March 23, 1983

JOLLY ZELENY was being transported by train from Hamburg, Germany, to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen when the railroad tracks were bombed. She was in a car containing only female prisoners; on another track she could see a train carrying men. Four decades later, she remembered the contrast vividly. ''Both men and women were skeletons, in identical stripes, yet there was such a difference,'' she said. ''The men's bodies reflected so much more pessimism than did ours. We reached for our little morsels of bread and threw them to the men.'' Survivor of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and three smaller Nazi concentration camps in World War II, Jolly Zeleny was in the crowd of 400 that packed Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University, on Lexington Avenue, for a two-day conference this week entitled ''Women Surviving: The Holocaust.'' It was sponsored by the Institute for Research in History with a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

An article and headline in some copies of yesterday's Sports Pages incorrectly identified the coach of the girls' basketball team at Marlboro (N.Y.) High School. He is Jim Van Allen.

The Venezuelan economy, once the most robust in South America, has entered its second month of paralysis, waiting for the Government to formulate a strategy to offset falling oil profits and renegotiate its foreign debt. The halt in activity has been caused by the suspension on Feb. 20 of foreign exchange rates and the failure to come up with a definitive substitute. Instead of moving toward a national consensus that almost every sector of Venezuelan society has been calling for in broadcast appeals and newspaper advertisements, the Government has shunned consultation, and the two key members of its economic team have fallen into an open quarrel. Import restrictions are being issued periodically, and their application has appeared erratic. Some, for instance, have been directed at life-supporting medical equipment while an announced ban on whisky is apparently being reconsidered.

The Senate, heeding vigorous lobbying by the Reagan Administration, voted today not to consider an amendment concerning the withholding of taxes on interest and dividends, clearing the way for passage of a plan to provide financial stability to the Social Security system. The 54-to-43 vote on the proposed amendment came after President Reagan, using unusually strong language, criticized the banking industry as ''a selfish special interest'' that, he said, had tried to make Social Security ''a legislative hostage.'' The effort to attach the withholding question to the Social Security bill was the second time in a week that opponents of the provision, due to take effect on July 1, had defied Mr. Reagan and Senate leaders and had held up approval of major legislation. The issue, which also had put off consideration of a $4.6 billion emergency job bill for six days, will come up in the Senate again next month.

CAPT. WILLIAM WATKINS, on leave from the Army to train for the 1984 Olympics as a cyclist, takes vitamin E because he thinks it ''helps my recuperative powers,'' calcium and potassium supplements ''because I perspire a lot,'' and vitamin C for colds and a multivitamin supplement because, he says, ''I'm a superstitious athlete.'' At the same time he eats a carefully controlled diet with very little fat, small amounts of fish and chicken for protein and a lot of complex carbohydrates such as fruits and vegetables, breads and pasta. David Faulkner of East Brunswick, N.J., like Captain Watkins, is living at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. A judo player, he tries ''to eat as many meats as possible,'' he says, though he stays away from fried foods because he has heard they are not good for endurance and are hard to digest. He also takes vitamin C, although he isn't sure why, and desiccated liver tablets because he has been told they aid endurance.