European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 thousands March in remembrance of holocaust Philadelphia a children bearing placards with the names of jewish communities wiped out during world War ii led thousands of people in a March sunday As american survivors of the holocaust remembered their the March followed a memorial service that opened the inaugural Assembly of the american gathering of jewish holocaust about people who withstood the horrors of nazi concentration Camps were in Phila Delphia for the three Day the marchers wore Blue Caps with remember written in and youths waved cardboard signs carrying the names of cities such As Terni and they want to show that the youth Are trying to under stand what was said Kay a Mem ber of Young a jewish youth the marchers Sang and chanted prayers in hebrew on the 13block walk to Independence children handed White carnations to the who placed them in a Wicker Basket under the Liberty Golda from said her Carnation was to remember my father who got lost in the concentration to pay my respect to i am going to put my Flower on my own said Genia of i was in Auschwitz and i was sentenced to she her eyes red from i am very glad i survived because the third generation is said Klapholz who has two sons and two after the politicians and religious leaders spoke to the one Edzia Frymet Milich of Beverly wore a Lightblue sweatshirt with big letters that have you seen my sister Hena Milich Milich said her sister disappeared in 1946 in she showed the Blue 55496 tattooed on her Arm in Ausch and said she survived five 1 was going to be hanged she the lord wants me to be Here today and Tell the a survivors Village was set up in the Philadelphia civic Center where victims of the nazi Camps could eat Kosher food and listen to yiddish also at the Center was a computer containing the names of a photo Paula Cappel of tosses a Flower at Liberty Bell ceremony for the dead holocaust survivors living in the United to help people find those lost during world War the marchers first gathered at the Monument to the six million jewish a Black Stone Sculp Ture that reaches to the sky with limbs protruding and hands with knives ready to although some people we repacked into a one Block the crowd was silent As speakers voices bounced off Walls of nearby office As the world commemorates world War we think of our jewish world that was Cut said keynote speaker Vladka who fought in the jewish under ground in As Adolf Hitler unleashed his systematic machine of he waited for an outcry from the Meed but the world paid attention Only to the military not to the War against the Marion chairwoman of the memorial commit tee for the six million jewish criticized presi Dent Reagan for his scheduled visit to a German military cemetery next his presence will Honor the perpetrators of that Geno she As the audience hissed and we ask president in the name of christians and Ameri can president Why after the six candles were lit for those who died in the sunday celebrities read played music and performed dramatic works from the holocaust at an evening of commemoration through the performing those participating included actors Ellen James Earl Michael Moriarty and Joseph Wise television personalities Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace and author David the evening included the premiere showing of the film the final a documentary on the holocaust by Academy award winning producer Arthur the gathering was to continue monday with workshops and a Senate hearing on nazi War discussions on what America knew about the holocaust during those years and what was done were scheduled for Parade celebrates israels 37th birthday new York a about ranging from israeli scouts to new York police bagpipe marched Down fifth Avenue sunday to celebrate israels 37th in times armenians rallied to commemorate the deaths of hundreds of thousands of armenians in Turkey in israeli and government officials addressing the Salute to Israel Parade stressed close ties Between the two our relations have never been Strong said the israeli ambassador to the United Meir he stood on the reviewing stand with Interior Secretary Donald israeli economics minister Gad new York mayor Edward Alfonse Daniel and Joseph and other elected offi i am Here because we support Israel we will continue to support said Biden invoked the controversy Over presi Dent reagans planned visit to a military cemetery in West Germany without actually mentioning calling the Parade the answer to Pitburg the answer to moral the mood was More fiery at the Armeni an where demonstrators denounced Turkey and criticized a 1982 state convention ends in Black mayors denounce spending cuts up the nations Black mayors ended their annual convention by denouncing proposed cuts in fed eral spending for Domestic programs and attacking South Africa apartheid the National conference of Black May ors passed a Resolution saying the Federal governments billion deficit must be but not at the expense of Domestic pro americas major cities Are facing a severe the mayors said in a Resolution condemning the Reagan administration for proposing budget cuts in housing construction and the ending their 11th annual convention called for better tar gated Federal Grants and Low interest Loans to create jobs and More Money for training displaced workers and the hardcore Unzem the Quality of life in our cities is directly affected by the growing number of Hun Gry said a Resolution submitted by Chicago mayor Harold the present administration and the fed eral government Bear the major Respo Sibil the Resolution citing major reductions in Federal funding of Job training and child nutrition another Resolution submitted by Washington and unanimously passed urged con Knoxville College loses nearly 25 of enrolment a almost a Quarter of the students at Knoxville College failed to return from Spring break because of financial or Grade says the schools acting Robert Shepherd said the dropouts should not be blamed on Knoxville col Leges recent loss of but on an Effort to reduce credit to students at the private Winter term enrolment was we really did not lose we elected to let some students he we would have helped some of the Stu dents if we we Are not financially Able to do the colleges Money woes were the prime reason for the 1984 loss of accreditation by the Southern association of colleges and Gress to appropriate million this year to help alleviate the plight of the numbering up to 3 million contending the budget proposal under mines the nations commitment to Public the mayors urged strength ening and improving the the mayors also adopted a Resolution lashing out at South Africa apartheid pol icy and calling for divestiture of american investments in the racially segregated coun the Jesse an unsuccessful 1984 presidential charged presi Dent Reagan with allowing americans and the governments of South Africa to be comfortable with their he said reagans policy in South Africa has inspired the government there to be come More without american South Africa could not Jackson the soviet Eastern Europe and Cuba Are not sustaining South the Amer ican and Western democratic allies the National conference of Black May ors has 287 members who represent More than 20 million said conference president Marion Barry mayor of department bulletin disputing armenian claims of Damato promised to Send a message to Secretary of state George Shultz protesting the Section of the pamphlet that refers to the 1915 killings As an alleged the publication challenges the claim that million armenians died at turkish echoing instead the turkish Conten Tion that armenians died in tur key As casualties of world War Damato called the bulletin a Case of history rewritten by some faceless state department bureaucrat trying to Curry favor with Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today april 1945 Allied troops were 20 Miles North of following capture of the historic City by converging and British 30 years ago today april 1955 time Magazine said in an article entitled sin and Sweden that birth abortions and promiscuity were recognized As inalienable rights and that sexual and moral standards in swe Den Are jolting to an 20 years ago today april 1965 during an eight hour patrol into a Valley outside the Danang marines skirmishes with Viet Cong guerrillas in their first extended ground action of the 70 years ago today april 1975 a White House spokesman said the number of americans left in Saigon had been Cut to communist forces advanced on Saigon from two sides and launched an attack on South Vietnam big air base at Bien