European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Marc Wilson associated press he Telephone rang in the Cool hours before Dawn one morning last May and Herta Levy never slept Well again. We Are going to kill you the voice said. We hate you. Jew die jew  she was 79, a widow for 17 years a jew born in Germany living alone on a quiet Street in Skokie 111. Her Mother sister brother in Law and Nephew were killed in world War ii German concentration  had Only one living relative a Nephew in California who occasionally called her at night. But she stopped an swering her phone. She put a stiletto in her nightstand recalls a Friend. She thought they would come for her in the night. She was terrorized. She became very withdrawn. Her whole personality  the terror so Long repressed in the shadows of memory was revived for thou Sands of residents of that predominantly jewish suburb North of Chicago. American nazis want to March i Skokie streets in uniform to drama tie their demands for White  efforts by jewish leaders and Community officials to Stop them in the courts have created an unusual test of the first amendment right of free speech. The american civil liberties Union Long a defender of unpopular groups has suffered defection of members because it is representing the nazis. And people like Herta Levy have been frightened. On june 6 she went shopping. She walked to the bus Stop and collapsed the Friend says. They said she had a stroke. But i think stress killed her. I think the nazis with their threats to March and their Calls in the night killed  although there is no Clear cause and effect certainly it s a possibility even a probability that the stress was at least a contributory cause said or. Lawrence z. Freeman professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago medical school. He s an expert witness in a suit filed to pre vent american nazis from marching. Sol Goldstein s Mother was murdered by nazis. They threw her into a Well with 50 other women while alive and covered them with gravel Goldstein says. He is president of survivors of the Holo Caust an american group of about 12,000 survivors and immediate relatives of death Camp victims. Seven thousand of the group s members live in Skokie an upper Middle class Community of mostly one family  we meet to talk about this some of us get hysterical. We cannot continue talking. We cannot control ourselves. When i went Back it Germany five or eight years ago i saw a German policeman and i started shaking All Over. He was t even wearing a Swastika or a gun and still i started shaking All Over and i had to run away to another Street. Now they want to carry their swastikas to our Homes in  Goldstein has sued in circuit court in Chicago to Block the National socialist party of America s efforts to display swastikas and picket in front of Village  Village also has sued saying a nazi demonstration would violate Public  suit resulted in an injunction barring the March planned for april 30. On june 15,the . Supreme court ordered the in Junction speedily reviewed. The nazis cancelled a planned july 4 demonstration in Skokie while the Illinois appellate court reviewed the injunction now on Appeal in the Illinois supreme  Meir Kahane founder of the Mili Tant jewish defense league and former member of the israeli parliament used the july 4 Date for an anti nazi rally in Skokie. It attracted about 2,000 supporters. Until they tried to demonstrate in Skokie Chicago s nazis were largely ignored. Nazi Leader Frank Collin says the Skokie controversy is the Best thing that Ever happened to us. We be got a hold of it and we re not going to let it go. All we want to do is have 30 to 50 nazi party members picket in front of Skokie Village Hall carrying signs saying free speech for the White Man if Village officials had let us March last april All of this would be Over and forgotten. The Best thing they could have done in Skokie was let us March stay Home and ignore us. We re glad they did t. Now we have the . Supreme court the newspapers the television networks and the Public paying attention to  an impossible solution says Goldstein. How can you expect people who lost loved ones in nazi death Camps to sit Back while nazis March in the Street again Freeman witness in the survivors suit says the survivors Are afflicted with guilt feelings for having survived. For not having done enough to Stop the persecutions to save their families during the Hitler  he argues that this makes them a captive audience because they feel they can t ignore the nazis this time. Goldstein s suit says the survivors Are such a unique group that the nazis should be denied their first amendment right of free speech and Assembly in Skokie. David Hamlin executive director of the Illinois american civil liberties Union says the Skokie nazi dispute is one of the Best framed first amendment cases i be Ever seen. But there s something else to it that i Don t understand. We be been defending the nazis for eight years on and off and the anti Defa mation league of the jewish service organization b Nai b Rith has never been too terribly concerned. Skokie s officials certainly weren t hollering. I really Don t know what s different in this Case except the  Goldstein s attorney Jerome Tor Shen says the difference is the pres ence of the holocaust survivors who have no equal unless it is the survivors of  Torshen says the . Supreme court has set precedents that say you can t say anything you want anytime  the first amendment is neither a License permitting the intentional infliction of injury nor a shield to protect the actor who wilfully and maliciously causes the injury he said in his  is illegal in Illinois to intentionally cause severe emotional distress to another and Torshen contends that this Law gives courts the authority to ban a nazi March in  to the logical conclusion this theory would mean that television net works could be enjoined from telecasting " How can you expect people who lost loved ones in nazi death Camps to sit Back while nazis March in the Street again " a stand against . Nazis sol Goldstein at Skokie municipal building. News reports about nazis and swastikas into Skokie says David Goldberger the Acle attorney representing the nazis. Under this theory Whites in Selma Ala could have prevented civil rights marches by Blacks if the Whites could prove they would be traumatized by having Blacks come into their neighbourhoods. It would give the first amendment a whole new  adds that All my clients want to do is March peacefully in front of Village mall. Asking for free speech for the White  he denies that the nazis intend to inflict emotional distress but anyway the first amendment would supersede the state Law Goldberger says. The Acle defense of the nazis has Cost the group dearly. Between 800 and 1,000 of Illinois 10,000 Acle members have resigned and Hamlin expects More than 2,000 before the Case ends. Goldberger who is jewish has come under the most intense criticism for de fending the nazis. He says some of his relatives have stopped talking to him. I really Don t understand it. I be been around the barn 100 times with this Skokie Case and i still Don t know what has set off the juror Hamlin  Schwartz the Village attorney says he too is surprised by the intensity of outrage in Skokie since the nazis set their demonstration plans. I know an attorney whose Mother is a survivor with the Blue Tattoo on her Arm says Schwartz. Every time something about the nazis hits the news he has to sit up All night with her because she s too upset to  m a jew living in Skokie and i thought i recognized what the holocaust and the survivors were All about. But i did t really not until i got into this thing last Spring and saw How the survivors re  Skokie s 69,000 residents about 40,000 Are jews. The jewish federation of metro Politan Chicago says that from 1930 to 1960, 35,000 jewish refugees arrived in the area and most moved to Skokie. The 1970 census says 39.2 per cent of Skokie s jews Are 45 or older Well above the National  social makeup of Skokie makes the Village a wonderfully easy target for madmen like Frank Collin says rabbi Lawrence Montrose of the Skokie Central traditional congregation. Montrose says the Chicago school Board s plan to voluntarily bus Chil Dren to help ease overcrowding and desegregation has helped Collin s Rise to prominence. He s headquartered Down there in Marquette Park in Southwest Chicago where the Whites Are afraid of Blacks moving in. The nazis say they will Deport the Blacks and they say the jews Are behind the busing. This raises deep rooted anti semitism that was bred into Many people in Eastern Europe people who brought their ideas of jews As Christ kill ers with them when they came to America and  since the nazis have tried to March in Skokie members of my Congre gation say they often walk Home from the Temple on the Sabbath and Are taunted by teen agers in cars saying Kike Kike die die.1 we know this is America and we know that it the holocaust won t happen again. But the jews who lived in Germany before world War ii were germans who thought it could t happen in their country " tuesday october 18, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 13