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HellenHaU to the front which had nothing to do with the front at which tbe Wehrmacht fought". As if the front of the Wehrmacht in Hitler's war could be separated from the front of the THE JEWISH PAST THROUGH GERMAN EYES SS murderers?! In 1977, in the middle of a revival ol the by the Nazis, Leo Sievers, tbe author, states It is perhaps not surprising that in this *J^er cult, the Hamburg mass circulation that the main purpose of this solemn act was attempt at whitewashing Prusso-German *^kiy "Der Stem" made a courageous "to counteract the deeply rooted opposition of militarism, there is no space for one matter P'^nipt to bring to the knowledge of the the Reichswehr and the old families of Pms- in the "Stem" book: Mamy German Jews West German public something which had siam officers and civil servants against the joined the resistance against Nazism in Ger­ ^een almost completely unknown to it: Par obscure Austrian". As if the "obscure many and gave their lives in this fight. Others T^ks, it published a series of articles imder Austrian" who began his political career as an carried on this fight from abroad, and during •~® heading "Jews in Germany, the History informer for the Army in Munich, could ever the war many joined the Allied Forces in tbe r*^a Tragedy of 2,000 years". Probably for have seized power without the active help fight against Hitler. We have no reason to be ^ first time millions of readers had an and support of just those circles who Sievers ashamed of this record. ^pPortimity to become acquainted with the alleges were "opposed" to him. Describing Nor do we find in this History of German "^tory of their erstwhile Jewish compatriots. the reaction of German Jewry to the events Jewry a word on the contributions which . These articles have now been published of 1933 he quotes as his only source Profes­ German Jewish survivors made to the culture ^ book form,* and here we find this history sor Schoeps, who submitted a memorandum and the economic and technical life of the Parting with the conquest of parts of Ger- to Hitler suggesting some method of "integra­ countries in which they found refuge. ^any by the Roman armies which brought tion" of the Jews into the Third Reich. The It is unfortunate that thus the last Chapter ^^^ them Jewish slaves and later Jewish same Professor Schoeps is now quoted as say­ of the book mars this otherwise praiseworthy pttlements on the Rhine, Main and Danube, ing as am excuse for his erstwhile lack of attempt at writing a popular history of German oilow^ed by waves of persecution starting foresight—to put it mildly: "Nobody could Jewry which, in the words of Leo Baeck, came ?^th the Crusades in the eleventh century have imagmed in any possible way between to an end in 1933. ^ periods of reconstruction and further 1933 amd 1935 what crimes the Nazis would commit one day. Who alleges anything like * Leo Sievers. Juden in Deutschland. Die GeKhlcht* ^^ecution and eventually by emancipation einer 2000 JShrlgen Tragfidle.—Ein. Stern-Buch: Verlag ^^ assimilation, ending with the seizure of this, is a liar". At the risk of being called a Gruner & Jahr A. G. & Co.. Hamburg. DM 32. *^^r by the Nazis and the holocaust. liar by the professor, the writer of this review must confess that there were many of us who •• A review ol a recently written book about the history This history is written in a fluent, some- realised at once after the seizure of power of the "Frontbund" will b« published in one of our next P^^ even flippant style and succeeds in its amd certainly after the Reichstag fire that the issues.—The Editor. ^^n aim to popularise the essential facts of Nazis were a gang of criminals whose batUe J^erman Jewish history-. The book describes cry "Juda verrecke" was meant seriously. •jO* Jews played an important part even in Even if in 1933 we did not know by what GERMAN RIGHT-WING TRENDS /'s early days. It was a Jew, Isaac, who method this aim would be achieved, many In a Federal German Governmental report Drought the precious gifts from Harun-al- Jews and non-Jews knew what was going on f^hii to Charlemagne in Aachen in 802, and it was stated that in 1977 the number of Right- in the Storm troop cellars as early as March, ^ving excesses had doubled as compared with pother Jew, Kalonymos, who saved the life 1933, and that this was only a foretaste of J Emperor Otto II when he had been de­ things to come. Is Professor Schoeps quoted 1976; they amounted to 616 as against 319. lated by the Saracens in 982. The book sets to strengthen the myth that the German Whereas previously swastika daubings and j.^t the life stories of great German Jews people did not know what was going on? desecrations of Jewish cemeteries were pre­ .^^ the Minnesanger Siisskind von Trimberg, dominant, later on cases in which neo-Nazis .!** Jewish financier Michael von Derenberg, As representative opinions of Germaii had obtained money and ammunition by force J"* first advocate of Jewish rights, Josel von Jewry in the early days of the "Third Reich" stood in the foreground. There are at present ihsbW iTSheim, Gliickel von Hameln and finally Sievers only quotes the views of the "Deutsche 17 neo-Nazi groups, several of which were ts •"<' '^oses Mendelssohn. Vortrupp", led by the same I*rofessor found to be in possession of explosives. There FroifJ All this is well written although more than Schoeps, Dr. Naumamn's "Verband national­ also exist 30 extreme Right-wing publishers lomef ^'^e chronological sequences get mixed up. deutscher Juden" and the "Reichsbund and distributors, and the demand for Nazi lit­ ?^ the history approaches the final catas- juedischer Frontsoldaten". The attitude of erature, films, records and symbols is on the ^Phe of 1933, the author gets carried away the "Vortrupp" amd the "Verband national­ rise. Among the organisations which com­ r^th his eagerness to show how attached deutscher Juden" were treated with contempt by the vast majority of German Jews, and the prise more than 5,000 members, the "Deutsche y^JTnan Jews were to their fatherland. Apart Volksunion" under the leadership of Dr. Frey J''<>in the fact that the description of the more policy of the "Reichsbund juedischer Front­ soldaten" after the ascent of the Nazi regime is the most important one. In 1977 it organised ^<*nt period is not free from serious errors, four spectacular mass meetings. The "Deut­ !'";h as alleging that Heine became a French met equally sharp criticism and was in no way ^tizen, the author devotes a disproportionate representative of the views prevaUing at the sche Nationai-Zeitung", edited by Dr. Frey, has mount of space to show the Jewish contribu- time.** The responsible organisations of Ger­ a circulation of 100,000 copies and tries to in­ .?! to the Prussian and German military man Jewry which were able to continue their crease its readership by "Hitler headlines". work imtU 1938, concentrated on organising Commenting on the situation, the report rom ^«ort since the so-called "Wars of Liberation" tteres' ^ chapter which with the benefit of hind- emigration and resettlement particularly of states that the security authorities of the ^ht appears pathetic. The book is superficial the younger generation of German Jews. To a "Bund" and the "Laender" have taken all nec­ "''a one-sided in its description of Jewish large extent it is due to their efforts and not essary measures against the illegal actions of 24 hf- faction to anti-Semitism in tiie more modem the antics of eccentrics like Professor the Right-wing extremists. Never before had rite: I^eriod. Schoeps and the late Dr. Naumann that a there been so many proceedings and convic­ jThis defect becomes more serious when the considerable proportion of the younger genera­ tions as in 1977. Generally, criminal proceed­ EO °^k deals with the Hitler period itself. Des- tion was saved. ings are described as the most efiective coun­ P^bing the "Day of Potsdam", the solemn act Sievers lets the cat out of the bag when he ter-measures. In addition, steps are also taken y which Hindenburg gave official sanction to describes the work of Globotnik, one of the if the laws of assembly or the relevant clauses •le Hitler regime a few weeks after the terror SS leaders responsible for the murder of of the Federal German constitution are in­ ^u began with the buming of the Reichstag innumerable Jews in Poland. "He was posted fringed.

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A CONTROVERSIAL TOWN MAYOR Efforts to annul the election of one of the three mayors of Grafrath, Bavaria, have 8* NEWS FROM GERMANY far been without success. Sixty-seven-year-old Josef Friedinger was an official in Dachau PROSECUTION OF NAZIS concentration camp and a member of the S.S. STREET BATTLES IN FRANKFURT Death Head Regiment. A meeting of the N.P.D. of the Federal A Hanover court sentenced former S.S. Republic in Frankfurt was originally banned sergeant Friedrich Rathja, 64, to a suspended by the civic administration, but they were two years' jail term and a fine of about £1,330 KREISDIREKTOR SUSPENDED over-ruled by a High Court decision. Subse­ for complicity in the murder of 900 Lublin quently it came to repeated clashes between Jews in 1942 and 1943. Proceedings against Forty-four-year-old Socialist Oberkreisdirek- members of the Party and Left-wing three of his fellow-accused were stopped tor Horst Kann, Recklinghausen, was sus­ extremists during wiiich 23 policemen were because of their Ul health, two others were pended for three months and wUl have to injured and a number of arrests made. There acquitted. The Court said that Rathja took part appear before a Disciplinary Court far remarte was also a iot of damage to property. A num­ in the deportation of the Lublin Jews and must made during a recent official visit to Israel ber of other West German cities have declared have been aware of the fate that awaited At one point he said : "This is what you like: them in the camps. one people, one Reich, one Fiihrer". He that they would ban any such meetings in admitted the remark, but said he did not know future. Former SS officer Richard Hospodarsch was where it originally came from, and could At a smaller meeting in Regensburg, speak­ sentenced to seven years imprisonment for therefore not be accused of a Nazi attitude. ers for the Party demanded a united Germany murder by a Linburg Court. However, he was He added that he WRS the victim of character released on hail because of Ul-health. After a .isSfT'sination \a the centre of Europe and an end In the Irial of eight months, the Court found that 69- ej/iplo./ni.ent of foreign workers who were year old Hospodarseh had shot two Jewish threatening •'Germany's biological survival". women in Opatow, Poland, in 1943 and fatally wounded another. He pleaded superior orders. SALE OF NAZI EMBLEMS The presiding judge said that in a number of The public prosecutor has started proceed­ BAN ON PALESTINIAN ORGANISATIONS cases, the accused had tried to protect the ings against two antique dealers in Bonn on inhabitants of the town, but the fact that he whose premises a vast amount of Nazi emblems The Federal Administrative Court has con­ had been in a position to do good, proved that were confiscated. They included a complete firmed the ban on the General Union of Pales­ he was equally capable of doing wrong. S.S. officer's uniform, and any number pf tine Students and the General Union of Pales­ swastilcas, armlets with Volkssturm insignia, tine Workers in the Federal Republic, giving S.S. decorations and medals, and had been as its reason that both organisations endan­ Life Sentence for Camp Murderer widely distributed in Bonn and the surround­ gered the security of West Germany. They ing countryside. could be expected to assist terrorists when­ The Federal Court in Karlsruhe superseded ever the case arose. the sentence of twelve years iail pronounced by the Hamburg Court against 57-year-old Heinz Galinski, chairman of the West Berlin GERMAN PROTEST AGAINST BRITISH Jewish community, has protested in the West former SS officer Wilhelm EickhofF by a lie Gennan press against the cordial reception sentence, stating that there could be no other TOYS sentence for deliberate murder. Eickhoff had given to Arafat in the German Democratic The Public Prosecutor at Emmerich in West Republic which he called "morally reprehen­ been in charge of an SS camp in Ruthenia where more than 1.400 Jews were killed. The Germany is investigating against the West sible". Arafat had taken part in the "East German branch of Lesney Products, the German Week of Solidarity with the Struggle Hamburg Court had accepted a plea of higher of the anti-Imperialist Forces in the Middle orders, stating that Fickhofl, 21 at the time, makers of Matchbox Toys who are accused of East for Peace and Social Progress", and had had only been entangkd in the web of murder neo-Nazi activities. Some of their planes and been treated in the same way as Socialist ordered from above. tank models are replicas of Luftwaffe fighters heads of State. and bombers and German Army tanks with stick-on transfers of swastikas amd Itop Representative of American Nazis Arrested Crosses. A representative of the firm said this was only dome to maintain historical autheO' BOMB ATTACK ON ISRAELI OFFICES Large quantities of Nazi propaganda material ticity. were seized during a major police search dur­ The "Revolutionary CeU", a West German ing a meeting of NS groups in Scharzfeld, near extreme left-wing group co-operating with Gottingen. Several pamphlets and periodicals, RESOLUTION AGAINST RIGHT-WING Palestinian terrorist organisations, has claimed EXTREMISM responsibUity for the bombing ot the Frank­ including the revived "Volkische Beobachter", furt offices of Agrexco, Israel's agricultural called for an attack on the life of the Bavarian At their Annual General Meeting the Ger­ produce marketing company which caused Prime Minister Wilhelm Hogner, because of man Federation of Societies for Christiaji- damage estimated at about £67,000. None of his involvement in the Nuremberg trials, and Jewish Co-operation passed a resolution u* the 15 people at work were injured. of Richard Meir, president of the Federal which it expressed its concem at the increase Office for the Protection of the Constitution. of Right-wing incidents in the German Fed­ eral Reoublic. The resolution referred, among In Koblenz, 22-year-old Gunnar Pahl, main other things, to trends aiming at belittling TIIE BERLIN VISITORS' SCHEME representative of Gary Lauck, the American the Hitler terror regime and to the sale oi NSDAP leader, was arrested and charged with Under a scheme, launched by the West Nazi "commemorative" emblems at fairs. V Berlin Senate in 1969, about 300 former Jewish possessing and distributing anti-democratic also requested the member organisations. *" Berliners, who had to leave the citv under material. Gary Lauck founded the "NSDAP prepare adequate functions on the occasion the Nazi regime, were the guests of the City Abroad" in 1972, and since then has been send­ of the forthcoming 40th anniversary of the this June. Most of them came from Israel and ing out Nazi propaganda material to many November 1938 pogroms. South American countries. As usual, they were European countries from his home in Lincoln, generously entertained by their hosts. So far, Nebraska. Some of this material has repeatedly AWARDS FOR SAVING JEWS about 7,500 persons have benefited from the been distributed in Britain. scheme. They were mainly elderly persons who The Service Cross of the West German lived in moidest circumstances; nevertheless, Order of Merit was awarded to Mrs. Hertha more than two-thirds of them made the voyage JANUSZ KORCSAK STAMP Brockschmidt, of West Berlin and Mrs. at their own expense. The average number of Elisabeth Weeg of Lohmar near Cologne. Botn visitors amounts to about 900 per year. A The Federal Post Office has issued a stamp women had risked their lives to save Jewj breakdown according to countries of origin, in honour of the centenary of the birth of from the Nazis. Mrs. Weeg and her late husband covering the years 1969 to 1975, reveals that Janusz Korcsak who accompanied his pupUs hid a Jewish couple and their daughter from about 40 per cent had come from North in the Warsaw Jewish orphanages to the con­ the Gestapo who were looking for them. America and 21 per cent from Soutli America. centration camp of Treblinka where he died About 18 per cent came from Israel and ten with them. He was known for his work in per cent from European countries. The expendi- school reform and has often been caUed the MEDAL FOR CIVIC SERVICES tu'-e of the invitation scheme is considerable. Polish-Jewish Pestalozzi. Between 1969 and 1974 it amounted to about Dr. rer. pol. Elsbeth Weichmann, the wife 3-2 mUlion DM; since then the annual costs of the former Goveming Mayor of Hamburg. have considerably risen. NEW JEWISH YOUTH ORGANISATION Dr. Herbert Weichmann, was awarded the newly created Biermann-Ratjen Medal of the Unfortunately, so far no other West German During a seminar at the Sobemheim Jewish Hamburg Senate, "in recognition of her activi­ city with a formerly large Jewish community Youth Centre, a new Jewish Youth League for ties as a politician and engaged citizen which has followed the example of Berlin with the people between 16 and 35 was set up. So far, had an inspiring effect on the cultural and same generosity. The position is different in about one hundred young men and women social life of the city", as the laudatio says- a number of smaUer towns which were aware have joined. It has set itself the task to Mrs. Weichmann, who together with her of their moral obligation towards their Jew­ strengthen Jewish knov/ledge and knowledge husband emigrated in 1933, was from 1957 to ish former fellow citizens and invited them as about Israel and the Middle East conflict 1974 a Social Democratic member of the their guests. E.G.L. among the young post-war Jewish population. Hamburg City Council. -^JR INFORMATION August 1978 Page 3 HOME NEWS A nglo-Judaica Civic Service at Synagogne JEWS IN THE NEW LEFT EFFECTS OF THE BOYCOTT To mark the accession of Portsmouth's Lord ik^ Board of Trade official explained recently Professor Percy S. Cohen, professor of Mayor, Mr. Richard Sotnick, a civic service jhat British nationalised industries are treated sociology at the London School of Economics, was held at the Portsmouth Synagogue, '•he same as commercial companies when it said that Jews were represented in the New attended by members of the City Council and tomes to making decisions on foreign con- Left, that phenomenon of the 1960s, out of all service chiefs, the Chief Superintendent of proportion to their numbers. Among 52 the Hampshire Constabulary, the city mace- tracts. It was the Government's practice to students from various countries, he had found bearer. Port Admiral W. J. Graham, Major- eave it "to the firm's own commercial judge- a number who were radicals and happened to General Surgeon of the Royal Marines, and •^ent" as to whether it accepts a contract be Jewish, and radical Jews belonging to the two Portsmouth members of Pariiament <=ontaining boycott stipulations. Jewish left-wing groups, but even among with their wives. In his testimony before the House of Lords Jewish radicals some felt positive Unks with ^lect Committee which is considering Lord Judaism and Israel. Jews were leaving their traditional society and trying to become mem­ "The Jewish Way of Life" oyers' Foreign Boycotts BiU, Mr Dan Halperin, bers of the Gentile society which did not quite ^eputy director-general of the Israeli Finance accept them. They were therefore particularly Chief Rabbi Dr. Jakobovits opened a com­ ^Iinistry and head of its economic warfare prone to join movements which aimed at an prehensive exhibition on the "Jewish Way of department, said this attitude left British idealistic change of that society. Life" at the Palmers Green Broomfleld companies without protection and exposed Museum. It was planned at the golden jubilee inem to unfair practices by competitors. There of the local synagogue and supported by INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Enfield Borough CouncU and the Board of had been cases where companies had accused IN LONDON Deputies. Sections are devoted to Jewish rittial jPeir competitors for Arab trade of having and practice, the histor>' of the Jews in Eng­ inks with Israel so as to get their business. Delegates of 23 member organisations of the land and the activities of the Palmers Green *e added that Israel needed to import large Conference on Jewish Materml Claims against Synagogue during the past 50 years. Quantities of capital goods for her investment Gennany and of 48 member organisations of and development programme and was contem­ the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture met in London on June 20. The "Council of New Day Centre in G(dders Green plating several huge construction projects aU Jews from Germany" was represented at the '*' which would be open to tender bv British meetings by its Joint Chairmen Mr H. Ger­ The Michael Sobell Day Centre which is «'ompanies. ling (Jerusalem) and Dr. F. E. Falk (London) being developed out of the fonner La Sagesse A British Transport firm, Thompson Jewitt and its Hon. Secretary Dr. W. Rosenstock. Convent in Golders Green, wUl be opened ^ternational, has had to warn its customers The Claims Conference, among other things, early next year. It will be run jointly by the ^°t to send its goods to Syria in Ford vehicles dealt with questions of restitution and issued Jewish Welfare Board and the Jewish Blind *nich would not be aUowed in. The Greek a special appeal to the Govemment of the Society. In part of the buUding, not needed German Democratic Republic for a humani­ for the centre, the Menorah School has taken ina Express Line, which rims 14 saUings a tarian payment to be used for relief, rehabUi­ |i>onth to Syria, had stated that it would no tation and resettlement of Jewish victims of a 90-vear lease at a peppercorn rent in return .pnger accept Ford-manufactured vehicles. Nazi persecution. One of the subjects of the for a" capital sum of £70,000. he Ford Motor Company announced tliat it Memorial Foundation meeting was the report of the Holocaust Commission, given by Rabbi *as aware of being on the Arab League boy- Cameo Corner to close ^tt list, but not of any supplementary bans. Dr. Joachim Prinz. The moral obligation of our generation to keep the memory of the Thc world-famous antique jeweUery shop ord has an assembly plant near Nazareth Holocaust aUve, was generaUy considered as *here the Ford Kitten, an Israeli version of Comeo Corner near thc British Museum was a paramount task, and the programme of its closed in June because of increased rent. It was he Ford Escort, is produced for the Israeli implementation includes the production of stiu-ted 40 years ago by Mr. Edward Good, the market. Uterature, including material for school edu­ Polish-born son of a chazan-shochet who later The Delta-T Devices firm in Cambridge has cation as weU as the use of the mass media. adopted the i>en-name Moshe Oved. The late . efused to supply any further orders to Israeli Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth the Queen ostitutions 'unless those responsible for their VETERAN M.P. HONOURED Mother and Princess Margaret were among Purchase send us a written statement dissociat- the many faithful customers of the shop. Oved The Prime Minister, Mr. James CaUaghan, died in 1958, and the shop has since been j"S themselves completely from the attacks on presented Mr. David Weitzman, QC, MP, with *jfbanon and the underlying aggressive attitude owned by Hambros Bank. Its Bond Street a beautifully produced address conveying to branch will remain open. ^t the Israeli Govemment". They had been him the good wishes of members of the House ^upplying agricultural instruments to the of Commons on his SOth birthday. It was Wcani Centre for Agricultural Research in signed by MPs of aU parties. Mr. Weitzman. New Synagogue Plan Attacked *|ehovot, which is part of the Hebrew Univer- the oldest member of the House of Commons, has represented Hacloiey North and Stoke Mr. Herbert Loebl, a member of the New­ '^y. and which said in its reply that it does Newington for 33 years. He is one of six °|. wish to trade with a firm which imposes castle Jesmond Synagogue, attacked the plan Jewish Labour veterans who will not seek to buUd a new synagogue to replace the two political conditions on its trade. re-election to the next Parliament. existing ones at Gosforth and Jesmond. He said there was no need for centralisation when LAWYERS' ADVICE TO ISRAEL there existed two conveniently situated syna­ j.'^t a dinner of the legal friends of the gogue buildings. It did not make common ^ebrew University, Lord Salmon, Lord of Your House for:— sense, and the outlay of some £250,000 could J PPeal in Ordinary, said it was important that be better channelled into specific Jewish funds, ^?rael should correct the unfortunate impres- such as the Joint Israel Appeal. Dr. Felix itv'' ^"^o^S some of its friends of utter rigid- CURTAINS, CARPETS, Lustman, the congregation's treasurer, said LV and unwiUingness to give up land. It had the upkeep of one buUding would be much FLOOR COVERINGS less than that of three, and centralisation en gauche of the IsraeU Govemement to would greatly benefit the community. ^ve lounded new settlements and enlarged ^.ers immediately after President Sadat's tSr- The lawyers' group had endowed a new SPECIALITY ^Uowship at the law faculty of the Univer- 100 Years of Jewish Life in Ireland jj^> and Lord Wedderbum, professor of law ENGUSH & CONTINENTAL The recently formed Irish Jewish Historical i the London School of Economics, the guest Society has opened an exhibition feattunng a jj nonour, had just returned from giving the DOWN OUILTS, DUVETS, century of Jewish Ufe in Ireland. Judge ^onel Cohen lecture there. Lord Wedderbum Herman Good said at the official opening that •?itt that after liis visit he was convinced that DUVET COVERS & SHEETS the exhibition was one of the greatest events "• ^yas impossible to have Jemsalem divided ever for the Jewish Community in Ireland. e wife 'Sain. ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS It includes photographed extracts from the mburg. pjj^t a symposium of the Anglo-Jewish Asso- first minute-book of the Dublin Hebrew ;d the r^tion, Israeli Ambassador Mr Kidron said he ESTIMATES FREE Congregation which has tumed up in a Tel of the j?s impatient of lawyers who attacked Israel Aviv Museum. There had been Jews in Ire­ activi- a-F Jiot being more forthcoming. Nobody DAWSON-LANE LIMITED land 400 years ago, but the community was which w'^ed the Arabs what they were doing. Mr only founded in the 18705. al and „ ^in Gilbert, the historian, said he was dis­ (Ettabllshed 1946) 0 says- gusted that the lawyers had not studied the 26 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK h her ^jjats of the IsraeU plan and discussed them Telephone : 904 6671 .957 to J}a their Jewish and non-Jewish friends. It Personal allentlon ot Mr. W. Shackman With acknowledgement to tbe news >f the r?^ appalling that legal people were not aware service of the Jewish Chronicle ' them. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION August 1978

Nazi RaUy Prevented Gendarmes ejected about 25 neo-Nazis from the grounds of Chateau Blondy-les-Tours NEWS FROM ABROAD where they were preparing a camp site for Dr. Kissinger's Reunion Party an international Nazi meeting. They included UNITED STATES six Germans, three Frenchmen, three Dutch­ men, two Belgians and a Swiss. Frangois Visas for 12,000 Refugees Forty years ago, former pupUs of the Fuerth Gymnasium promised to hold a reunion if Hamon, who had rented the chateau for the Despite protests from Mr. Dultzin, chairman they escaped from Nazi Germany. For the rally, was arrested. The local population had of the Jewish Agency, the American Govem­ last three years. Dr. Kissinger who was one assumed that the 25 were actors when they ment has agreed to issue 12,000 more entry- of them, and another classmate in America saw their swastika armbands, brown shirts visas for Soviet refugees, most of them Jews have worked on the realisation of this plan and jackboots and only realised what was hap waiting in Rome. Each month, some 1,200 such and succeeded in tracing 180 survivors. Most penmg when they began singing Nazi songs refugees arrive in Vienna on Israel visas, but of them have agreed to attend the reunion and giving the Nazi salute. only about 30 per cent actually go to Israel. party at a hotel in the CatskUl mountains The other 70 per cent wish to go to the near New York. They will come from many Airport Synagogue United States and other Westem countries countries, but only one of them, Mrs. Lisa and are sent to Rome to await visas and Vincent, 54-year-old head of the German At the end of the main concourse at Oily permits. Mr. Dultzin has accused Jewish Department at Fairham Comprehensive au-port, near the multi-faith chapel, building organisations in America of encouraging them Sciiool, Nottingham, wUl come from Britain. work has begun on a synagogue for passengers to do so by giving them assistance. Mr. Carl She told a reporter that most of her famUy using the airport. GUck, president of Hias (Hebrew Immigrant had been deported, but with the help of Aid Society) stated that 80 per cent of the Quakers, she and a friend had managed to Soviet Jews wanting to go to America did so escape to England. She was sixteen at the Cemetery Desecrated to be reunited with their famUies. time and the two made their way to the Dutch border and escaped into HoUand. They were Toulouse police are seeking the persons put on a trawler for England, and Lisa was responsible for desecrating the Jewish ceme­ Jewish Advisers at the White House sent to a boarding school in Nottinghamshire, tery at Portet-sur-Garonne. Swastikas and the whereas her friend eventually went to Austra­ name of Dachau were daubed on the walls, Mr. Edward Sanders has been appointed Pre­ lia where he now lives. He wUl attend the and a number of bronze Shields of David sident Carter's special adviser on the Middle reunion. She said. Dr. Kissinger's nickname were stolen from tombstones. The Mayor oi East. He is the honorary chairman of the Ame­ has been "Kissus", he had been a bright and Toulouse apologised to the Jewish community rican Israel Public Affairs Committee, the only studious boy who missed his Barmitzvah party tor this barbaric act by uncivUised people"- Jewish organisation officially registered with because of measles. The reunion wUl start Congress to lobby with regard to legislation with a memorial service for schoolmates killed Statue for Ben-Gurion which affects Israel. In August 1976, he re­ by the Nazis. signed from iiis post as the Committee's presi­ dent in order to serve on President Carter's The city of Troyes where Rashi, the great Bible commentator, was born has honoured election campaign. His predecessor in the Solidarity among Sportsmen White House, Mr Mark Siegel, resigned three David Ben-Gunon, Israel's first Prime Minister, months ago in protest against the sale of air­ The American volleyball team has can­ by a statue in a square named after him. craft to Egypt and Saudi Arabia. There are celled a tour of China, because Mr. Arie four other Jews on the senior staff of the Selinger, the American women's team coach, SWrraERLAND White House. They are Mr. Robert Lipshutz, was refused permission to enter China on his Mr. Stuart Eizenstat, Mr. Gerald Rafshoon and Israeli passport. He was offered a visa if he New ChagaU Window in Zurich Mrs. Anne Wexler. travelled on an American passport but the team rejected this. MMiy visUors to Zurich are unaware of the beautiful ChagaU windows which have been va Jew Heads Tennessee Valley Authority the historical Fraumiinster for a number of NATIONAL FRONT IN AUSTRALIA .vears. The 91-year-oId artist has now added Mr. Simon David Freeman, a veteran another window to complete his series of bibli­ energy expert and son of a Jewish umbrella- A Melbourne newspaperman has infiltrated cal subjects which is no less beautiful than maker from Lithuania, has been appointed the newly set-up Australian off'shoot of the the much better-known set of windows in head of the Tennessee Valiey Authority, National Front in Britain which has branches Jerusalem. The new window shows the phases America's largest electric power company, set in Sydney and Brisbane. A Dutch post-war " i»? creation, the expulsion from Paradise up under Roosevelt's New Deal in the 'thirties. immigrant, alleged to have made common and Noah's Ark with its promise of salvation. It has 40,000 employees and serves seven cause with the Nazis during the war, has been million people. named as its prospective president. At the Melbourne inaugural meeting, a tape was Praise for Israel's Treatment of Arab Workers played from John Tyndall, founder and chair­ PLO Office in Washington man of the National Front in Britain and A delegation of the Intemational Labour former deputy leader of the British National Organisation in Geneva, which visited Israel Against the wishes of the State Department, Socialist Movement. and the occupied temtories in April, has the Palestine Liberation Organisation has published a report saying that the 63,000 opened an office in Washington with a budget FRANCE workers from the occupied territories officially of some £24,000 for the first six months. The working in Israel, have equality of opportunity State Department said this did not signify a Bombs on Club Mediterrannee and treatment with Israeli workers. Less change in US poUcy, and American officials slrilled Arab workers, however, were given would not be aUowed to have contacts with A bomb attack badly damaged the Paris less well-paid jobs which "might produce the office or its director Hus.seini. The PLO headquarters of the Club Mediterrannee, the feelings of inequality and discrimination on already has an office in New York. Jewish-owned travel and leisure organisation. ethnic grounds". A man claimed over the telephone that the bombs were left by the "French National NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT Rabbi under Police Protection Liberation Front" as an act of resistance against the "Jewish occupation of France' FRUSTRATES BOYCOTT The police protection for the world head­ whose Jewish population had increased from quarters of the Chasidic Movement and for the 350,000 in 1939 to almost a miUion todav. He The Norwegian Minister of Commerce and home of Rabbi Schneerson, the Lubavitcher added: "We did not fight against the German Shipping insisted on the removal of a boy­ Rebbe, which has been given since 1966 and occupation to suffer the presence in our cotting clause from a contract between a Nor­ which was temporarily withdrawn, has been country now of seven miUion Jews, Negroes, wegian shipbuUding firm and an Egyptian restored. The new mayor of New York, Mr and Arabs". The Club Mediterrannee whose company before agreeing to provide govern­ Ed Kocii, had wanted to cancel it, because as chairman is Baron Edmond de RothschUd, ment financial support and guarantees. He he said it had cost the city a total of $4 mUlion was founded in 1950 and is now a huge stated that the Norwegian export credit and he deemed routine patrols sufficient. organisation with camps and hotels all over guarantee institute had been instructed t" the world, including Israel. Its annual tum- ensure that no discrimination clauses were over is about £150 mUlion a year, and its contained in export documentation within I's CAMPS 1977 profits amounted to some £61 miUion. competence. INTERNMENT—P.O.W.— Rabbis oppose Transplants BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE FORCED LABOUR—KZ The French Rabbinical CouncU has adopted 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.S I wish to buy cards, envelopes and folded post­ a resolution stating that Judaism was opposed Our new communal hall Is available for marked letters from all camps of both world wars. to the extraction and grafting of organs. Only cultural and social functions. For details Pleasa send, registered mail, stating price, to: corneas could be donated to hospitals. It was 14 RoMlyn HIII, UMden, N.WJ explained that any medical act which resulted apply to: Secretary, Synagogue Office. PETER C. RICKENBACK in hastening death is to be regarded as Tel.: 01-794 3949 murder. ^R INFORMATION August 1978 Page 5

'^fitz Friedlander (Melbourne) attached to a hazy mysticism; tliis led to his conversion to CathoUcism in 1940. When in that year Hitler invaded France, President Roosevelt granted DobUn an emer­ DOEBLIN CENTENARY gency visa. He and his famUy escaped to the US, where he completed the novels already It was. indeed, with high expectations that religious sect, who preached endurance as a begun in Paris. The first was published in three 'visited a Berlin bookshop in 1920 to hear means to purity of heart. volumes in 1936 and subsequent years. Entitled QJfred Doblin read a selection from his work. With "Berge, Meere und Giganten" (1924), •Das Land ohne Tod", "Der blaue Tiger" and His first magnum opus—the fantastic novel Doblin entered the realm of science flction; "Der neue Urwald", this vast work dealt ,Die drei Spriinge des Wang-lun" (1915)— this Utopian novel, admired by Lion Feucht­ criticaUy with the colonisation of South •^ad won him the reputation of a leading fiction wanger, revels in bold technological visions, America. The white men believe themselves Winter. chosen to bring the Christian message to the while waming of the dangers which man may Indians but make a mock of Christian morality On this occasion, Doblin opened with a bring upon himself through an over-mechanised by their treatment of the natives. In dealing Polemic essay evidently aimed at Alfred Kerr, society. with the clash of civilisations, Dbblin, I feel, is inough the name was not mentioned. He then ••Berlin Alexanderplatz—die Geschichte von less familiar with his subject than in his next ^Silained the conception of iiis great novel Franz Biberkopf" (1929) is Doblin's most work, in which he retums to the settings of Wallenstein", then recently published, and successful and popular novel. It describes in "Pardon wird nicht gegeben". read a scene from it which at once fascinated broad outline the vicissitudes of an outcast ">«; it told how the dying General Tilly, from society, who changes from an unscrupu­ However, there can be no doubt of his ^efeated by Gustav Adolph, was shaken in his lous criminal to a law-abiding petty bourgeois. personal involvement in writing his mammoth '-atholic faith. The atmosphere of proletarian Berlin is "November 1918'', published in four volumes . In this book, WaUenstein differs from the depicted in masterly fashion. A very effective in 1939 and succeeding years. This ambitious ?i'esolute hero of SchUler's tragedy; he is a film was made of this magnificent novel and work was criticised on the grounds that the JJ'an of action ready to resist the onslaught the German paperback edition of 1973 sold characterisation of historical figures has no "J hostile circumstaiices. Dbblin's re-creation over 200,000 copies in a few weeks. liasis in reality. Although the objection is to ^J those chaotic times has for me something When Hitler came to power in 1933, Doblin some extent valid, ''November 1918" presents p' Grimmelshausen and of Ricarda Huch's went to Ziirich and thereafter to Paris. He an impressive portrayal of the tragic failure peat work 'Der grosse Krieg in Deutsch- continued to write in German, but his next of a revolution. Dbblin lays the blame for that extensive novel, "Babylonische Wanderung" failure not only on the reactionary bourgeoisie, (1934), fell short of his earlier work. It tells but also on the leaders of the working class. "Wallenstein" enhanced the reputation of of a strange Oriental deity, Konrad, who travels The novel reflects his political credo: a socialist I'l author who had had no easy life. Bom in tiirough the world and experiences the in his youth (since he was always on the side ?^etUn on .August 10, 1878, DobUn's chUdhood uncertainty ol human life, but the book is of the poor), he became disappomted with the nad been clouded by his father's desertion of marred by the author's tendency to digress party bosses. Later he came to l>elieve that the "js family. His mother moved to a poor quarter from the plot. Marxist principle of class struggle must be ^' Berlin, where she struggled to keep herself However, in "Pardon wLrd nicht gegeben" replaced by a new sense of sociai responsi­ ^d her chUdren. Nevertheless, Alfred man- (1935), Doblin had rallied his forces and pro­ bility. ^Sed to study medicine, qualifying in 1905 duced another masterpiece. Personal memories Wd specialising in neurology and psychiatry, were here skilfully combined with a splendid Dbblin the psychiatrist is at work again in ^is practice was in the Frankfurter Allee. description of social and political development his last novel "Hamlet oder die lange Nacht °^rlin. He married and raised a familv, later from the turn of the century to the Great nimmt ein Ende" (1956). This teUs of an ^erving in the First World War as a medical Depression of the 'thirties. The scene is American ex-soldier, Edward Allison, who Qincer. His brother Hugo, meanwhile, became evidently Berlin, and the brutal recklessness suffers from loss of memory; his long night is * weii.ifijo^ J, actor. of modern capitalism is portrayed through the over when he is cured by psycho-analysis. , Alfred Dbblin. however, felt irresistibly rise and fall of a businessman (modelled on Dbblin retumed to Germany, moving to [•rawn to literature. He came in contact with one of the author's brothers). Mainz in 1945. From 1946 to 1951 he was editor 5; ^avant-garde Sturm circle, met Else Laskcr- Doblin had little Jewish education and only of a literary- magazine, "Das goldene Tor". ^chiiler, and tried his hand at bizarre stories. a journey to Poland in 1924 gave him some However, he did not feel at home and went F^llected in "Die Ermordung einer Butter- inkling of the reality of Jewish life. He was. back to Paris in 1953. After a long iUness. he oiurne" (1913). His first real recognition came naturaUy, shocked by Hitler's persecution, but died Ln poverty at Emmendingen, near Frei­ '•'Ur "T)\e Drei Spriinge des Wang-lun" and those essays in which he meditated upon the burg, on June 28, 1957. His reputation as a Wallenstein''. He owed his success to his Jewish question—"Jiidische Emeuerung" great creative writer was, however, re-afiirmed psychological insight, dynamic language and (1933), "Flucht und Sammlung des Juden- when a comprehensive edition of his works ."^aginative powers. For example, although volkes" (1935)—did not deal exhaustively with was published in Switzerland after the Second he Was never in China, he spun a web of the subject. As a refugee, he gave up the World War. In Berlin, a street was named t " materialistic outlook of his youth and became after the author who threw Ught on the dark­ 'anta sy around the founder of a Chinese ness round about the Alexanderplatz.

GUENTER GRASS HONOURS DOEBLIN To mark the centenary, Guenter Grass, who RENAULT was born about 50 years after Dbblin, has decided to use part of the royalties of his successful works, especiaUy "Der Butt" (pub­ lished in 1977), for an endowment of See the Renault range DM200,000 which is to bear the name of Alfred Dbblin. The capital wUl be administered by the West Berlin Academy of Arts and used for at Old Oak awards of about DM20,000 to prospective authors of literary prose works. Grass is a (wm SPf^ECHEN DEUTSCH/MLUVIME CESKY) member of the jury.

Where we believe that changing your car is a very EXHIBlTiON ON BERLIN CONGRESS important business and you deserve to be treated as an individual, not just a sales figure. TJie BerUn Congress in June/July 1878, which was held iihder the presidency of Where you can see the whole Renault range of value for Bismarck to prevent or reduce tensions between money cars and light vans. We try to keep most models the European nations, is commemorated in an in stock all the time. If we haven't got it, we'll get it. exhibition held in the Geheime Staatsarchiv in Berlin-DaUem. One of the subjects of the And where we try and make things easy by offering Congress was the difficult situation of the sensible part exchange prices, helping with finance and Jews in the Balkan countries, especiaUy in insurance where necessary and generally looking after Romania. To bring their pUght to the notice you. We're a family firm, and to us our customers always of the Congress, a special German-Jewish com­ mittee was created. Its chairman was Professor come first. Moritz Lazarus. Other personalities associated Come and see for yourself.Old Oak-Service for cars-and peopie with tiie committee's efforts included the author Berthold Auerbach, the classical phUo- logist Jacob Bemays, Bismarck's financial MOTOR adviser Gerson von Bleichroeder and the COMPANY gynaecologist Geheimrat Dr. Samuel KristeUer, UMITED co-founder of the Deutsdi-IsraeUtiscbe OLD OAK 3emeindebuad. E.G.L. 79 WINOIMILL HILL. ENFIELD 01-363 2281 Page 6 AJR INFORMATION August 1978

C. C. Arorufeid O Lord, this cruelty because we repent it And when you who are the God of Abraham lead back his sons into Spain, let us not forget that you say to them 'I wUl bless them that THE RETURN OF THE JEWS TO SPAIN bless you and curse them that curse you'." However, the moderados did not last. No Gerinan Rabbi's Pioneering Work more than a first timid approach to religious freedom had been attempted, and even the little proved too much. The "tolerant spirit" The signs of a Jewish-Spanish "reconcilia­ dealt a mortal blow to trade and commerce". was drowned in a wave of clericalism that tion" would have gladdened the heart of one However, the rabbi said, he was not dwelling sought to "make the Catholic unity of Spain German Jew who, 120-odd years ago, exerted upon "the curse that inescapably follows the a political and inteUectual reality". Philippson himself to bring it about—Dr. Ludwig Philipp­ foot of religious persecution", nor on "the was (unofficially) told that any action such son, one time rabbi of Magdeburg and editor of extraordinary material disadvantages which as he had in mind would provide the opposi­ the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums which are bound to show themselves in the wake tion with "a banner for civil war" (which was he founded in 1837. Like many Jews before and of intolerance " : probably no mere excuse), and within a matter after him, he was intrigued by the spectacle The centuries have aU too plainly of months, the old regime was in bloom again- of a country that once, in 1492, expeUed the preached the lesson of their experience . . . Accordingly, the Cortes referred the Jews and presumed to maintain the ban in though the adversary is still far from hav­ German Jewish plea to a parliamentary com­ modem times, even a generation after the ing lost his power, indeed time and again mittee where it was never heard of again- French Revolution. The absurdity of it did manages to regain it, nevertheless he has Philippson found himself left as a crier in not bemuse him as much as the sheer injustice fallen dumb; rational reasons he can offer the wilderness, though he insisted that even angered him. He closely watched the course none. Where the examples of America, if the first attempt had failed, the idea once of events in Spain, as indeed in other coun­ France and Belgium, Holland and England, Germany and Denmark speak ... we can uttered, and "given sufficient perseverance", tries, and the foreign news service of his paper was "bound to achieve its object". was probably among the best anywhere, easUy say mankind has spoken, and the demand for this freedom of religious worship can Strangely enough, he did not pursue the surpassing that of the Jeunsh Chronicle which no longer be refused in any country claim­ in fact frequently drew on the German sotirce. matter when conditions definitely improved ing to be civUised, among any people claim­ with the September revolution of 1868. The So when the ideas of 1848 began to cross ing to be regarded as humane. leaders of the first Republic openly, and over- the Pyrenees and, in 1854, a band of pro­ But (PhUippson continued) Jews have a enthusiastically, declared that "religion^ gressive moderados managed to unsettle Queen very special right to approach the highest liberty" was "henceforth a fact in Spain" and Isabel's reactionary regime, Philippson saw a tribunal of the Spanish nation: in the face that they had "abrogated the edict of the silver lining, a faint promise that the ghosts of God and mankind, they must plead for the fifteenth century". They had not really, though of 1492 might now be laid. He faithfully re­ repeal of the Banishment edict. That plea they were, in theory, right when they told corded in his paper one of the several procla­ must be granted regardless as to whether the the Board of Deputies (and others) that in as mations urging the freedom of religious freedom of religious worship was or was not much as the September revolution had pr"' worship (la libertad de cultos) : "Spain (it was introduced, because by that repeal Spain's claimed the libertad de cidtos, the decree was said there) owes its decay to the reUgious ancient guilt in history would be redeemed. by implication repealed. When the Russian intolerance which robbed the country of every Was anybody fearful that Spain might be pogroms broke out, in 1881, the Spanish kind of merchant, industrialist and workman "flooded by Jews"? Not Ukely (PhUippson Government actually, in a memorable (" and latterly brought about the most iniquitous said). People cruelly expeUed from a country barren) gesture, offered refuge to the perse­ persecution of the most Ulustrious men in are not easily tempted to return ; they would cuted. science, literature and art. Now is the time not soon leave a fatherland in which they had But while the Jeunsh Chronicle rejoiced that to open the gates to so many of the Spanish struck roots as citizens enjoying every right. "Spain has at last publicly acknowledged th^ race who were once outlawed and are scattered The times (the German rabbi pathetically re­ error and injustice of barbarous intolerance'. throughout the worid where they help to in­ marked) when they had to count themselves PhUippson now had qualms. He though* crease the wealth of their adopted countries". lucky if one land on earth would receive them indiscriminate immigration had "dangerous High hopes now sprang up in European once another had driven them out, were gone aspects". Apart from being racked with corrup­ Jewry. The Board of Deputies appointed a for ever. On the very day after their departure tion, the country was held to have by no means Committee to explore the chances of a legal from Spain, Columbus had set sail to discover accepted "the spirit of tolerance and the need retum. They asked the Consistoire of Paris a new world, and it was in that direction that for freedom of conscience". The reason why to join in appealing to Spain, but the French, Jews were now wending their way. PhUippson Jews were caUed to Spain was thought to be so recently after the coup of Louis Napoleon, summed up. materialistic rather than idealistic: the were nervous of troubUng their Govemment country needed capital and Jewish enterpris^i We do not come to demand restitution and while of course no matter for reproach, on what must have appeared to them a secon­ for the inestimable goods of which they were dary issue, and the British did not wish to robbed—we come only to blot out the dis­ this showed that "any immigration of poor or go it alone. grace of banishment, to obtain free entry less-well-to-do Jews would put them at a for those of our faith who may wish it. grave disadvantage, if not in peril"—except PhUippson however was determined to make perhaps in ports, with a bigger volume or the most of what he regarded as the "great This Memorandum received the support of trade, where people were used to the presence changes in the poUtical and social conditions two French congregations which Philippson of strangers. of Spain". He addressed to the new Cortes had previously approached as they were near­ and the Govemment a Memorial demanding est to Spain, those of Marseille and Bayonne, This was, on the whole, a correct assessment- reUgious freedom in general and more though the Consistoire of Bordeaux, Uke that For a long time few Jews would settle i^* especiaUy the repeal of the decree of Banish­ of Paris was, more discreetly, in favour of Spain—5,000 at the most before the CivU War: ment. Claiming to speak in the name of silence. hardly any belonging to the lower classes "German Israel", he said: In Madrid a notable stir was created. The except perhaps in the South, craftsmen from Far removed from the Iberian Peninsula, (Jovernment paper Novedades welcomed the Morocco, and certainly even fewer came from members of another beautiful and beloved petition, saying there were no reasonable Russia. "The majority who played no negligible Fatherland, of another magnificent and grounds for refusing it: "In terms of econo­ part in economic and social life were well-t*'" esteemed people, we raise our voice in the mics the readmission of the Jews would assure do, though usually pretending not to be Jews- service of that great and sublime principle us pf substantial benefits". Another paper, For the official good will always had to con­ of whose true application, however, we Jews Esperanza, though raising no basic objections, tend with the popular superstitions that had in all countries have come to be the acid felt uneasy. If Philippson had pointed out that their roots in a far-off past: the Marranos test—in the service of the freedom of re­ were still at large. It was only in 1968 —• ^ ligious worship—and we raise our voice Jews had settled in Spain even before it was also to demand from the representatives of Christian, this might tempt the Jews to claim century after the glorious revolution—that a a magnanimous nation the redress of an possession of all Spain ! The "foolish scare" synagogue building was officially consecrated ancient wrong, justice for a great historical was ridiculed in a third paper. in Madrid: the ancient decree was then act of violence which, though it happened Others raised the ftmdamental issue. In a expressly blotted out, and last year a Shabbai in a darkness far off, is still being felt pamphlet entitled "Popular prayers for the service was attended there by the Queen- today. Spanish nation", a writer, Luis de Asoz y Rio, herself a student of Judaism as a branch o* Philippson briefly sketched the history of declared: "We confess before you, 0 Lord, Comparative Religion — no more striking Spanish Jewry from the earliest times—not, the great sin of our nation committed against reinstatement could be wished for, and so there he stressed, as Jewish or foreign authors saw the descendants of the ancient people of may be reason to hope tliat at length th^ it but according to the "unbiased" contem­ Israel, whom our fathers treated so cruelly prayers wUl come tme which were devoutly porary Spanish historian, Amador de los Rios, and at length drove out of the country of their offered up, 120 years ago, by Dr Ludwif- who had bome witness that "the expulsion birth without making any distinction. Pardon, PhUippscm, thc rabbi of Magdeburg. ^JR INFORMATION August 1978 Page 7 MISCELLANEOUS TOPICAL ISSUES ON T.V. IDA DEHMEL-COBLENZ REMEMBERED At the latest National Conference of the "Gemeinschaft deutscher und oesteiTeichischer „ In its "World in Action" programme, This attempt was doomed to faUure. Tlie Kuenstlerinnen und Kunstfreundinnen" ^ranada T.'V. showed a well-researched pro- spokesman for the Arabs, Dr. Khalidi, said (GEDOK), the Berlin Senator of Culture, Efr. Famme on the National Front which relied that the Palestinian problem was at the core Dieter Sauberzweig, paid tribute to the memory .*rgely on information supplied by a police of the Arab-Jewish conflict, and it originated of Ida Dehmel, nee Coblenz, who as a fighter '"former who had infiltrated the party. He from "the British imperial pride in the 1920s." for women's emancipation was the founder of |^«iQ there was no doubt that the Front was GEDOK. Born in 1870 in Bingen, Ida Coblenz "i'tisemitic. Its members were violent and was closely associated with the Stefan George "any of them carried guns, knives and other WHAT IS A TERRORIST? Kreis at the turn of the century. In 1901, she **ai>ons. Some of them regularly raided the married Richard Dehmel (1863-1920). In 1942, •".•^Ps and homes of immigrants, smashing A spokesman for Independent Television under the impact of the steadily growing 'ndows and daubing swastikas on the walls. News explained that they had referred to the persecution of the Jews, she put an end to her w Jewish old age pensioner from Leeds, perpetrators of the Jerusalem bomb attack as life in Hamburg-Blankenese. |j'''s. Marcus, said she had been stopped in •'Palestinian commandos" because they did not E.G.L. JJ^ street bv a man distributing Front pam- think they should sit in judgement on which jatets and told; "We are getting rid of the ews". The police investigator said he had of two conflicting groups was in the wrong. CHAGALL EXHIBITION IN BERLIN =en told it would be cheaper to kUl immi- They only called IRA members terrorists, ^^ts than to repatriate them, in the same because they "are fighting against this govem­ In its high-rise office block, the Mobel- o^y as Hitler had kUled the Jews. Records ment". He said civilian death was certainly a Hubner concem in BerUn, displayed some matter of regret no matter on whose side, 600 ChagaU drawings Ulustrating masterworks L ^erman marching songs and Hitler speeches of Uterature like Gogol's "Dead Souls". No p^? been broadcast at Front meetings. The but "we are not in the regret business." It was simUar exhibition has ever been staged out­ uitor of the National Front bulletin, Richard legitimate to call the Palestinians either side the Nice Chagall Museum. The present errall, was named as the author of the commandos or guerillas. one is later to be transferred to other German ^^niphlet "Did Six MiUion reaUy die?" The cities and has attracted many visitors. J L^ramme also showed letters written by •j[9hmhio T^'ndall_ , the Front's chairman, expressin^g ti!^x,^^'i''ratiohis n for Hitler and his commitmen"t NEW LIBRARY IN MEMORY OF BOMB •y-"Naz''-j l^.azism~ . 'I-n a- lette'--'-r- 'to- -a prominen••—•t• America» •• —n VICTIM DEATH OF HELPER TO REFUGEES 3 "'"i he had said that there was a need for In the ciuldren's wing of the Jerusalem Mr. Otto H. Heim, who played a leading g Serious and responsible-looking element in Dart in the relief work for refugees, died in j»va'n adhering to the principles of Nazism museum, a library was dedicated in memor\' of British-born Michael Jonathan Ben-Itzhak Zurich at the age of 81. From 1945 to 1968 a Fascism in a manner with which British (Isaacs) and his American wife who were kill­ he was chairman of the Verband Schweizer­ Wrnt '•'^"''^ identify. •Our strategy", he ed in the bomb outrage in Jerusalem's Zion ischer Juedischer FluechtlingshUfen. Mr. Heim toiJ^' '^ ^° "^^ 'he moderate elements and Square in 1975. Mr. Ben-Itzhak had been an also played a leading part in the social work *ork behind them as long as is necessary", Oxford graduate and a London stockbroker be­ of other organisations, especially of the tion BB.C. devoted an hour to an investiga- fore emigrating to Israel. His famUy was re­ Schweizerische Israelitische Gemeindebund. t'am '^^'^'^ Israel's alleged uranium theft and presented at the dedication ceremony by Mr E.G.L. Pos ^ to the conclusion that Israel actually Jeremy Isaacs, Thames TV director of pro­ pj^?5^^^d atomic weapons, a statement grammes, well-known for his documentaries on f'.""'.Ptly refuted by a spokesman of the Israel contemporary matters, who has since retired CELEBRATIONS IN ROMANIA H-'^'gn Ministrv. In the programme, John from his post. Isra I • former chief of the C.I.A. station in A congregation of over 1,000 people, includ­ 'ts « praised the Israeli secret service for ing Chief Rabbi Goren of Israel and Dr. Yosef 5^ efficiency. Not only had they managed to Burg, Israel's Minister of the Interior, attended tlip"''^ large quantities of enriched uranium. a service in Bucharest's magnificent Choral ifC-2 had also obtained the plans for the Synagogue to celebrate the 30th anniversary sUDnf^ fighter, whieh the French refused to of the election of Chief Rabbi Dr. Moses Of PJy to them, in Switzerland, and got hold Rosen. The head of the Romanian Minister of spit gunboats, withheld by the French in wHh the compliments of Chilts and a Bishop representing the Patriarch fof^ of the fact that Israel had already paid of the Romanian Orthodox Church were also present, as were representatives of the Jews 'hev ^^ ^^^ • "These gentlemen — and of Britain, France, the US, Canada, Denmark, aj \ are gentlemen—are extraordinarUv adept Norway, Venezuela and South Africa. Since Wgpf'J^'i.ving things at long distance." A Nor- Dr. Rosen's election, some 350,000 Jews have •Tan'"^ intelligence officer, commenting on the emigrated to Israel. There remain 40,000 or­ So JJ,""'! operation said : "The operation was ganised in 68 main communities. 4r V^an, it must have been the Israelis; the ,5Ds are too messy." I-Tv fhree-part "Palestine" programme on to '.Y- went to great lengths to be imuartial, LEGACIES at,J"}ow the rights and wrongs on both sides, Mr. Walter Oelsner of London N.2, who died attit ° demonstrate the development of British in March 1977, has left £24,000 to be shared tij '"Jdes during two world wars. It stated that equally by the AJR and the Joint Israel 4llip„^''ll ir» •^ ha•'"'-d* n*"-o' optio'-'t-'iAvxni buk/uvt t\.

"WELCOME BACK" PARTY AT AJR CLUB The Club Room and the Meeting Hall of Han­ nah Karminski House were fiUed to capacity MEANING OF THE HOLOCAUST to welcome back Mrs Margaret Jacoby, tnc Chairman of the AJR Club, after the recov­ ery from her operation and to celebrate At the invitation of the British Lubavitch There were chroniclers of history in aU the belatedly her 96th birthday. It was a reai Movement, a distinguished audience of Jews ghettoes and camps, and in the Warsaw family party and, as Mrs. Jacoby stated in net and non-Jews assembled in the historic rooms ghetto alone one hundred chronicles were humorous and cordial speech, she really f^" of the Royal Institution to listen to a lecture written in secret. Even the Jews selected for as near to the Club members as a mother to by Elie Wiesel, the writer and chronicler of the Sonderkommandos who had to bury the her chUdren. The function had been prepareo the Holocaust. Lord Goodman was in the chair. dead, kept diaries. In view of this desire it by Mrs Dora SegaU, Vice-Chairman of tne It was Mr Wiesel's seventh lecture in this seems unbelievable that some 65 books have Club. A charming poem in honour of the country. His hour-long speech, without notes, been written claiming that the Holocaust never "birthday chUd" was written and read out by MT. C. H. Guttmann, J.P., the son of one of tne was deeply moving. He said that in its enorm­ happened, and he did not know how to face most interested Club members. Dr. W. Rosen­ ity, the Holocaust had remained a mystery to this vulgar obscenity. In 1945, the survivors stock conveyed the good wishes of the AJi* this day which could only be compared to the became friends of Mankind instead of accusers, Executive to Mrs. Jacoby and, as so often, the mystery of the Revelation of the Law to Moses they chose to buUd instead of destroying the Club could again enjoy the recitals of the pro­ on Mount Sinai. The world was stUl in danger, world, and many went to Israel to fulfil the fessional artist and long-standing Club mem­ because it had not been punished for a crime dreams they had dreamt in the ghettoes. ber, Mr. Friedrich SchUler. The whole function^ which defied all logic, but he did not want to It was a miracle that the Chasidic Movement including the ensuing informal part, when see it punished by a nuclear Holocaust, and coffee and cake were served, testified ane" survived. It should have been extinguished, to the strength of the Club and the feeling it might be saved as long as it was made aware because all its centres were destroyed, but it of friendship and solidarity among its mem­ of the enormity of the event. It had begun came back with a new dynamism. The one bers. with words which were not taken seriously by important task that now faced the dwindling the leaders of the liberal world who could have number of survivors was to see to it that his­ prevented it. The killers had attempted to sub­ tory was not forgotten, that the world was "AJR INFORMATION" DELAYED stitute themselves for God. Most of them were made to remember what had happened to our educated men with coUege degrees who com­ people by reading the chronicles assembled For reasons entirely beyond our control, bined a vast amount of knowledge with the art during the terror. M.P. thc .luly issue of AJR Information wa* of kUling. As opposed to their worldly know­ delivered with very considerable delay. The ledge, the rabbis, supported by 2,000 years of Post Office had received the copies fro^J HOLOCAUST FELLOWSHIP ENDOWED our mailing firm at the .scheduled date bui talmud studies were provided with a moral declared that, due to lack of staff, theV shield which obviously the study of Goethe Concentration camp survivors now living had accumulated a large amount of mail ^^". and SchUler did not provide. They could have in Britain have raised £4,000 to endow a could only handle it with a delay of several found refuge, but in their thousands, they fellowship in Holocaust studies at the Oxford days. We deeply regret the inconvenience accompanied their communities to the death Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. The thus caused to our readers and hope that the chambers. survivors who came here in their early teens, shortcomings on the part of the postal auui- were helped by the Central British Fund orities were of a temporary nature. The edi­ Those who survived among the victims did at thc time. They subsequently set up their tors and printers always do their best to secure own association, the 45 Aid Society, which the delivery of our joumal during the firsj so because they were obsessed by the desire to days of the month, and the great number o' bear witness and not to let the killers triumph. rai.sos money for the CBF, now World Jewish Relief, and other causes. Mr. Ben Helfgott, enquiries we received in July testified anew the society chairman, said at the annual to the eagemess with which our readers are dinner, the camp inmates had endured great looking forward to each issue of "AJR Inform­ physical and emotional stresses and had been ation." helped by Anglo-Jewry, under thc leadership "ROYAL MINT" of the late Leonard G. Montefiore. to adjust to their uew environment and to make a has been advertised in AJR for many valuable contribution to it. They must never years. tire of explaining the meaning of the Holo­ caust, especially to the younger generations Have you tasted it or the other Royals? at universities, many of whom were anti-I.sracl. DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX ISRAEL MUSEUM IN CANADA The Canadian Wizo lias invited Christian LTD. 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NEGEV PARADISE FOR MAORI CONVERT Mr. Danny Pohatu, the only iuiown Maori convert to Judaism and his New Zealand-bom THE ISRAELI SCENE Jewish wife, Rosa, are leading members of the Sde Nissan immigrant settlement in the Negev. Nearly all the 60 families there are VISITS BY GERMAN PARLIAMENTARIANS JAIL SENTENCE FOR AMERICAN from English-speaking countries. The Pohatus STUDENT visited Israel just before the 1973 war and ^Professor Karl Carstens, president of the decided to stay. Mr. Pohatu was converted r?Ji Parliament, visited Israel as leader of The case of the Arab-American student, Sami after attending a seminar conducted by the ^liamentarian all-party group and planted IsmaU, who was arrested in Israel last Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren. They D "'ee in the Jerusalem Forest of Peace. Mr. December, has been discussed in a number now have two young sabra sons and live in tifishemesh, director of the K.K.L. to which of Western papers including "The Times". their own house. In their four acres of green­ Dia t °'"6st belongs, explained that it was Arab sources aUeged that he had been severely houses, they grow tomatoes and melons for ^_anted in what used to be No Man's Land and tortured. Now two leading American lawyers, export. They keep kashmt and attend the •innowj serves as a recreation centre for Jews having studied all aspects of the case, nave Orthodox services, but like everybody else on "•^d Arabs. publicly declared that these rumours were the settlement, they have to work on Satur­ Pari- Presidential Board of the Bavarian unfounded. Twenty-four-year-old IsmaU who is days during the season. Mrs. Pohatu said that j.^'^itient also paid a one-week's visit to American-bam, arrived in Israel to visit his they had found their rightful place and it was Yi^h 1 '^^^y h^^ ^^^ invited to do so by dying father in the West Bank town of paradise for them. ac^^ Shamir, president of the Knesset who, Ramallah. He was arrested because he was fpSl^Panied by other Knesset Members, had found to belong to the Popular Front for the sg^^jtedly visited Munich. At the end of their Liberation of Palestine, George Habash's Arab TRAINING FOR FUTURE WIMBLEDON ijj^Jtney expressed their admiration for the terrorist group, and to have visited Libya CHAMPIONS hari^ and agricultural achievements they in 1976. On these grounds he was sentenced ChUdren from all over the country receive by .jf^cn. They added they were impressed to 15 months' imprisonment. The American free training at the new tennis centre just /Hie happy relationships between Jews and investigators established that he had been outside Tel Aviv, said to be a Wimbledon tQi^"f in the country—their Arab driver had visited by the American consul in Israel, that champion's dream. All children who show scWo ™ ^^^' ^^ ^^"t ^^^ children to Israeli no signs of torture could be found and that abUity in the game, are sent by their schools, f'du • ^l^^re they received a very good in his prison cell he had a private bath. and a group of youngsters who have shown promise, are to go to America this summer to leam and to play in a number of junior tournaments. PRAISE FOR ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE YESHIVA STUDENT'S SUICIDE SERVICE EUROVISION CONTEST IN JERUSALEM? ^g^haarim", the newspaper of the Poale At a symposium on the balance of power As the Eurovision contest is always held Ylri^.ath Israel Party, has revealed that in the Middle East, General Keegan, former in the country which has won the previous jj-Jiiva students in training at an Israel head of the US Air Force Intelligence, said year's contest, next year's performance wUl So h ^® Forces Armoured Corps camp were that the Israeli intelligence semce had pro­ take place in Jerusalem. Israel has just syjp.^diy treated that one of them committed vided him with othervi'ise unobtainable infor­ announced that it will be possible to stage (•'Om Subsequently, the training company mation on the Soviet Air Forces. Twice in the event in colour. offjjp^nder was sacked, and four training the past 15 years wamings of murder plots l^jjlprs were given prison sentences. Before against the King of Saudi Arabia were given LEVI GERTNER MEMORIAL LIBRARY igjj'ig himself, the student had written a by the Israelis and saved the king's life. In lot ^^ ^^^ commander saying that he could 1973, the Israelis had shot down a heavy PupUs from the Camden Town J.F.S. be^J^^rry on any longer, but the letter had Russian transport plane en route to Syria to attended the dedication of the Levi Gertner deatv, ^^ ^^^ letter-box until after his show their readiness to resist increased sup­ memorial library at the Givat Washington trg*-"?- The yeshiva students who do their plies of weapons to Syria. The Russians had religious high school. Mr. Levi Gertner, who s&a u "^ coUectively, had been forced to drink got the message. died in 1976, was educational director of the OQi'^^ter on a route mareh, were aUowed British Zionist Federation's Educational Trust. foro j^° hours sleep a night for a week, were The library was funded with £1,000 collected ists r *° stand in the sun and salute the by Miss Barwell, of the National Union of bgM ^^S ^r four hours at a time, were ARAB TERRORISTS IN SYRIAN GHETTO Hebrew Teachers, from friends and students Thp '^ and cursed for their reUgious beliefs, at Mr. Gertner's Hebrew seminars. to ''nan who kUled himself had been forced A representative of the World Organisation *atl° **" ^ route march with a jerrican of for Jews in Arab Countries announced at a PRIZE FOR BOB HOPE r^J*F strapped to his back, even though he was press conference in London that there were SbS^°^ a high temperature. The Chief of 800 Jewish famUies left in Syria, and that in The Scopus Prize, the highest honour %t 'ii ^^°- Eitan, said he would see to it the Damascus ghetto they lived side by side awarded by the American Fnends of thc Out '-'reatment of recmits would be stamped with Palestinian Arabs, some of whom are Hebrew University, was conferred on Bob picked for terrorist activity against Israel. Hope. KNEIPP CURE INTRODUCED The spa hotel, Yaarot Hacarmel, near Haifa, which provides many kinds of spa and health farm treatments, has introduced special treat­ ments in the manner of Pastor Kneipp, which Gesucht werden Tagebiicher und Briefe have for many years been popular in Central Europe, and in South Africa. The world centre of Kneipp treatment is Bad Wdrrishofen, Wir suchen unveroffentlichte Nachlasse, Tagebucher, Briefe von deutschen Bavaria. The inauguration of the Israeli centre was attended by 30 members of the Liechten­ stein Kneipp League, which acted as adviser juciischen Familien aus dem 18., 19. und 20. Jahrhundert aus privaten to the hotel. There is a "cure path", 600 metres in length with 12 stations at which Quellen und Archiven zur Auswertung fur die geplante Veroffentlichung particular exercises are prescribed in Hebrew sines Romans mit dem Arbsitstitel "Eine judische Familie", der von Prof. Dr. and German. Walter Jens, Tubingen, auf Tatsachen beruhend geschrieben werden soil. NEW COINAGE A new I£5 coin (about 16^p) is the Eine ausserst diskrete Behandlung wird bei der Sichtung des Materials first new coin since the I£l and 50 agorot coins were issued in 1963. Since then, the con­ 2ugesichert. Reale Namen wurden durch fiktive ersetzt. sumer price index has risen by 900 per cent. NO FUTURE FOR THE DEAD SEA? Kindler Verlag During the past 30 years IsraeU and Jordan­ ian farmers have taken so much water from Leopoldstrasse 54 the River Jordan that the Dead Sea's level is falling by 80 centimetres per year. The D-8000 Munchen 40 IsraeUs have just buUt two canals which are to supply the Dead Sea with water to counter­ act the annual loss, but the southem basin has already completely dried up. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION August l9^i

nature with the paintbrush. On some occa­ sions he behaved with impressive dignity a«j IN MEMORIAM decorum, on others with a cavalier dj^rega of polite convention. He could discour DR. ARTHUR KAUFMANN DR. HANS JACOBI thoughtfully and intelligently on a wide varie" of subjects, but was also apt to talk outrageo^^ Dr. Arthur Kaufmann died on 10th July at Dr Hans Jacobi, who died on June 16, at nonsen.se for the mere fun of provoking •? the age of 76 after a short iUness. He was the age of 68, was throughout his life a repre­ listeners. As a friend he was considerai • born m Leipzig, a member of a weU-known sentative of the idea of Deutschtum und generous and utterly reliable, but those w'^ Jewish famUy. As a student, he joined the Jndentam., even when the catastrophe which whom he clashed found him a very ^oUB K.C. fraternity and maintained ties of friend­ overwhelmed German Jewry made this idea opponent. He certainly had his share of h^^lpf ship and loyalty towards fellow members appear to be a rather absurd dream of the failings, yet he had the strength of chara«e throughout his life. He commenced practising paf:t. His literary and artistic tastes, his whole to recognise and come to terms with them; an as a lawyer in his home town, but he estab­ .style of life and thought, remained distinctly it was this which enabled him to develop », lished contacts in London as early as 1927, German, and in his mocking scepticism towards almost uncanny insight into the thoughts an and very soon after the advent of the Nazis, any kind of rigid ideology, his easy, jovial feelings of others, and with it the sympatneu • settled in London and started work with a firm sociability and robust sense of humour he smiling tolerance that was one of his mo of Solicitors, whUst studying to qualify as a was a typical Rhinelander. When only Jews lovable virtues. ^ Solicitor. During the 1930s, he helped many were present, he was inclined to speak of all businessmen and others from Leipzig to things Jewish with a kind of afTectionate irony, establish themselves in London, many of them sometimes amounting to fiippancy—modelled WILLIAM STEINBERG lieing, of course, members of the fur trade. on that of his favourite poet, Heine, of whose During the vi'ar, he served as an officer in the writings he made a life-long study. Yet there Dr. William Steinberg, former conductor o British Arm\', taking part in the North African is no doubt that he also remained, true to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and mu* and Italian campaigns. After the war he his upbringing, a "good Jew". He proved it cal director of the London PhUharmonic Orcn,e» resumed practising as a Solicitor and con­ as Head of the Cologne office of the Hilfsverein tra, has died in New York, aged 78. He studif" tinued to do so until his death. during the critical years of 1935 to 1939, when music at the conservatory of music in "^ he served the cause of Jewish emigration with native Cologne and became one of the y^tj"?* He was a member of the AJR Board and a est conductors of the renowned Frankim personal friend of several founder members. inexhaustible devotion and a personal courage far beyond the call of duty. Opera. Dismissed in 1933, he became conducto As most of the honorary officers had arrived of the Jiidische KuUurbund Orchestra an» in this coimtry only a few months before the He was one of the few former German later emigrated to Palestine where, togetne outbreak of war, his knowledge and expertise lawyers who obtained their qualification as with Bronislaw Hubcrman, the violinist, " as an "integrated" refugee were of particular solicitors, and he was successful in his new founded the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestr^' value. His co-operation with the AJR continued career. His approacli to the profession was the forerunner of the present-dav Israel Pn^ throughout the years. Only a short whUe ago, thoroughly pragmatic: he regarded the law harmonic. In 1938 Toscanini, who had hear he negotiated on our behalf with the authori­ as but a means of achieving the best possible him in Tel Aviv, persuaded him to accept " ties about a new, rather complex question solution in a conflict of practical interests. He conducting post in the United States. indirectly connected with compensation to had a sure grasp of economic reaUties, and Nazi victims. On that occasion we again wit­ often he understood the true interests of his nessed with admiration his grasp of legal clients better than they did themselves. He problems and his skill as a negotiator. The was an exceUent adviser and an outstanding MEYER OPPENHEIMER question is stiU unsolved, and it wUl be diffi­ negotiator. His special talents could have been Mr. Meyer Oppenheimer, who was the first cult to find an expert to replace him. He was a valuable as.set in the wider sphere of com­ secretary of the Hendon Adath CongregatJO,"' also a member of the London Executive of the munal life; perhaps it is a pity that in his set up in 1938, has died at thc age of 82. H^ Council of Jews from Germany, where his later years he had no ambition in that had been a teacher at the Fuerth Je«»n gifts as a careful and sound adviser were direction. school before coming to this countryi and "* greatly appreciated. Furthermore, he was the Jacobi was very much "a man with all his worked for the Adath for over 30 years. 0°; Hon. Secretary of the world-wide United contradictions". A siirewd, down-to-earth man of his former pupils was Dr. Kissinger. Afte' Restitution Organisation, his work in this of affairs, who greatly cherished material com­ his retirement, he continued to blow thc shotai sphere also remaining unfinished. fort and pleasures, he also wrote sensitive until he was weU over 80, and devoted "i' Arthur Kaufmann's penetrating inteUect lyrical poetr>' in a romantic vein and ex­ leisure to Jewish historical and TalmU" and wise counsel wUl be sadly missed. pressed his profound joy in the beauties of research.

FAMILY EVENTS Besser.—Margot Besser, of 7 Sand- CLASSIFIED Personal ringham Court, Maida Vale, Lon­ Entries in the column Family don, W.9, passed away in Italy on The charge in these columns is CONTINENTAL LADY Uving.'" Events are free of charge; any July 2. Deeply mourned and sadly 25p for five ivords plus 20p for Wales would like to meet active voluntary donation would, how­ missed by her daughter, Natalie, advertisements under a Box No. retired gentleman with own home^ ever, be appreciated. Texts should son-in-law, Bernard, granddaugh­ Box 737. be sent in by 15th of the month. ters, and her beloved Friedel, com­ MisceUaneous INFORMATION REQUIRED panion for thirty years, relatives Birth and friends. REVLON MANICURIST. WUl visit Personal Enquiries your home. Phone 01-445 2915. Herzberg.—The address of Mr. {• Fabian.—A son, Ross Mark, was Cromwell.—On July 16, after a Herzberg, (formerly UApOft bom on July 3, to Paul and Linda long illness, Phibpp CromweU, FAMILY moved to new home brother of the late Mrs. Hilf* Fabian, first grandson for Mr. and sadly missed by his wife, cliUdren, wishes to buy Persian carpet and/ Gmen, U.S.A., who may 1>»J^ Mrs. H. Fabian; first great-grandson grandchildren and many friends. or antique furniture. 01-458 3010. for Mrs. Frieda Fabian. changed his name, is wanted "' Hayek.—With great sadness Tony Mrs. R. Boas, 6 Compayne Garden*' Birthday Hayek and Traudi Plesch and their Accommodation Vacant London, N.W.6. Tel. 01-624 3969- famUies announce the death of Goodman.—Mr. Eric Goodman, of their beloved mother Margit LUGANO/SWITZERLAND. Com­ AJR Enquiries 93 Gilling Court, Belsize Grove, Hayek, 83 years old. She died fortable, centrally heated furnished PoUitzer.—Mr. A. PoUitzer, |f.1 London, N.W.3, will celebrate his peacefuUy on July 16 after a short flat in modem block, long lets 70th birthday on September 2. illness cheerfuUy bome at 10 preferred from only £40 p.w. knovra address 4 Crowe H,; Church Plantation, University of Tel.: 01-959 8488. Court, 66 Longfleet Road, Po"' ' Wedding Keele, Staffs. Dorset, BN15 2JE. Erie-Grant.—On July 21, the mar­ BEDSITTER, small c/h, use of Pomeranz.—Mrs. M. Pomera^^' riage took place between Ralph Sontheim.—On July 8 in a traffic kitchen, in nice private flat to let, last known address 115 Goldstonf David Erie, son of Mr. and Mrs. accident Helga Sontheim. Deeply Hendon area. Worldng person pre­ Crescent, Hove, Sussex, BNS 61>= Alfred Erie, and Simone Mary mourned by her sister Rita Leh­ ferred. Box 735. Grant, daughter of the late Mr. mann and her many friends. Gregor J. Grant and Mrs. Eba Strieker.—Paul Strieker, formerly Situation Vacant Grant. of Vienna, 90 years of age, passed DISPLAY ADVERTISEMENTS away on June 24; deeply moumed WIDOW would like lady com­ Deaths by his wife, son and daughter. panion, five times per week for In "AJR Information" four hours, 2-6 p.m. Box 736. Bachmann.—Mrs. I. Bachmann Susicky.—Jiri George Susicky, Charges per Inch single colux"' passed away on June 25, deeply passed away on June 10, at the age E2-50 in editorial columns moumed by her daughter, son-in- of 77. Deeply moumed by his wife, (i width of page) law and grandchildren. Maria, and sister, Valerie. CHANGE OF ADDRESS In order to ensure that you £2 00 in advertising columns In Memoriam Bemstein.—Mrs. Fritzi Bemstein, receive your copy of "AJR Infor­ (1 width of page) (fonnerly Nuemberg), passed Lien.—Edith Jenny Lien, died on mation" regularly, please Inform away peacefuUy on July 4, m her May 16. Deeply moumed by her us Immediately of any change of A discount of 20 per cent is 99th year. Sadly missed by her son, brother, sisters, relatives and address. granted for six or more insertion* and daughter, and their famiUes. friends. ^ INFORMATION August 1978 Page 11

SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION PERSONAUA AVAILABLE We are pleased to inform our readers that NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES MEET BIRTHDAY HONOURS the newly acquired house in Finchley Central Our member Ekiward Arthur Marsden was has now been brought up to a very high J,The speakers at this year's meeting in appointed an O.B.E. in the recent Birthday standard of comfort. There are bed-sitting J^ndau of Nobel Prize laiu-eates for medicine Honours. A qualified lawyer in Germany and a rooms with a resident caretaker, central heat­ ^«tuded Professor Sir Hans Krebs (Oxford), solicitor of the Supreme Court, Marsden has ing, hot water, cooking and laundry facUities, ?no read a paper about "The Biology of for many years been Clerk to the Supreme garden, etc. Anyone who is interested in such ]^*?venile Delinquency". Sir Bemard Katz Restitution Court in Herford, the highest accommodation should contact Mrs S. R. Taus­ J^ondon) and Professor Fritz A. Lipmann appeal court for the former British Zone in sig, at AJR, 8 Fairfax Mansions, London, ^•^ew York). E.G.L. Germany in restitution matters, one_ of the NW3 6JY. few subjects reserved to Allied jurisdictian POUR LE MERITE " FOR under the Paris Treaties of 1954 which granted BARMITZVAH IN OTTO SCHIFF HOUSE SIR ERNST GOMBRICH sovereignty to the Federal RepubUc of An unusual event took place in Otto Schiff Germany. Through his thorough knowledge of House on JiUy 15, when a pupU of Mr. and J Jlie Order "Pour le Merite fuer Wissen- both English and German law Marsden has Mrs. Posen, who take services in the Home, .vnaft und Kuenste", which was re-introduced been able to give invaluable help to the celebrated his Barmitzvah there. The occa­ anrt ^^^® Federal German President Heuss Judges of this Court and to the cause of restitu­ sion was much enjoyed by the residents, Q^o whose membership is restricted to 30 tion in general. many of whom were happUy reminded of their ^ernian and 30 foreign personalities, was The Honours List also included an MBE for youth. B?!frded to Sir Ernst Gombrich (London), Sir Mr Claus Werner Benedict, Managing Director, to tk- '"'^^ ^°^° '^ Vienna in 1909 and came Forth TextUes Ltd., Rhondda. Mr. Benedict is REFUGEES! 90111 BIKIUDAV gfj ??s country 40 years ago. A widely-known a member of the AJR. jf: Pistorian, he was Director of the Warburg Mr. Adolf Feibusch who came to this country l^titute of the University of London. His Professor Hans Leo Romberg who, as re­ as a refugee from Koenigsberg in 1939, has M^^t known works are, "The Storv of Art" and ported in our July issue, was awarded a just celebrated his 90th birthday. In Koenigs­ ^^ and Illusion." knishthood, is Sir William Dunn Professor of berg he was a buUding contractor who Biochemistry (not of Chemistrj) at the Uni­ employed more than 100 staff. He settled in versity of Cambridge. He also renders essen­ Southend and has since been greatly involved •^R. WILHELM FELDBERG HONOURED tial services to this country as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pol­ in synagogue and fund-raising matters. Mr. u^- WUhelm Feldberg, C.B.E., head of the lution. Feibusch has been a member of the AJR In~?ratory of neuro-pharmacology. National since its inception. We extend our sincerest u^itute for Medical Research, London, has CIVIC HONOURS FOR FORMER congratulations to him. ^^ admitted as a feUow of the Royal College FRANKFURT LAWYER ERIC GOODMAN, 70 p ,;5^ysicians of London. Hamburg-bom Dr. 81-year-old Dr. Ludwig (Lutz) Rosenthal, a thp A ^ has been an interested member of former Frankfurt lawyer, was among the three On September 2, our friend Eric Goodman AJR for many years. men who were awarded the civic medal of wiU celebrate his 70th birthday. The son of the the town of Hanau, which was presented well-known Cantor of the Potsdam Jewish LEADER OF THE WINE TRADE to him by the German Ambassador to Guate­ community, the late Samuel Guttmann, he was mala where he has lived for many years. He on the staff of the Tietz combine in Berlin n,~*: Peter HaUgarten, son of our board was bom in Bergen near Hanau and has writ­ but, at the same time, received a comprehen­ ^ember S. F. Hallgarten and head of Hall- ten a number of publications on local history, sive reUgious training. After the November l~rten Wines Limited, has been elected the and on Jewish local history in particular. 1938 pogroms he was admitted to this country AW "^^^sh chainnan of the Wine and Spirit In 1963 he published an essay, "History of as an inmate of the Richborough Transit j^^ation. He is a world authority on liqueurs the Jews in the area of the former county of Camp. Later he held a number of business Q2^ said to have personally invented twelve Hanau including the Jews of Bergen, near appointments but also rendered his voluntary S^. liqueurs. He said recently that while the Frankfurt, and the author's ancestors who exp>ert services to the New Liberal Jewish jJ^tish had the lowest wine consumption in lived there in the 17th, 18th and 19th cen­ Congregation (now Belsize Square Synagogue) t~^ EEC, the number of adults buying wine turies". His other works include an essay about where he acted for many years as Choir­ il?d increased by more than 40 per cent in the Frankfurt metal firm. Beer, Sondheimer & master. The AJR, of which he has been a i??, 1970s, despite the fact that the duty on Co. When Hitler came to power, Hanau had a member almost since its inception, wishes him ^'•^ wine had risen by 333 per cent since Jewish community of 600. At present there health and enjoyment of his retirement for are hardly any Jews living there.—E.G.L. many years to come.

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Starting in Cologne, NEUENGAMME Television performed a much-discussed play he is especially known to most of us by his Sir,—I am writing a book about the bombinB "Tod eines Vaters", illustrating a mother/son successful collaboration with Carl Ebert at of Hamburg in July, 1943, and would like to problem in which the part of the mother was Glyndeboume. Yet his activities extended to contact anyone who was either stUl living »" taken by Marianne Hoppe. Marlene Dietrich, many music centres all over the world, rang­ the city at that time or who was in the nearby who had previously declined to accept any concentration camp of Neuengamme. If any ing from Dresden and Bayreuth to Buenos reader can help, please write to me and I w"' more film roles, was persuaded to change her Aires and New York. Highlights of the book give more details. mind: in the film "Just a Gigolo", shot in are the references to his friendship with MARTIN MIDDLEBROOK Paris, she is partnered by pop star David Toscanini. His clash with the National Social­ 48 Linden Way, Bowie and Curt Jiirgens. ists is shown in an inimitable mixture of his Boston, Lines, PE21 9DS. German Film Awards. "Gold Ribbons", the devotion to music, eamest convictions and German equivalent to Hollywood's "Oscars", unshakable humour. BIOGRAPHY OF CORA BERLINER have recently been awarded to Ruth S.B. Leuwerick, Gert Froebe, Rudolf Platte and Sir,—I have been asked by the family of the Lilli Palmer with the citation "For outstanding late Cora Berliner to urrite a short biography TWO EXHIBITIONS of her. As some of your readers will knoVi, services to the German Film Industry". she was active in the Jeunsh youth movement, Tit-Bits. 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