Volume XXXIV No. 5 May 1979 INFORMATION fSSUfD SY THE Assoaum OF JEVUSH REFU^S U OEAT BRITMI

%on Larsen peared from the German scene: where and in what personal situation he worked was irrele­ vant. Even as a fanner he was still a writer. Another recent book on the subject is GERMAN LITERATURE-IN-EXILE Polififc und Literatur im Exil (Christian Ver­ The Last Chapter? lag, ) by Alfred Kantorowicz who emigrated to , fought against Franco in ^ew topics in literary history have been dis- fred Durzak, Bloomington, who is also the , fled to America and retumed, as a Com­ *^ussed, studied, written about all over the editor of the anthology) the success stories munist of long standing, to East . But *orld as much as that of German Exilliteratur, are also rare, but some of them are quite the GDR tumed out to be the worst "exile" r'er since the buming of the books and the astounding: Vicki Baum, Lion Feuchtwanger, for him, and after a decade of frustration he "**ss of writers from Nazi Gennany. Franz Werfel extended their former mainly left it to settle in the Federal RepubUc. He But the very diversity of attitudes to the German-language readership into a worldwide died in Hamburg two months ago. ^"Dject makes it difficult to define the term one from their American exile; Anna Segher's Kantorowicz starts his work—compiled for , "Winteratur. Does it mean anything produced Das siebte Kreuz achieved a sale of 600,000 the Forschungsstelle fur die Geschichte des J former Gennan writers outside their home- copies in the U.S. alone. Nationalsozialismus in Hamburg—with a state­ nd? Or only works on the subject of exile, The second part of the volume consists of ment which promises interesting elaboration: "6 situation of the refugees? How about the individual studies of exiled authors. Bertolt "Apart from opposition to Hitler there is no P^nod of exile: does it end in 1945? What Brecht's attitude is perhaps the most inter­ common denominator for the German-language „ put the works written and/or published after esting. "The best school of dialectics is emigra­ writers-in-exile." In a well-researched chapter J JS, the writers who remained in their coun- tion," he said in his Fliichtlingsgesprdche. he deals with refugee groups such as exiled "es of exile and began to produce works in Yet he did not like the term "emigrant": we Reich Chancellors, prominent Catholics, „ * languages? The writers who retumed to did not choose a new homeland for settling aristocrats. Communists and Social-Democrats, ^rmany or and continued their there, he argued in some of his poems and prose and women Socialists who became victims of jj^^^rs there? One may come to the conclu- writings after 1933; we were banned and ex­ Stalin's terror. However, the remaining 200 ^^1 that the term Exilliteratur is so ambigu- pelled. "Aber keiner von uns wird hierbleiben," pages of the book are a grave disappointment; tio' ^° ill-defined, so open to misinterpreta- he prophesied. He was wrong. Paradoxically, they deal only with the little-known Schutzver­ j, 1 that precise studies are impossible; and some of his greatest works—such as Mutter band of German writers-in-exile, with abortive j"^t what is left is the hard, tragic core of Courage and GaJilct—were written in exile. congresses in Moscow and , and with the dividual fates: of those who did not survive But can one call them exile literature? "Intel­ foundation of a short-lived. Communist-inspired ^|f exile, who were crushed by the calamities, lectually and artistically," writes another German "Freedom Library" in Paris in 1934, "° took their own lives in despair. Bloomington professor, Ulrich Weisstein, in his at which Kantorowicz himself played a leading gj.1^ studious attempt to combine the biblio- essay bn Brecht, "he found his true home only part. It was opened on May 10, the annivers­ J*Phical With the social viewpoint has been in exile." ary of the buming af the books; it was shut Jr^le in Die deutsche Exilliteratur 1933-1945, exactly six years later to the day when Hitler's ^j.^'^thology of 600 pages (Reclam, ) Or could we range Thomas Mann's last work, tanks were rolling into France. In a way, and field '^°'^tributions by 40 specialists in that Felix Krull—now acknowledged as the greatest in a much more important capacity. Dr. Alfred », ?• most of them university professors, comic novel in the German language—among Wiener's library which he rescued to lj,^"?ly in the USA (preponderantly at the literature-in-exile because its major part was in 1939 was the real answer to the Nazis' bar­ jlj l^^^a University, Bloomington), and nearly written in Califomia? To say nothing of Nelly barous destruction of the books. Kantorowicz j^ "1 their early middle age so that they had Sachs, whose case is a very different one. does not even mention it in his own book. "Persecution and emigration," writes Profes­ Pow, even been bom when Hitler came to But he touches upon a development which, er. One part of the book deals with the sor Albrecht Holschuh (Bloomington), "did he says, complicates the evaluation of exile Pal "^ of the exiled writers in their princi- not separate Nelly Sachs from Germany's literature: the manifold, involved, unexplored con/^??"^ries of refuge, and here we find a few intellectual life: she had never taken part in it, changes of the refugee writers' Weltan­ subi " ^**^ first-hand knowledge on the either actively or passively. . . . Even the schauung. Many, he says, experienced their '^Ifr^^' ^"^ ^" ^'•ossmann on Czechoslovakia, Ministry of Propaganda seems to have re­ exile as a phase of their intellectual lives. On to Kantorowicz on Spain, Gabriele Tergit garded her as so harmless that a few of her They changed countries of residence, often ^. poems could appear until 1938. No doubt, she their opinions, nationalities, creeds, and some­ in '"^J^S the academic accounts of conditions was persecuted as a Jewess, not as a writer." times the languages in which they wrote. ^^nn countries, Tergit's contribution The most relevant essay of the anthology Agnostics became Orthodox , Communists Us j?^ out as a human document, for she gives may be the last one, on Zuckmayer's Devil's tumed into Catholics, bourgeois liberals into ivher '•^umbnail stories of her fellow writers, General. Volker Wehdeking, professor at the Marxists, social critics withdrew into ivory aiti il^^y came from, how they got to Brit- University of Kansas, calls it an "exile towers, pacifists became militant anti-Nazis. sti^ *."at they did here; their failures and drama!" yet starts his contribution with the It is certainly a subject worthy of study. thejfS'es, their contacts among the English, sentence, "At first sight it does not look as Tucholsky is again the object of the exile- ^itle ^ "^ t° mobilise public opinion against though the most important work from Zuck­ literature cult in a publication that does not all ci,^^^ t° explain why they were here at mayer's years of exile has very much to do enhance his memory: Die Q-Tagebiicher 193^ ^^itnat analyses the changes of the official with the consequences of exile," but the entire 35 edited bv his widow Mary Gerold and itite-J^ ^"^ quotes the puzzled remark of an rest of the essay tries to prove that it has. Gustav Huonker (Rowohlt). "Q" stands for shouji''^^nt camp commander in 1940: "I True, Zuckmayer's years in America reflected "ich quatsche." It is the sad spectacle of an ina^-,'''lever have believed that there are so the situation of so many refugees: after fail­ exiled writer in his mid-forties who refuses to tio^/^azis among the Jews!" And she men- ing to find literary work in Hollywood he was contribute to the anti-Nazi joumals which Ufe . *^ichard Friedenthal's splendid book on throughout the war years a farmer in Vermont, need his work but, right to the day of his Afajj^l an internment camp, "Die Welt in der while Ernst Toller, faced with the same failure, suicide, cannot stop himself pouring out his •^ehtlv ^•" '^^'^^ ^^^^ 'ler contribution, quite killed himself. But just as Zuckmayer wrote thoughts, guilt feelings, bitter witticisms and Wfjtgi^. with a few success stories—of his Hauptmann von Kopenick in Germany, long nonsense jokes in private letters to a woman How V?""?"exile who made good in Britain, after the militarist Wilhelminian establish­ friend. Yet he himself wrote repeatedly that ''erseif ."^ Permanent homeland. Today, she ment he derided in that play had gone, he these scribblings should not be published! I^ 3f IS one of them. could have written his Devil's General after This is indeed scraping the barrel of German ^1e United SUtes (writes Professcn- Man­ his return from exile when Hitler had disap­ literatiu-e-in-exile. Page 2 AJR INFORMATION May 1978

RENT/RATE REBATES AND GERMAN PENSIONS GERMANY AND AUSTRIA We understand that in the calculatitm of the income of an applicant for rent allowance or rate FOLLOW-UP ON "HOLOCAUST" STATUTE OF UMETATIONS rebate, several Greater London Boroughs and A spokesman for West Gennany TV said during In answer to the letter of the "Council of Jews possibly some provincial ones disregard, among a conference of the Evangelical Academy at from Germany", quoted in our previous issue, the other pensions paid for certain disablements, tne Tutzing, thc importance of the showing of the ofiice of the Federal Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, German and Austrian pensions paid to Nazi vic­ "Holocaust" film in Germany was to be seen in stated that the Chancellor welcomed the initiative tims. The Borough of Camden, which so far only the discussion that followed. People over 50, taken by the factions of the Bonn Parliament in disregarded the first £4 p.w. of these pensions, has usually only too ready to comment on TV events, this matter. He also referred to his address on the now agreed to disregard 25 per cent of the pen­ had been far less conspicuous in it than viewers 40th anniversary of the November pogroms in sions or £4 p.w. whichever is the larger, fro*" between 14 and 49. He armounced that West which he had stressed that the advice of the April 1979 onwards. German TV was preparing two new serials on the Jewish victiins would have particular weight. He All applicants for rent allowance or rate rebate Nazi past: one connected with the building of the himself, the letter states, has signed the motion of are therefore advised to indicate, in declanng Reichsautobahn, and another in nine parts fol­ the SPD faction, calling for the abolition of the these pensions, that they receive these pensions as lowing the experiences of a young Jewish girl who statute of limitations in cases of murder. victims of Nazi persecution. escapes from the ghetto. The latter is This is a concession for which the AJR h*'* based on the real life story of Janina David who MAIDANEK TRIAL FIZZLES OUT? been pressing for some time. The Boroughs have was deported from Kalisch near Lodz with her In the Maidanek trial which has now lasted for a discretion in this matter, and we cannot _gi^ parents and who was saved by a Gennan family, over 3i years and which is the last of the big further information on the position in individuar whereas her parents were killed. She was hidden trials against concentration camp murderers, the Boroughs. in two convents until the Russians freed her. public prosecutor has proposed the acquittal of a Janina David is now a social worker in Britain, former SS doctor and three women guards, be­ UK TAX TREATMENT OF CERTAIN and her story has bieen written by Polish-bom Leo cause in his view there was no reliable evidence of GERMAN PENSIONS Lehman in London. West German TV is also their guilt or of any particular murder committed The Inland Revenue has agreed that Wjw preparing a film "Holocaust as Document", com­ by them. The Polish press published strong pro­ bining excerpts from "Holocaust" with original Gennan Social Insurance Benefits awarded under tests against this proposal by women who had Sections 18 and 19 of the German "Gesetl p«; documentary films of the Nazi period. This film been called as witnesses. The Diisseldorf jury will be distributed by the Land Centre for pol­ Regelung der Wiedergutmachung nationalsoztoij' acquitted a witness, 67-year-okl Fabian Berger, of stischen Unrechts in der Sozialversicherung" (*^ itical education which has also sent out 400,000 perjury on the ground that his claim that his copies of its study material. The Centre has also gekuerzt "WGSVG") of December 22, 1970,. are memory was faulty, could not be disproved. In exempt from UK income tax. The exemption «s w distributed more than 1,100 documentaries to 1963, he made a statement to the police and re­ schools and adult classes who asked for them. take effect for all past years in which tax was ps*" called in detail atrocities committed at the camp in respect of those pensions. Accordingly, "IJ^ In West , sbc adolescents, one of them a where he had been a guard. Recently, called as a a pension award states that it is made under Sec­ girl, clad in black leather, intruded in a "Holo­ witness, he stated that he had not known anything tion 18 or 19 of the WGSVG. tax exemption ana caust" discussion between children and parents of of the murders until after the war. when he read repayment for past years can be claimed. a Berlin school and shouted National Socialist about them in newspapers. The pensions paid under these provisions a^ slogans, expressing their approval of genocide. largely similar to those paid under Section 99 ("[ When one couple of parents reported on the kill­ THE MEN OF YESTERDAY the fonner Sections 100/101) of the German ing of their parents in a concentration camp, one In Marl, a 49-year-old business man was fined Angestelltenversicherungsgesetz (AVG) and under of the intruders said this had been quite justified, £150 for having sold 40 stainless steel Hitler busts Section 1320 (or the former Section 1321/22) J^ as Communists and Jews were enemies of thc at £10 each last year. He had another 50 busts in the Reichsversicherungsordnung (RVO). We rf* nation who had to be ruthlessly opposed and stock. ferred to these in articles in our issues of Octooe would be sent to concentration camps, if they, the The Bavarian I^ance Ministry stated that it 1977 and September 1978. The pensions affects young pec^le, were to come to power. had not baimed the sale of cutlery and other are, broadly speaking, those granted to refugee* silverware with swastika emblems which once from Nazi persecution in the Gennan Reich o "HOLOCAUST" IN AUSTRIA belonged to Goermg by a local tax office, because Danzig (whether or not former German nationa»|| this had been an isolated case. In the Bavarian whose contributions were paid outside the **'vi It is estimated that on the average two million Parliament, the Social Democrat Rolf Langen- tory of the present German Federal Republic aflo people saw the four parts of the "Holocaust" film, bcrger protested against what he called scandalous Berlin. Pensions derived from contributions p^ when it was screened in Austria at the beginning behaviour and demanded an investigation by the by "expellees" (Vertriebene) in territories annexe" of March. According to an opinion poll, 87 per public prosecutor. He said it had been the height by the German Reich in 1938 and 1939, e.g- cent of the viewers considered the series as "very of impudence to announce that the proceeds Bohemia, Moravia, certain Polish territories-^" good" and "satisfactory". Many viewers asked for would be used for restitution payments. the recipient belonged to the German-speakmb a repetition of the screening, especially as the In Cologne, 39-year-

FRANCE Vichy Man charged NEWS FROM ABROAD 69-year-old Jean Leguay, a retired business man who was secretary-general of the French poUce ui EL SALVADOR occupied France, has been indicted for crimes New York Mayor In Difficulties Hon. Israel Consul Killed against humanity by a French judge. He is ac­ Hias, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is Emesto Liebes, the Honorary IsraeU Consul in cused of helping to organise the round-up of Jew* planning to assist some 27,500 immigrants, mostly San Salvador, who was kidnapped and killed by in Paris on July 17, 1942. His indictment follows a from the Soviet Union, to anive in the States this the Left-wing underground group FARN, was complaint by Mr. Serge Klarsfeld, a Paris lawyer year. This is double last year's figure. As most of bora in Hamburg in 1907 and left Germany, when whose father was kiUed at Auschwitz and who them want to settle in New York, there is a fear the Nazis came to power. He became El Salvador's works for the prosecution of Nazi criminals stiU at of saturation. Mr. Edward I. Koch, the Jewish biggest coffee importer. Mr. Liebes had been large in France. The other charges against L**"^ Mayor of New York, is strongly criticised by the Honorary Israeli Consul since 1949 and, according concern the organisation of transports of arrested black population who allege that he surrounds to a source close to FARN, was murdered because Jews from unoccupied France and his request to himself with aides who are mostly products of the he represented Israel which "supplied arms to the Gestapo to anest Jews from the Baltic States, Jewish middle class Uke himself and excludes Nicaragua and Guatemala." Israel has an Embassy Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, who had fled to France minority groups from decision making. He was in San Salvador and a resident Ambassador, before 1940. After the war, Leguay was sent to particularly attacked for appointing Mrs. Blanche Avraham Saarlouis. New York on a special mission by the Ministry ot Bernstein, an academic critic of poverty pro­ Industrial Production and became the American grammes, as the city's welfare commissioner. She AUSTRIA manager of the Nina Ricci perfume firm. He also has reduced the number of recipients of municipal Mass Grave Discovered worked in London for Richard Hudnut and aid, and blacks involved in poverty programmes A mass grave of 8,000 to 9,000 Jews killed by Warner-Lambert Intemational. After being have for months campaigned for her resignation. charged, Leguay stated: "From 1940 to 1944 J the Nazis has been discovered in a forest near had no other concern but that of protecting and Antisemitic Murdo' Lambach in Upper Austria. The grave is near a defending the French people against the occupW A 19-year-old Yeshiva student in New York, war-time forced labour camp and includes docu­ with the limited means at my disposal." retuming from a hockey game at Madison Square ments that the victims were Hungarians marched Gardens with several boys, was involved in a fight to the area by the Germans in 1944. Those not killed at the camp were later deported to the con­ Arabs Buy Ritz Hotel with two young men, who insulted the group with Arab oil tycoons have taken over the Ritz hotel- remarks atK>ut their skullcaps and other anti­ centration camps of Mauthausen and Guenskirchen and killed there. The Vienna Jewish community Other Paris hotels now in Arab hands are the semitic utterances, and was killed after being Meurice, the Grand Hotel and the Hotel Prince beaten with a baseball bat and a hammer. has decided to re-inter the remains from the mass grave in a special grave at the Mauthausen De Galle. The historic Cafe de la Paix also belongs Nazi Books on the US Market grounds of pilgrimage. to Arabs. A major book company, owned by Germans and Italians, Bantam Books Inc., has launched its big­ PLO THREATS IN SWEDEN NEO-NAZIS IN SPAIN gest multi-book promotion ever. It plans to publish Bjorn Borg, the Swedish Wimbledon termis The new leader of CEDACE, the most active one t>ook on the last war per month with a target champion, has been given a poUce guard after two of a number of neo-Nazi organisations in of 60 books. They include a book "I flew for the death threats from a tenorist organisation, calUng Spain, is 21-year-old Pedro Varelo who ha* FHihrer", and another "Horrido" which according itself the "Red Star". The first came after the just published his radically antisemitic V^^l to the blurb reveals the "incredible nerves and publication of a photograph of Mr. Borg by the gramme. Members of the organisation appear rare skill of the Nazi sky warriors." Dead Sea in a borrowed Israeli army uniform with in brown shirts with swastika armbands and Intensified Hunt for War Criminals a sub-machine gun over his shoulder. He had swear to maintain the purity of the Aryan FoUowing criticisms in Congress, the Justice taken part in a tennis tournament in Israel. race. They have collected 15,000 signatures Department has announced that the 13-member Ted Gardestad, a popular Swedish pop singer, for a petition for the release of Rudolf Hess- Anti-Nazi Unit, headed by Mr. Martin Mendels­ rejected the advice of the PLO office in Stock­ The organisation maintains links with other sohn, is being increased to 38 people and an holm not to take part in the Eurovision song neo-Nazi organisations in Latin America and extra $2 million is being requested for it from contest. in the United States. next year's budget. Miss Elizabeth Holtzman had ITALY accused the Govemment of giving a low priority GREEK HOMAGE TO WAR HERO to "seeking out men charged with horrendous A monument is to be built to Colonel Mordecai Controversial Archbishop Capucci crimes against humanity." Frizis, a Greek Jewish war hero, on the spot where 56-year-old Archbishop C^pucci wiU have a P^' he was killed fighting the Italian fascist forces in vate audience with Pope John Paul II to danty Cemeteries descrated the Battle of Kalpaki on the Greek-Albanian his open support of the Palestinian cause. At the More than 8(X3 tombstones were overtumed in border in October 1940. Col. Frizis was the first moment, he is staying at Damascus at the invit' the Mount Hebron cemetery in Flushing, and 650 Greek officer to die in battle against the Italian ation of Yasir Arafat to attend a meeting of *»» at the Mount Richmond cemetery and the United Fascists. He was a distinguished member of the Palestinian National CouncU. Israel has protested Hebrew Cemetery on Staten Island. Others were Khalkis Jewish community on the island of Eu- to the Vatican that, by doing so, the Archbishop defaced or damaged. Special police guards have boea north of Athens. has violated a condition of his release from *^ been assigned to the cemeteries. Israel jail in 1977, stipulating that he should not n* Refugee Politician visits his Past aUowed to return to the Middle East. As Arc"" Mr. Blumenthal, Secretary of State of the US CLUB 1943 bishop of the West Bank and of East , Treasury, used his recent visit to China to revisit Vortrage jeden Montag um 8 p.m. im he was caught smuggling explosives from LebanW> the former Shanghai ghetto where he spent the Hannah Karminski House, into Israel and sentenced to 12 years' jail in 19'*! war years with his parents after a last minute 9 Adamson Road, N.W.S. but released on a promise from the late Pope Pad" escape from Gennany. He showed the reporters VI that he would not be aUowed to do anything "^ who foUowed him on his five-mile walk, the two 7 May. Bank Holiday. harm Israel. tiny rooms at 59 Tshusan street where they had 14 May. Elhanen Jitzhaki (Agricultural Uved. Adviser of Israel): "Agricidture in Pope receives Jewish Leaders Protest against Roads in Israel Pope John Paul II had his first official encount^ Some 5,000 Satmar Chasidim protested at a Madi­ Israel" (with slides). with representatives of world Jewry when he f*" son Garden RaUy against road building schemes 21 May. J. W. F. Stoppelmann: "Mexico" ceived in private audience 25 leaders of Jc*'?', in Israel which in their opinion desecrate the (wdth colour slides). organisations, including the World Jewish Co"' Sabbath and the graves of scholars. They objected gress, the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Leagdf| to the building of a sports centre in Jemsalem and 28 May. Spring Bank Holiday. and the Board of Deputies of British Jews, reP'^fj a highway leading to it which runs through the 4 June. Ezra Juermann: "Dat fiel ma sented by Mr. GreviUe Janner, QC, MP. He "^ religious community of Sanhedria Hamirkevet. uff" (Anekdoten, Zitate und Erzaeh­ them that he would try to be of assistance to a^ Against Women Rabbis lungen). who suffer or are oppressed, as he had done ^ Rabbi Usher Kirshblum has founded a Commit­ Archbishop of Cracow—and to do everything 'r tee for the Preservation of Tradition within the 11 June. Peter Seglow (Lecturer at his power "for the peace of that land which ' Rabbinical Assembly with a following of 150 rab­ Bnuiel University): "What the holy to you as it is to us." He ended witn j bis to contest the recent decision to support the (Jeneral Election is all about". "Shalom" greeting as "a sign of understanding a" ordination of women. 18 June. Shalom Solly: "The social fraternal love already achieved." structure of Israel today". CAMPS 25 June. Grete Sachs: "The Montefiores". BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE 2 July. Gerhard Holm: "Ivar Kreuger. 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.I INTERNMEMT—P.O.W.— The Swedish Match King". FORCED LABOUR—KZ On Wednesday, 20th June, the Club will Our new communal hall Is available tor I wish to buy cards, envelopea and folded poet- visit the Ascott Collection and House cultural and social functions. For detail* narked letters front all camps o< both world wars Please send, registered mail, stating price, to and Garden of the late Anthony de apply to: Secretary, Synagogue OffIc»- 14 Roaalyii HIII. Lowlon. H.W.a Rothschild in Buckinghamshire. Details Tel J 01-794 3949 IMrrEN C. RICKCNBACK and enrolments on Club evenings. A^ INFORMATION May 1979 Page 5

"• O. Leavor so, filmed in slight slow motion; death appearing to the emperor through a mirror and both dis­ appearing into it later. Jean Ckx:teau used this trick in his film "Orpheus", where the entrance to the underworld is through a mirror. Thc colours "THE EMPEROR OF ATLANTIS" and their contrast were superb, the green of the Garden of Eden being stunning, especially after the Performance of Theresienstadt Opera grey-brown of the battle field. ^e April issue of "AJR Information" reported reported last month, it was banned aU the same.) In the introduction, reference was made to the o" the BBC-2 performance of the opera "Der Before the war, when every synagogue service was showing of "Holocaust", and certainly one com­ Raiser von Atlantis", written and composed by monitored by Nazi agents lest anything might be plemented the other. The producer thought it right '*o Imnates of Theresienstadt, the Schoenberg said against the Germans from the pulpit, the rab­ that present-day Germany should be involved in P"Pil Viktor Ulhnann and his librettist Peter Kien. bis always chose aUegories from history without the making of the film, and this is one more ex­ Both were later sent to Auschwitz, where they carrying the argument forward to the then pre­ ample of how Germany is trying, and successfuUy P*'''shed. The first thought which came to mind vailing conditions. Yet the congregation always at that, to make amends for its obscene misdeeds ^nen viewing the performance was surprise at the understood the deeper meaning, and the agents of the Nazi era. '*ct that, even accepting that Theresienstadt was were satisfied that no offence had been committed. In modern terminology, this opera is a "one-off" <^Wainly the "mildest" of the camps and indeed a Similarly, the story of the "Emperor of Atlantis" event. It is open to conjecture, whether Ullmann *owcase for foreign visitors, the opera was would not have caused offence to the camp would have made the headlines had he lived. One ""•'tten at all. The basic theme of the work is, in a commandant. thinks of Anton Webem cut down by a stray *ord, death. This is not surprising under the cir­ American buUet in 1945, though he had, by the cumstances. Yet it is treated allegorically. In the Schoenberg PupQ time he died, left a formidable testament of a smaU I'fst scene, death breaks his sword and declares but concentrated musical output. In the end, we As far as the score of the Schoenberg pupU have to judge this 60-minute opera for both its •Jat there wUl be no more deaths. The message is Ulmann is concerned, we were told in the intro­ intrinsic merit and for the circumstances of its plain enough: among camp people the "life-wish" duction of the broadcast there were shades of birth. I hope it wiU earn for itself a niche in the ">Ust be uppermost in their minds. Mahler, Weill and even (why even?) Wagner. history of music, for this is what it deserves. However, already in the second scene, there are These reminders were easily spotted: Mahler in the unforeseen developments. The very old, who are first scene in the song of the Pierrot, rendered in 'red of living, and the very sick, who long for impeccable German by Richard Lewis; WeiU in the BRITISH POUCY ON THE HOLOCAUST Juef in death, cannot die. At first, the emperor, drummer's song aimed at the lovers whose duet 110 gives orders by remote control, is non-plussed might have done justice to Puccini; and Wagner At the end of a lecture by Mr. Bemard ill the emperor's declamation to his subjects. But Wasserstein, MA, DPhU, lecturer in Modem His­ y the new turn of events and later, in the fourth tory at Sheffield University, under the auspices of pie, he is UteraUy at his wit's end. Yet in be- these derivations are excusable, especially when we the Institute of Jewish Affairs, Mr. Stuart Young, *een, in the third scene, there is a relief, which also hear a German folk-song and the German Chainnan of the Institute's Policy Planning the producer made the most of. It shows a meeting national anthem, both suitably disguised. At the Group, said that his pride in being British had 'Ween a young man and a young girl from end, the four remaining members of the cast sing been greatly reduced by listening to Dr. Wasser- Pposite enemy sides, who "make love, not war". a Lutheran hymn in good four-part harmony. stein's emdite and detailed report. Dr. Wasserstein has written a book "Britain and the Jews of •suaUy^ as they sing their inevitable love-duet, It is reasonable to assume that the orchestral Europe 1939-45" which was sponsored by the I *y are placed in a symbolic Garden of Eden score was tailored to what instrumentalists were Institute and supported by thousands of docu­ ., ^t'^d of the desolate no-man's land of war. At available in the camp. The scoring was Ught and ments of the time, recently released by the PubUc * end of the opera, death appears to the em- abounded in contrapuntal ideas both within the Records Oflice under the 30 years' mle. It wiU be P^ror and offers to resume his normal functions orchestra and with the voices. As in Beethoven's published by Oxford University Press. provided the emperor is the first to succumb, to "Fidelio", there was some spoken dialogue to Dr. Wasserstein said that until the outbreak „n'ch he agrees. A female dmmmer comments highlight the drama. of war, Germany did not oppose large-scale thr,^Ughou t the work and acts as a Greek chorus. The production, which had to be evolved from Jewish emigration and in many cases made it ttie allegory of the plot must have been deliber- nothing because no stage directions had been left, easy. Even after the outbreak of war, a Umited ate amount of emigration went on unhindered. How­ 'n order to obtain a chance of performance was most movingly done. One remembers the ever, the British Govemment gave assistance to uer the noses of the Nazis. (In fact, as already tormented people, wishing to die but unable to do would-be emigrants a very low priority, and Foreign Office minutes quote Anthony Eden, the Foreign Minister, as saying that he prefened Arabs to Jews. However, both Eden and ChurchiU were in favour of bombing Auschwitz, but this was prevented by lack of zeal on the part of the Foreign Office and Sir Archibald Sinclair's Air Ministry. RENAULT We are eagerly waiting for the pubUcation of Dr. Wasserstein's book which wiU then be re­ viewed in full. Three years' research have cer­ w tainly led to a new aspect of a situation which, See the Renault range alas, is aU too familiar to us, and the author, too young to have witnessed events at the time, has dealt with it with deep understanding and em­ pathy. He concludes that Germany tumed to at Old Oak murder only because emigration had become impossible. At one time, the British Ambassador (WW SPRECHEN DEUTSCH/MLUVIME CESKY) had actuaUy thanked the German Govemment for making emigration more difficult. Where we believe that changing your car is a very MP. important business and you deserve to be treated as an individual, not just a sales figure. Please bring or send your gifts io Where you can see the whole Renault range of value for hi' money cars and light vans. We try to keep most models now to: th» in stock all the time. 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H. G. Adler einen Abschnitt entweder nichit oder nur teilweise erlebter Vergangenheit behandeln- Die "Effingers" geniigen derartigen Forderun- "EFFINGERS" ODER GLANZ UND ELEND DER DEUTSCHEN JUDEN gen. Sie berichten von Geschehnissen, die Mitglieder aus vier Generationein eines Zu den BUchem, deren Stxmde bei ihrem was alles dies Buch oder gar was es am Familenkreises betreffen, wobei die Autodn. ersten £kscheinen noch nicht gekommen war, meisten auszeichnet. Dieser Familienroman soweit es sich bei den auftretenden Personen gehort der erstmalig 1951 veroffentlichte erweist sich als historischer Roman, bekannt­ um Mitglieder der eigenen Familie handelt, grosse und grossartige deutsch-jiidische lich eine der am schwierigsten zu meistemden der dritten Generation angehort. Danut FamiUenromam "Effingers" von Gabriele imd nur sehr seiten gelingenden Unterarten ist angedeutet, dass zwar gewiss viele VorfdUe Tergit, den nach dem verdienten Erfolg des kiinstlerischen Romans der leicht und Umstande im Roman uiunittelbar aus ihres wiederentdeckten friihen Romans gledchermassen daran scheitert, dass er mit dem Familienumkreis und eigenen Erfah- "Kasebier erobert den Kurfiirstendamm" der ungeeigneten Mitteln imd verfalschend die nmgen geholt sind. Dennoch ist dieser Roman Wolfgang-Kriiger-Verlag, Frankfurt a.M., geschilderten Ereignisse vergegenwartigen nicht allein als FamiUenchronik imd liestininJt kiirzlich neu herausgebracht hat. Die Autorin will, wobei ihr geschichtlicher Untergrund nicht als autobiographische Darstellung zu begaim dieses weit ausholende Epos, das auch nicht nur unaufgedeckt bleibt, sondem wurdigen. Zwar mag das Werk aus solchen die typischen zu dieser Kunstgattung gehoren­ iiberhaupt verfehlt wird. Zugleich wird das Quellen reichlich geschbpft haben und ihnen den Leitworter auszeichnen, 1931 zu schreiben. Transzendierende, das zum literarischen viel von seiner iiberzeugenden Anschau- Sie hat viele Jahre daran gearbeitet, wie Kunstwerk gehort, vemachlassigt, wahrend lichkeit verdanken, aber sein Bau umspannt schom die Handlung beweist, die mit einigen ein oberflachlicher besserwisserischer, ja einen betrachtlich weiteren Umfang. Di^ Rijckblicken in noch altere Zeit in den allwissender Naturalismus ein solches "Effingers" sind nichts weniger als der grosse spaten Siebzigerjahren des 19. Jahrhunderts Erzeugnis bestenfalls in die Trivialliteratur Roman vom Glanz imd Elend der deutschen begiimt und bis zu Ereignissen im Jahre 1942 verweist und jedenfalls das Dichterische nicht Juden in der nachemanzipatorischen Zeit un fiihrt. Ein Epilog, der dem bewegenden vollbringt. Dichterisch und ebenso historisch wilhelmischen Kaiserreich, des schon ver- eigentlichen Elnde des Romans als endgiiltigen scheitert ein solches Werk durch seinen spiirbaren, trotzdem aber meist nicht gespiirten Schluss gleichsam noch eine Koda hinzufiigt, objektiven Mangel an Wahrheitsgehalt, dazu Herannahens der Katastrophe und ihre* geleitet den Leser sogar bis 1946 hin. So oft noch an der fehlenden subjektiven tragischen Untergangs. wurde dieses Werk, was man bei seiner Wahrhaftigkeit. Die verlamgte Wahrheit und Der Roman ist frei von jeglicher verein- iiberlegenen (Jestaltung ihm zunachst kaum Wahrhaftigkeit erfiillt diesen Roman, in dem fachenden Schwarzweissmalerei der ^uftre- ansieht, imter anderem zu einem Zeugnis der auch der Irrtum vermieden wird, als konnte tenden jiidBchen und nichtjiidischen—^meist erzwungenen Wanderschaft. In Berlin ange- man schon mit dem blossen Anbringen deutschen—Charaktere. Sie wandeln sich so fangen, wurde der Roman im Marz 1933 bei historischer Brocken imd Einzelheiten die und bleiben sich so gleich, wie es dem tat­ der Flucht nach Prag mitgenommen und Schwierigkeiten einer geschichtlichen Dich­ sachlichen Leben, den entscheidenden Zeit­ begleitete Gabriele Tergit weiter nach tung iiberwinden. Fur den Autor kommt es ereignissen und den mannigfachen Einwir- Palastina und schliesslich nach Engl^id, wo hier vor allem darauf an, sich mit Kenntnis, kungen wie auch den verschiedenen LebenS; das Werk ausgefiihrt wurde, dem ein uner­ Vemimft, Takt, Gefiihl und furchtloser altem entspricht, mit denen der Leser bei miidlicher Fleiss ebenso anziunerken ist wie Ehrlichkeit so mit dem fur die Erzahlimg einer Reihe von hamdelnden Personen kon­ eine bewimdenmgswiirdige kaum je nachlas- gewahlten Stoff vertraut zu machen, dass eine frontiert wird. Oft lemen wir sie kennen, wie sende Inspiration. Identifikatian mit ihm gelingt, die der Dichter sie sich durch viele Jahrzehnte verhalten uno Es lasst sich keineswegs einfach erklaren. im AIrt der Niederschrift so objektiviert, dass gewandelt haben. Sie erscheinen vor uns mit er die richtige Distanz zum Gegenstand stellt So gelingt die darstellerische wie auch die inhaltliche Objektivitat; der Kunst- charakter der Abstraktion vom bloss Indi­ viduellen ins Allgemeingiiltige und Ueber- LEON JESSEL UMITED personliche ist gewonnen. Ein historischer Roman, der solche Forde­ rungen erfiillt, kann sich auf Ereignisse aus der eigenen Lebenszeit beschranken oder Manufacturers of with ihe compliments of Fancy teof/ier Goods, Gift Goods

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'EFFINGERS" continued an den Menschen, die sie uns nahebringt ist mi ergreifend. Erwarmende Menschlichkeit ist ?Uen ihren Vorziigen imd Schwachen, in aller imerwarteten Wendungen fortgefiihrten Erzah­ das lange anhaltende Gefuhl, das einen nach Widerspriichliehkeit, wie sie ihrer natiirlichen lung. Da ist die Kunst der Gahriele Tergit, der LektUre erfUllt Die Schlussworte eines pJ^age, ihren freien oder weniger freien Wil- was immer sie berichtet, auch unterhaltend Briefes, den der uber 81 Jahre alte Paul lensentscheidungen, ihrem kaum oder nicht vorzutragen. Dabei kommt der Humor keines­ Eifinger 1942 vor seiner Deporation in den ^hr bestimmbaren Schicksal entsprechen. In wegs zu kurz. Da ist aber auch—imd vor allem Tod seinen im rettenden Ausland weilenden ^ Spiegelung der handelnden Personen, die —die mitreissende Anziehung, die aus der Nachkommen widmet beenden (bis auf den *^r Leser wahmimmt, als wiirden sie in VariatLonsbreite menschlicher Anschauungen nachfolgenden kurzen Epilog) dieses Buch *^eisch und Blut vor ihm auftreten, lemen und Meinungen schon im Zusammenhang mit imd sollen auch hier stehen: "Der Vater im *ir in packender und iil>erzeugender Verdich- einem einzigen Gegenstand hervorgeht sei es Himmel moge das Band unserer Gemeinschaft ^ng die gesamte Geschichte der deutschen das Verhaltnis der GescUechter zueinander, zusammenhalten. Er verleihe uns seinen Segen ••uden dieser Epoche kennen. Sie enthiiUt die Einstellung zu Familie und Beruf, zu auf all unsem Wegen, denn wir bedurfen ^<^u in zahlreichen typischen Einzelheiten, sozialen Fragen, politischer Gesinnung, Reli­ seiner. Er behute auch Euch. Er lasse Eudi ^d zwar in einer Konzentration, die einmal gion, philosophischer Anschauung, doch auch Sein Antlitz leuchten und gebe Euch Frieden. ~^ allgemein Menschliche, doch vor allem anderes wie—um nun das Jiidische heraus- Amen". '^ bestimmenden formenden Krafte der Ent- zugreifen—die Einstellung zur eigenen Prob­ ANNE FRANK EXHIBrnON IN LONDON *icklung der judischen Minderheit, aber auch lematik, das Festhalten an jUdischen Tradi- ^ grossen Ziigen die allgemeine Geschichte tionen, die Assimilation, der Zionismus, die From the end of March to the beginning of y^utsch'ands wahrend der Aera Bismarck bis Stellung zum Judenhass und die Reaktion auf April an Anne Frank Exhibition was held in the °«thmann Hollweg, der Weimarer Republik ihn, die Einordnung in die deutsche Gesell­ crypt of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar ^5 noch des nationalsozialistischen Staates schaft deutscher Patriotismus, die Bemuhung Square. It was arranged by the Joint Committee ?®'€t. Dabei enthait sich Frau Tergit der um den "Weg als Deutscher und Jude" (um Against Racialism, which embraces all parliamen­ j'erwendimg von Elementen dieser Gesciiichte hier auf den Titel einer bekannten Schrift tary parties as well as religious and ethnic min­ T~ Woss mechanisch wirkender Anlasse, an Jakob Wassermanns aus dem Jahre 1921 an- ority groups, and of which the AJR is a corporate ^ der Fortgang des Geschehens nur sozu- zuspielen), Erwartungen, Hoffnungen, Be­ member. Most of the exhibits had been brought ^Sen aufgehangt wird, sei es nun als kolo- fiirchtungen. Das alles spielt sich in buntem over from the Arme Frank House in Amsterdam. l^erte Illustrationen oder als dekorative Ver- Vielerlei ab, wie es sich unter den wech­ Photos ranged from the carefree little girl, who ^^haulichung leitender Tendenzen. Nein, selnden Verhaltnissen einer aus aller natUrli- played like other children, to the hiding place and • P^verhalt es sich umgekehrt. Was immer chen Sicherheit jah gerissenen Welt von ultimately to the concentration camps of u^^^f^m Roman vorgeht, bezieht sich auf selbst ergibt. Auschwitz and Belsen. There were also photo­ - T^'idige Menschen, wirkt auf sie ein oder Jetzt haben wir an Merkmalen und Eigen­ stats from the original diary in Dutch, with geht Von ihnen aus, ist aber stets in den schaften dieses Buches ein reichhaltiges Re­ English translations; the handwriting and the Igemeinen geschichtlichen Ablauf eingeord- gister beisammen, das genugen sollte, ein power of expression reflect the astounding ma­ wi fc- ^^ durch die hier geiibte Methode als berechtigtes Interesse zu begrunden. Sicher turity of the girl. She perished in Belsen, in 1945, **klich gesdiehen erscheint. liesse es sich noch unterstUtzen, wenn ver­ and the London exhibition was to mark the SOtb sucht wlirde, einen Umriss der Handlung zu anniversary of her birth. The promoting Com­ Ein matiges Bnch bieten. Das ist allerdings eine Aufgabe, der mittee, whose task it is to fight racialism in our days, took a step in the right direction by bringing *So wird fiir den Leser mehr eingebracht, auch eine ausfuhrliche Rezension kaum ent- sprechen kann, weswegen wir es vorgezogen home to residents of this country the fate of an es sich—gar fiir den historischen Laien— individual victim of racialism. Experience has ^ vielen geschichtlichen Darstellungen zu- haben, die wesentlichen Elemente des Romans aufzuzeigen, durch die sich der Reichtum shown that this is always more convincing than ^Bien gewinnen lasst Der Leser erfahrt, wie the enumeration of abstract figures. There were j^, ^*sachlich zuging, weil er es zu fUhlen seiner Handlung imd Komposition ahnen lasst. So gehort dieses Werk in den bleiben­ also photos depicting National Front activities ^jj^'^rot. Das mag, zumindest fiir manche, thus stressing the topicality of racial persecution. Y^t immer eine bequeme Lektiire sein. Der den Bestand der deutschen Literatur und ist zugleich ein Vermachtnis des Anteils der A wall reserved for visitors' comments bore a very Jjp^r wird, doch ohne direkt angesprochen great number of expressions of grief, anger and ist IJ'^^^.^'*' ^^^ Verantwortung gezogen, er Juden an dieser Literatur, noch besonders dadurch ausgezeichnet dass es sich, beispiel­ shock. The fact that the exhibition was attended ,„g. beteiligt imd fiihlt sich nicht so ohne by a high proportion of young people is par­ [teres wieder freigegeben. Aber es ist zu haft an den Erfahrungen des Familienkreises Effinger gezeigt, mit dem Schicksal und der ticularly gratifying. die ^uL*^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^"* ^^ Autorin durch jjjf *raftvolle Fiihrung der Handlimg auch Geschichte der deutschen Juden im Zeitalter yj , ''en Leser iibertragt. Etazu helfen sicher ihrer letzten vier Generationen vor dem Unter­ AGAIN: "BOERNEPLATZ" IN FRANKFURT gang befasst. Die Anteilnahme der Autorin ji^r? Qualitaten der "Effingers". Da ist When the Nazis came to power, they changed (jlj/j^t die Spaimung und das zwar nicht the name of Boemeplatz into "Dominikanerplatz". gg^'^ebene, doch durchweg in frischem Gang Recently, the original name of the place was re­ „ aitene Tempo der vielfaltig verwobenen, The Association of Jewkh Refugees in instated. Packenden imd immer wieder mit neuen Great Britain invites members and friends to the THE GENERAL MEETING PERFECT GIFT on Thursday, June 28, at 7.45 pjn. i^% at Hannah Karminski House, lOf men from 8 to 80 9 Adamson Road, Swiss Cottage, N.W.S •fflnnncsEnr ZIN( (Side Entrance) I 182 Report on AJR Activities Treasurer's Report Discussion fSOPOVJ Election of Executive and Board The list of candidates submitted by tiie Executive Fights Rust will be published In the next issue. Members who wish to propose candidates for the Newly developed. Zinc compounds Board should write to the Qeneral Secretary by early May; the nomination of younger members are some of the finest rust inhibitors.The , 5year>) would be particularly welcome. V guarantee/ synthetic resin base forms a tough skin, n which seals the surface from moisture. Rev. Dr. ISAAC LEVY, 03.E. From all good hardware and accessory stores. Free literature from David's ISOPON, FREEPOST will speak on Northway House, London N20 9BR. VICTORINOX MY FRIENDS FROM THE CONTINENT The OriginalSwiss Army Knife Non-members are not entitled to vote but are welcome as guests at the meeting ^iSUi'U'J.'i Page 8 AJR INFORMATION May 1V!9

THE POLISH-JEWISH HERTTAGE Delegates from fourteen countries, including JEWRY IN THE EAST , Britain, and the US, attended the fourth congress of the World Federation of HOPE FOR REFUSENIK THE EXODUS FROM RUSSIA Polish Jews in Tel Aviv, where Yiddish was Mr. Shumilin, Soviet Deputy Minister of the According to the Intergovernmental Committee the official language. Dr. Yosef Burg, Minister Interior, granted an interview to Mrs. Alia for European Migration, 29,(X)0 Jews left Russia of the Interior, gave the welcoming address in Smeiiansky, wife erf a 46-year-old Moscow in 1978, compared with 17,000 in 1977. The figures Yiddish. He regretted that little was left of refusenik who had threatened to commit suicide for December 1978 (4,200) and for the first two the wonderful heritage of Polish Jews but on 29th March, the ninth anniversary of his ap­ months of this year (7,500) are also unusually "an encyclopedia of memorials". Three million plication for an exit permit for Israel. The Deputy high. In Odessa, long queues are to be seen out­ of the three-and-a-half million of pre-war Minister told his wife that he knew of her hus­ side the emigration office because of a widely Polish Jews had been killed by the Nazis. The band's despair and would personally take up her believed rumour that the flow of emigrants will be three representatives of the present-day Jew­ case. She should return in three months' time. She stopped after the Moscow Olympics next year. ish community in Poland, numbering between was part of a delegation of Moscow Jewish Before the revolution, one third of Odessa's popu­ 10,000 and 15,000, informed the conference women, who also produced their cases and were lation was Jewish, and some Jews were among the that the Polish government was prepared t» told to return in a year. Mr. Smeiiansky, a metal­ leading revolutionaries. There are still over open its archives for the study of the history lurgical engineer, now works as a night watchman. 100,OC)0 Jews, about one third of the population. of Polish Jews and was going to set up a In Britain, his case has been taken up by Mr. Many of them are peasants, tailors, or intellec­ committee concemed with Jewish memorials Edward Heath, by the Bishop of Oxford, and by tuals. and documentation. Lords Bullock and Blake, two Oxford historians, The leadership of the Jewish Agency is getting as well as by thc Catholic chaplain to the Uni­ increasingly worried over the growing number of PILGRIMAGE TO FRENCH CAMPS versity. The local Mannheim group of the Society for Soviet emigrants who settle in the West rather Christian-Jewish Co-operation arranged a journey than in Israel. At one time this year, 76 per cent to the sites of the former concentration camps W JEWS IN SUPREME SOVIET of those arriving in Vienna said they wanted to Southem France. The group, which comprised^ In the Lower Chamber of the Supreme Soviet, settle elsewhere. Zionists are also worried about a participants, visited the camp cemeteries, in which the Chamber of Natiwialities, Mrs. Gellner, a programme by American Jewish organisations to the deceased Jews who were deported from Ba­ welder at a transformer plant in the so-called take Jewish children from Iran to study at denia and the Palatinate at the beginning of the Jewish autonomous region of Birobidjan, was American rather than Israeli yeshivot. Second World War, are buried. The group re" elected together with Mr. Volodarsky, the head of ported that the cemetery in Gurs was in * the central statistical institute. Two other Jews APPEAL TO END ANTI-SEMTTISM satisfactory condition. This did, however, not appu were re-elected. In the Upper Chamber, Mr. An intemational watchdog committee was set to No6; whilst there the Memorial was still U» Dynshitz, a Soviet Deputy Prime Minister, and up in Paris at a meeting of leading Jewish rep­ good condition, some of the preserved tombstone* Academician Khariton were also re-elected. resentatives and representatives of human rights were broken. In Rivesaltes, the inscriptions of from West Europe, the United States and Israel. most tombstones were hardly legible. RABBI ORDAINED EN BUDAPEST The 37 participants included three Nobel Prize At the Conservative Rabbinical Seminary at winners and eminent scientists and scholars. The FORMER BERLINERS' VISTTS Budapest, a young rabbi. Talmas Loewy, was committee will examine evidence of anti-Semitism Since 1968, when the Senate of West Berlm ordained in the presence of representatives of the which is contrary to Soviet law and then call a invited former Berlin Jews to pay a visit to thetf Joint and of the US Ambassador to Hungary, who large intemational. conference to present its find­ home town as guests of the Senate, nearly 8,4W also accompanied the congregation on a visit to ings. An urgent telegram was sent to the presid­ people have accepted the invitation. Last yeaj the Rakoskeraztur cemetery to pay homage to the ium of the Supreme Court, calling for an end to there were 926 visitors, including two groups of Jewish martyrs of Budapest at the memorial to antisemitic propaganda in the media and to 300 each from South America and Israel. For tb* them. There are now some 1(X),(X)0 Jews in discrimination in education and employment. Dr. current year nearly £400,000 for such visits ha» Hungary. Roth, director of the Institute of Jewish Aiiairs, been made available by the Senate. and Lord Longford are among the British mem­ bers of the committee. VISrriNG RABBIS THREATENED France & Germanys On a visit to Moscow Rabbi Alony of Sydney and Rabbi Sultanik of Melboume were twice threatened with prosecution on tmmped-up DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX charges by the Soviet authorities. After a visit to Finest Wines a well-known refusenik, KGB men entered their hotel and told them they had just visited a LTD. SHIPPED BY criminal and an enemy of the State who dealt on the black market. Rabbi Sultanik then asked them whether this was the way in which visitors to the Moscow Olympic Games were to be treated. After that there was a complete change HOUSE OF of attitude. As the rabbi reported on returning home, "they said they would drop their charges if we dropped ours, and we were free to visit HALLGARTEN Jews." 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TELEX 23540 Tal: 01-455 8072 (435 8635) AJR INFORMATION May 1979 Page 9 AIREY NEAVE The cowardly murder of Mr. Airey Ncavc, Con­ IN MEMORIAM servative MP and spokesman on Ulster, has shocked not only his many friends in all walks of DR. ERNST COHN museum authorities and others. He took an active life and all political parties, but has also deprived I^ear Dr. Rosenstock, interest in Jewish life and was elected President the House of Commons of the man who had per­ You asked me to write a personal note about of the B'nai B'rith Lodge in Darlington in 1975. haps the best appreciation of Nazism and its after­ Dr. Emst Colm, whose death occurred on March He was a stalwart member of the local Jewish math. He had first-hand experience of Nazi 29. But as alinost everybody who knew him, community. His interest in his fellow-refugees was brotality at Colditz f»risoner-of-war camp, from acquaintainces, patients and friends, 200 people strong, and he was a long-standing member of our where he escaped twice—succeeding on the second jnd more, attended his cremation, where they Association. attempt. After his adventurous retum to Britain, neard Rabbi Kokotek give the most moving obitu- Herbert Wolfe was a most charitable person and he was put in charge of the organisation of escape a'V in so simple, true and loving words, there is set up charitable trusts for the benefit of many from camps all over Europe, and his experience not much more for me to add. good causes. He was deeply devoted to his wife, was invaluable to the BBC, when they made a TV Ernst Cohn was bom in Pomerania and came to children and grandchildren. Their sense of loss is serial about such escapes. With his legal training, Berlin as a teenager, his father having started his shared by many Jews and Gentiles who moum he was employed after the war as Commissioner retirement at the early age of 40. When he became the death of a beloved friend. A man of tme for Criminal Organisations of the Nuremberg Tri­ * student of medicine, he joined the KC frat- noblesse and remarkable personality and achieve­ bunal and served the indictments to all major ^ity and chose my husband as his "Leibbursch". ments has passed away. defendants. Last summer, he published a book We were a close knit "Bierfamilie", to which my F.E.F. summarising the impressions he had received of wother also belonged. In Kaete Gassenheimer Goering and others. He never asked for revenge, •'•om Eschwege he found his ideal partner for life, Sm HENRY KOEPPLER but he knew that the Nazi menace had to be *no with her love, understanding and patience 66-year-old Sir Henry (Heinz) Koeppler, who contained. He was a strong supporter of the cam­ n^jped to make him a strong personahty. has died at Waco, Texas, where he was a guest paign for the abolition erf the West German Ernst came to England in 1939 with the in- professor, was a Warden of Wilton Park, the Statute OSF Limitation for war crimes. He was a '^ntion to emigrate to America. His wife had to political study centre first set up for German founder member of the Conservative Friends of ?™y behind, as her permit did not arrive in time prisoners of war in 1946, and served there until Israel and took a great interest in the fate of Nazi before the war started. He volunteered to be a 1977. He was knighted when he retired. victims. Some years ago, he addressed a Warsaw Uoctor in an emergency hospital in East Ham, Ghetto Uprising commemoration meeting in Lcm- *here his extraordinary knowledge and skill were YVONNE MTTCHELL don, urging Westem Govemments to exert pres­ ^^n discovered. After the war, he started his own Yvonne Mitchell, the actress and writer, who sure on the USSR to safeguard the rights of practice, which grew into several thousands of died at the age of 53, was a daughter of the late minorities. J^t'ents. He treated evep'one alike, whatever class Bertie Joseph, an executive of J. Lyons, and niece Jney came from. By winning their confidence he of Sir Samuel Joseph, the father of Sir Keith SIR EVELYN FANSHAWE ourdened himself with all their worries, even out- Joseph. In 1967 she wrote what she described as Maj.-Gen. Sir Evelyn Fanshawe who has died, ^'ert Wolfe played an active part in the thousands of students not only from this country, Cemetery in Gleiwitz/Gliwice, which was in use of j/al Party and was, for some years, a member but also from America, Israel and most European from 1815 to 1935. With its approximate 1,500 cem' National Executive. His particular interest countries. He was an outstanding and very popular *as tK °" questions of electoral reform where he graves, it is under "Denkmalschutz", i.e., it must a na • ^^rty's leading expert. Above all, he was teacher. He also taught at the Gateshead Seminary be neither changed nor demolished. However, as heirf^jonate fighter for justice. He enlisted the for Women Teachers. the cemetery has not been attended to for several Ti^ °\ Harold Evans (now Editor of the Sunday decades and was also repeatedly damaged, it is in ha(j:f.y and Ludovic Kennedy in fighting to re- a deplorable condition. To avoid any further de­ cay, measures for puttmg it in order are very hang ?'f Timothy John Evans who had been BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER derer TJO'' ^ murder committed by the mass mur- urgent. Whilst the care for the individual graves is up to the families concemed, arrangements have In,gristle, and he fully succeeded, Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS '^ailw ^^ arranged, almost single-handedly, the been made for the general restoration of the site, the isn' ^^'hition in Darlington, commemorating and the work will start shortly. Dr. Lustig took Passen Anniversary of the opening of the first Always Interested in purchasing about 150 colour photos of the cemetery and has t>arli railway in Britain, from Stockton to well-preserved instruments also got hold of a "Grabstellenverzeichnis", com­ Perm"^'°"- He later made the Exhibition into a piled in 1936. Any readers who want to make a J?anent museum. JACQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. contribution towards the costs for putting the of th ^"^^ Wolfe was an outstanding cormoisseur cemetery in order or who wish to obtain further ol(j jj5 ^1^- He built up a beautiful collection of 142 Edgware Road, W.2 Tel.: 723 8818/9 information are asked to get in touch with Dr. *^rcelain. His advice was constantly sought by Lustig (address above). Page 10 AJR INFORMA'nON May 1979

BASKETBALL MATCH INCIDENT THE ISRAELI SCENE At a basketball match between a Maccabi team from Israel and an Italian team, a group of a' FIRST 9GNS OF PEACE least 50 youths staged fascist incidents, giving the BEGDVS POPULARITY Nazi salute and shouting: "Hitler taught us tha' The day after the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty A public opinion poll conducted by the Jerusti- it is no crime to kill Jews." They carried placar* was signed, members of Gadna, the youth bat­ iem Post just before the signing of the peace treaty, with antisemitic slogans. Five young men and talions of the Israeli Defence Force, placed a red revealed that Begin's Likud Party would win only children, including the secretary of the VarrtJ or pink camation on each of thc nearly 14,000 35 of the 120 Knesset seats and his coalition part­ branch of the neo-Fascist movement were artestw graves of those who died in the defence of Israel ners a maximum of 20, if an election were to be and charged with advocatuig genocide. "Di* since the establishment of the state in May 1948. held. The Labour opposition would win 46 seats. Italian Govemment has apologised to Israel 'Pf There were no prayers. The grave of one soldier, Another poll showed that 63 per cent of those the incident. An Israeli journalist who was pT*" killed in 1973. Ixwe a hand-written notice saying: questioned thought that Begin was doing a good sent, said that he had spoken to some of the "Please do not place a peace flower on this grave. job, compared with 68 per cent in November. The demonstrators who belonged to the Commun»j Yossi would have been against it. Yossi's mother." Likud's support in 1977 came mainly from Oriental youth movement. Some said they had been offered A new telephone exchange at the Hadassah Jews and recent immigrants who now suffer most 100,000 lire (about £60) by Arab elements to stag Medical Centre in Jerusalem was inaugurated with from the government's anti-inflationary policies. the incidents, an offer they felt they could no* a call to Mrs. Sadat by Mrs. Tannenbaum, presi­ refuse. dent of the Hadassah women's organisation, to GERMANS SPONSOR CANCER RESEARCH invite her to visit the new centre at the earliest Federal Minister for Education Jurgen Schmude JAPANESE ZIONISTS possible opportututy. The call had to be booked went to Israel to present to the Rehovot Weizmaim The Japanese Makuya sect whose members aj* 72 hours in advance through the Zurich inter­ Institute the deed of foundation for a chair on (Christian Zionists, paid a visit to Israel and staged national exchange. cancer research in memory of the late Bertram a singing parade through the streets of Jemsaleff- Dr. C. G. Kuper, president of the Israeli Physi­ Blank, social-democratic member of the Federal cal Society, asked for the help of the London Parliament. Blank who knew that he was dying OLD TOMBSTONES FROM NORWAY Observer Sunday paper to locate two Egyptian from cancer, stipulated in his will that private Tombstones with inscriptions in Hebrew- physicists to attend the Israeli Society's annual donations after his death should be made available Aramaic and Greek which are more than 2,00y conference at the Ben Gurion University in for cancer research in Israel. The Federal Govem­ years old, have been returned to Israel w Beersheba. ment contributed nearly £40,000 to augment the Norway. At the beginning of the century, the The Ashkenazi and the Sephardi Chief Rabbis of private donations of £7,500, and expressed the Oslo museum bought them from Baron Ustino' hope that young German researchers would also who had them in his collection of antiquities- Israel have refused a request by some Knesset They had been taken from an old Jaffa ceme­ members to amend the Hagada to include the new be asked to occupy the chair which is to be held for one year each by specialists from all over the tery. In 1885 Baron Ustinov, a Christian pbU' peaceful relations with Egypt. anthropist, maintained a hospital for the sjcj Mr. Philip Klutznick, president of the World world. of all creeds in his Jaffa villa in whicD Jewish Congress, has proposed a commission for Russian-Jewish patients were treated without the development of the Negev and Sinai with NON-JEWISH JEWS having to pay. members from Israel, Egypt, and the United States. The Israeli Supreme Court has decided that any­ The commission should have a fund of about one, who believes that Jesus was the Messiah, must SCHOLAR KILLED IN CAR ACCIDENT £500,000, half of which would come from the US, be considered a Christian and cannot qualify as a Professor Jochanan Bloch who taught Jewish and one quarter each from Israel and Egypt. Jew with a right to settle in Israel under the Law philosophy at the Beersheba Ben Gurion universitj;' of Return. The case before the court concemed was killed in a car accident during a trip to Tha'' SWEDISH SPY ARRESTED 30-year-old Miss Eileen Dorflinger, an American land. He was bom in Berlin in 1919 and came w An officer of the Swedish secret service who was who settled in Israel in 1977 and claimed Israeli Israel with his parents. He first studied to be * arrested by the Israeli secret service during a visit citizenship under the law. Her parents are both lawyer, but after the war, he went to the Fre* to Tel Aviv, has admitted spying for the Soviet Jewish, but she joined the "Jews for Jesus" move­ University of Berlin and the Theological Coll^* Union. In ten years, he received over £11,000 for ment in the US and was baptised, and she stated at Berlin to study philosophy and theology. *** his work as a double agent. in court that she regarded Jesus as the Messiah. wrote a thesis on Martin Buber. He taught at t"^ Her counsel said her religious beliefs were nobody's Ben Gurion University when it was first set up, aj^ SLUM DWELLERS HABL PRESIDENT business—all that mattered was that her mother on various visits to Berlin as a guest lecturer n* When President Navon and his wife visited the was Jewish. founded the German-Israeli Study Group and »•» deprived Hatikvah quarter of Tel Aviv, one of Circle of Friends of the Ben Gurion University. Israel's worst slum areas, they were given a tumult­ DAYAN MET SHAH IN SECRET uous welcome. He had insisted on a three-day visit According to the Maariv newspaper. Foreign TURKEY SHUNNED SONG CONTEST to show his concem with the lives of the under­ Minister Dayan flew to Teheran secretly last year At the last moment, Turkey withdrew from t''* privileged. In the public mind, Hatikvah is identi­ to inform the Shah of the peace talks between Eurovision song contest, stating that this was d(^* fied with a high crime and delinquency rate. Most Israel and Egypt. This is admitted by the Israeli in the light of Israel's policy with regard to **• of its inhabitants arrived from oriental countries Govemment, but they deny that on that occasion status of Jemsalem after representations made " in the eariy 19508. he refused an appeal for help from the Shah. Libya, Iran and Iraq.

FAMILY EVENTS BRAUN.—Mr. Otto Braun (formerly CLASSIFIED WIDOW WFTH TEENAGE SOj'j Birthdays Czechoslovakia) of 325 Nell Gwynn The charge in these columns is continental background, would i^Z. Mrs. Margarete Jacoby will cele­ House, Sloane Avenue, London, SW3, SOp for five words plus 2Sp for to meet tall professional genjl*' passed away on February 26. Deeply advertisements under a Box No. man, aged 57-61, preferahw brate her 97th birthtky on May moumed by his wife Regina, family widower or divorcee, for fri«DX[ 22. The AJR CLUB congratulates and friends. MEMORIAL STONE ship or marriage if suitable. Bo* its Chainnan with love and admira­ CONSECRATION 722. tion and expresses the wish that LUCAS.— Ronald J., husband of LIEN.—The manorial stone in lov­ she will be at its helm as inde­ Lore, father of Edwin, died on March INFORMATION REQUIREP 30. 32 Southlea Avenue, Thomlie­ ing memory of Edith Jenny Lien will fatigable as she has always been bank, Glasgow G46 7BS. be consecrated at 1.30 p.m. on Sun­ Persona! Enquiries and continue in the best of health day, May 20, at the Liberal Jewish for untold years to come. SCHLOSS. — Rosa-Ema Schloss of Ctanetery, Pound Lane, Willesden, GERSHONOWrrZ. — Any infoi*' The AJR CLUB further extends 6 North Hill, London, N6 (formerly NW2. ation about this family known '. Berlin) passed away on March 18. have emigrated from Lodz, Pola^w very good wishes to Mrs. Marianne Deeply moumed by her brother Miscellaneons to the Manchester area circa 1900. -^^ Shiner for her birthday on May 6, Henoch, his wife and family in REVLON MANICURIST. Will visit least four brothers arrived and "^j remembering gratefully the de­ Israel, her cousins Leonore Schloss, your home. Phone 01-445 2915. sister was left behind. David an voted help she has given to the London, Charles and Yvoime Schloss, Cadahlya went to the US wnijj Club over many years. Paris, and all her friends. Change of Address two brothers, tailors by trade, work^ ADLER.—Dr. E. L. Adler of 807 in the textile industries. Any repU SIEGEL.—Dr. Michael Siegel, for­ Finchley Road, London, NWll, has to Michael Naiman, 5605 El CjK Deaths merly of Munich, passed away on retired and, from April I, 1979, he Blvd., San Diego, Calif. 92115, U''^' BLACK.—Julian Black (formerly March 15 in his 97th year in Lima, and his wife are living at 298 Ick- Julius Schwarz-Munich) of 96 Peru, mourned by his son H. Peter nield Way, Luton, Beds. Phone: Feraleigh Road, Glasgow, G43 Sinclair, his daughter M. B. Green Luton 592 502. 2UA, passed away peacefully in and their families in London. r tl (ELECTRICAL • *D, hospital on April 5. Beloved hus­ Personal R . Ql U. INSTALLATIONS) L I 1^ band of Gertrude (n6e Lewinsohn), ZOELLNER.— Mrs. Eva Zoellner, CONTINENTAL LADY, widow in devoted father of Hannah Gummers nee Isaac, widow of the late W. E. her 60s, with own house in Stamford 199b Belsize Road, N.W.S and Marion Krasner and grand­ Zoellner, passed away peacefully on Hill area, independent means, seeks 624 2646/328 2646 father of Eric, David, Yvonne and March 10, in her 87th year at Free- companionship of gentleman similar Philip, moumed by his two sons- land Nursing Home, Oxford. Dear age, living in same area; must be edu­ Memtwrs: E.C.A. in-law, sister, brothers-in-law and mother, grandmother and great- cated, have own car and independent N.I.C.E.I.C. many friends. grandmother. means. Box 771. AJR INFORMATION May 1979 Page 11

AJR CLUB 23rd Bring & Bny Sale Letters to ihe Editor It was slippery and cold on February 18, so only about 100 customers attended. But many who SEBASTIAN HAFFNER'S BOOK HISTORY OF BERGHEIM could not come sent us generous donations. We *"•>—One can, as is well known, take a word, a Sir,—/ am at present engaged in a document­ are most grateful to them and to those who pro­ sentence, a paragraph, a whole chapter out of its ation of the history imtil 1945 of my place of vided us with goods and gifts. The food stall with eon/ejT/.^ One can even take a book out of Ihe con- birth, Bergheim on Ihe Erft, artd its neighbouring Mrs. Sohn and Mrs. Widter was on top of the if^'.Pf '"'•' historical companions and out of history communities. I would appreciate it if any surviv­ scaie making £105, mostly due to the delicious /*'/. In the letter published in your March issue, ors hailing from that district who might be able to cakes home made by our members. The profit we "Ir. Hellendall's righteous abhorrence of war has provide me with information kindly got in touch made was the highest ever: £1,3(X), due to the ^f^ferf him to fall into this insidious trap. He has with me. outstanding organisers, Mrs. Gelhar and Mrs. Wil­ ^*«e it Worse by applying to a scientific analysis GERDT FRIED son. We not only have to thank them, but also "e term "scandalous", hardly an intellectual 42940 Kfar Jedidiya, Israel. our devoted and untiring helpers. £150 was sent to the Ahava Children's Home in Israel. M.J. ""ewncnr. A MUSICAL EVENT J W€r Haffner, editor of DIE ZEITUNG, on a "wnier of occasions during the war, in Fleet Mrs. Ilse Joseph, the violinist who has played FRED UHLMAN EXmBITION Jrjj*'- ff^hile vigorously supporting the war against all oyer the world in concerts to promote recon­ An exhibition of paintings, drawings, and !. • ^ did not advocate war per se nor place ciliation between nations in memory of her chil­ graphics created between 1960 and 1974 by the ,. ^ o pedestal. His spotlight on war reveals a dren who were deported and killed by the Nazis, artist and writer Fred Uhlman at the Hampstead If degree of scholarly examination. Dare we has donated her valuable Dalla Costa violin, made Bookshop Gallery once more revealed the artist's p^fe history, past and present, even if the truth in 1759, to the Royal Academy of Music. On wonderful eye for the land and seascapes of March 21, the anniversary of her arrival in this England and Wales and his delight in unusual and The chapters on "Fehler, Verbrechen, Verrat" country as a refugee from Holland in 1940, a startling colour effects. ?""' be read as a whole when evaluating Haffner's distinguished audience, headed by the Academy's Principal, Sir Anthony Lewis, gathered at the °°°lc. which brought him the Heine Prize. Academy to receive the gift, which will be known MRS. MARGARET JACOBY^ BIRTHDAY , n WALTER BLUHM In years, she may be the oldest of our honorary a^irangwyn Crescent, as the Ilse Joseph Dalla Costa violin. There will r?tdene, be a competition for students of the Academy, officers, yet in her strength and working capacity, "nghton. and the winner will be allowed to use the violin Margaret Jacoby is younger than many of her for two to three years. The first prizegiving will juniors. This month, on May 22, she will, believe be in July. At the handing-over ceremony, one it or not, celebrate her 97th birthday. It haa EXHIBrnON OF RITUAL ART young student played Max Bruch's "Kol Nidrei" always been one of her habits to keep a strict ^.^^•—The establishment in North West London on the violin, a tune which Mrs. Joseph said was diary of the AJR Club members' birthdays and to Ion" ''^"""'ent Jewish exhibition of ritual art is the symbol of her life and her mission. Sir send them her congratulations. This time, she is at tolSi."*'^'^''"*- ^' " envisaged to establish stich an Anthony Lewis thanked her for her generous gift the receiving end. Another year has passed, in kS^"'°" "'^^'' "' '''* Cricklewood or Ihe Wil- and expressed his admiration for her work in the which she continued to enjoy the pleasures life ftrfi '"^ Brondesbury Synagogue. I should be service of Peace, in particular in and has to offer and, at the same time, held the reins im "^ '/ any readers who have objects of Jewish post-war Germany. In a moving address, Mrs. of the AJR Qub. Her office as the Qub's chair­ r« *'• *•«•. scrolls, megillot, textiles, etc., kindly Joseph said that her gift was made as a token of man is no sinecure. It entails the care for many 'Contacted me. her gratitude to this country which had offered people who are in need of personal help of one Ij, ^ (Rabbi Dr.) H. RABINOWICZ her belter, scope to work and wide recognition as kind or another. Her birthday serves us as a wel­ I * j^nson Road, Regional Minister, a humanitarian and as a musician, and that she come opportimity to express to her anew our T??«». N.W.2. Cricklewood, Willesden and hoped it would bring joy, happiness and peace to admiration, gratitude and love. Many happy re­ Tel: 452 8673. Brondesbury Synagogue. those who played it and those who listened to it. turns, youthful "Tante Gretchen".

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There has also been an important exhibition of Max Ernst's illustrated books and graphic work at THEATRE AND CULTURE the Goethe Institute, Kensington, organised by the Institut filr Auslandbeziehungen. Emst was born Florence. The annual "Maggio Musicale" has Obitnary. It is belatedly leamt that one of the two very contrasting operas in its 1979 pro­ most elegant German film actors, Albrecht in Briihl near Cologne in 1891 and moved to Parw gramme: Wagner's "Rheingold" (to be conducted Schonhals, died at the age of 90 in Baden-Baden. at the age of thirty. There he was associated with by Zubin Mehta) and Alban Berg's "Wozzek". Hugo Kolberg, formerly leader of the Berlin all the trends in modern art, but left for the USA Loodoo. The National Film Theatre's latest Philharmonic Orchestra, has died in New York, in 1941 to escape the Nazis. Ten years later he showing under the heading "German Cinema of aged 80. He had to leave Berlin during the Nazi retumed and adopted French citizenship. He died the Third Reich" confronted thc audience with days on account of his "non-Aryan" wife. in 1976 shortly after the publication of the Thiro several works by Veit Harlan, the highly contro­ SB. Volume of the oeuvre catalogue of his work. The versial director of "Jud Siiss". Some of the other THREE EXHIBITIONS exhibition once again illustrated the importance films of that period were directed by Pabst, and originaUty of Ernst's creations. His f^'},, Liebeneiner and Luis Trenker. Georg Ehrlich was born in Vienna in 1897 and mental concept—to find a path "Beyond Paintmg Viennese Tit-Bits. Diu-ing the "Vieima Festival worked in Munich and Berlin until he moved to —is clearly portrayed in his works which were Weeks" (May-June) the "Volkstheater" will pre­ England before the war. He died in Lucerne in sent a revival of the drama "Kaiser Franz Josef admirably supported by a lavishly illustratefl von Oesterreich" by Richard Duschinsky who, 1966 and was buried in a grave of honour in catalogue. ALICE SCHWAB during the war, was writer, actor and producer Vienna in a plot donated by the city. The ex­ with the German section of BBC London.—The hibition of his work at JPL Fine Arts, 24 Davies RECALLING THE TWENTIES Royal Shakespeare Theatre will show its "Corio­ Street, Wl was pure delight. With effective sim­ In a one-woman show at the Ambassadors lanus" production at the "Burg" during this plicity Ehrlich portrays animals and children in Theatre, Agnes Bemelle, bom Agnes Bcniauer, month —A memorial plaque for Fritz Lang, the bronze, these being his favourite subjects. Also daughter of a well-known writer of comedies m film director has been erected outside the house shown were his drawings which equally demon­ pre-Nazi Berlin, brought the atmosphere of tlw where he lived prior to his emigration. strate his simplicity and are interesting to compare period to the stage with a programme of songs of Johann Strauss Fans will be gratified to leam with the sculptures they have fed. her youth, including many by Brecht/Weill. that three more Strauss concerts will be given at At the Decor Gallery in London's Bromptw the Queen Elizabeth Hall on May 26, 27 and 28; At the Whitechapel Art Gallery there was a Road, stage designs by refugee artists Josef H^ those on the 26 and 28 will be conducted by recent exhibition of new abstract works by Ger­ mann and Emst Stern who once worked for tw Max Rothstein from the violin in the traditional hard Richter. This was the first exhibition in Lon­ Reinhardt stage, were shown and sold. style. don of this well-known German artist, born in Birthdays. -bom stage and film com­ Dresden in 1932 and now living in Dusseldorf CORRECTIONS edian Rudolf Platte, whose tally c^ film parts stands where he is professor at the Academy of Arts. The Anthony Elliot Community Centre <» at over 300 (he has been nicknamed "Langspiel- The exhibition comprised large oil paintings on Kiryat Gan, whose dedication ceremony was men­ Platte"), celebrated his 75th birthday in Berlin.— canvas. They are difficult to describe since the tioned in our previous issue (p. 11), was built ***" is owned by the Child Resettlement Fund of Gtea* Michael Raucheisen, doyen of German piano forms and colours merge and dissolve without any accompanists, 90 years old, now lives in Switzer­ Britain and Ireland, not by Youth . land. He accompanied some of the greatest celeb­ apparent rhythm or logic. Yet the effect, what­ ever they are intended to portray—if anything at The last paragraph on the front page ^'f i^f rities, Lotte Lehmann, Fritz Kreisler, and, above April issue should have started with the words. all, his wife, the late Maria Ivogiin. all—b strangely satisfactory. "In the occupied Zone".

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