The U.S. Office of Education was urged today, in a resolution adopted by delegates to the 51st annual convention of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Jewish War Veterans, to prepare a syllabus on the Holocaust for nationwide distribution. The delegates also urged that the Postal Service issue a commemorative stamp in honor of the Jews persecuted by the Nazis.
Robert Mulholland, president of the NBC television network, was presented with the organization’s public service award for the NBC telecast in April of its four-part series, “Holocaust.”
The delegates also urged the Congress to insist on the participation of Israeli teams in the 1980 Olympic games in Moscow. They also proposed that “an investigative educational campaign” be organized to inform the American public about the Rev. Moon’s Unification Church and other missionary groups making statements about Judaism. Sylvia Herman of Cincinnati was elected president of the auxiliary, succeeding Frances E. Wapnick.
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