Vol. XVI No. 3 March, 1961 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN
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About 2,945,000 claims have been lodged under the Federal Indemnification Law (BEG) of which A WIDE RANGE OF TASKS about 1,577,000 have been settled. The payments made are about 8,731 million DM and the total expenditure to be expected about 17,200 million Report on AJR Board Meeting DM. The work would probably not be completed by the end of 1962 as visualised in the Law. ^^ore than 60 board members, including dele liabilities would become greater, especially in view The " Council" has proposed several improve gates from the provinces, attended the AJR Board of the expansion of the work for the new homes ments of the BEG which should be incorporated meeting which was held in London on January to be established. As a further and very important into a final law on indemnification (Wiedergut- ^2nd. The comprehensive reports and the vivid device of reducing the deficit, the AJR Charitable machungs-SchlussgesetzX, the enactment of which discussion reaffirmed the variety of important tasks Trust has been established which can accept pay was intended by the German authorities but would ".* AJR and its associated bodies have to cope ments under covenant from which the charitable probably be held over until after the election of With and the organisational strength on which part of the AJR's activities are to be financed. the new German Federal Parliament. TK **^''^'''ss ar^ based. The AJR Charitable Trust is also a suitable instru With regard to the Federal Restitution Law The meeting was opened by the Chairman. Mr. ment for receiving bequests. (Bundesrueckerstattungsgesetz) the speaker stated "•.Reichmann, who in his introductory remarks Mr. A. S. Dresel, Vice-Chairman, in his report that one of the decisive deficiences was the ceiling paid tribute to the memory of Dr. Emil Kramer, on Ithe Homes, jointly administered with the of 1,500 million DM. This limitation had proved ' ^oard member and former chairman of the Central British Fund, stated that altogether 133 particularly detrimental to claimants owing to t^JR Richmond Branch, who had passed away a residents are accommodated in the three existing the inclusion of certain claims in the Federal i«w months ago. Homes, Otto Schiff House (41 residents), Leo Restitution Law which were originally not meant AID '''^ report on the general activities of the Baeck House (43 residents) and Otto Hirsch House to be covered by that Law. Whilst these addi AJR Mr. W. Rosenstock. General Secretary, first (49 residents). About half of them pay the full tional claims were certainly also justified, they dealt with the efforts aiming at the exemption from maintenance charges, the rest pay either reduced were bound to result in a reduction of the quota taxation of the "Renten" paid for loss of life rates or come under the responsibility of the local of the original claimants as long as the ceiling and loss of career under the Federal Indemnifi authorities. There is a waiting-list of 3(X) appli was not increased or removed. cation Law. These efforts are being made in cants, of whom at least 75 are particularly After protracted negotiations, the " Council" •arious directions. In the legislative field several urgent. New applications are steadily coming in. has also succeeded in obtaining a share in the •nembers of all three parlies had moved exemption A New Old Age Home heirless property recovered in the American Zone pauses to the Finance Bill, I960, and all members To relieve the position to a certain extent a by the Jewish Restitution Successor Organisation wno participated in the debate of the clauses further property at The Bishop's Avenue, " Green- (J.R.S.O.). These funds, and also a share in the irongly pressed for an exemption. Nevertheless, trees ", has been acquired by auction to be used heirless property recovered in the British Zone b t "^Ij^^Se could be achieved on that occasion, for the erection of a fourth Old Age Home. By by the Jewish Trust Corporation, are used by the le" , ^ efforts aiming at a change of the present the conversion of the existing building and the Council's member organisations for the implemen sal position are still going on. In the judicial erection of a new wing, accommodation for 50 tation of constructive social schemes. ^Pnere a test case had been put forward. (See residents will become available. After the com Lastly, by the establishment of the "Leo announcement on page 2 of this issue.—The Ed.) pletion of the fourth Old Age Home, which will Baeck Institute", the " Council" has worked for the preservation of the cultural heritage of Ger rj., . Organisatioiial Strength bear the name of Heinrich Stahl, the Old Age Homes' scheme will be finalised. man Jewry. The American branch of the Dav instance of the ta.xability of compensation Institute has built up a unique collection of books, nee *"*^' '^'^ speaker stated, illustrated anew the A Home for infirm aged people, to be named periodicals and documents referring to our reari^*"^ of having a machinery which is always Osmond House after Sir Osmond d'Avigdor history. A further achievement of the Institute I 5f .'o take up the interests of our community, Goldsmid, is to be erected on the site of Leo is the publication of the Year Book under the imn respect AJR Informaiion, too, has an Baeck House. It will accommodate 37 residents editorship of Dr. Robert Weltsch; the fifth
A WIDE RANGE OF TASKS Continued from page 1 COMPENSATION NEWS volume is to be expected shortly. The Year Books and also the other publications of the TAXABILITY OF COMPENSATION Cultural and educational funds will be Leo Baeck Institute have been widely recognised channelled into five major programmes which not only amongst Jews but also, especially in PAYMENTS include education, research, and publications, Germany, among non-Jews. At the initiative and Hearing of Test Cases scholarships and fellowships, upkeep of rabbinical with the help of the " Council", one room of schools, and the commemoration and documenta the new house of the Wiener Library has been The hearing by the Special Commissioners tion of the Nazi era. The programmes are assigned as a Memorial Room incorporating of the appeals in the test cases concerning addressed to the reconstruction of Jewish institu book's on Jewish communities and displaying tions and of spiritual and cultural centres, and portraits of outstanding German Jews. •• Renten " for " Berufsschaden " and " Schaden rehabilitation of scholars, editors, writers and Furthermore, the publication of a book com an Leben" has been fixed, according to teachers. present arrangements, for the second half of memorating the perished German-Jewish com Mr. Blaustein pointed out that allocations for munal workers is being prepared under the April. We shall inform our readers on future capital projects are playing a life-renewing role in auspices of (he " Council ". developments. the rebuilding of Jewish communities that suffered Tuming to organisational questions of the AJR from Nazism. The 1961 grants reached a record the speaker expressed regret that, though every sum of $1,400,000. These funds will be used for Jew from Germany or Austria directly or BE.\MTE UND GEMEINDEBEDIENSTETE construction, expansion, equipment and repair for indirectly benefited from the work of the AJR. Erhoehung der Versorgungsbezuege more than 120 homes for the aged, children's and quite a few among them were not associated with youth homes, hospitals and clinics, community our cause as members. It had tumed out a and youth centres, schools, kindergartens, summer decisive asset that the AJR and the " Council " Die Gehaelter und Versorgungsbezuege der Bundesbeamten waren durch das Gesetz vom camps, religious institutions and related under had been in existence for a great number of years, takings. and groups of Jewish immigrants from other coun 8.6.1960 (Bundesgesetzblatt Nr. 28 vom tries Baa organised themselves only recently 22.6.1960) mit Wirkung vom 1.6.1960 um 7 per because they had come to realise they could not cent erhoeht worden. Jetzt ist durch das zweite safeguard their interests adequately as long as Besoldungserhoehungsgesetz vom 23.12.1960 they had no effective representative body. (Bundesgesetzblatt Nr. 71 vom 30.12.1960) mit IN PARLIAMENT The reports were followed by a concentrated Wirkung vom 1.1.1961 eine weitere Erhoehung but lively discussion. Mr. F. E. Falk asked the GERMAN TROOPS IN BRITAIN Board members to strengthen the newly founded von 8 per cent eingetreten. Durch die beiden AJR Charitable Trust by propagating the signing Gesetze erhoehen sich automatisch auch die Several M.P.s strongly protested against the of Covenants and the bequests of legacies. Mr. Versorgungsbezuege der Bediensteten juedischer proposal to station German troops in Britain, A. Horwell expressed the need for the publication Gemeinden. after Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Defence, of a modern and popular history of the German had stated that the Federal German Government Jews. Other speakers in the discussion were: Das Gesetz vom 23.12.1960 erhaelt eine neue recently concluded arrangements through Nato Mr. W. Dux and Mr. H. Blumenau, the Chairmen Aufstellung der Besoldungsordnung. Die for storage and training facilities in other Nato of the House Committees for Otto Hirsch House Neufestsetzung erfolgt von amtswegen. Eines countries which could not be met within their and Otto Schiff House, Mr. J. Singer (Glasgow), besonderen Antrags bedarf es nicht. own territory. Mr. Watkinson said that discussions Mr. A. W. Heller and Mr. S. Bischheim. would shortly take place between the Germans Fuer eine Angleichung der auf Grund des and ourselves, under the auspices of Nato, to see Bundesentschaedigungsgesetzes gezahlten Ren whether similar facilities could be provided in this ten an die neu festgesetzten Versorgungs country. bezuege bedarf es einer besonderen Rechts Mr. Greenwood asked whether there was any verordnung der Bundesregierung. Diese ist hope of these discussions breaking down, or was Ackermans bisher noch nicht ergangen. Voraussichtlich Mr. Watkinson determined to go down in history wird durch diese Rechtsverordnung die as the man who succeeded where Hitler failed, Angleichung an die beiden Erhoehungen von and put German troops on British soil ? 7 per cent und 8 per cent gemeinsam erfolgen. Sir Barnett Janner referred to the very serious Chocolates Um welchen Betrag sich die Renten im Ein anxiety the introduction of forces from Germany zelfalle erhoehen werden, wird erst bei Vor would cause to people who have suffered from liegen der Rechtsverordnung ersichtlich sein. the Nazis and are now in this country. De Luxe The Minister denied that there is serious public opposition to the project, but admitted it was " an CLAIMS AGAINST AUSTRIA IN BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED emotional subject for most of us ". The Director-General of the Israeli Foreign Mr. Watkinson also denied that the recent visit PRESENTATION BOXES Ministry presented an oflScial Note to the of former Hitler General Heusinger was connected Austrian Ambassador in Tel Aviv, drawing atten with these discussions. tion to previous Israeli representations on the matter of restitution claims. The Israeli Govem ment has demanded that the Austrian Government GERMAN NAVAL VESSELS give its urgent attention to the final settlement of Referring to a possible raise of the maximum restitution claims by Austrian Jews who suffered permitted tonnage of German naval vessels Mr. from Nazi persecution. Allaun asked the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Heath, whether he would give the House an assurance CLAIMS CONFERENCE ALLOCATIONS that the Government would stop encouraging " this step-by-step removal of all the restrictions The annual allocations meeting of the Con on the re-growth of German militarism and, in ference on Jewish Material Claims against particular, the proposal to raise to 5,000 tons the Germany, held in New York, was presented with maximum size of Germany's destroyers, which a budget of $10,102,154 fo benefit more than would allow them to carry missiles ". Mr. Heath 150,000 victims of Nazism in 30 countries. replied that, Germany being a member of Easter Eggs N.A.T.O., any proposals which it makes would Mr. Jacob Blaustein, Senior Vice-President, said have to be considered in the Westem European Marzipan Specialities that the Conference funds were scheduled to end in four years, and that Jewish communities and Union. Baumkuchen and Spitzen welfare funds relying on its grants would be Plain Mocha, Mint Wafers called upon to shoulder, jn ever growing measure, LENI RIEFENSTAHL Chocolates and Sweets for Children. the cost of aid programmes for victims of Nazism. He explained that the budget contained two major In answer fo a question by Mr. Swingler, Mr. components: $7,789,617 for relief, rehabilitation Hare, Minister of Labour, stated that he had 43, KENSINGTON CHURCH ST., and resettlement projects and $1,904,037 for cul received no application for a labour permit to tural and education reconstruction. He stated that employ Leni Riefenstahl in film production in LONDON, W.8 some 400 organisations had applied for grants, Great Britain. In a supplementary question. Sir calling for more than twice the sum available for Barnett Janner asked whether, when considering WES. 4359 allocation which is limited to $10 million per these applications, the Minister would remember annum. and that very careful consideration should be given About 90 per cent of the funds earmarked for before people who have been identified with the 9, GOLDHURST TERRACE, relief and rehabilitation will be spent in Europe Nazi movement were permitted into this country, by Jewish communal and welfare agencies and the in view of the terrible and brutal way in which FINCHLEY ROAD, N.W.6 American Joint Distribution Committee. Con that movement was run. Mr. Hare : " The Home ference funds will also aid in the emigration of Secretary also has duties in this respect, and MAI. 2742 victims of Nazism from Europe and their resettle clearly, both he and I would carefully consider ment overseas. any application of this sort ". AJR INFORMATION March, 1961 Page 3 HOME NEWS ANGLO-JUDAICA Business Men Cautioned ALDERMASTON MARCH MR. ANTHONY DE ROTHSCHILD At a symposium on " Business Ethics" Jews have previously taken part in Campaign The death occurred in London on February 5th, organised jointly by all London lodges of the for Nuclear Disarmament marches, but as at the age of 73, of Mr. Anthony de Rothschild, B'nai B'rith, Anglo-Jewish business men and individuals, not as a group. This year's Aldcr- senior partner of the London banking firm of financiers were cautioned to exercise restraint— maston march may. for the first time, include a N. M. Rothschild and Sons. He was the youngest for their own sake, for the sake of the com special Jewish contingent. Among those inter son of the late Mr. Leopold de Rothschild and a munity, and for the sake of doing the right thing. ested in organising such a group is Rabbi Dr. nephew of the first Lord Rothschild. Although the Chairman said that the question of H. F. Reinhart, tninister of the Westminster ethics in business did not specifically concern the 5>ynagogue. Anthony Gustav de Rothschild started becoming Jewish community but was a national problem, active in Jewish communal work in 1913. He was some of the speakers thought that Jews particu The march starts on March 31st. Because of elected President of the West Central Jewish Men's larly should be careful of their conduct in business rassover, the proposed Jewish contingent would Club and a member of the committee of the Jews' matters. loin in the final stage on Easter Monday. Hospital and Orphan Asylum (now known as the Norwood Home for Jewish Children). He was chosen as Bradford representative at the Board of Non-Jews Support Synagogue FINANCIAL BACKING FOR MOSLEY Deputies, which elected him Vice-President after As a result of a burglary at Brixton Synagogue, New financial backing seems to have been the First World War. He was President of the when ritual silver worth £200 was stolen, many received by Mosley's Union Movement. Action, Jewish Orphanage from 1918 until his death. letters of sympathy have been received from both [J^ nionthly journal, which was believed to have Our community has added reason for remember Jews and non-Jews, particularly clergymen. Some had monetary difficulties, has now started pub ing Mr. de Rothschild with feelings of deep grati of the letters contained cheques. lishing fortnightly. tude. He rendered signal services in the work of Institute of Jewish Studies Action's January issue contained what appeared helping refugees from persecution, and, for 17 ^ be a policy statement on the attitude of the years, was Chairman of the Council of the Central The transfer of the Institute of Jewish Studies Movement towards the Jews. It says: "We British Fund for Jewish Relief and Rehabilitation, from Manchester to London, where the academic attack no man for what he Ls born, only foj from which position he retired in 1957 owing to facilities of London University have been made What he does ; we are therefore not anti-Semites ill-health. available to it, has given fresh impetus to the Who believe Jews are bound to do wrong because Charities, both Jewish and non-Jewish, benefited Institute. The annual report states that official tney arc born Jews ; we establish a system which by Mr. de Rothschild's support and he continued links were established last year with University ^rings to an end the power of ieternational fhe Rothschild interest in the Jews' Free School, College. London, and with the Hebrew University. nnance and also terminates the internal corrup of which he was President. University College now accommodates the Insti tion of the financial power; these laws of the tute within its precincts. The Hebrew University system will apply equally to Jew and Gentile, granted the Institute's request for official recogni 'hose who do not obey the law will go to gaol tion, and two Professors of the University were or leave the country. ... No Jew should com INQUIRY INTO GOLF CLUB appointed to fhe Academic Advisory Board. The plain of this unless he means to break the Mrs. Joyce Clyne, at a meeting of the Middle report goes on to say that the Institute's position j?*- . . . And no anti-Semite should complain sex County Council, followed up a motion pro is now firmly established in the international "ecause to the extent his view is true this policv posed by her last year which called on the academic field. *'ll solve his problem". Council to recommend that the lease of the Moor Park Golf Club, fhe site of which was purchased Mental Rehabilitation with the aid of public money, be terminated if RABBIS' COMPLAINT AGAINST EDITOR allegations of discrimination against Jewish The Board of Guardians is to establish a home OF JEWISH CHRONICLE applications for membership were found to be in Ealing for the rehabilitation of former mental justified. patients. The building has already been acquired H,!,*?^ Editor of The Jewish Chronicle, Mr. and the cost will be defrayed out of money raised William Frankel, appeared before the Beth Din in In reply to her query as to whether Rickmans by a number of the aid committees associated ^o^nection with a complaint made by several worth District Council had replied to the County with fhe Board. rabbis regarding a report and editorial comment Council's request last May that they inquire into n mixed dancing which appeared in the paper. these allegations, it was stated that Rickmansworth New Synagogue in South Hampstead had replied that they do not permit, and do not Mr. Frankel stated he had attended as an act The foundation-stone for a new synagogue for 01 courtesy to the Chief Rabbi and his Court. intend to permit, any racial or religious discrimi The nation in the administration of the public services the South Hampstead Congregation has been laid. ., matter"""m-i, howeverllOWCVCi,, involveIIIVUIVCdU fhIIIeC freedoIICCUUIImI oVfI provided under their control. It will stand at the corner of Eton Villas and ,1; ..Press and he could not submit to the juris- Eton Road. N.W.3, on the same site as the old "iction of that tribunal. temporary building, which has been demolished. , In a letter to the Editor of The Jewish Chronicle, The cost of the project is £52,000, of which ref '^^''^'s had stated that the leading article HABIMAH IN LONDON the United Synagogue has advanced £27,(X)0. A ^erred to was defamatory, and they requested The repertoire for the Habimah Theatre's visit large part of the remainder was given by Mr. -"J,.Unqualified apology and refraction and, in to London this summer will include "The Kirk Lawton. who performed the stone-laying coition, asked for the submission of an offer Dybbuk", " The Marranos" and " Arvot ceremony. Mr. Lawton has been asked to become • Pay a "suitable and substantial sum in com- Hanegev", an Israeli play based on the Israeli- President of the synagogue. "^ation for the damage caused ". Arab war. After its London tour, Habimah will inil^ his reply, Mr. Frankel stated that, having proceed to Paris to participate in the "Theatre Rabbis' Moral Leadership j" "*ted a public discussion on a controversial des Nations " season. Speakers at a brains trust organised by the ciwJf' '^* rabbis concerned had invited public There is a possibility that Russia and other Anglo-Jewish Association in conjunction with the oinment. The leading article to which excep- East European countries will be included in the Chelsea Jewish Society accused rabbis in Britain (uV^ was taken was precisely such a comment and tour. of lacking moral leadership. One of the questions j, tacts on which if was based were true and, was whether the Jewish " fight for survival" in of ^^.^tew, it was a fair comment on a matter this country was due to the absence of moral jLVtWoubted public interest to the whole of the JEWS' TEMPORARY SHELTER leadership, especially on such issues as nuclear ^eiwish community. The request for an apology, disarmament and the apartheid problem. f.f^'faction and substantial damages was there The amaual meeting of the Jews' Temporary fore unacceptable. Shelter was told that, since the Shelter's £75,000 Ajex Gift to Cheshire Home appeal was officially launched last November, The Ilford branch of Ajex presented a £200 approximately £28,000 had been raised. cheque to the Seven Rivers Cheshire Home at The net deficit for the year ended October. Great Bromley. Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, Swiss 1959, amounted to over £4,000 and the ordinary Humidifiers V.C., in accepting the cheque said that he realised subscription income fell far short of the Shelter's the Jewish people had their own problems and (Verdunster) normal annual requirements. for your their own charities. " Yet you give this money to Wl Presenting the report for the year under review. us. It is really wonderful." He also expressed the CENTRAL the Senior Hon. Secretary pwinfed out that night view that the Jewish people had one great gift to HEATING lodgings provided had amounted to over 6.(X)0. offer the world—the gift of keeping together as a Smoll unit Those assisted had mainly comprised refufiees family. 34/6 and transmigrants from Aden. India, Egypt and Large unit other Eastern countries, but help had also heen Mendele Mocber Seforim Anniversary No 63/10 extended to arrivals from European and Iron running costs. Fill with water only. Curtain countries and to immigrants from Israel The Friends of Yiddish celebrated the 125th For healthier breathing In your home. who had returned after finding it difficult to anniversary of the birth of the Hebrew and integrate. An extra burden had been placed on Yiddish writer, Mendele Mocher Seforim, at the THE HUMIDIFIER COMPANY the Shelter by the fact that the United Hias Bernhard Baron Settlement, Berner Street, E.l. 25, Bridge Rood, Wembley Pork, Middlesex Service, which had done much to assist emigra ARNold 7601 Extracts were read from the writer's works, and II tion, had now closed its London office. tributes were paid to his memory. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION March. 1961
TROUBLE IN ALGERIA AFRICA IN TURMOIL The five days of rioting in Algiers which occurred during General de Gaulle's visit ended THE PLIGHT OF MOROCCAN JEWRY AFRICAN CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS in the hoisting of the F.L.N, flag on the roof of the largest synagogue. Its walls were daubed with Prince Moulay Hassan, the Prime Minister of Two resolutions were passed at the African swastikas and many ritual objects were desecrated. Morocco, has kept his pledge to punish those " summit" conference recently held in Casablanca, The Great Synagogue was built at the time of responsible for maltreating Jews in Ca&ablanca attended by Colonel Nasser and the heads of Napoleon III and contained many splendid ritual during Nasser's visit there and has taken discip States of Ghana, Mah, and Guinea. One resolu objects of historical value. linary action against a Police Commissioner and tion was on the " Palestine question" and the The remains of desecrated ritual objects were about twenty policemen. The Federation of other on nuclear tests, which also referred fo col buried in a solemn ceremony at the Jewish ceme Jewish Community Councils have noted the lusion between France and Israel. tery of Saing Eugen near Algiers. This was the Crown Prince's action with some satisfaction but. The conference insisted on " the necessity to first ceremony of its kind since France occupied in general, Moroccan Jews do not feel reassured. have a just solution to the (Palestine) problem, Algeria 130 years ago and was attended by a The Moroccan Press has launched a general in conformity with the U.N. resolutions and the large gathering. The day was proclaimed as one attack on " Zionist activities " in Morocco. TTie Asian-African resolution of Bandung fo restore of fasting and mourning for all Algerian Jews. Minister of Information has attacked Zionists as to the Arabs of Palestine all their legitimate Reports have been received fhat Moslems also " criminals" and has declared the status of rights ". attacked Jewish merchants. A number of Moslems, Moroccan Jewry is "enviable" compared with The conference also noted " with indignation however, offered refuge to their Jewish neighbours the position of Jews in other countries. In a that Israel has always taken the side of the during the height of the riots and no Jews were statement he saddled Zionists with responsibility imperialists each time an important position had murdered. for fhe disaster at sea when 41 Jews were drowned fo be taken concerning vital problems about The Algerian rebel organ published in Tiinis off the coast of Morocco. Zionists, he said, were Africa, notably Algeria, the Congo, and the has denied that the desecration in the Algiers responsible for inculcating the spirit of desertion. nuclear tests in Africa, and the conference there Casbah was perpetrated by Algerian nationalists. The sole justification for leaving the country fore denounces Israel as an instrument in the They describe the Jewish Algerian organisation as would be discrimination against Jews. " The service of imperialism and neo-colonialism not " accomplices of French colonialism ". fact fhat Jews have no special status in Morocco only in the Middle East but also in Africa and A Jew was murdered and another stabbed in proves they are indistinguishable from the general Asia ". .\Igeria in a new wave of terror during January. population and are fully fledged citizens", he The U.A.R. delegation appealed for outright Mr. Sylvain Temin, a salesman from Algiers, said. The Minister, denied that police maltreated condemnation of Israel and the breaking off of was stopped by rebels in his car. His skull was yeshiva pupils in Casablanca during Nasser's diplomatic relations. This was obviously aimed smashed with iron bars and the car set on fire. visit. at Ghana and Mali, who not only enjoy diplo At Constantine Mr. Max Atfali was stabbed Mrs. Golda Meir, the Israeli Foreign Minister, matic relations with Israel, but who have technical by a Moslem terrorist, and was taken to hospital. has declared that the Moroccan authorities were assistance agreements with the Govemment. responsible for the disaster at sea. A quarter Israeli public opinion has been shocked by the of a million Jews lived in a state of continuous fact that for the third time in a few months U.A,R. PROPAGANDA insecurity, she said, and were deprived of ele- African States have adopted anti-Israel resolu meiUary rights. It was hardly surprising that tions. Israel's envoys in Ghana, Mali, and Guinea According to the European Office of the many of them tried to escape to Israel. Moroccan were instructed to express Israel's " disappoint American Jewish Committee, the United Arab Jews, said Mrs. Meir, should know that they ment and profound perturbation " to these three Republic and the Arab League are promoting were not alone. She appealed to all countries Governments. racial anti-Jewish propaganda on an international to assist in securing for Moroccan Jews the Dr. Nkrumah, the Ghanaian President, scale, and will shortly intensify their efforts. elemenitary right to possess exit and entry emphasised to Mr. Moshe Bitan, the Israeli Egyptian newspapers have informed their permits. Ambassador in Accra, fhat he still favours readers fhat the U.A.R. now possesses the sole copy of the notorious Nazi film " Jew Siiss", Britain's synagogues held prayers for those who friendly relations with Israel, He promised to give a full explanation of his action in supporting and that the film will be shown over national TV had perished in the disaster. As already reported networks. in our previous issue, the Board of Deputies of the resolutions. British Jews called on the Moroccan Govern Mr. Mobido Keita, President of Mali, told fhe ment " to restore and maintain the rights of their Deputy Director-General of the Israeli Foreign JOHANNESBURG SYNAGOGUE DAMAGED Jewish citizens ". Ministry that he backed the Casablanca resolution but saw no reason why political statements should A wing of the Wolmarans Synagogue in Since the yacht disaster, more groups of affect normal relations with Israel. A different Johannesburg was seriously damaged by an Moroccan Jews have escaped secretly from attitude is not expected from Guinea, which is explosion which rocked buildings in the vicinity Morocco. The head of the Jewish Agency known to adopt an anti-Israel attitude. and blew in hundreds of window panes in sur Immigration Department in Jerusalem has rounding flats. The damage runs into thousands expressed his thanks to the British, Canadian, Israeli Foreign Ministry circles are much embarrassed at this development and claim that of pounds. English and Afrikaans church leaders French and Scandinavian Governments for joined in expressions of horror at the outrage. making clear fo the Moroccan authorities what Israel will soon " reassess" her African policy. Until such a reassessment is made, however, Israel This was the fourth Johannesburg place of wor they thought of the " sealed gates policy ". The ship to be damaged in one week. Burglaries American Government had failed to react to fhe will fulfil all her obligations towards these countries. occurred in a Dutch Reformed Church, a Metho yacht disaster, but this was probably due to the dist Church and a Baptist Church, but there is no change in the administration. MOSLEY TO VISIT SOUTH AFRICA evidence of any connection between these burg Jewish homes in Rabat received copies of a laries and the explosion. printed tract calling on the community to unite Sir Oswald Mosley, the British Union Move Seven experts who were asked by the police to in observing two minutes' silence to mark the ment leader, is to visit South Africa. The visit investigate the incident, stated that high explosives thirtieth day of mouming for the 41 refugees will coincide with the formal launching of his caused the damage. The police have accepted who were drowned. The tract declared that this European National Movement. The Movement their findings and have intensified their investiga action would be the first demonstration against started shortly after Mosley's visit to the Union tions. anti-Semitism in the country. Although King in 1959. It aims, among other things, at rallying Mohammed might not be personally responsible English-speaking South Africans and immigrants NAZI VICTIM HELPS CONGO i for the trouble, said the tract, and although anti- from Westem Europe behind the South African Semitism was against the principles of Islam, " there Republic and apartheid. A German-Jewish victim of Nazism, who fought are elements in existence who have secretly for 15 years to get a pension of £12 4s. morithly decided fo hunt and humiliate us". Mr. Derick Alexander, a British-born former from fhe West German Government, is now giving school-teacher, who is a friend of Mosley's and up this pension to the Oxford Committee for Crif, fhe representative organisation of French a member of the South African Nationalist Party, Famine Relief. His gesture was prompted by the Jewry, has passed a resolution expressing anxiety has returned to South Africa after a visit to fact that the starving Congo children reminded about the fate of the Jewish community in Britain, Belgium and Germany. Morocco. The World Jewish Congress is appeal him of his life in Buchenwald. ing to the U.N, Secretary-General to intervene t on behalf of Moroccan Jewry. Emigration Ban to be Lifted When this issue went to press it was leamed that thc Moroccan King has promised a Jewish delega Fenchtwanger (London) Ltd. tion that all restrictions on Jewish emigration will be lifted. The delegation, which was received by the King at his own invitation, included fhe former Bankers Cabinet Minister, Dr. Leon Benzaquen, and the Secretary-General of the Council of Jewish Com munities, David Amar. The King's aides told the BASILDON HOUSE, 7-11, MOORGATE, E.C.2 delegation, however, that " foreign " organisations Teleiphone: METropolitan 8151 will not be allowed to work in Morocco either in order to assist the emigrants or to propagate the Representing : emisration. I. L. FEUCHTWANGER BANK LTD. | FEUCHTWANGER CORPORATION The King's decision has brought great relief to TEL-AVIV : JERUSALEM : HAIFA 60 EAST 42nd ST., NEW YORK. 17, N.Y. the 200,000-strong Jewish community and thanks giving services were held in all synagogues. AJR INFORMATION March, 1961 Page 5
INVESTIGATIONS AND TRIALS THE EICHMANN CASE IN GERMANY The former German police captain, Helmut Saur, was arrested in Nuremberg. He is charged TRIAL AND ERROR CHARGES HANDED TO LAWYER with having participated in the murder of 1,200 Russian Jewish children and invalids during the The great trial against Adolf Eichinann is A list of 15 charges against Adolf Eichmann war. Up to his arrest, Saur held a position as a '9 start next month. Something has changed has been handed to Dr. Servatius, Eichmann's police clerk in Furth, Bavaria, since the days when the sensational news about counsel, by fhe Israel Attorney-General. Eich In Ansbach the trial was opened against fhe mann is charged with committing crimes against former SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Karl Chmielewski. nis capture stirred public opinion. In the months the Jewish people and crimes against humanity, between the atmosphere has definitely cooled He was Commandant of the Concentration Camp and with having been a member of Nazi Gusen I, a section of the Mauthausen Camp, and towards the trial, and many have had second organisations. is accused of murder in 297 cases. Several wit thoughts about its advisability. Mr. Ben-Gurion, He is accused in the first count of having, with nesses described the brutal way in which prisoners though, still declared, in an interview with the others, caused millions of Jews to be killed in of the camp were put to death. Jerusalem correspondent of the New York extermination camps, in local concentration A former guard of the Sachsenhausen Concen Times, that he was not interested in the verdict, camps and in labour camps in Germany and tration Camp, August Kolb, is charged with the out only in the fact that the trial takes place in German-occupied territory where Jews were murder of two prisoners. The trial takes place Israel. It is just this fact that is being viewed enslaved, starved and tortured ; and through mass before the Nuemberg Court. With growing doubt, and not a few fear the deportations carried out under inhuman condi tions in Germany and 17 ofher countries, includ Five former S.S. officials are awaiting trial in whipping up of pain and passion in the wake ing Soviet Russia and the Baltic States. Hanover, on charges of complicity in the murder of the proceedings, not to speak of political of thousands of Jews in the Nazi-occupied embarrassment and mounting costs. The second and third counts state that Eich territories in the East. According to the prose mann, together with others, caused serious cutor, they invented and built mobile gas Regardless of the doubts of Eichmann's role physical haiTn to millions of Jews by enslaving, chambers used by the Nazis for the mass ?s history's crown witness, declared Pinchas starving, deporting and persecuting them, and execution of Jews during the first years of the Rosen, the Minister of Justice, the Eichmann by detaining them in ghettoes under inhuman war. Twenty to thirty of these were used by the '^^se is to be treated as an historical trial, and conditions. execution squads in Poland. "ot as a show. Therefore the 750 seats avail In the fourth count Eichmann is charged with Investigations have been started against the Pre able in the new " People's House," which will having devised measures for the sterilisation of sident of the Administrative Court of Bmnswick, serve as the courtroom, will be allocated to Jews as a first step in destroying the Jewish Friedrich Knost. He is accused of participation ^'plomatic and legal observers, journalists— people. In six ofher counts he is accused of in the drafting of the Nuremberg laws. Knost •'50 foreign and local correspondents—and to persecuting Jews on national, racial, religious and is joint author of the commentary Loesener-Knost J'.cpresentatives of various anti-Nazi organisa political grounds. on these laws. tions, rather than to the general public. He is further charged with deporting half a The former S.S. Major, Georg Michalsen, was million non-Jewish Poles from their homes to arrested near Hamburg. He is suspected of com The clashes between the prosecution and the make way for German families. He is accused plicity in the murder of Jews in Treblinka and "^fence counsel started long before the actual of crimes against humanity by deporting hun other death camps. Michalsen had been residing ^mmencement of the trial. Dr. Robert dreds of children from the village of Lidice, in in a Hamburg suburb and had worked as a ^rvatius several times threatened to resign Czechoslovakia, to Poland, and murdering them bookkeeper until the German Central War Crimes there; by deporting 14,000 Slovene civilians to Commission began a world-wide search for him. '•"om his appointment, and once he left the the Serbian area of Yugoslavia, using brutal country in protest—although he returned after methods, and by deporting thousands of gipsies Proceedings have also been started against the ^ Week, together with an assistant and a secre- following persons: Arthur Gosberg, formerly lo Ea'if Germany and murdering them. Deputy Commandant of a camp near Radom '^••y- Dr. Servatius complained that for (Poland); a Bochum police official, Kraiker, security reasons he had no opportunity of see- accused of having participated in the killing of "ig his client in private and out of earshot GERMAN REACTIONS Jews in the Ukraine; Oberregierungsat Herbert ^t any third party and that he had not been Lumm of Bremen on account of his S.S. activities handed the notice of charges which outlines During an interview in Hamburg for ITV's in Lemberg: and the former S.S. Leader Erich pe charges against Eichmann. In the mean- news programme, " This Week", six Germans Ehrlinger. '.'^e, permission for private talks has been expressed emphatic views on Eichmann, " Put him in a gas chamber" . . . " hang him "... siven and the notice of charges has been " cripple him" . . . " keep him in a prison for i'OSTHUMOUS FINE ON NAZI "anded to Dr. Servatius. the rest of his life", were some of the opinions The West Berlin denazification court imposed a 'n the opinion of Dr, Robert Kempner, for- stated. fine of DM 175,000 posthumously on Dr. Georg Jneriy Chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Erich Lueth, leader of the movement for Thierack, Nazi Minister of Justice in the last Hals, who spent a week in Israel as guest of " Peace with Israel", thought it was quite fair years of the war. "e Attorney-General, Dr. Serviatus is an excel- that after both Germany and Argentina had failed to catch " this brutal beast", Eichmann ^nt defence counsel and a great legal fighter. should be brought before an Israeli court, where HEYDE TRIAL sked for his opinion on Serviatus's statement he would certainly obtain a fair trial. Sixty The trial of Dr. Heyde, charged with mass "at he would dispute the validity of the Israeli million Christians had failed in Germany to pro murder under the Nazi " mercy killing" pro w for the punishment of Nazi war criminals, tect a small minority of Jews whom they should gramme, is likely fo begin next autumn. Herr •"• Kempner said that a number of Serviatus's have regarded as their older brothers. Boehne. Dr. Heyde's predecessor as head of fhe ^^azi cUents were tried under the London Char- The five other Germans interviewed on the central agency for fhe Nazi euthanasia programme, ""OK^ '945, which in substance was the same. programme, several of them youngsters, agreed it is also awaiting trial in Frankfurt. Investigations ^/Objections to it have been overruled by was right that Eichmann should be tried in have been started against the former First Prose "ozens of courts all over Europe." Germany. They all demanded that Eichmann be cutor in Flensburg. Bruno Bourwig, who is sus severely punished. pected of having known that Heyde had lived ahH^ to Serviatus's claim that Eichmann's When the young Germans were asked whether under the assumed name of Sawade. Bourwig out K''°" ^^* illegal. Dr. Kempner pointed their parents and teachers had told them about is at present " Regierungsdirektor " in Kiel. air American and British precedents had what happened during the Hitler period, one said fhat members of his family had themselves been ine t^ established that the manner of bring- MARTIN BORMANN lon prisoner to court was immaterial as in a concentration camp ; another admitted that the older generation preferred not to speak about According to informed circles, a letter written thaf u^ ^^ received a fair trial. He thought the past and another thought that their elders Wo u advocate's statement that "Eichmann by Walter Leuchtenberg, a former S.S. officer, were reluctant to answer questions about the was received by the Kiel Public Prosecutor. The Wa" " ^^^mit the facts, but plead not guilty," Third Reich in case they should be asked what letter stated that Martin Bormann, the former j^^ " a very clever line of defence." At their role had been at the time. Nazi leader, travelled from Southern Germany '>j/*'"berg some of the defendants had taken to the northern area of the country in June 1945, and^ ^^'•y stupid line " of denying everything, a month after his alleged death. The Belgian ^^ Were subsequently proved liars, ARREST OF ASSOCIATE Nazi leader. Leon Degrelle, is said to have shall • "^^ client is condemned to death, I accompanied him. Leuchtenberg stated that Said iP^'^'Jiately appeal against the verdict," The Viennese police have arrested Franz Bormann and Degrelle were now living in Spain Novak, one of Eichmann's closest war-time under assumed names. penal ^crvatius to the Press. The death associates, Novak is understood to have played the r^ was made possible by the passing of It is suspected that Bormann's name is on a list a leading part in the extermination of Hungarian in the possession of a German baroness, Tilla as tK """^'^ ®'" (which has come to be known Jews. von Jena, who lives on the Island of Sylt. This expexr,* C'lcnmanEichmann Bill) by the Knesset. It is A reward of DM 10,000 was offered for infor is a complete list of the names of former S.S. 10?,'^'^l^P^cted that thf e tria• •l will begin between April mation leading to Novak's arrest. He was appre personnel who were or still are members of Hiag, '"'h and 15th. hended only a few hours after an announcement the oreanisation of former Waffen S.S. men. by the Chief Prosecutor in Frankfurt that he It is likely Borman receives constant aid from HERBERT FREEDEN (Jerusalem). was wanted as an accomplice of Eichmann. Hiag. Page 6 .\JR INFORMATION March. 1961
ALMANAC ON COMMUNITIES IN NEWS FROM GERMANY GERMANY To mark the 60th anniversary of the foundation DER ENTDECKER DER BOXHEIMER S.P.D. URGES GLOBKE'S RESIGNATION of the Jewish National Fund (J.N.F.) and the DOKUMENTE A spokesman for thc German Social Democrat Barmitzvah Year of the State of Israel, the Section In Frankfurt a.M. ist, 72 Jahre alt, Regierungs Party declared in Bonn that there was no doubt for Germany of the J.N.F. plans the production direktor i.R. Ferdinand Miihrdel gesforben, ein that Dr. Globke had played a prominent part in of an Almanac which will be mainly dedicated Mann, der, als Kriminalrat, im Spatherbst 1931 the enactment and implementation of Nazi racial to the history of the previous and present Jewish bei der Entdeckung und Bekanntgabe der geheimen laws. If he remained jn office it would cast a communities in Germany. Any readers who nationalsozialistischen " Boxheimer Dokumente " slur on Dr. Adenauer's personal policy regarding possess interesting material about the communities mitwirkte und zwei Jahre spater von den Nazis, the consequences of the Nazi regime. of the pre-war period are asked to put this at thc zu sieben Monatea Gefangnis verurteilt, aus dem disposal of the editor, M. Karin-Karger. Staatsdienst entlassen wurde. Er war 1945 fiir The party has again urged that Dr. Globke Juedischer Nationalfonds E.V., Landeszentrale kurze Zeit Polizeiprasident in Frankfurt imd leitele should resign his post until the charges against fuer Deutschland, Duesseldorf, Fischerstr. 19. von 1946 bis 1949 das hessische Landes- him have been investigated. kriminalamt. Die " Boxheimer Dokumente " (so genannt nach dem, einem fuhrenden hessischen ROYALTIES FOR GOEBBELS' HEIRS MEMORIAL IN SACHSENHAUSEN Nationalsozialisten namens Wagner gehorenden Boxheimer Hof) enthielten ein Sofortprogramm The diary of Joseph Goebbels will be published The East German Government has decided to der NSDAP f iir den Tag der " Machtergreifung ", shortly by the Institute for Contemporary History erect a memorial on the site of the Sachsenhausen eine SA-Proklamation im Falle einer kommunis- in Munich. It is expected that it will contain a Concentration Camp. The memorial will be con tischen Erhebung und, nach deren Niederschla- number of undisclosed facts concerning the anti- secrated on April 23. Between 1936 and the end gung, Vorschlage fUr drastische Massnahmen Jewish persecutions. The author's royalties will of the war about 200,000 persons were prisoners einer vorlaufigen Nazi-Regiemng (Abschaffung be paid to Goebbels' sister, Frau Maria Kimmich, in Sachsenhausen. von Privateinkommen und—vermogen, Lebensmit- and the children of his two deceased brothers. telrationierung, Ausschluss der Juden von der Arbeitsdienstpflicht und damit vom Lebensmittel- ASYLUM REFUSED TO CONVERTS bezug, Hinrichtungen u.a.m). PENSIONS FOR EX-NAZIS Two Jewish converts to Catholicism were Im Zusammenhang mit Ferdinand Muhrdels The Hesse administrative court in Kassel has refused asylum in the Federal German Republic. Ableben soil und muss eines verdienten deutschen mled that two former Nazi mayors of Frankfurt. in a test case before the Ansbach administrative Juden gedacht werden, der als einer der ersten Dr. Krebs and Joseph Kremmer, are entitled to court. Kenntnis von jenen beriichtigten " Dokumenten " receive regular State pensions in accordance with The plaintiffs stated they had married Catholic erhielt, spater von den Nazis verfolgt, verurteilf, their former status and rank jn the civil service. Polish women after the war, adopted the Catholic mehrfach ins KZ gesperrt, schliesslich, im Novem Their claims had been tumed down by the muni faith, and emigrated to Israel in 1957. They left ber 1942 von Berlin aus mit Frau und zwei cipal authorities at Frankfurt, on the grounds Israel in 1958 because of discrimination against Kindern in die Ungewissheit des Osfens deportiert that they had actively supported the Nazi regime. wurde, ohne dass ihm jemals irgendwo in der them. judischen Offentlichkeit ein Wort ehrenden, dank Although the court decided that the plaintiffs' baren Gedenkens gewidmet worden ist : wir AWARD TO "UNSUNG HEROES" fears of persecution for religious reasons were meinen den 1889 in Wurzburg geborenen Rechts justified, asylum could not be granted because the anwalt Dr. Martin Marx, der zwischen den Sea Captain Gustav Piefsch and his wife Geneva Convention on Refugees of July 1951 beiden Kriegen als Syndikus des Landesverbandes Gertrud were awarded the Diploma of the provided that racial, religious or political perse Hessen-Nassau und Hessen des C.V. in auf- " Unsung Heroes". This diploma, which also cution must have taken place or originated before reibungsvoller Arbeit unendlich viel Gutes ftir die carries a monetary award, had been created by 1951. Juden in Frankfurt a.M. und den vielen grdsseren the Berlin Senate for people who courageously und kleineren judischen Gemeinden des aus- assisted their Jewish fellow-citizens during fhe A spokesman of the Israeli Mission at Cologne gedehnten Hessenlandes getan hat. years of persecution. When the Nazis came to said that the plaintiffs' story was ridiculous. Over power, Pietsch opened a navigation school near a quarter-million non-Jews lived unmolested in E.G.L. Danzig at which young Jewish would-be emigrants Israel with no religious persecution at all. were trained. He helped many Jews to escape illegally, and it is estimated that, in this way. he rescued about 400 persecutees. He and his With the Compliments of wife also hid Jews in their house. Pietsch was repeatedly arrested and beaten up by the Nazis. KELLERGEIST In I9.''8, the couple had to flee and ultimately went to Israel (then Palfestine). There, Captain ADVISES A.J.R. READERS AIRECO METAl Pietsch played an important part in building up the seaport of Elafh. The couple returned to Berlin only two years ago, because Mrs. Pietsch i!i CORPORATION LTD. could no longer stand the climate of Israel.
Metals, Chemicals, Ores and LEAGUE BANNED Residues The State of North Rhine-Westphalia has banned the League of National Students (Bund Nationaler Studenten) as anti-democratic and unconstitutional.
SUCCESS OF "SYNAGOGA" EXHIBITION The exhibition of Jewish sacred art, " Synagoga ", held in Recklinghausen, which was open for about two months, was visited by over @ 30,000 persons.
FOR.MER DACHAU INMATES' PILGRIMAGE A pilgrimage to the Dachau camp site is being Choose Hallgarten— planned for next May by thc Intemational Com mittee of Former Inmates of Dachau Concentra Choose Fine Wines tion Camp, which has its head office in Bmssels. Adelphi Terrace House, Ask for them by name! BROADCAST ON CHRISTIAN-JEWISH London, W.C.2 RELATIONS Under the auspices of the South German Radio If you have any difficulty in finding (Stuttgart) a series of broadcasts are being held HALLGARTEN wines, write lo us Fulton Road, Wembley Park, under the heading " Jews-Christians-Germans". for assistance The broadcasts started in January and will go on Middlesex. until May. One section of fhe broadcasts entitled " Portraits", includes, amongst others, talks on S. F. & 0. HALLGARTEN Else Lasker-Schuler (by Wemer Kraft), Sigmund New York Brussels Freud (by Emst Simon), Franz Rosenzweig (by 1, Crutched Friars, London, E.C.S Hermann Levin Goldschmidt), and Leo Baeck (by Karl-Heinrich Rengstorf). AJR INFORMATION March, 1961 Page 7
DEATH OF RUMANIAN COMMUNAL NEWS FROM ABROAD WORKER Mr. Israel Bakal, President of the Federation of UNFTED STATES U.N. RESOLUTION ON RACE PREJUDICE Jewish Communities in Rumania, died in Bucha A resolution condemning " manifestations of rest at the age of 50. Jews in Kennedy Administration anti-SemitiMn and other forms of racial prejudice Mr. Bakal, a lawyer by profession and a Com Apart from Mr, Abraham Ribicoff, Secretary of and religious intolerance of a similar nature " was munist since his student days, played a leading Health, Education and Welfare in the Kennedy unanimously adopted by the 14-member United part in the general and Jewish life of the post Cabinet, and Mr. Arthur J. Goldberg, who are the Nations Sub-commission on Prevention of Dis war People's Republic of Rumania. He was first Jews in United States history to have been crimination and Protection of Minorities. actively concemed in promoting many of the Yid dish cultural institutions, a state theatre and a sworn in as Cabinet Ministers, Mr. Kennedy has The resolution called on the Human Rights appointed several other Jews to high positions in publishing house in Rumania. He represented Commission to adopt a resolution calling for Rumanian Jewry at the plenary session of the his administration. specific measures to combat such manifestations . A remarkable feature of these appoinments World Jewish Congress in Switzerland in 1948, through legislative enactments by member-govern and participated in several other intemational 's that they are, in the main, young men between ments of the United Nations. 'he ages of 32 and 45. Jewish gatherings. There are 13 Jews out of the 537 members of both houses of Congress, 422 Protestants, 98 DISCRIMINATION IN CANADA *-atholics and four others. Of the 13, two are in The Director of the Canada Fair Employment BELGIAN AWARDS the Senate and eleven in the House of Repre Practices Division of the Department of Labour, The Belgian Vice-Premier, M. Albert Lilar, has sentatives. has accused Canada's nine chartered banks of presented awards to a number of Jews who have discrimination against Jewish applicants for jobs. been members of the Diamond Bourse in Antwerp Bomb Outrages He claimed that Jews were not found above the for more than 40 years. lower levels of responsibility. The Anshei Emet Svnagogue, the largest Con Although the banks made prompt denials, it servative synagogue in Chicago, was damaged by is well knovm that such discrimination exits. The SWEDISH ANTI-SEMFTE GAOLED a bomb explosion recently. The damage was Executive Director of the Jewish Vocational The 70-year-old Swedish anti-Semite, Einar estimated at over $2,000. The Mayor of Chicago Service said that since 1947, when the Service was Aberg, was sentenced in Stockholm to three ordered a full-scale police effort to find those organised, they had never succeeded in placing months' imprisonment for distributing abroad ^sponsible, and called the outrage shocking. applicants in a chartered bank. Mr. Victor Anfuso. a member of the U.S.A. pamphlets containing anti-Semitic statements. j"°"se of Representatives, has introduced a Bill Despite a certain amoimt of legislation, job bn K^ °^* Congress, which would make the di scrimina/tion still exists in Canada. ?°iT'b'ng of a church, synagogue or other public SWASTIKAS IN NORWAY wilding punishable by death. He considered AUSTRALIA Swastikas and red paint were daubed on the present laws too "soft" to deter potential Problems of As^milation monument of the Norwegian war hero, Lauritz i""["ials, particularly after the bombing craze Sand, one of Norway's outstanding Resistance '" the South last year. Rabbi Dr. Israel Porush, Chief Minister of the leaders. Police investigated the incident. Great Synagogue, Sydney, speaking in London recently, stated that many Jewish communities in Golf Club Discrimination the smaller towns of Australia had disappeared. DEATH SENTENCE IN FRANCE p . ^r an announcement by a Protestant The forces of assimilation were relentlessly jP'scopal rector that parishioners who had advancing and taking away some of Australian Francis Reimeringer, an Alsace-bom German nctioned the barring of a convert from Judaism Jewry's best minds and best sons and daughters. citizen who acquired Guinean nationality, has _ a club Ball would not be welcome to Holy There was no vocal anti-Semitism in Australia, been sentenced to death by a military court ir y-ommuninniunionn , fVitheo ScarsdalSoorc/^oiea Goln.^trf Clu/-'I„Kb i.n„ ivra,,New, said Rabbi Porush, and the community was happy Paris for his campaign against Jews and thc York stated that members may entertain guests and prosperous. In these circumstances Jews were French Resistance during the Second World War. ••egardless of race, colour or creed tempted to allow themselves to be absorbed in the general population. Since 1938, however, the community had more than doubled and new blood DANISH NEO-NAZI Revision of Immigration Laws Urged and new values had strengthened it. Because of Sven Salicath, the Danish neo-Nazi leader who nwf'^^^°'"''°° passed unanimously by the annual the tragedy which had befallen world Jewry, was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment some rev?,'"^ of Hias in New York has called for a estranged Jews had returned to the community months ago for publishing anti-Semitic comments, nat 1 r °^ '^'^ United States immigration and and many gave generously to refugee funds. The had the sentenced increased to 20 days after tarian J'°" ^^*^ "'" keeping with the humani- growth of Jewish education was helping to combat appealing to the Copenhagen County Court. assimilation. A srv> ^i" 'democratic traditions of our country ". During the trial it was learned that the neo-Nazi shr.,,1^^, •" urged that discrimination and bigotry magazine which published the comments only has "ould be erased from the laws. Rockwell Visit Cancelled 40 readers. An invitation by the Australian Nationalist Workers' Party to George Rockwell, leader of THREAT TO TURKISH SYNAGOGUES the American Nazi Party, to visit Australia has, it is reported, been withdrawn. A three-man Chief Rabbinate delegation, which The Australian Minister for Immigration stated was received by the Turkish Minister of the your House for :- that a visit by Rockwell to Australia would be Interior, stated that the existence of some syna most unwelcome. gogues in Turkey is threatened by the decentrali The Victorian Jewish Board of Deputies issued sation of Jewish communal life, and pleaded for CURTAINS, CARPETS, LINO a statement that if Rockwell were admitted he the resumption of the previous system. The acti would stir up racial provocation and hatred. vities of the synagogues and other institutions UPHOLSTERY There are, stated the Board, a large number of were formerly centralised through various com Jewish and non-Jewish survivors of Nazi concen munal councils. Now each synagogue or tration camps in Victoria, who would not tolerate institution must have an independent council. Rockwell's presence. Financial and administrative problems are thus created which might lead to the closing of some SPECIALITY of these institutions. New Polish-Jewish Immigration A further group of over 60 Jewish immigrants The Minister showed sympathy for the problem. CONTINENTAL DOWN from Poland arrived in Sydney. This is the QUILTS ! largest of the many Polish-Jewish groups of immigrants who have arrived in Australia recentiy. Gorta Radiovision ANTI-JEWISH SLOGANS IN THE AUO RE.MAKES AND RE-COVERS ARGENTINE AND BRAZIL Service Beach huts at an Argentine seaside resort, (Member R.T.R.A.) ESTIMATES FKEE belonging to prominent Jewish leaders, were 13, Frognal Parade, daubed with black swastikas and anti-Semitic Finchley Road, N.WJ slogans. It is feared in Buenos Aires that, when l>AWSON-LANE LIMITED the Eichmann trial begins, there will be a renewal SALES REPAIRS of anti-Semitic outbursts '7, BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK Ml Leading Makes Supplied Jewish organisations in Rio de Janeiro have Electrical Appliances Stocked Telephone : ARN. 6671 received mysterious telephone calls warning them of an imminent revival of the swastika epidemic. Mr. Gort will always be pleased to '"•sonal attention of Mr. w. Schjchmann Anti-Semitic acts, they were told, would start on advise you. the anniversarv of last vear's swastika-daubing (HAM. 8635) incidents, and (hey should take precautions. Page 8 AJR INFORMATION March, 1961
Robert WelUch istic which Mr. Stein gives of Dr. Weizmann is one of the finest and most striking known to this reviewer. ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW ERA Being unable, as I said, to exhaust the contents of this book in a short review I propose to Some reflections on two new books confine myself to some observations on a few points which may be of special interest to the It is gratifying that Sir Leon Simon, lifelong not management only ; but Achad Haam saw in readers of this paper. First, a general lesson on disciple and interpreter of Achad Haam, now it a grave moral mistake as if was inevitably the Jewish question. It is revealed that most of approaching his 80th year himself, has published his linked with an enforced boycott of Arab workers the leading statesmen in liberal Britain, among Achad Haam Biography in London in an English —in a country mainly inhabited by Arabs ! Such them the most enthusiastic supporters of the edition, beautifully produced by the East & West a Jewish policy was unbearable for Achad Haam. Zionist cause, had a more or less uneasy feeling Library.* If may be assumed that Achad Haam Sir Leon rightiy underlines Achad Haam's intel about the situation of Jews within the Gentile is now less read by fhe younger generation than lectual integrity and his attention fo fhe moral society. It would be utterly wrong to accuse these he was in Eastern and Central Europe in the first side of all steps connected wdth colonisation. But men of even a faint trace of anti-Semitism, still quarter of this century, and many of the subjects perhaps he underestimates some of Achad Haam's less to assume fhat they would maintain the to which he devoted his famous articles now pronouncements jn this respect. For instance, he slightest doubt about equal status of Jewish citi appear as obsolete (although they are not, on does not do full justice to the impact of the zens ; nevertheless they felt that even the assimi closer examination). Achad Haam's concept of Introduction to the new edition of " Al Perashat lated Jew was something different and it would be a regenerated Judaism with a spiritual centre in Derachim " of 1920, which could be called Achad advisable to tackle somehow the problems arising Palestine was based on the reality of Jewish Haam's testament. It was the first sincere inter from this fact. In England there was perhaps not existence in Eurof>e and especially in Russia and— pretation of the Balfour Declaration. Achad such an elaborate philosophy of the persoeitliche lafer—in Russia's successor States of 1918. Ameri Haam, who had taken an active part in the pre Judenfrage as was disturbing intellectual Jews and can Jewry had not yet emerged as the mainstay paratory negotiations when Dr. Weizmann was in Gentiles in German-speaking countries (I am not of the Diaspora during his life-time, nor, of course, steady consultation with him, clearly defined the now alluding lo aggressive anti-Semites); but in an was there a State of Israel. In our days Achad limits to which the British promise would go. undefined way even people of good will sensed Haam's theory of " centre-periphery " relationship He gave the outiine of a bi-national State in something uncanny in their relations with the Jews. has to be tested with Israel and American Jewry Palestine, but his wisdom was not heeded any This was one of the factors, though certainly not as protagonists. more than on previous occasions. If is no secret the decisive one, which helped Dr. Weizmann to Achad Haam was a typical man of the nine that Sir Herbert Samuel later relied on that inter make himself understood when he appealed to teenth century and a representative of the Russian pretation when he fried fo harmonise Jewish and British politicians to help in the restoration of an bourgeois class of that time. His Jewish national Arab aspirations. independent Jewish nationality. Without this ism was inseparable from the ideals of humanism. irrational factor if would not be easy to under The idea of a Jewish ethical mission, which was Protest Against Terrorism stand that the Zionist leaders of 1917, without any proclaimed by the leaders of the Reform move Another serious omission, in the view of this real power behind them, without an army and navy ment and by assimilationist Jewish philosophers reviewer, is fhe rather casual way in which Sir and even without the support of the great majority in Western Europe, was opposed by him, not Leon mentions (on page 270), Achad Haam's of the influential Jews in the world, could pose as because he objected to the idea itself but because Letter to the Editor of the newspaper Haaretz. a political power. If also explains the fury of the he was convinced that it could be fulfilled expressing his horror at a Jewish act of terrorism. assimilated Anglo-Jewish community who feared only by restoring the Jewish nation as a spiritual This letter is one of the most important and tragic nof only the purely political effect of the estab entity. For similar reasons he also opposed purely documents, and in it the voice of conscience is lishment of a Jewish commonwealth with its pos political nationalism that would make the Jews raised in a most moving way, culminating in that sible implication of dual loyalty but also were " like all the nations " instead of putting the ethical historical exclamation: " If this is the Messiah, hurt by this imponderable element of dissociation and spiritual task in the centre of their collective let him come, but I do not wish to see him". on the part of the Gentiles. life. (The letter of September Ist, 1922, is printed in Sir Leon's book gives a full outiine of Achad Hebrew in " Igrot Achad Haam", Tel Aviv, 1925, Haam's life and of his activity as a publicist and Vol. VI, pp. 204-6; a German translation appeared Gemian Zionists and Balfour Declaration a Jewish public figure. As editor of Hashiloach in Jiidische Rundschau, Beriin. 19.9.1922). It he held a position of authority rarely achieved in shows more impressively than mere assurances The second point of special interest for Jews the Jewish world. Odessa was at that time the that Achad Haam belongs to fhe prophetic tradi from Central Europe, which is clarified by Mr. spiritual centre of Jewry, and the new generation tion of Jewish humanism and ethical nationalism. Stein more than it has been on any previous of Hebrew writers looked to Achad Haam for The course of events has completely changed occasion, is the attention focused on the activities guidance. His criticism of Jewish activity in the situation in Palestine since Achad Haam's days. of German Zionists and of the World Zionist Palestine and of the conduct of the immigrants, his The starting-point of the new era was the Balfour Executive, which at fhat time had its headquarters warning against popular misunderstandings of Declaration, by which the British War Cabinet in Berlin, as a contributing factor in speeding up Zionism, his absolute devotion to the truth, cannot promised, on November 2nd, 1917, to facilitate the Balfour Declaration. By a curious kind of fail to impress even today when the external cir the establishment of a national home for the political dialectics Zionists in both warring camps cumstances have changed, Jewish people in Palestine. Today we are taking helped each other by demanding from their own for granted what happened in those days and later, government some spectacular declaration in favour Achad Haam in England but considered on its own merits it appears almost of Zionist aims. There is nothing surprising in incredible that one of the mightiest empires in the the fact that the German Zionists were the first Who does not know much of Achad Haam in this field, as Palestine was a province of the should acquaint himself with the great man by world should have decided on such a completely new approach to the Jewish problem. How has Ottoman Empire, which was an ally of Germany. studying this book. Before the First World War It was not yet clear at the beginning of the war Achad Haam lived in London as representative of this miracle been achieved ? This whole story, an absorbing story indeed, has been told now by that Palestine would cease to belong to Turkey, the tea firm of Wissotzky, but he was very dis so it was perfectly logical that the World Zionist appointed with Jewish life here. British Jewry one of the men closely connected with the events of the time, Mr. Leonard Stein.t Within the Executive in Berlin tried to exert influence on the was at that time divided into two almost wafer- Turkish regime by mobilising the help of the tight compartments; the old families aristocracy limits of a review it is impossible to give even an approximate account of the very complicated German ally on which Turkey depended to a and the Yiddish-speaking immigrants of the East great extent. It was also obvious, as Stein End. Achad Haam found no common ground with negotiations and activities in many countries, and naturally in the first place in England, which Mr. observes, that only through German intervention any of them and remained almost isolated through —and through tfie assistance of the neutral United out all these years. He was. however, in contact Stein describes in full detail and with thorough documentation. Even those who know something States—the Jewish population of Palestine could with some Zionist intellectuals, like Leon Simon be saved from destruction. Germany was also himself, and later became a close collaborator of of Zionist history and who themselves were in fairly close contact with some of the leaders who encouraged to adopt a pro-Jewish policy by the Dr. 'Weizmann, who consulted him on many attitude of American Jewry which in 1914 was occasions. He was also a member of the Board played a decisive role in the drama, will learn a ereaf deal of new facts which Mr. Stein has care openly pro-German because it was passionately for the erection of a Technical Institute in Haifa, anti-Russian in view of the Tsarist oppression. All which had been initiated by fhe " Hilfsverein der fully assembled from innumerable sources. This book is more than a monography on a single these facts did not remain unnoticed in Britaiii. Deutschen Juden " and especially its director, Paul Leonard Stein comes to the conclusion that " it Nathan, Together with the Zionists he fought problem of importance. If is a vast canvas of the political world as it revealed itself in the First was. as it turned out, greatly to the advantage of for the adoption of the Hebrew language as the the Zionists that the Berlin Zionist Executive general language of instruction, but, characteristi World War, Against this background the Jewish position and the attitude of Jews in many succeeded in interesting the German Foreign cally enough, this Hebraist was less radical than Office, and that Zionism was taken up by Germari the political leaders. When the " war of the countries are shown in all their configurations. It also indicates how the Jewish question, unobserved and pro-German propagandists When, in the languages" was launched in Palestine itself he autumn of 1917. the British War Cabinet was slrongly opposed, as a matter of principle, holding by many, was a latent reality in the minds of many more people of influence than was generally being pressed by the Foreign Oflice for jwompt teachers' strikes and drawing schoolchildren into approval of the Balfour Declaration, one of the a political controversy. Achad Haam was also assumed, and how general politics and especially war-time considerations brought about a funda main short-term arguments was that the Germans worried about the complacency of Jewish colonists were courting the Zionists and might at any to fhe Arab problem. He was not enthusiastic mental change in the psychological situation. This was also reflected inside the Jewish community. moment come out with a pro-Zionist declaration about collective Jewish settlements. He doubted of their own." the wisdom of the slogan of " conquest of labour " For this reason, and because of the extraordinary (" Kibbush Avodah "), which had been coined by interest of some of the personalities involved, Mr. Stein's book is to be highly recommended to the Jewish workers' parties. The idea behind it this book sometimes reads not as an analysis of all serious students of recent Jewish history. It was the aspiration of Jews doing manual work and historical documents but as a great dramatic story explains, among other things, how it was achieved of human impact. The short personal character- that when the storm broke in 1933 many could * Akad H>-AB (AibcT Giazbcii). A Biozraphy by Leon Simon. East and West Ubrary. London, i960. 348 pp. t The Half onr Declaration. By Leonard Stein. Vallentine find refuge in the British-sponsored Jewish national Index. iOt. Mlichcll. London, 1961. 681 DP. Index. 639. home. i AJR INFORMATION iMarch, 1961 Page 9
Luts WeltmatiH ERICH FRIED'S FIRIST ^OVEL Old Aquaintances Milestones:—Leonhard Steckel who survived •' Ein Soldaf und ein Maedchen "* is not the of jailer. However, Helga harbours a certain the Nazi period in Zurich and for a time was author's first book ; a small volume of his verse resentment against the Nazi regime as one of those director of Berlin's " Volksbuehne," is sixty.— Was presented some years ago by the same pub who had been seduced by the Hitler creed in the Rochus Gliese, the stage designer, celebrated bis lishers. Erich Fried is also well known as a " German Girls' League ". Fried does not acquit 70th birthday.—Elsa Wagner was eighty last translator of Dylan Thomas and T. S. Eliot, and her of guilt, though he deals in a postscript with month. She was born in Russia and is probably his essays on these and other poets have appeared the question of collective guilt. Helga's fate is of one of the oldest members of Barlog's ensemble 'n German periodicals. less interest to him than that of the soldier, whom in Berlin.—F. W. Bischoff, who started as a Fried was bora in Vienna about 40 years ago he has made to state fhat she could not have Silesian writer and became one of fhe first and has lived half his life in fhis country. He atoned through a better life, and in whose eyes infendants of fhe radio, celebrated his 65fh birth claims that when he commenced this novel in she is innocent at the time of hanging. day in Baden-Baden.—Willy Fritsch, Lilian 1946 he was the first writer to use the technique The author has made his soldier an " intellec Harvey's former partner in films, is sixty and of the " open form", but had been superseded tual " and thus a mouthpiece. To enhance what still looks wonderful.—Dr. Erich Mosse, who writes before the book appeared. In reality, this would otherwise be a mere anecdote, he reports under the pen-name Peter Flamm, was seventy '*ehnique is much older than he thinks; one his observations while writing the novel. The in New York where he practises as a doctor. ealls to mind Andre Gide's " Les Faux Mon- extraordinary happenings in this modern tale not nayers " and its companion volume, " Joumal des only reflect elemental emotions, but reflects a now Home I\etvs:—Peter de Mendelssohn is writ ^aux Monnayeurs", or the works of Franz obsolete custom—that of granting a prisoner's ing the history of the publishing house S. Fischer. K.afka, to whom the author feels most akin and last wish. The soldier considered his collabora —Fritz Lang arrived from Hollywood to script has devoted much study, to good effect. tion as a charitable action carried out under some his next picture which will be produced in India. The novel owes its origin to the impression made obsession, but in the eyes of his fellow-men he —Martin Miller will be in Paddy Chayefsky's on the author by an actual happening. Shortly was bound to appear as a cynic motivated by "The Tenth Man".—German actress, Sonja after the war there appeared in newspapers all over sexual appetite. He therefore bribes a woman Ziemann, will co-star with Terry Thomas in the the World, including England, a photograph of jailer with a pair of nylon stockings, which are British picture " A Matter of Who",—Agnes the woman commandant of a concentration camp passed on to Helga in the mistaken belief that Bemelle sold one of her stories, " Mr, and Mrs, Who had been sentenced to be hanged. To the they are meant for her. Helga, to whom such Smith ", to l,T,V.—Brecht's " Berliner Ensemble " surprise of many fhe face depicted had not a gifts are unknown, embraces the soldier when he will come to London again in May.—Hans Wil "cvilish expression, but was that of a pretty, enters her cell. Though not inexperienced in helm scripted his own story " Five Golden almost beautiful, girl. There was an obvious dis affairs with men she, as a member of the Hitler Hours" for Mario Zampi, starring George crepancy between her appearance and the deeds Youth and a Nazi functionary, has no feelings as Sanders and Ernie Kovacs.—Heinrich Fraenkel tor which she had been condemned. a woman. The author does not describe Helga's who, together with Roger Manvell, wrote a This event coincided with Fried's mminafions last night with the detailed sensuality of a D. H. Goebbels biography, is now working on a bio Lawrence. Enough to say that the girl has graphy of Goering.—R. Rennerf will produce oti the art of novel-writing, and is used as the become a loving woman and the soldier, through H. W. Henze's " Elegy for Young Lovers" at oasis of his story. In it " Helga "—as he calls Glyndebourne on July 13th. Jjie girl—gives no sign of repentance on hearing his gift of identification with a suffering person, "le verdict against her, an attitude in which she a compassionate man. " The Story of the Soldier ", or " Death and the Girl", would also have been Jmt a Story:—The Swedish film "Mein persists until the end. What Fried adds to these fitting titles for Fried's novel. ^^^^ facts is an invention worthy of a Kleist. Kampf" is attracting large German audiences, Erwin Leiser, who collected fhe material and f'Sked for her last wish, she expresses fhe desire In the development of the action another obso f°,,^'^ep once more with a man, and her choice produced that picture, was born in Berlin 38 years lete custom is reflected, namely that a criminal ago ; he is a journalist by profession and a an "i" ^" American soldier who does not even may be saved if someone offers to marry him. dt^- J° *'*'' ^^ ^ "'^f' ^""^ whose laughter naturalised Swedish citizen. Two Germans went Here it is the soldier who tries fo save the woman. to see this most impressive anti-Nazi film. As uring her trial she has misinterpreted. He tries in vain fo rescue her by having recourse they left the cinema one asked fhe ofher how he p_This soldier is a Jewish intellectual, who had to a statement impossible to prove, namely that liked if. Said fhe other: " You want my honest emigrated to the U.S.A. and retumed with fhe she is going fo have a child. His desperate white opinion ? I liked the book better. . . ." ^^merican army to Germany. The giri's request lie is jeered at and rejected. The soldier's nerve not an act of expiation, nor is it her intention breaks down and he is sent to a military mental l\euis from Everywhere:—Billy Wilder will rg '^°'nmit "Rassenschande" with the roles hospital. echn^H u ^*"^ reversal of roles, incidentally, is produce his next film, based on Molnar's " Eins. selvp u ^^^ '*° leading characters in them- Taking this subject-matter, suitable for a short zwei. drei". in Berlin and Munich with Horst nrilZ^ ' ^""'- ^'"°'" ''cing a jailer, has become a story, as his core, the author envelops it in Buchholtz in fhe lead and James Cagney in the ^'soner, and the soldier, once a member of fhe fictitious writings by the soldier, whom he main part Max Pallenberg once played on the stage.— t^fsccuted community, now has become a sort tains he has met in London. The writings consist Gustaf Gruendgens and his ensemble played of parables and poems, dreams, childhood mem " Faust" in New York's City Centre sponsored by F, G. Gersfman, Gert von Gontard and B, E, '*'erl?/''^o ^""^ • Etn SoMat nnd cin Macdcben. Claassen ories, fragments of inner autobiography, with "8. Hamburg, i960. 236 pages. DM. 14.80. comments by both the soldier and fhe author. Werner of fhe German Embassy. The American In them the soul of the soldier is laid bare and critics liked it very much ; if was the first theatre we become witnesses of his subconscious life in performance with a German cast since Max Rein the mental home, during days spent in his parents' hardf in the twenties. house and during his futile attempts to settle down in America after Helga's death. Germany:—Curt Bois will repeat his success ful East-Berlin performance in Brecht's We get the clinical picture of a neurotic per '• Puntilla" on the stage in West Beriin ; it is NOW IS THE TIME sonality, who could not help reacting to the thc first time that a Brecht play will be shown catastrophe of our time, and to the brief encounter in Wesf Berlin.—Edward Rothe, who survived with Helga, as the soldier did. Fried's technique the war in London, directed Shaw's " Man kann FOR PLANNING may not lend itself to another novel. In the nie wissen" at Hamburg's Kammerspiele.— present case essential alterations would hardly Hildegard Knef went on a German tour in " Bora have been necessary, had the author intended to Yesterday" ; her partner is her husband-to-be. make us believe that the whole love adventure Ihe British actor, David Cameron,—W, Dieterle CENTRAL HEATING was purely imaginery. Although Fried's prose will direct Hauptmann's "Gabriel Schillings style is by no means lyrical he writes, as do many Flucht" on TV in Beriin,—Maria Schell and poets, a good prose. O, W. Fischer will star in a remake of " Four- Obtain free estimate for the posters " for A. Brauner in Berlift L'.S..4. .—Richard Oswald and H. G, Luft will ECONOMICAL CONTINENTAL produce a Herzl film,—Henry Kosfer (formeriy FUNCTIONS COMMITTEE Kosterlitz) will direct "Flower Drum Song" for F-PLAN HEATING SYSTEM NEW LIBERAL JEWISH Fox.—Otto Klemperer's son, Wemer. is playing CONGREGATION the lead in " Operation Eichmann " : Rudi Feld is doing fhe d^or for that film. (in aid ot Charltv) invites you to a OAJti/orv.—-Rudolf Kurtz, and essayist of Jacobsohn's " Schaubuehne", has died in East MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT Berlin. He started his career as one of the first OIL 6t TAR TRADING "YOUR FAVOURITES" publicity men in films when Max Mack produced Co. Ltd. Old and new records presented by pictures with Ossi Oswalda.—Guenther Stein died Dr. and Mrs. A. R. Horwell in London aged 61. He was on the staff of HEATING ENGINEERING DEPT. on Berliner Tageblalt and became a foreign corre Sunday, March 26th, at 4 p.m. spondent when the Nazis came fo power.—Fritz 65a Fenchurch Street, London, E.C.3 Schwiefert. author of Marguerite durch Drei, 'Phone: ROYol 2187 at 51 Belsize Square, N.W.3 died in Berlin aged 70. Donation : Adults 4/-. Children 2/-. Refreshments. PEM Page 10 AJR INFORMATION March, 1961
CONGRESS OF POLISH JEWS EXHIBITIONS AND MEETINGS About 200 delegates representing organisations DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLOURS GERMAN JEWS IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND of Polish Jews now living in 16 different coun tries, recently gathered in Israel to attend thc Alfred Brod Gallery Lecture at the Leo Baeck Institute first Congress of Polish Jews. Decisions to make a claim against Germany for This exhibition is in some respects a new ven The history and achievements of the German a global sum as comipensafion for all communal ture for the Alfred Brod Gallery. So far it Jews in Victorian (and Edwardian) England have and private property taken away from Jews in specialised almost exclusively in Dutch art or hitherto scarcely been investigated. While fhere Poland, and to create a permanent monument rather in Dutch paintings. For thc first time the has been detailed research on the life of nine to preserve the religious, cultural and other Gallery devotes its whole space to drawings and teenth century Jewish immigrants from Germany treasures of the 3.5 million Polish Jews murdered watercolours not only from the Netherlands, but in the United States, this chapter of the Jewish by the Nazis, were the two main results of the also from England, Italy and France. The time past still awaits the analysis of the historian. This Congress. The sum for fhe claim may well be range has also been extended. The seventeenth point was repeatedly stressed by Mr. C. C. more than a thousand million pounds sterling. century, it is true, still takes pride of place, but Aronsfeld, Assistant Director of fhe Wiener the following centuries up to our own are repre Library, who on February Ist delivered a lecture The World Council of Polish Jews which was sented as well and the visitor gets an excellent on " Dieutsche Juden im Viktorianischen England " formed, was entrusted with working out the exact opportunity for comparisons. under the auspices of the Leo Baeck Institute. lists of Jewish property taken during the six It would be too easy to say that former centuries years of German occupation. If will also seek reflect in their artistic production the slower pace It was but a small group, probably no more the immediate adjustment of fhe German repara of generations we tend to consider with nostalgia. than five thousand Jews who, during the past tion laws to meet the demands of Polish Jews. No doubt the two delightful little portraits by cenfury, came to these shores from Germany to A small executive committee is starting the Cornelius Visscher (1619-1662) depict a middle- seek their fortunes and to enjoy a freedom largely registration of individual claims. A suggestion class which seemed much more secure and sedate absent in the land they had left behind. Yet, which met with much support was the demand than our own bourgeosie. Yet if you look more however small a community, they played a signi for a global sum to be paid by Germany on the closely at Rembrandt's " Man seated, listening to ficant part in their adopted country of an import lines of the Reparation Agreement with Israel a Sermon ", you can feel the nervous tension in ance out of all proportion to their numbers. now in operation. every stroke. Possibly, your own nervous tension (Indeed, the frequent appearance of German- Jewish characters in the Victorian novel bears One of the projects submitted for discussion will increase when you learn the price of fhis by the Congress was the building of a " new tiny drawing: £1,750. ample testimony to this. Above all, Trollope, and amongst others, Thackeray, here come to Warsaw" in fhe Negev, to be populated by A small French work by de Lav^e-Poussin mind.) Polish Jews, with a museum containing all the (1733-1793) with ifs sophisticated and graceful documents relating fo the thousand-year history elegance forms an exciting contrast with the some Of these German Jews many have merged info of the Jews in Poland. Another project submitted what rustic and earthbound Dutch school. The English life to the point of total integration ; and was the creation of a special Chair at the Hebrew Englishman Thomas Rowlandson (Jumping of the not infrequently one encounters the reluctance of University to deal with the cultural and economic Toll Gate) is much nearer fo it. descendants to disclose facts about these alien history of Polish Jewry and its destmction by the On fhe Continent the later nineteenth century is ancestors of theirs. Many became converted to Germans. the time of the industrial revolution when the Christianity, and it is an interesting phenomenon Plans are also to be worked ouf for an insti artistic refinement and good taste seemed to be that there was also amongst them a marked pre tute on lines similar to fhe Leo Baeck Institute, blotted out by the smoke rising from ugly chim dilection for Unitarianism, then a most progressive movement in England and moreover with a bearing the name of Polish Jewry. neys. But what a paradox ! Despite the boycott by the Warsaw Jewish Out of the grime emerge the luminous and philosophy with which the Jews must have found it more easy to come fo terms. community's leaders, the Congress sent warm joyful creations of the Impressionists ; a shout greetings to all Jews in Poland and also sent a for light, sun and air. A few French water- The German Jews founded many business special message of greeting to the Polish Govern colours by Maurice Levis, Eugene Villon and enterprises and industries ; their share in the ment, expressing gratitude for their attitude in others are happy reminders of those bygone days. development of the British chemical industry granting equal rights to all citizens and in per- A. ROSENBERG. would appear to be particularly noteworthy. Their miitting reunification of Jewish families in Poland interest in social welfare work was pronounced with their relatives in Israel. and they instituted many reforms in their own THE MOST IMPORTANT JEWISH factories. They maintained a flourishing cultural EXPRESSIONIST life and they were the propagators of German .\n Exhibition of Drawings by Martin Bloch music and literature in England. Indeed the (1883-1954) at the Leicester Gallery musical life of the country owes them a con siderable debt. One need only recall the Halld Martin Bloch emigrated from Germany to this Orchestra in this context. As teachers, scholars country when he was 50 years of age and died and rabbis, German Jews had a lasting effect on here in 1954 at the age of 71. Already in Germany English Jewry, in the Orthodox congregations as he was an established Expressionist painter who, well as in Reform Judaism. Their contribution for some time, shared his studio in Berlin with to civic life, too, was one of distinction. A great Schmidt-Rottluff. He imported, so to speak, to many rose to be the mayors of fhe towns they ^ff this country fhe German Expressionism which he had come to live in ; two became Members of conveyed to his numerous English pupils, and thus Parliament. mm contributed to diminish the British animosity against a style so alien to the British character. That these former German Jews should become But having been resident in England for many the protagonists of Anglo-German amity is not years, he added fo the German Expressionism not surprising. Consequently, when the wave of only his innate Jewishness, felt even stronger after chauvinism swept through every country at the his transplantation to a foreign soil, but also outbreak of World War I, they were amongst its some English qualities which were to be a comple foremost victims in England, blamed for appease THE LUTON mentary element to his Jewish passionate tem ment and intrigues on behalf of the enemy. Their perament. The clear and calm English landscape former services were not remembered, loyal forced him to enrich his palette with cool and citizens though they were, they had become trans matter of fact colours without lessening their formed in the mind of the multitude into traitors KNITTING intensity. His forms became clearer and stronger. to their country and spies for Germany. Such is And through fhis unique fusion of opposite the irony and tragedy of Jewish fate. elements he became a powerful artistic personality Today this is an almost forgotten episode and COMPANY of a very high order so that one might consider forgotten too are most of those who then figured him as the most important Jewish exponent of in the news and whose distinguished career was Expressionism. interrupted. However, a solid record of German- LTD, The drawings now showing in fhe exhibition at Jewish achievement in Victorian England remains the Leicester Galleries, the most recent one of a of which Mr. Aronsfeld gave a fascinating survey. good number of exhibitions in this country and in He can jusUy claim to have done pioneer work in Germany, make one feel that he could express his this field. Manufacturers of Jersey Cloth great artistic power equally well in drawings, black A.P. and white and coloured ones which represent and Knitted Headwear flowers, landscapes and nudes. They combine great strength with refined subtlety. Some of these CHRISTIANS AND JEWS works are really great masterpieces and will, I The Rev. W. W. Simpson, General Secretary am sure, find their place in museums and in 664-668 DUNSTABLE ROAD, collections of discerning connoisseurs. of the Council of Christians and Jews, gave a talk on " Christians and Jews in a Divided World " at LUTON, BEDFORDSHIRE Martin Bloch died at a ripe age. But death a meeting held in New College, Hampstead, the comes too early even fo an old man when he is a Divinity School of London University. The Rev. Tel.: Luton 52516/7 great artist. And Martin Bloch's death was a Dr. I. Levy, when he proposed a vote of thanks great loss for the art of three peoples : The to Mr, Simpson, said that Christians and Jews Germans, the British and above all the Jews. should combine to fight for moral values and to R. SPIRA. strengthen the ties of home life. AJR INFORMATION March. 1961 Page 11 IN MEMORIAM THE MAGNITUDE OF INTOLERAINCE Is it impossible to be tolerant ? Tolerance is ARTHUR HELLMER DR. SIEGFRIED GUGGENHEIM neither easy nor is it amusing. It is no use deny Arthur Hellmer who died last month in Wenn der Bundesaussenminister Dr. Heinrich ing fhat Judaism and Christianity are basically Hamburg, aged 81, was one of the first producers von Brentano, in den letzten Jahren sich offiziell intolerant religions and for centuries they have of the works by Georg Kaiser, Carl Sternheim, in New York aufhielt, staftete er oftmals dem behaved accordingly. It is true to say that Lion Feuchtwanger, and Oskar Kokoschka when ehemaligen Sozius seines Vaters (des Geh. Christianity had a much wider scope and more ^e was the director of Frankfurt's "Neues Justizrats und spateren hessischen Ministers Otto freedom of action to put its intolerance into •heater". During his directorship, he also dis von Brentano), Dr. Siegfried Guggenheim, einen practice. The dilemma consists in the fact that covered many actors; Eugen Kloepfer, Albers, Besuch ab^^n Akt der Pietat, ein Zeichen der both religions are firmly convinced that they hold ^e Kowa, Lingen, Kaethe Dorsch, and Marianne Brgebenheit. Ein solches Wiedersehen wird nun the truth, the absolute truth which was revealed *J°Ppe, belonged to his ensemble. When the nicht mehr moglich sein; denn Dr. Guggenheim, to them by God Himself. Why should they toler rvazis came to power, Hellmer retumed to his der noch am 12. Oktober 1958 in guter Riistigkeit ate anybody who is either too stubborn, too seinen Fiinfundachtzigsten feiern konnte, ist am stupid or too evil to recognise, to accept, this native Austria and took over Vienna's famous indubitable truth. rheater an der Wien" where he produced 31. Januar in Flushing, N.Y., gestorben. Operettas. It was on the occasion of the perfor- Wormser von Geburt, war er von 1900 an voile I was reminded of this disturbing state of affairs ntance of " Axel an der Himmelstuer " that Zarah 38 Jahre in Offenbach a.M. ansiissig, in seinem when I attended the Annual General Meeting of J-eander got her first chance. Max Hansen who Beruf hochangesehen, als Freimd der Kunste und the Council of Christians and Jews which took played the lead recommended her as his partner Wissenschaften imd als Forderer auch judischer place in Church House, Westminster, on February and she was a hit ovemight and made a career Kiinstler geschatzt, als jahrzehntelanges Vor 1st. It was a most impressive occasion. All ranks {or herself. From Vienna, Hellmer came to standsmitglied und zulefzt, in schwerer Zeit, als of the Anglican hierarchy were represented in i-ondon shortly before the war and, some time Ersfer Vorsifzender der l&raelitischen Religions strength and there was a good number of out ^ter his arrival, produced " Nathan " with Arnold gemeinde im judischen Leben nicht allein dieser standing Jewish personalities. For the first time ijj^tle. However, he more or less waited for Stadt massgebend und anerkannt. Er war ein a Lord Mayor of London was present. Sir Bernard we day when he might be able to retiu-n to feingebildeter Mann, dem nichts Judisches fremd Waley-Cohen. l^erniany. He was one of the first retumees and war, ein mufiger Verteidiger der jiidischen Ehre. 'ooic over Hamburg's "Schauspielhaus". There Ihm sind der Druck der " Offenbacher Haggadah " The Archlnshop of Canterbury Speaks "IS first production was Carl Zuckmayer's "The des Jahres 1927 und manche historische Betrach in^ M s General". After his retirement, he lived tung iiber die Offenbacher Juden (darunter die The Archbishop of Canterbury was Chairman If .^^'''''frg as an honoured elder theatre man. Schrift " Aus der Vergangenheit der Israelifischen of the meeting. He called this function his " swan gi ttie history of the Gennan theatre during the Gemeinde zu Offenbach am Main ") zu verdanken. song " as a Joint President of the Council. It is HPU ^^^ °^ °^^ century will be written, Arthur In jahrelanger Arbeit hat Notar Guggenheim therefore appropriaite to say a few words about his "'tier's name will play a prominent part in it. wesenfliche Stellen der Pessachhaggadah ins attitude to the Jewish community. A few years Deufsche iibersetzt, den hebraischen Text der ago I happened to be present when the Tercen PEM. Lieder in deutscher Schrift zusamengestellt, tenary of the readmission of the Jews to England Erkliirungen in den Text eingefugt und fiir was celebrated at Lambeth Palace. Then l.ord eine kiinstlerisch besonders schone Gestaltung Samuel thanked the Archbishop for the very active DER DRUCKER DES PHILO-VERLAGES des Werks gesorgt. Im vergangenen Herbst erschien part he had taken in the work of the Council in beschrankter Auflage (als Privatdmck) eine of Christians and Jews. I shall never forget Dr, / Zum Tod von Ludwig Lichtwitz Neuausgabe dieser Haggadah. Guggenheim, ein Fisher's reply: there was nothing to thank him for. Bibliophile ersten Ranges, war mit dem Offen on the contrary, he had to thank God that He had au?'' ^atte Handwerk und Geschaft von Grund bacher Schriftktinstler Professor Rudolf Koch eng given him the grace to enjoy the company of his u J eelernt und seinen vom Vater ererbten Beruf befreundet. Seit 1948 war der Verstorbene Ehren- fellow-men. It was impossible for him to distin dj' J*?tneb wirklich lieb gewonnen. Wenn man biirger von Offenbach. E.G.L. guish among people according to their race or lauf '^" Verfolgung in Berlin, in deren Ver- creed. Everyone of God's creatures was near and Tnrt ^^ '^^'^ Vollzug der uber ihn verhangten dear to him. der ^v*"^*^^ wie durch ein Wunder entging, und DR. WILLY MAYER-GROSS . vernichfung des Unternehmens abrechnet, The outstanding psychiatrist Dr. Willy Mayer- I can say in all honesty that I believed every jahr- • '^ Lichtwitz, der unlangst, etwa 59 Gross died in Birmingham, aged 72. He was bom in word of the Archbishop's statement. It could not vier I i,"^ seiner Heimafstadt gesforben ist, fast Bingen and, prior to his emigration. Professor of have been otherwise for anybody watching him a den , "••^^hnte im graphischen Gewerbe gestan- Psychiatry at Heidelberg University. During the few weeks ago at the Annual Meeting. Dr. zu ri .^^'^ Periode zwischen den Kriegen gehorte past ten years he was Senior Fellow in the Depart Fisher felt completely af home among his audience ten c" judischen Auftraggebern der 1862 etablier- ment of Experimental Psychiatry in the Medical of Christians and Jews. He said tolerance was Veri / * Max Lichtwitz vor allem der Philo- School at Birmingham and head of a research unit. such a pale, such a negative word. One ought des ,^ '"^' ^^'^ Buch—und Zeitschriffenverlag His scientific work was especially devoted to the to affirm in a positive way " be interested more itSdit .^"tral-Vereins deutscher Staatsbiirger origins of psychological symptoms in physical dis in the other person than in yourself". This is Litp Glaubens. Wieviel gute judische order of the brain. Dr. Mayer-Gross was a selfless the primary virtue of all human relations. Berl- "J *•""g ''en Druckvermerk " Max Lichtwi*^, adviser to many of his fellow-refugees and also These are strong and encouraging words from ^eriin SW 19" (spater : Beriin-Schoneberg), zum acted as " Obergutachter " in compensation claims. the spiritual head of the great Anglican "p'^Piel das "Philo-Lexikon" (1935/37), das His funeral at the Jewish cemetery in Birmingham community. Philo-Z, was attended by many members of the medical Atl; itaten-Lexikon" (1936), der " Philo- The Provost of University College, London, Sir scn^^ -^owie die Monatszeitschrift "Der Mor- profession—several doctors interrupting a Congress I for Evans, spoke at the meeting on "The Mag komn,gen ^ ^^Z-'^)' tind die vierteljahrlich herausge- in London to pay him their last respect. nitude of Intolerance". As the most telling .^mmene "Zeitschrift fiir die Geschichte der Juden example of modern times he mentioned National hund "'^'^^^^"'^' • Hierzu kommt eine in die - DR. KARL ROSENBAUM Socialism jn Germany. From there it was only grant?'"' S^'^e^de statfliche Reihe von Mono- Dr. Karl Rosenbaum, London, formerly an a small step to pointing ouf " how precarious a zur v^"- ""'^ BroschiJren zur Zeitgeschichte und advocate in his home town, Bratislava, died on thing is this which we call civilisation ". We have Stg , ^''t'efung judischen Wissens (und damit zur February 7th at the age of 63. A descendant of lost the sense of individual responsibility which ricung judischen Bewusstseins). a famous family of rabbis and scholars, he con might become our undoing. But is the individual tinued the tradition of his family as a communal nof too insignificant and too powerless to influence schwp* " ^".^'"S force", unermudlich, in ernster, worker. He arrived in this country after the fall the march of history ? Sir Ifor reminded us of Lichtw^"^ unverdrossen und mutig, hat Ludwig of France, where he had been caught on the out Zola and his single-handed fight for Alfred eigg'r"'^ das Werk seiner Familie und all seiner break of war while attending an emigration con Dreyfus, which changed the course of the trial ^iihrt ti "^^^^ '''^ '"^ ^^^ biftere Ende weiterge- ference of his home community. For many years and perhaps of French history. breeh dann, nach einer gewissen Unter^ he, a man of impaired health, was employed as a Qc, "PfS. wiederaufgebaut, zweimal, zuerst im manual worker, till in 1953 he was able to return But he admitted that today formidable obstacles "Rhio"^ Berlins und, als es da nicht mehr to his profession as legal adviser of U.R.O. In have arisen in the path of individual action: the Verlat, i" Westen, seit 1958 sogar mit eigenem this capacity he won the affection of his many development of the mass media of opinion. We ^„J*f> durchweg erfolgreich und in Wirtschafts clients, especially his compatriots from Hungary are a generation suffering from spiritual lethargy '1 Behordenkreisen hochst anerkannt. who, together with his colleagues, mourn the and moral defeatism. Sir Ifor quoted Bertrand death of this saintly man. He leaves a widow Russell's terrifying words: " I do not think that facj,'fj ,'^' von diesem Betrieb so etwas wie eine and three children. the sum of human misery has ever in fhe past Zuver*!"^ • ^"^•'^rheit ausgegangen, die Soliditat, been so great as it has been in the last 25 years." aber '?:^'8''cit und—Geschmack in sich schloss, RABBI DR. A. KLEIN The Provost of University College gave as his art VO i^ *^'^, ^crbindliche. doch straffe Wesens- Rabbi Dr. Abraham Arnold Klein died in Haifa own opinion: " Man through evil and through *Sre •" ir"dwig Lichtwitz nicht denkbar gewesen at the age of 86. Prior to his emigration, he was intolerance js a self-destroying animal. ... Its echter .Qualitat war entscheidend ! Umso forty years Rabbi of the Orthodox Essenwein- inevitable consequences over the period of the H;„, 'St die Trauer um den friihen Hpimeano strasse Synagogue in Nuernberg. Dr. Klein was next 50 or a 100 years might be the termination of •es tapferen Treuen. E.G.L. also one of the founders of the Agudas Israel. human life as we know it." To come back to the beginning. The opinion ^HE NEW HOMES BUIEDIIVG SOCIETY. EAST TWICKENHAM I have just quoted seems to me one of many Chalrm POPesgrove 7402 valid reasons why we should stop hating and rman : Anthony Marlowe. M.P. Directors : ). Cowen, C.B.E., D. Schonfield. F.A.L.P., M. Baron. Sir H. Roberts, persecuting each other. The magnitude of intoler INVEST IN A SOCIETY DEVOTED SOLELY TO ASSIST OWNER OCCUPIERS. ance concerns humanity and not just the relation INTEREST RATES FROM 4i% TO 5i% (TAX PAID) ship of Christians and Jews. District Agents throughout U.K. y ALFONS ROSENBERG. Page i: AJR INFORMATION March, 1961 BIRTHDAY GREETINGS /DOROTHY F. BUXTON 80 Some years ago, in a book " Uncommon People 80. GEBURSTAG VON ERNST FEDER DR. ADOLPH ASCH 80 —A Study of England's Elite ", the author, Paul Bloomfeld, described the origins and inter-rela Geboren am 18. Maerz 1881 Der ehemalige Berliner Rechtsanwah und Notar, tions of a number of English families whose Dr. Adolph Asch, feierte am 27. Febraar in voller members rendered outstanding services to their So mancher von der alteren Generation von geistiger und korpterlicher Frische seinen 80. country through many generations. One of the Berlinern wird sich noch an die Zeit des Endes Geburfstag. In Posen geboren, entstammt er chapters, dedicated to fhe Buxtons, a Quaker der wilhelminischen Epoche erinnern. Tiefer- einer angesehenen Familie, Sein viiteriicher family, records the work of Charles Roden schiittert kehrten wir heim von einem unseligen Urgrossvater begrUndete im Jahre 1816 die Buxton (died 1942), "a scholar and gentleman Krieg, durchdrungen von der Notwendigkeit, bekannte Drogenfirma Adolph Asch Sohne, und who, in the prime of life, was one of the Labour eine Kampffront aller freiheitlich gesinnten sein Urgrossvafer mutterlicherseits war der Party's advisers on foreign and colonial affairs", Krafte gegen die Feinde der Demokratie zu Grunder der Bankfirma H. Mamroth in Posen. and of his wife, Dorothy F. Buxton. The 80th Dr. Asch schlug die juristische Laufbahn ein und birthday of Dorothy Buxton on March 3 gives bilden. Die riihrigste Gruppe war der Gross- wurde im Jahre 1908 Rechtsanwalt in Beriin. us fhe happy opportunity of expressing to her berliner Demokratische Jugendverein. Wir Wahrend seiner Studienzeit war er ein eifriger anew our deep feelings of gratitude for all she fanden einen " Kameraden ohne Fehl" (wie K,C.er. has done for the cause of the victims of Nazi ihn von Unruh nannte): Ernst Feder. Er war Von 1914 bis Ende 1915 war er Justitiar des persecution. restlos bei uns und fiir uns. Ob als der Innen- Handelsvertragsvereins. Nach dem Kriege, an politiker des Berliner Tageblatts oder als Stadt dem er als Frontsoldat feilgenonunen hafte, wurde One of the first female university graduates in verordneter (er war ein genauer Kenner der er Vorsitzender des Schlichtungsausschusses Gross- this country, Mrs. Buxton's life has always been Berliner kommunalen Probleme) oder als Berlin, Justitiar des Rumaenischen Konsulats und designed by selfless services to her fellow-men. Werber ftir unsere Sache bei seinen Freunden The uprise of the Nazi tyranny filled her with Jusfitiar fuer Rumaenisches Recht im Reichsver horror to an extent as, in those early days, ^Mannern wie Theodor Barth, Walther band der Deutschen Industrie. Er war auch was seldom to be met among persons not directly Rathenau, Hugo Preuss (auf den Feder am Vorstandsmitglied des Vereins fuer Bodenreform affected by it. Since then, work for the refugees 28. Oktober 1925 fiir den Jugendverband die und des Vereins der Kammergerichtsanwaelte. has played an ever-increasing part in her life. Gedachtnisrede hielt), Friedrich Naumann— Auf wissenschaftlichem Gebiete hat sich I>r, To overcome prejudice among the British public, Feder verband ausserordentliche politisch- Asch ebenfalls einen bedeutenden Namen geschaf she wrote, together with Sir Norman Angell, a historische Kenntnisse mit Ideen fiir eine fen. Zu seinen weitbekannten Werken gehoren: book " You and the Refugee". Causes which hohere sittliche Ordnung. Er war niemals in ••Handbuch des Erbrechts" (1925), "Grand- appeared to be lost and for which there was little seinen Vortragen dogmatisch, immer praktisch stiickskauf", welches in den Jahren 1926-29 drei interest because the number of people concerned Auflagen erlebte, zwei Kommentare des Wert- A^as comparatively small, were particularly impor und gab stets lebendige Beispiele. Und das zuwachssteuerrechts (1929 und 1931) und "Das tant to her, and we gratefully remember her machte seinen Vortrag so interessant. E; Hypothekengeschaft" (1932). Sodaim war er untiring fight for the admission of refugee dentists kannte keinen Kleinmut und unsachlichen Mitarbeiter der Jurisfischen Wochenschrift und with German qualifications to the profession. Ehrgeiz und war einer der Eifrigsten in der verfassfe auch zahlreiche Abhandlungen in den praktischen Kleinarbeit der Wahlhilfe. andcren Fachorganen. Mrs. Buxton's widespread activities in the Feder veriiess Berlin bereits im Jahre 1933. Die HitlerdiktatuT brachte ihm, ebenso wie interest of our community have also resulted den anderen judischen Kollegen, eine Einschran- in personal bonds with many in our midst. After da er die Atmosphare von Grausamkeit und kung seiner Berufstatigkeit und bei der Verhaf- a full and active life, she now lives in retirement, Gemeinheit nicht ertragen konnte. Wo immer tungswelle im November 1938, wurde er in das but she follows up the general happenings and er sich dann im Ausland aufhielt und nieder- K. Z. Sachsenhausen eingeliefert. Er verdankte the personal lives of her former charges with liess, ob in Frankreich oder in Brasilien, die es den BemUhungen seiner Schwester, der Witwe undiminished interest. In fhe name of all those Ehrlichkeit seiner Gesinnung und seines des ehemaligen brifischen Generalkonsuls Mr. among us who, directly or indirectly, have bene Glaubens an das Prinzip des Rechts und sein Boyle in Berlin, dass er bald entlassen wurde und fited from her work, we extend in gratitude our Kampf gegen jede Ungerechtigkeit als Jour nach England auswandern konnfe. Hier arbeitete sincerest birthday wishes to Dorothy Buxton. nalist oder als Schiedsrichter oder als Prasident er zunachst vier Jahre lang als Packer in einem Warenhaus in Manchester, doch gelang es ihm W.R, von Vereinigungen schaffte ihm iiberall spaterhin, drei Jahre lang wissenschaftlich Studien Freunde und hohe Anerkennung. Feders an der Universitat Manchester zu befreiben. Vor Wirksamkeit in Brasilien war deshalb so einigen Jahren ist Dr, Asch mit seiner Frau zu besonders interessant, weil es ihm in relativ seinen Kindern, nach London, iibersiedelf. GLUECKWUNSCH FUER ELSA HERZOG kurzer Zeit gelang, sich bei einer grossen Wer auch immer Dr. Asch kennt, seine zahl Anhangerschaft durchzusetzen. So hielt er reichen alten und neuen Freunde, schatzen ihn Das waere ja nun einfach kindisch, wenn man iiber Goethes Gegenwart eine Ansprache zur aufs hochste wegen seines aufrechten und starken " der Herzogin" auf Englisch zu ihrem 85. Feier des Dichters 200 jahrigen Geburtstags im Charakters, wegen seiner standigen Hilfsbereif- Geburtstag gratulieren wiirde. Wenn wir auch August 1949 in Rio de Janeiro. In dieser Rede schaft und seines menschlichen Verstehens, nicht gerade Murmeln miteinander gespielf haben, fand seine geistige Grundhaltung beredten und Wieviele hat er uneigenniitzig aus seiner grossen so habet> wir doch fuer dieselben Berliner Leser klaren Ausdruck, Den Deutschen von Erfahrung heraus beraten und wievielen war er geschrioben, und das verbindef, Als wir am Auschwitz und Buchenwald stellte er den ein Vorbild in Zeiten hochster Gefahr, 5, Maerz 1956 ihrem Achlzigsten feierten, hatfe Elsa Herzog fiinfzig Gaeste zum Tee geladen. deutschen Dichter Goethe gegenUber ; hin zu Auch heute noch ist der Jubilar seinen alten Zum Abendessen blieb noch ein Dufzend ihrer Goethe und fort von den Barbaren: wie der Idealen treugeblieben und er nimmt in regster Freunde; und als ich erschoepft gegen Mitter- Dichter die Deutschen einmal nennt, nicht Weise an allem Zeitgeschehen Anteil, Weiterhin nach Hause wankte, tanzte die Jubilarin noch ahnend, dass " sie so tief sinken wiirden wie betafigt er sich auch noch zuweilen als Schrift frisch und mumter. Wie ich sie kenne, hat sie nie zuvor ein zivilisiertes Volk ". steller und wir verdanken ihm manche interessante sich auch diesmal ein neues Kleid schneidern Studie der jUngeren Vergangenheit, lassen ; denn Elsa haf ihr Lebelang nicht nur Und obwohl er sicherlich iiberzeugt war, dass Unsere besten Gliickwunsche gehen zu ihm und ueber die Mode und gutes Essen geschrieben, die grossen politischen Entscheidungen der zu seiner Familie und wir wunschen ihm noch sondera ihre Arti'icel, Buecher und Kochrezepte nachsten Jahrzehnte in Siidamerika, Indien viele Jahre bester Gesundheit und Schaffenskraft, den Zeitgenossen vorgelebt. Sie haf einigen und Afrika fallen werden, folgt er einem Ruf T.Z. Generationen beigebracht, wie man sich gf- zur Ruckkehr nach Berlin. Denn die deutsche MAX COHEN-REUSS 85 schmackvoU anzieht und benimmt; immer ist sie Kampffront zur Bekampfung eines Neo- mit der Zeit geeangen. Die Berlinerin ging in Nazismus und die Starkung der wahren demo The Social Democratic pohtician. Max Cohen- ihrer neuen " Kluff" nur auf den Pre&se-Ball, kratischen Krafte benotigten seine Mitarbeit. Reuss, celebrated his 85th birthday recentiy. um am naechsten Morgen von Elsa Herzog After the 1918 revolution he was a member of beschrieben zu lesen, was sie angeha'bt hatte. Feder hat in seinem Buch " Begegnungen " the " Vollzugsrat der Arbeifer-und Soldatenrate ", Wir Maenner erfuhren durch sie, ob wir in der am Schluss ausgefUhrt, wie sein Freund Stefan the activities of which included the preparation naechsfen Saison unsere Damen kurz oder lang. Zweig zu weich fiir diese Zeit war und kein of fhe German National Assembly at which the mit oder ohne Busen, eng oder weit berockt Kampfer. Das Schaffen, das er so liebte, wurde Weimar Constitution was adopted, Cohen-Reuss sehen wiirden. Ob erst bei Ullstein oder spaeter sinnleer, weil er sehr, sehr miide geworden war. was also a member of the Reichstag and of the bei Scherl oder heute in der Eleganten Welt, Elsa Feder fiihlt aber ihm gegenuber seine eigene Herzog war und ist tonangebend, Und beJ Reichwirtschaftsrat. He emigrated to France in Hartnell heute so zu Hause wie einst bei der Starke, " die Optik der Erlebnisse verkleinern 1934 and still takes an active interest in political Friedlaender, Hammer oder Drescoll. Die zu konnen, damit wir iiberleben konnen" affairs. hoechste Stufe ihres Fachs hat sie erst mit Und er zitiert dann Zweigs Verse: fortgeschrittenen Jahren erreicht—^sie ist ni« Grazie und Anstand aelter geworden, was Doch erfrischet neue Lieder, bekanntHch nichf einfach isf. Hin und wieder Steht nicht langer tief gebeugt, faehrt sie in die ehemalige Heimat, um nach dem Denn der Boden zeugt sie wieder, Rechten zu sehen; aber da sie London schon Wie von je er sie gezeugt. Wir kaufen Einzelwerke, Bibliotheken, kannte. bevor es viele von uns aufnahm, bleibt die Herzogin an der Themse. Sie weiss, dass Mogen Ernst Feder und seiner tapferen Autographen und moderne Graphik man alte Lieben nicht aufwaermen kann. 1" Lebenseefahrtin noch viele Jahre unermiid- Direktor : Dr, Joseph Suschitzky diesem Sinne: bis zu Hundert. lichen Kampfertums beschieden sein. 38a BOUNDARY ROAD, LONDON, N.W.S DR. LEO ENGEL. Telephone : MAI. 3030 AJR INFORMATION March. 1961 Page 13 ORGANISATIONAL NEWS FORUM ON EAST AND WEST The World Jewish Congress (British Section) recently held a " Jewish Forum" to discuss AJR MEETING ON COMPENSATION their general well-being. Excellent kosher mid " How far can East and West co-operate in a day meals and afternoon teas are provided at divided world ? " Professor Hyman Levy, Mr. As readers will have seen from the announce reasonable charges. Emanuel Lifvinoff and Dr. S. A. Miller com posed fhe panel which opened fhe discussion. ment on the front page of this issue, a public The new venture will be greatly welcomed by meeting about questions of compensation will The speakers and the audience were very much all those who have been active in looking after divided on the issue. ^ held on Tuesday, March 21, at 8 p.m., at elderly people in our midst, as has also been 51 Belsize Square, N.W.3. Dr. Otto Bental, the done by the promotion of the AJR Club which, Mr, Litvinoff stressed that the Jewish position Director of the Berlin office of URO, will give with its 260 registered members, has just com in the various Communist countries was not first-hand information about the settlement of pleted the fifth year of its existence. The facilities uniform. But the Soviet Jews, the largest and of the new Day Centre are also open to the mem claims pending in Berlin. Dr. F. Goldschmidt most important Jewish community in Eastern bers of the AJR Club and there is no overlapping Europe, were entirely " encapsulated in the Soviet (London), Senior Legal Adviser of URO, will of the activities of fhe two Clubs as they meet regime". He suggested that co-operation today speak about the general position both with at different times. could take place only on fhe level and in the regard to the implementation of the existing form of personal contact between visitors to fhe lavys and to hopes and demands in the legis THE HYPHEN Soviet Union and the Jews they met there. lative field. The talks will be given in German. The March programme of The Hyphen includes Dr. Miller said that the question of co-operation The meeting with its expert speakers will be a talk on " Mental Health and the Citizen" by depended entirely on fhe decision of the govern Ol particular interest to all our friends. Miss D. McClellan, Assistant General Secretary of ments of the Commimist countries. the National Association for Mental Health, to JEWISH DAY CENTRE FOR THE be held on Sunday, March 26th, at 7.30 p.m. at Professor Levy felt that what the Soviet and capitalist countries had in common was "a OVER SIXTIES Zion House, 57 Eton Avenue, N.W.3. Further particulars about the programme are obtainable terrific fear of war. particularly atomic war ". He The B'nai B'rith Leo Baeck Lodge recently from the Hon. Secretary, Mrs. A. C. Winter, 8 suggested that if Jewish religious leaders in the opened a Jewish Day Centre for the over sixties, Priory Mansions, Priory Park Road, London. West would publicly declare fhat atomic war was on the premises of the New Liberal Jewish Syna N.W.6. abominable, Soviet Jews would immediately gogue, 51 Belsize Square, London, N,W.3. The respond in the same spirit. " Do that, and you ^entre is open twice a week, Monday and Thurs BACK NUMBERS OF AJR INFORMATION will find co-operation ". day, from 11 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. It provides many anienities and its varied and stimulating pro The Library of Congress, Washington, which gramme includes short lectures, followed by dis since 1957 regularly receives copies of AJR SHAW PLAY ON BALFOUR DECLARATION cussions, musical aftemoons and film shows. It Information, has asked us whether we can supply "as also started several handicrafts activities and them with a full set of the issues 1946-1956. It George Bernard Shaw's unknown play about endeavours to look after the physical health of the would be greatiy appreciated if any readers who the issue of the Balfour Declaration is soon to be elderly by advising them how to economise on have a full set or part of it, would kindly send it published. It is part of a collection of unpublished 'leir physical strength. The mild form of physical to the AJR, 8 Fairfax Mansions, Finchley Road, writings by Shaw in the possession of Mr, Fenner =^ercise which is being taught should help to keep London, N.W.3. Brockway, M.P.
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UNSATISFACTORY U.S.A. TEXT-BOOKS CULTURAL NEWS The B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League in America has published a study, "Text Book AUSTRIAN STATE PRIZE FOR HISTORY BOOKS PURGED Treatment of Minorities ". The conclusion drawn MARTIN BUBER is that only one out of 48 text-books on social Professor Georg Eckert, director of the Bruns studies used in American high schools gives a Professor Martin Buber. who was born in wick International Schoolbook Institute, has satisfactory account of the Nazi persecution of announced that all history books in use at the Jews. Nearly one-third of the books examined Vienna, was awarded the Great Austrian State European schools have now been purged of Prize. This prize is usually bestowed on persons omit the subject entirely, while three-quarters biased material. This, he said, was accomplished minimise fhe persecution. who excel in the field of literature, music or art. during the past twelve years, with the co-opera As the wide range of Buber's activities as a The study states that youth in the United States, tion of experts representing all interested Euro as in Germany, appears ignorant of the nature scholar and author is not restricted to one par pean nations. ticular field the distinction awarded to him was and consequences of Hitlerism. made by way of a special prize. The treatment of fhe Nazi period was one of Regarding the results of an investigation info the main problems concerning German history what American students are taught about Jews books which was still outstanding. and immigrants which was also undertaken, the ILYA EHRENBURG: *'I AM A JEW" Dr. Eckert stated that the European Council study says that not a single book was found which at Strasbourg had asked him to organise an inter gave a rounded, comprehensive account. The Ilya Ehrenburg, the Soviet writer, declared at national conference next autumn, at which books text-books' treatment of the Jews suffered from a reception in Moscow given in his honour by on geography in use at schools in the 15 member- over-emphasis on the remote past and the theme the Union of Soviet Writers on the occasion of States of the Council would also be examined of persecution. his being awarded the Order of Lenin : " As long and purged. as there is a single anti-semite left in the world I NATHAN STATUE IN WOLFENBUETTEL will say ' I am a Jew.' " POLISH TRIBUTE TO WRITER A Nathan Statue in bronze will be erected in He was, said Mr. Ehrenburg, happy to be a Wolfenbuettel, where Lessing wrote " Nathan der Soviet writer, but his passport described him as The Order of Merit has been awarded by the Weisc " when he held the position of a librarian of Jewish nationality. He considered himself as Polish Govemment to Horacy Safrin, a Jewish in fhat city. The sculptor is Erich Schmidf- a Russian author but would remain Jewish as writer and actor, for his contributions to Polish- bochum. who also intends to donate the original long as any Jew was being pointed at by a Jew- Jewish culture. Mr. Safrin is celebrating the 40th model to the State of Israel as a symbol of thc hater. anniversary of his career as a writer and stage producer, as well as a translator of Shakespeare spirit of tolerance advocated by Lessing. and other authors. Safrin has lately been trans SWEDES HONOUR CHAGALL lating some of the Yiddish classics into Polish. PRIZE FOR YIDDISH WORK Among the theatrical productions which gained The Jewish Cultural Union in Geneva is offering On a recent visit to Sweden Marc Chagall, the him fame in Poland were " The Dybbuk ", " The a $1,000 prize from the Adolph Newmann Fund French Jewish artist, was appointed a Foreign Golem" and Peretz's " On the Old Market for the best (previously unpublished) work in Member of the Swedish Academy of Art. Place ". Yiddish.
FAMILY EVENTS CLASSIFIED Accommodation Vacant Enquiries by AJR Entries in this column are free of Situations Vacant BED / SITTING - ROOM. newly .Mrs. Else Asch (aie Schmoll) and her charge. Texts should he sent in by decorated, modern fumished, electric daughter, Eva. Supposed to have lite I8r/i of the month. DESPATCH DEPARTMENT of fire, with cooking facilities, use of come to England from Leipzig before fancy goods manufacturers require telephone, near Holland Park Station the war. Sought by Mrs. Gisela clerk with some experience of export and Buses 88 and 12, for business packing. Elderly applicant considered. Klaiber (n6e Weiske). Deaths lady. 'Phone PARk 9268. Full particulars and salary required. John Antony Grenville (fonnerly Box 797. EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION Kartwig.—We regret to announce in in lovely Highgate flat is offered fo Jacob Guter), born on February 22nd. deep sorrow the sudden death of Mr. LADY. 55-65, German-speaking, retired ladies. Moderate charge with 1913, in Cracow. He lived in Beriin Fritz Hartwig, of 30 Winchester wanted as housekeeper, small flat, view to form companionship. 'Phone until 1936 and is supposed to have Road, Kenton, Harrow, Middlesex, N.W.3. Char, kept, widower, 76. MOU. 5339, 8-10 a.m., 8-10 p.m. come to this country via Danzig on January 23rd.—Gertrud and Hans Box 805. before the outbreak of the war. Hartwig. Thomas N. Hardwick and SELF - CONTAINED. GROUND- Sought by his sister in Israel. family, U.S.A. RESIDENT DOMESTIC HELP. FLOOR FLAT, furnished, 1 double Very comfortable conditions. Good 'room, large kitchen, w.c. all electric, Miss Meta Katz, born in Nehers- wages. Apply Jews' Temporary Shel own telephone. 209 Willesden Lane. hausen, sought by Mrs. Ida Hirsch. LiebUng.—Dr. Karl Liebling, of 24 ter. 63 Mansell Street, Aldgate, E.l. WILlesdcn 3688. Greenhaigh Walk, London, N.2, Phone ROYal 4711. Eva Susan Schmulevitsch, practising passed away on February Isf, follow WHO WISHES TO SHARE OFFICE ear, nose and throat specialist, born ing the death of his wife, Gertrud in Wembley Park ? Secretary avail 24.3.28 in Berlin, sought by her Situations Wanted able. 'Phone ARNold 7603. Liebhng, on May 3rd, 1960. Deeply .Men father, Mr. Max Schmulevitsch, who mourned by their children and grand SINGLE BED/SITTING-ROOM in last heard from her in 1939 from children. RETIRED COMPANY DIRECTOR, central-heated flat. 3 gns. per week, Liverpool. perfect bookkeeping, wants part-time business people onlv.—'Phone GLA. Obenaus.—Mrs. Sabina Obenaus, of work, in/outdoor. Experienced all 7068. 70 Kingsway, Petts Wood, Orpington, office, financial matters, banking Kent (formerly of Koln), died on operations, could assist manager. Accommodation Wanted February 6th, 1961, after an ilbjess Good references. Box 798. AJR CLUB bravely borne. Deeply mourned by COMFORTABLE ROOM, with full BOOKKEEPER, experienced, seeks board, wanted for elderly, active ZION HOUSE, 57 ETON AVE., her children and grandchildren. part-time work, also temporary. Good gentieman. Box 804. references. Box 799. N.W.3 ELDERLY LADY requires fully or Tallert—Mr. Manfred Tallert, of 1 STOCKKEEPER/PACKER, good at The Link, Broadway, Fulford Road, partly furnished, central heated SUNDAY, MARCH 12 figures, experienced textiles, seeks room, partial board if possible, or York, died suddenly on February Ist full-time work. Box 800. after a short illness. Dearly loved b> facilities, middle of March, N.W. dis at 4.30 p.m. sharp his wife and daughter. FORMER BUTCHER, 62. very trict. Box 807. reliable, seeks full- or part-time job SELF-CONTAINED FLAT wanted, Honigsberg.—Mrs. Camilla Honigs- (not too heavy work), e.g., packing, one large or two middle-sized rooms, CONCERT berg (nee Herz), of 62 Oxford assembling, assist in shop or factorv. warm, sunny, kitchen, bath, un- or ALICE SCHAEFFER Gardens, W.IO, passed away after a —Box 808. partly furnished. Box 806. long illness, on February II, 1961. accompanied by Daniel Kelly Deeply mourned by her husband, Women MISSING PERSONS Lieder by Cornelius, Schubert, Franz Hugo Honigsberg, and family. ENGLIS H/GERMAN SHORT Personal Enquiries HAND-TYPIST, experienced, reli able, seeks part-time or homework. Emst Porges (or Pauges / Panges). FELIX VAN DYL Box 801. Came to England in 1938 from Violin In Memoriani Chadau, near Karlsbad. Sought by GENERAL CLERK, good at figures, Miss Anna Lorenz, cf Schmidsfelden, ADELA KOTOWSKA Weiss.—In memory of darling invoices, fifing, seeks part-time work. K. Wangen, Germany. Piano Tommy, who left us suddenly in Box 802. Herbert Steiner, who came to England March, 1956, not quite eleven years CLERK, experienced, figure work, from Vienna in 1942, sought by M/S old. To the world he was only a typing, invoicing, wants part-time Natalia Facchini, Via Caetano Space donated by grain of sand, to us he was the whole work, preferably in wholesale trade. Capocci 18, Int. 5, Rome, who was a TRADE CUTTERS LIMITED world. Box 803. friend of his parents. 38 Felsham Road, Putney, S.W.IS AJR INFORMATION March. 1961 Page 15
NEWS ABOUT ISRAEL PAVILION IN TEHERAN Queen Farah Diba opened fhe Israeli Pavilion YOUNG GERMANS HELP at the Women's Achievements Exhibition in M.P. LAUDS ISRAELIS Teheran. Despite constant Arab pressure and Mr. Georse Brown, M.P., Deputy Leader of Under the auspices of the " Aktion Suehne threat of boycotts, Israeli participation was the Labour Party, on his return to London from zeichen ", a group of young Germans are to help ensured. The Shah's twin sister. Princess Ashraff a three-week tour of fhe Middle East, told a build hospitals and synagogues in Israel. A was, it is understood, particularly interested in .Press conference that he had been tremendously special training centre is to be established in Israel's participation, Cologne to prepare them for their stay in Israel, •mpressed by what the Israelis were doing and TRADE AGREEMENT WITH FRANCE that he had told the Arabs outside Israel of his where they are expected to remain for up fo admiration for the work done in the Jewish State. twelve months. The Franco-Israeli commercial agreement for A cable has been sent to the Federal German 1961 has been concluded in Paris. It authorises He said that Press reports that the Arabs had Foreign Minister, Dr. von Brentano, by the Israel to export goods valued at SIO million to disliked what he had told them on the subject organisation of democratic youth groups in France and the African States which are members nad been distorted. In fact, many of them had Bavaria, renewing the group's previous request of the Communaute Fran^aise. •ipplauded him. that diplomatic relations be established between This is the first treaty between the two countries Germany and Israel. which has also been jointly signed by representa FENNER BROCKWAY'S WARNING The Stuttgart administration decided to buy tives of African States. .$50,000 worth of Israel Bonds. Mr. Fenner Brockway, M.P., Chairman of the PROBLEMS OF GROUP INTEGRATION pritish Movement for Colonial Freedom, address SCHOOL COMPETITION IN VIENNA Mr. Roy Elston, the non-Jewish journalist, for ing the " Friends of New Outlook", gave a some time political columnist of the Palestine Warning that iT Israel pursues her policy of align- A competition initiated by the Viennese Jewish Post, said at a meeting of the Younger Members •neiit with France against the sentiments of Cominunity Council is fo be held for all Viennese of the Anglo-Jewish Association in London, that Atrican and Asian neutrals, she will forfeit the secondary school children, with a flight to Israel there was no question of racialism in Israel. good will and admiration of both African as the first prize. A questionnaire on Israel and Indeed, he had found that the settled European nationalists and European Socialists. her history is the form of the competition. Jews often had a greater affinity with fhe Arab By her internal achievements and by her con The fullest possible support has been given fo than with the Jewish immigrants from the Orient structive assfstance to newly independent African the scheme by the head of the Viennese Education or North Africa. and Asian nations, said Mr. Brockway, Israel Authority. The Austrian State Travel Bureau is During his long stay in Israel, he knew of no "ad built up a tremendous fund of good will providing the free flight. religious conflict there apart from that between among them. But all the value of her example Jew and Jew. The social conflict between the ould be lost if she continued to follow a policy RELATIONS WITH TURKEY Jews who had founded the State on an entirely oentified with France against the struggle for the European pattern and the primitive newcomers, "Oeration oT the African peoples. With the Turkish Government's promotion of would last at least until the older generation died its Charge d'Affaires in Israel to the rank of out and the younger were integrated. The con Minister, diplomatic relations between Israel and flict between Arabs and Jews was not only social JANNER FOREST Turkey have now returned to their pre-Sinai but, above all, national. It was however, neither Campaign level. Mr. Moshe Sasson, the Israeli religious nor racial. a To mark the knighthood bestowed on Mr. Charge d'Affairs in Ankara, has also been pro tht™^n Janner, M.P., British Zionists will honour moted to the rank of Minister. HAIFA SCIENTIST SENTENCED "eir President and his wife by planting a forest '" Israel. The Turkish Government's withdrawal of its Professor Kurt Sitte, head of the Physics Minister from Tel Aviv in 1956 just before the Department af the Haifa Technion, after a secret Sinai Campaign, was the result of strong pressure trial on charges of collecting secret information ROTHSCHILD PRIZES from the Iraqi Government, which was afraid and handing it fo the agent of an unnamed foreign Nasser would attack Iraq on the ground that her Power, has been sentenced to five years' imprison a„?°*schild prizes for science worth £1,000 were fellow-member of the Baghdad Pact was collud ment, against which sentence he has announced Kat K ? 'n Jerusalem to the biophysicist, Ephraim ing with Israel against Egypt. rp*„ ^'sky. and, posthumously, to the veterinary he will appeal. "=searcher, Avraham Komarov-Kimron. Efforts by Israel to resume normal diplomatic Professor Sitte, a non-Jew born in Czechoslo relations with Turkey had previously met with no vakia, was incarcerated in Buchenwald by thc sti-ef^^ Rothschild presented the prizes, and success as Turkey feared the Arab reaction to Nazis because of his liberal views and his Jewish o„f J " 'he need for Israel to ensure that her few such a move. The two Governments have now wife. After the war he came to England and bv u^P^'^gly creative scientists were not sterilised decided to promote their respective representa later worked in the United States and South s oeing turned into administrators. tives, but without issuing an official communique. America. He settied in Israel in 1954.
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ANTI-SEMITISM AT INNSBRUCK FROM THE AUSTRIAN SCENE UNIVERSITY A fight started between Jay Schaross, a Jewish -THE MURDERERS ARE STILL WITH US" was also pointed out that out of the staff of 30 medical student at Innsbruck University, and working with Eichmann on the "Jewish Austrian students when Mr. Schaross was greeted Following the production of documentary Solution", 13 had been Austrians and the where evidence by the Viennese Jewish community, abouts of seven of these men were unknown. with cries of "Pig-Jew, get out!" on entering a according to which Leopold Schumm was per student caf6 in Innsbruck. sonally responsible for shooting a large number The Austrian Press has also been speculating The police had to intervene to stop the fight, of Jews in Lublin during the war, Schumm has a great deal about how Franz Novak, Eichmann's but the local paper referred to the matter as trivial been arrested by the Austrian authorities. The former associate who was recently arrested in and stated that this was the first time a Jewish documents include a letter in which Schumm Vienna, managed to stay at liberty for so long. student at Innsbruck had been the subject of an boasts that he shot four Jews and received praise He had been living and working in Vienna quite anti-Semitic attack. from the authorities for this deed. openly. An investigation is being carried out Another Jewish student, however, who is an The Viennese Jewish community, at a special into the circumstances in which Novak regained American, said that he has experienced anti- Press conference held in Vienna after his arrest, his Austrian citizenship, of which he was deprived Semitism at the university since he started study stressed that " the murderers are still with us". in 1938 for illegal Nazi activities. If it is ing there in 1955. On one occasion swastikas were Austria, like West Germany, should otfer rewards proved he is not really an Austriam citizen, he smeared on his car, which was severely damaged, for information leading to the apprehension of will automatically regain his German nationality and, although he complained about the matter to Austrian war criminals, and the Austrian Ministry and be handed over to the Gennan authorities. the police, no action was taken. of Justice should pay the expenses of witnesses The Arbeiter Zeitung, official organ of the The Austrian Ministry of the Interior has stated needed to give evidence at the trials of such Austrian Socialist Party, also comments in a criminals. that the incident is being very carefully investi leading article that " the S.S. murderers are still gated. The spokesman for the community pointed out living in our midst, as though nothing had ever that Franz Murer, who was known as the butcher happeined ... the murky primitive spirit of anti- of Vilna Jewry, is not only at liberty in Austria, Semitism is with us again". The paper also NAZI SONGS but ha,s been appointed President of the Agricul comments that Eiohmann's arrest has yielded tural Council in Liezen. Murer, who had been results. The German and Austrian authorities A programme of Nazi songs, many of which severely incriminated of murderous activities by had become tired and careless but now old docu were popular during the war, was broadcast by numerous eye-witnesses, had recently, in the ments were being searched through feverishly. Radio Linz, in Austria. An investigation was presence of an Austrian Minister, been chosen People were ashamed and nervous but thi» wai instituted to find out who was responsible for to present awards to outstanding fanners. It .-» healthy sign. this Nazi propaganda.
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