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Holocaust survivor hits Nazis’ Skokie plea
By Dennis D. Fisher
Sol Goldstein, a survivor of
the Jewish holocaust of World
War II, testified Friday that
Nazi uniforms call up images
of “death in the most terrible
form . . . death from torture.”
Goldstein, 63, appeared at a
hearing before U.S. District
Court Judge Barnard M. Decker on a suit by Frank Collin,
leader of the National Socialist
Party of America, challenging
three Skokie ordinances that
prevented the group from
demonstratin in the north
suburb.
0 p p o s i n g the challenge,
Goldstein said swastikas and
brown-shirt uniforms represent the ordeal of repression
and death suffered by Jews in
World War II.
The three ordinances were
adopted May 2 in an effort to
bar political demonstrations in
military-type uniforms l i k e
those of Nazi storm troopers.
At the same time, the village
laws prohibit the distribution
of materials calculated to incite hatred based on race, religion or nationality.
The ordinances also require
groups of 50 or more persons
to post a $350,000 insurance
in 1942 and traveled to this
bond to cover potential dam- country six years later.
age to public property before
Nazi leader Collin, who is
any demonstration.
part-Jewish, sniggered into his
Goldstein, worker for a den- hands several times during
tal materials manufacturing
company, told Decker that his
Lithuanian city, Kaunas, was
overrun by Nazi troops in 1941.
All of Kaunas’ 45,000 Jewish
residents were required to live
in a guarded ghet he said,
and many were executed.
Goldstein said he escaped
with his wife from the ghetto
Goldstein’s testimony.
Collin earlier told the judge
that the Skokie insurance requirement was designed to
keep him and his group “from
expressing my right to free expression.”
“I believe it was aimed exelusively at me,” he said.
Collin, under questioning by
his lawyer, David Goldberger
of the American Civil Liberties
Union, said he would lead his
group, in a demonstration in
Skokie soon, “but only under
the law. . . as soon as we are
legally able.”
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Holocaust survivor hits Nazis' Skokie plea
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Fisher, Dennis D.
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Sol Goldstein testifies against lifting of Skokie ordinances at United States District Court hearing.
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12/3/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
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Ordinances, Municipal -- Illinois -- Skokie
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Nazi unit wins go-ahead;
Skokie march bans voided
By Dennis D. Fisher
A federal judge ruled three Skokie ordinances unconstitutional Thursday, clearing
the way for neo-Nazis to hold a public demonstration in the suburb wearing military-type
uniforms with swastikas.
U.S. District Court Judge Bernard M. Decker said in a 55-page opinion that “it is better
to allow those who preach racial hate to expend their venom in rhetoric rather than to
be panicked into embarking on a dangerous
course of permitting the government to decide what its citizens may say and hear.”
A National Socialists Party of America
spokesman said a new march in Skokie has
been tentatively scheduled for April 20. which
would have been Adolf Hitler’s 89th birthday.
Decker made a lucid, scholarly review and
analysis of all the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court before voiding the Skokie laws.
He said the ordinances could not stand because of the First Amendment guarantee of
freedom of speech and public assembly and
the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee o f
equal protection of the laws for all persons.
The ordinances were hastily enacted by the
village board May 2 after Frank Collin and
his neo-Nazi followers were prevented by a
Circuit Court order from holding a demonstration in Skokie the previous day.
Of the village’s 70,000 residents, about 40,500 are Jewish and some are survivors of
World War II Nazi concentration camps.
One ordinance required that demonstrators
have a village permit and obtain public-liability and property-damage insurance.
Another ordinance barred the distribution
of racial and religious hate material. A third
ordinance prevented persons wearing military-style uniforms and symbols like the
swastika from demonstrating in Skokie.
The ordinances provided criminal penalties
for violation.
Skokie Mayor Albert J. Smith said at a
press conference in the village hall Thursday:
“Another step in the legal process has been
taken. However, it is far from the final step
as far as the Village of Skokie is concerned.
We strongly disagree with today’s decision,
We are morally, ethically and legally bound to
take every recourse at our disposal to have
Judge Decker’s decision reversed. We will appeal.”
Asked if he anticipated violence if the neoNazis did march in Skokie, the mayor said:
“Violence begets violence begets violence
begets violence.”
But he added: “Our police force would he
obligated to uphold the law.”
When Collin tried to obtain a permit for a
planned July 4 march in the suburb, village
officials refused to issue it.
Collin, with the assistance of the American
Civil Liberties Union, filed suit in federal
court seeking to void the ordinances and to
prevent their enforcement by court order.
Decker granted what the ACLU sought.
David Goldberger, an ACLU attorney, said
he was relieved by Decker’s opinion. “The
First Amendment has not been damaged as
the result of a highly emotional case,” he
said.
The ordinances were found to be void because Decker said they were ambiguous,
vague and overbroad and provided no avenue of appeal for the denial of a permit.
Decker also held that the ordinances impinged directly and indirectly on the fundamental right of free speech and open debate
on all issues.
The Village of Skokie had argued that the
type of speech Collin and his followers would
use in a demonstration was like “shouting
fire in a crowded theater.” This is not protected by the First Amendment, Skokie officials noted.
On the insurance requirement for the permit, Decker noted that it would cost $1,000 for
the premium, which he said was “beyond the
reach of plaintiffs.”
He concluded on the insurance question that
the ordinances imposed a “drastic restriction” on the right of free speech “in the guise
of a regulation.”
The judge said the Skokie ordinance barring racial slurs in public demonstrations
“punishes language which intentionally incites hatred.” He said the standard involved
is too subjective under recent Supreme Court
decisions.
“A society which values ‘uninhibited, robust and wide-open’ debate cannot permit
criminal sanctions to turn upon so fine a distinction,” said Decker.
He also said the Skokie ordinance punishes
the mere dissemination of material that incites hatred, including such passive activity
as leafleting or wearing symbolic clothing.
“The requirement that speech poses an imminent danger of violence before it may be
suppressed is relaxed to a great extent when
the speech serves no useful social purpose,
but (the ordinance) seeks to dispense with the
requirement entirely, and this it may not do,”
the judge said.
“In resolving this case in favor of the plaintiffs, the court is acutely aware of the very
grave dangers posed by public dissemination
of doctrines of racial and religious hatred,”
Decker observed, adding: “In this case, a
small group of zealots, openly professing to
be followers of Nazism, have succeeded in
exacerbating the emotions of a large segment
Of the citizens of the Village of Skokie who
are bitterly opposed to their views and revolted by the prospect of their public appearance.
“When feelings and tensions are at their
highest peak, it is a temptation to reach for
the exception to the rule announced by Mr.
Justice Holmes: ‘If there is any principle of
the Constitution that more imperatively calls
for attachment than any other it is. the principle of free thought - not free thought for
those who agree with us but freedom for the
thought that we hate.’
“The ability of American society to tolerate
the advocacy even of the hateful doctrines
espoused by the plaintiffs without abandoning
its commitment to freedom of speech and assembly is perhaps the best protection we
have against the establishment of any Nazitype regime in this country,” Decker wrote.
The original Circuit Court order banning
the May 1 march was appealed to the Illinois
Appellate Court, which ruled in July that the
march could take place but that swastikas
could not be worn.
The swastika ban was then appealed to the
lllinois Supreme Court, which ruled the ban
unconstitutional Jan. 27.
On the same day, the Illinois Supreme
Court dismissed an injunction to prevent the
march obtained in Circuit Court on behalf of
Sol Goldstein as a class representative of survivors of the holocaust residing in Skokie.
The U.S. Supreme Court had entered the
dispute on a purely procedural question June
14, when it instructed the state to move rapidly in ruling on the validity of the injunction or
to lift the iniunction pending such a ruling.
The following statement was issued Thursday by Raymond Epstein, chairman of the
public affairs committee of the Chicago Jewish Fund:
“It would be a monstrous travesty for the
courts of thi s land to rule that an obscene
spectacle should be held under the guise of
our First Amendment freedoms, which we,
the Jewish community of Chicago, hold equally dear.
“The Jewish community of Chicago hopes
that the Village of Skokie will continue its
efforts to overturn the decision of the U.S.
District Court that would enable the Nazis to
deliberately provoke the citizens of Skokie
and the many others who would be grievously
offended by the march.
“However, should all legal means fail, the
Jewish community would co-operate fully
with the Village of Skokie and peoples of
other faiths in framing a nonviolent response
more in keeping with what our founding fathers had in mind when they drafted the Bill
of Rights.”
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
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Skokie History
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Nazi unit wins go-ahead- Skokie march bans voided
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Fisher, Dennis D.
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U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Decker rules Skokie ordinances unconstitutional, enabling National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) to march.
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2/24/1978
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Epstein, Raymond
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, February 24, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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Neo-Nazis denied a writ allowing Skokie march
By Dennis D. Fisher
A request by a group of neoNazis that would have allowed
them to march in the largely
Jewish suburb of Skokie was
denied Friday by U.S. District
Court Judge Bernard M. Decker.
The judge refused to grant a
preliminary injunction barring
Skokie village officials from
enforcing three ordinances
that prohibit the kind of march
the neo-Nazis desire.
Decker reasoned that an injunction now would eliminate
the need to determine the con- violated his group’s right to
stitutionality of the ordinances. demonstrate freely.
Frank Collin, leader of the
The hastily adopted ordiNational Socialists Party of nances require groups seeking
America, had sought the in- to hold marches or rallies to
junction. He filed suit in Au- obtain $350,000 in liability ingust to overturn the ordi- surance and $50,000 in propernances on the ground that they ty-damage insurance. They
also ban the wearing of military-style uniforms and the
distribution of inflammatory
literature.
Village trustees passed the
ordinances May 2 after Collin
announced he would lead a
march in front of the village
hall.
The suit challenging the ordinances remains before Decker. It was filed in Collin’s behalf by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The neo-Nazi group won in a
similar suit against the Chi-
cago Park District before U.S. find no one who would write
District Court Judge George the policy.
The requirement had kept
N. Leighton in July.
Leighton struck down a re- Collin’s group from holding a
quirement that rallies in- rally in Marquette Park on the
volving more than 75 persons Southwest Side.
must be covered by liability insurance of $100,000 to $300,000
and property damage insurance of $50,000.
An ACLU attorney argued
then that the neo-Nazis could
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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Neo-Nazis denied a writ allowing Skokie march
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Fisher, Dennis D.
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U.S. District Court judge Bernard Decker denies the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) request to march in Skokie.
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10/22/1977
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Collin, Frank
Decker, Bernard
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Skokie asks judge to delay
order clearing Nazi march
By Dennis D. Fisher
The Village of Skokie asked a federal judge
Thursday to delay implementing his order removing legal obstacles to a planned Nazi
march in the north suburb next month.
Village Atty. Harvey M. Schwartz said intense interest in the Nazi march and planned
counterdemonstrations “pose a threat to the
well-being of the village.”
Schwartz asked U.S. District Court Judge
Bernard M. Decker, who overturned three
hastily drawn village ordinances aimed at
blocking the march, to hold up implementing
his decision until appeals are decided in higher courts.
Meanwhile, Christians were urged by a major interdenominational organization to respond to a Nazi march by wearing armbands
bearing a yellow Star of David. The armband
campaign, symbolizing solidarity with Jews,
was announced by the National Conference of
Christians and Jews.
“We need to demonstrate to Jews that they
do not stand alone at this time,” said James
W. Rottman, executive director of the group’s
Chicago and Illinois region. He urged Christians in the Chicago area to wear the Star of
David “to church, to work, to school and in
their neighborhoods” on the day of a Nazi
march.
The National Socialist Party of America,
headed by Frank Collin, tentatively plans a
march in heavily Jewish Skokie on April 20,
Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Major Jewish groups
are planning a massive counter-rally on that
day, or April 22 if the march date is shifted.
LAWYERS FOR SKOKIE and the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union, which defended the
Nazis’ right to march, will go before Decker
Friday to argue whether he should delay his
order permitting the march.
“Since the issuance of the court’s order, the
proposed march has become an international
media event,” Schwartz said. His chief argument is that if the march is held while Decker’s ruling is being appealed there is no point
to the appeal.
U.S. Atty. Thomas P. Sullivan, speaking informally with reporters, said his office has
under review plans fora federal presence in
Skokie if and when the march is held. He
compared it to monitoring by federal attorneys and Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents in Chicago last September as a controversial school building program began.
The Illinois Department of Law Enforcement reported Thursday that contingency
plans are being drawn to have state police
back up the 119-member Skokie police force if
necessary.
THE STAR OF DAVID campaign is part of
a nationwide program. Leaders of the National Conference of Christians and Jews are
planning parallel events in at least 100 other
cities on the same day. Christians in those
cities will be asked to gather at a central
place and walk together, wearing the yellow
star, to a synagog for a memorial service
recalling the Holocaust.
“America is not on the verge of a Nazi
take-over,” said Donald W. McEvoy, senior
vice president of the national conference. He
estimated that eight separate Nazi groups in
the United States probably have fewer than
2,000 members.
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Attempted Nazi March in Skokie, 1977 and 1978, Digital Collection
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<p>During the late 1970s, a small group of neo-Nazis based in Chicago attempted to hold a rally in the Village of Skokie, Illinois, a community that was known to have a large Jewish population. Local officials resisted the group’s efforts through by passing a series of ordinances aimed at preventing demonstrations or parades by hate groups. The ordinances were ultimately overturned following a series of state and federal lawsuits because they infringed on the group’s First Amendment rights and the neo-Nazis were issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie. However, instead of facing the growing number of organized counter-demonstrators, the group held rallies in Federal Plaza and in Marquette Park in Chicago. <br /><br />Visit <a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Skokie Public Library's online exhibit</a> to see the events as they unfolded. The library's digital collection, seen here, includes newspaper articles, editorials, recordings from the Skokie Village Board of Trustees meetings, a memoir written by a local clergywoman, and two documentary films.</p>
<p>For further information, you can find more resources in the library. If you have questions or comments send us an <a title="email Skokie Public Library" href="mailto:tellus@skokielibrary.info">email </a>or call us at 847-673-3733.</p>
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<h3><a title="Attempted Nazi March in Skokie" href="https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/exhibits/show/attempted-nazi-march/timeline">Attempted Nazi March in Skokie online exhibit</a></h3>
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Skokie History
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Skokie Public Library
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Skokie asks judge to delay order clearing Nazi march
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Fisher, Dennis D.
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Harvey Schwartz, corporation counsel for the Village of Skokie, ask U.S. District Court Judge Bernard M. Decker to delay implementation of his order removing legal obstacles to a planned National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) demonstration in Skokie in March.
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3/17/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Decker, Bernard
Rottman, James W.
Schwartz, Harvey
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Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, March 17, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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©Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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cst780317a.pdf
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eng
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1970s (1970-1979)
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Skokie Public Library, Reference Department
newspaper clippings