SERVING COUNCIL BLUFFS.
LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha. Nab., Fri .March7.1980
. J Hosts to Welcome 1,000 Dinner Guests • Attorney Howard Kaslow Is also a alauDch aiwortcr o( IsThe ktoa o( Unwrlng • diii- rad HeaDpnadMdlheJobas rl,dniUMU«auM an opportunity to ifnai his withualatni "As a boat tor the of hoau Yal m Men's Campalc* Dinner I y accaptad hope to be able to tell others duty for the nrat Man'i what I law on my recent trip FadaraUon CamiMlgn Inviu to Israel. Itir great achieve ttenal Dtaoer April 10 at Uw ments and the enormous taaks J««Wi Cwnmuntty Canlar that remain to be accomUiddly, Ifaaaa hoaU wUI by plished I am convinced that pafB Ite coaking and daanlni the words 'we are one' are more than Just a slogan They reflect the vital partnership the hopr of dtimrr between the American Jewish Cooktr aixl'Jerry (VMnmunlty and the strength that the largr nuni' and survival of Israel are Inse- The SovM Jewish cmlgratkn lifeline will free UKXMands of fM»hoaU will turn thr din parable from one another." Ulaa this year. A porUoD of the money pledged at (he Meo'i larttha usual Imprraonal acronllng lo Kaalow taUattal Dliner, April ». wUl be uaad lo help aetUa RuaalaD tlnd of maai event to « mart George Kagan. who it re- Famlltas la Omaha. toUmale occasion Each hoat tirad aagariy accepted the rev wlU be aHlgnad a table and ponalbUlty and issued a chal er. Harold Coopemum, Jerry Harvey Ferer. Dean Fran will ba rMpenalbie lor makinc Icnge la other retlrFd men to Dann. Jack Dultrh Joe kel .Sam Fried. David Fried a( that table ferl take an active role In philan- Ertnan. Mikp fCrratfn. Howard land. Uoyd Friedman. .Santhropies Rpatrln. Paul Kpatetn. Harold lord Friedman. Abe Gmdier. Tbaharta the hill "My wile. Toby, and I be- Fartier. Jim Farber. Stan Larry Olllnsky. Morton (ilass. 'a Jewish lieve In Judaism We have al- Frtnberg. Morris Fellman. Richard (ilazer. Ron (illck. ia( yount ways givan to Philanthropies and Thomas Fellman Frank Goldberg. Manny Gold^ wd turn m aHto Tbetr It's abaoMaly a total neoas••MM to tola taking OB the task itty aad I'm baRxy toi4a mjr *ara. Paagia wfaa are rallrad Aeuld eoadnua to contrlbAmnesty InlamaUeul has taaUroony after the crganiiaGary Javllch. a S3 year old uto,"urpd Kagan. puMlshad s onlqua eyewltuaas tlon liaued a lUt In 1«7» of 2,M& bwlDaaaman, raadlly acTheoihar boats for the eve- report by two lurvtvan who people known lo have "disapIka raia o( boat as i ning are MIH Abrahams. AtvUi escaped from secret detantlon peared" In Argentina since ofUt itroac aupiMrt o( Abramaon, MkbMl Albert, campa In Argentina where the coup thai brought General Paul Alpanon. Henry Appel. they estimate that hundreds of Jorge VkMa to power In I waa la laraai three llmei Jack Bakar. abtMon Balick. people have been systemati- March 1978 •nd aaw wh«c some o( the Nam Batt, Tom Bernstein. cally tortured and killed since They testify to s consistent I know the money Jerry Berman. Al Block. Mel IfTS pattern supervised in meticuBoroitctn. Pete Brodkey. Ron The two men, Oscar Alfredo lous detail by Various k our iMIgiitloa to aupport Brodkay, Marvin Brookstein, Gomalez and Horado Old de branches of Argenllns's mill Onaha and Israel That Is Jonathan Brown. Fred ('asla Paz, spent IS months In the tary and police forces Torture I was thinking of when I sman. Jay Chasan. BUI (Vihen. camps sfter being abducted and Interrogation were syslaid yet to being a host." said Paul Coban, Jack B Cohen. within two weeks of esch other tematic, followed by a period JavHch Jamas Cotien, Dr Ron Coop^ ui November 1177 in Buenos of what they call "concentraAires They were held In five tion camp" life with regular camps between them and pro- punishments and beatings, vide details on hundreds of and finally, for moat priaonAniKNincement has been made of the first prlaonerr-^Btoal of them now ers, "tranafer"—the euphemism lor death Most of the believed to be dead Men's Federatkm Campaign Invitational Dinner Their account and Ha ac- victims had been taken from to take place at the Jewish Community Center on compaoytng IMs of dead and their homea or placet of work April 20. misatng priaoners throw new without any semManoc of leThe goal of this dinner is to i^ach out and emlight on the posalMe fate of the gality by armed agenta of the thousands of Argentinian citl security forcea. usually In ci brace 1,000 members of the Jewish community. tcna who have "diaappeared" vUlaa clothing Attend the dinner, receive hoapltallty from your Ganula, a r-year-old facover the past three yean. A hosts, listen to the megsage of the evening and delefaUgn of the Organizatkin tory worker when he was kidthen make your pledge in private. This is the of American SUtea vUlted Ar napped, had been active polltl gmtlna In September Itn lo cally and in a union His wile, nuinatream thinking for having a dinner of this conduct on-tte^pol Ittveatlga- who he says had not taken part unprecedented scope. Uona Into the disappearances In politics, was slMkided a Many say It can't be done. Too many probthst local human rights month later He has heard poups uy now tolJ more nothing of J>er since January lems. Cooking and serving, seating, logistics — than 15.000 The OAS findings 1171 De la Pax. who waa 10 iinpoasible... etc. have not yet been made pub- when he waa kidnapped, was a Cookie and Jerry Hobennan, dinner co<halrlic student leader and a ntcmber men say otberwiae. Tbey and their committees Amnesty Intematlofial de- of the MonKmero wing of the rided to publish the testimony Peronlat movemant. att extending IhemaelveB to make this evening a Tbey eatlmala Uie SOO psople of the two men after months of iuper succeas becBuae they care about the future dwcklng their account ag- paaaed Uirou^ the campa of Ihls Jewldi oommunity. alnat Ita own records of people they were In during Uitlr IS who have "dtsappaaaad" and rnonUit In capthity, and they And Qiey believe, rightfully so. that all memthe slatemania of tomer pria- provide detalla on more than bers of the Jewish community feel the way they mers The organlxatkm alao NO a< them Ganxalex and de do, and that they too will demonstrate tiielr feelconsulted well-informed la Pat regard themaelves u inp by making this dinner experiment a huge souresa ki Argentina and has lucky lo have stayed alive besB abia to oomborala many until Uiey found a chance to esIHCtMg of Use detaUs given by the two cape "Wa managed lo delay Jvie'n betting on Jerry and Cookie. We're betIIMII. our tramter' by iubralMMn. m§jM you. Both came to Annaaty In- adopUflg an attttude of prathey say "We did ^ MflnrtoMilkM lamatkinal with UMIT I
berg, Arthur (kildstein. Gary Goldstein. Don Goldstein. Ueonsrd Goldstpin Puiii r;old' itein, Herman llotwrt (Goodman i nan. Nelson Uordman. Barton Grwnberg. Don Greenberg. Gary Gross and Art Gross man. Also. Howard Hahn. Bennett Horn.miMii Rirhard JarolMon. Al' Mickey Kaplan. Mi". nan. I^rry Kavich. Joe Kirshenbaum. Kevee Klrshenhaum. Art Kulakofsky Rntwrl Kully. Mar ihali Kuahner. Martin l>ehr, Jay Lemer. Dalv Levin. Denny I.^wis. Leonard I.«wls. Steven Lustgarten, Jack Marer. Dick Martin. Bemie Meyer. Larry Meyerson and Jerome MUder Also. Dr Dan Miller. Chuck Monasee, Stuart Muxkin. Sherman Nefl, Al Nepomnick Murray Newman. Allan Nod die, Harlan Noddle, Don Nogg.
Ernie Nogg, Steve Nogg, syO— Syd Osian, Bob PappanhelilnM« Alan Paraow, Sol Paraow, Palton. Jeff Perimeter vin Pollkov. BemIe RaskI Don Kice, Mort Richards Yale Richards. Henry Riekes Steve Riekes. Sheldon Rips Dr Blame Roffman. Dr Larry Hoffman and Hi iubert^ Hn!<enbluni
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Also. Harley Schrager, Phil Schrager. Fll Schupack. Ted Seldin. Mike Sherman. Dr Haul Shyken. Karl Siegel. Rol), Silverman, Krvjn Simon. K .laaw HI Simon. .Steven .Simon. Stanley Slosburg. Jerry Slunky. Lou Soloman. Marlon Somtieri Kamon Somberg. Dr Jose| Sostinik [)r Maurice Stel tierg. Mori Trachtenbarg. Sti art Tucker, Allen Tully. Mai rice Udes. Norman Veltxi Arnold Weltz. Sidney W' thelm K.rnie Wjntroub. 1 Mintroub. Richard Zachart Ell Zalkln and Sam Zwelback
Testimony ftom SBcret Camps in Argentina
A Good Bet
cleaning, painting, worked as bricklayers, cooks, mechanics and even did of f ice work '' Both men. like many others, were taken to Club AtMIco in Buenos Aires when they were first seized This building. llnce demolished, served as sn Initial depot for prisoners There, they saw their first "operating theatres." as the torture rooms were called C/ub Atleiico had three, each furnished with a picara i electric cattle prod I and metal table, to which the priaoners were bound naked "The smell of burnt flesh, blood, perspira tlon and excrement, added to the fact that there was no ventilation, made the air heavy and Impossible to breathe," they re|»rt IV treatment, they later learned, was essentially the same for all priaoners "For the first hour, they would apply the picana to us. without asking any questions TTiepurpoee of this was, as they put It, 'to soften you up, and so that we'll understand one another' They applied it to the head, armpits, sexual organs, anus, groin, mouth and all the sensitive parts of the body " According to the two men torture could go on for hours, day after day "Between sessions of the plcant, they would use the tubmartno (holding our heada under water i, hang us up by our feel, hit us on the sexual organs, beat ua with chaina, put salt on our wounds and uae any other method that occurred to them They would alao apply 230-volt direct current lo us Everything waa done under the supcrvtahm of a doctor, who cheeked our blood prtaaure
and reflexes 'We've got all the time in the world, and this will go on Indefinitely ' " In at least one case, however, an officer told them of a detainee who was tortured to death within hours of his abduction. Ijefore orders were received from "atwve" that he was to lie released < To be continued, see related story on page 81
Urgent Appeal The Resetllement Com mittee of Jewish Family Service has Issued an ur gent appeal fw furniture, appliances, and other hotjsehold furnishings In good condition "We are expecting 15 Russian immiKrants to arrive in Omaha before Pas •over arul we need assistance from the Jewish community as rapidly as possible." said Natalie Rubin, Resettlement coor dinator In addition to furnishings, help is needed in locating a rental hou.se in the area of the Jewish Day School, or other forms of rental units There would be no objec tlon to having the newcomers ahsre a home with a widow or widower. Mrs Rubin said, adding that the ^newcomers represent at least lour family unlta Mrs Rubin may be contacted al 334-IQOO ext «M