Page 2-THE NEWS March, 1987
THE CHARLOTTE JEWISH NEWS
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On The Issues ••• By IraGlssen,Va/NC Director ADL
Justice Will Not Be Denied
Editorial
More Recognition Needed
For Dr. Judltli Resnik
Recently I was speaking with my dear friend, Ruth
Silverberg, who lives in Rock Hill, S.C. We discuss
ed the hooplah on the anniversary of the astronauts’
tragic and unnecessary deaths and noted that there
was practically no recognition of Dr. Judith Resnik.
She wasn’t even selected as one of the “Heroines of
the Year.” Perhaps it was because she was single 2ind
did not leave a family... we are certain that it was not
because she was Jewish.
Ruth, who is a member of her local chapter of the
American Association of University Women
(AAUW), told me that the national AAUW has
established an endowment fund in memory of
astronaut Resnik. The endowment honors, in
perpetuity. Dr. Resnik’s pioneering achievements,
and her historic role in broadening the intellectual and
professional horizons of aspiring women everywhere.
Dr. Resnik received an Educationed Foundation
American Fellowship in 1975 to complete her doc
torate in electrical engineering, and was a member
of AAUW.
The AAUW is the oldest and largest national
organization working for educational and economic
equity for women. The AAUW Education Founda
tion supports these goals by providing funds to
American and international women for important
study and research. The Foundation helps remove
economic and societal boundaries faced by women —
broadens the horizons of women and society. As. Dr.
Resnik once said, “To find hope and to act on it means
going beyond our limits, beyond our boundaries.”
In her honor, the Dr. Judith Resnik American
Fellowships Endowment will be awarded annually to
a woman who is completing her doctoral dissertation
or conducting postdoctoral research. Preference will
be given to candidates in engineering or the natural
sciences.
In June 1987, at the bi-annual convention of the
AAUW (over 250,000 members nationally) a plaque
will be presented to NASA in Dr. Resnik’s name by
the AAUW. It will have the nemies of branches in the
50 states where members contributed $1 or more to
the endowment fund. North Carolina has 39 branches,
one of which is in Charlotte. South Carolina has 19
branches throughout the state.
I cannot think of a finer way of honoring Dr. Judith
Resnik than contributing towEirds this endowment.
Tax-deductible contributions may be sent to the
AAUW Educational Foundation Development Office,
2401 Virginia Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20037.
You may also make your contribution to your local
AAUW branch.
—Rita Mond
The Jewish Calendar
Candietigh ting
Mar. 6 - 6:05 p.m.
Mar. 12 - Fast of Esther
Mar. 13 - 6:11 p.m.
Mar. 15 - Purim
Mar. 16 • Shushan Purim
Mar. 20 - 6:17 p.m.
Mar. 27 - 6:22 p.m.
Apr. 3 - 6:28 p.m.
Apr. 10 • 7:34 p.m.
The Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith, at the request
of the Justice Department’s
Office of Special Investi
gations, is seeking testimony
from Holocaust survivors for
several cases under investi
gation by OSI, including one
involving the activities of
Lithuanian police units during
World War IL
OSI requested the league’s
assistance in locating these
survivors to provide informa
tion on a number of specific
places, incidents and Nazi
related activities during the
Holocaust.
Regarding the probe involv
ing the activities of Lithua
nian police units, OSI is ask
ing that it be contacted by in
dividuals present at any time
during 1941 through 1944 in
Marijampole, Rokiskis (Ro-
kiszki or Rokischken), Sksaud-
vile, Svencioneliai and
Miezioneliai.
In addition, OSI said it
seeks testimony from sur
vivors of the Vilna district
who may recall the activities
in the district or the city of
Vilna of the Lithuanian Securi
ty Police, also known as the
Lietuviu Saugumo Policija,
Saugumas, Lithuanian Sich-
erheitspolizei, or Lithuanian,
SIPQ.
The Lithuanian Security
Police, a political unit whose
members wore civilian clothes,
conducted security work, par
ticularly searches, £irrests and
investigations, that could not
be performed by the German
Sicherheitsdienst (SD), accor
ding to OSI.
OSI is also seeking
testimony from the following:
• Former inmates of the
wartime Nazi police prison
(Erweitertes Polizeigei-
faengnis) in the town of Braetz
near the larger city of
Schwiebus, now known as
Swiebodzin, in present day
Poland.
• Persons who between
1941 and 1943 resided in the
city of Nikolayev, also spelled
Nikclaew, located north of
Odessa in Landau, Ukraine.
• Persons who were im
prisoned at the Nazi concen
tration camp of Lublin,
announcing AfReeR
eMiaRATioN poncy
Letters to the Editor
Hats Off to ^^Yours Truly Needlepoint’’
too numerous to mention in
this space.
I write this only to make
sure that the community is
aware of their good work and
also to suggest that, whenever
possible, you support their
endeavors by shopping with
them. Their shop is in the
home of Lynn Lemer and their
hospitality is gracious. They
truly deserve the support of
this community.
Hats off to three young
women who truly know what
tzadakah is and should be.
They are Lynn Lerner, Patty
Gorelick and Arlene Karp who
operate the Yours Truly
Needlepoint Shop. They are
ably assisted by Marta
Gorelik and Judy Lener.All
the profits made are donated
to various charities in
Charlotte, including the
children’s camp pavillion at
the JCC which to date has
received $23,000 from them.
In addition, the following en
tities have received contribu
tions: B’nai B’rith Women,
Women’s Division of Federa
tion, Hadassah, Charlotte
Memorial Hospital, the JCC
van for the elderly, the
Hebrew Academy, and others
— Evelyn S. Berger
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Poland, also known as Ma-
jdanek. Those already inter
viewed by OSI on this matter
need not contact OSI.
• Persons who resided or
were imprisoned in either
Lublin district, including
Lublin city or Nazi-occupied
Poland during 1940, or the
Lublin and/or Krakow
districts of Nazi-occupied
Poland between approximate
ly June 1940 and October
1942.
According to OSI, an in
vestigation is underway in
volving the activities in
Poland of two ethnic German-
Nazi directed police units; the
Selbstschutz which operated in
the Lublin district from
January to June of 1940; and
the Sonderdienst, which
operated in the Lublin and
Krakow districts from 1940 to
October 1942. Anyone who
has knowledge of the activities
of these units and who has not
already spoken to OSI is now
asked to contact the Office of
Special Investigations.
Finally, OSI is interested in
speaking with persons ar
rested, imprisoned, inter
rogated or beaten by members
of the German SD or Gestapo
in the following places during
the following times:
• Wieselburg, Austria, bet
ween December 1943 and
January 1944.
• Krakow, Poland between
January 1944 and February
1944.
• Lodz, also known as Litz-
mannstadt, Poland, in late
February or early March 1944.
• Berlin, Germemy between
March 1944 and April 1944.
• Karlsruhe, Germsiny bet
ween late April 1944 and May
5, 1945.
Persons with pertinent in
formation are urged to contact
OSI at 1377 K Street, N.W..
Washington, DC 20005, (202)
633-5023, or ADL’s Task
Force on Nazi War Criminals.
823 United Nations Plaza,
New York, NY 10017, (212)
490-2525.
The Messiah is Black
MIAMI - Of all the black
sects who believe they are the
rightful inheritors of the
Judaic religion, the Yahwehs
here, who now are involved in
a murder case, is the most
inconsistent. Arthur N. Tei-
telbaum, the director of the
southern office of the Anti-
Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith, said that their rhetoric
comes “from the inkwell of
racism and anti-Semitism and
can hardly be masked by
public relations efforts.”
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the
self-proclaimed “Wonderful
One” who says he rose from
the dead to be messiah to
American members of a lost
black tribe of Israel, says he
has thousands of devoted
followers around the country
who believe that under his
divine guidance they will be
led out of the wilderness of
white domination.
“I am the Messiah, I am the
Word, I am Incarnate,” the
51-year-old spiritual leader
said in an interview.
— Jewish Post & Opinion