Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg said yesterday that he would “reconvene” the American Jewish Commission on the Holocaust which was disbanded last August because, according to Goldberg, the sponsor failed to provide the funds promised to carry out its project.
Goldberg said he would ask his associate, Prof, Seymour Finger of the City University of New York Graduate School, to call a meeting for that purpose in New York on February 9, The commission was established in 1981 to study what the organized American Jewish community did or failed to do to save European Jewry from the Holocaust in the years 1939-1945.
Goldberg said in a statement released in Washington that he would personally provide and assure the provision of the required funds to complete the study. Finger, who heads the research on the project, said earlier in the month that Goldberg was unable to finance the project alone after its sponsor, businessman and Holocaust survivor Jack Eisner, halted payments.
Eisner, in a special interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, said he was willing to provide funding for the reformation of the panel. (See January 20 Bulletin.)
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