radlove,
M.Ed, and Lynn Aronson on
"Diets:   Why .They  Don't
Work/The Body image Connection"; Dr. Jane Mague
on "Women in Midlife"; Dr.
Naomi Kayne on  "Stress
Management";   Gail Fein
stein on "Raising a Jewish
family in a Non-Jewish
World." •
"Especially for Women"
chairwomen are Joyce Bloch
and Bobbie Izeman; committee, members are Sheryl
Angart, Jackie Benis,
Rhonda Brazina, Karen
Kurtz, Esther Pass, Sue
Sheidlower, Barb Wainer
and Lynn Aronson.
Pre-registration is a must;
stop? by the Center or call
231--2731. /■.■'''
Jewish Leaders Meet
With President Reagan
WASHINGTON (WNS) -
President Reagan told
American Jewish leaders on
March 5 that he will never
sell arms to moderate Arab
countries that would
threaten the security of Israel.
"I will not consider any
measure, including arms
sales to moderate Arab
countries" if it endangered
the security of Israel,
Reagan told some 100 Jewish
leaders attending a White
House briefing for the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organizations.
His remarks came at the
end of a speech in which he
urged the support of the Jewish community for his request to Congress {or $yw
million to aid,the Contras in
their opposition to the Sandi-
nista government in
Nicaragua:     ■   ■■  • ■