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By DIANE DUBEY
TV movie
will focus
on Skokie’s
Nazi battle
Staff Writer
THE NAZIS are heading
for Skokie
again - this time, on film.
Skokie’s traumatic year-and-a-halflong period of threatened neo-Nazi demonstrations, angry counter-rallies
and prolonged legal battles will be
committed to history formally next
spring when CBS-TV presents a 2½hour docudrama entitled “Skokie.”
Coming nearly three years after the
National Socialist (Nazi) Party of
America dropped plans to rally in
Skokie, the film, scheduled to air as
early as May, will focus on a fictional
family of Holocaust survivors living in
Skokie during the 1977-78 “siege.”
Danny Kaye already has been
signed to play Max Feldman, the Holocaust survivor who lives in Skokie with
his wife and teen-age daughter. Eli
Wallach was signed Tuesday, Oct. 28,
to portray Skokie Corporation Counsel
Harvey Schwartz, according to producer Robert “Buzz” Berger who said he
hopes to snare character actor Ed
Flanders for the role of Mayor Albert
J. Smith.
OTHERS WHOSE roles in the Skokie-Nazi conflict are part of the film include David Hamlin, then executive
director of ‘the Illinois chapter of the
American Civil Liberties Union; David
Goldberger, the ACLU attorney who
defended the Nazis’ First Amendment
rights; Frank Collin, the neo-Nazi leader who now is serving a seven-year prison term for taking indecent liberties
with a child; Skokie resident Sol Goldstein, a Holocaust survivor; Abbott Rosen, executive director of the Chicago
Anti-Defamation League; and Aryeh
Neier, ACLU national executive director from 1970 to 1978.
The script for “Skokie” was written
by Ernest Kinoy, chief script-writer for
“Boots” and writer of the screenplays
for the TV special, “The Henderson
Monster,” and “The Deadliest Season,” a CBS television movie.
Executive producer is Herbert
Brodkin and director is Herbert Wise.
THIS IS basically the story of what
happened in Skokie between 1977 and
THE CAST OF characters in “Skokie,” the made-for TV movie which
will begin filming next month, will read like a local “Who’s Who.”
Among those who will be portrayed are, from left, Skokie Mayor Albert
J. Smith, Corporation Counsel Harvey Schwartz and Sol Goldstein, a
Holocaust survivor. Schwartz, who will be played by Eli Wallach, said
this week he would have preferred either Robert Redford or Burt Reynolds.
1978,” Berger said Tuesday, Oct. 28. and the various people around him.”
Berger said representatives from
“We’ll deal with some of the court cases that came up...with the ACLU’s re- the production company had been in
presentation of Collin, with the reac- contact with all of the people who are
tions of a fictional family or survivors, to be portrayed in the movie - except
and with the reactions of the mayor
(Continued on page 3) 3)
�'Skokie' filming to begin Nov. 14
(Continued from page 1)
for Collin.
“We don’t intend to talk to Collin.
He’s a minor character. There’s nothing he could add that would be particularly insightful,” he said.
Shooting is to begin in Skokie on
Friday, Nov. 14 and continue through
mid-December, Berger said. He and
other members of the production company are expected to be in Skokie
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 30 and 31,
to scout local sites for filming and to
sign actors. By Tuesday, Nov. 4, they
will be back “for the duration,” he
said.
The Skokie thing was coming to a
head about that time and it looked like
the Nazis were about to march,” Berger recalled. “There was so much controversy that we knew this would make
a wonderful show.
“There were so many good and
wonderful people on both sides of the
argument, arguing valid points on both
sides and disagreeing all the way.
“There was so much conflict and
the basis of all good drama is conflict....I think this is an important show
to do because it is an example of the
American system working and working
at its best.”
DEVELOPMENT OF “Skokie” has
been in the works for more than two
years, ever since Brodkin and Berger
finished work on “Holocaust,” the NBC
mini-series which focused on the experiences of a German Jewish family under Nazi rule.
SCRIPTS ALREADY have been
sent to the principals who will be represented in the movie, Berger said.
He said several errors were pointed
out by Mayor Smith and, subsequently,
were changed.
‘“We’re not anxious to do a disser-
vice to Skokie or to Mayor Smith,” he
said.
Berger was asked Smith’s reaction
to having the Nazi controversary,
which generally is not considered one
of Skokie’s brightest moments,
dredged up once again.
“I don’t think there’s any way he
can avoid its being done without getting into another First Amendment
case and I think Smith’s a realist,”
said the producer.
Smith could not be reached for comment Tuesday, but Harvey Schwartz
said the mayor’s only concern was that
the community be portrayed fairly.
Schwartz said his own primary concern is avoiding any inconvenience to
the public during the filming. “It’s obvious we’re not going to have much to
say about the content,” he said.
IN KEEPING with network policy
for docudramas, a large number of
names will not be changed for the film,
a fact which isn’t particularly pleasing
to Berger.
While some pseudonyms will be
used - Harvey Schwartz will be transformed into a character called “Burt
Silverman” and David Goldberger will
become “Herb Lewison” - the names
of Rosen, Hamlin, Smith, Neier, Goldstein and Collin will not be changed.
Disturbed that the use of actors attempting to portray real people results
in dramatization, not documentary or
drama, Berger prefers that his movie
be based on “dramatic truth, not historic truth.”
But, since CBS “strongly suggests”
that Skokie remain Skokie, that filming
take place in the village and that as
many characters as possible keep their
real names, Berger said there wnwon’t
be too much guessing about who’s who
when “Skokie” comes to Skokie - and
to the country.
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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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TV movie will focus on Skokie's Nazi battle
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Dubey, Diane
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Movie producer Robert Berger announces plans for "Skokie" film. Includes photographs of lead "characters" Albert Smith, Harvey Schwartz, and Sol Goldstein.
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10/30/1980
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Skokie (Motion picture)
Berger, Robert "Buzz"
Goldstein, Sol
Schwartz, Harvey
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Suits, charges heat dispute
over Nazi plans to march
By Bob Olmstead
and Lillian Williams
American Nazi plans to march in heavily
Jewish Skokie were a-swirl with controversy
Monday as:
l The American Civil Liberties Union
charged Illinois courts are disobeying a t w o week-old Supreme Court order to act
promptly on the Nazi request for a march
permit.
l A Skokie Jew filed a class-action suit in
behalf of all Jewish survivors “of racial extermination carried on by Adolf Hitler,” asking that the Nazis be permanently banned
from marching in Skokie.
l A group of activists including “the Revolutionary Communist Party” threatened violence if necessary to block the planned Skokie
march by the Nazis on July4.
l Skokie residents reported that many received anti-Jewish hate mail Monday.
The ACLU charge was made by David
Hamlin, the executive secretary of the
group’s Illinois division.
He said the Supreme Court on June 14 ordered the Illinois Appellate Court “either to
stay the (Circuit Court) injunction pending a
hearing, or schedule a hearing virtually immediately .”
“The Illinois courts have done neither,”
Hamlin said. “The Illinois courts are not
obeying the Supreme Court order.”
The Appellate Court has asked both sides to
file on Tuesday their proposed schedules to
handle the matter. Hamlin said the ACLU
will ask the Appellate Court to lift the injunction barring a Skokie march immediately. If the Appellate Court does not, he said,
"We would immediately appeal to the state
Supreme Court. If the state Supreme Court
doesn’t stay the injunction, we'd go to the
U.S. Supreme Court.”
Hamlin added that even if the injunction
were struck down immediately, the Nazis
would still have to fight what the ACLU believes are unconstitutional Skokie ordinances
drawn up to require them to put up a $350,000
bond in order to get a permit, and which ban
paramilitary uniforms or “symbols that are
offensive to the community.”
He said he doubted that all these legal bar-
riers could be removed by July 4.
In Circuit Court, Sol Goldstein, 63, asked
the court to permanently bar the Nazis from
marching in Skokie.
He argued that any such march would
cause Skokie residents who are survivors of
the World War II holocaust “severe emotional
distress.” He submitted an affidavit by a University of Chicago psychiatrist, Dr. Lawrence
Z. Freedman, who said that such a march
would cause various emotional injuries to the
Jews, including “an urge to respond pathologically to the re-enactment experience,”
Others threatened other means to stop the
march.
Jerry Biegel, 28, a spokesman for the “Run
the Nazis Out of Town Coalition,” called a
press conference at the Dirksen Federal
Building to say he led a group that has vowed
to stop any Nazi 4th of July march "by any
means necessary.”
Biegel said he did not rule out violence as
one of those means.
Literature handed out by the group claimed
those vowing this opposition included Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the Iranian
Students Assn. and the Revolutionary Communist Party.
A spokesman at the Illinois Communist
Party headquarters, 27 E. Monroe, said it is
not connected with the Revolutionary Communist Party and opposes violence as a
means of stopping the Nazis on July 4.
Mrs. Rosalyn Davis of 9458 N. Lore1 in
Skokie, said she received hate literature Monday from the “National Socialist White
People’s Party” giving alleged racist quotes
by Abraham Lincoln and asking “How many
stores in your area are Jew owned?”
Mrs. Davis said she complained to the
Skokie Post Office, and was told the Post Office had received many similar complaints
that morning.
"You know” said Mrs. Davis, “no member
of my immediate family was in a concentration camp, and I thought I could look objectively on this. But now I’m furious.”
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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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Suits, charges heat dispute over Nazi plans to march
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Olmstead, Bob
Williams, Lillian
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) charges Illinois courts are disobeying state Supreme Court order to act promptly on National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) request for march permit. Sol Goldstein files a class-action suit on behalf of World War II holocaust survivors. Activists threaten counterdemonstration to Nazi march. Skokie residents receive hate mail.
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6/25/1977
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
Biegel, Jerry
Davis, Rosalyn
Goldstein, Sol
Hamlin, David
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Chicago Sun-Times, Saturday, June 25, 1977, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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Skokie issues Nazi march permit
By Phillip J. O’Connor
Nazi leader Frank Collin has been issued a
permit to march in suburban Skokie on
Sunday, June 25, it was disclosed at a Skokie
village board meeting Tuesday night. A permit also has been issued to a Jewish umbrella group for a counter-demonstration the
same day.
Both permits were issued by Village Manager John Matzer Jr.
Village officials said they will continue to
seek orders from both the U.S. Supreme
Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals here to
halt the march.
Matzer issued the permit to Collin’s National Socialist Party of America last Friday
without fanfare.
About 100 members of the Jewish umbrella group, led by former Nazi concentrationcamp prisoner Sol Goldstein, attended the
village board meeting and pledged to hold a
peaceful counter-demonstration.
COLLIN’S PERMIT calls for the Nazi
demonstration to be held in front of the
village hall at 3 p.m. on June 25.
Village officials indicated they felt they
had little choice but to issue Collin a permit
or face possible contempt of court citations
in federal court. However, they emphasized
that legal moves to try to block the march
will continue.
Goldstein told the village board Tuesday
night that he expects 50,000 persons to take
part in the counter-demonstration. Thirtyeight major Jewish organizations from the
Chicago area plan to take part, he said.
Leaders of the counter-demonstration said
they plan to first hold a rally at either Niles
East or Niles West High School, both in
Skokie, and then march to the village hall.
PLANS CALL for about 100 leaders of the
counter-demonstration to stand just across
the street from the Nazi demonstrators. The
100 leaders will be separated from the Nazis
by a line of police officers.
Collin earlier said that the planned Skokie
march will give members of the National
Socialist Party of America an opportunity to
declare themselves “either heroes or cowards.”
Collin said that he is mailing a directive to
party leaders across the nation ordering
them to participate in the Skokie demonstration, donate $100 to help replenish the party
treasury or resign.
Skokie is appealing to the U.S. Supreme
Court last week’s ruling by the U.S. Court of
Appeals in Chicago declaring unconstitutional three ordinances that barred the Nazi
march.
In other action, the village board deferred
consideration until next Monday of a controversial condominium-control measure that
would permit tenants of a building to block
condominium conversion.
Trustees were given copies of a report
from a Chicago Bar Assn. committee that
was critical of some provisions of the proposed ordinance.
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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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Skokie History
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Skokie issues Nazi march permit
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O'Connor, Phillip J.
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The National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) has been issued a permit to demonstrate in Skokie on June 25, 1978. In addition, a Jewish umbrella group has been issued a permit for the same day to demonstrate against the Nazis.
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5/31/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Goldstein, Sol
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FROM:
THE JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
One South Franklin Street - 60606 - 346-6700
Harold B. Rosen, Director of Public Relations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Zan Skolnick
EXTENSION:
Raymond Epstein, Chairman of the P u b l i c Affairs Committee (PAC)
of the Jewish United Fund today (Feb. 23) responded with disappointment to
a U.S. District Court r u l i n g that would allow a Nazi march in Skokie, a suburb
with a large population of Jews, many of them survivors of the Holocaust.
Epstein, who heads the coalition of Chicago's 3^ major Jewish groups,
said that he hoped the V i l l a g e of Skokie -- and others seeking legal remedies
to halt the proposed march by the National Socialist Party of America -- would
"pursue every legal means to block this perversion of the rights of free speech."
Skokie resident and Holocaust survivor Sol Goldstein, who has
initiated a private suit against the Nazis, affirmed Epstein's point of view,
saying:
"The Village of Skokie should do everything in its power to protect
the safety and welfare of its residents."
Epstein said: "It would be a monstrous travesty for the courts
of this land to rule that an obscene spectacle should be held under the guise
of our First Amendment freedoms, which we, of the Jewish community, hold
especially dear.
"The Jewish community of Chicago hopes that the V i l l a g e of Skokie
w i l l 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 f a i l , the Jewish community w i l l
cooperate fully with the V i l l a g e of Skokie and peoples of other faiths in
framing a non-violent response more in keeping with what our founding fathers
had in mind when they drafted the B i l l of Rights," said Epstein.
-over-
�JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
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Goldstein said he welcomed the expression of solidarity made
yesterday by Governor James R. Thompson.
"His interest and concern is one
of many important indications that this march has become an issue for all
Americans.
We shall certainly call upon the Governor's good offices in
framing our response to the march in the event of that unfortunate necessity."
Goldstein, who heads a PAC Committee on I n d i v i d u a l Liberty and
Jewish Security, had received a letter from Governor Thompson earlier In the
week, expressing the Governor's feelings that "... survivors of the Holocaust ...
and m i l l i o n s of Jews the world over ... should not be subjected to such a
disgusting display as that march."
Referring to mounting offers of support from non-Jewish groups,
Goldstein said: "There are many people in this country who remember that
in addition to the 6 m i l l i o n Jews slaughtered during the Holocaust, 5 m i l l i o n
Christian c i v i l i a n s were exterminated and 190,000 American soldiers lost
their lives fighting the Nazi war machine."
Today's U.S. District Court ruling declared "unconstitutional" three
Skokie ordinances that would (1) ban the wearing of military-style uniforms
repugnant to the residents of Skokie, (2) require parade sponsors to post a
$350,000
bond if more than 50 spectators or participants are expected, and
(3) ban dissemination of material that could incite hatred of a race or religion.
Goldstein's suit seeks a permanent injunction against the Nazi
march on the grounds that it would cause "severe emotional and physical stress"
among the estimated 7,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors l i v i n g in Skokie.
The
suit was rejected by the I l l i n o i s Supreme Court without a hearing, but a second
motion for a hearing w i l l be filed tomorrow (Feb. 24), Goldstein said.
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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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Press release from the Jewish United Fund, dated February 23, 1978, announcing that Raymond Epstein, Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee of the Jewish United Fund "responded with disappointment to a U.S. District Court ruling that would allow a Nazi [National Socialist Party of America] march in Skokie." The press release is from Harold B. Rosen, Director of Public Relations and the Contact person listed is Zan Skolnick.
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2/23/1978
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Epstein, Raymond
Goldstein, Sol
Rosen, Harold B.
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Plan counterdemonstration
Nazi group given permit to march
By DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
SKOKIE- Village officials have issued a permit allowing a Nazi group to
demonstrate in front of village hall at 3
p.m. Sunday, June 25.
A second permit allowing the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
to stage a counterdemonstration at the
same time and place also will be issued, according to Mayor Albert
Smith.
The village mailed a permit to the
National Socialist (Nazi) Party of
America Friday, May 26, four days after a U.S. appeals court ruled unconstitutional three village ordinances
designed to prevent the march. The
permit, however, can still be rescinded
by judicial or legislative action.
Then, after an executive session fol-
lowing the regular village board meeting Tuesday, May 30, Smith announced
that a permit for a counterdemonstration would be issued to the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
PRIOR TO THE board’s unanimous
decision to allow the counterdemonstration, Sol Goldstein, a Holocaust
survivor, told the LIFE, “I hope we get
the permit tonight--otherwise, we’ll
lose control and there will be chaos,
wildness. People will come anyway
and only an organized demonstration
will solve the problem.”
Goldstein, chairman of the federation’s public affairs committee, said he
expects about 50,000 people from across the country to participate in the
counterdemonstration. According to
Goldstein, leaders of the anti-Nazi
group will “do our utmost to control”
those who show up. “To resist Nazis
means that we must be committed
against violence also,” he said.
After more than a year of legal battles in state and federal courts, the village has nearly exhausted its legal
options. Only two possibilities for averting the June 25 march still remain.
Village attorneys plan this week to
appeal the decision of the appeals
court to the U.S. Supreme court and to
ask for a stay of the lower court decision while the case is pending.
THE MARCH could also be cancelled if the Illinois house of representatives approves two bills which were
approved by the state senate on May
10. One bill would make it illegal to defame any ethnic group, while the other
would ban demonstrations likely to result in physical violence and outlaw the
display of symbols and uniforms having historical associations with violence.
Smith refused to speculate on the likelihood of a June 25 Nazi march because he said, “I don’t want to issue a
challenge to them. I don’t want to back
them into a corner. I’d like to give
them every escape hatch.”
Smith said he still believes the village will ultimately win its case
against the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) which is representing
the Nazis. If the case is accepted by
the Supreme court, new case law regarding the First Amendment will be
put on the books, he said. “I still don’t
believe the First Amendment is absolute,” Smith said.
large amount of publicity accompanying their efforts to enter Skokie. He
pointed to letters and petitions with
more than 1,500 signatures sent in support of the village’s stance in opposing
the march as evidence of a nationwide
backlash against the Nazis.
Reacting to a statement made last
week by Nazi leader Frank Collin who
offered to abandon plans for a Skokie
march if he were legally allowed to
march in Chicago, Smith said “I don’t
make deals with Nazis” and called Collin’s statement a “cop-out.”
According to Erna Gans, leader of a
group of Holocaust survivors, an office
has been established by her organization, the Dr. Janusz Korczak B’nai
B’rith lodge, to handle work related to
the threatened march.
ACCORDING TO Smith, the neo-Nazis actually have been hurt by the
VOLUNTEERS IN the second story
office at 4948 Dempster answer phone
calls and letters from all over the
country from people seeking information or offering support. The office is
also the central headquarters for a nationwide petition drive aimed at the
U.S. Supreme court, Congress, and the
President, asking for protection “from
neo-Nazism and from ideologies that
preach hate and promote hate symbols, so that one-half million Americans and 20 million other innocent
people of every race, creed, religion
and nationality who lost their lives during World War II should not have died
in vain.”
Gans said the petitions will be presented to all three branches of the federal government by a delegation of at
least one person from every state and
as many senators and representatives
as the group can attract.
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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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Plan counterdemonstration : Nazi group given permit to march
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Dubey, Diane
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Skokie officials have issued demonstration permits to both the National Socialist Party of America (Nazis) and to the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. Current status of legal battle between Skokie and the Nazis is presented.
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6/1/1978
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
Gans, Erna
Goldstein, Sol
Smith, Albert J., 1915-1993
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Skokie Life, Thursday, June 1, 1978, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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csl780601a.pdf
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eng
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Nazis, Skokie
in court again
DIANE DUBEY
Correspondent
A JEWISH survivor of World War II holocaust,
three Skokie officials, and Chicago Nazi leader Frank
Collin presented evidence Friday, Dec. 2 in a hearing
on Collin’s suit against the village.
The lawsuit filed in August challenges the constitutionality of three Skokie ordinances which require
groups wishing to march in the village to post a $350,
000 insurance bond, prohibit the wearing of military
style uniforms by marchers, and forbid the distribution of printed material which incites group hatred.
Testifying in the Chicago courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Decker, were Sol Goldstein,
a Skokie resident who escaped from a Lithuanian ghetto, John Matzer, village manager, Kenneth Chamberlain, chief of police, Marvin Bailey, director of housing
development, and Collin, leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) party of America. A written statement from
Skokie Mayor Albert Smith, recuperating from surgery, was also submitted.
Goldstein claimed that the sight of Nazi uniforms
and swastikas on the streets of Skokie would inflict
great emotional damage on those who survived the
World War II Nazi attrocities.
Collin, who is being represented by the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) testified that he still
wants to lead a march in Skokie to exercise his right to
free speech but indicated he would not demonstrate in
the village until legally allowed to do so.
The three ordinances challenged in the lawsuit
were approved by the Skokie village board on May 2,
only days after two Nazi marches were averted by
court injunction. All evidence relating to this case
must be submitted to Decker by Dec. 12 according to
Harvey Schwartz, Skokie corporation counsel.
The Illinois supreme court is expected to rule soon
on the Swastika ban throughout Skokie which was
upheld by a threejudge panel of the Illinois appellate
court in July.
ACLU attorneys, Aug. 9, appealed to the high
court, asking that the ban be lifted because it constitutes a violation of the Nazi’s first amendment 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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Nazis, Skokie in court again
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Dubey, Diane
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A lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of 3 Skokie ordinances which require groups wishing to march in the Village to post a $350,000 bond, prohibit the wearing of military-style uniforms by marchers, and forbid the distribution of printed material that incites group hatred.
Date
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12/8/1977
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
Collin, Frank
Goldstein, Sol
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Skokie Life, Thursday, December 8, 1977, Lerner Community Newspapers, Lincolnwood, IL
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Judge forbids Nazi event
in Skokie, cites riot peril
Mary F. K. Plous Jr.
Circuit Court Judge Joseph M. Wosik Friday barred a Nazi group from holding a demonstration Sunday in Skokie, saying the
march could cause a riot in the heavily Jewish suburb.
“I believe I have as much right to protect
life and limb as to protect the First Amendment and 14th Amendment rights of the Nazis
to free speech,” Wosik told National Socialist
Party of America leader Frank Collin.
Collin announced in March his intention to
hold a demonstration in Skokie after learning
that the City of Chicago had turned down his
application to speak in city parks. Wednesday, the Village of Skokie asked the Circuit
Court for an emergency order to stop the
march on the ground that irate Jewish residents might protest violently.
“There will be bloodshed, loss of property
and maybe loss of life,” said Sol Goldstein,
62, who noted that some 7,000 of Skokie’s estimated 40,000 Jewish residents, himself included, are survivors of Nazi death camps.
Goldstein said he had attended a number of
recent meetings by Skokie Jews to discuss the
projected Nazi demonstration. “The use of
violence was not discussed at the meetings,
and I don’t intend to use any,” he testified,
“but as a survivor I don't know if I can cont rol myself. ”
Collin’s lawyer, David Goldberger, legal director of the Illinois division of the American
Civil Liberties Union, maintained throughout
the hearing that the First and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed the
Nazis the right to demonstrate in Skokie.
“The question is, can the court muzzle
somebody?” Goldberger told the judge. “I
know they want you to do it. I know you’re
tempted to do it. But you can’t do it. If an
injunction is issued, the Village of Skokie will
be dancing on the grave of the First Amendment.”
But Wosik said he had strong reason to believe the presence of Nazis and Nazi symbols
would inflame Skokie’s refugees from European concentration camps, many of whom
retain strong memories of Nazi terror.
“What other court has had a community of
40,000 Jewish people where these stories are
lived and relived?” Wosik said. “Were the
march to progress on the first of May and one
person was blinded or hurt or if destruction
was wrought, I would be the one responsible.
This is a small village, You don’t have the
police protection you have in the city of Chicago.”
Goldberger said he would file an emergency appeal of Wosik’s decision Friday with the
Illinois Appellate Court.
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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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Judge forbids Nazi event in Skokie, cites riot peril
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Plous Jr., Mary F. K.
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Circuit Court Judge Joseph Wosik bars National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) demonstration in Skokie on Sunday, April 29, 1977.
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4/29/1977
Subject
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Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
National Socialist Party of America
Collin, Frank
Goldstein, Sol
Wosik, Joseph
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Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, April 29, 1977, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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2d suit to block Nazis
from Skokie march fails
By Larry Weintraub
The Illinois Supreme Court again has refused to forbid the long-threatened neo-Nazi
march through predominantly Jewish Skokie.
In a ruling issued Friday, and received
Monday by lawyers in the case, the state tribunal ordered Cook County Circuit Court to
dismiss a suit by survivors of the World War
II Nazi holocaust, who sought to prevent the
march.
Another ruling by the Supreme Court Friday in a related suit filed by the village held
that the Nazi’s First Amendment right of
free assembly guarantees the National Socialist Party of America may march and display
swastikas. That judgment was reported over
the weekend.
The Supreme Court action revealed Monday
ordered dismissal of a class action suit by
Skokie manufacturer Sol Goldstein, a survivor of Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews,
on behalf of all holocaust survivors in the village.
The suit maintained that psychological and
emotional scars caused by memories of the
World War II death camps would impel survivors to attend such a march and attempt to
stop it, possibly by violence.
The court had ruled in the village’s suit that
Skokie residents were not impelled to attend
a Nazi rally and, therefore, the First Amendment rights could not be abridged.
Jerome H. Torshen, attorney for the survivors, said he would formally ask the state
high court to reconsider the question.
“This ruling is totally unprecedented,” he
said. “The Supreme Court ordered dismissal
(of the suit) without giving the plaintiffs a
hearing, without reading the motions, without
considering the merits.
“The court has denied the litigants the right
to be heard.” He said he would file his motion
for reconsideration within the next two
weeks.
David Hamlin, executive director of the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union, which is
defending the Nazis, said the Supreme
Court’s ruling On the village’s suit “couldn’t
have been stronger” and he believes the ruling on the Goldstein action was saying that
Swastikas and liberty - an editorial; Page
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the court “considers the survivors’ suit to be
the same as the village’s suit.
“The court’s ruling is so strong that they’re
saying they won’t rehear the suit,” Hamlin
said, “and the ruling is so strong it’s possible
the U.S. Supreme Court will deny an appeal.”
Skokie officials said over the weekend they,
too, will ask the state Supreme Court to reconsider its judgment on their suit, and will
appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if the Illinois ruling is not changed.
The Nazis, headed by Frank Collin, have
been trying to demonstrate in the village
(where Jews comprise approximately 40,000
of the 70,000 population) since April.
If the state high court decisions stand, only
one other legal barrier to a march would exist.
That involves three village ordinances hastily passed to thwart the march. The ordinances are being challenged in a suit before
U.S. District Court Judge Bernard M. Decker,
Decker has heard arguments in that action
and is expected to rule soon.
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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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Skokie History
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2d suit to block Nazis from Skokie march fails
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Weintraub, Larry
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Illinois Supreme Court orders the Cook County Circuit Court to dismiss a suit by survivors of the World War II holocaust who sought to prevent a National Socialist Party of America (Nazi) march in Skokie.
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1/31/1978
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Assembly, Right of -- Illinois -- Skokie
Courts of last resort -- United States
Demonstrations -- Illinois -- Skokie
Freedom of speech -- Illinois -- Skokie
Holocaust survivors
National Socialist Party of America
National Socialist Party of America -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Goldstein, Sol
Hamlin, David
Torshen, Jerome H.
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Chicago Sun-Times, Tuesday, January 31, 1978, Sun-Times Co., Chicago, IL
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eng
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newspaper clippings