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SERVING NEBRASKA AND IOWA SINCE 1920 J-L Vol. UVI No. IS Omaha, Nobr.
8 Tsvet, 5749 Friday, Dec. 16, 1988
Six million Jews were 'expendable John Loftus describes secret document files By Morris Maline The United States knew in r941 that Jews were being murdered by Nazis and in 1942 was aware that wholesale massacres were under way.
A total of 7,000 Jews were murdered in the city of Borissow and Stankievich was rewarded by becoming governor of the province. After the war, the American Red Cross conducted autopsies of those found in the mass graves and concluded that the Jewish babies had been buried alive.
Pacesetters effort to raise 1.4 million By Morris Maline The Federation Campaign's Pacesetter Division announced two major pledges and a new approiich to the 1989 fund-raising effort. A $1.4 million goat has been set for the Division. Murray Newman, cochairman, with Bob Gordman, told those attending the Pacesetter diimer Monday night at the Highland Country Club that the Ike Friedman family and the Dan Gordman family have made substantial increases in their aimual gifts. Mr. Newman said the Friedman family upped their gift by 70 per cent and that the Gordman increase was 43 per cent. "This type of response should be an inspiration to the entire campaign," Mr. John Loftus Newman added. Mr. Newman explained that the new approach for the 1989 campaign is for division members to reasses their financial capabilities and not just add a token inArafat and thereby "put crease to last year's gift. Howard Kaalow told the him to the test." group that unlike past Shamir, for his part, con- years, the dinner celebrates siders the PLO "inherently the beginning of the camincapable" of changing its paign rather than, as in past basic positions, which call years, the end. for the eradication of Israel, Mr. Kaslow, a former Fedand encouraging violence eration president, said that and terrorism. inflation has eroded the purIsrad "shall not recognize chasing power of the dollar the PLO under any condi- and that increases are needed to cope with the tions, '' Shamir insisted.
scope and character of Jewish community services. He pointed out that residents of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home will need subsidies to supplement Medicaid, that the teacher program in Omaha-the "envy" of the country—has had to cope with increasing costs and that money is not available to serve adequately the needs of those in the 15-30 age group. "We hit the wall in 1988, finding that we could not adequately fund core programs." He said the realism and boldness of the Campaign leadership should be applauded because if the "enormously successful " role of Jewish self-taxation is really to work, participants must go through intensive self-examination to det^mine their giving level.
John Loftus, author of The Belarus Secret, told 140 attending the Pacesetter Division dinner Monday night at the Highland Country Stankievich and his BelaClub that President Roosevelt tried to do something to rus brigade disappeared at the end of the war, but he save the Jews. holds the distinction of beRoosevelt suggested to ing the only non-German Great Britain that a joint whose war crimes have been appeal be made to Hitler, read into the Congressional but the British declined on Record, Mr. Loftus said. the grounds that they would The author pointed out not allow the Jews to enter Palestine and that no other that Stankievich became country would accept them. one of thousands of war criminals who were reRoosevelt did not have cruited by the allies to preHoward Kaslow the authority to acc^t Jews pare for World War III and he saw no way that against the Soviet^Union. Congress would approve In tracing the journeys of such massive emigration so he finally agreed that the the collaborators, Mr. Jew^ vwe expoidable to the Loftus uncovered clandeswar effort, Mr. Loftus ex- tine operations involving many government agencies plained. and found Stankievich's file By David Landau Mr. Loftus, a former trial in the vaults of the State JERUSALEM (JTA) attorney for the Justice Department. Israel had two official reacNEW YORK (JTA) - In Department Office of Spetions to Yasir Arafat's response to the devastating cial Investigations, told the "I couldn't believe speech Tuesday to the U.N. earthquake that rocked SoPacesetters that his infor- it... he was a United General Assembly in Geviet Armenia, B'nai B'rith mation was based on study- States Gtizai collecting So- neva. While both were negaInternational has pledged to ing classified government cial Security checks and liv- tive, they reflected the donate $2,500 in emergency documents in his capacity ing in South River, N.J." different approaches of the relief funds for the victims. as a prosecutor of Nazi war A check was presented to Mr. Loftus said Stankie- two major parties, Likud criminals. Minister-Counselor Oleg vich died from natural and Labor, toward the PalHe told the story of one causes a few weeks before estine Liberation OrganizaDerkofsky of the Soviet such criminal to illustrate he could be brought to trial. tion. Embassy in Washington. how thousands of Nazis en- He also said that he was According to Prime Mintered the United States dur- motivated to carry on his ister Yitzhak Shamir, the ing the Cold War, opening work, by another file that he Likud leader, Arafat's up one of the "worst dis- found in the vaults. speech was "an act of asters" ever to shake the monumental dec^tion." He "This document was writ- made clekr at a specially United States intelligence ten by a Jew, Solomon called news conference that community. Schiadow, whose entire famMr. Loftus said that Stan- ily was killed in White Rus- Israel will have nothing whatsoever to do with the ialaw Stankievich, from sia. Sol tunneled under a PLO, undtt any circumWhite Russia, a part of the concentration camp lanHing stances. Soviet Union considered a a group of 100 to fight ' sanctuary forJews,«n|i«tfiH against The Foreign Ministry, the Nazis. in the Nazi SS and guided headed by Labor Party the Nazi military through "Hia Jewish resistance leader Shimon Peres, his area. brigade was the most highly seemed leaa adanumt. There Stankievich was mrarded decorated Partiaan uiiit on was no news coniarence. But according to an Israel with control of a refugee the EUstem Front, and he camp just behind the Nazi wrote about tha 50,000 Radio report, miniatry offi- <, linea. According to Mr. Lof- Jews who could not speak dais saw "an improvMiMot" in Arafat's refaranoaa to tua, Adolph Eichman «n- for themaelvea." U.N. Security Council ReaorolM Stankievich in a "piAccording to Mr. Loftus, lot arogram" to maaaacre Schiadow came to the lutiona 242 and 338, which all J«m in the camp in a Unitad Sutoa and conr recognize Israel by implication. ain^day. tactad the author afUr the But they felt the PLO Tha procadure was de- Belarus Secret waa d*- chief offered nothing new by •cribad on tha tatmriakm way of recognizing larael's Stankievich haid' a big program, 60 Minutea. right to exist an^ ranouncI ^'**',^?'Jh "^ •'**''** ^'^ **«*^ S***«^ *<>* »«»P »«»«»»•« the Third party on Get 19, IMl. to ing tarroriam. 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