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^- G. Loicenthal All but one of the accused are former S.S. men. The other was a so-called " Funktionshaeftling ", a former fighter of "IN AN INDEFINITE NUMBER OF CASES" the Polish underground resistance who was brought to Auschwitz as a political prisoner First Stage of the Auschwitz Trial and spent five years there as a "block Like heavy stones falling at regular The court will only sit on three days of leader"; the evidence against him is intervals the words "in an indefinite each week. Mountains of files lie behind massive. The average age of the accused number of cases " were pronounced again the judges' bench where normally the is 55, the oldest being 69, and the youngest and again at the opening of the Auschwitz Mayor and the officials of the City Council 42. Their ages at the time when the life trial in Frankfurt when the arraignment of Frankfurt sit. Because the defendants and death of tens of thousands of prisoners against the 22 accused was announced. and their counsels occupy the desks of the were in their hands can thus be calculated. This replaced the usual indictment, the Borough Councillors they give the appear­ The accused are German citizens with two 700 pages of which it would have been ance of sitting in a classroom. Nine of the exceptions, one of whom is a Brazilian and inipossible to read out. The defendants accused are brought into the Hall each the other is stateless. are accused of either having actually par­ day from the cells under police escort. Looking at their life histories, they may ticipated in mass murder or of having been The other thirteen enter the Hall unes­ be divided into three groups. The first accessories to that heinous crime. corted through the common entrance. group consists of uneducated and inarticu­ In each case the phrase " in an indefinite They are (still or again) free. Some of late workmen and small artisans, and this number of cases" was followed by a the defence counsel are older, jovial, with group comprises thirteen of the defendants detailed enumeration of the types of the experience of previous KZ trials; judging from their appearance, language crimes which were sub-divided by numbers others younger and snappish. and manners; some of them had never and letters : for some of the accused the The trial opened with the accused being learnt a trade and some had been unem­ Sruesome catalogue finished only at No. 25. questioned about their personal status, and ployed for long stretches. Six of these The reading of only the arraignment took so far everything has gone smoothly. How­ thirteen are so-called " Volksdeutsche" "lore than an hour. One could have heard ever, as an observer pointed out, the atmo­ originating from Poland, Transylvania and a pin drop in the high, bright and sphere may soon change. This trial for mass Sudetenland, while five grew up in panelled Assembly Hall of the " Roemer ", murder is officially non-political but since, German provincial surroundings. The which for the time being serves as the by its very dimensions, it deals with a second category, the merchants, comprises auditorium for this, the biggest of all KZ crime against humanity, the political aspect two of the accused ; both were aides-de­ trials. Those engaged in it as well as the may come to the fore once the accused camp to the commandants of the camp, one iiumerous members of the public and the try to exculpate themselves and bring for­ to Hoess, the other to Baer. Finally comes correspondents of the press listened to the ward their well-known excuses, wallowing the group of professionals (" Akademiker "), charges in stunned silence. One feels in self-pity about their own fate. comprising seven of the defendants: a j'eluctant to mention, even in cursory terms, physician, two dental surgeons, a pharma­ the refined cruelties in their cleverly Most Defendants at Liberty cist, an engineer, an agricultural expert thought-out perfection which were once and a " magister juris " from Lemberg ; again recalled in public—the series of After the death in prison of the last most of them come from larger cities in crimes committed against Jews of both commandant of Auschwitz, Baer, the Northern and Southern Germany. s^es and of all ages, against Poles, Russian number of the accused has been reduced Officials and prisoners-of-war, gipsies and to twenty-three. There are, however, only Past Nazi Affiliation other human beings who had been dragged twenty-two appearing in court. The The length of their connections with the yo Auschwitz. The Hesse Radio, aware of twenty-third is unable to appear with the National Socialist Party or the S.S. and the Its responsibility, made sure that the Ger- others because of infectious tuberculosis S.A., according to the official investigations, ^an public at "large—however little they and will be tried separately. Nine of the varies considerably. The accused them­ I^ight like to know about all this—heard defendants are charged with having selves are trying their utmost to evade this the voice of the Prosecutor from the actually carried out the killings ; they are issue, just as after the war they carefully Roemer". More than once the text of the ones kept in prison and escorted each avoided admitting their activities in Ausch­ Jne accusations was broadcast. Thus, and day to the trial. The remaining thirteen witz. Boger, the most heavily involved, tnanks also to the detailed reports in the are the " Schreibtischmoerder " and are at was connected with the N.S.D.A.P. longer J;'erman press, the " indefinite number of liberty, some against bails of between than any of the others, having joined its cases " will, in the long run, be imprinted DM 10,000 and 50,000, others because they youth movement as far back as 1922. It on the minds of the German people. are too ill to be imprisoned, and some even has been proved that four of the defen­ Ine trial will last for at least six months without bail at all. Their liberty strikes dants belonged to N.S. organisations prior ^?d probably longer. The interrogations one as grotesque when—admittedly with to 1933 ; six joined after 1933 and ten after rjf, • .^ defendants, the inquiry into their some embarrassment—they hang up their the outbreak of the war. positions and functions within the organi- coats and hats in the same cloakroom as We listen to a kind of language which j. "on and machinery of Auschwitz will, the lawyers and correspondents of the either represents the worst sort of jargon Jifcif, last into the spring. Only then will press. or the modes of expression of the " eternal ^ne nearly 200 witnesses, selected by the The accused should not be judged trooper" who replies monotonously with tniH ^^°"^ -^'^^^ persons who had sub- by appearances. It would be hasty and " JawoU ". Even a university-trained defen­ thl • statements, be examined, as also will wrong for the prejudiced observer to be dant mentioned how—" since he was always ne Witnesses for the defence and for the inclined to read brutality, perversion, against it"—he was " in Marsch gesetzt", tirJ, prosecutors representing the vic- cruelty, fanaticism and cynicism in their to explain that he was transferred. The }"ns or their families. After that will come faces. Only once their deeds are dealt " Akademiker " hesitate occasionally and ne pleas and counter-oleas of the public with will we know how far background, for a considerable time before they pro­ prosecutor and the defence. profession, soci,^I position or the urge to nounce their " No's ", affirm their ignorance JJ, 'lis trial, concerning as it does the be " somebody " and to dominate, plaved or disclaim any recollections before the Vf^r I °^ millions of innocent victims who their part. Outward impressions alone microphones of the court. Their denials ere destroved by an organised system of would be insufficient to characterise and sound even less convincing than those of ass slaughter, is unique in its dimensions. stigmatise these men. Continued on page 2, column 1 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION February, 1964 " IN AN INDEFINITE NUMBER DEATH OF DR. NEHEMIAH ROBINSON OF CASES" Fighter for Jewish Rights charm, which helped to surmount obstacles Continued from page 1 and to find a way where often there seemed Jewry, especially the victims of Nazi perse­ the others. However, their signatures and to be no promising approach at all. cution all over the world has suffered a His capacity for work was stupendous, his initials on the numerous documents which terrible loss by the sudden death of Dr. have been collected from many sources power of reasoning and his intellect brilliant, Nehemiah Robinson. but his great mind was matched by an equally including the Auschwitz Museum, will He was born in Kovno (Lithuania) and went undisputably identify the " Schreibtisch­ great soul. He was one to whom the burdened to New York shortly before the outbreak of heart could pour forth its sorrow; always moerder " and will prove their evasions as the Second World War. As a scholar of patent Ues. Anyone present on the first ready to listen, ever willing to help where Jewish and Secular law he enjoyed a great help was needed. This man, whose achieve­ day during the interrogation of the well- reputation. Being an expert on international dressed, mundane and distinguished-look­ ments were universally acknowledged and law, war crimes, restitution and indemnifica­ acclaimed, was the personification of human ing Mulka, formerly an officer and for tion, he was appointed Director of the several years aide-de-camp to Hoess, now kindness and modesty. Institute of Jewish Affairs of the World Jewish Somebody once said about him : " Robinson, a Hamburg export merchant and enjoying Congress and became Chief Legal Adviser to unrestricted liberty thanks to a high bail, he is a Prince ". Those who were privileged the Conference on Jewish Material Claims to have known Nehemiah Robinson and to will understand why these proceedings will Against Germany. take so long: the " indefinite number of work with him feel how significantly fitting cases" will be matched by an equally He took part in the negotiations in The that description was and they mourn deeply indefinite number of lies, which the Court Hague between the Claims Conference and the the passing away of this Jewish prince. had to anticipate when planning the trial. Federal Republic of Gennany in 1952 and in C. KAPRALIK. According to his declaration, he was only all the negotiations regarding the preparation concerned with the administrative side of of Allied, German and Austrian laws dealing the S.S. organisation, with provisions, per­ with restitution of identifiable property and PENSIONEN FUER SELBSTAEN­ sonnel and mail. Mulka — and this he indemnification for victims of Nazi persecu­ DIGE IN OESTERREICH remembers exactly — claims having once tion. been reprimanded by the Camp Com­ He combined a profound Jewish and legal Gemaess der 10. Novelle zum Gewerb­ mandant for not having reused envelopes knowledge with great personal charm. It is lichen Selbstaendigen - Pensionsver- in the prescribed manner ! But of selec­ especially tragic that he has passed away in sicherungsgesetz (BGBl. 321/1963) wer­ tions for the gas chambers, of graduated the midst of the preparation of amending den nunmehr Pensionen rueckwirkend punishments, of summary executions and laws to the German Federal Restitution and vom 1. Juli 1958 gezahlt. Antraege auf mass shootings, he states he hardly ever Indemnification Laws. When these laws are Nachzahlung muessen bis spaetestens heard anything . . . passed it will have been due to a great extent 31. Dezember 1964 gestellt werden. A saying of Goethe's comes to mind, to the untiring efforts of Dr. Nehemiah Hiemit hat die oesterreichische quoted by Professor Helmut Plessner last Robinson. Bundesregierung einem Verlangen des year during a radio broadcast entitled " Are All who had the privilege of working Committee for Jewish Claims on Austria we still the people of poets and thinkers ? ": with him will mourn the loss of a dear friend Folge geleistet. C.K. " The Germans will accept injustice and colleague. (Unrecht) rather than inefficiency (Unord­ F. GOLDSCHMIDT. nung)." Little could Goethe have foreseen CB.F.'s OVERSEAS AID that, 130 years after his death and not far Spokesman for Austrian Nazi Victiins Grants totalhng £27,000 have been allocated from the house in the Hirschgraben where by the Central British Fund to several he was born, these words of his would find The prominent part Dr. Robinson took in organisations and institutions overseas. The so gruesome a confirmation. the negotiations between the Jewish bodies " Common Fund " in France, which deals with and the Bonn Authorities since the negotia­ the maintenance, welfare and religious and tions at The Hague in 1952 until the very last communal needs of Jewish refugees, will COSIMENTS ON AUSCHWITZ TRIAL benefit by £15,000. A grant of £7,000 has been days of his life, has become part of Jewish made towards the creation of a communal Most West German newspapers have wel­ history. centre in Marseilles, with a further £7,000 to comed the proceedings in Frankfurt as another But it fell also to Dr. Robinson to take a come. A further £500 will go to the World necessary act of justice and atonement and a leading part in the much more arduous nego­ Sephardi Federation to equip classrooms of reminder to future generations never to let tiations with the Austrian Government. It is the new communal centre at Valence (France). such crimes happen again. Neo-Nazi papers, not generally understood how difiBcult and An amount of £1,500 was allocated towards however, point out that while Germans were the maintenance of the mobile medical unit being sentenced for their war-time activities, thankless that task was and how very different sent out to Ethiopia to care for the Falashas, no citizen of a foreign country was being tried from the Bonn negotiations the approach to and grants were also made to Jewish insti­ for crimes committed against members of the the Austrian Government had to be. In the tutions in Bombay, Teheran and Aden. German nation during and after the war. Some Bonn and Paris Treaties between the Western of these papers expressed the hope that the Allies and the Federal Republic and in the Auschwitz trial would at least destroy the Luxemburg Agreement concluded with the ALGERIAN JEWS FOR SCANDINAVIA " fairy tale " about the millions of dead at the Jewish bodies, Germany had assumed financial The Fonds Social Juif Unifie has issued former Nazi camp. responsibility for the misdeeds of the Nazi details of jobs offered by Denmark and Sweden The Federal Government, in an article regime. Moreover, there was under the to Jewish refugees from Algeria now living iD printed in its ofiBcial " Bulletin", conceded chancellorship of Dr. Adenauer a sincere will France. Employers have stated their willing­ that a " certain discomfort" over the unending ness to employ refugees between the ages of series of trials of Nazi war criminals could be to expiate. In Austria nobody felt that there was anything to atone for. From the Austrian 25 and 35 who are married with children. noticed among the German people. As a Temporary and, later, permanent, living result, the pubUc showed little interest in the State Treaty of 1955 the reference to Austrian accommodation will be provided and good trials before German courts. However, there responsibility, originally embodied in the wages paid. was no way but to continue these trials until draft of that Treaty, had been eliminated, thus all known criminals had been sentenced. The creating a situation in which the Austrian article stressed that the crimes concemed were Government could take the position that any no trivialities but involved murder and measures of compensation for the wrongs Gorta Radiovision robbery and must not be left unatoned. Any democratic regime was obliged to adhere to its perpetrated by the Nazis were of a purely Service principles, as far as was humanly possible, voluntary nature. despite the lapse of time and other difficulties. The first Hilfsfonds, the so-called Abgeltungs­ (Member R.T.R.A.) MEETING IN HITLER INN fonds, the delicate Bonn discussions which led 13 Frognal Parade, to the Kreuznach Agreement between Austria Finchley Road, N.W.3 Sixteen Jewish chaplains on duty with and Germany and to the creation of the United States Army and Air Force units in second Hilfsfonds, all this had to be attained SALES REPAIRS Britain, France, Germany and Turkey attended in the face of adversities not encountered in Agents for Bush, Pye, Philips, a five-day religious retreat at Berchtesgaden, Grundig, etc. Germany. The retreat was held at an inn built Germany. In those long protracted conver­ Refrigerators, WashingMacIunes Stocked by Hitler for Nazi leaders, now called the sations with Austria Dr. Robinson's negotiat­ Mr. Gort vrdl always be pleased to General Walker Hotel. It is used as a ing skill, his patience, his attention to detail advise you. recreation centre for the United States Army excelled itself. Last, but not least, it was (HAM. 8635) and has a kosher kitchen. his personality, I would say his personal AJR INFORMATION February, 1964 Page 3 HOME NEWS ANGLO-JUDAICA Gift for Research NEW YEAR HONOURS Mr. Leo Abse, M.P., also stressed Jewish guilt and apathy. If there was any lesson to be learned from the play it was not to hate An amount of £490,000 has been given by Dr. Barnett Stross, M.P. for Stoke-on-Trent, and not to concern ourselves with what other Mr. and Mrs. Terence Kennedy, of London, to is among the knights listed in the New Year people do but to examine ourselves. " Where the West London Hospital in Hammersmith, Honours, for political and pubUc services. Mr. were the Jews when I protested in Pembroke where the world's first research centre Jules Thorn, chairman and managing director about the German Panzers being brought to dedicated entirely to the fight against of Thorn Electrical Industries also becomes a Wales ? And what has the great London rheumatism and arthritis will be built. The knight. Jewry done to oppose a law that tolerates the centre, established in miniature two years ago A K.C.B. has been awarded to Sir Solly propagation of race hatred in this country ? " with the help of smaUer donations, will be Zuckerman, chief scientific adviser Ministry of asked Mr. Abse.—(J.C.) known as the Kennedy Institute of Rheumato­ Defence. Mr. Samuel Goldman, Third Secre­ logy. tary of the Treasury, receives a C.B. ARAB BOYCOTT Mr. Hans Gal is awarded the O.B.E. for Criticism of Press services to music in Scotland and Miss Nellie A deep feeling of anxiety has been left in Gertrude Levy, hon. secretary of the West political circles about the Arab boycott of Dr. Andrew Sharf, head of the Department Central Jewish Club and Settlement, receives Israel. M.P.s who raised the matter in Parlia­ of Political Science at Bar-llan University, the M.B.E. ment when Lord Mancroft resigned from the gave the World Jewish Congress (British Mrs. Dora Gaitskell, widow of the former board of the Norwich Union are turning their Section) Noah Barou memorial lecture at leader of the Labour Party, has been made a attention to the general aspects of the boycott, University College on the subject of " Nazi life peeress. She was born in Lithuania and and the Prime Minister has been closely Racialism and the British Press, 1933-1945 ". •• came to this country at the age of two. Her questioned in the Commons. He claimed that, during the entire Hitler father is Mr. L. Creditor, co-editor of the Mr. Arthur Henderson asked what steps the period and at the time when Jewish refugees ' Jewish Voice", the Yiddish weekly news- Premier was taking to co-ordinate the activities were coming into Britain from Europe, the Paper. Mrs. Gaitskell has said she will adopt of the various Government departments British press had an opportunity of presenting the title of Baroness Gaitskell. She has always affected by the official blacklisting of 49 British the Jewish refugee in sympathetic terms and regarded herself as a member of the Jewish companies by Jordan and Syria. Sir Alec explaining that he was not a danger to Britain community. agreed that the boycott was inconsistent with but, with very few exceptions, it failed to the United Nations Charter. It was deplorable do so. AWARD FOR HANS GAL and that had been made clear. Without exception they had reported In reply to a question by Mr. Julian Snow, critically and in detail on the Nazi treatment the Prime Minister said he would ask the The composer Hans Gal, who was awarded of the Jews in Europe yet, in their editorials, Foreign Secretary about consultation with many papers failed to understand the full the O.B.E., was born near Vienna. He held a other countries which might be affected by a lectureship at Vienna University from 1919 significance of the measures undertaken by boycott of companies but, so far, this had been the Nazis. till 1929 when he was appointed Director of directed against Britain. the Academy of Music at Mainz. The events of Mr. Sydney Silverman said the problem Ajex Hospital Help 1933 caused him to return to Vienna where arose out of the Arab States' contention that ne was active as a conductor. After the there was in existence a state of war with More than 2,500 people took part in the Ajex Anschluss", he emigrated to this country Israel. The Premier replied that he had Christmas Hospitals Scheme at 84 hospitals and found a warm admirer in the great musical deplored many times mixing up politics and and institutions throughout the country. This scholar Sir Donald Tovey. Gal became a lec­ economic relations. help has more than doubled since the previous turer at Edinburgh University and taught there The name of N. M. Rothschild & Sons year. Among estabUshments where non- "11 his retirement in 1957 (he was succeeded appears among the latest British firms to be Jewish staff were relieved were the London °y Hans Redlich). blacklisted by the Arab Boycott Office. Other Jewish Hospital, the Bearsted Maternity Hos­ His operas include " Die heilige Ente", British firms listed are De Beer Consolidated pital, the Home for Aged Jews and the Otto IQVQ ^^^ ^^^t performed in Duesseldorf in Mines, Scottish Machine Tools, M. Samuel & Hirsch House at Kew. i»^3 and subsequently at the Berlin Deutsches Co., Metalock (Britain) Ltd. and Lazard ypernhaus and in Prague. Of his instrumental Brothers. Sixteen foreign firms were also Called to Dublin Bar works, the "Sinfonietta" gained him thc listed. ^chubert Centenary Prize : in 1958, he was Eighty-four American firms, including some Mr. Samuel Crivon and Mr. Joshua Baker J^arded the Austrian State Prize for Music, of the country's biggest, are on the blacklists have been called to the Inner Bar of the fiis recent book on Brahms has just appeared of one or more of the Arab States, but this Supreme Court, Dublin. Both, for many years 'a an English translation ; in a very favourable fact has not affected their trade, according to actively engaged in the Dublin Jewish com­ review, Neville Cardus draws attention to the a survey just completed. Also blacklisted are munity, now assume the status of Senior Coun­ «ct that Gal had been a pupil of E. Mandy- about twenty of the most famous personaUties sel, the equivalent of the English Q.C. frf*fi who belonged to Brahms's circle of in the world of entertainment, among them Harry Belafonte, Eartha Kitt, Frank Sinatra. Henrietta Szold Award H.W.F. Elizabeth Taylor, Sammy Davis Jnr. and Danny Kaye. The Henrietta Szold Award, presented "ARE WE ALL GUILTY?" Denmark's answer to the boycott campaign annually to an outstanding personality in the is to ignore it. Firms trading with Egypt field of social service, was for 1963 awarded u^r Clifford Williams, who produced Rolf which have received a questionnaire concern­ to Miss Miriam Moses and Miss Hilda Schle­ fi^cnhuth's controversial play, "The Repre- ing their business with Israel discovered that singer. They were presented with scrolls to Wu ^^® "' ^t the Aldwych Theatre recently, their Arab business did not suffer if they mark this honour awarded by the British spnf i?^^t in a symposium on " The Repre- failed to reply. Trade statistics in Denmark Youth Aliyah Committee. entative—Conscience or Choice ", held under show that, while commercial relations with n'v,3uspices of the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Egypt have remained more or less static, Roth Collection j^ommittee. He revealed that the number of business with Israel is booming.—(J.C.) Sh=l'"^ received from Jews bv the Royal Dr. Cecil Roth, the well-known Jewish LORD MANCROFT historian and reader in Jewish Studies at shmniP^^^? Company asking that the play Oxford, is to transfer his collection of Jewish of e- -^"^ ^^ staged far exceeded the number Lord Mancroft, chairman of the board of art and antiquities to the Jewish Museum at •j-j-Z'^nlar requests received from CathoUcs. Global Tours Ltd., has accepted an invitation the Beth Tzedec Congregation in Toronto. The thp p"'"^^"^ also received a deputation from to become chairman of a new Israeli company collection, which has taken Dr. Roth 45 years thp '^."'^cil of Christians and Jews asking that which will sponsor tourism to and from Israel. to accumulate, includes nearly fifty Chanucah Cm,„^-, y should not be performed. The The company will be known as Global Tours lamps. Sabbath lamps, coins, paintings, canii'^* Y^""^ concerned that the play might Israel and is due to begin operations in the embroidery, a group of book-plates of great Wprl i!"'"*"^^ dissension at a time when efforts spring. Negotiations for the establishment Jewish interest, and many other outstanding Th u^ "^^^^ to reconcile the churches, of the Israeli branch of the Global group have objects. genp^oii ^™^ ?^ the symposium centred been going on for about a year. Lord Man- Dr. Roth will retain most of the collection luiltl%» °^u ^^t question " Are we all croft's decision to accept the chairmanship " during his lifetime " but it will eventually iSr ..^¥. ^^^- °''- I- Levy, in an of the company in Tel Aviv has nothing to do pass to the congregation which is building up "Passioned address, said that when, after the with his recent resignation from the Norwich its museum with the aim of making it a " vital thp S^-?-^^ ^°"e to Brussels to seek help from Union. centre of Jewish art ". thn<:p "l'^^ military authorities on behalf of had L "° '•\^^^ •^yi°g of disease in Belsen, he Sovpr^^ refused as^stance. " But why blame "JTm^"^e?,l^ 2°^ officers?" Dr. Lew asked. arrhrpH^y,"'"^ ^^^ .^i^ ourselves ? " When he L EDGAR ELECTRICAL itd Jewi-cK 1 ?e ^^ addressed a meeting of Anglo- of thlli^^^^f^ ^^^ was told they knew nothing CONTRACTORS and SUPPLIERS *hen ht i^"}^- ^V^ i'°w ^''"1'' they not know veiUent c^^^.?^°* ^^^^ '•sports ? " It is con- 65 MILL LANE, N W6 HAM 8000 ™e"t sometimes not to know." Page 4 AJR INFORMATION February, 1964 GERMANY AND AUSTRIA NEWS FROM ABROAD Effects of Persecution THE NORTH AMERICAN SCENE JEWRY IN THE EAST A conference of German doctors in Duessel­ dorf advocated the setting up of a documenta­ Antisemitism and Zionism Assimilation tion centre for medical reports on the physical Mr. Joseph B. Salsberg, for 12 years Com­ and psychological condition of victims of Nazi A Federal judge of the United States district munist M.P. for Toronto's garment district of persecution. This was important for future court in Washington has ruled as fair com­ St. Andrew and a former leading official of medical treatment as well as for compensa­ ment an article by columnist Jack Anderson the Canadian Communist party, stated in tion claims, it was stated. in which he stated that an attack on " political Toronto that there was a great reserve of Professor Ulrich Venzlaff, a psychiatrist of Zionist planners" was an " antisemitic resistance among Russian Jewry for the pre­ Goettingen University, said that the medical diatribe ". The case was dismissed. servation of their religion and culture. There effects of Nazi persecution were far-reaching Mr. Anderson published the article after was also a liberalising wind blowing through and persistent. The most serious cases Mr. Curtis B. Dall, a Washington investment the country. Russia's Jewish community will existed among former inmates of concentra­ banker, testified in August, 1962, before the never be assimilated, he said. tion camps, but people who had managed to Senate Finance Committee against the Trade get away from Nazi Germany and had lived Expansion Act, blaming " political Zionist Lenin Prize Nominations abroad for several years also showed specific planners" as being the force behind this symptoms which were the result of what had legislation. After pubUcation of the article Russia's leading authority on asthma and its happened to them. Mr. Dall sued Mr. Anderson for libel, claiming treatment. Professor M. Goldfarb, is one of 70 The victims of Nazi persecution still had that his statement was not antisemitic. An or so Jewish scientists, technologists and vivid memories of war time events. The affidavit by Mr. Herman Edelsberg, head of specialists named as candidates for the 1964 damage caused by such events manifested the Washington office of the Anti-Defamation Lenin Prize. They make up about 8 per cent itself even now, and affected even people who League, stated that one of the commonest of the total. were only two or three years old when Nazi forms of antisemitic attack was an attack on Tass, the Soviet News agency, has reported persecution afflicted them.—(J.C.) Zionism or Zionists. that the Ministry of Culture is to erect a statue of Professor Lev Landau, the Russian- University's Censure Bias Denied Jewish physicist awarded the Nobel Prize last year.—(J.C.) In a letter published by the German weekly In a recently released report, Mr. A. M. " Die Zeit", Dr. Wilhelm Emil Muehlmann, a Sonnabend, president of the American Jewish Film on Lenin professor at Heidelberg University, replying Committee, declares that the 50 leading Gershon Fradkin, the Russian-Jewish film to criticism by the Israeli writer M. Y. Ben- American utiUty companies, including the director, has received much praise for his Gavriel, said : " Foreign students of Jewish American Telephone and Telegraph Company film on the " Life and Work of Lenin ". He descent sometimes come to us to promote poor and the Consolidated Edison Company, dis­ is considered the greatest Jewish film director manuscripts at a German university in a cheap criminate against Jews in their recruitment in Russia after Eisenstein and has been men­ way. If they fail they complain about anti­ and promotion at executive level. tioned as a candidate for the Lenin Prize. semitism." Based on a preliminary investigation, the The University's Senate sharply criticised report shows that less than 1 per cent of the Russian Friendship the professor's statement and in its denuncia­ executive personnel in these companies are The Association for Cultural Exchanges tion declared its strong disapproval of the Jews, even though Jews form between 8 and between Israel and the Soviet Union has insinuation and incrimination contained. The 10 per cent of college graduates, from whose announced comparatively cheap group tours university's management stated it would not ranks executives are recruited. to Russia for Israeli professionals. The Russian tolerate any discrimination for religious or A number of utilities companies, including Ambassador opened an " Exhibition of the national reasons. Consolidated Edison, protested against the Soviet Book " in Tel Aviv in the presence of Friendship League in Vienna report, stating that their companies cannot the visiting Soviet delegation for fostering afford to discriminate and that talent was the friendship with Russia. Herr Otto Probst, the Austrian Minister of only criterion. Political quarters in Tel Aviv, while wel­ Communications, was elected first president coming these events, see them as part of of the Austria-Israel Friendship League at its Inter-Marriage Condemned inaugural meeting recently. Austria's State Moscow's efforts to correct the image of anti- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Ludwig The Rabbinical Council of America has Jewish trends in the Soviet Union. Steiner, is second president and Mrs. Hermona called on all rabbis to refuse to perform Hungary Less Rigid Simon, the wife of the Israeli Ambassador to marriage ceremonies involving Jews and non- Austria, is the third president of the League. Jews. It feels that traditional Judaism in Professor Alexander Scheiber, Director of There is already an Israel-Austria Friend­ America is " gravely menaced ". the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, ship League in Tel Aviv under the chairman­ The Council said a survey showed that 70 made a short visit to England where he con­ ship of Dr. Wolfgang von Weisl, who is of per cent of the children of mixed marriages ducted some research at Cambridge Univer­ Austrian origin.—(J.C.) did not take up the Jewish faith. It was sity Library. He stated during an interview reckoned that the number of mixed marriages that the pubUcation of books and papers on which broke up was 40 per cent. many Jewish cultural and historic themes is increasing in Hungary "today one of the Negro Rights less rigid Communist countries in its attitude towards Jews ". The Professor stated that the The extent to which the national Jewish Hungarian Academy of Sciences was publish­ defence organisations in America are now ing many Jewish and Hebrew books and papers committed to the battle for Negro equality is connected with Jewish learning. There are apparent by the fact that the vast majority of several Jewish homes for the aged adminis­ the American Jewish Committee's annual tered with the aid of Jewish funds. Jewish compendium of progress in civil rights is reUgious institutions are subsidised by the devoted to the Negro problem. It is not sug­ State. gested that the Jewish question in America has been settled. In fact, there is evidence NEWS FROM ISRAEL that the fight for de-segregation and full and Bequest from Gentile equal opportunities for the Negro has A bequest of £1,000 from a Gentile woman uncovered and, in some instances, exacerbated to the Chief Rabbi has been sent to the Jeru­ antisemitism. salem Mental Hospital to be used for patients But there is also the negative aspect of who suffered under Nazism. The gift is one of Negro antisemitism to be considered and several sent through the hospital's British Aid changed. To Negroes, all landlords are Jews Committee. Others include one of £1,000 from and the hate for the landlord is therefore Mr. and Mrs. Leo Grahame and another of £500 transferred to aU Jews.—(J.C.) from Mr. and Mrs. T. Kennedy. Waming on Middle East Juvenile Crime U Thant, Secretary-General of the United According to a police spokesman, during Nations, giving the Dag Hammarskjold 1963 juvenile crime in the Tel Aviv area rose memorial lecture at Columbia University said : by a third. The poUce division deaUng with " I am very much afraid that there will be juvenile crime caught 1,747 young offenders more than one occasion in 1964 when Middle during the first six months of the year. Most Eastern problems will engage the attention of of the offences are minor, such as petty theft, the United Nations." He mentioned the Arab- disorderly conduct and cases of vandalism. Israel border conflict and the civil war still Over 90 per cent of those discharged go going on in the Yemen, and described " the straight and never appear in police records over-all situation there today" as " threaten­ again. " Juvenile offenders " in Israel refers ing." to boys under 16 and girls under 18. APIOOB AJK INFORMATION February, 1964 Page 5 F' Reinach IN MEMORY OF ERICH OLLENHAUER Erich Ollenhauer, who died at the age of 62 quite suddenly after having been released GERMANY RE-VISITED from hospital just on the eve of the S.P.D. It might have been better if I had followed of eleven German Lander. I have since read conference in Bad Godesberg, did not always the Travel Agent's advice and taken a " happy, the most important sections dealing with find the appreciation he deserved. The fact carefree holiday on sun-drenched Majorca", German and general European histpry in the that he stood back when Willy Brandt was but for a long time I had debated with myself nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' The Nazi chosen as the Party's candidate for the Chan­ a visit to Germany, as I wanted to get first­ persecution of the Jews is accurately described cellorship should not be reason to under­ hand knowledge of certain things, and so at in all its ghastliness, and there is even a chart estimate what he did for his Party. It is last I made up my mind. But when I got to about the location of concentration camps in actually a point in his favour. At a time when Amsterdam, visited the Anne Frank house in Europe. One cannot quarrel with the general one is accustomed to so many politicians Prinsengracht, heard and read about the presentation of recent events, which, I was acting out of self-interest instead of for the terrible sufferings of the Jews in Holland dur­ assured, are not concealed from German youth. cause, or being resentful about neglect, there ing the war, I hesitated again ; after all Ufe I was, however, warned by this former teacher should be high praise for those capable of such amongst the kindly, courteous and tolerant that young people often like to read about an act of self-denial. Ollenhauer, without envy, Dutch people seemed so very pleasant; how­ concentration camps for the wrong reasons. accepted the fact that the Lord Mayor of ever, I had my German ticket in my pocket, I admitted that a pedagogical problem existed, Berlin was the more inspiring and dynamic and so I went on, first stopping at Kassel, the but still maintained that the facts should be personality, and he did not show any grudge town where I was born. made known at school. or hard feelings. When you see a German town again, which During our discussions, I noticed that our Ollenhauer had the misfortune of being you knew in pre-1933 days, you are amazed v/ays of judging historical events differed underestimated only too often. At first he was to find how much smarter, more modern and somewhat, and my subsequent study of the merely associated with the Socialist youth more flourishing it is now. You are surprised textbooks confirmed this. The presentation of movement from which he started his poUtical at the number of social amenities, cafes, restau­ events is quite objective, but to take the career. But in exile, in Prague, Paris and rants, " Milch Bars " and " Snack Bars " where Second World War as an example, there are London, he grew far above this status. Then an incredible variety of dishes is offered. some differences of emphasis between a he was always second in command, at first Amongst the modern, American-looking build- German and an EngUsh textbook. When I under Otto Weis in Prague and Paris, later nigs you can still recognise the outline of the realised this it came home to me all of a on under Hans Vogel, in London. He was not town as you knew it, but your memory may sudden that this man, haunted and persecuted the ambitious type and was satisfied with this have deceived you about the length of a certain by the Nazis, was still a really good German, role. When Vogel died, tragically enough, street or the incUne of a hill. People seemed while I had changed after 29 years in just on the eve of his retum to Germany, to be more polite and helpful than in pre-1933 England . . . Ollenhauer served as faithfully under Kurt days, and yet a Kafkaesque feeUng of loneli­ My next stopping place was Heidelberg. Schumacher as he had done under the others. ness and isolation is more likely to overcome There the signs of the past (distant and more This faithfulness might have tempted some you here than anywhere else. recent) are still very much with you. Not people to think that he did not count at all. I met in Kassel only one Jew (although there only the castle ruins, but many other land­ However, this was by no means the case, as are of course a few more); he is now over marks tell the story of destruction brought was reaUsed when Kurt Schumacher died. sixty and regrets not having emigrated. Quite about by the armies of Louis XIV. But you Then the Party was in a state of panic. Who a few former non-Jewish acquaintances wished are also reminded of more recent history, should be the successor ? Some did not even to meet me, and I sometimes had the feeling when you read the names of the old students' think of Ollenhauer. But he proved that he as if it were almost a matter of pride for them associations on the plates of their houses, could act. He was at the disposal of the Party to have some Jewish connections ; if necessary. or when you go into the ancient taverns, see which needed him, and he became its Chair­ It could always provide an alibi for the past. the regulars at their "Stammtisch" and man. One year later, when the Party was on 1 questioned my friends about the existence of happen to overhear some of their conversa­ the verge of despair about the election results, antisemitism. They had to think first as if tions. he succeeded in overcoming this panic as well. this was a question to which they had not My friend, who belongs to the younger He restored confidence, with his unshakable given any thought for some time, but then generation and is a graduate of the University, belief in the Party, its firm foundations and its they admitted that a small residue, mostly recently started a language school for foreign mission. among older people, still existed. A young students, who have become proficient at Apart from modesty and optimism, he had jnan, on the other hand, whom I met on a German before enrolling at the University. a third fine quality: he sacrificed himself for train journey spoke to me of one school-friend His pupils come from many lands, and there the Party. That was actually the reason for *ith neo-Nazi tendencies, but this was the only are also some Jewish students amongst them. his early death. He ruined his health by not one he knew. They wish to study in Germany, so I was told, giving himself any rest. From Kassel I travelled to Frankfurt, where because German education is held by them to And so we remember a comrade in exile, a 'ny former history teacher now Uves in retire- be of a high standard, but basically they are lovable person, on whom shortly before his "*ent. He had taught me before 1933, and still suspicious. My friend can understand death the great honour of presidency of the *as known as the author of school books with this attitude, but regrets it, and quite frankly Socialist International was bestowed. noeral and democratic tendencies. First of wishes to forget the past. Phrases Uke HANS JAEGER. ail I was interested in the story of his own " unbewaltigte Vergangenheit" have little Jiio. He had Uved under the threat of dismissal meaning for him. His outlook is forward- tor one year, but was eventually only down­ looking and he favours a new European Com­ graded and had continued to teach history munity, which includes Great Britain. aurmg the Nazi period. I enquired what kind On my way home, I stopped once more, this ot history he had taught. Well, always the time at Konigswinter, near Bonn. I had a few ight kind, and even at the risk of his life hours to spare and so I decided to go up to ^ had told his students to disregard their the Hotel Peterhof, where Mr. Chamberlain new textbooks, but they had never betrayed had stayed when he met Hitler at near-by nim and of this he is still proud. Throughout Bad Godesberg. An old man showed me the ne war, he had listened to foreign broadcasts way and I went up the hill by coach, but alas, and, in spite of an official warning, his wife I was the only passenger who had bothered to nad maintained contact with at least one come. ewish friend in Germany. To counteract anti- Jewish teaching at school, his wife had made a point of taking their daughter to Jewish shops NEW SYNAGOGUE IN AUGSBURG as long as it was possible in spite of official On December 15, 1963, a new small syna­ gogue was consecrated in Augsburg by mscouragement. Landesrabbiner Dr. I. E. Lichtigfeld (Frank­ But mainly I wanted to know from him how furt a.M.) in the presence of Minister­ modern history is at present taught in German praesident Goppel and representatives of the schools. He is in a good position to know as IsraeU Mission, the U.S.A. Army, the Churches nis own textbooks (wTitten in collaboration and the Jewish Communities. In his inaugural r|l°.others and published by E. Klett. of Stutt- address. Mr. JuUus Spokojny, the President of sart*) are recommended for use by seven out the Augsburg Jewish Community, also expressed the deep feeling of sorrow at the demise of Professor Theodor Heuss snd of the MUt^tutsc^"^*^''"*'*'* Untcrrichtswcrk fuer die late Chairman of the S.P.D., Erich Ollenhauer. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION February, 1964

/. Jacobson Das Leo Baeck Institut in New York hat es fuer eine Ehrenpflicht gegenueber der wissen- schaftUchen Leistung Selma Stern-Taeublers DER PREUSSISCHE STAAT UND DIE JUDEN gehalten, das Werk vom Preussischen Staat Schicksalsweg eines Buches und seinen Juden ueber die Anfaenge hinaus weiterzufuehren. Und so sind denn jetzt im Im Jahre 1925 erschienen als Veroeffent­ wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Welt deutscher Rahmen der Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher lichungen der Berliner Akademie fuer die Staatlichkeit und deutscher Gesellschaft galten. Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts im Wissenschaft des Judentums die beiden ersten 1933 waren die Baende—Darstellung und Tuebinger Verlag von J. C. B. Mohr die Baende Baende eines grossangelegten wissenschaft- Akten—fertig geworden, die die Zeit des Sol- endUch ans Licht gekommen, die 1938 der Uchen Unternehmens, das in die Haende einer datenkoenigs und Wirtschaftplaners Friedrich Schocken-Verlag hatte herausgeben wollen.* jungen, erprobten Historikerin, Sehna Stern, Wilhelm I. umspannten. Aber da kam die Sieht man von der Einleitung ab, die der von gelegt war und den Titel trug : " Der Preus­ Herrschaft des Nationalsozialismus und damit Grund aus geaenderten juedischen Situation sische Staat und die Juden." das Ende der Akademie fuer die Wissenschaft Rechnung traegt, so ist die jetzt vorliegende Im ersten Bande stellte die Verfasserin in des Judentums, die mit glanzvollen Namen Publikation ein genauer Wiederabdruck der uebersichtUcher, eindringUcher, methodischer juedischer Wissenschaftler und Wirtschafts- 1938 geplanten Ausgabe. Das Leo Baeck Weise die Probleme ihres Themas dar. Aus­ fuehrer verbunden gewesen war. Illusionen Institut und der Tuebinger Verlag haben es gehend von einer beispielhaften Beherrschung waren zertruemmert, aber Selma Stern's gluecklicherweise fuer geboten gehalten, und Ausschoepfung eines weitschichtigen Hingabe an ihre Aufgabe war gross genug, um gleichzeitig einen Neudruck der ersten beiden literarischen und archivarischen Materials trotz alledem weiterzuarbeiten, weiter zu Baende zu besorgen, so dass jetzt ein geschlos­ ging sie den Verflechtungen des Staatslebens forschen und weiter zu sammein, wobei ihr— sener Ueberblick ueber eine entscheidende mit den speziellen Tatsachen und Motiven wie sie nieckschauend anerkennt—die Direk- Periode von nahezu hundert Jahren, von 1648- seiner Judenpolitik nach. Mit dem Blick auf toren und Beamten der preussischen Staats- 1740, gewonnen werden kann. diese allgemeine Verflechtung beschrieb sie archive (von Berlin, Breslau, Danzig, Duessel­ Wir koennen also jetzt rekapitulieren, was die MoegUchkeiten und Bedingungen, die dorf, Koenigsberg, Magdeburg, Muenster und Selma Stern in den grundlegenden, die Aeusserungen und Wirkungen, die Aussichten Stettin) jede moegliche Foerderung ange- Richtung ihrer Forschung anzeigenden Baen­ und Begrenzungen, denen das Leben und die deihen liessen. 1938 wurde dem unter behoerd- den vom Jahre 1925 geboten hatte und Entwicklung der einzelnen juedischen Sied­ lichem Druck ein Ende gesetzt. anschliessend verfolgen, wie die Judenpolitik lungen im Gefuege des sich konsolidierenden Im selben Jahre 1938 sollten endlich im des preussischen Staates sich weiterhin bis Brandenburgisch-Preussischen Staates in den Schocken-Verlag die Baende erscheinen, deren zum Regierungsantritt Friedrichs des Grossen Jahren von 1648-1713, waehrend der Herausgabe schon 1933 vorbereitet war. Schon im Auf und Ab der Beziehungen zwischen Regierungszeit des Grossen Kurfuersten von war alles ausgedruckt, da kam der Ver- Staat, Berufsstaenden und juedischer Bevoel­ Brandenburg und des ersten Koenigs in nichtungssturm des Novembers 1938, das kerung entwickelt hat. An Hand der Darstel­ Preussen, unterworfen war. Manuskript und die zur Ausgabe fertigen lung, die Selma Stern dem Zeitalter des Dieser Darstellungsband war von einem Bestaende wurden beschlagnahmt und ver­ zweiten preussischen Koenigs widmet, und an rund 550 Seiten starken Urkundenband nichtet. Und damit schien Muehe, entsagungs- Hand des neuen, sehr umfangreichen Akten- begleitet, der eine Fuelle bisher unbekannter voller Fleiss und das Ergebnis der Denkarbeit bandes ist es nun moeglich—ueber die Akten aus den Bestaenden des Geheimen vieler Jahre unwiederbringlich zerstoert. Aber bisherige Kenntnis hinaus—die JudenpoUtik Staatsarchivs in Berlin und der preussischen dem war gluecklicherweise nicht so. des seine militaerischen und wirtschaftlichen Provinzialarchive zur Veroeffentlichung Hoch klingt das Lied jener anonym Kraefte zielbewusst sammelnden Staates ins brachte. gebliebenen deutschen Frau aus dem voile geschichtliche Bewusstsein zu heben. Schocken-Verlag, die die Verwirrung jener Noch viel genauer als vorher erfahren und Wie der Direktor des Forschungsinstituts erfassen wir jetzt, welche Rolle den Juden vor der Akademie, der ideenreiche, grueblerische, unheilvollen Stunde dazu benutzt hatte, einige wenige Exemplare vor der Vernichtung zu 200 Jahren ini Wirtschaftsgefuege des preus­ immer nach hohen Zielen strebende Professor sischen Staates zugewiesen war, wieweit der Eugen Taeubler—spaeter Professor in Heidel­ retten, um sie heimlich der Verfasserin zu ueberbringen. Ein Exemplar fand dann unter Staat damals geneigt war, sich die Faehig­ berg—es geplant hatte. sollte das Werk, das keiten und Verbindungen der Juden je nach Selma Stern anvertraut war, den gesamten den Augen der nationalsoziaUstischen Macht­ haber seinen Weg in die Bibliothek von Dr. der politisch-wirtschaftlichen Struktur der historischen Zeitraum bis zum Jahre 1812 einzelnen Provinzen nutzbar zu machen. Wir umfassen. Es sollte einmuenden in die Periode Baeck und unter meine Buecher. Es blieben aber immer noch die vielen, koennen im einzelnen und im ganzen nunmehr der Judenemanzipation. Es war von vornherein die Position fixieren, die die Juden im Zusam- klar, dass mit jedem weiteren Band, der an vielen Aktenabschriften. Auch sie waren in Gefahr, beschlagnahmt und zurueckgehalten diese Aera heranfuehren sollte, die Arbeit • Selma Stem : Der Preussische Staat und die schwieriger, umfangreicher, vor neue Prob­ zu werden. Nur dem Eingreifen des Heidel­ Jnden. Erster Teil : Die Zeit des Grossen Kurfuersten berger Professors Dr. Willy Andreas ist es zu und Friedrichs I. (Erste Abteilung : Darstellung, leme und Ideen und Zeitstroemungen gestellt Zweite Abteilung : Akten). Zweiter Tell : Die Zeit sein musste. verdanken, dass dies schliesslich verhuetet Friedrich Wilhelms I. (Erste Abteilung : Darstellung, wurde. Es ist dies bekanntlich kein Einzelfall Zweite Abteilung: Akten). Schriftenreihe wissen­ Unter nicht immer leichten Verhaeltnissen, schaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts. mutigen Einstehens sachUch-wissenschaftlich J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tuebingen. 1962. DM170 ; in einer sich sichtbar verduesternden Situa­ denkender Menschen fuer juedische Kultur­ fuer Mitglieder der Society of Friends of the L.B.I.. tion ging Selma Stern an die Fortsetzung ihres arbeit und juedische Kulturwerte, aber er £11. Die Veroeffentlichung des Werkes erfolgte mu Werkes und an die Sammlung des Stoffes fuer Unterstuetzung der Claims Conference und des sollte nicht vergessen und nicht verkleinert Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland. andere Arbeiten heran. die dem Problemkreis werden. des Wirkens und Aufstiegs der Juden in die Die von Selma Stern gesammelten Akten konnten 1941, bevor sie mit ihrem Gatten, Pro­ Don't suffer from the effects of DRY AIR caused by fessor Taeubler, noch gerade rechtzeitig aus­ Central-Heating Your HOUM for:— wandern konnte. nach Schweden gebracht werden. Von dort kamen sie nach Kriegsende CURTAINS, CARPETS, LINO nach den Vereinigten Staaten. Selma Stern hat UPHOLSTERY mehrfach Aufsaetze veroeffentlicht, die dieses Aktenmaterial verwerteten, hat ihr Buch SPECIALTY ueber den Hofjuden mit auf dieses Material gestuetzt—und nun endlich, nach drei schick- CONTINENTAL DOWN salsschweren Jahrzehnten. ist auch das grosse Werk vom Preussischen Staat und den Juden QUILTS! wieder in Gang gekommen. 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(Es ist zu hoffen, dass bei der Fortsetzung together with his wife, Ann Day, several years die der Ausbreitung und dem Fortkommen des Werkes ein auch diese schwer zu ago wrote the German best-seller " Liane", dieser noch aus dem Staatsganzen herausge- erreichenden offiziellen Publikationen mit has started a literary agency in Diisseldorf.— hobenen Bevoelkerungsgruppe gezogen waren. erfassendes Verfahren eingeschlagen werden Leonard Steckel successfully produced "Kiss Die BevoelkerungspoUtik Friedrich Wilhelm kann.) Me Kate" in Rotterdam.—Fritz Kortner's play, " Die Zwiesprache", will be produced I- war nicht ohne Haerte, seine Judenpolitik In den Aktenband, wie er jetzt vorliegt, sind entbehrte der Gleichmaessigkeit, das juedische with Martin Held in Munich and with Paul eine Fuelle von Personenlisten eingestreut, Hoffmann in Vienna. Element in seiner kaum noch erschuetterten und das gerade macht ihn fuer ein weiteres Eigenart beeinflusste schon von sich aus die Gprmany: Bruno Arno, Siegfried Arno's Publikum besonders wertvoll. Ich hebe aus brother, returned from Argentina and Besonderheit der Berufsaufbaus und gab damit der Fuelle des Materials Listen aus den Staed­ —ein unglueckUcher Zirkel—^Vorwand fuer appeared in " Maske in Blau " in Neukoelln.— ten der Mark Brandenburg, Verzeichnisse aus Rudolf Kuestermeier, German correspondent in Beschraenkung und wurde notwendig Ursache Berlin, aus Halberstadt und Halle, aus Pom­ fuer Misstrauen, Vorurteil und nur langsam Israel, has received the Von Ossietzky Medal. mern und den juedischen Siedelungen im —Trude Kolman successfully directed " Stop sich lueftende Geringschaetzung. Fuerstentum Moers und der Grafschaft Es lag andererseits im Wesen des beson­ The World—I Want To Get Oflf" at Munich's Ravensberg hervor. Wir stehen in den Jahr­ kleine Freiheit.—B. F. Dolbin, 80-year-old deren, vom Staat ueberwachten Berufsaufbaus zehnten, in denen diese Listen entstanden, —der ganz und gar auf das kommerzielle aus­ cartoonist and art critic of New York's noch nicht im Zeitalter fest gewordener Aufbau has an exhibition of his works in gerichtet war—dass sich innerhalb der Familiennamen, und doch mag der eine oder juedischen Gemeinschaft soziale Abstufungen Hamburg.—Grete Mosheim was awarded the andere, den Selma Sterns Buecher erreichen, German Critics' Prize for 1963. herausbildeten, eine Verschiedenheit, die mit in diesen Listen eine Verbindung zu ver­ den Funktionen zusammenfiel, zu denen diese, gangenen Geschlechtern, zu Ahnen seiner Home ^etvs: The German Institute, in con­ vorlaeufig noch zahlenmaessig begrenzte, FamiUe entdecken. junction with the Institute of Germanic Gruppe vom Staat — als Muenzunternehmer, Languages, is presenting a Thomas Mann Lieferanten von Luxuswaren, als Heeres- In dem Wiederabdruck von Selma Sterns exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall.—Peter heferanten und Fabrikanten—herangezogen Werk ist naturgemaess jenes Ressentiment Herz, who came over from Vienna to entertain ^rde. Die Konsequenzen allerdings. die die ausgeschaltet, das an der Schicksalswende the Austrian population in the N.W.S area, Heraushebung dieser Sondergruppe fuer den erwuchs, die dem fortwirkenden Erlebnis der has become Professor h.c. in Vienna.—Hans Rechtskampf der Gesamtheit und fuer die .ludenemanzipation in Preussen und Deutsch­ Habe came over for the publication of his new Wandlung ihrer kulturellen Haltung haben land den Boden entzog. Der Einzelne mag in novel " The Countess " (" Die Tarnowska ") in sollten, weisen auf eine spaetere Periode des den Buechern von Selma Stern den Ansatz zu London. Harraps gave a Savoy reception in ^esamtwerks von Selma Stern hin. Wir jener Entwickelung finden, die auf das Ziel his honour.—Adele Rosenbaum delivered a ^rfahren in den vorliegenden neuen Baenden der Judenemanzipation hinwies, die ein legis- lecture on modern art and painting at " Club Jedoch genuegend vom sozialen Aufstieg ein- latorisches Faktum, ein befreiendes geschicht­ 43".—Erica Slezak has joined the Royal ^elner juedischer PersoenUchkeiten, von der liches Phaenomen gewesen ist. Er mag aber Academy of Dramatic Art: her father, Walter ftechtslage der Gesamtheit, von ihrem auch aus Sprache und Tenor der Akten heraus- Slezak appears in the new Cliflf Richard film yemeindeleben, von den Tendenzen, die die lesen, wie tief hinunter in die Vergangenheit "Wonderful World ".—Uta Hagen, the Ger­ luedische Situation bestimmten. An Hand der das Brodeln jener Gegen-Kraefte reicht, die man-born wife of actor Herbert Berghoff, will ^kten im besonderen ergibt sich ein untrueg- fortdauernd, und nur zu gern uebersehen, dem star in the forthcoming production of " Who's uches Bild von der Haltung der Beamten­ Juden Aufstieg und freie Entfaltung seiner Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? ".—Israeli actress schaft und jenen Gruppen der Bevoelkerung Kraefte, das Hineinwachsen in den Staat und Dahlia Lavi, who has become well known in pgenueber den Juden, mit denen Wirtschafts- seine Kultur erschwerten und schliesslich Germany, has been chosen for a leading part eben und Wirtschaftskampf sie in Beruehrung kompromisslos versagten. with Peter O'Toole and Curt Juergens in " Lord Jim ".—Marcel Hellman will produce Zu diesem zweiten Aktenband, rund 800 " Moll Flanders ", to be directed by Terence ^siten stark, darf noch ein Wort gesagt AWARD FOR ISRAELI DOCTOR Young for Rank. .^'"den. In dem Hin und Her der Wanderung Dr. Louis Copelman, a Tel Aviv doctor born Obituary: Gustav Machaty, the Czech direc­ Sind leider die Akten in Verlust geraten, die in Rumania, has been awarded the French tor of " Ecstasy ", has died in Munich aged 61. ich mit den Verhaeltnissen in Ostpreussen National Academy of Medicine's Jean Dietz —The 71-year-old husband of Lotte Reiniger °eschaeftigten. Sie sind allerdings groessten- Prize for his work on the pathological of Silhouette film fame, Carl Koch, died near eils fuer den Darstellungsband ausgenutzt symptoms afflicting former inmates of concen­ tration camps. He carried out his research London.—Otto Zoff, author of " Koenig orden. Trotz seines grossen Umfangs fehlen in collaboration with Dr. Marc Dvorjetsky. Dr. Hirsch ", died at the age of 73 whilst on a ^ dem vorUegenden Aktenband jedoch Copelman was proclaimed a laureate of the visit to Munich from New York.—Siegfried jnanche wichtigen Stuecke, die man gern in Academy at a special ceremony. Nestriepke, 78-year-old co-founder and director nm gesehen haette, wenn man auch vermuten of Volksbuehne, has died in Berlin.—The art ann, dass es nur Gruende aeusserer Art YIDDISH BOOKS IN SOVIET RUSSIA historian, Paul V/estheim, died in BerUn on T'^'^t'^' ^^^ ^^ veranlasst haben, dass nur ihre a visit from Mexico. He was 77 years old.— jg^^l'V^herschriften gebracht wurden. Es han­ Despite promises, none of the State pub­ Karl Heinrich Ullstein died in Berlin at the sel! ^^^^ dabei durchgehends um Stuecke, die lishing houses in the Soviet Union published age of 70. •non in der grossen oflaziellen Ediktensamm- a single Yiddish book in 1963, but the number fu''^ ^^^ ^^' Jshrhunderts erschienen sind. Ich of Yiddish writings to appear in translation, Milestones: Erwin Piscator, who is now particularly poetry and short stories, have director of Berlin's Freie Volksbuehne has ehre als Beispiel die Konfirmation des increased. The only Jewish publication celebrated his 70th birthday. Born in Ulm, 1714 ^^^^ ^^^ Berliner Juden vom Jahre brought out in the Soviet Union in 1963 was he first wrote poetry, which was published in 14, das Privileg fuer die 47 in die Neumark a calendar with the dates of Jewish Holy-days. an anthology edited by Franz Pfempfert. Later, together with Rudolf Leonhard, he founded the Proletarische Theater in BerUn. Financed by Tilla Durieux's husband, he opened his own Theater am NoUendorfplatz, Feuchtwanger (London) Ltd. in 1927 with Ernst Toller's "Hoppla Wir Leben ". When the Nazis came to power he went to Russia where he directed his sole Bankers picture, " Der Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara", based on Anna Seghe'-s' novel. BASILDON HOUSE, 7-11, MOORGATE, E.C.2 Until recently the film was not shown, but Telephone: METropolitan 8151 now it has been presented in Berlin. He then went to New York where he ran a school for Representing: actors, and retumed to Berlin in 1951.—Paul '• L FEUCHTWANGER BANK LTD. I FEUCHTWANGER CORPORATION Hartmann, the classical hero of our youth, is 75 and still going strong. TEL AVIV : JERUSALEM : HAIFA | 60 EAST 42nd ST., NEW YORK, 17, N.Y. PEM Page 8 AJR INFORMATION February, 1964

Herbert Freetleit (Jerusalem) such bills. Later, Dr. Wallach was to fight serious epidemics of diphtheria and typhoid, and to battle day and night in the overcrowded wards to save the lives of Jewish victims of THE POPE'S PILGRIMAGE Arab riots in Jerusalem, and massacres in When these lines appear in print, the expense of the country's honour in deciding Hebron and Motsa. " historic voyage" of Pope Paul VI, as he that the President goes to Meggido to meet When Dr. Wallach died seven years ago at called his visit to the Holy Land, will have the Pope, whose poUtical advisers want to the age of 90, his mantle fell upon the itself become history. please the Arabs. Israel cannot adopt the shoulders of the equally revered and beloved The fact that the Papacy's age-old immo­ conclusion that flows from the poUtical aspect Dr. Falk Schlesinger, who took up an appoint­ bility was broken with a visit just to Israel— of the visit. For if we do, we shall prove to ment at the hospital when he first arrived and Jordan—is no more than an accident of the world that we accept the perverted and from Hamburg in 1935. geography, yet a seasoned diplomat such as unjust view that Jerusalem is not our capital." When Shaare Zedek Hospital was originally Paul VI must have been well aware of the Yet the rest of the press, almost in its planned for 50 beds the population of Jeru­ political connotations accompanying his visit. entirety, supported the Government's stand salem was only 45,000. Today, especially due As no other event, it has focused the attention " to honour the leader of such a universally to the influx of immigrants from Germany and of the world on the Arab-IsraeU conflict; influential reUgion by respecting his own other European countries who suffered under moreover, it has given great encouragement chosen itinerary. . . . Until now the repre­ Nazi oppression, this figure is 200,000. By to those CathoUc countries in Europe and sentatives of Judaism have not met with the overcrowding the wards and placing beds in South America which on many occasions have heads of Christianity on the basis of equaUty. the corridors space is available for 180 sided with Israel. It has also proved—if proof It is difficult to exaggerate the historical sig­ in-patients. Yet, even so, urgent cases must were necessary—that Christianity's Holy nificance of the occasion". One conclusion, often be refused admission through the Places are in good hands, well cared for and however, is undisputed: in the Middle East, insuflEiciency of beds. well guarded. an area torn by strife, the Pope's plea and The hospital must therefore be rebuilt to The political undertones of the journey were prayer for peace, love and brotherhood must help safeguard the health of the city. A^id no less felt in Israel. The Israeli Govern­ have some moral impact. it must be built quickly for, apart from being ment's efforts to facilitate this pilgrimage " in the only General Hospital in the centre of the full keeping with the unique status of the Pope city, it is the only hospital with an Isolation for hundreds of millions of adherents of the "WALLACH'S" TO BE REBUILT Ward for the treatment of poliomyelitis, and Catholic Church and in the world as a whole " New Era for Shaare Zedek Hospital wherein the lives of many hundreds of victims were not equally shared by all strata of public of this dreaded disease have been saved. opinion. Chief Rabbi Nissim rejected a Jerusalem's oldest centre of heaUng, Unlike in this country, hospitals in Israel Government request to participate in the wel­ officially known as the Shaare Zedek Hospital, are not administered by the State, and during come and farewell ceremonies for Paul VI. but after 60 years still frequently referred to the course of the year this great institution ot Considering that the Chief Rabbi is a civil as " Wallach's ", is to be rebuilt in order to mercy must, of necessity, treat many of its servant, his refusal to comply with Government meet the ever increasing demands made upon 60,000 out-patients and 7,000 in-patients with­ policy is taken as a serious matter. its services. out charge. . Of no less a controversial nature was the It was the realisation of a great dream when When the new hospital is built there wiU oe Vatican's decision that the Pope should enter the young, brilliant Dr. Moshe Wallach, a immediate accommodation for 300 beds, ano Israeli territory near Meggido, and not at the native of Munster, was sent to Jerusalem in room available for a further 200 beds. only oflBcial crossing-point between Jordan and 1891 by the Frankfurt Committee of Jewish As it was a Frankfurt Committee whicn Israel, namely, at Jerusalem. The Vatican's Friends for Palestine to study hygienic con­ first helped to create the Shaare Zedek Hos­ non-recognition of Israel—and of Jordan nofa ditions in the City. As a result of his report pital, it is hoped that German Jewry wiu bene—and its demands for the internationalisa- Jerusalem's first Jewish General Hospital was again play an important part in the rebuilding tion of the Holy City were no doubt at the root built six years later, and Dr. Wallach appointed of this great institution of mercy. of this decision. The IsraeU Govemment's its Physician in Charge. The Committee in charge of the Rebuilding declaration that the President of the State In those early days Dr. Wallach's prescrip­ Appeal is not asking for large sums of money would welcome the Pope wherever he chose to tions were generally notes to the local pro­ from a few people, but for moderate sums cross into the country was dictated by political vision stores, malnutrition being one of the from a large number of contributors. Any wisdom. Herut tried in vain to debate this main diseases of the times. Assured by Dr. donations will be welcomed and should be sen issue in the Knesset, and its daily, also called Wallach that this was the cheapest and surest to: Mr. Victor Mishcon, Chairman, Britis12n4 Herut wrote: " The Government has tried, method of treatment, the Hospital Committee Council of the Shaare Zedek Hospital, without success, to justify its concession at the accepted responsibility for the payment of all Baker Street, London, W.l. AJR CLUB 57 Eton Avenue, N.W.3 MUNICH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 oi 4.30 p.m. GREETS ITS EMIGRATED FORMER FELLOW-CITIZENS CONCERT

given by The City of Munich extends its sincerest good wishes RUDI OFFENBACH to its former fellow-citizens. and HILDE LERGENS The City Council would be very pleased to hear from Accompanied by you and to be informed of your present address. We STEFAN BUKOWITZ would then regularly supply you with news on happen­ and ings in our City, thus bringing you again into contact MARTHA FREUDMANN (Piano) with your former home town. For members only

Space donated by STADTRAT DER LANDESHAUPTSTADT MUENCHEN TRAOE CUTTERS LIMITED Britannia Worlcs. 2S St. Pancras Way. N.W.1 AJR INFORMATION February, 1964 Page 9 Dr. Hugo Hartung (Muenchen) Lander widmen diesen Zusammenkiinften alljahrlich mehr Raum. Ihr eigentUcher Motor aber ist der heute in der Londoner Botschaft der BundesrepubUk EIN KAEMPFER FUER ENGLISCH-DEUTSCHE VERSTAENDIGUNG Deutschland tatige Herbert Sulzbach, dem jeder kleine Fortschritt auf einem von ihm friih als notwendig erkannten Weg der Freund­ ZUM 70. GEBURTSTAG VON HERBERT SULZBACH schaft zweier Volker das grosste Gliicksemp- finden bringt. Zahllose Verehrer—ihm dank­ bar verbundene Menscfien—in Grossbritan­ Anlaesslich des 70. Geburtstages von Doch grosser war die Zahl derer, denen er nien und Deutschland mogen an seinem 70. Herbert Sulzbach erhielten wir den folgenden in freimiitigen Gesprachen, Vortragen und Geburtstag in Herzlichkeit dieses Mannes Gliickwunschartikel. Die AJR, mit deren Bildungslehrgangen die Augen offnete iiber gedenken, der unter den Kampfern fUr ein Bestrebungen Herbert Sulzbach sich stets das Ausmass deutscher Schuld sowie iiber neues Europa genannt zu werden verdient. verbunden gefuhlt hat, schliesst sich den neue deutsche Moglichkeiien und Aufgaben guten Wunschen des Verfassers auf das in einer Gemeinschaft freier demokratischer RABBI DR. I. E. LICHTIGFELD 70 herzlichste an. Vdlker. Heute sitzen Manner von Feather­ stone Park in Schlusselpositionen der deut­ Landesrabbiner, Dr. I. E. Lichtigfeld (Frank­ Am 8. Februar wird Herbert Suzbach 70 schen Wirtschaft, haben wichtige Posten in furt), recently celebrated his 70th birthday. Jahre alt. Dieser in Frankfurt am Main der Rechtspflege und der PoUtik inne. Sie Born near Lemberg, he grew up in DUsseldorf, geborene deutsche Jude, der am 1. Weltkrieg sind ein Grundpfeiler der englisch-deutschen where he practised as a lawyer until 1933. auf deutscher Seite teilnahm und im 2. Welt­ Verstandigung geworden, die in ihrem Kreis— He emigrated to England and, after having krieg englischer Captain war, hat im Gefange- dem Arbeitskreis Featherstone Park—die studied at Jews' College, officiated as the Rabbi nachhaltigste Forderung findet. of Cricklewood Synagogue. In 1954, Dr. nenlager Featherstone Park ein beinahe Lichtigfeld received a " call" to Frankfurt. unwahrscheinUch anmutendes Werk der Ich selbst bin kein Gefangener des Feather­ On the occasion of his 70th birthday, he was Umerziehung an gefangenen deutschen stone Park Camp gewesen, aber ich durfte awarded the " Ehrenplakette " of the Munici­ ^fflzieren der Hitler-Wehrmacht vollbracht. als deutscher Schriftstelier zweimal an paUty of Frankfurt, and tributes to his ten ^-r hat in jenen Jahren keinen anderen Auftrag Diisseldorfer Jahrestagungen des Arbeits­ years' activities as Rabbi of Frankfurt and gehabt, als den der Stimme seines Herzens und kreises teilnehmen, fur den in Deutschland so Hesse were paid to him by representatives of k^wissens, diktiert von einem Glauben an die hochgeehrte und geschatzte Manner wie Victor the authorities and the Jewish organisations. Menschheit. Gollancz und Yehudi Menuhin, Benjamin Under the editorship of Rabbi Professor .Noch lag der Schrecken der KZ's und Ver- Britten, Captain Liddell Hart, Lord Longford, Dr. Ernst Roth and Rabbi Dr. Fritz Bloch, a wchtungslager lahmend iiber der ganzen Welt, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, Sir Harold Nicolson " Festschrift" in his honour has been °is dieser deutsche Jude es wagte, noch an und Mr. John Hynd das Patronat ubernommen pubUshed. ^^n unzerstort Besseres im Deutschen zu haben. In vortrefflchen Referaten, die zu Many former refugees in this country will Siauben und ihm wieder eine Chance fiir die lebhaften und freimiitig'en Diskussionen gratefully remember Dr. Lichtigfeld's Jewish j'ukunft zu geben. Er konnte sich die fiihrten, wurde versucht, Vorurteile beiseite- communal work in England, and the AJR in "lanner nicht aussuchen, die in sein " Camp zuraumen, die der Verstandigung der beiden whose efforts he has always taken a great onne Stacheldraht" kamen, und es mag auch Volker im Wege stehen. Rundfunk und interest extends its heartiest congratulations unter ihnen Unverbesserliche gegeben haben. Fernsehstationen und die Presse beider to him.

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EXHIBITION OF ISRAEL STAMPS IN FRANKFORT JEWRY UNDER THE NAZIS FRANKFORT LECTURE AT LEO BAECK INSTITUTE " Israel im Spiegel der PhilateUe" is the title of an exhibition which was opened in At a meeting of the Society of Friends of letter went on, had already been a good start Frankfurt on January 5. the Leo Baeck Institute on January 9, Dr. S. M. towards this goal. However, as we learn from At the opening ceremony, Mr. Karl Marx, Auerbach gave a lecture on " Dokumente zur an editorial footnote to this letter, the Goethe who has done most of the preparatory work Geschichte der Frankfurter Juden." The talk " Festspiele" had been organised by Alwin and also represented the Israel Ministry, wel­ was based on the recently pubUshed collection Kronacher, and the Head of the Municipal comed about 150 guests. He pointed out that, of documents about the history of Frankfort Cultural Department in 1932 was Stadrat Dr. since its foundation, Israel had tried to Jews between 1933 and 1945 which was Max Michel — both Jews. illustrate on its stamps the work of recon­ reviewed by the speaker in our December, 1963, When renaming streets which were meant struction, consciously avoiding the glorifica­ issue. to commemorate Jewish scholars or bene­ tion of military events or of individual Jews. In his introductory remarks. Rabbi Dr. G. factors, the authorities reaUsed that the names Salzberger who was in the Chair paid tribute of Mathilden-Strasse and several other streets Rabbi Dr. I. E. Lichtigfeld spoke on " Stamps to the Frankfort MunicipaUty which, by the had been chosen in gratitude to female mem­ as a Means of Genuine Communication ", and pubUcation of the book had performed an act bers of the Rothschild family ; it was decided City Councillor, Dr. Theo Glaess, deputising of moral restitution. to retain the names but to change the " Paten- for the Mayor whom illness prevented from Dr. Auerbach quoted from the wealth of schaft" into " Benannt nach weibUehen attending, praised Israeli stamps as being material, recorded in the documentary volume. Vornamen ". amongst the most beautiful ones in the world. Some of the instances were also mentioned In the course of his talk the speaker also He also reminded the audience of the signifi­ in his review. Yet others were also new to quoted the cruel measures which, as in other cant r61e which Jews had played in the history readers of this journal. To quote a few at parts of Germany, increasingly added to the of Frankfurt and of the special ties which random: In April, 1933, the Acting Mayor plight of the Jews in Frankfort. In conclusion therefore bound this City to Israel. He wrote to the Ministry of Culture that, in he paid tribute to the devoted and diligent expressed the hope that normal diplomatic keeping with its tradition, Frankfort had again research work of the two editors of the book, relations between Israel and the Federal to become a " German city ". The Goethe Year Archivdirektor Dr. Dietrich Andernacht and RepubUc would be estabUshed soon. 1932 with its impressive performances, the Dr. Eleonore Sterling. E.G.L.

FAMILY EVENTS Kleefeld.—Mrs. C. Kleefeld (nee EXPERIENCED BOOKKEEPER, WIDOW, 60, German origin, with Picard), of 125 Melrose Avenue, conscientious, elderly, seeks part- independent means and own home, Entries in the column Family London, N.W.2, passed away on time position. Box 364. wants to meet cultured, non-Ortho­ December 30, 1963, aged 86 years, dox gentleman up to 65. View Events are free of charge. Texts GENERAL CLERK/SALESMAN after a long illness. Deeply (Textiles), experienced in records, friendship or matrimony. Box should be sent in by the ISth of mourned by her daughter, son, 41, reliahle, seeks suitable, full- 361. the month. son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grand­ time position. Box 370. WIDOWER, mid-sixties, German- children, great-grandchildren, rela­ PART-TIME BOOKKEEPER offers Jewish origin, wishes to meet cul­ Birth tives and friends, at home and services, dealing with all sorts of tured lady of similar age and abroad. books up to Trial Balance and origin. Object friendship/matri­ Lesser.—To Eva (nee Simson) and Schonbeck.—Dr. Gertrud (n6e beyond, also wages and P.A.Y.E. mony. Box 369. David, on January 11, 1964, a Lazarus) passed away after a long Box 371. GENTLEMAN. bachelor, good daughter, Helen Sharon, sister to illness on January 20, shortly Davina Jayne and grandchildren Women personality, educated univ., inde­ before her 75th birthday. Deeply pendent means, wishes to meet of Mr. and Mrs. George Simson, mourned by her husband, children EXPERIENCED SOLICITOR'S 52 Vicarage Road, Harborne, Birm­ SECRETARY, German / English attractive, cultured lady, 40-50, and grandchildren.—116 Salmon shorthand-tjT)ist, 4-6 hours daily. with similar background, for ingham, 17, and Mrs. Minnie Street, London, N.W.9. Lesser. 43 Vicarage Road, Yardley, Box 362. friendship / marriage. Answers Birmingham, 33. WeiL—Dr. Herbert Weil, born on EXPERIENCED COOK, elderly, English or German. Box No. 34154, January 9, 1890. at Schloss Wild- requires part-time work three Urbach International Advertising thurn, Bayern (formerly of Hamp­ mornings in private household. Ltd., 23 Lyndhurst Road, London, Birthdays stead and Hamburg), died in Box 367. N.W.3. Colorado, U.S.A., on December 29, EXPERIENCED ENGLISH/GER- BACHELOR, 51, good looking, WilL—Mr. Louis Will, of 22 Ding­ 1963. He leaves a widow and three M A N SHORTHAND - TYPIST, reUgious, well educated. Continen­ wall Gardens, London, N.W.ll, sons.—Frederick Weil. 37 Glou­ versatile, seeks part-time work. tal, own flat in Buenos Aires, celebrated his 93rd birthday on cester Place, London, W.l. Box 368. wishes to make contact with lady January 15. Mr. Will, who is in of similar background. Object the best of health, was born in CLASSIFIED Accommodation Vacant Situations Vacant matrimony. Replies, with details Schoenlanke. COMFORTABLE BED-SITTING­ of age and photograph, in confi­ HAUSHAELTERIN f. alleinste­ ROOM. suitable for a lady, near dence to Box 372. hende Dame, kl. zentral geheizte^ Willesden Green Station. 'Phone FELIX AND BENATE DARNELL Haeuschen in Edgware. Gute GLAdstone 5787. AJR Attendance Service and their four children, 10 Balfour Bezahlung. Einzelheiten GLA. Road, Jerusalem, send their best 7718. MisceUaneous WOMEN available to care for sick wishes to their mother and grand­ people and invalids, as companions mother, VISITING SECRETARY, typing, MRS. THEKLA DARNBACHEB Situations Wanted translating, interpreting, English, and sitters-in; full- or part-time 51 Queens Court, Queensway, W.2, Men German, French ; own typewriter. (not residential). 'Phone MAi- on the occasion of her 70th birthday, REPRESENTATIVE / OFFICE FUL. 8181. 4449. on February 13, 1964. WORK OR TRANSLATIONS SUPERFLUOUS HAIR safely and MISSING PERSONS (especially technical) post wanted permanently removed by qualified hy sales manager, experienced in Personal Enquiries Deaths Physiotherapist and Electrolysist. chemicals and textiles, full- or part- Facials. Body Massage. Visits Leipzig University Children's HoUander.—Mr. Gustav Hollander time. Languages: English, German, arranged. Mrs. Dutch, D.R.E.. 239 CUnic.—Addresses are wanted o. (formerly Cologne) died on Decem­ French. Slovak. Knowledge of typ­ Willesden Lane, N.W.2. Tel.: WIL­ the former doctors of the clinic • ber 28, 1963, aged 87, at Leo Baeck ing. Box 363. lesden 1849. Dr. AUce Chassel and Dr. Walltuch, House. The Bishop's Avenue, Lon­ HANDYMAN / PACKER, experi­ GERMAN BOOKS purchased. Con­ and of the following former don, N.2. enced in maintenance work, 51, tinental Book Supply, 42 Com­ patients: Dodeles, Lindner, Joio- versatile, seeks suitable work. Box mercial Road. London, E.l. Nur wicz, Itzigsohn, Philippsberg, WoU- Hurwit.—Mr. Hans Hurwit, of 3 365. schriftl. Angeb. od. Telephone: gang Tannenbaum, Gabriele Joj??/; Leinster Square, London, W.2, MAI. 6892. Klaus Kolb. Jutta Kirchstein, Kuty passed away suddenly on December ELDERLY MAN, formerly a Weisser. Kretha, Egon Stephan, 23. 1963, shortly after the comple­ waiter, reliable, seeks part-time work, e.g. as messenger, attendant Personal Janek Schiia and Michael Schirr- tion of his 75th year of life. His ner. Reolies to former Director kindness, modesty and wilUngness or any other unskilled post. Box WIDOW, 60, seeks companionship 366. (not marriage) of cultured, good- of the CUnic: Professor Dr. vv. to help will be remembered by his Catel. 23 Kiel, Dielsweg, 14, "• relatives and friends. hearted gentleman of Continental origin. Box 358. Germany. Joseph.—Mr. Curt Joseph (for­ COMPANION'HELP WIDOW, mid-forties, tall, good- merly Kopp & Joseph, Berlin) looking, wishes to meet cultured Enquiries by AJR passed away suddenly on December German - speaking preferred, for gentleman. Box 359. Hanauer.—Lotte (formerlv Lands- 24, 1963, aged 64. Deeply mourned elderly lady, modem flat, St. John's WIDOW, early forties. Continental, huterstr. 14. BerUn W.301 ana bv his wife. Ilse, relatives and Wood. Resident. Other help kept. own home, wishes to meet refined cousins Weissbart. Julie, and Bescn, friends.—16 Teals Way, Lower Hes- 'Phone before 11 a.m. PRImrose 4658. gentleman up to about 55. View Gerhard (believed to have returneu wall, Cheshire. friendship or matrimony. Box 360. to Germany). AJR INFORMATION February, 1964 Page 11 OBITUARY DEATH OF PAUL HINDEMITH Paul Hindemith, who died in Frankfurt on MR. ALEX KLEYFF When, many years later, the AJR came into December 28, aged 68, was generally regarded existence, it was a matter of course for him as one of the leading composers of our cen­ We mourn the death of Mr. Alex Kleyff, who was meanwhile well known as " the Uttle tury. No German master after Richard Strauss who suddenly and peacefully passed away on enjoyed greater international fame but, unlike December 24, 1963, 67 years old. Mr. Kleyff Woburn House ", to assist in building up the Association without, however, diminishing his Strauss, Hindemith refused to adapt himself Was a well-known figure in the German metal to the Nazi regime. His ultramodern begin­ trade. He came to this country in 1936 and personal efforts to help where help was nings were classified as " degenerate art", and quickly built up a successful business again. needed. Hundreds of refugees will never although his later works re-established the However, he never confined his interests to forget how much they owe to Richard Engel strongest links with the great German musical his own career but always showed a deep and to the generosity with which he gave help tradition, his opera "Mathis der Maier", for understanding for the needs of the community and protection to all who deserved and which he himself wrote the libretto, did not at large. Even more important than his needed it. His many friends in this country " fit in" because it postulated the artist's unflinching generosity was the spirit which independence from political interference. It prompted him to help whenever help was and throughout the world will always remem­ ber him for his great kindness and under­ will be remembered how Furtwaengler, in a required. leading article " Der Fall Hindemith", pub­ He wholeheartedly identified himself with standing and his wonderful sense of humour. Ushed in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, the efforts of the AJR almost immediately made a stand for the composer; the subsequent after the organisation was founded. We shall RABBI LUDWIG PINKOFFS dispute with Alfred Rosenberg led to the con­ «ways gratefully remember this gifted and ductor's temporary retirement. wndhearted man and we express our sincerest Rabbi Ludwig Pinkoffs passed away in Hindemith, whom Rosenberg had blamed sympathy to his widow and his daughter. Israel at the age of 80. Though, after studying for " associating almost entirely with Jews" at the BerUn "Hochschule", he had obtained (actually, his wife was Jewish) left Germany, THE LATE DR. RICHARD ENGEL a rabbinical diploma, he never officiated as first for Turkey, later, during the war, he ^•E.K. writes : a rabbi but considered teaching as his actual emigrated to the U.S.A., travelUng through vocation. Many generations of former the Straits of Gibraltar by special permission May I, as one of the many who knew, secondary school pupils in BerUn owe their of the British authorities. He took up an loved and admired Richard Engel, add a few reUgious tuition to him. He stayed in Ger­ appointment at Yale University. After the many until 1939j and then, as a Zionist of war, he refused the Directorship of the Berlin Words to the Obituary in the January issue of old standing, emigrated to Palestine. There, " Hochschule" but accepted a Professorship AJR Information ? together with his sister, he estabUshed and at the University of Ziirich. The high professional standard of Richard directed a Home for lonely children in Ramat Hindemith paid numerous visits to this Engel was matched by his great humanity and Gan. He spent the last years of his life in country. A famous viola player, he was the his high sense of responsibiUty for those retirement in Ramat Chen. soloist in the first performance of Walton's fellow-men to whom he could give any help and Viola Concerto. In recent years he con­ encouragement. He was one of the greatest PROFESSOR DR. LEO ROSENBERG ducted several times at the Festival Hall. friends and protectors of those many Jewish As a student at the Frankfurt (Conservatoire, refugees who arrived in this country without Professor Leo Rosenberg, the author of the he was taught by Bernhard Sekles and by ^ny means or connections, and he devoted standard work on German Civil Litigation, Arnold Mendelssohn (a son of a cousin of died in Munich in his 85th year. Born in FeUx Mendelssohn) ; his own pupils include substantial time and sums of money for his Fraustadt, he taught at the Universities of Franz Reizenstein. lellow-refugees in this country from the Goettingen, Giessen and Leipzig, until 1934. Hindemith's genius ensures hira a place in nioment he arrived here as one of the first From 1952 to 1955 he was Professor of Civil the history of music ; his human integrity adds immigrants from Germany. and Civil Litigation Law in Munich. to his stature. H. W. FREYHAN.

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become British and U.K. citizens. As such, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR we enjoy a number of privileges but are also subject to some obligations of which one of the ANSWERING HANNAH ARENDT days when the word Hochschule—has gained more important ones is that our first loyalty an omino^ls ring ! " Those present will never must be to this country. This must override Sir,—In the discussion of Hannah Arendt's forget the deep impression made by his words. all loyalties from the past (country of origin) sensationalist book one aspect has, so far as Two persoTMlities in the history of German as well as what could be termed a "senti­ ths writer is aware, not been sufficiently con­ Jewry were, to Dr. Baeck, models of inspired mental " one, to Israel. There is, fortunately, sidered : the spiritual motives of the Jewish leadership through crisis and catastrophe. One in this country no " Legal Minority " for which leaders. Dr. Baeck can no longer defend of them was Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg who, legislation would have to cater, so an organisa­ himself. It is, therefore, only fair for a hear­ rather than seeing the Jewish congregations tion like the AJR, today, should consider itself ing to be given to his pupils who studied under made victims of extortion, stayed a prisoner only responsible for the diminishing number of him and knew him well. in the castle of Ensisheim to the day of his the aged, the "' Unlntegrateables". One of the ideas which contributed decisively death. The other one was Joselman of Rosheim Assimilation is a different matter altogether. to the spiritual make-up of pre-war German who. often at the risk of his own life, con­ It involves the abnegation of the whole body Jewry was the German idea of the "Rechts­ stantly interceded on behalf of threatened of tradition (culture, religion, habits) which staat". It seemed unthinkable that the State Jewish communities. so strongly influence a person, and aims at should organise crime. The courageous efforts It was the spirit of Dr. Baeck, the spirit the total submergence, of one's group identity of mutual help launched by the German Jews of the " Und dennoch " which caused him and in the social fabric of the new country. from 1933 onwards were based on the Jewish his pupils to spread the word of God, even in My point is that Integration is possible with­ optimistic outlook on life since ihe days of the the bunkers of Terezin and other concentration out Assimilation, but it is open to argument prophets : that right would triumph over wrong camps. It may be unknown to Miss Arendt, whether—thinking of future generations—that in the end. How long the end would be post­ but it was also the spirit of Dr. Baeck, which, is desirable. poned, who could know ? It required men of in the concentration camp, when asked by the Yours etc much larger stature like Churchill and Roose­ S.S. officer at roll call what he would say in a Shrewsbury. ' CHARLES B. GOTZL. velt with their vast resources to turn the scales. sermon now, rnade one of his pupils reply : " I [Further contributions to the debate would Another sphere in which the Jewish leaders would say: the Guardian of Israel neither be welcomed.—The Ed.] helped in the face of demoralising propaganda slumbers nor sleeps I" was the spiritual one. As the attack had been YoMrs etc. CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN SPAIN directed against Dr. Baeck we limit ourselves Oxford. (Rabbi i)r.) O. LEHMANN. to this one example, although there are many. The second anniversary of its establishment By Cabinet Order of May 7, 1883, the "Hoch­ INTEGRATION AND ASSIMILATION has just been marked by the Jewish-Christian schule fiir die Wissenschaft des Judentums " Friendship Society of Spain. became a " Lehranstalt ", to become a " Hoch­ Sir,—In the very interesting article " Limits The Society, set up to combat prejudice and schule " again after the first world war. The of Integration" in your January issue, there remove misunderstandings between Jews and Nazis aboUshed its academic status. Alluding is—as so frequently in discussing Jewish prob­ Christians, has been working in the school text to this Dr. Baeck, then head of the College, in lems—no clear-cut distinction between Inte­ book field seeking to have derogatory or a dangerous and dramatic hour in 1938. began gration " and " Assimilation " misleading references to Jews amended or his public address at the beginning of term as Integration is the transition of the refugee removed. follows: " Formerly we were a Hochschule; from traveller to settler. It means the amal­ Although there is very little active anti­ now we are a Lehranstalt, again ! Gentlemen, gamation with the legal and economic life of semitism in Spain, there is scope to make the time will come when we shall be proud the country of one's choice, and though we Judaism and what is stands for better under­ of having remained a theological college in can certainly never become Englishmen, we stood by the Spanish Roman Catholics.

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