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country, but it was good to be free and no longer an outcast. 1940 brought internment in Lingfield, Surrey. Since it was a transit camp for the U.S. consulate, he was kept busy working on passports and other formalities, but after two months was discharged to help refugees—most of whom were actually interned END OF A MOMENTOUS ERA themselves! The AJR was founded in 1941, on the initiative of nine refugees: three non-Zionists, three Zionists, Retirement of Werner Rosenstock and three orthodox representatives. They had a very hard struggle for existence in the beginning. The relatively established refugees—those who had come before 1939—kept their distance at that time. Thus the penniless recent refugees paid their six­ pence a month to keep the organisation afloat, but There are people whose lives, work and experiences adapting the Jewish organisations for what was in there was a vicious circle: for lack of means, not encapsulate a whole era. Dr. Werner Rosenstock, store, above all: Ludwig Tietz, Friedrich Brodnitz much could be achieved; they couldn't attract Director of the AJR and editor of this journal and and Hanns Reissner. By 1933 those active in Jewish finance because there wasn't much to show. former General Secretary, is such a man, and his affairs, and especially in the youth movement, were Gradually, interested people in the fur trade, and retirement at the end of this year brings a whole era prepared psychologically for what happened. then the textile trade, started to help, and others to a close for the Association. His unfailing energy followed from 1942 onward. It was always a struggle and attention to detail, his humour, by turns kindly IMPRISONMENT to find the salaries for the small staff (in addition to and caustic, his devotion to duty and overriding Dr. Rosenstock, a social worker and only later a 1933 was the year Werner Rosenstock was eurested. secretary). In those very difficuh circumstances it sense of fairness and justice have marked his presence Jewish department store employees had been dis­ all through the years. His tolerance and diplomacy, missed at the instigation of the Nazi workers union took a lot of optimism and patience to carry on, and and above all his sterling common sense have (NSBO). As a Referendar, Dr. Rosenstock, with col­ if the AJR did get off the ground it was due to Dr. smoothed the course of many a meeting, and have leagues, formed a panel to defend the legal compen­ Rosenstock's perseverance and fortitude, for he felt defused the normal tensions of his colleagues' work­ sation claims of these employees, who were entitled they would pull through, as indeed they did. For a ing life. He will be seventy-five next April, a fact to six months' notice. Having presented one of these while, from 1943 until he emigrated to America hard to take in. He will continue to advise and cases, he was arrested as he left the courtroom. He shortly after the war. Dr. Kurt Alexander was was taken to the Nazi bunker for detainees, where he General Secretary, after which Dr. Rosenstock counsel us, with his incomparable knowledge of all was roughed-up by Nazi thugs, but later two SS our concerns, past and present, but the routine tasks men. Kraut and Simon, one of whom was a patient resumed the top post. will pass to others. of a C.V.-linked Jewish dentist, had him taken to Quite early on, at the age of fifteen, he had joined the police headquarters, whence he was moved to THREE BASIC AIMS the German Jewish Youth Movement (DJJG), and the Moabit Prison, where he had a cell to himself for the next three months. He turned his imprisonment The AJR had three basic aims during the war. It as a student of eighteen he was attached to the Youth tried to get permission to stay in England for refugees Department of the Central-Verein. By the time 1933 to good account by closely studying the scores of The Marriage of Figaro and Die Meistersinger. who only had transit permits. It attempted to care came round, his law studies had brought him to the for people on the Continent by participating in exist­ Finally, the prosecution declared that there was status of Referendar. In normal times, he would ing schemes to send parcels to the camps, through have gone on to become either a judge or a civil ser­ no case to answer. He was then taken to police head­ quarters, where the Nazi alternatives were either the Red Cross. And thirdly, it prepared the post-war vant, but those were no normal times. He joined the discharge, or shipment to a concentration camp (at claims for restitution. Central-Verein as a full-time worker. When the that point either Sachsenhausen or Dachau). He was After the war, the first aim was to achieve naturalisa­ Central-Verein was dissolved after the November lucky to be discharged. tion for the refugees, and this was for the most part 1938 pogrom, he joined the only remaining organisa­ attained by 1947. The very first issue of AJR Infor­ tion, the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutsch­ DOCUMENTING EMIGRANTS mation, in January 1946, informed members that land, working in the emigration department. He was He stayed on in Germany to try to protect Jewish they could apply for naturalisation. responsible for children's emigration, and for selec­ interests, first in the Central-Verein, and later, after The AJR joined forces with corresponding organ­ tion for the Kitchener transit camp at Richborough, November 1938, under the Reichsvereinigung, isations abroad to form the Council of Jews from near Sandwich, in Kent. because there was a pressing need for his skills in Germany, of which Dr. Rosenstock is now Secre­ preparing papers and documentation for prospective GATHERING STORM tary. Several meetings in 1946 and 1947 were held emigrants—those selected for Richborough, for under the presidency of Leo Baeck. Some German Jewish leaders had sensed the coming example, had to have arrangements for eventual re- emigration in order to be eligible for that transit The early post-war period was a critical time for storm back in the twenties. For Werner Rosenstock camp. He only left Germany for England in August the AJR. Members thought that with naturalisation the danger signal was clear in 1930, when the Nazis 1939. His wife Susanne had gone on ahead in May, all their problems were solved, but they gradually became the second largest party in the Reichstag with their small son Michael. Indeed, it was for realised that with one thing and another, for example elections of that year. He was close to the young Michael's fourth birthday that he came especially, their distinctive accents, their status had not yet Jewish leaders who were well aware of the danger just in the nick of time. changed all that much. They began to understand and prepared the measures for retraining people for It was strange coming to England soon to be in emigration to Palestine and other countries and for total blackout, one of Ws early impressions of the Continued on page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1982 continued from page I FOREIGN COMPENSATION (CZECHOSLOVAKIA) ORDER Brief Outline 1. According to the Foreign Compensation (Czechoslovakia) Order 1982 of 30th July 1982 (Statutory Instruments 1982 No. 1073) claims may be made in respect of property in Czechoslovakia of END OF A MOMENTOUS ERA various kinds, e.g. land and buildings, businesses, debts, bank balances, shares etc., subject to the following conditions: The applicant (or his predecessor in title) must have been deprived of his property by nationalisa­ tion or any restrictive measure of the Czechoslovak Government and the property must have been that they had to stand together for their mutual sup­ by British political maturity and stability. He recalls beneficially owned at the time by a U.K. national.— port and uplift. That was also the time when the first that after 1938, when the Jews were at last so anxious The applicant must also have been a U.K. national steps were taken in restitution legislation. Negotia­ to leave, and so few countries prepared to take them, on 2nd February, 1982. tions on general principles of restitution were carried England took the largest share, 40,000.150,000 Ger­ 2. There are special provisions concerning pen­ out by the Council of Jews from Germany, of which man Jews had left before November 1938. Between sions. A claim may be made by a person who was in Dr. Rosenstock was a member. then and the outbreak of war less than a year later receipt of a pension from the Czechoslovak Govern­ about 100,000 left, so that one should not forget ment or from other bodies or persons in Czecho­ In 1948 the United Restitution Organisation (URO) slovakia, or who has made contributions towards a was set up to deal with individual cases, to compensate how laige was England's share of that intake. p)ension, provided payment of the pension was stop­ them for the loss of property and employment. He had experienced antisemitism at school, where ped, or future pension rights taken away, otherwise In 1955 the Council founded the Leo Baeck Institute there was no real contact between Jews and non- than in accordance with the rules governing the pay­ to perpetuate the German Jewish cultural tradition, Jews. The Jews tended to come from business or ment of the pension (disregarding for this purpose which it has done with its much-admired Yearbooks professional families, the non-Jews had parents who any change in those rules effected by a Czechoslovak and monographs. The founders included Siegfried were low-ranking civil servants or in ill-paid occupa­ measure of dispossession or other restrictive Moses, Max Grunewald and the founder editor, of tions; the Jews lived in the middle class Hansaviertel, measure). The claim can only be made if the person concerned was a U.K. national at the time when pay­ course, Robert Weltsch. the others in Moabit, where the school was located. ment of the pension was stopped or the pension Thus there was envy and class friction. At university, rights taken away or if this action occurred as a result most of the non-Jewish students tended to be con­ of his becoming a U.K. national. Furthermore, the servative or further right, while the Jews often held applicant must have been a U.K. national on 2nd SERVICE TO COMMUNITY socialist views. Dr. Rosenstock felt this was an February, 1982. unhealthy polarisation, as it indeed proved to be. He 3. If payment against a claim has been made himself gravitated to the Jewish involvement under the previous Foreign Compensation (Czecho­ With the coming of restitution and the compensa­ through his youth movement activities. slovakia) Orders that claim carmot now be put for­ tion for heirless and communal property, old age ward again. Homes could be established and maintained and this ACCEPTING AN AWARD 4. If an applicant has already received from has become one of the central activities of the AJR. another source, e.g. under the German equalisation He had met his future wife Susanne when, both of of burdens legislation (Lastenausgleichs-Gesetzge- There is also very important social work to be done bung), compensation for loss of an asset which is outside the Homes, among the ill and aged. And them Referendars obliged to serve for six months in a small local court, they found themselves in Luebben subject of a claim under the above-mentioned order, there is AJR Information itself, the monthly paper such compensation will be deducted from the sum which holds the membership together and gives it a in Spreewald. They had common acquaintances in which may be assessed by the Foreign Compensation common focus and medium of communication. Berlin, but had never met before. The local judge Commission. Thinking back on his life of service to the German and lawyers had fairly reactionary views and reserved 5. Applications are to be made to the Foreign Jewish community, he remembers with particular direct social contact for the non-Jewish court circle, Compensation Commission, Alexandra House, fondness Otto Hirsch, whom he was one of the last the judge inviting the non-Jews to his home but Kingsway, London W.C.2, to reach them not later to see alive. He admired Hirsch's heroism in staying never the Jews. And yet, some years later, when the than 31st August, 1983. judge's widow wrote to Mrs. Rosenstock to con­ 6. Further details may be seen from the Order, on in Germany though he could see the end that which is available from H.M. Stationery Office. awaited him. He also felt close to Ludwig Tietz, to gratulate her on the birth of her son Michael, she whom he looked up as a guide, and with whom he made a point of saying how much she disapproved could discuss any problem openly and with full of what was being done to the Jews in Germany. HARDSHIP FUND Among German Jews there are those who regard understanding. Dr. Rosenstock had also worked Organizations which provide shelter to Jewish under Leo Baeck, both in Berlin, in the Reichs­ the German dimension as a closed chapter no longer victims of Nazi persecution may apply for grants vereinigung and on the Council of Jews from Ger­ of any interest, as well as those who say that the Ger­ from a Hardship Fund established with German many. And there are the many colleagues in the mans will never improve. Werner Rosenstock, Federal Government appropriations. In principle, AJR, above all the Life President Alfred Dresel, whose parents were killed in the Holocaust with the Claims Conference will only consider applica­ who was chairman until 1974. many other members of his family, would not close tions from organizations which have been established that door. When, in 1970, he was offered the German for the purpose of providing shelter to Jewish vic­ Federal Cross of Merit, after much heart-searching, tims of Nazi persecution, or from such organizations he decided to accept it, since he felt that if a gesture where substantial numbers of their beneficiaries are Jewish victuns of Nazi persecution. of moral reconciliation and reparation were made, WELL INTEGRATED In 1983, the Claims Conference will have at its one should not refuse such an expression of good will. disposal for allocations the sum of D.M. 5 million He hjis retauned his attachment to his native Berlin (five million). Interested organizations may file Looking back at the great upheaval of the century emd visited it several times after the war, though his applications with the Claims Conference by 31 to which he was a witness. Dr. Rosenstock feels that fjunily and the friends of his youth were no longer January, 1983. Applications should be addressed in quite apart from the endemic antisemitism, Germany live figures in that urban landscape. ten copies to: Conference on Jewish Material Claims was a monolithic state which just could not absorb Werner Rosenstock's lively mind will contribute Against Germany, 15 East 26th Street—Room 1901 its minorities. It is a significant fact that so few its vivacity to an active retirement. He must know in New York, New York 10010, USA. refugees retumed to Germany after the war, perhaps what deep affection he is held by close friends and a thousand, mostly political personalities, high civil colleagues alike; his personal warmth is contagious. AJR INFORMATION servants or actors—people who were language- This paper will, under his successor (M. Mindlin), It is regretted that for reasons completely beyond bound, as well as very much older persons. (Others try to maintain the standards he has set for the last our control a number of readers did not receive the left Britain to join relatives in Israel or America.) thirty-seven years. We all wish him and his wife Susi November issue of AJR Information. They should This does indicate how well integrated the refugees a contented and fruitful retirement for the many kindly contact oiu^ office and ask for a copy. We became. He remembers himself how struck he was many years ahead. apologize for the inconvenience caused to them. AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1982 Page 3 WALLENBERG EXHIBmON IN LONDON In October last, the crypt of St. Martin in the HOME NEWS Fields, Trafalgar Square, was devoted to an exhibition in honour of Raoul Wallenberg, including hitherto unknown photographs of the missing diplomat. A RALLY AGAINST NF BOOKSTALL PRIZE FOR BOOK ON GERMAN RESCUER colleague who was involved in Wallenberg's rescue Last April, Tower Hamlets Council granted a After some heart-searching on the part of the efforts for the Jews of Hungary, former Swedish licence to NF supporter Robert Young to sell books committee, not because of the book's merits but Ambassador Per Anger, was present at the opening. from a stall in the East End's Brick Lane. Predictably, from doubt whether it qualified as fiction, the factual Colin Shindler of the Wallenberg Committee read a the books displayed on the stall were anti-Black and novel "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally was message from Mrs. Thatcher which pledged the anit-semitic, including the notorious pamphlet "Did awarded this year's prestigious Booker Prize. The British Government's readiness to assist in any con­ Six Million Really Die?". Despite protests and book tells of a Sudeten German industrialist, Oskar structive initiative to find out what had really attempts to take action under the Race Relations Act, Schindler, far from virtuous in any ordinary sense, happened. Describing Raoul Wallenberg as a hero the council has maintained that it is legally unable to who began by seeking commercial advantage from of our time, the Prime Minister hoped that the revoke the licence unless it can be proved that the the Nazi occupation of Poland and ended by saving Soviet Government would at last co-operate in the holder is unsuitable. Tower Hamlets Association for the lives of 1,300 or more Jews destined for the exter­ discovery of the facts. The exhibition was organised Racial Justice and the local Trades Council recently mination camps. by Mr. Shindler and Mrs. Linda Goldberg; such is organised a rally attended by over 200 demonstrators The author first heard the story from Leopold the interest in the fate of Wallenberg that the expenses in protest against the stall, which was meanwhile Pfefferberg; by chance he went into Pfefferberg's were in the main met by small donations from private guarded by a number of National Front members. leather goods shop and was told "That's the story individuals. One of the demonstrators, Ian Mikardo, MP, is you should write: about the man who rescued me actively continuing efforts to stop the sale of pro­ and so many others...". Thomas Keneally went on HAMPTEAD PLAQUE FOR ZIONIST vocative books in this area of large Asian and black to meet more of Schindler's proteges and was told Nahum Sokolow, an early Zionist leader, was populations, who have largely replaced the former over and over again, " If he hadn't been a scoundrel, remembered in West Hamptead recently when a Jewish community. we'd have been finished". The book will be reviewed plaque in his memory was unveiled at his former in a future issue of AJR Information. home. Among those present at the ceremony were his daughter. Dr. Celina Sokolow, prominent British KEITH JOSEPH NAMES COMPUTER UNIT LEGACY TO nOHT ANTISEMITISM Zionists and the Israeli Charge d'Affaires. The An unusual honour was accorded to Sir Keith The will of Mrs. Alice Ivy Hay, who died last unveiling was performed by former WZO chairman Joseph recently when the new computer unit at the summer, contains considerable bequests to Aberdeen Josef Almogi. Hasmonean Grammar School for Boys, Bamet, was University for the purpose of combating antisemitism. named after him. Sir Keith performed the opening A non-Jew, Mrs. Hay was the mother-in-law of Orde BROTHERHOOD DISPLAY IN SOUTHPORT ceremony and also present were the Chief Rabbi and Wingate and the widow of Malcolm Hay, whose Two years ago an important discovery was made several representatives of the British ORT Tmst. book on "The Christian Roots of Antisemitism" in the cellars of Southport Central Library, when The imit, jointly provided by the school and was republished in America a few months before her centuries-old Torah scrolls and other manuscripts British ORT, contains nine computers with room death. were brought to light after many years of neglect. As for. future expansion if necessary and pupils will part of the Southport Brotherhood Week, the attend an 18 or 36 week course according to age. The AJR MEALS-ON-WHEELS SERVICE restorer. Rabbi Sidney Kay, had lent a Megillat cost was in part met by the Hasmonean Parent- For the past ten years AJR have delivered kosher Esther and a Torah scroll to the Council of Christians Teacher Association, which collected £10,0(X) to and Jews for display in the library. finance the project. frozen MEALS-ON-WHEELS to those unable to cook for themselves. "NASTIES" EXPLOIT HOLOCAUST Some of our readers and their friends may not be INVITATION WAS HOAX Among horror videos recently seized by Scotland aware of this service, but might be in need of these Yard's Obscene Publications Squad are two entitled A practical joke with unpleasant undertones was facilities. '' Cannibal Holocaust'' and'' SS Experiment Camp''. carried out recently on people named Cohen. Invita­ For further information, they should contact Mr. It is expected that the producers will face proceedings tions were sent out to a large number of Cohens ask­ under Section III of the Obscene Publications Act. ing them to attend a Guy Fawkes Night party at the Nash, at Hannah Karminski House, Tel. No. 586 Greek Street premises of "Private Eye" to celebrate 2374 (Mondays to Fridays only). the retirement of editor Richard Ingrams. However, the party was imaginary and Mr. Ingrams has no in­ INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ISAIAH BERLIN tention of retiring. Fortunately, most invitees Whb adcnowledgement to tbe news lervice telephoned the magazine offices to find out more A recent announcement by the Erasmus Prize Foun­ about the strange communication, but the joker cer­ of tbe Jewish Chronicle. dation in the Hague reports that Sir Isaiah Berlin, tainly went to some trouble and expense, shown by c D the distinguished political philosopher, historian the fact that within a day or two "Private Eye" |wiMiiiiii;iiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:iii!iuiiiiMiiiiiiii and essayist. Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, is among received no less than 40 calls from people sumamed Cohen. On several occasions, the paper heis been ALL AIRPORTS AND SEASIDES the recipients of the Foundation's 1983 prize for pro­ accused of publishing cartoons and articles with a moting European culture. His fellow prize-wirmers distinctly antisemitic flavour. 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The iiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiuigiinBiiiijiiiiiiim^ and came to Britain, where he is a Fellow of All incident has prompted a warning that charitable gifts Souls, Oxford; he is an authority on seventeenth should always be sent in the form of crossed postal Your House for:— century rehgious and political thought, and the orders or cheques, and that appeals should remind FLOOR COVERINGS author of "Main Currents in Marxism", as well as donors of the possibility of this kind of theft. CURTAINS, CARPETS. being the mentor-in-exile of the Pohsh Solidarity SPECIALITY movement. ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, Annely ]ucla Fine Art DUVET COVERS & SHEETS BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE 11 Tottenham Mews, London WIP 9PJ ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS SI Belsize Square, London, N.W4 ESTIMATES FREE 01-637 5517/8 Our new communal hall is available for CX>NTEMPORART PAINTING DAWSON-LANE LIMITED cultural and social functions. For details AND SCULPTURE (eatablished 1M6) apply to: Secretary, Synagogue Office. 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ROMANLVN FASCIST In 1941, an inflammatory speech in Bucharest by NEWS FROM ABROAD Valerian Trifa, student leader of the Fascist Iron Guard, sparked off four days of rioting through the DUTCH KAPO WROTE OWN CITATION UNITED STATES streets of the Romanian capital. Afterwards the The arrest of Albert Talens in a Dutch car-park Auschwitz Trickster Sentenced death-toll was reckoned at 300 people, many of marked the unfolding of a complicated tale: how a Lucian Ludwig Kozminski, himself an Auschwitz whom were Jews. Trifa, with other prominent Iron man wanted for war crimes obtained the Resistance survivor, has been sentenced to 12 years' imprison­ Guard members, fled to Germany, where he was Medal of the Netherlands and enjoyed a pension ment as a confidence trickster by a US court. Koz­ detained in reasonable conditions in a sub-camp of granted for his work for the Resistance. Foiu- years minski was convicted of having withheld restitution Buchenwald concentration camp. When the ago, Simon Wiesenthal in Vienna was given the first payments made to him by the West German authori­ Americans arrived, he was able to represent himself inkling that Talens was identical with the Dachau ties after he had persuaded other survivors to give as a displaced person and Buchenwald survivor, so Kapo who had beaten men to death for the sake of him authority to pursue their claims. gaining entry to the United States in 1950. There he their gold teeth. Since 1978 too, the Rijksinstituut found patrons in Romanian Orthodox Christian voor Oorlogsdocumentatie in Amsterdam had been Persuasion's Effect on Baptist Minister circles and soon became first a Bishop and then an gathering material and interviewing witnesses, all Two years ago, Bailey E. Smith, head of the 13 Archbishop, although in his native country he had tending towards the incrimination of Talens. They million strong Southern Baptist Convention, never even been a simple priest. could not act on their evidence, however, because declared,' 'God does not heed the prayer of a Jew". the suspect had made his home in Austria. Trifa won honours in his new position: he pro­ His words aroused the fear of growing antisemitism nounced the opening prayer of the 1956 Congress, a Albert Talens had since 1974 been receiving a within the increasingly influential fundamentalist year before he became a naturalised American; in pension from the "Stichting 1940-1945" on the churches of the USA and the Anti-Defamation 1974 he was appointed to the board of the National grounds of ill health and confinement in concentra­ League of B'nai B'rith resolved to counteract the Council of Churches, where he sat until 1977. tion camps and prisons from 1941 until the end of tendency, believing it to be mainly the outcome of Throughout this time, American Jews were aware of the war. Even more brazenly, last year he applied for ignorance about Jews. his antisemitic and Fascist past, but until relations the Service Cross of the Resistance, which was sent Accordingly, the ADL invited Mr. Smith and between the US and the Eastern Bloc began to im­ to his Austrian address by post. The award was based eleven other leading Baptists to spend some time in prove they could produce no convincing evidence of solely on the recipient's own citation. Israel and the result was a remarkable and swift the facts. Helped by the Chief Rabbi of Romania, In fact, Talens was attached to a resistance group change in attitudes. While still in Israel, Mr. Smith however, the Jewish organisations were eventually and in 1942 was arrested by the Gestapo while illegally declared that his widely reported earlier statement able to prove to the State Department that Trifa had transporting weapons. He was sent to Natzweiler had been badly expressed and admitted his mistake made false statements in order to obtain American camp and thence transferred to a Dachau sub-camp, in trying to shut out the Jews from a relationship citizenship and in fact his naturalisation was with­ where he was appointed a Kapo (camp guard) and with God. drawn in 1979. Trifa stubbornly defended himself put in charge of three barracks containing about a The effect on the Baptist leader has proved last­ and it was not until October of tliis year that the US thousand Polish and Hungarian Jewish prisoners. It ing. He has made friends with a number of Jews and Justice Department ordered his deportation. This was there that the alleged crimes were committed, is a committed supporter of Israel's rights. In a was the first result of a tougher policy towards war but the fact that virtually no other Dutchmen were in recent article published in the ADL Bulletin, Mr. criminals inaugurated by the Reagan administration the camp at the time meant that reports were scattered Smith described a visit to the Soviet Union and his and 210 other suspects are currentiy being investigated and slow to emerge. attempts to contact the Jewish community in Moscow, by the Justice Department. It was only when Albert Talens left Austria to as well as his discussions with Soviet officials on the revisit the Netherlands that the Dutch authorities problem of antisemitism in the USSR. He concluded were informed of his movements and could make an by coupling Baptists and Jews as the champions of VENEZUELA ATTACK arrest on his arrival. religious freedom: each of us, he declared, should Support for the PLO in the Venezuelan town of defend the right to worship God according to the Maracaibo was demonstrated when busloads of SOVIET UNION dictates of a person's own heart. students from the local technical university violently Intimidation of Jewish Visitors attacked the Jewish communal centre. Stones were SOUTH TYROL FACTORY BURNT thrown, windows smashed, PLO slogans sprayed on Western visitors seeking to contact refuseniks walls and floors, while propaganda leaflets were have been attacked both physically and verbally in When fire broke out in a Jewish-owned factory in a South Tyrol village near Bozen, firemen found scattered. A kindergarten class was hidden for safety the Soviet Union. The official daily paper "Izvestia" in a synagogue during the assault. Afterwards recently carried an article entitled "Uninvited antisemitic slogans and swastikas sprayed in red paint on the outer walls. The factory was severely members of the community toured the town tearing Guests" and attacking Soviet Jewry campaigners, down antisemitic posters. Security has been tightened evidently in the hope of deterring Jews from receiv­ damaged in the fire. Some time ago, one of the brothers owning the firm was kidnapped and the at the communal centre: armed police have been put ing foreign visitors. As well as harassment by airport on guard and parents have organised a security rota police and KGB on entry into the country, a number ransom paid for his release is beheved to have amounted to £500,000. of attendance during school hours. In Colombia and of campaigners have been physically threatened, Costa Rica, too, antisemitic incidents have occurred apparently by common-or-garden thugs, and in at and the same posters have been found all over South least one case actually beaten up. Significantly, America. incidents of mistreatment of foreigners are in­ variably directed against Jews. Although older men, like the ailing Professor COMPUTER AIDS FRENCH Alexander Lerner, have been intimidated into rejec­ COUNTER-TERRORISM ting contact with foreign visitors, a more defiant In the struggle against terrorism in France, new attitude is found amongst younger refuseniks. Boris methods of protection include the computer listing Gulko, a chess grandmaster, has been particularly AN*;,, of 60,000 suspected terrorists and reinforcement of active in his protest. Soon after winning the Soviet security at synagogues throughout the country. The chess championship in 1977, he applied for permis­ 182com Minister for Public Safety confirmed that he had sion to emigrate to Israel. This was refused and he proof of links between the outlawed extremist group was barred from entering Soviet chess competitions. Action Directe and Palestinian terrorists. Three More recently, he was arrested when he took the [SOPOIVJ alleged members of Action Directe, arrested by the opportunity of a public chess tournament to wave a French police, have disclaimed any connection with banner demanding the right to an exit visa. Now he the organisation and have written to the left-wing has begun a fast as a protest against the Soviet "Le Matin" condemning the attack on the restaurant authorities' refusal to allow him to emigrate. When Fights Rust in the rue des Rosiers last August. Jewish chess players decided to visit his flat and there Newly developed. Zinc compounds stage a chess tournament as a gesture of solidarity, are some of the finest rust inhibitors.The SOUTH AMERICAN HIDE-OUT SOUGHT they found his doorway blocked by militiamen who synthetic resin base forms a tough skin, In addition to Klaus Barbie and Josef Mengele, tumed the visitors away. which seals the surface from moisture. ten war criminals at present living in South America From all good hardware and accessory stores. are being sought by the West German Government JAPAN'S AUSCHWITZ MEMOIUAL Free literature from David's ISOPON, FREEPOST with a view to extradition. The most prominent of Hiroshima will shortly have a Memorial Hall in Northway House, London N20 9BR. these men is Aribert Heim, accused of criminal commemoration of the victims of Auschwiz. The experimentation at Dachau and other camps. Until State Museum on the site of the former concentra­ 19(52, Dr. Heim was living in Baden-Baden, but tion camp has offered its support by lending iSsSSH'JJ'L'imysteriousl y disappeared just as he was about to be material illustrating the history of Auschwitz. arrested. AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1982 Pages

SIR SIEGMUND WARBURG The foimder of the firm S. G. Warburg, 80-year- FAREWELL TO ANNA FREUD old Sir Siegmund Warburg died recently. Born in Germany and educated at Reutlingen and Urach, from 1930 to 1938 Sir Siegmund was a partner in the tion of classical antiquities, his consulting room with Hamburg firm of M. M. Warburg and Co. Having We mourn the death of Anna Freud who passed escaped to Britain, in 1946 he founded the London away last month. Arma, the youngest of Sigmund the famous couch, just as it was in their flat in Vienna, firm of S. G. Warburg and built it up from nothing Freud's six children, was closest to him as his com­ but so much more beautiful in the leafy setting of to a position of power both in the City and overseas. panion, secretary, nurse and interpreter of his Hampstead. This contributed so much to the aUevia- He was knighted in 1966. Following the Six Day War psychoanalytical, clinical and psychological studies. tion of Freud's painful illness. in 1967, Sir Siegmund was among the businessmen As an analyst and child psychiatrist she gained fame In 1%9 the Vieima Sigmund Freud Society was consulted by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol on the in her own right during the years she shared with her founded, and one of its aims was the acquisition of economic problems facing Israel and he did much to father in Vienna, and even more so during her years Freud's flat in Bergstrasse 19, and its restoration to help Israel in those critical years. He was a founder and Honorary Chairman of Self Aid of Refugees. in England where father and daughter found refuge how it was when the Freud family occupied it. The in 1938. Sigmund called her his Antigone, signi­ writer was asked at the time to approach Anna ficantly—Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus Freud with the suggestion that Freud's collection, BARON ALAIN DE ROTHSCHILD who accompanied her blind father into exile. It is his fumiture and the by now proverbial couch Former president of the Central Consistory of French Jews, Baron Alain de Rothschild has died in one of Aima Freud's greatest merits that she helped should be retumed to Vienna. To my great relief New York at the age of 72. President of the Discount to alleviate her father's last painful years of illness, (and surely that of most of Freud's colleagues, and Bank of France and Vice-President of the Banque established a congenial and delightful home for him particularly his fellow Jews who had found refuge in Rothschild, he was always an influential figure in the in Hampstead, and thus succeeded in making the Englemd) Aima absolutely declined, and when news­ French Jewish community and was its chairman. great man's last year one of the happiest of his old papers in Austria and here in London reported con­ age. This is not the place to evaluate Anna Freud's trary ramours, she wrote to me: PROF. HANS GRUENEBERG merits in scientific and medical fields—thisha s been "I do wish that the Viennese would not make so done on many occasions during her lifetime, and much undignified noise now and print the most Professor Hans Griineberg, died recently at the was remembered recently in obituaries. untme items. I must say that I preferred the quiet age of 75. He was Professor of Genetics at University and neglect that preceded it. I am glad you College London from 1956 to 1974, though he con­ understand." tinued to work in College until a few days before his death. He had been invited to work at UCL by J. B. ZO. MARESFIELD GARDENS. VIEWS MELLOWED S. Haldane. During World War II, he served in the LONDON. NW3 SSX. RAMC. He was bom in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, studied 01.439 zooz. Her views on the Vieima events later mellowed— medicine in Bonn and biology in Berlin, at the Kaiser- 3rd February, 1982. she accepted Viennese honours bestowed on her, Wilhehn Institute, and came to England as a refugee attended a Psychoanalytic Congress in Vienna, from the Nazi regime. His study of pathological pro­ Mr W Rosenstock, assisted the establishment of the Sigmund Freud AJR., cesses in mutant mice bridged the gap between 8 Fairfax Mansions, House Museum by the loan of some of Freud's embryology and genetics and established the subject London NW3 6LA antiquities, and provided photographs and docu­ of developmental genetics (together with C. H. ments for reproductions. The original fumiture has Dear Mr RosensCock, Waddington), who was working at Cambridge. been restored to the flat's entrance hall—but the Gruneberg's clarification of inherited syndromes in Thank you very much for sending me the ad­ famous couch is represented only by a "life size" vance copy of your Journal, with the reference mice provided an early and significant model for to my Frankfurt doctorate. photograph. The London Freud House in Mares­ human disease, and the Medical Research Council field Gardens, however, remains intact. As she Many thanks also for your congratulations. supported his work for many years. He was also a I can only say that I always read your paper with wrote home towards the end of 1979: pioneer in the development of the house mouse as a great Interest and find It very informative. "As regards your question about the future of my laboratory animal, heralding its use in cancer and Yours sincerely. father's library, antique collection etc, this is not tissue rejection research. His monumental 'Genetics difficult to answer. Fortunately enough, an of the Mouse' was influential in laboratories around American foundation is ready to acquire my ^/^••i^o>/^nt*-nV the world. He was known for his single-mindedness house here either before or after my death and keep and thoroughness. Prof. Griineberg was a long­ my father's rooms intact as a Freud Museum. I standing member of the AJR. am very happy about that solution." Anna was a most approachable kindly f)erson of High honours were bestowed on her, amongst great personal charm, as all will confirm who had DR. PAUL GOLDSCHEIDER which she valued greatly the Certificate of Honour the privilege of visiting her here. Future visitors to We have learned with regret that Dr. Paul Goldscheider, who for many years was closely of the Hebrew University, the honorary doctorate of Maresfield Gardens, once it is opened to the public, the University of Vienna, the Goethe Medal of the associated with the work of Otto Schiff House and will miss her lively warm personality, but will feel Osmond House, died suddenly on 4 November, City of Frankfurt, granted to her 50 years after her that the house preserves the tradition of a great man father had received it, and Frankfurt University's shortly before his 80th birthday. An obituary will and his daughter, proud as Jews, and proud as appear in the next issue. honorary doctorate. Britain granted her many refugees who found a home here and owed their lives academic honours, but she valued particularly her appointment as CBE in 1%7, a recognition that her to the refuge granted by this country. It is therefore years in England were the most fruitful of her life. natural that she became a member of the AJR. Only last Febmary she wrote to this paper's editor: "I can ROOMS IN N.W.6 As founder of the Hampstead War Nurseries, she Near Urtderground Stathn artd buses. gave shelter to many children whose family life had only say that I always read your paper with great been disturbed by war time conditions, amongst interest and find it informative.'' Rooms irKlusive of Breakfast arid 3 course them many refugee children who had come to ARNOLD HORWELL Dinner from £8 datty per person. Also weekly England shortly before the outbreak of war and rates whom she helped to overcome problems caused by their traumatic experiences. After the war she CHARLOTTE RESTAURANT founded with her colleague, Dorothy Burbage, the 221 West End Lane, N.W.6. Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic which Telephone 01-794 6476 Near West Hampstead Underground Station still actively engaged her almost to the time of her EDITH & PAUL GEHEEB death. Where you can eat a meat for £1. Oraskfora In our obituary notice of Edith Geheeb in our three course lunch or dirtner for £1.50. Her home in Maresfield Gardens carefully pre­ August issue, we should have made it clear that it Breakfast from 7.30a.m. served Freud's surroundings and was lovingly tended was Edith's husband Paul who actually founded the And a la carte urrtS late evenihg. by Anna, exactly as the old man would have liked it Odenwaldschule, as well as the Ecole d'Humanite, kept. Here are his books, his manuscripts, his collec­ though she was his closest collaborator. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1982 Robert Weltsch for the Jews. Napoleon's armies had brought the ideas of the French Revolution to the reactionary countries of Central and Eastem Europe (the Rights of Man and the Liberty of the Individual). The political setback caused by the Romantic SOME THOUGHTS ON GENOCIDE Movement put an end to this progress and pro­ hibited or at least delayed the effective emancipation of the Jews in the "VormSrz" period, the time between 1815 and the German Revolution of March 1848. It sowed the seeds for a development which, more than a hundred years By definition, the population of countries of the murder of the Jews is there no doubt — it is later, culminated in the events which the British immigration such as the United States has for quite unambiguous. A special chapter of the book historian Hugh Trevor-Roper in a recent "Times" centuries consisted of people driven from their (ch. 7, pp 120-137) is devoted to this catastrophe. article called "the most gruesome and lurid events own countries by economic deprivation or by In the Far East, in connection with the Vietnam of the era of the Second World War, so dreadful political oppression. It therefore contained vastly war, it is not always easy to distinguish between and unimaginable that nobody thought them different ethnic groups which were supposed to be the victims of military action and those of possible until they had actually happened. In the changed into a new type of human being in the common murder, but the number of dead and of beginning, nobody, not even the Jews in Western melting-pot. This at least was the hope expressed helpless and unprotected refugees is certainly countries, could believe it when the first news, such exactly two centuries ago by the French writer Jean considerable. as the reports of Richard Lichtheim in Geneva, de Crevecoeur in his book "Letters from an Special credit for the official denunciation of reached the West." He repeats that it was un­ American Farmer"*". Alas, his expectations have genocide as a crime is due to one man, Raphael believable until it really happened and taught us not been realised. To this day, the various ethnic Lemkin who, writing about events in Nazi- that human beings or rather inhuman beings are groups have persisted in following their own par­ occupied Europe, not only described the manifest capable of everything. ticular ways of life, even though they are no instances of genocide, but who also proceeded to longer exposed to persecution. Even the Negroes give a definition of its characteristic manifesta­ now enjoy full equality of rights and often posi­ tions. A large part of his argument was used as CONFLICTING FORCES tive discrimination. the basis for the "Genocide Convention" of the In an endeavour to make this terrible realisation In the old nation-states of Europe, the problem United Nations in 1948. At the time. Sir Hartley plausible, Jewish mythology and mysticism refer of minorities has been dealt with in a very Shawcross, in 1945 one of the British Counsels for to the "second" history of the creation of the different way. This was mainly due to the disinte­ the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trial of the world. In "Bereshit", Genesis, 2.7, which gration of the three major multi-national empires leading Nazis, remarked that it was a fallacy to describes the creation of the first two human (Austria, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire — think that the adoption of a convention would beings, the Hebrew word vayitzer "he formed" Turkey) after the Great War, but it also applies to lessen the danger of a repetition. It was left to the (physical man) is written with two letters yod. the new states evolving from decolonisation after signatories to apply this kind of pseudo-legisla­ This is a hidden reference to the fact that man has the Second World War. The League of Nation's tion. As a matter of fact, even the text of the two driving forces or impulses (Yetzarim) in his Treaties for the Protection of Minorities were Convention, as quoted in Kuper's book, is not heart, the forces of good and evil which are in largely disregarded. The illusion of "national particularly confidence-inspiring. Whereas the constant conflict with each other. Without the autonomy" in the Baltic countries was short­ theory of genocide had been extensively discussed force of evil, Man, as created by God, would have lived, and many of the new rulers saw the physical in the UN assembly, the outcome was a mere non­ been incomplete. As it is, Man has a choice: it is annihilation of ethnic minorities as their only committal exercise in rhetoric. left to him to decide which force should prevail. If means of achieving a national identity. This latter it is the force of evil, personified in the mythical method which reached a horrible climax in the figure of Satan (later to be found in the intro­ Nazis' organised mass-murder of the Jewish PALERMO, PARIS, CHIOS duction to the book of Job and in the Prologue of population, is described by the South African Leo It does not always carry conviction if a bloody Goethe's "Faust"), that prevails, then the whole Kuper in his book "Genocide"'^'. massacre is called "genocide". In Europe, there of humanity as well as the angels will be have been two historical cases of group massacre condemned to sin and annihilation as described in which have always been remembered as typical Genesis, ch.6, where the creator decides to SIX MILLION KILLED instances, but which, unlike the well-planned and Reviewing the relevant events in the 20th destroy the entire species (by the Flood) in order organised murder of the Jews by the Nazis, were to make room for a new and better world. century, he gives the probable figures usually not intended to annihilate an ethnic group, but quoted in publications, though obviously they However, even in the heart of the new man both rather, for political and religious reasons, to forces continue to wrestle with each other, and cannot be expected to be correct to the last digit. eliminate a particular minority. One of them is the According to the generally accepted round therefore there is no limit to temptation and revolt of the Sicilians against detested French rule Man's succumbing to it. This is amply figures, some six million Jews were murdered which on 30 March 1282 led to the kilhng of all during the twelve years of Nazi rule. Equally, a demonstrated in the later chapers of the Bible, French people in Palermo — the infamous and, of course, throughout human history. non-specified estimate gives the number of people "Sicilian Vespers". Even better known is the killed in the USSR between 1919 and 1930 as 20 carnage of the Huguenots by the Catholic For this reason, the devil — Satan, Lucifer — is million. Kuper's macabre list begins with the majority on 24th August 1572 — the St. Bartholo­ as necessary as God himself for the imagination of massacre of the Armenians in 1915 recorded for mew massacre. Centuries later, these events sup­ primitive people trying to find an explanation of posterity in Franz Werfel's novel "The Forty plied the plots for two famous romantic operas, the world. In one form or another, he appears in Days of Musa Dagh" (1932), a book which relied Verdi's "I Vespri Sicilian!" (1855) and the even the legends and sagas of all peoples, as he does in on information supplied by the humane more widely known "Les Huguenots" by Meyer­ the medieval mystery plays: a symbol of man's Protestant minister Lepsius and which uncannily beer (1836). However, the Huguenots were not growing awareness of the enigmas and mysteries anticipated the future fate of the German Jews. eliminated. Their expulsion from France in the that face mankind as a challenge to recognise the Kuper proceeds to describe the chaotic killings sixteenth century benefited Germany, which gavt- significance of its duty to share in the shaping of in the former Belgian Congo during the troubles them asylum just as the expulsion of the Jews the destiny of the world. from Spain at the end of the fifteenth century (1) A new edition of this book appeared in 1904 with an extensive which led to the death of Dag HammarskjOld, introduction by the German-Ainerican writer Ludwig Lewisohn, who was General Secretary of the United Nations, and the contributed to the prosperity of the Netherlands then a professor at an American university, and who described in his auto­ biography "Against the Current" the anlisemitic altaclts he had to face extermination of the Ibo in Nigeria in the Sixties. and was of considerable benefit to Britain as well and his conversion to Zionism, which was stimulated by his meeting with as the city of Hamburg and the countries of the Kurt Blumenfeld. He estimates that three million became victims of Another re-issue has just been brought out in the Penguin American genocide in Bangladesh in 1971. These are Eastern Mediterranean. Library series with an introduction by Albert E. Stone: 1981, 491 pp. £2.50. gruesome statistics, yet they do not even include One of the sources of the German Romantic'" (2) Leo Kuper, Genocide. Penguin Booits 1981. 255 pp with biblio­ the victims of war, though it is not always possible graphy and documents. £2.95. movement was the reactionary f)olitics of the various (3) Hugh Honour, Romanticism. Pelican Books (Penguin) 1981. 415 pp, to draw an exact dividing line. Only in the case of German states - a fact which was to prove disastrous 210 Illustrations. £5.95. AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1982 Page 7 ONE LAW FOR WAR CRIMINALS Former SS man Emst Heinrichsohn was released from prison in June last by a decision of the Ober- GERMAN CITIES landesgericht Bamberg. He was condemned in Febmary 1980 to six years' imprisonment for his part in the deportation of 73,000 French Jews to Auschwitz, but the 18 months he had spent in an NEWS FROM BERLIN DEDICATION IN AUGSBURG Through the efforts of Senator JuUus Spokojny, Allied denazification camp was deducted from his KadeWe 75th Anniversary president of the Augsburg Jewish community, the sentence. The Bamberg court declared that Hein- city has made itself responsible for the upkeep of the richson had served two-thirds of his sentence, was The KadeWe department store in West Berlin will imfit to bear prison life and that, moreover, accord­ be 75 years old this year. It was founded in 1907 by Jewish cemetery in Haunstetter-Strasse. The com­ munity is now so small that it cannot undertake the ing to a pronouncement by a senior Hamburg court, Kommerzienrat Adolf Jandorf (Hengstfeld/Wurt- he was eligible for release. The Oberlandesgericht of temberg 1870—Berlin 1932). In 1926 it was absorbed necessary maintenance work, but Senator Spokojny mustered support from the SPD and other members Hamburg some time ago created a precedent by by the Hermann Tietz company, which, since its of Augsburg Town Council and as a result the deciding that those who had carried out crimes 'aryanisation' is still owned by the Hertie company. gardens have been tidied and replanted, partly in the prescribed by the state itself need serve only half of E.G.L. framework of a youth employment scheme. At a their sentence—an obvious ploy to minimise Nazi crimes and to establish special conditions for the 300th Anniversary ceremony this autumn, attended by community leaders, naturally including Senator Spokojny, the criminals. The 300th anniversary of the Friedrichs-Werdersche Mayor of Augsburg, members of parliament and Gymnasium was recently celebrated in the Georg church dignitaries, a wall tablet and a new fountain Herwegh Hochschule in Berlin, the latter being the were formally dedicated to the memory of Augsburg's FORMER WAFFEN-SS GIVE traditional successor of the former. The invitation to Jewish victims. "PUBLIC SERVICE" the celebration pointed out that the Friedrichs- Werdersche Gymnasium was closed in 1935 not only HAMELN WELCOMES FORMER CITIZENS When an SPD delegate to the Baden-Wilrttemberg "Hamelin town's in Brunswick Landtag made a trial entry among his tax-deductible because the number of pupils had fallen, but 'prob­ expenses relating to a payment to the "Old Com­ ably because of the very high proportion of Jewish By famous Hanover city; The River Weser, deep and wide. rades Association of the First Armoured Corps of pupils'. The address was given by the young historian Washes its walls on the southern side. . " the Former Waffen-SS, Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler", from die Free University, Dr. FeUx Escher, grandson Browning's words are so familiar to English people he was at once assured that the deduction was allow­ of the joumalist and man of letters Karl Escher (1865- that Hameln must be one of the few German towns able under a decision of the Stuttgart Finance Office, 1972) who was, until 1933, features editor of the whose geography is perfectly clear to them and the since the organisation was considered as serving the Berliner Morgenpost, and was later active in the Mayor and Corporation are old, if not altogether public interest. In the subsequent political storm, a Jewish press, and after the war on the radio. respected, friends. But today's Mayor and Corpora­ spokesman for the Finance Ministry tried to defend tion showed themselves in quite a different guise the decision by saying that the Association had Mendelssohn Book from their forebears by welcoming to the city 17 dropped the words "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler" former citizens from Israel, Australia, Holland, the when applying for consideration as a charity helping Originally published in East BerUn, Heinz Knob- World War II victims; it was quickly pointed out, loch's "Herr Moses in Berlin—Auf den Spuren eines United States and Switzerland. Official receptions, excursions round the town and on the river, a con­ however, that officials should equally have been put Menschenfreundes" has just appeared in a West cert and, perhaps most movingly, a gathering of on guard by the words "Waffen-SS". The Finance Berlin edition (Verlag Arsenal fur Kultur und Politik, former pupils of the Viktoria-Luise School, all Office has been required to submit a report on the Berlin 10). It is a depiction of Moses Mendelssohn in expressed the hospitable spirit of present times. The matter. the framework of his life in Berlin. local museum mounted an exhibition entitled E.G.L. "Juden in Hameln" including the very first docu­ ment, dated 1277, in which the presence of Jews in Volkshochschule the town was noted. So that when the Pied Piper The Judische Volkshochschule in Berlin has recently arrived in 1284, he would have found Jews aheady celebrated its 20th anniversary. It was conceived as a established in Hameln. . .. Remember successor to the Freie Judische Volkshochschule (founded in 1919 and inspired by Dr. Bmno Kirschner) GAILINGEN, FORMER JEWISH VILLAGE Israel but at first there was considerable doubt whether it would ever be successful. Over the years the JVHS A comprehensive documentation of the South has expanded its activities and now organises educa­ Baden Jewish community of Gailingen, compiled by So Israel may remember you tional trips for its students to Israel and elsewhere; it Eckhardt Friedrich and Dr. Dagmar Schmieder- has also opened its doors to non-Jewish students Friedrich, has just been published ("Materialien zur If you wish Israel and Jewish who wish to take part in some of the Volkshochschule's Geschichte der jiidischen Gemeinde Gailingen aus Organisations to benefit by your courses. ihrer Bliitezeit und den Jahren der gewaltsamen Will, why not consult us? DANCER'S ARCHIVE AuflOsung", Arbeitskreis filr Regionalgeschichte e.V., Konstanz, 1981-82). Gailingen, which between The executors of the late Valeska Gert, a noted We have a special knowledge of cabaret artiste and dancer, have presented her col­ 1852 and 1875 had a population of some 2,000, was the problems and needs of lection of photographs, autographs and other unusual in having more Jewish than non-Jewish in­ material to the Akademie fur Kiinste, Berlin. A habitants, and between 1870 and 1884 had a Jewish Jewish Clients, and can help you Valeska Gert Archive will be set up to house and mayor in the merchant Leopold Guggenheim. There or your Solicitor to carry out your maintain these important documents of theatrical were still 400 Jews in Gailingen in 1932. The Society history. for the Maintenance of the Gailingen Cemetery meets intentions. before the High Holydays, and this year Rabbi NEW AGREEMENT Yehuda Bohrer was present. He is a son of Rabbi For further information and In West Berlin, a formal agreement has been entered into between the Senate and the Jewish Mordechai Bohrer, the last rabbi. advice, without obligation and Community, clearly setting out the financialsuppor t E.G.L. free of charge, please apply to: to be given to Berlin's Jewish community, covering pensions and security measures. A regular subsidy FUERTH HONOURS "GERMAN KORCZAK" has also been fixed. The new agreement is supple­ Fiirth, in the neighbourhood of Nuremberg, Mr H. Rothman (Director) mentary to those of 1971 and 1974. recently renamed its Julienstrasse, where the town's K.K.L. Executor & Trustee Co. Ltd. synagogue is situated, as Hallemann-Strasse. Dr. Isaak VANDAL CAUGHT IN GIESSEN Hallemann was the head of the Jewish orphanage in Harold Potter House, Police in Giessen have been successful in finding Furth during the Nazi period and, although he might Kingsbury Circle, the perpetrator of cemetery vandalism. A 22-year-old have emigrated, chose to stay with the remaining student, arrested after damaging 68 tombstones in a children in his care until they were dejwrted in 1942 London, NW9 98P. Giessen cemetery, admitted responsibility for sw to Iczbika. Like Janusz Korczak, Dr. Hallemann Telephone: 01-204 9911, Ext: 36 other desecrations earlier in the year. He had attacked was murdered with all his charges in the gas Christian and Jewish graves alike. chambers. Pages AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1982 NEO-PAGANISM REVIVES IN GERMANY "believer" and an uncompromising racist; a INDOCTRINATION METHODS ON TV Alongside the basic thuggery of many extremist dozen years later he wrote, "We are persecuted When author Heinz Kissel saw the "Holocaust" groups in West Germany, there has appeared for the sake of our belief". He went on, "It is a television programmes in 1979, he felt that they left a another feature of National Socialism: the neo- heady feeling to know-to know at last that it is to gap; they said little of the way in which Nationa' paganism and semi-occultism fostered in the us that the great secrets of the world have been en- Socialist propaganda was organised nor of its effects, party's early days. Only a year or so ago, a group trbsted for thousands of years; not to the particularly on young people. He has now produced of men met in the Teutoburger Forest to kindle a Egyptians, the Jews, the Babylonians, nor yet to a four-part TV film "Blut und Ehre", shown on flame in a bronze basin and to open their Thing the Greeks or Tibetans or Chinese, but to us, the German screens recently, which supplements by the striking of a hammer on the ground. The Aryan-Germanic people! . . . Our confession of "Holocaust" by tracing the history of three meeting was described by "Die Gylfiliten", a faith is to a passionate racism...." families: the MOnkmanns, the Kuhns and most paper published by the neo-Germanic sects: "By especially the Kellers. Hartmut Keller, the son of a the blazing firelight. Brother Wali reminded those convinced Social Democrat who nevertheless joins I present that every man who falls in battle shall the NSDAP for self-protection, becomes a Hitler RIGHT-WING RISE AFTER DECLINE Youth and indirectly sends his father to prison and attain Valhalla. So, according to our religious After decreasing in numbers until 1979, registered convictions, Adolf Hitler too will have achieved finally to death on the Western Front. His friend membership of right-wing groups in West Germany Hans MOnkmann, on the other hand, the son of a his splendid place at Odin's Feast of Heroes. has now risen to about 20,000. In 1954, however, the Thereupon Brother Wali pronounced him fervent Nazi, hopes to make his career in the Party number was 76,000, falling to a low of 17,000 three until his mother is found to have a Jewish ancestor. blessed: Adolf Hitler, who unremittingly annihi­ years ago. By contrast, the figures for militant neo- lated the enemies of the Third Reich." The Jewish couple Kuhn are shown losing their Nazis are more than treble the 1975 total of 400. In possessions, insulted by Hartmut Keller and forced the past four years, 747 neo-Nazis activists have to send their son into emigration. They themselves been tried and sentenced, while nearly 200 right- have left it too late to escape from Germany. SEEDS OF RACLUJSM wing extremists are currently under investigation or Last year. Pastor Friedrich-Wilhelm Haack of awaiting trial. Reporting these statistics, the Bonn Another series to be screened by Silddeutscher Munich published his book "Wotans Wieder- government also confinned that German extremists Rundfunk Stuttgart is a I3-part presentation of kehr—Blut-Boden- und Rasse-Religion". A of both left and right persuasions have received Europe under the Swastika, showing life in various student of neo-pagan sects. Pastor Haack drew training in PLO camps in the Lebanon. cities at different times throughout the 12-year attention to the rebirth of such groups as The Bavarian authorities have announced that in the Reich. The first, appearing this month, is "Berlin "Armanen-Orden", "Artgemeinschaft" and past year 31 right-wing and 140 left-wing extremist 1936" and includes film on the Olympics. "Gesamtdeutscher Rat fUr Biopolitik", which groups were registered in Bavaria, with respective attract young people and are all deeply imbued memberships of 4,000 and 11,000. There were five NAZI RECORDINGS AT ARMY ACADEMY with racism, basing their views on the Nazi race bomb attacks in the firstseve n months of 1982, com­ The summer night at the West German Military ideologist Hans F. K. GUnther. Although it might pared with five over the whole of 1981. Right and Academy in Hamburg resounded to Nazi songs appear that "Neo-pagan" ideas are too muddled left-wingers sentenced to community service and speeches as two cadets and another man and childish to present any real danger. Pastor numbered about 48 and 194 respectively. played Hitler and Goering speeches on a full-blast Haack is seriously concerned that the sects will In a New Year message to the West German record-player, interspersed with the firing of prove a hot-bed of racism. Jewish community. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt blank cartridges and flares from a balcony. Even Manfred Roeder, the lawyer sentenced to spoke of his concem at right-wing and racist activities Investigation by the academy authorities showed 13 years' imprisonment as ringleader and propa­ in the Federal Republic. He declared that the German that a student party had been taking place. The gandist of a right-wing extremist and ultimately people had leamed from the past but they must not two cadets have been disciplined, but the third murderous group, began with a declaration of be jdlowed to forget the crimes and suffering arising person did not come under Army jurisdiction and faith: in the early 60's he described himself as a from their past. has not been punished.

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From Bad Kissingen to Kassel, from tion", complained Walter Zadek from Berlin, now recorded interviews, but reads like the script of a Bechhoven to Berlin, the net is cast. The work, based living In Israel, to a colleague. The book in question James Bond thriller, with Soviet and Nazi agents all on a dissertation of 1974, went to press in 1980; was eventually published as a Rowohit paperback: over Prague, refugees changing their political allegiance therefore some of the newer studies indirectly con­ "Sie flohen vor dem Hakenkreuz—Selbstzeugnisse der openly or secretly, friends turning into blackmailers, nected with the Synagogue, such as this reviewer's Emigranten", (S.1.1Q plus postage) but Zadek also gave and at the end a breath-taking escape across the Vision of the Temple (London, 1979) or T. A. it the sub-heading "Ein Lesebuch fiir Deutsche", which border with false passports. Busink's important volumes on the Temple of Jem­ may have raised a good many eyebrows in Germany But to be fair: there are also a few excellent contri­ salem (Leiden, 1970 & 1980), were not considered. because of its moralizing undertone. butions, unspoilt by the tape-recorder and arbitrary This is regrettable because the Temple tradition Zadek's basic idea to let German refugees tell their editing, in Zadek's book. One of the shortest and best- stories in their own words was not bad, but he (or the written is Stefan Heym's piece about the joys and plays an important part in synagogue development. publishers) made this anthology, which might have snags of writing in two languages. He emigrated to The great merit of the book is its wide coverage, been a document of historical importance, into a America where he wrote his first novel in English and dealing with small as well as monumental synagogues. jumble of personal reminiscences, argumentative returned to East Germany in 1952, where he still writes However, this very fact makes it more of a gazetteer essays, plaintive verses and—often irrelevant—anec­ in that language as well as in his native German (the than a history of architectural events. dotes. Worst of all, many of the fifty-odd contributions Marchensprache, as he calls it). His famous "King Hammer-Schenk is at his best when dealing with were not written by the narrators themselves, but David Report", that splendid and subtle satire on the the nineteenth century and the Neo-Romanesque as spoken into the editor's tape-recorder and modified by Stalinist personality cult, was first written in English, the paramount style in synagogue building. However, him, sometimes with curious results. modelled on the King James version of the Bible, and we cannot quite agree with him when he stresses the Peter Mendelssohn (as he then was), for instance, then rendered in German, with touches of Luther's importance of antisemitism as a potent element in recalls his "first experience in exile": although having language. It was a great success in the English-speaking only one non-Aryan grandfather and being therefore countries—and banned in the GDR. Ever since, he has Jewish architectural planning. It is difficult today to "a one-quarter Aryan" (sic), he would not have been been harassed by the apparatchiks. appreciate the optimism characteristic of German forced to emigrate, but he went to Austria, met Hilde There are also a few good poems; some were, sur­ Jewish communities in the past and their pride in Spiel, and wanted to marry her. But that was not prisingly, written by the left-wing theatrical producer their citizenship. To see baptism and synagogue possible, because "the Austrians had committed them­ Erwin Piscator who ended one with the question: building as parallels seems to us to be mistaken. selves to the new German regime not to permit "What kind of a state is it that forbids the hunted to Synagogue building represents the pride of Jewish marriages between a Jewish and a fully or quarter fight for freedom?" The poet Erich Fried, however, citizens in their own religion, even if the forms are Aryan partner". When was that supposed to have been contributed a handful of personal anecdotes about the borrowed from Gentile prototypes. The Jews' posi­ the case? In 1934—four years before the Anschluss\ time when the British failed to understand us danger­ tion in Germany was also more complex than Pro­ ous "enemy aliens". Alfred H. Unger reports, under the heading "The fessor Hammer-Schenk imagines. The Jews had development of an intellectual front against the falsifi­ Altogether, this anthology, which was supposed to cation of Germany's culture by the Nazis", how he tell today's reader how we escaped and how we came friends and the Nazi movement seems not to have founded, with Hans Jose Rehfisch and Monty Jacobs, to terms with our exile, is too uneven and too badly been so inevitable as suggested by the author in this the Club 1943. In fact, such noble political aims were edited to present a reliable historical picture of the book. Although one has to respect his scholarship never claimed by the good old club; nor does this story greatest emigration of modern times. 1 had the oppor­ and the vastness of his emdition, one csmnot refrain of cause and effect sound very plausible: "When we tunity of working with Zadek for the Berliner Tageblatt from a certain feeling of uneasiness. founded the Club in 1943, we even dared to call in the years before Hitler took over; he was a first- It has to be remembered that when Weinbrenner together a public meeting in German at the Stern Hall class journalist, and his anthology shows that he still planned Karlsmhe, the Synagogue was given an in the centre of London. Refugees from all kinds of works on journalistic lines. But that just isn't good honourable place in the plan. The situation in Kassel countries were invited ... We did not even refrain enough for the serious, and often tragic, subject he was similar. With hindsight, Hammer-Schenk now from criticizing the English government. That may attempted to tackle. Much of the fault, however, knows that the German Congregations were doomed. have put us on a black list, and later we were interned seems to be Rowohlt's. To sum up: here is an impor­ tant matter still waiting to be turned into a work of But things appeared differently during the Enlighten­ lasting value. EGON LARSEN ment and its aftermath. The author seems to apologise for studying the Gattung, German Syna­ gogue, and fails to appreciate the genuine and tragic CONFOUNDS CODEMAKERS Judaeo-German symbiosis. The present situation Professor Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute with regard to these Synagogues can perhaps be illu­ has devised a means of breaking the "public key" code, hitherto believed to be invulnerable. The code, minated in the words of Thomas Mann, in connec­ invented by three American mathematicians from tion with the imagined death of Joseph, Jacob's son. Stanford University, Califomia, depends on the "Da ich aber bin, ist's immer noch besser, dass factorisation of numbers made up of 2,500 digits or Joseph dahin ist, als dass er nie gewesen ware, denn more, a task which would taken even the most so habe ich doch was mir bleibt, meinen Jammer um advanced computers over a century to carry out—or ihn". (Der Junge Joseph, Berhn 1934, p. 310). so it was believed until now. Professor Shamir, Sadness and remembrance, these are the emotions however, himself a mathematician, has found a way the book evokes. to identify the "personal primes" on which the code depends and his discovery has sown alarm in financial HELEN ROSENAU circles and among secret govermental agencies Synagogen in Deutschland, Geschichte einer Baugatlung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. By Harold Hammer-Schenk. Hans Christian Vcrlag, Hamburg throughout the world. But his only reward is $100— 1981. Pp975; rigs. 502. winnings on a bet made between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. MIT's code system, in which Professor Shamir had a hand, has yet to be broken. CAMPS INTERN MENT-P.O.W.- AERO EXPERT HEADS TECHNION FORCED LABOUR-KZ I with to buy card*, envelopes and folded poet- Newly appointed President of the Haifa Technion marked letters from all camps of both world wars. is 59-year-old Professor Josef Singer, bom in Vienna. Please send, registered mall, stating price, to: Professor Singer, a long-time member of the Tech­ 14 Roselyn Hill, London. N.WJ nion's aeronautical engineering faculty, is also PETER C. RICKEBACK chairman of Israel Aircraft Industries' research. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION DECEMBER 1982

DR. MARTIN DEUTSCHKRON DR. PAULA HEIMANN OBITUARIES It is leamed with regret that Dr. Martin Deutschkron Dr. Paula Heimann, the distinguished psycho­ (Birmingham) died on 21 October at the age of 89. analyst, died recently in London at the age of 83 Before he came to this country, he was a teacher at after fracturing her hip in Baden-Baden. She was several secondary schools in Berlin. When the Nazis HERBERT M. HIRSCH came to power he took up an appointment at the born in Danzig and studied at Koenigsberg, Heidel­ Herbert M. Hirsch died unexpectedly after a short Theodor Herzl School in BerUn-Charlottenburg. He berg and Berlin, preparing for psychiatry by study­ iltaess on 28 October in his 85th year. In Berlin arrived in England shorUy before the outbreak of ing neurology. She began psychoanalytic training in where he was born, he joined the KJV. Prior to his war, but his wife and daughter did not get out in BerUn in 1928, married Dr. Franz Heimann, but emigration he was Chairman of the Zionist Sjxjrts time. Their fate was a constant worry for him. separated from him in 1933. She emigrated to Lon­ Organisations in Germany from 1920-1938. However, after the end of hostiUties it tumed out don in 1933, having just qualified in psychoanalysis, It was only natural for a person of his background that they had survived by going into hiding. This was and was helped by Ernest Jones. After working with to associate himself with the Theodor Herzl Society only due to the courage and helpfulness of a number Melanie Klein she became a leading exponent of when "Zion House"—59 Eton Avenue—became of non-Jews, and the details of their vicissitudes are Kleinian ideas, though she broke with the Kleinian described in a book by his daughter, Inge Deutschkron, the centre of Zionist activities in Hampstead. From group in 1956. She wrote original papers on sublima­ 1955-1962 he was Chairman of Zion House, not an now a well-known writer. easy task, which he managed well due to his organising Dr. Deutschkron first worked with the Refugee tion and on the problems of transference and the and administrative abilities. He was soon elected Children's Movement and later went to Birmingham analyst's counter-transference. She contributed Chairman of the Society, which he served for a to resume his teaching activities which were widely greatly to the revival of psychoanalysis in Germany number of years with great devotion. recognised. He took an active interest in the work of after its destmction by the Nazis. She was also very He took on many duties within the organisation, the AJR and, as long as his health permitted, attended active intemationally. She is survived by a daughter including arranging the yearly Zion House Lecture the AJR Board meetings. He will be gratefully and three grandsons. Course in conjunction with the Extra-Mural Depart­ remembered by all who knew him. ment of London University. He took an interest in EVELYN MTTZMAN the affairs of the AJR and was a member of the AJR DR. WALTER STRAUCH For many years associated with B'nai B'rith, Miss Evelyn Mitzraan died recently in London. As a Board. He will be missed by his many friends and Dr. Walter Strauch recently passed away painlessly members of the Theodor Herzl Society whose func­ social worker, she was sent by the Central British in London. Born in 1894, he practised as a lawyer in Fund to the camp at Bergen-Belsen immediately tions he regularly attended with his dear wife Kate. Oppeln and emigrated to Britain in 1939. He was Our sincerest sympathy is extended to Mrs. Hirsch after the end of the Second World War. She proved and the members of her family. L.N. forced to work very hard as a labourer and in a hat herself an efficient and cheerful source of consolation factory. But in spite of his advanced age he managed and help to the survivors still living in the camp. to return to his legal profession, first in a Czech law MOISHE LEHRER office, then in the office of George Cohn, where he specialised in German social insurance claims and Moishe Lehrer, who died recently in a road ISSER TAGER the so-called "Equalisation of Burdens Law". His accident at the age of 72, was a member of an A scion of the famous Leipzig fur industry, Isser understanding of human suffering and his pleasant Antwerp family which had for generations traded in diamonds. He fled from Belgium when the Germans Tager died recently at the age of 78. He was the approach to everyone will be gratefully remembered doyen of fur dealers in Britain, where he had lived invaded in 1940 and settled with his family in Lon­ since 1935, and a founder member of the Joint Israel by all who knew him. don, where he once again involved himself in the Appeal Fur Committee. E.G. diamond community.

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LUCLVN FREUD, JOE ROSE EDITH GREENWOOD EXmBITION RABBI CURTIS E. CASSELL 70 Lucian Freud, grandson of the famous Sigmund, Edith Greenwood was bom in Frankfurt-on-Main On November 9, Rabbi Curtis E. Cassell cele­ is a well-known artist in his own right. An exhibition and received her training in art both there and in this brated his 7(hh birthday. He was bom in Oppeln and of his recent paintings has recently been shown at country where she now lives. Her work has already obtained his Rabbinical qualifications at the been shown widely here and an exhibition of her "Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentimis". Anthony d'Offay's Gallery, 23 Dering Street, Wl. During his student years, he was also active in the A book about his work by Lawrence Gowing con­ recent sculpture is being held at the Camden Art German-Jewish youth movement. In 1936, he was taining 188 illustrations has just been published by Centre, Arkwright Road, NW3 from 21 November appointed Rabbi of Frankfurt (Oder) and held this Thames & Hudson and is available at the Gallery to 12 December. The sculptress works in a variety of post during the difficult years until 1939. In this (price £18). media, alabaster, sandstone, soapstone and bronze. country, he served with the Army from 1939 to 1945. At Wyhna Wayne Fine Art, 17 Old Bond Street, A particularly attractive exhibit is carved in His first rabbinical position in Britain was the spiri­ Wl, there has recentiy been an exhibition entitled mahogany and entitled' 'The Lovers"; there are also tual leadership of the Progressive Congregation in "The Mystic Stream", comprising works by Joe a number of pieces carved in olive wood. The exhibi­ Glasgow. Three years later, in 1948, he received a Rose and Michel de Saint Ouen. Joe Rose is a Sur­ tion also includes recent photographs by Anna "call" to the prestigious West London Synagogue. Richebaecher. He stayed there until 1957, when he became Rabbi realist who has made a unique contribution to con­ of the Reform Congregation in Bulawayo. He held temporary art. He was bom in Germany in 1915 and A.B. this post for 20 years and retumed to London in 1977. was imprisoned in concentration camps before Though now in retirement, he is still active in various escaping to England where he served with the Armed fields, especially in connection with the West London Forces. He became a full-time artist in 1957 after BOASTFUL AUSTRL\N NAZI SHOT A Salzburg innkeeper who defended Nazi atrocities Synagogue. emigrating to Sydney and now divides his time and boasted of his own murders of Jews imder the Rabbi Cassell was an AJR Board member until he between Australia and London. Examples of his Hitler regime was shot dead by a television reporter went to Bulawayo and rejoined the Board after his mystical and highly evocative works cjm still be seen recently. The reporter, a non-Jewish Austrian, had return. On behalf of the AJR, as well as of his at the Gallery. been arguing with the innkeeper and the admission of numerous friends from the German-Jewish youth ALICE SCHWAB murder was apparentiy too much for his self-control. movement, now spread all over the world, we extend our sincerest congratulations to him.

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South Tyrolean Luis Trenker, "King will soon see his new work, "Thus Changed the opening of the Lorin Maazel era at the State Opera, of the Mountains", ever-vivacious and full of plans, World: a centenary of short stories" published by Quartet. It will be the 26th book from the pen of introducing the "Block" system of performances, whitehaired, suntarmed and talkative, had his 90th the 88-year-old author whose subjects have in­ i.e. only a limited amount of works during a given birthday party, surrounded by wellwishers and cluded the Austrian Anschluss, Nazi leaders, period, similar to the method prevailing at London's photographers. His many films, always with an post-war planning and children's stories. Until Covent Garden. While the classical "Burg" plays Alpine background, are revived in cinemas and on 1938 he was city editor of "Neue Freie Presse", "Egmont" (for the Goethe jubilee), as well as Ibsen's television, the most popular ones "Der Rebell" and but in March of that year he was warned by a col­ "Wild Duck" are scheduled, there is "Eins,zwei,drei" "Der Berg ruft" having received many awards and league that his name was on a death list and he left by Molnar at the Josefstadt, the fu-st revival since the attained classical status. Lent Riefenstahl, film actress the country as Hitler took over. He came to 1930 premiere when Max Pallenberg was uniquely and, above all, film producer who started as a dancer, England, where his first job was selling light bulbs brilliant in the role of the bank president who per­ discovered films during the Twenties and startled the at £1 per week. Dr. Dutch found difficulty in forms miracles at ever-increasing speed. Pallenberg evading repatriation when his visa expired: but the public with "Das blaue Licht" in 1932, has reached following year he held the important post as himself—a sad irony of fate—at the time in a great the age of 80. Although much-debated, drawn into leader of the Ministry of Information's European hurry to meet all his manifold engagements, died in the political sphere and at the height of her successes Correspondents' Department. an air crash during the following year. during the Hitler period, hers was a prominent place among film producers of our time. One of her post­ After the war, Oswald Dutch became head of war works, the opera film "Tiefland", was much ORT in Germany and responsible for the training Personalities. Johanna Hofer, widow of the acclaimed, and it is now recognized that her feeling of tens of thousands of concentration camp sur­ unforgotten Fritz Kortner, is again to be seen on for the blending of light, music and dance rhythm vivors; no less than 72 schools were established in German television. She plays a main part in a serial was highly artistic. Austria, Germany and Italy in the course of his about a miner's family at the beginning of the cen­ Obituary. It is belatedly leamed that Lilian work. tury. Margarete Schell-Noe, 76, mother of actors Harmel-Rubinstein died during the summer, aged Maria and Maximilian, gave a modem poetry reading 74. Liverpool-born, she became a successful dancer; Oswald Dutch's career has taken him to no less than 52 countries where his six-language fluency in Vienna. In Paris, 7»?o Rossi who during the Thir­ her dance-evenings in Vienna (and later in this coun­ has proved extremely helpful. Until a few years ties was one of the most popular chanson-singers in try) had a considerable following. After retirement, ago, he was a financial adviser on the Stock Ex­ Europe and was called "the second most famous she had a notable second career as a teacher of change and, despite some visual difficulties, the Corsican", celebrated 50 years in show business at a dancing. veteran journalist and author has never ceased to great Cafe de Paris entertainment. S.B. write.

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