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6 TEXAS JEWISH POST, DALLAS, THURSDA Y, JUL Y 23, 1992-IN OUR 46TH YEAR!
Involvement
Continued from p. 1
tions market themselves in-
clude:
• More than twice as many
respondents said they belong
to non-sectarian organiza-
tions to network for profes-
sional reasons as said they
belong to Jewish groups for
that reason. (33 percent vs.
15 percent).
• Many more said they
belong to Jewish groups be-
cause of family and friend-
ship ties to the organization
(43 percent), and because of
an emotional attachment to
the group (34 percent) than
cited those as reasons for
belonging to non-Jewish
groups (21 and 19 percent,
respectively).
T wo-lhirds of respondents
believe that affiliation with
Jewish groups and with non-
sectarian organizations is of
equal importance and that
affiliation with a Jewish or-
ganization is as important as
belonging to a synagogue.
Most of those surveyed ex-
pressed satisfaction with their
level of involvement.
A plurality -26 percent —
said they were involved with
one Jewish organization
other than a synagogue in
1990, 25 percent said they
were involved with two, and
28 percent with three organi-
zations or more.
But two-thirds of the
survey's respondents said that
other than dues and mem-
bership fees, they donated
less than $200 to all Jewish
organizations. Roughly the
same percentage of respon-
dents donated less than $200
to non-sectarian groups.
By a margin of 56 percent
to 47 percent, more respon-
dents said they gave money
to Jewish organizations than
to non sectarian groups, but
more were likely to do vol-
unteer work for non-sectar-
ian groups than for Jewish
ones (41 percent vs. 32 per-
cent).
And they were slightly
more likely to hold office in
a non-Jewish group than in a
Jewish one (21 percent vs.
17 percent).
As might be expected, the
stronger someone's Jewish
identity, the more likely the
pers an is to affiliate with Jew-
ish organizations, according
to the study. Those who are
married to other Jews, be-
Mitterrand Says War Criminals of Vichy 'Already Been Tried'
By Michel DiPa*
PARIS, (JTA) - French
President Francois
Mitterrand, hi his tradi-
tional Bastille Day inter-
view, said those respon-
sible for the deportation
of Jews from France dur-
ing World War U "have
already been tried."
Mitterrand toldFreneb
television that despite the
"inhumanity and the bar-
barism" of the treatment
inflicted upon Jewish
families during the war,
"don’t ask this republic to
account" for what was
perpetrated by the war-
time Vichy regime under
Marshal Philippe Pertain,
Mitterrand refused to
publicly condemn the
Vichy regime despite his
having been asked to do
so by 200 intellectually, in
an open letter last month.
The request follows a
storm in the media ami in
frequent discussions here
about the role of Vichy
France. The heated de-
bate followed a decision
not to prosecute Paul
French President Francois Mitterrand tays a wreath at Yad Vashem during
his recent visit to Jerusalem
Touvier, a former bead of
die Lyon collaborationist
Militia responsible for the
deaths of numerous Jewish
hostages.
Regarding this, Mitter-
rand said that "judges’ de-
cisions were not always
perfect." However, he said,
” regarding the taw, the re-
public did what it had to
do,"
He said that as president,
he could not comment on
the decision not to try
Touvier, but he made it
clear that he hoped it would
be reversed in the fail by
the Supreme Court.
The current French go v-
ernment has its roots in the
Resistance and the wartime
government-in-exile of
Gen. Charles de Gaulle, not
Vichy, said Mitterrand,
who was a member of the
French Resistance.
In 1940, he said, the
Vichy regime "was not the
republic. We should bring
that French state" to ac-
count. I agree with that, of
course," he said.
"Butthe republic .should
not be held to account. It
did its duty."
Mitterrand said that "for
nearly two centuries" the
republic has "abided by the
principle of equality and
citizenship" for Jews.
France's wartime amne-
sia and the responsibility
of the Vichy regime in the
Holocaust remains a highly
controversial issue here
just prior to the commemo-
ration of the 50th anniver-
sary of the roundup of
nearly 13,000 Jews in Paris
by the French police,
Mitterrand is to lay a
wreath, but not speak, at
the memorial marking the
location of the Velodrome
d’Hiver, the cycling track
where 13,152 Jews were
herded between July 16 and
17,1942, before being sent
to concentration camps in
France.
All those rounded up
were handed over to the
Nazis and deported to the
extermination camps in
Eastern Europe, Only a
handful survived.
The Holocaust- 50 Years Ago in July
long to a synagogue, attend
services, and are more reli-
gious are likeliest to affili-
ate.
There is "a very strong as-
sociation" between one's re-
ligious observance and mem-
bership in Jewish organiza-
tions, said Rosen.
Orthodox Jews are more
likely than Conservative
Jews to participate in Jewish
organizations, and Conser-
vative Jews are more likely
than Reform Jews and those
who claim no denomina-
tional affiliation, the survey
found.
By and large, according
the study, people who be-
long to Jewish organizations
belong to non-sectarian
groups as well. "There are
belongers in this world and
non belongers," explained
Rosen.
The survey was conducted
by Market Facts Inc., a na-
tional research company, in
February 1991. The 1,114
responses came from 1,600
surveys sent to self-identi-
fied Jewish members of the
company's consumer mail
panel.
Editor’s Note —July 1942
was a black month for the
Jews of Europe. Massive de-
portations from the Warsaw
ghetto began, and the killing
center of Treblinka opened
and started its grisly work.
Here are the main events as
World War II anc the Holo-
caust unfoldedfiftyyears ago
this month, in July 1942. This
Monthly listing was pre-
pared by the United States
Holocaust Memorial Mu-
seum.
July 12—German forces
and local collaborators mas-
sacre thousands of Russian
Jews in Minsk, Lida, Slonim
and Rovno.
July 13 — 6-7,000 Jew-
ish males aged 18-48 are reg-
istered for forced labor in
the Greek city of Salonika.
July 14—700 Dutch Jews
are seized in Amsterdam;
4.000 others are told to re-
port as labor conscripts .Next
day, for the first time, a trans-
port of Dutch Jews totalling
2.000 people is sent from the
Westerbork transit camp to
Auschwitz.
July 16 — The American
envoy in Stockholm cables
the Secretary of State quot-
ing reports that the Germans
have killed 100,000 Jews in
the Ukrainian capital of Kie v,
60.000 in the Lithuanian
capital of Vilna, 40,000 in
Estonia and Latvia and
84.000 in White Ruthenia.
July 16-17 — 12,884
Jews, including roughly
4.000 children, are arrested
in Paris in a major roundup
and held under barbaric con-
ditions in a sports stadium
known as the Velodrome
d’Hiver.
July 19 — Himmler or-
ders the “resettlement” —
extermination — of the Jews
in the General Government
(occupied central Poland) by
the end of 1942. There are
few exceptions.
July 21 — 20,000 people
gather at New York’s Madi-
son Square Garden in a rally
called by leading Jewish or-
ganizations to protest the
massacres of Jews in Europe.
Both Roosevelt and Church-
ill send messages promising
that war criminals will be
punished.
July 22 — The Germans
begin the massive deporta-
tion of Jews from the War-
saw ghetto to Treblinka;
some Gypsies are included
in these deportations. At least
6,000 Jews are rounded up
and deported daily... War-
saw Judenrat head Adam
Czemiakow records in his
diary that he had been in-
formed by the Germans that
“all [Warsaw] Jews, irrespec-
tive of sex and age, will be
deported to the East.”
July 23—Adam Czemia-
kow commits suicide....
Treblinka opens; gassings
begin with the arrival of the
first Warsaw ghetto trans-
ports.
July 28 — An under-
ground group known as the
Jewish Fighting Organiza-
tion is formed in Warsaw.
July 28-31 — 30,000 Ger-
man Jews who had been de-
ported to the Minsk ghetto
are murdered in mobile gas
vans or by gunfire at the con-
centration camp of Maly
Trostenet.
July 31 — The Reich
Commissioner lor occupied
Holland informs Berlin that
6.000 Dutch Jews have been
deported to date.
Other Events in July —
Himmler witnesses the gas-
sing of Jews in Auschwitz....
Virtually every day trans-
ports of Jews leave France,
Holland and Luxembourg
for Auschwitz, with each
transport carrying approxi-
mately 1,000 people.... A
Jewish underground known
as the “Working Group” is
established in Slovakia....
With Croatian fascist help,
the Germans deport 2,000
Jews from Sarajevo and
3.000 from an internment
camp at Tenje to Auschwitz
and to the Croatian concen-
tration cam p of J aseno vac....
Dutch Jews are forbidden to
visit non-Jews.... British
bombers strike the impor-
tant German steel-produc-
ing city of Dusseldorf.
July-August —Approxi-
mately 11,000 Dutch Jews
are taken to the Westerbork
“Jewish transit camp” and
from there subsequently
transported to Auschwitz.
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