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Information Issued by the Association of Jewish Refugees in Creat Britain .y Vol. XVI No. 4 April, 1961 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN CREAT BRITAIN I FAIRFAX MANSIONS, 0//ice and Consulting Hours: FINCHLEY ROAO iCorncr Fairfax Road), lONOON, N.W.3 Mondayto Thursday 10 a.nu—1 p.m. 3—6 p.m Telephone: MAIda Vala 9096'7 (General Ofticej friday 10 a.m.—l p.m. MAIda Vale 4449 (Employmant Agency and Sociai Service! Depl.) on him alone. He is too unimportant as an indi­ vidual, and he was only one of the numerous EFFORTS OF ATONEMENT exponents of a system which, after all, was a German system. If we are prepared neither to BROTHERHOOD WEEK IN GERMANY EXPRESSIONS OF GOOD WILL close our eyes vis-a-vis the Eichmann trial nor to regard him as a scapegoat for ourselves, we have Last month the " Brotherhood Week," which Whoever follows the German Press is bound almost done what we can do in this case. ." uas now become a traditional annual feature, to notice that in many papers hardly an issue In another article the " Frankfurter Allgemeine *as observed all over Western Germany and passes which, in one way or another, does not Zeitung" reviews the television series " Das refer to the Nazi past and tries to bring home Dritte Reich". " Whoever remembers just one •n Western Berlin. Its object is to promote to the public the obligations arising from it. With­ Understanding between the races and religions of the pictures from the concentration camps or out wishing to single out any particular Gennan the Warsaw Ghetto", the paper writes, " is no and especially between Jews and Christians, newspapers, it can be stated that papers such as longer entitled to calm down his own conscience. functions took place in more than 25 large the " Frankfurter Rundschau " and the " Frank­ Most terrifying are always the pictures of the ^nd small towns. They included talks, film furter Allgemeine Zeitung" keep on warning of children, because they are the most innocent of Performances, readi'ngs from German-Jewish any dangers of neo-Nazi&m and, in their reports all the victims. You see starved Jewish children, authors and special youth meetings. The Ger- about the trials of Nazi criminals, make the who had found a few potatoes and kept them readers aware of the horrors of the past. Few under their rags; they were found out and had pian radio stations also dedicated a variety of examples, taken at random, bear out this observa­ DToadcasts to the event. The "Allgemeine to surrender them to the German guards. There tion. have often been ' Herrenmenschen', who enlisted Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland" In a front page article on the Eichmann trial the services of torturers; but torturers who pubhshed a message by Federal President Dr. the " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" writes : regarded themselves as ' Herrenmenschen ' were "einrich Luebke, and articles by prominent ". .It would be dangerous if we ignored the a species reserved to the Germans." politicians, writers, and theologians, such as moral and political aspects of the trial. We A third example, taken from the cultural '•ederal Minister Ernst Lemmer, Erich Lueth, have to see the problem as we would see it if column, is an article on " Great Jewish Musi­ ^ud Dr. Hermann Maas. another nation was involved in the trial. Adolf cians ", based on a recent book by Arthur Holde. Federal President Luebke himself gave an Eichmann is a German ; he organised the deporta­ At the end of a detailed appraisal the reviewer, tion of the Jews into the extermination camps ; H. H. Stuckenschmidt, writes : " Among the effects address at a meeting in the Frankfurt Pauls- and he is also accused of having been one of of the racial ideology on the cultural life, that in ^irche. Co-existence between Germans and those who devised the methods of their destruc­ the musical sphere has been the most far-reaching Jews was possible, he said, only if the Germans tion. He belonged to a political gang with which, one. The loss of substance which Germany's j^ognised the extent of the catastrophe which for a number of years, the majority of the Ger­ musical life has suffered becomes even greater "'t-er brought to the Jews of Europe and man nation identified itself. The world will hardly since the resources have become smaller. The examined their share of responsibility for past differentiate between the Eichmann who is now more we succeed in obtaining the co-operation on trial and the Germans of those days. It is of our Jewish fellow-citizens, the greater wil! be events. Though the destruction of the Jewish impossible to ' overcome' the past entirely, for the gain for our musical life. The mistakes of people was only aimed at and orga'niscd by the essence of a people and of a nation is its the past cannot be undone, but we can help tew demagogues, it had been carried out in continuity. We can neither ignore Eichmann nor to contribute to the disappearance of the preju­ e name of the entire German nation. The can we exculpate ourselves by shifting the burden dices by which they had been caused." Ge •"nian people must do everything to repair hatever damage could be repaired, materially * Well as morally, but adequate compensation Herbert Freeden (Jerusalem) infl'' ''"P°^S'''le because of the enormous losses .. ""^'ed by the Nazis. Compensation would, erefore, have to be regarded i'n the first place ON THE EVE OF THE EICHMANN TRIAL "s an expression of good will. The historic trial against Adolf Eichmann is by a High Court Judge. Justice Landau was .yr. Luebke criticised the East German to begin. The opening date has been set for nominated by the President of the Supreme girne for refusing to give compensation for April 11. The indictment which has been sub­ Court to fill this post. Moshe Landau was fL^^'victims and at the same time denouncing mitted by the Attorney-General to the Jerusalem bom in Danzig in 1912, settled jn 1933 in jjr.^^'^eral Republic as a neo-Nazi State. He District Court is more detailed than the Notice Palestine, and received the LL.B. from Lon­ mu H '^^' ^^^ systematic prosecution of Nazi of Charge, handed over to the accused's don University. After three years of practising rderers also played an important part in the counsel on February 1. The document contains as a lawyer he was appointed Magistrate in rtian efforts of undoing the wrongs, 15 counts and a list of 37 prosecution witnesses. 1940; in 1948 he became a District Court the ^°*^^er," the President said, " undoing In it Eichmann is charged with crimes against Judge, and in 1953 he was appointed to the can ^"^""S^ 's a task which, by its very nature, the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, Supreme Court. j*nnot be solved one-sidedly. Good will of war crimes, and membership in hostile Nazi The other two judges, also veteran members ma °'^^'' side is also necessary. We Ger- organisations. of the Israel Judiciary, are Dr. Benjamin *ns must not forget what has happened. Yet The last finishing touches to the impressive Halevy and Yitzhak Raveh. Judge Halevy was sha^ hope that the Jews will contribute their court hall, a last check and re-check of the born in Weissenfels an der Saale in 1910, tha,[*k° accomplishment of the task and stringent security measures, a last rehearsal of received, in Berlin, the Doctorate Magna cum Our *'^' respond to the manifestation of the technical facilities for Press radio cables, Laude in the Faculty of Law, and came to i^gtt sood will. Our efforts would remain wires and long-distance calls are all but com­ Palestine by the end of 1933. After years of rtective, and might even lessen in the course plete. Hundreds of foreign correspondents, legal work and training he opened a legal office gg.^"^e, if we did not feel that the other party writers, film men, political observers, special of his own in 1938. Soon afterwards, hov/ever, at u ^°^^ confidence in us. Otherwise, efforts diplomatic representatives, eminent jurists, poli­ he was appointed Magistrate in Jerusalem. In be f",, '"Standing and co-operation might again ticians, delegates of anti-Nazi organisations 1948 he was nominated first Judge in the Jera­ to if "°*ed by distrust. We must have a chance from all comers of the world, are pouring jnto salem District Court, and, after a few months, our ^^^^ ^^ ^^^" ^°^ ^^ disappointed in Jerusalem, where hotel accommodation is at a appointed President of the District Court. Judge niti ^'^^^^^ours, but that we may expect recog- premium. Halevy's name became known in connection Pres'rf' ^'^'^°uragement, and response." The The composition of the court was announced with the Kastner trial. On two occasions he rQ^"^^nt also stressed the common spiritual on February 27. Under the terms of a recently presided over military courts, one of them the IS on which both Judaism and Christianity passed law on the trial of cases involving a Kfar Kassem trial. •^•^e based capital charge, the Bench will be presided over Continued on page 2, column I Page 2 AJR INFORMATION April, 1961 ON THE EVE OF THE EICHMANN TRIAL (Continued from page I) COMPENSATION NEWS Judge Raveh, a District Court Judge in Tel NEW AUSTRIAN COMPENSATION LAWS SOZIALVERSICHERUNG IN OESTERREICH Aviv, was bora in Aurich, Germany, in 1906. After graduating from a secondary school in On March 22nd, the Austrian Parliament Die Aufmerksamkeit unserer Leser wird auf die 8. Novelle zum Allgemeinen Sozialversicherungs- Berlin he studied law at the universities of passed a Law establishing a Fund of 6,600,000 dollars to provide a certain measure of com­ gesetz (A.S.V.G.) gelenkt, die beachtenswerte Beriin and Halle.
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