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Granma
March 1, 2006

Doctor José Miller Fredman, deceased
 
A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann

Doctor José Miller Fredman, a prestigious member of Cuba’s and Latin America’s Hebrew Community who passed away two days ago as a result of a sudden cardiovascular ailment, was buried yesterday at noon in the Jewish Cemetery of Guanabacoa. Since 1979, Dr. Miller had been president of the Hebrew Community in our country, a post in which he stood out for his humanity, rich cultural knowledge and patriotic principles, as well as for his ecumenical spirit and the good relations he developed with various national religious and official institutions, as highlighted by his participation in many forums and events held both in Cuba and abroad.

Dr. Miller was born in Yaguajay, Sancti Spiritus province, in 1925, and for many years he worked as a maxillofacial surgeon with a professional zeal and quality he first showed during his stay in the Revolutionary Armed Forces until 1968. When he retired in 1993, he was Head of Maxillofacial Services in our Hospital Nacional “Enrique Cabrera”. Before that year he had also worked in Hospital Ortopédico “Fructuoso Rodríguez” and in the Oncological Hospital.

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On August 9, 2005 [Nagasaki Day], Dr. José Miller wrote:

Sixty years ago, the world condemned the unnecessary, brutal and mass nuclear attack to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, exactly three months after the final defeat of Nazi Germany. War World II proved that all previous hopes and calculations to finish the Soviet Union were just illusions shattered by reality.

Equally illusory has been the hope to maintain exclusive rights over nuclear power to intimidate other nations.

Dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki paved the way for a desperate and insane arms race which, in the event of a nuclear conflict, would bring about the loss of the future as a concept.

After living these sixty years we have learned that only a demented and diabolic mind, therefore a mortal threat to the whole world, would be capable of taking us back to that epoch we have left behind.

On the occasion of this date, meeting and coordinating our forces to fight against the menace of nuclear war is a duty of those of us who believe the world must not become hell but, as home to all human beings, a better place every passing day.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, never again.

José Miller Fredman
President, Coordinating Commission of Hebrew Religious Institutions of Cuba
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