Volume XXXVI No. 6 June 1981 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOOAim OF MVUSH RERKBS « OtEAT BRITAU

C. C, Aronsfeld "FRIENDS OF THE AJR" THE NEO-NAZI SUBVERSION An Urgent Appeal from the Membership Committee Dear Member, IN BRITAIN Our Membership Drive is continuing steadily. So far about 260 new members have been It was perhaps unfortunate for Nigel Fielding's In this respect the several splinters form a enrolled. Recruiting must continue if we are book. The National Front (London. 1981) to appear united Front. In others the original leader and to replace the natural losses inevitable in our just at a time when the subject had fallen to pieces. perhaps the most promising, Jofin Tyndall, now elderly community. At the same time we are I^or there is now no longer one National Front head of the New National Front, has declared the now embarking on a further drive in which ''^F), there are two, the old and the "new", and split "for the time being apparently irreconcilable", we are addressing ourselves particularly to that part of the remnant which did not fancy and his main spite is discharged on the "sexual the younger generation and to all those who, ^'ther settled for a National Front Constitutional perversions" of his former bosom friend Martin for one reason or another, did not wish to Movement if they did not emerge as an almost Webster, the old Front's Minister of Propaganda, join as ordinary members. To attract their bourgeois-sounding British Democratic Party. who, now directing the rump, has retained about support to our cause, we have created Between them, the four at present do not amount to half of the total membership of 4,000; the rest is "Friends of the AJR", a new category of * great deal, if anything less than the original evenly divided among the other three. membership. *hich came to be remarkable for nothing so Having been frustrated in their campaign, they The rights and aims of the "Friends" will •wuch as the number of deposits it lost. may now turn to greater violence. Even in the past, be the same as those of the other members The NF is not perhaps as the publishers gener- Fielding noted an increasing "brutal attitude of AJR. We feel that this new type of pusly claim "one of the most controversial parties towards opposing groups". But here they may well membership will appeal to the children, "1 Britain today", but—there is no telling—it be overtaken by more radical characters crawling relatives and friends of refugees. For this njay yet be: greater improbabilities have happened. out of the rotting body of the NF, notably the purpose we have designed the enclosed The book at all events has confined itself strictly 3,000 of the British Movement ("for Race and recruiting leaflet in the hope that you and '° the past (1973-1976), and much can be learnt Nation") led by 38-year-old ex-milkman Michael every member of the AJR will enrol at least ^id should be remembered from the record McLaughlin, a disciple of Colin Jordan who one new "Friend". Compiled by the learned lecturer in sociology. declared as far back as 20 years ago that "Hitler However scholarship docs not always imply was right". The Old Age Homes and the Social Services Sound judgment, and something does seem wrong It is a sombre thought that while up to now the are required for at least another 10-15 years. "l it "cannot categorically state that the whole current on the "far Right" appears to have The important task of their maintenance •;F is antisemitic". In his desire "not to present been from the extreme towards a measure of can only be secured if sufficient people of |he NF as a Nazi or fascist group", the author moderation, now the direction is reversed. The our background remain interested. We also •s naively impressed by the "numerous members NF is seen as ineffectual, and since votes won't need to enrol the younger people to keep *ho see their party as a modern movement do the trick it is hoped that perhaps violence up the work of visiting the lonely and sick enshrining traditional British values". They prob­ will. Oddly enough. Hitler played the game the and those in the Old Age Homes and ably are not all Jew-haters or alien-baiters, other way round, at least after his putsch, but Flatlets. We need people who will serve on ^ny more than the fools who once voted for Hitler, parallels of history are not parallels of math­ the House Committees of the Old Age 'me was when Germans were still free to decide ematics. Homes and volunteers for the various social nd they were warned. They might have joined services. "e Nazis for reasons very different from anti- Psychological Conditions Please do not let us and yourself down. Enrol ^mitism; the fact was (as a German-Jewish paper at least one "Friend" and thereby ensure the The psychological conditions of course must future of the AJR and that of our work. P^t it 50 years ago) they "cared little that on the seem favourable. Unemployment now may in "iil^estones of that road is inscribed a programme some ways not be as disastrous as it once was but Thank you most sincerely, *nich frivolously denies to 600.000 Germans the it certainly can make for bitterness, especially LORE STEIN ••'ght to exist". among young people when they seek their role j.^here may now well be much the same in- in life, their "identity" and their scope for action. 'uerence to the callousness dressed up as patri- Having achieved at least the distinctive appearance and officers of the Anti-Nazi League were simi­ ''sm, and no more is expected by the demagogue. of skinheads, they will then vent their energies larly attacked. Mosques as well as synagogues ^r Fielding would seem to have lent too much wherever it may seem convenient. The vandals have been daubed with swastikas, in fact dese­ an ear to his chief informant, the former have been with us for quite some time, and from crations of places of worship and of cemeteries jjead of the NF Student Association. He might the dead objects violence has moved on to living are becoming ominously widespread. Further ^^e heeded the experience (which he himself targets, the ancient scapegoats, the strangers, the action is being prepared, possibly as yet on a Quotes) of an American student engaged in similar immigrants, the Jews. small scale, by storing arms, an offence for which ^Search—"the very slight probability of gaining The British Movement is showing the way. several individuals were sentenced to terms of e* information by interview was not worth the "The coloureds", says McLaughlin, "are the imprisonment. McLaughlin himself was convicted "Penditure of time". colonisers of the country; our people are the on charges of inciting racial hatred. the printed evidence is quite enough and the resistance". There is glory for you. They will His faction has much in common with the ref .^"'^use in searching hieyond it might be in bring about "the white man's revolution" in activists of Column 88 whose strength is less well J, ''^ing to consider it credible. It is all there, which their "real enemies", they candidly explain, known than their fanaticism. They also hail from jj.^ old lies and the new whitewash; even Mr. are the politicians who encourage immigration. Jordan's National Socialist Movement which they 'elding cannot help noticing "disturbing parallels So the active terrorism which they contemplate accused of having betrayed the true Nazi creed "h the vdlkisch ideology", in fact "the similarity in the event of Government action would be by diluting its philosophy. They like to think of „ Nazism is clear". The "Jewish question" too is directed against "establishment targets and syna­ themselves as a clandestine paramilitary and "^^tter of increasing importance for the NF", gogues". It has already started with organised intelligence arm of a united Nazi force. Their "^ of course both Jews and coloureds are assaults on both Jews and blacks. A letter bomb Warded alike as sub-human. was sent to the Jewish Labour MP Frank Allaun Continued at column 1 page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION June 1981

Continued from page 1 DISTURBED GERMAN-ISRAEL RELATIONS In a recent TV interview in Bonn, Chancellor Schmidt said: "The Israelis must one day realise that the Palestinians have the right to decide their own THE NEO-NAZI SUBVERSION fate and who should represent them." On the other hand, he stressed that the Palestinians "must one day recognise that the Israelis, like every other people in name is derived from the eighth letter of the alpha­ any intention to exterminate them. Hitler is the world, also have the right to live within secure bet (H), so 88 would stand for Heil Hitler. whitewashed as one who never knew what was and recognised borders as a State". The sf>eech led to Both they and the British Movement maintain going on, and so far as Britain is concerned, it a violent reaction by Prime Minister Begin, in which links with European, especially German friends was after all not he who declared war; as for he stressed Germany's debt to the Jewish people and are usually represented at the international Russia, well, who was right? And so the Big Lie arising from the Holocaust and expressed the view neo-Nazi rally held each summer at Diksmuide of Mein Kampf comes full circle. that, by their policy, the Germans might become under the auspices of the Organisation of Flemish The Government has begun to show a practical instrumental in bringing about a second Holocaust, Militants (VMO). The British contingent for this interest in the situation. In response to urgent which would complete the job which Hitler had not occasion is organised by the League of St George representations from the Joint Committee against which, under the direction of one Keith Thompson, finished. He also reproached the Chancellor for Racialism, an umbrella organisation for the three "arrogance and impudence" and maintained that, as serves as a kind of clearing office for neo-Nazis political parties, the churches and the Jewish and all over the world. The seven-year-old League, a soldier during the war, he "had served in the armies Asian communities, the Home Office has agreed that encircled the cities until the work was finished by with a membership of roughly 300, appears to be on an immediate study of racialist organisations something like a pseudo-cultural and social club the Nazi 'Einsatzgruppen' ". offering a platform to such "patriots" as the in Britain and it will discuss with police chiefs None of us can forget what the Nazis have done to German Nazi Manfred Roeder, the Ku Klux Klan the practicality of setting up units to monitor and our people and all of us realise that material com­ "Wizard" David Duke and the US "Reverend" investigate racist attacks. pensation caimot bring our near ones back to life. On Dr. James Warner who, as publisher of a monthly What precisely will be done must of course the other hand, the last decades were marked by many Christian Vanguard, arranged for a complete depend on the circumstances. Complications may gestures of good will, not only in German Govern­ English translation of the Stiirmer's special "Ritual well arise as a result of a Middle East policy mental circles, but also among the general population. Murder" issue of May 1934. which Jews (and others) would consider ill- They manifested themselves both by the support of The League runs a book-peddling agency called conceived. It has happened before. Thirty-odd Israeli cultural and scientific ventures and by the Sunwheel Distributors which handles such titles as years ago Ernest Bevin's unenlightened efforts to establishment of numerous personal relationships Mein Kampf ("translation approved by the appease the clearly bigger battalions of the Arabs between Germans and Israelis. Without wishing to author"); Twilight over England, by William Joyce were resolutely opposed by British Jewry (not by minimise the political danger which the State has to ("Lord Haw-Haw"), Dr. Goebbels' English broad­ them alone either), and admittedly it was an face at present, outbursts like that of Prime Minister caster who was hanged for treason, and The Hoax embarrassing time. However, the challenge had to Begin are bound to antagonise politicians and people of the 20th Century, by the history-faking be faced, it was overcome and it will not now be of good will in Germany. They also unnecessarily American Arthur Butz, denying the Holocaust. shirked. increase the tragic isolation of Israel in the comity of Also regular publicity is given to "Viking Docu­ Something like a sheet-lightning was seen in nations. mentary Recordings" with "The Sound of Hitler's Scotland where the city of Dundee decided to W.R. Germany" such as "stirring marches, battlesongs, embrace the cause of the PLO by way of twinning rallies, speeches", etc. with the West Bank town of Nablus. The motive was a fond hope of attracting large investment from the Gulf States but the foreseeable effect of the City Hall openly flying the PLO flag was a THIRTY YEARS RESTITUTION OFFICE Appeal to the young rash of anti-Jewish feeling revealed not only in Nazi daubings and the prompt appearance of The The Berlin Senate organised a special cele­ Much of the Nazis' propaganda is directed at Stormer but also in what a Conservative Scottish bration of the 30th anniversary of the opening the young and for this purpose a particularly of the Berlin Restitution Office. In the presence MP called "antisemitic rantings" on the Dundee of the Israeli Ambassador to the Federal Republic repulsive specimen has been produced in the shape City Council which had "shamed the whole of Mr. Yohanan Meroz, Berlin's Reigning Lord of a "comic" called The Stormer which purports Scotland". Mayor Dr. Hans-Jochen Vogel reminded his to be printed and published by two Dublin-based On behalf of the Labour-controlled Council it audience that the office had been unanimously bodies, the National SociaUst Irish Workers' Party was argued that the desecration of the synagogue agreed upon by the Berlin Senate in October 195(), and the National Socialist Party of the United was due to "social and urban deprivation rather at a time when a great part of the city was still Kingdom, both of which are (according to the than antisemitism" but there was considerable in ruins. Its members were convinced that resti­ police) mainly fronts for extremists from Britain force in the point made by the President of the tution was not only a moral but also a legal with intemational Nazi connections. The Stormer's Board of Deputies that if this had to do with the obligation. He thanked all those who had con­ tributed to meet this obligation, in particular "comic strips" would have been a credit to recession, then "the era of the scapegoat is now members of the younger generation who were Streicher's paper. At least 150,000 copies were upon us". Mr. Greville Janner went so far as to not involved in the common guilt, but who had printed in Spain, and many of them have been regard the episode as "of vast importance", "a helped to create a new spirit to overcome the distributed near schools, also at discos, pubs, watershed", though in fact a poll commissioned by past and to work for peace, justice, humanity and youth clubs and football grounds. the Scottish Sunday Mail showed that most citi­ brotherliness. In serving these ideals, they were Similar material in evidence at these places were zens of Dundee do not agree with their Council making sure that the sins of the past would not leaflets by thejas yet insignificant National Socialist and the leader of the local Jewish community be repeated. Party calling for a revolution to fight "Jew-run" received "considerable encouragement" from his schools, the Viking Youth magazine Young Folk fellow-citizens. The Scottish Secretary of State which, recruiting children from the age of 6, delivered himself of a characteristic understate­ boldly proclaims "Death to the enemies of Fiihrer ment when he remarked that Dundee had "really and Fatherland", and the monthly newsletter of not done itself much good". LASTING EFFECTS OF "HOLOCAUST" FILM the Young National Front, Bulldog, which is to be The Nazis naturally will continue to exploit Since the film "Holocaust" was shown on West prosecuted under the Race Relations Act for opportunities like these created by a mistaken German television over two years ago, the Federal publishing material that is "threatening, abusive Middle East policy, while their target remains not Agency for Political Education has dealt with or insulting". The Football Association decided so much Jews or immigrants but the roots of I50,()00 requests for information on the Nazi democratic government. It is this subversion, the period. 70,()00 of these were from West German to probe the situation and found there was nothing teachers on the subject of the persecution of the it could do, at least so long as no sufficient com­ openly avowed revolutionary design that has to be Jews, and young people under 30 had also asked plaints had been received from individual clubs. guarded against. No laws need to be passed by for detailed information on the same theme. While some clubs, in their match programmes, Parliament. They have been available ever since The Federal Agency believes that "Holocaust" have expressed strong disapproval of political the Public Order Act of 1936, and no more than has decreased antisemitic tendencies in West activities in or around their pounds, the majority resolution is required to enforce them. The Gov­ Germany and counterbalanced neo-Nazi activities may well come to agree with the manager of ernment has taken the firm view that "those who and the "Hitler-wave". Public awareness of the Arsenal FC that any action was likely to make say there is some excuse for criminal activities dangers of neo-Nazism and the moral obligation matters worse. make a very great mistake". Nazis are strong men to atone for the past have been heightened. Still only so long as they come up against no resistance in question, however, is whether any truly lasting Meanwhile, on a different level, the antisemitic effect persists. After the showing, there was no subversion feeds on the distortions practised by the or can hope to make fools of sufficiently large change in the number of Germans who believe "revisionist historians" who deny that any Jews numbers. Few lessons in history stand out more that there should be an end to war crimes were ever exterminated or that there even was clearly than this. prosecutions. AJR INFORMATION June 1981 Page 3

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MEETING At this year's well attended Holocaust Memorial HOME NEWS Meeting on May 10, the main speaker was Mr. Simon Wiesenthal, who gave a detailed account of the THE POUCE AND THE RAOSTS ANTI-ZIONISTS SHOCK BAZO SPEAKER Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The function was opened by The head of the Metropolitan Police Com­ About fifty people, some of them Iraqi students, a performance under the heading "Out of the Depths", munity Relations Branch, Cdr. Malcolm Ferguson, attended a British Anti-Zionist Organisation a kind of anthology of the happenings under the has asked the Jewish public to report attacks on meeting recently held in London on the theme Nazis. The participants were members of the younger religious buildings, as well as any distribution of "Nazi-Zionist collaboration in the Second World generation, a particularly gratifying arrangement offensive literature. Such material would be for­ War". One of the speakers, a Jewish anti-Zionist, which helps to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive warded to the Director of Public Prosecutions if was evidently shocked at statements made by among the children and grandchildren of the victims there was any chance of a conviction. Although it members of the ultra-Orthodox sect Neturei Karta, or their relatives. was hard to distinguish between racialism and who declared that the Zionists "thought it worth­ mindless vandalism as a motive for synagogue while" to have the religious majority of Jews in LORD MOUNTBATTEN FOREST daubing, even minor damage should be reported. Europe "murdered in the gas chambers in order The late Lord Mountbatten is to be remem­ The great difficulty in such matters, Cdr. Ferguson to prevent them foimding the State of Israel". bered by the planting of a forest near Nazareth, stressed, was in aaually arresting and convicting Some days previously, the National Union of sited next to the Lady Mountbatten Memorial the hit-and-run culprits. Students had voted at its Blackpool conference Forest. The fund for this was launched by the Among recent attacks, illiterate antisemitic graf­ for the closure of the BAZO stall. Having booked Leeds Jewish National Fund Commission at a fiti were daubed on the Simon Marks Jewish the stall in a fictitious name—"Anti-Imperialism reception in honour of the late Earl's grand­ Primary School in Stamford Hill, accompanied in the Caribbean"—BAZO was promoting, among daughter. Lady Joanna Knatchbull. by theft and vandalism. Following the painting of other books, Alfred Lilienthal's "The Zionist a swastika on a dug-up sports pitch and other Coimection", a so-called exposd of Zionist control such incidents, Haringey Council has set up over the American media and political system. BELSEN RELIEF WORK LEADS TO An NUS spokesman said that, in the light of PENSION CUT cleaning teams to remove racist daubs. As a young medical student in 1945, Andrew On the other hand, a recent letter to a suburban previous contacts, BAZO would have been refused a stall under its own name. Dosseter interrupted his training in order to help newspaper by a National Front spokesman com­ the sick and dying in Belsen concentration camp. plains about increased surveillance by uniformed He went there in response to a Govenunoit police and plain-clothes officers from the new NAZI CAMP HOLIDAY appeal and was seconded to the RAMC from the Community Relations squad. After accusations of After protests from Jewish citizens in the USA, Red Cross. While working in the camp, he fell telephone-tapping, the letter continues: "We con­ The British Tourist Board has withdrawn a holiday victim to the typhus epidemic and, as a result sider that the tactics of the police in relation to pamphlet which recommends inter alia a week­ of medical complications, lost two years of study. the NF are similar to those employed by the end in a "Nazi Camp". When the camp was Now practising in Suffolk, Dr. Dosseter has Soviet KGB or the German GestajKj . . .". opened in Southern England last autumn. Sir learnt that the Department of Health classes him Henry Marking, president of the Tourist Board, as a civilian diuing those two years. Even though said "the camp has nothing to do with Jews or he was decorated for his services, none of this PRnVTING-WORKS BURNT with the tragedy in concentration camps". This is time can count towards his Health Service At Lewes Crown Court, freelance journalist strongly denied in a letter to the Editor of the pension. Manny Carpel was recently sentenced to 2} years Jewish Chronicle by Mr. Terence Prittie, him­ 'n prison after he had pleaded guilty to arson. self a former inmate of several German POW LIBRARIES GROUP ESTABUSHED The building burnt down contained a printing camps. The Nazi "adventure holiday", he states, At a conference in Cambridge, attended by press originzdly owned by the Racial Preservation had features in common with concentration camps, representatives of Jews' College, the Oxford Society and later used to print "Spearhead" and not POW camps. other National Front material. In mitigation it Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies and Leo Was stated that Mr. Carpel had been upset by Baeck College, as well as delegates from the .'gloating in the magazines over the recent bomb­ LORD WEIDENFELD British Library, the Bodleian and many other ing of a synagogue in Paris". The judge said it A new recruit to the Social Democratic move­ archives and institutes, it was decided to establish Was an unusual case, arising out of ideological ment is Vienna-born Lord Weidenfeld. He emi­ a Hebraica Libraries' Group. The object is to ^ncern, but while he could understand the grated to Britain in 1938, where he worked for co-ordinate information and provide mutual defendant's feelings, it would be intolerable to the BBC during the war, thereafter becoming a assistance among the librarians responsible for the allow such conduct. political adviser to Chaim Weizmann, before collections of Hebrew books and documents in founding the publishing house of Weidenfeld & this country. Nicolson. DUNDEE TWINNING STORM CONTINUES AJEX FUTURE ASSURED _ As well as the notorious link with Nablus, the The new national chairman of Ajex, Gerald City of Dundee is twinned with four other towns Bean, dismissed rumours that the organisation ^d has invited the mayors of all five to the The Association of Jewish Refugees la would soon be closed down. Although projected Dundee Festival to be held in July. The Mayor Great Britain talks with the Board of Deputies would deal ?f Wurzburg, however, one of those invited, has with the possibility of a successor to the nation­ informed the civic authorities that he will not reminds members and friends that it will hold its wide defence organisation, this was a move for attend tmless the Palestine Liberation Organis­ the future and Ajex would still play a major role ation flag is removed from the city chambers. GENERAL MEETING for the coming ten years. Its future was assur«i Scottish MPs, the Board of Deputies and the and it would fulfil all its commitments to the local Jewish community are continuing their on Tuesday, 16 June, at IAS pjn. Anglo-Jewish conmiunity. "In fact", said Mr. strenuous endeavours to convince the Dundee at Hannah Karminski House, Bean, "there are immediate plans to widen the Councillors of their wrongheadedness. scope of our activities ... I look forward to the 9 Adamson Road, Swiss Cottage, N.W.3 co-operation of the whole community ... ". (Side Entrance) SWASTIKA .ADVERTISEMENTS REJECTED I JEWISH CEMETERY IN YORK "Exchange and Mart" will no longer accept Archaeologists in York are hoping to make advertisements depicting swastikas. Some advert­ Report on AJR Activities exploratory digs in the Monkgate district, where isers who deal in Nazi regalia have been including Treasurer's Report it is believed that a mediaeval Jewish cemetery "lustrations of their wares, and these, the manage- Discussion may lie. The York Archaeological Trust has iiient acknowledges, "have catised offence and Election of Executive and Board promised not to disturb any graves found and attracted a disproportionate amoimt of attention". The list of candidates submitted by the Executive^ the Chief Rabbi has approved the project. However, the many small advertisements which published on page 8 ^er recordings of Nazi rallies and songs, "Hitler's badge" and other such relics will continue, at n Your House for— 'east for the present. MR. HERBERT LOEBL, OBE, M.Phfl, BSc. FLOOR COVERINGS Newcastle upon Tyne CURTAINS, CARPETS, will speak on SPECIALITY OSMOND HOUSE SLIMMER FAIR A VIEW FROM THE NORTH ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL The Bishop's Ave., London N.2. Mr. Loebl, an industrialist, has written a DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, thesis * on the establishment of industries by Sunday, 14 June at 3.00 pjn. Refugees DUVET COVERS & SHEETS Come and join us with the family. ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS Non-members are not entitled to vote but Cake Stall, Raffle, are welcome as guests at the meeting ESTIMATES FREE Children's Entertainer DAWSONLANE LIMITED (established 1846) Tea £1.00 Space donated by Arnold R. Horwell Ltd. 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK Telephone: 904 6671 Page 4 AJR INFORMATION June 1981

A WITNESS FOR AUSCHWTTZ IN PARIS COURT NEWS FROM ABROAD Fourteen years ago, Robert Faurisson, 52, an CANADA JEWISH LIFE IN HUNGARY associate professor of French literature at Lyons imiversity, began researching the history of Nazi m Grant for Hcrfocaust Tapings Reassurance on the present conditions of the Jews in Hungary was given by Dr. Geza Seifert persecution. He was born at Shepperton to a The Canadian Jewish Congress has set up a of the Central Board of Hungarian Jews, who Scottish mother and a French father and claims fund amounting to £45,500 for the establishment recently visited London. The 100,000-strong com­ to be a left-of-center liberal. Two years ago, he of a Holocaust documentation "bank", while munity, he said, suffered no racial discrimination, published his findings in Le Monde, claiming that double that sum has been allocated by the Cana­ "though there may still be antisemites". Nor was the story of the gas chambers and the genocide of dian Ministry for Multiculturalism to assist in there any interference with religious teaching and the Jews were "one huge historical lie". His article the project. The intention is that survivors of the practice: 30 synagogues and prayer halls were to coincided with one by Darquier de Pellepoix, Holocaust and of Nazi occupation, now living be found in Budapest, where there was also a Vichy minister for Jewish affairs, now exiled in in Canada, will record their experiences on audio­ Jewish library of 20,000 books. Dr. Seifert men­ Spain, who equally denied genocide and wrote: visual tape. Under this scheme, non-Jews will tioned too that the American Jewish Joint Distri­ "The Jews are always ready to do anything to also contribute relevant memories of that time. bution Committee had spent £1 million over the make themselves interesting. The only things the Rock Cult Group Barred years to help Hungarian survivors of the Holo­ Germans gassed, were lice". Both articles started The Way International, a mind-control cult caust. an enormous controversy. Faiu-isson was suspended which combines preaching with rock music, has from his job, attacked in the street, and copies been barred from performances in two imiversities ARNO BREKER UNWELCOME IN PARIS of his books were destroyed in a Paris bookshop. and a polytechnical institute in Toronto. At the Protests from French artists and Jewish sur­ The French Intemational League against Racism Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, the president vivors' organisations erupted when it was learnt and Antisemitism started a prosecution under the cancelled bookings after discovering that, in that Amo Breker was to be represented in an civil code "for falsifying history". The case has addition to its other activities, the group promotes exhibition of European art from 1937 to 1957 at taken 15 lawyers two years to prepare. Famisson books denying the Holocaust. The Way Inter- the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Breker, considered published a 275-page defence of his position in natiotial has some 35,000 supporters in North Hitler's favourite sculptor, was well-known in which he attacked the veteran French historian America. Germany for his immense reliefs and male nudes Leon Poliakov, who had edited detailed accounts symbolising aggression and physical vigour. He of statements by Kurt Gerstein, a junior officer POUSH INTELLECTUALS PROTEST was highly successful, earning nearly 100,000 RM in the SS about gassings he had witnessed in Belzec near Lublin, and the diaries of an SS In an Open Letter to the daily press 121 Polish in 1938. After the war he began a second career, scidpting busts of such famous contemporaries as doctor at Auschwitz, Johaim Paul Kremer who intellectuals protested against the emergence of had witnessed the gassings. Faurisson accused chauvinist and antisemitic elements in the country. President Sadat, and a few years ago published his memoirs. In view of the opposition to Broker's Poliakov of misquoting both and of being "a They stated that a number of publications had fabricator and a manipulator". Poliakov sued. recently spread disinformation among the young visit, however, the curators of the Pompidou by distorting recent history and accusing Jews of Centre have withdrawn their invitation to him. His lawyers have now produced a witness who crimes they had not committed. This follows another rebuff from the City of was hitherto presumed to have died. Baron Goran DUsseldorf, to whom Breker had offered a monu­ von Otter, a 74-year-old retired Swedish diplomat ment in honour of the poet Heinrich Heine. He who on a night in August 1942 had met Gerstein EQUIVOCAL END TO DUTCH on the Warsaw-Berlin express. At the time, von CONTROVERSY had designed the work even before the Nazi Machtergreifung and kept it in reserve throughout Otter was a junior consul with the Berlin Swedish The role played by the Jewish author Friedrich the intervening years. The DUsseldorf authorities embassy, and Gerstein talked to him for 12 hours Weinreb during the Nazi occujwtion of Holland considered it uiifitting that the sculptor "so in­ in a sleeping-car as their train traversed occupied will probably never be cleared up. This was the timately connected with the artistic message of the Poland. Gerstein begged him to tell the world finding of the Dutch Parliamentary Petitions Com­ Nazi period" should produce a Heine memorial. about the gassings he had witnessed and showed mission after an appeal begun six years ago by him documents, identification cards and orders Dr. Weinreb, now aged 71 and living in Zurich. ITALY from the camp commandant for the delivery of During the Second World War, it was said by the hydro-cyanide. The Swede reported the conver­ Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie, he had Dictionary corrections needed sations to Stockholm, but nothing was done. spied on fellow prisoners and betrayed hidden An Italian publisher has been asked to with­ Gerstein who tried throughout the war to expose Jews; this had led to the arrest of 118 people, 70 draw offensive definitions in a recently-published Hitlers 'final solution" programme, died in mys­ of whom were killed by the Germans. In fact, he "Dictionary of the Italian Language" and to hold terious circumstances in a Paris jail in 1945. After was tried on a charge of collaboration with the up sales until corrections have been made. Apart the war, the meeting between the two was reported, occupiers in 1948 and sentenced to six years' from straightforward definitions of the word but until recently, it had not been possible to find imprisonment, of which he served 31 years. "Jew", figurative meanings are given as "usurer, von Otter who was living in retirement. Dr. Weinreb's case is that he hoodwinked the mean or stingy person". The Union of Italian Nazis and saved hundreds of Jews. Many Dutch Jewish Communities, while not unduly alarmed in people support this story and in 1969 he published this particular matter, feels bound to maintain three volumes of memoirs in his own defence. increased vigilance in view of antisemitic incidents Commenting on Dr. Weinreb's complaint against in Italy, about 100 in 1980. Rightwing youths are the Rijksinstituut, one MP said, "There can be no suspected of having daubed the recently-restored doubting the sincerity of those who think him a Leghorn synagogue a short while ago. traitor; on the other hand, neither can there be At a recent conference on the subject of resur­ any doubting the sincerity of those who think him gent antisemitism, sponsored by the Milan Uni­ a hero." versity and the Centre of Contemporary Jewry there, speakers emphasised that Western states and NAZI CONTACT CENTRE IN HOLLAND churches no longer preached antisemitism; never- Following a rash of anti-Jewish stickers in the-less it remained and was now rooted in the diamond quarter, Amsterdam police have growing chauvinism and xenophobia. seized neo-Nazi and antisemitic material from Following outbreaks of antisemitism in Flo­ the printing-house of Siegfried Verbeek, most of rence, Catania and most recently in Rome, it in English. Among the papers confiscated was Cardinal Ugo Poletti said in a radio interview "Haro", which carried Holocaust denials repro­ that "the heart shrinks" when such things occur. duced from American articles and notified Euro­ He called antisemitism a "poisonous miasma" from pean Nazis of a contact centre in Amsterdam, the past. the "Eurowinkel". Archbishop's Palestinian Activities The intemational aspects of this propaganda Despite such signs of friendship as the recent activity have many parallels. In Britain, National feelers towards a possible papal visit to Israel, Front papers apparently emanate from Eire, Italian Jewish representatives have felt obliged to among them the cartoon paper "Stormer", carrying protest to the Vatican concerning talks between Fights Rust "Blood Libel" caricatures and declared by its Cardinal Casaroli and Farouk Kaddoumi, a senior author to be "as harmless as the 'Beano' ". Bilbao member of the PLO. The Vatican "Foreign Newly developed. Zinc compounds is notorious as a fascist publication centre, Minister" denied that these signified any recog­ are some of the finest rust inhibitors.The printing much English-language material, while nition of the organisation. A further point at issue synthetic resin base forms a tough skin, in Copenhagen a recently-established firm issues was the continued activity on behalf of the Pales­ which seals the surface from moisture. such titles as "Mein Kampf" and "Auschwitz tinians by Archbishop Capucci. In 1974, the Greek Lies". Catholic Archbishop had been sentenced to 12 From all good hardware and accessory stores. years' imprisonment after smuggling arms for El Free literature from David's ISOPON, FREEPOST Fatah. His release came in 1977 following an Northway House, London N20 9BR. undertaking by Pope Paul VI that such an act of With acknowledgement to the news service clemency would not harm Israel. Once again, of the Jewish Chronicle. however, the Archbishop is vigorously propagat­ ing the cause of the PLO. AJR INFORMATION June 1981 Page 5 Margot Pottlitzer Dr. Grimfeld and her staff established very good relations with the local population in all its strata, and there were close ties between many children REFUGEE CHILDREN IN WARTIME and their foster-parents. One foster-mother was Before the start of World War Two, Britain, religious enviromnent and customs they had deeply hurt when, after two years, 15-year-old remembering the bombings of the Great War and known at home. Leo, a refugee from Vienna, was to be sent to a fearing worse, made elaborate preparations to On the Friday before war broke out, the Yeshiva. She said: "He is one of ours, how can provide safety retreats for children in London, primary and secondary Jewish schools received he go away like this. It will break my husband's Glasgow, and other big cities. It was an extremely their marching orders—code word "Pied Piper". heart and mine." When the school eventually Well-organised operation, and as soon as war Their several hundred pupils, entire staff including returned to London in August 1945, they gave a seemed inevitable, the evacuation of schools headmaster Dr. Levine and headmistress Dr. concert in the village hall for the foster-parents, began. Jewish schools were among them and they Grunfeld were sent to the large village of Shefford billeting officers and village personalities. When often faced special difficulties at their places of in Bedfordshire and accommodated there and in they left, "the streets were lined with our friends, refuge. several neighbouring villages. They were to re­ there were hugs, moist eyes, farewell scenes. Some main there for six years. folks were really heartbroken and they showed it." The story of the evacuation of one such Jewish To this day "many an old Sheffordian, coming All the children were sent to individual families school is told in a book by Dr. Judith Grunfeld from America, from Australia, or from Israel, to whose enthusiasm was severely lessened when they (Shefford. Soncino Press. 122 pp. £5.80). It is of visit England goes to Shefford to visit his old found out that their charges refused to eat any of great interest for two reasons: generally, it tells a former family. ... At various weddings in Lon­ the food they had lovingly prepared, and later on story with which most people under 40 are totally don in the years after the war, the old landlady that Friday night, even to turn off the light in unfamiliar, and, in particular, because her school and landlord of Shefford were important and their bedrooms. In addition, most of the refugee included an imusually large number of imattached honoured people among the wedding guests. The children spoke very little English. Dr. Grunfeld refugee children from Germany and Austria, and ties lasted a long time and they still survive." some refugee teachers, many of whom had only describes in detail how over the years, the local very recently arrived in Britain. population began to realise the special religious To have helped in establishing these ties is one Dr. Grunfeld was educated in Frankfurt, where restrictions which had led to such disappointment of Dr. Gmnfeld's major achievements. Her simply- she graduated in Natural Science. In the late and became eager to collaborate. They even written and moving reminiscences record a suc­ Twenties, she went to Poland to organise orthodox ordered kosher margarine so that their children cess story, both educationally and in the field of Jewish schools and teacher training colleges, which could have some sort of breakfast before leaving human relations. though they were destroyed during the war, have in the morning. The staff eventually managed to served as models for similar institutions all over provide adequate communal meals and to secure MIXED VIEWS ON TV SERIES the world. In 1933, she came to London and was rooms for lessons and religious services. Their A television history of Zionism, "Pillar of soon appointed headmistress of the Jewish Sec­ final triumph was the approval and support of a Fire", is arousing controversy in Israel. The 19- ondary school, founded by young Rabbi Dr. S. visiting school insi>ector, whose visit had at first part series, the most ambitious ever produced by Schonfeld as the first of many opened after the been dreaded in view of the makeshift arrange­ the Israel Broadcasting Authority, was expected to ments. generate discussion and awaken Israelis to their war. She continued in her job after her marriage past history. Some viewers, however, feel that the to the late Dayan Grunfeld, a well-known scholar Sometimes there is a hint of condescension series makes Zionism appear only as a response and religious teacher and after the birth of three when Dr. Grunfeld speaks of refugee children to antisemitism and moreover that it tends to­ children (a fourth was born during her evacu­ who could not even respond to their own names wards a pro-Arab and pro-British view of the ation). as pronounced by an English senior master, or establishment of the State. Nationalists accuse Dr. Schonfeld who had himself studied in Ger- mentions that the headmaster's English "unlike Israeli TV of subjection to a mafia of self-hatred •nany, was active in organising transports of un­ the English of the German-born teachers and and of presenting only the negative side of Israeli accompanied children from orthodox families in society. "Pillar of Fire" has indeed broken new helpers" revealed his vast knowledge of English ground by presenting the Arab standpoint to Germany and Austria, most of them in late 1938 culture which made him acceptable to the local viewers. Its aim has been to avoid any propa­ and 1939. It is interesting to note that these "higher society". These teachers and helpers were, gandist position, while putting over the message children, placed in orthodox families or hostels, however, greatly missed when, in the course of the that all in all the Jewish people was right to settled in much sooner than children with a war, they were interned for a year. pursue the path of Zionism. uifferent background, because they found the same On the whole, the tact and persuasiveness of BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE 51 Belsize Square, London, N.WJ RENAULT Our new communal hall is available for cultural and social functions. For details apply to: Secretary, Synagogue Office. There's a lot happening at Old Oak. 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Annely Juda Fine Art Come and see for yourself. Old Oak—Service for cars—and people. lITottenham Mev^^, London WIP 9PJ MOTOR o'-637 55>7/8 COMPANY CONTEMPORARY PAINTING AND SCULPTURE OLD OAK LIMITED Mon-Fri: 10 am-6pm Sat: lOam-lpm 79 WINDMILL HILL ENFiaD EI\I2 7AG 01-363-2261 Page 6 AJR INFORMATION June 1981 I F. L. Brassloff Another formative influence which shaped Joseph Simon's outlook was the connection with RECOLLECTIONS OF TWO a Danish Protestant family, with whom he stayed some time as one of the Viennese children of "ASSIMILATIONISTS" the first World War, when starvation plagued After the disappearance of the ghetto walls and prisonment; he emigrated via Czechoslovakia and the population of the once joyful former capital the ensuing emancipation which affected the Jewish France to the United States. His memoirs concen­ of the Habsburg empire. Simon was active in communities, the process of assimilation com­ trate on his Berlin days; he tells about his en­ the Socialist youth and student movements; later, menced in Central Europe and, to a lesser degree, counters with other left-wingers and outlines his in the Austrian fascist era, he participated in also in Eastern Europe. It has become fashionable intellectual development, especially his critical the organization of resistance. Once more, he to give the term "assimilationist" an exclusively non-dogmatic approach to Marxism and to Adler's foimd refuge in Denmark, his second home negative meaning as if the integration of Jews individual psychology. Henry Jacoby is averse country, but had to move from there to the into their gentile surroundings has been one of to self-advertisement and overstatement but it is United States, after the German invasion. He the greatest misfortunes that befell the Jewish significant that he became a distinguished inter­ joined the Army; his unit was sent to Britain, people. This condemnation is, at best, a dangerous national civil servant at the UN Food and Agri­ and from there he returned via Denmark to and misleading half truth. Assimilation is a culture Organization (FAO). After his retirement Austria with the Allied forces. He became a complex phenomenon with, it must not be for­ he published several books, most notably the prominent member of the legal branch of the gotten, many beneficial aspects; Jewish nationalism, sociological study "The Bureaucratization of the American High Commissariat. Subsequently the including Zionism, had also been a kind of World"; he is a respected representative of Amnesty Austrian authorities entrusted him with effecting assimilation. Whatever one's personal views and Intemational at the Geneva branch of the United the re-transfer of important assets held by the feelings, it should not be denied that most as­ Nations. Soviet administration—a particularly difficult and thankless task. Afterwards, Joseph Simon estab­ similated Jews were not lost to Judaism, but Jacoby observes that he never experienced any maintained their loyalty to the Jewish community lished himself as a lawyer in private practice. difficulties because of his Jewish origin, which His untimely death was moumed by many friends while others merged, more or less successfully, does not seem to have bothered him particularly; into the general population. These tendencies who appreciated his loyalty, selflessness and stead­ he is no doubt more clearly aware of it now than fast devotion to his social-democratic ideal. were vitiated by antisemitic discrimination, cul­ in his youth. He notes that several members of minating in the truly racist theory and practices his family—all good German patriots—became Unlike Henry Jacoby, Simon recollects several of National Socialism. victims of the Nazi murder machine. He ac­ instances of anti-semitic hostility, which he ex­ Two recently published books by genuine "as- knowledges that many other young German Jews perienced in school and university and, even more similationists" tell of their experiences and prob­ sought "normalization" by joining the Zionist depressingly, within Socialist party circles at lems: "Von des Kaisers Schule zu Hitlers Zucht- movement, whereas he belonged to those who various levels. Whereas the Berliner manages to haus—Eine Jugend links-aussen in der Weimarer lacked any knowledge of matters Jewish and look at his past with humorous and self-critical Republik" by Henry Jacoby (242 pages, dipa- felt no inclination to learn about them. Not­ detachment, the Viennese remained too deeply Verlag Frankfurt am Main; 1980) and "Augen- withstanding his own critical self-assessment, it attached to his home country and to his party, zeuge—Erinnerungen eines osterreichischen Sozia- is quite likely that his active attachment to which was for him a community of faith, to listen" by Joseph T. Simon (410 pp., Wiener humanitarian ideals had something to do with take lightly such shortcomings as antisemitic Volksbuchhandlung, Vienna; 1979). his Jewish extraction. tendencies. Both Jacoby and Simon had a story Heinz Jacoby (he became "Henry" after his Joseph Simon (1912-1970) was aware of his to tell; they did it well, modestly and sincerely. emigration) was born in Berlin in 1905 into a Jewish background, but not conversant with PRIZE FOR ISRAELI AUTHOR typical Jewish middle class family, whose attach­ Jewish thought and practice. Like Jacoby, he did The city of Wiirzburg has awarded its cultural ment to religious tradition had diminished from not convert to another religion; his "faith", prize for 1981 to the renowned Israeli writer one generation to the next. Soon after the end of transmitted by his parents, was the Austrian Yehuda Amichai who was born in Wilrzburg in World War I, he joined first a small pacifist group branch of democratic Socialism. His father was 1924 as a member of the Pfeuffer family. He and with anarchist leanings, and then—like so many a grammar school teacher in Vieima, and one his parents emigrated to Israel. After serving in young Jewish idealists—the Commimist Party. He of the pioneers of Esperanto. Both parents were the army, Yehuda received a call to the Hebrew was professionally engaged in social work in loyal members of the Labour Movement. Although University in Jerusalem where he teaches liter­ prisons. After the National Socialists had come to the father belonged to B'nai Brith, he was iwt ature. power, his party cell continued activities under­ interested in Judaism. ground. Heinz was sentenced to a few years' im­ Remember to complete his Barmitzvah Israel A special gift for a very special occasion: made by craftsmen, The Champion Swiss Army Knife So Israel may remember you was carried by Chris Bonington and his team on the great ascent of Everest. For years this multibladed pocl

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Most of them came from Berlin in 1931 and also lecturer of the Rabbinical to stand trial. It was he who was responsible for North America and Australia. Since 1961, about Seminary. In 1938, he received a "call" to Man­ the shooting of escaping Russians and some 200 11,000 former Berliners have benefited from the chester, where he held the exalted office of typhus sufferers. Hackmann had only followed scheme, yet a further 13,000 are still on the wait­ Communal Rabbi. During his tenure of office, he superior orders; he was at most an abettor and ing list. founded the Institute of Jewish Studies, modelled therefore protected by the laws of limitation. In Anniversary of Friedrichs-Wcrdersche Gymnasium on the Frankfurt "Lehrhaus". He re-emigrated to Hackmann's time, his counsel continued, the gas- The Friedrichs-Werdersche Gymnasium, which the United States in 1959 to become Professor of chambers at the camp were in all likelihood used from 1908 until 1935 was located in the Bochumcr Jewish Philosophy of Brandeis University, an only for disinfecting clothes; the epidemic of Strasse of the Moabit district, was foimded 300 office he held until his retirement in 1976. Pro­ typhus alone could explain the fact that "such an years ago. Files and several memorial plaques arc fessor Altmann has many outstanding philosophi­ incredible number of people had died in the now deposited in Berlin-Hermsdorf. The Secre­ cal and historical works to his credit and he camp". tary of the "Verein fuer die Geschichte Berlins", continues to give lectures in many countries. In the Frankfurt trial, the hearing shifted to the Dr. Hans-Giinter Schultze-Berndt (Artuswall 48, Among them is his address "Aufklaerung und hospital bed of Walter Fasold, accused of com­ D-1000, Berlin 28) would be grateful for names Kultur; Zur geistigen Gestalt Moses Mendels- plicity in the murder of 180 Jews at Czenstochowa and addresses of former "Werderaner", who might sohns". which has just been published in the in 1943. As in the case of Horst Czerwinski in the be interested in the celebration to be held on the 16th "Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz". His Auschwitz trial, the accused had suffered a heart occasion of the anniversary. biography of Moses Mendelssohn, which deals attack and the authorities were anxious not to "General-Pape-Strasse" with the spiritual, political and economic activi­ abandon the proceedings after nearly five years. The name of this street evokes reminiscences of ties of this sage, has left its mark on the wider A farmer SS-Obersturmfuhrer, Arpad Wigand the tortures and murders of anti-Nazis committed public and has become the most comprehensive ^ces a Hamburg court charged with killing by the SA in the cellars of these former barracks standard work on the subject. Through his interest Polish Jews in 1941/42. Two former police officers from February 1933 onwards. A plaque in mem­ in the AJR and his co-operation with the Leo ^fe also accused of complicity in the crimes. ory of the victims has now been fixed on the Baeck Institute, Professor Altmann has become the Wigand is said to have carried out orders to shoot building and was unveiled by the Mayor of the friend and colleague of many people in our midst. Jews found outside their living quarters and those West-Beriin district of Tempelhof. EGL We extend to him our sincerest congratulations who had not handed over their furs. Further and best wishes for many years of further con­ charges relate to the death of 50 or more Jews EXHIBITION ON GERMAN-JEWISH structive activity. wliile he was in charge of the concentration camp SOLDIERS of Treblinka. He has already spent 15 years in In the re-built baroque castle of Rastatt, Baden, RABBI FELIX CARLEBACH, 70 Polish prisons. which had been badly damaged during the war, Rabbi Felix F. Carlebach, MA (Manchester), an exhibition "German-Jewish Soldiers 1914-1945" recently celebrated his 70th birthday. Born in GOEBBELS BOOK ON STAGE has just been opened by the Defence Secretary Luebeck into a distinguished rabbinic family, he A stage adaptation of Joseph Goebijels' fictional of State Dr. Leister, who reminded his audience came to this country as a refugee. He served as diary "Michael—Ein deutsches Schicksal" is to be of the overwhelming feeling of patriotism which Minister of the Hendon Adass Congregation from produced by the Municipal Theatre of Heidelberg, was felt by German Jews in the Great War. The 1939 to 1941 and of the Palmers Green and '^cini-autobiographical in nature, the book de- Federal Ministry of Defence had republished the Southgate United Synagogue from 1941 until 1946. ?cnbes the attraction of the rising National Social­ letters written home by Jewish soldiers killed in Since then, Rabbi Carlebach has been Minister ist party. The theatre management explain that the war and named two air force barracks after and Headmaster of the South Manchester Syna­ JJ.cir aim is to depict the age which led up to the Jewish fighter ace Wilhelm Frankl who gogue which, with a membership of 850 families, "itler's triumph. However a late report states that the received the Order "Pour-le-Merite" and the is one of the largest of the town. Through his production has been cancelled. socialist member of the Reichstag Ludwig Frank. enthusiasm and energy he has succeeded iii re­ The exhibition will later be on show in various vitalising this congregation. He is actively associ­ AUSTRIA centres of the Bundeswehr, accompanied by his­ ated with many other Jewish and non-denomin­ No support for Gymnasts torical explanations by officers. ational organisations and was Chaplain to four The Vice-chancellor of Austria, Fred Sinowatz, RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIONISTS Lord Mayors. Throughout the years, Rabbi Carle­ pas withdrawn his patronage of the Federal In a recently published book about neo-Nazi bach has taken an active interest in the wellbeing gymnastic Festival to be held by the extreme groups of the extreme right, its editor Jan Peters of the residents of Morris Feinmann House, the "ght-wmg Oesterreichischer Turnerbund. This points out that many right-wing extremists have Home for elderly refugees. We wish our friend "love follows articles in the "Bundestumzeitung" infiltrated conservationist groups, and that con­ Rabbi Carlebach undiminished vigour and health n?ii-"*^ "Junger Bund" questioning whether "six servationist candidates for parliamentary elections for many years to come. million Jews were gassed or only 300,000" and in several of the Lander were almost exclusively Whether or not "Worid Jewry" had "officially members of right-wing organisations. LECTURES AT MARTIN BUBER ueclared war on Germany". The festival was to EXHIBITION nave been held in Villach this summer, but in the The lectures delivered on the occasion of last ^ircumstances the Province of Carinthia is with­ Club 1943 year's Martin Buber Exhibition in Heilbronn holding a proposed subsidy of 500,000 schillings. Vorfraege jeden Montag um 8 p.m. have now been published in Vol. 11 of the im Hannah Karminski House "Heilbroimer Vortracge". Among the speakers, Successful School Project in Vienna 9 Adamson Road, N.W.3. whose contributions are included in the volume, ror just twelve months, an active young group are Albrecht Goes and Dr. Erwin Rosenthal ^ parents have been busying themselves in pre­ 1 Juni. Dr. R.v. Schulze-Gaevemitz: "Die (Cambridge), whose theme was "Die Wissenschaft parations for an autonomous Jewish school in Entdeckung der Erdkugel durch die des Judentums". E.G.L. hra!2*' ^^Pits many obstacles in their way, :> Griechen, (430-330 B.C.) und die Men- Urn ^°^^ primary school has been built in that schheitsidee", adH^ ^"d already there are plans to expand it by 8 Juni. GOETHE INSTITUTE at 7.30 p.m. uing a comprehensive or a secondary school. Film: "Stolen Life" with ELISABETH BERGNER und MICHAEL REDGRAVE. 15 Juni. Kurt Passer: "The Centenary of Offenbach's Death". With musical illustra­ Recital tions. AT LEIGHTON HOUSE 22 Juni. AUSFLUG des CLUBS 1943. "Eine 12, Holland Park Road, W. 14. Fahrt auf der Themse". Von Henley -on- Thames nach Bray. Thnrsday, July I6th, 7.30 p.m. 29 Juni. Karin Reinfrank, B.L.D.: "Aus dem SONGS (Schumaim, Mussorgsky) Leben einer Idealistin. Malvida von Mey- senbug (1876-1903)". PIANO SOLOS (Haydn) 6 Juli. Erwin Seligmann: Lecture on Mexico GabrieOa Gros-Galliner and the Majans. Peter Seglow: Coloiu Robert Aldwinckle Slides. Naeheres ueber den Ausflug wird am Montag, Admission £1.75 incl. wine 1. Juni im Club bekannt gegeben, oder ist zu Tel: 01-452 5010 or at door from 7 p.m. erfahren von Berta Sterly, 883-2158. Pages AJR INFORMATION June 1981

CHAIR FOR GERMAN HISTORY A Chair for German History, to be named after AJR GENERAL MEETING the late historian Richard Koebner, was inaugur­ ated at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. At As readers will have seen from the acnounce- Board: It is proposed to re-elect the following the opening ceremony, Professor George Mosse of ments published in our previous and current members of the present Board: Mrs. O. Albrecht, the University of Wisconsin, the first appointee to issue, this year's Annual General Meeting will Dr. Alice Apt, Mrs. A. Berent, Mrs. R. Berlin, the Koebner Chair, gave a lecture about "Chances be held on Tuesday, June 16, at 7.45 p.m., at Dr. J. Bondi, Dr. W. Breslauer, Rabbi I. Broch, and Failure of National Socialism". Apart from Hannah Karminski House, 9 Adamson Road, him, Moshe Zimmermann, who obtained his Swiss Cottage. Rabbi C. E. Cassell, Mrs. M. Casson, Mr. F. Dannen, Mr. F. Durst, Dr. W. Dux, Dr. R. Elton, doctoral degree at the University of Hamburg, As on previous occasions, the business of the will also teach German History. The Rector of AGM will be followed by a talk on a topical Dr. H. Feld, Mr. R. Fischer, Dr. A. Fleiss, Mrs. the University stated that only a few years ago, subject. This year, for the first time, we can A. Fleiss, Dr. H. G. Francken, Dr. H. Freund, Mr. the establishrnent of a Chair for German History welcome a speaker from the Provinces, about R. J. Friedmaim, Mrs. Elisabeth Goldschmidt, Dr. in Jerusalem would have been unimaginable. whose refugee communities most of our London Ema Goldschmidt, Mr. R. Graupner, Mr. S. F. members have but scanty knowledge. Mr. Herbert Hallgarten, Dr. J. J. Halpem, Mrs. G. Hamburg, ISRAEL AT CAIRO FAIR Loebl, OBE, who will address the Meeting, was For the first time, Israel has been represented at Mr. Herbert M. Hirsch, Mrs Susanne Horwell, an Arab trade fair. Gideon Patt, the Minister of born in Bamberg in 1923 and came to this coimtry Mrs. M. Jaooby, Mr. E. C. Kent, Mrs F. in 1938. He studied Electrical Engineering at King's Commerce, declared at the Cairo Industry Fair College, Newcastle, and, in 1951, from small Kochmaim, Rabbi Jakob J. Kokotek, Mr. W. M. that Israel would not hesitate to transfer a large begiimings set up his own manufacturing business Lash, Miss J. Lee, Dr. Rita Lehmann, Dr. G. Leon, part of her current trade with Europe to deals in scientific instrumerts and electronic devices. Dr. F. Levy, Mr. A. Lieberman, Mrs. Ilse with Egypt. He was hopeful that trade between When he retired as chairman in 1974, the firm Loewenthal, Dr. E. G. Lowenthal, Dr. E. Magnus, the two countries would reach an annual billion- employed over 650 people. In 1978, Mr. Loebl Mrs. M. Mautner, Mr. H. C. Mayer, Mrs. Gabriele dollar level from the present monthly turnover of was awarded the Degree of Master of Philosophy Meyer, Mrs. L. Meyer, Dr. L. Nelken, Mrs. M. over two million dollars. by the University of Durham for a Thesis on Pottlitzer, Mr. W. R. Powell, Dr. Eva Reichmann, "GOVERNMENT PREVENTS "Government-financed Factories and the estab­ Dr. E. Reifenberg (Gabriele Tergit), Mrs. M. RESURRECTION" lishment of Industries by Refugees in the Special Richmond, Mr. J. Sachs, Mr. W. Salinger, Mrs. In Mea Shearim, Jerusalem's orthodox quarter, Areas of the North of England 1937-1961". By Charlotte Salzberger, Mr. F. Samson, Mrs. Ruth protests against autopsies and transplants were this work, he has done spadework on a subject, staged, culminating in a banner reading "Israeli which so far has not yet been comprehensively Schneider, Mrs. A. Schwab, Mrs. D. Segall, Mr. P. E. Shields, OBE, Mr. Julius Strauss, Dr. Government prevents resurrection". The protest explored and which is of essential importance for even extends to autopsies where murder is sus­ the history of our community. Mr. Loebl wras U. Tietz, Mrs. Eva Trent, Mrs. H. Ury, Dr. pected, as the orthodox believe that there can be awarded the OBE in 1973 and is a member of Valerie Wills, Dr. Chariotte Wittelshoefer, Mr. F. no resurrection unless the body is buried whole. the Economic and Social Committee of the S. Worms, Mr. H. Wreschner. European Communities. SEEN AGAIN IN NAZI PHOTOS It is proposed to elect as new members Mrs. H. The talk will be preceded by reports on the After many years, the organisation of Polish activities and finances of the AJR and the election Lieser, Mr. G. Selby, Mr. H. Wetzler. Jews in Israel has succeeded in obtaining a of Executive and Board members. The following The Board also includes representatives of the collection of nearly 5,000 pictures of Jewish election proposals are submitted by the Executive. Provincial groups. deportees from South-West Poland. The Nazi occupiers took photographs of the victims, almost Committee of Management (Executive): The all of whom died at Auschwitz, and the collection following members of the present Executive stand ISRAELI MEDAL FOR PRESIDENT was left in an SS office to be found after the war. for re-election. They are: Mr. A. S. Dresel (Life When Moshe Meron, vice-president of the It came into the possession of the Warsaw President), Mr. C. T. Marx (Chairman), Dr. F. E. Jerusalem parliament called on Federal President Institute for Jewish History and a few months ago Karl Carstens with a delegation of Knesset mem­ was sent to Tel Aviv, where it is available for Falk (Vice-Chairman), Mr. L. Spiro (Treasurer), bers, he presented him with a beautiful medal Mrs. S. Taussig (General Secretary), Dr. W. inspection. In many cases, family and friends have showing the parliament building in Jerusalem. recognised portraits of the deportees, who in­ Rosenstock (Director), Mrs. R. 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Talaphon*: 0922-24649 or 0922-22098 T*l«x: Chacom G Waliall 338212 LEJES AJR INFORMA'nON June 1981 Paft9 Eva G. Reichmann POSTSCRIPT BY THE EDITOR Like Eva Reichmann, I have had the privilege of getting to know Robert Weltsch's outstanding personality at close quarters, when he lived in ROBERT WELTSCH-WARNER AND MENTOR London for more than three decades. As editor of this journal, I feel the urge to pay homage to him "A young man asked me: its emergence was the only ray of hope. To as the doyen of the Jewish publicists of Con­ What does it mean to be old. proceed within these circumstances according to tinental origin. He himself summed up the various It means, I told him. strict moral principles overstrained human possi­ phases of his eventful life when he was honoured That I can overlook bilities. by the Leo Baeck Institute at last year's function The lives of many people I have known. The conditions prevailing to-day are proof that in Jerusalem. It means that I wish them, As I wish myself, the triumph of expediency brought its own dismal His birthday article for Lola Hahn-Warburg, A life of three hundred years consequences. What could not be achieved by which appeared in our previous issue, bears wit­ So as to overlook even more. renunciation and compromise has still to find a ness to his memory of events dating back more Because every other span which one kiiows satisfactory solution. It threatens to be resolved than half a century. In his accompanying letter Makes life more astounding, more questionable. by political decisions whose consequences cannot More hopeful, more intelligible to the manuscript he wrote that Lola had de­ be foreseen. Robert Weltsch's teachings and scribed him as the only one left over from the And more inexplicable". warnings have been counteracted by events. And Would Robert Weltsch agree with the statement time of Weizmann's glory. Yet Robert Weltsch yet, the events, inexorable though they appear, does not just live in the past. Throughout the of Elias Canetti? He would, I assume, recoil from would assume a different character had they not the request to live three hundred years. He will years, he has not been a detached observer of been preceded by those earlier aspirations whose the Jewish scene but an active chronicler and, be ninety on June 20th—a great blessing for all mouthpiece he was. What is to be seen to-day as of us who love and revere him, and, we hope, above all, a courageous fighter, whenever he felt tragic failures of high-minded intentions would that human values were in jeopardy. His publi­ also for himself if he succeeds in feeling—as we stand in the bare light of stark reality, neither Would implore him to do—that our love and cations stretch from spontaneous comments on good nor bad—the undisguised facts of political current events to analytical essays in which he reverence is an acceptable compensation for the inevitabilitv. vicissitudes of a long life. scrutinises the wider issues involved. Reacting to Regarding the other wishes of Elias Canetti we problems at stake, he has, whenever he considered it essential, raised a warning voice which has not, need have little doubt: Robert Weltsch would Fighting for moral values share them wholeheartedly. The tireless investi­ as he sometimes assumed, become a voice in the gator of things old and new, of topics, experiences That Robert Weltsch in unison with his like- wilderness. Simultaneously this widespread know­ and their coimotations, is sure to share our wish minded friends did gauge Zionist policies from ledge inside and outside the Jewish sphere has that he go on questioning and elucidating that the start against the question of moral admissi­ been beneficial for his scholarly work as editor enigmatic world around us—making it "more bility, that they continue to ventilate the same of the Year Books of the Leo Baeck Institute. intelligible", even if also "more inexplicable". issues to-day in fundamentally different circum­ "In every human being", he wrote in 1965 (An stances, prevents ruthless reality from becoming the only yardstick to be applied. Due to them der Wende des modernen Judentums, Tubingen The friends in London 1972), "the belief in the absolute, unfathomable reality in Israel can never be judged without seeing and inexpressible fights with the absurd necessity it against the background envisaged by its found­ On the personal side, he has developed bonds of to express it all the same, to explain it, to make it ing fathers. Weltsch's great friend Martin Buber friendship with many in our midst. Whenever I comprehensible". It has been our good fortune preached: If we Jews are not to be more than pass Credition Hill, I remember my numerous that those very last secrets have not always been any other nation of the earth, we shall not even calls at his place. The untimely death, three years the only ones into which Robert Weltsch's probing be a nation like the other nations. To be different ago of his wife, Irene, who was equally near to spirit has striven to penetrate. The field of his has been the law of our existence since its very us, brought this 30-year period of his life in observations and expositions has generally lain beginning. It has governed our lives as individuals London to an abrupt end. He returned to Jerusa­ within our own reach, thus benefiting the queries and is destined to govern Jewish life where it lem, where special arrangements for his stay in of our own lives. But at all times has it been the has assumed national identity. Normalization is one of the homes for elderly Central European specific of his reasoning that between the facts easier to bear than lack of normality. The gravity immigrants have been made for him. There, he of everyday life and the abiding truths supposed of political concentration pulls towards any lower is provided with the attendance required for a to govern than, a manifest relationship must be level offering easier conditions. If we listen to man of his age and, as far as this is humanly seen to be established. Day to day matters are Robert Weltsch we will realise that giving in to possible, with the privacy he needs for the con­ |>eing dealt with by him conscientiously and these forces of gravity in Israel as well as in tinuation of his work. instructively. But never have they been allowed the Diaspora contradicts the fundamental law of to darken the awareness of their authentic mean­ Jewish existence. Aberration there will always be. Having retained his mental alertness to a full It will probably shape the face of the Israeli body extent, he follows up new publications not only ings within our multifarious existence. It is to to enrich his own knowledge but also to use them these, in actual fact, that all his endeavours have politic for the foreseeable future. But it will never remain unchallenged. The challenge held as starting points for articles which open new always been devoted. vistas to the readers. His creativeness and the Nearly every article of Robert Weltsch might out by Robert Weltsch and his friends cannot be obliterated. If one generation in the turmoil of conciseness of his style are as outstanding as they serve as proof for his abiding submission to have been in his younger years. absolute values. For topicality's sake only one war and regeneration neglects its vocation the example need be mentioned, where bygone problems next one will rediscover it, even if it is only as "AJR Information" has benefited from his co­ cast a meaningful light on the most intractable a constant warning against the comforts of com­ operation since its inception, and whenever an present ones. As early as 1925, that is before placency. Too deeply has it been interwoven with article by Robert Weltsch appears in these col­ the most fateful clashes of political entities, he the sources of Jewish national renascence. umns, the echo is particularly widespread. As an raised his warning voice against "a senseless Will Robert Weltsch, our wise nonagenarian, experienced craftsman, he has retained his un­ chauvinism in the face of a nation with whom share the daring expectation? He will certainly matched punctuality also after his removal to to co-exist fate has destined us". He never hesi­ endorse the statement that, the longer one lives Jerusalem. Depending on the more or less reliable tated to make himself unpopular by censuring the "more questionable and inexplicable" life services of the postal authorities, he always makes ^11 temptations to neglect the rights of the Arab appears. But will he also find it "more hopeful?" a special, and successful, effort to abide by the population of Palestine. The aim of Zionism, he He is much too modest to claim that the guid­ time-table. emphasised over and over again, caimot be an ance he never tired of offering may be judged What makes the consigimients of his, self-typed, exclusive Jewish state, but a "state of two nations indelibly engraved into the Jewish consciousness. manuscripts particularly valuable is the custom 'n whose framework both nations—Jews and Arabs As a writer of rare excellence he must accept that they are always accompanied by personal —have their full rights". the solemn duty of being considered a classic. letters, in which he not only writes about himself The politics of yester-year have become history. Classic erudition and expression is not offered but also enquires about the well-being of his Robert Weltsch's maxims may have over-estimated for the day. It is timeless and liable to rejuven­ London friends. The intensity with which he the possible. No responsibility is to be appro­ ation. It is inscribed into history. follows up their lives re-affirms his de priated if it is stated that his warnings have not Robert Weltsch's work is part of Jewish history. of attachma been—could perhaps not be—heeded. This re­ His 90th birthday is to us a day of thanksgiving and feelings a| sponsibility would have to be looked for on all jubilation. May he live through it with at least behalf of sides participating in the creation and develop- a slight reflection of the beneficial light he has birthday nient of the state of Israel. Israel was born out of shed on our turbulent times and on us, his tragically unfortunate circumstances within which grateful disciples. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION June 1981

production of Ihe play (heavily cut of course lo suit Ihe eleven age-average of the cast) was Letters to the Editor recently mounted by Ihe Hall School (Senior) in Crossfield Road, N.W.3, in which Ihe Shylock part was also played by boys of Jewish blood; and JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN BAVARIA "WHEN MEMORY COMES" in which the nobility of Shylock, the stranger Sir,—Looking at it from the outside attd being Sir,—In his interesting review of Saul Friedldn- within a wicked world in Belmont as in Venice, impressed by the respectable presentation of the der's "When Memory Comes" Robert Weltsch sum­ vairdy attempted to enforce fair living for himself Ophir-Wiesemann book on "Die fiidischen Ge­ marises Ihe picture of Friedldnder's father as and his family. I was not aware of a trace of meinden in Bayern 1918-1945", reviewed in the follows:—"He had only two passions, music anti-semitism throughoul; I was aware of the March issue of "AJR Information", that fairly (Chopin) and books but studied law and became viciousness of the gentile world towards all who recent publication may appear quite "meticulous", a leading director in an insurance company. dared intrude upon it—all Shylock, Morocco, in particular as far as the smcdl communities are Judaism remained in the background, but it was Arragon alike. concerned. However, 70 per cent or more of the there. That was the decadent Jewish bourgeoisie 10 Belsize Park Gardens former Bavarian Jewish population lived in larger al Ihe beginning of the century". London NW3 cities such as Munich, Nuremberg, and others, If Friedldnder senior was "decadent", I am totalling eleven. Here the book does by no means proud to be equally decadent, and I am also C. H. GUTTMANN show the desirable accuracy. In the first place, proud that rny parents and grandparents were Ihe pre-1933 period is given too little or even similarly decadent. Let us leave it to our enemies "FINANCIAL TIMES" EDITOR insufficient attention. Secondly, too much emphasis to denigrate the emancipation of Central European Mr. M. H. "Freddy" Fisher retired as editor is laid on the significance of both orthodox and Jewry from the ghetto, in spite of its tragic end of the Financial Times at the age of 58 to begin Zionist minorities and their institutions and re­ one of the greatest periods of our history. a new career as a banker with a senior post at presentatives as compared with the by far larger and F. HELLENDALL S. G. Warburg. In its farewell article, the more effective liberal ("Bavarian-Jewish") majo­ Financial Times describes Mr. Fisher as a mem­ rities without whom the small groups would have Dr. Robert Weltsch, whom we asked for his ber of "that distinguished group of British hardly been able to exist. A third objection arises comment on Mr. Hellendall's letter, writes: citizens who were forced to flee the Nazi regime from the choice and varying manner by which the "In my view, Mr. Hellendall's grievance is in pre-war Germany." He was born in Berlin, Bavarian Jewish personalities are presented in the based on a complete misunderstanding of my where his parents' friends included Artur Schna­ book. Would it not have been worthwhile for the text. I had not the chuzpa to say that 'Friedlaender bel and Otto Klemperer. After his release from Editors of the book to consult in time one expert senior was decadent'—on the contrary I said that internment during the war, he joined the army or another on the subject? For we shall soon this man, whom neither of us could have known, and landed in Normandy in June 1944 as a find that such advice is no longer available and must have been a man of high individual culture trooper with the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars. obtainable. and intellectual interest. What I said was that the (Dr.) E. G. LOWENTHAL (Beriin) residue of Judaism in those Jewish families at MORE MASCHA KALEKO POETRY that time was actually in a stage of disintegration, Gisela Zoch-Westphal, the Ziirich actress who THE BERNHEIM PETITION or call it 'decadence', although somehow it was administers the poetess Mascha Kaleko's literary Sir,—With reference to the article "David and still there. This is quite obvious from the de­ bequest, has discovered a second lot of unpub­ Goliath" (your December 1980 issue) I should scription of Friedlaender junior who was born in lished poetry by the poetess who died in Zurich in like to mention that Ihe success of the Petition 1932 and went with his nurse to churches but did 1975 and has published it in Berlin (Arani Verlag, is also due lo Dr. Georg Weissmann, who lived not know of the synagogues and Jewish monu­ I OCX) Berlin 31) together with a short appreciation in Upper Silesia and later emigrated to Israel, ments nearby. This residue of an indeed decadent of her life and work. E.G.L. where he died in 1963. Together with Dr. Emil residue of Judaism became very important to Margolius, who is mentioned in Ihe article, the Saul Friedlaender in his later life." THE JEWS OF TAUBERBISCHOFSHEIM petition was prepared by him and put before the The town council of Tauberbischofsheim un­ League of Nations. "MERCHANT" NOT Al^JTISEMITlC veiled a commemorative plaque fixed near the Further details may be found in the article by Sir,—/ read with great interest your refererwe entrance of the town hall to remind future gener­ Ihe late Dr. Weissmann about "Die Durchsetzung to the comments on the recent Shylock portrayal ations of the once numerous Jewish conmiunity des Juedischen Minderheitsrechts in Oberschlesien (Warren Mitchell) in the BBC production. While who were deported on 2nd October 1940. The 1933-1937", published in the Bulletin 22 (1963) of I fully concur with the deplorable, whining, town mayor, Mr. Hollerbach, said that this was Ihe Leo Baeck Institute. Shylock we were shown, I do not accept the play done in the spirit of repentance and mourning. Hollenbeckerstrasse 23 as such as being anti-semitic. Without going into A former Jewish inhabitant, Mr. Emst Rosen­ 4400 Muenster literary discussions, I feel it might be of interest to stock, who now lives in Tel Aviv, expressed the (Prof. Dr.) BERNHARD BRILLING your readers lo learn that a not unsuccessful hope that the Jewish past would not be forgotten.

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HYMAN SHAPIRO The death has been aimounced of Hyman Louis OBITUARY Shapiro at the age of 62 in New York. A South African pharmacist, in 1946 he volimteered for work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution DR. WALTER BRESLAUER MGR. ANTONIO SANTIN Committee, where he helped to plan the rehabili­ Dr. Walter Breslauer died at Osmond House in his Bishop of Trieste from 1938 to 1974, Monsignor tation of Jewish displaced persons in Europe. 91st year. He was a co-founder of the AJR and, for Antonio Santin has died at the age of 85. It was Later he was involved in Operation Magic Carpet, many years, Vice-President of the Council of Jews he who, when the Italian racial laws were passed when the Yemeni Jews were brought by air to from Germany. An appreciation of his outstanding in 1938, asked for a meeting with Mussolini at Israel. Mr. Shapiro's career spanned many inter­ personality and his signal services to our community which he expressed the utmost disapproval face national agency posts and took him to many ^rts will be published in our next issue. to face with the dictator. During the war, Mgr. of the world, notably India—where he spent eight Santin intervened to prevent Croatian Jewish years working for the UN Children's Emergency refugees being retumed to the puppet state; he Fund—Europe and America. EDWARD LASKER also preserved the Trieste Jewish community's Berlin-born Edward Lasker has died in New scrolls of the Law from the Nazi occupiers. HERMANN YABLOKOFF York at the age of 95. He emigrated to the United Hermann Yablokolf, head of the Hebrew Actors' States as a young man and there, although trained Union since 1945, died recently in New York at *s an engineer, he made his name as a chess the age of 77. After emigrating to the USA from master in the years 1915-1930, following in the Poland in 1924, he organised scores of Yiddish footsteps of his distant relative Emanuel Lasker. WALTER WALLICH theatrical productions, but the high point of his Mr. Walter Wallich died recently after 30 years of career came in 1947, when he toured the camps LORD RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL devoted work with the BBC, first in the External for displaced persons in Europe. Appearing in Lord Russell of Liverpool, who died recently at Services, then as a news editor and finally in the 94 camps, he gave 104 performances to a total the age of 85, was the author of a famous indict­ Current Affairs Department. He was born in Germany audience of nearly 200,000 refugees. ment of Nazi crimes, "The Scourge of the in 1918, the son of a distinguished banker, and came MRS. TRUDE STERN ^wastika". A senior legal adviser at the Nurem­ to this country in 1933, where he later won a scholar­ Mrs Trude Stem, well-known for her charitable berg war crimes trials. Lord Russell had worked ship at King's College, Cambridge. At the end of his work in Cardiff, died recently in Israel, where 'n the Judge Advocate-General's department of war service, he established the radio station in the she had lived since 1972. Mrs. Stern and her military law for many years. Rather than with­ British sector of Berlin under the auspices of the late husband Simon came to the Rhondda Valley draw his book from publication, as the Lord Control Commission. Mr. Wallich always took a great from Fulda in 1938. 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Particular areas to be covered include discussed and often the subject of heated debates, the distribution of books expounding NSDAP Czinner (1939) on June 8th, "Nachtdienst", a but who certainly is one of the most prominent ideology, such as "Mein Kampf"; at present this comparatively new production (in German, with modern German dramatic authors, is 60.—Mari­ is not illegal, providing the work is simply re­ English subtitles) on June 10th, and the highly anne Hoppe, Rostock-born, for years the top printed without anticonstitutional comment being successful "Pfingstausflug" in which Bergner and attraction of the Berlin Gruendgens ensemble, and added. The law against publications denying the Martin Held excel as a couple of old-age pen­ even to-day a much sought-after stage actress, cele­ Holocaust and other Nazi crimes is to be sioners, on June 15th. All performances are at the brated her 70th birthday.—Curt Bois, the sad-faced strengthened; although survivors and their rela­ Goethe Institut, Princes Square, Kensington, start­ comedy actor whose activities have ranged from tives can start proceedings against such claims, ing at 7.30 p.m. Herr Schmude believes that the Government operetta and cabaret to r61es in Brecht's "Puntila" should be empowered to prosecute the offenders Vienna Tif-Bits. There will be a seminar for and Brandon Thomas' "Charley's Aunt", and who directly. A third point to be covered is the sale pantomime between 27 July and 8 August, under worked with equal vigour in Vienna, Berlin and of Nazi emblems and regalia, mostly imported the direction of the Israeli artist Samy Molcho. Hollywood, received many congratulations on the into Germany from North America and elsewhere. A kosher restaurant, named the "Caesarea", pro­ occasion of his 80th birthday. SOCIALIST MEDICAL CONGRESS I93I viding oriental and Viennese specialities opened Obituary. The German film actor Hans Soehnker Material Required in Vienna's Seitenstettengasse. has died at the age of 77.—Kammersaenger Karl On 31 May 1931, the first (and last) Congress of The Diary of Anne Frank, recently once more in Friedrich, a member of the Vienna State Opera Social Democratic Doctors was held in Leipzig. the news, is still frequently performed in Germany. for several decades, best known as a Verdi tenor, A photo, depicting participants of the function Earlier this year, it was included in the repertoires has been preserved. It shows about 60 person­ died in Vienna. He was 75.—The death at 75, has alities (mainly Jewish or of Jewish origin). Whilst of the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus and Staatstheater occurred in London of libretto writer Siegfried it has been possible to identify the names and Braunschweig. An impressive performance was Tisch, who apart from his numerous hit songs, ascertain the fate of about 30 of them, there are also recently arranged by the Hampstead Parish made his name between the wars with the lyrics others whose fate is unknown or who could not be Church. of many successful musicals (among them "Das identified at all. In connection with some scholarly A Quizmaster's Life. Quizmaster Hans Rosenthal Ministerium ist beleidigt" and "Warum liigst Du, work about the role of progressive doctors in is at present one of the most popular figures of Cherie?"). In later years, writing under the name Weimar Germany, it would be greatly appreci­ German Television. Rosenthal, who was hidden ated,^ jl any participants of the Congress or of Fred Tysh, some of, J'"* nnmhprc ...or» sune admirristeri*^ theirs, who could give any inform- during the war years (when he lost nearly all his and recorded by, amoi"''°"B.'' somehow it was beauest ha '" touch with: Prof. S. 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