Serving Council Bluffs, Bes Moines, JAncoln* Omaha Vol. I.XVIII—31
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sroe Omaha , . . Before leaving for a trip to Israel last week with other U n i t e d S t a t e s mayors, Eugene A. Leahy proclaimed the week of May 10 as Israel Independence Week for Omaha. He did so "in tribute to the valiant people who established the State of Israel and the many citizens of Omaha whose heritage rests in this renowned and ancient land". Mayor Leahy, Governor Nor. bert Tiemann, Governor Ray of Iowa and other civic leaders will be among the participants in the Israel Independence Day Celebration which will be under • the sponsorship of the Jewish Federation of Omaha at Memorial Park, Sunday, May 10 from 2 to 4 p.m. Three ministers who recently: returned from Israel on the Ministers Tour will also par-' ticlpatc in the afternoon's festivities. They are Dr. Reuben , Swanson, director of the Lutheran Church in America, Ne-" braska Synod; Kenneth. Kcr--jshaw,-National Conference of Christians and Jews; and the Rev. John H. Whittington, President of .the North Side BaptistAlliance. Masters of Ceremonies for the celebration will be former mayor of Omaha, Al Sorenson, and civic leader Mr. Sam Green-. • berg, a former member of the. Poard of Regents of the University of Omaha. Mrs. J. Har-
Omaha Mayor Eugene Leahy h5s proclaimed May 10 "IsProclamatlon, from left to right, Mrs. Leonard Goldstein, Mrs. Jack Cohen, Mayor Leahy, Alvin Ross. rael Independence Week." Pictured above receiving the jyJKulakofsky t -former presi- for the afternoon will, include A highlight of thei celebration the same year that Israel dent of the Omaha Chapter of Mr. Frank &ott~ollBa¥o~Sto-~~wfl!''6e the lightingof 22 torches came a state. honor of the State of Israel. The afternoon's program wiH Hadassah and a leading figure tion KBON reading the famous in lighters will be 22 young close with a city-wid* .'eceptioa for many years in the work of •'Statement of Massada" writ- Torch this community and many or- ten at the time of the death of men and women who were born at Beth Israel synagogue. ganizations for Israel, has been the martyrs on Massada. Dannamed Honorary Chairman of iel Sullivan and the University of Nebraska at Omaha band, the celebration. Westside High Madrigals, According to Mrs. Jack E. tho Central High's Acappella.choir^_ Cohen and Mr.-Alvin Ross, co- Jeff Taxman and a group of chairmen of the Independence Day Committee, participants dancers will also participate. Greetings will be extended by General Holloway from the New York (JTA)—A pro-Is- for the Egyptian government Strategic Air Command and rael group in London has is- is estimated at several hunMr. Elmer Gross, president of sued a dossier of former Gertho J e w i s h Federation. Ex- man Nazis who it claims are dred" including former SS and cerpts from the "Israeli Declar- still in the employ of Presi- SA members, ex-Gestapo offiLincoln . . . April 8th marked co-chairmen of the, Women's ation of Independence" will be dent Nasser and the Egyptian cers, members of Hitler's a "first" for. 55 dedicated Jew: Division of the Lincoln Jewish read by Mr. Harvey Ferer and government and would have propaganda ministry and forMr. Jack Mblad. Ish women in Lincoln Nebras- Welfare Federation Drive. been hi charge of liquidating mer Nazi scientists.'. A general Women's Division ka. The first "Big Gifts" lunchthe Jews of I s r a e l had the In addition, they charge that eon was held at the home of luncheon was held April 15 at Arabs won the 1967 war. certain Nazi war criminals Mrs. I r w i n Goldenberg, at the Cornhusker Hotel. Guest The list and background ma- high on the wanted list were •which- 55 women each pledged speaker, was. Mrs,. Robert. I.. 'given • * material* "aid" 'by* • 'Arah' Katz of Minneapolis, Minn. f 100 or more to the Jewish Welgovernments enabling them bor Friends of Israel, an orThe chairmen of the Wom. fare Federation and the Israel ganization of British Labor to escape and hide out in South en's Division have announced Emergency Fund. •/. Chicago (JTA)—The Ameri- Party MPs and other Labor- America for the past 25 years. Co-hostesses for the luncheon that at the half-way point in can Nazi Party's 25-year-old ites. According to the British were Mmes. Leo Hill, Hyman their campaign, $10,500 has "coordinator" for the_ Middle group, the partnership with Folsky and Irwin Goldenberg, been raised. West, Frank Collln, is the son the Nazis entered Into by the of a former German Jew who former Grand "'Mufti of Jeruwasoncea-prisoner at Dachaur salem, HaJ Ainin elTlusseml —An exciting re.p.b.r_t.!has been announced by the Youth His Identity was revealed by and other Arab leaders early Division of the 1970 Omaha his mother, Mrs. Virginia Col- in World, War II has continued Jewish Philanthropies CamV' lln, who.is a Roman Catholic. between contemporary Arab She said her husband, Max, rulers and surviving Nazhrwho, paign. To-date, 289 oards have reowner o f a draperybuslness", fbumT a haven I n Arab counsulted in pledges of $2,575. was held at Dachau for three tries. They charge that "The months in 1938 and later freed number of German and Aus- The same carls last year resulted in pleiges of $490. to emigrate to the U.S. His trian Nazis who work directly name was Max Simon Cohen but he had it legally changed t) Max I'Y ColUn in 1946vthree ;cars alter hb marriage. Mrs..Collin.ss'.d her husband aid son were in violent disi ^reement over Frank's alle•giance to the National Socialist VlW-m Peoples Party, suc- Omaha . . . A community-wide meeting,;commemorating the cessor to the late CcOrge Rock- anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the slaughter of well's American Nazi Party. ,•6,000,000 Jews during the Nazi holocaust, will be held Sunday, She said that fatiier and son May 3, at 8 p.m. at Beth Israel Synagogue. luve not sp;ken for years.butL Rabbi Myer Krlpke will defr.t she oci?sichally talks to; fliver the principle speech, pth- community who were survivors her'son'on-the. telephoned' : :er participants in the service of the Nazi tragedy. They are:, The Coi.'i;i "case recalled a ' will Include; Rabbi Isaac Na- Abe Ziederman, Walter RichV s ..liinr o:e in New York four,* •doff, Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks, man, Gary Kinstlinger, Lita jears ano v/ 2.\ a New York; Cantor Elchbnon Gelberg, Can- D i a m o n, Hannah Buchelstet 'j'.nies reporter exposed "the tor Manfred Kuttner and Can- and Marsha Wisnia. The Omaha Jewish Youth Cou. - \ .<. ~ :.d S.'" GE NI, 3 70 Jcv.;r,h parentage of Daniel tor Aaron Edgar..Six Yizkor candles, each in 'The special Memorial SerSaturday, May 2, at 8 p.m. to the Lewis and.Clark Junior High K.irros, a local chapter leader; of the American Nazi Party' memory of a million Jewish vice is open to the community, auditorium. Pictured above, Nancy Colin and Gordic Hoberman, and member of the Ku Klux victims, will be kindled by the and everyone is urged to atco-chairmen of the annual talent show which is-open to tho children1 of six:riiembers'of the tend; .' • -• • • . . • • community. , ' •
Former Nazis In Employ of Nasser
55 Women Participate in Lincoln 'Big Gifts' Meeting
Neo-Nazi Has Jewish Father
Campaign Report
Stage Nite 70
Service May 3 Memory of Nazi Victims