VOL. XX No. 1 January, 1965 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE- ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN

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C. Kapralik its attention to problems of compensation and restitution, and helped to create the U.R.O. (United Restitution Organisation), the J.R.S.O. (the Jewish Restitution Succes­ JUBILEE OF "JOINT" sor Organisation for the U.S.A. Zone of Germany), the J.T.C. (the Jewish Trust Cor­ .The American Joint Distribution Com- Then in 1933, the Nazis came to power, poration for the British and French Zones), niittee (AJDC) was 50 years old a few and the " Joint" immediately went into and later on the Claims Conference. Weeks ago, and the grateful thanks and action again. There is no room to give While the improvement in Europe ^est wishes of the Association of Jewish details of the help extended to Jews enabled the " Joint" to withdraw from a Kofij^egs and the Nazi victims in the United in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and number of countries, its attention in the •^mgdom go out to that unique organisa­ in the countries of immigration, both in last ten years has been focused on the tion. Europe and overseas ; it is within the living plight of Jewry in North Africa and other The AJDC was formed on 27th Novem­ memory of most of the readers of this countries where Jews have been living in ber, 1914^ on the incentive of the late paper. Suffice it to say that in 1939 the abject poverty. The mass emigration from Henry Morgenthau, then U.S. Ambassador " Joint " was again spending $8,448,000 on North Africa, in particular from Algeria, I'l Constantinople, with the immediate help to Nazi victims. to Metropolitan France, has also created objective to help 70,000 Jewish colonists But the great, exciting, and—if I may problems of catastrophic dimensions. The in Palestine, who were facing starvation. call it so—romantic period began after the task the " Joint" set itself is by no means Its first chairman was Felix M. Warburg, Nazi hordes had overrun Europe, when finished—will it ever be ? father of the present chairman, Edward M. Dr. Joseph Schwartz directed from Lisbon An organisation is only as strong as the Warburg. the rescue work with diplomacy, under­ human factor driving it. It is the quality The end of World War I confronted the ground tactics, but above all with imagina­ of the people in charge of operations which AJDC with the necessity to mount its first tion and personal courage. Over 80,000 made the greatness of the " Joint". Dr. large scale operation. Such was its impact Jews were helped to emigrate from Central Joseph Schwartz was followed in 1950 by on Jewish life that the AJDC became a Europe after the outbreak of hostilities. Moses Beckelman, who literally gave his T^gend in its early years. Those were the Until the U.S.A. entered the war, the life in the service of the cause. When in ^ays when English was not yet the lingua " Joint " was able to continue desperately December, 1955, Beckelman succumbed to franca of the world, when the man in the needed relief work in Poland ; an escape a heart attack, another man of outstanding "treet in Warsaw, Odessa or Vienna, faced line was also established through Russia ability, Charles Jordan, was appointed *ith the organisation's long name, was and Manchuria to China, especially Director-General. unable to understand what it meant. There Shanghai, Japan and Iran. There has never been anything paro­ Was one short word in the name, " Joint," chial, narrow-minded or sectarian about the never mind that it was an adjective Gigantic Post-War Operations " Joint", or the men directing its opera­ intended to make it clear that the Com­ tions. Emblematical of the spirit and mittee was a joint efiort of several Ameri­ When the Allies broke into Europe, the standing of the organisation is the fact can bodies. The word "Joint" stuck, " Joint" workers went in the wake of the that the present Director-General is also necoming a noun in its own right, a magic armies, first into Italy, then France, where President of the International Council of Word spelling hope to the needy and suffer- Dr. Schwartz transferred his headquarters Voluntary Agencies in Geneva, and Chair­ [ig. a name by which the organisation soon after the liberation, and then, in 1945, man of the Expert Advisory Committee for pecame known to millions of poor Jews into the camps in Germany. Operations the Freedom from Hunger Campaign ^ Europe soon after the end of the First of gigantic proportions were set into attached to the U.N. Food and Agriculture World War when the Joint moved into motion ; thousands of tons of food were Organisation. Two months ago he was *-entral and Eastern Europe. shipped for distribution in Europe, awarded the Nansen Ring by the Inter­ With the energy and acumen which medical, nursing, social and educational national Sovereign Committee Fridtjof cnaracterised its operations from earliest services were established to help the Nansen—only nine persons have so far ^ays, the organisation addressed itself not survivors ; reconstruction of Jewish Com­ received this ring. only to relief for thousands of starving munities on the Continent of Europe was actively assisted, and local leadership Still, what was achieved was due not Jews in Poland, the Ukraine and the only to the men at the very top; the Vienna of 1919, but also to the problem which emerged after the war, helped to bring into life communal services destroyed services of the Assistant Directors-General ot rehabilitation. Medical units were sent Herbert Katzki and Sam Haber, both po Poland, care of children was organised, by the Nazi regime. The scope of the work is perhaps most impressively illus­ veritable towers of strength, must not be ont most important was the economic left unmentioned. ^f^onstruction work by way of hundreds trated by the amounts spent—$53,988,000. fl loan kassas " and credit co-operatives, $69,080,000, $63,248,000 in the years 1946, We cannot pay here individual tribute to 1947 and 1948 respectively. the country directors, the departmental in the U.S.S.R. the "Joint" formed the heads in Geneva, and the men and women ft^ro-Joint. created Jewish agricultural In 1948 the State of Israel was born, and serving the AJDC in many countrier ,51. enients and many Jewish co-operatives, the gates opened to mass emigration. From They brought to their task utmost until it was forced to end its activities in the very first moment, the " Joint " was on efficiency coupled with compassion, love of meera of Stalinism. the spot and brought into life that magnifi­ their fellow creatures, and the readiness Ine end of the 'twenties was the time cent organisation, " Malben," which took to work endless hours under trying circum­ wnen the worst misery of the aftermath of care of many thousands of old and infirm people who came to Israel from the D.P. stances, to sacrifice their private and their tK T^^ seemed to be overcome and when camps. Malben established for them Old family lives in the interest of the great ine leadership of the " Joint " thought of Age Homes, hospitals, sheltered workshops. aims inspiring them. To all of them we gradual reduction of the work with a And let us not forget the operation pay homage as a body. lew to closing down completely. The " Magic Carpet" when in 1949 a fleet of No real history of the " Joint" has yet nnual expenditure which ran at a figure aircraft, chartered by the "Joint," trans­ been written ; when it is written, the recital 01 Sl 1.607.000 in 1919. fell to $3,856,000 ferred nearly the entire Yemeni Jewry of events, facts and figures will reveal " 1924. and to $1,646,000 five years later from Aden to Israel. one of the most thrilling chapters of Jewish »,.1929: in 1932 it reached a low of At the same time, the "Jomt" turned history and of humanitarian endeavour. ^'^41,000, Page 2 AJR INFORMATION January, 1965 From the German Scene EXHIBITION IN PAULSKIRCHE Concentration Camp Documents BUNDESRUECKERSTATTUNGSGESETZ CHARGE OF NEONAZISM REFUTED An exhibition of documents referring to IN BERLIN VERKUENDET Nazi concentration and extermination camps A spokesman of the Ministry of the Interior was held in the Frankfurt Paulskirche. It Im Anschluss an die fruehere Mitteilung stated in Bonn that charges that the West comprises photos, statistics, minutes and in AJR Information (November, 1964) wird German Federal Republic was the centre of graphic displays and is in the first place meant mitgeteilt, dass das Dritte Aenderungsgesetz an interaational neo-Nazi movement were to serve educational purposes. The exhibition zum Bundesrueckerstattungsgesetz inzwischen unjustified. Commenting on a report sub­ has been visited by many groups of school­ auch im Lande Berlin verkuendet worden ist. mitted to the conference of International children and factory employees. It was Union of Resistance Fighters and Deportees arranged by Mr. Carl Tesch, director of the CLAIMS OF REFUGEE RABBIS held in Belgium, the spokesman said that no Frankfurt "Bund fuer Volksbildung", and neo-Nazi was sitting in Parliament, while the designed by the Frankfurt architect, Wolfgang A delegation of refugee rabbis now living Italian Right-wing party, supported by the neo- Dohmen, The exhibition will also be shown in the United States and Europe, representing fascists, had a strong faction in the Chamber in other German cities and in Vienna, some 300 refugee rabbis from Eastem Europe, of Deputies, and the Austrian Freedom Party, have had talks with officials in Bonn. Existing supported by neo-Nazis, was equally strong. DEATH OF FRANKFURT BANKER German legislation awards restitution and It was true that 52 neo-Nazi publications pension rights to former rabbis from Germany, were appearing in West Germany, he admitted, Dr. Peter Bartmann, president of the Frank­ Bohemia and Moravia, and the delegation have but pointed out that publications of this kind furt Chamber of Industry and Commerce until been arguing their right to such payments. were being imported from other countries. the beginning of 1964, die(i on November 8. According to informed circles, there was In 1933 he joined the Deutsche Effekten- uno little prospect of the rabbis' claims being met TRIALS Wechselbank, which his Jewish father-in-law, as the official view is that all claims should be Ludwig Arnold Hahn, had developed into a presented through the authorised official One of the witnesses at the Frankfurt trial of 22 former Auschwitz camp guards was Mr. leading banking institute. At Bartmanns spokesmen of the existing restitution organisa­ funeral an address was delivered by his tions.—(J.C.I Alfred Eeczler, a former prisoner who escaped in 1944 to reveal the mass murder of Jews at brother-in-law. Professor L. Albert Hahn (now the camp to President Roosevelt, Pope Pius Paris). The municipality of Frankfurt, in its STATUTE OF LEMITATIONS XII and the King of Sweden. The report he tribute, recalled the assistance the deceased wrote alter his escape helped to save the lives had rendered to many persecuted and At the time of going to press a spokesman of about 100,000 Hungarian Jews through the endangered Frankfurt Jewish citizens. for the Federal German Government declared intervention of the Allied Governments with that the Govemment might reconsider its deci­ Admiral Horthy, the Hungarian Chief of State. DACHAU MEMORIAL MONASTERY sion against extending the statute of limita­ Another witness was Rudolf Vrba, who was tions on the prosecution of Nazi crimes beyond the first man to report to the world on the A Roman Catholic " Monastery of Repen­ May 8. He said the possibility was conditional mass gassings at Auschwitz. The witness, who tance " has been dedicated near the site of on wiiether documents on Nazi crimes were is now a research scientist at the British the former Dachau concentration camp, in found which could not be scrutinised in time. Medical Research Council, was bom in his dedicatory address Julius Cardinal Dopfner, After the Cabinet had voted not to seek an Czechoslovakia. He was sent to Auschwitz at Archbishop of Munich, said that the monastery extension tlie Government issued an appeal to the age of 17, in 1942. He escaped in April, would serve as a " shrine of atonement and all governments and private persons to provide 1944, and wrote a report of the Nazi atrocities repentance for crimes against humanity com­ whatever material they had. Arrangements to in Auschwitz which was sent to President mitted by the Nazis ". The convent will house increase the personnel of the Ludwigsburg Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Pope 21 Carmelite nuns. Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Pius XII. Crimes and to extend the Office's terms of AWARDS IN EAST GERMANY reference have been made. Several foreign witnesses refused to testify at the trial in Bielefeld of Henrich Klauster­ meyer. a former Nazi security guard accused of According to the December News Bulletin REWARD FOR BORMANN'S CAPTURE the murder of 20 Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto of the East German Jewish Communities, the in 1941-43, The witnesses said they had been East German Medal of Merit lias been awarded A reward of 100,000 marks is being offered intimidated by a cousin of Klaustermeyer's. to Mr. Helmut Aris (Dresden) and Mr. Herbert by Dr. Fritz Bauer, the prosecutor-general of Ringer (Erfurt), president and vice-president the State of Ilesse. for information leading to JEWISH CULTURAL FESTIVAL IN respectively of the Federation of Jewish Com­ the capture and extradition of Martin Bor­ PADERBORN munities in Eastern Germany, and to Mr. Heinz mann, Hitler's deputy, Dr, Bauer is convinced Schenk, chairman of the East Berlin Jewish that Bormann is still alive, probably some­ Under the auspices of the municipality a Community. where in South America. series of Jewish cultural functions was orga­ nised in Paderborn under the heading " Jiidische Kulturtage". It included an NEW RIGHT-WING PARTY exhibition of displays referring to Jewish reli­ gious and secular life in the 'Town Hall, At Don't suffer from the effects of DRY AIR caused by A new Right-wing Radical group, known as the opening ceremony Mayor Toelle described the National Democratic Party, has been the enterprise as an attempt to contribute Central-Heating founded in Hanover from elements of the neo- towards moral restitution. He also announced Nazi German Reich Party, the Right-wing that the city had made a donation of German Party and the former refugees' All- DM 1,000 to the Jewish National Fund. Dr. German party. The party's programme calls Ernst Muller (London), who had spent his for ending " the lie of Germany's sole guilt childhood in Paderborn where his family had (for World War II) used for continuously been resident for several centuries, spoke on blackmailing our people for thousands of behalf of the Jewish former citizens of Pader­ millions ". It also demands " an end of the born. Landesrabbiner Davidovic gave a lec­ one-sided trails" of German war criminals, ture about " Das Judentum—seine Lehren, and the " determined removal of public seine Feste und sein Alltag " which, at the immorality ". same time, served as an introduction to the exhibition. Among the other functions were a Memorial Service in the synagogue, a concert of the Gorta Radiovision Collegium Musicum Judaicum (Amsterdam), a pantomime, " Hore Israel", based on liVaMWMMHM Service readings from the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible INSTALL A HUMIDIFIER (Member R,T.R,A,) translation and a performance of the West­ faelische Kammerspiele " Ueber das Ver- on your Radiator and be free from an unpleasant 13 Frognal Parade, brennen von Buechern ". and unhealthy atmosphere. Finchley Road, N.W.3 To mark the occasion the municipality pub­ lished a well made-up booklet under the title: INEXPENSIVE—NO RUNNING COSTS SALES REPAIRS " Baun wir doch aufs neue das alte Haus— Agents for Bush, Pye, Philips, Ferranti, Juedisches Schicksal in Paderbora". The Ask for details from ; Grundig, etc. first part of the work deals with the history of Television Rentals from 8/- Per Week the Jews in Paderbom from the early begin­ The Humidifier Co. Mr. Gort will always be pleased to nings in the thirteenth century to the emanci­ 25 Bridge Road, Wembley Park, Middx advise you. pation period. The second part describes (HAM. 8635) the lives of emigrated and deported former ARNold 7603 Jewish citizens. AJR INFORMATION January, 1965 Page 3 HOME NEWS ANGLO-JUDAICA Religious Press Week CROSSMAN'S ASSURANCE ON ISRAEL ANTI RACE BILL Lord Luke, well known for his support of Durmg a discussion in the House of Com­ In an interview with Mr. Erwin Bienenstok, Israel, was guest of honour at a luncheon mons on immigration laws affecting chiefly the head of the Hebrew Service of the B.B.C., arranged by the Religious Weekly Press Group colour problem. Sir Frank Soskice. the Home Mr. Richard Crossman, Minister of Housing to inaugurate Religious Press Week, Mr. Secretary, stressed the Government's deter­ an(i Local Government, gave an assurance that David Kessler, chairman of the group and mination ' to introduce legislation to outlaw the new British Government will not repeat chairman and managing director of the {"aeial discrimination and incitement to race the mistake of its predecessors of attempting Jewish Chronicle, presided. Atheism, said hatred. The necessary legislation would be to win Arab friendship by sacrificing Israel. Lord Luke, was the greatest problem of the introduced as soon is it could be framed. The For the past 14 years Mr. Crossman was one time. By reading papers of other denomina­ difficulties with regard to definition which were of the two commentators on international tions one could help to remove ignorance involved were being studied. affairs of the Hebrew service, giving up his among all denominations. Any legislation mtroduced by the Govern­ post on his appointment to the Government, ment will deal also with discrimination against Mr, Crossman later said that he had not New Anglo-Jewish Journal ? the Jewish community. consulted the Cabinet over the broadcast and Tile Board of Deputies at its Defence Com­ it had nothing to do with the present Govern­ At the Council Meeting of the Anglo-Jewish mittee meeting incorporated a special declara­ ment. He had been broadcasting to Israel for Association, held on November 30. the Presi­ tion into its report expressing pleasure at the nearly 20 years and this was his final broad­ dent. Mr. Maurice Edelman. M.P., stated that Government's promise to take action against cast, summing up his views over the years. he had always regretted that the Anglo-Jewish facial discrimination. Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop (Con.) in the House of community had not been able to sponsor a ^, At a meeting of the Anglo-Jewish Associa­ Commons described this as " an official broad­ journal comparable with the American tion Council at the House of Commons, Mr, cast " on the Middle East and asked whether " Commentary ". He announced that means Maurice Edelman, M,P„ was criticised for his it represented the policy of the Government, of developing such a journal were being commendation of the Government's intention The Prime Minister replied that Mr, Cross- explored at present. to legislate against racial discrimination. Mr. man's broadcast was not an official one and he H- Soref recalled that this view had been con­ did not propound policy. In answer to a Bishop's Tribute sidered " often and deeply" in recent years request by Mr. R. A. Butler for the House to The Right Rev. Dr. J. J. A. Thomas, Anglican fad the A.J.A. had declared itself hostile to have an official view of Government policy Bishop of Swansea and Brecon, at the annual 'he idea of legislation, Mr. Leonard Stein towards Israel, Mr. Wilson said he would be dinner of Swansea Council of Christians and said that the community was divided on the happy in the meantime to supply a number Jews, quoting the late Viscount Samuel, whom 9uestion of whether legislation was desirable. of statements made by the present Government he referred to as one of the great thinkers Mr. Neville Laski, Q.C, welcomed the senti­ when they were in Opposition. Mr. Butler of this century, said that throughout history ment expressed by the Government but would get an answer if he would put down and in all the countries of the world the Jews doubted the practicability of its achievement, a question, had been the touchstone of the nations. Pro­ Mr. Edehnan said that the A.J.A. would set posing the toast to the local council, Dr. up an ad hoc committee to consider the legis­ APPOINTMENTS Thomas said he gave great credit to the Coun­ lation and he asked the Council to give him cil of Christians and Jews for its promotion of authority to co-operate with the Board of Mr. Emanuel Shinwell has been elected understanding between members of the two Deputies on that issue. chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party faiths. WILSON DENIES GOLF CLUB BIAS and Mr, John Silkin has been appointed an assistant Labour Whip, Manchester Brotherhood Week ^A former Mayor of Finchley, Mr. Frank Mr, Jack Dunnett, M,P, for Nottingham Davis, has alleged that there is a race bar at Central, has been appointed Parliamentary Following much controversy over the Hampstead Golf Club, where the Prime Private Secretary to Mr, F. W, Mulley, Deputy arrangements for Manchester's recent Brother­ Minister plays. He has written to Mr. Wilson Secretary for Defence, hood Week, Rabbi Gershon Wulwick, minister asking him to leave the club. Several Jews Sir Leon Bagrit has been appointed a mem­ of the Heaton Park Synagogue, Manchester, ^^ie also said to have claimed that they tried ber of the new Advisory Council on Techno­ is understood to be resigning from his post Without success to join. Mr. Davis, in his logy, the chairmen of which are Mr, Frank of hon, secretary of the Rabbinical Council of 'etter to Mr. Wilson, said that while he was Cousins, Minister of Technology, and Professor Manchester and District. There was conten­ mayor he had received complaints about the P. Blackett, tion in the community and in the Manchester club. Lady Gaitskell was chosen as a member of Council of Christians and Jews over a state­ , In his reply, Mr. Wilson stated: " You may the British delegation to the General Assembly ment made to the press by Rabbi Wulwick nave seen that when the press took up the of the United Nations which opened in New vetoing the recital in synagogues of a special Point you made, the club concerned denied any York on December 1, 1964. prayer issued for Brotherhood Week. such racial bar. I do not get much time for f°lf. but five of my last six rounds in the club Willesden Youth Centre nave been with a Jewish partner. I was in HONOURS *3ct put up for the club by a well-known Jewish Life Peerage Mr. David Wolfson, a nephew of Sir Isaac member." Wolfson, has given £20,000 towards a site for Commenting on the letter. Councillor Davis Dr. Samuel Segal who was a Member of a new Jewish youth centre in Willesden. Work ^Jid he had not alleged that there was an Parliament from 1945 to 1950 has been made on the site, near Dollis Hill Station, will start absolute ban at the Hampstead Golf Club a life peer. He is a Vice-President of Poale soon. If sufficient funds can be raised the against Jews or coloured people. He had Zion in Great Britain and a member of the centre may include a swimming pool, tennis merely pointed out that it was made very diffi- Board of Deputies. courts and a recreational centre for old people. ?ult for them to join. He had sent a reply to Mr. Wilson reiterating the conviction that the Freeman of Hampstead Sieff Birthday Fund Club practised discrimination. Alderman Emanuel Snowman, O.B.E,. has Inquiring into the allegations, the JEWISH been appointed a Freeman of the Borough of To mark the 75th birthday of Mr. Israel M. ^BRONICLE was told by a Jewish member of Hampstead. He is the fifteenth and final Free­ Sieff, which occurred last May, a £100,000 fund {continental origin, Mr. L. Gunz, that he had man before Hampstead merges into the new for the promotion of Zionist day schools in °^en sponsored by a non-Jewish neighbour, Borough of Camden. Alderman Snowman, this country has been set up. The fund was ?Jr- Weston, and also by Dr. Donald Soper, the who was Coronation year mayor of the inaugurated at a dinner arranged by the Methodist leader. Mr. Weston told the JEWISH Borough, has always been closely associated Friends of the Zionist Federation Education yURONicLE that he had played with several with Jewish and Zionist activities. He is a Trust, of which Mr. Sieff is president. Over jjewish golfers and Dr. Soper was adamant that former warden of the Hampstead Synagogue £43,000 was subscribed among the 350 guests ne had heard nothing about discrimination. and President of the Hampstead J.P.A. and towards the maintenance of the Z.F. primary J,N,F. schools, A Hebrew department at the King MOSLEY IN NEXT ELECTION David School, Liverpool, is being established, , A spokesman of Mosley's Union Movement and its committee will include representatives V^s confirmed that the Movement is to contest . . , and I can tell you of the Trust. ipur seats on the colour problem at the next general Election. Sir Oswald Mosley would "NORWEST " is BEST Food Trade J.P.A. Committee Finances oe standing in London and his son. Max. would FOR CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN Cultural Centre contest the Ardwick constituency of Man- CAR HIRE A Cultural Centre in Kfar Daniel has been cnester, at present held by Mr. Leslie Lever. 'Phone : built out of funds raised by the Food Trade Dcy and Nigh» HAM. 4150 J.PA, Committee. As a tribute to the com­ NO NAZI RALLY IN TOWN HALL & Day HAM. 4154, SWI. 2202 mittee's past president, it has been called Birmingham civic authorities turned down a NORWEST CAR HIRE LTD, Charles Goldrei Memorial Centre, Request by the local branch of the National 331-5 FINCHLEY RD,, N.W,3 In 1964 the committee raised £40,000—which ^ocialist Movement to use the town hall for a is £11,000 in excess of the 1963 total. The mass rally. Your advance bookings welcomed. target for 1965 has been set at £50,000. 1965 Page 4 AJR INFORMATION January,

EASTERN EUROPE NEWS FROM ABROAD Prague Exhibitions The State Jewish Museum in Prague is NORTH AMERICA MEMORIAL PROJECTS OF BELSEN SURVIVORS receiving a record number of visitors ano Rabbis' Protest March great interest is also being shown in the renO' The World Federation of Bergen-Belsen vated Spanish Synagogue in Prague, where A group of 300 rabbis held a meeting in Survivors recently held a meeting in New there is a permanent exhibition of synagogue New York to appeal for the lifting of dis­ York which was attended by 42 delegates of tapestries and other treasures covering the lasi crimination against Soviet Jewry. The meet­ the various Bergen-Belsen associations in five centuries. . „ ing was addressed by Senator Jacob Javits, Israel. Europe and the U.S.A, The President, A permanent exhibition, " Jews in Moravia , Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Senator Robert Mr, Josef Rosensaft, announced that, to mark had its festive opening in the middle of Sep­ Kennedy, Mr. Louis Lefkowitz (New York the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Bel­ tember in the Schach Synagogue in the .cenwc State attorney-general). Rabbi Abraham sen, a monumental volume entitled " Holo­ of the well-preserved former ghetto in tne Joshua Heschel, of the Jewish Theological caust and Rebirth" will be published which town of Holesov, next to an historic cemetery. Seminary, and officials of the New York Board will offer a pictorial record of the story of Another permanent exhibition has been of Rabbis. The rabbis also heard the appeal Belsen and also carry statements of leading opened in the former Maisl Synagogue, now sent by the Board to President Johnson asking Jewish and non-Jewish personalities. The fully restored, which includes gold and saver him to urge the Soviet Government to treat Federation will also establish a memorial religious appurtenances. the matter as a humanitarian problem whose Bergen-Belsen publishing house, two major The Franz Kafka Exhibition in the Museum resolution would contribute to easing world libraries in Israel and in New York, and a of National Literature was extended because tensions. monument in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, The of great public interest, but has now movea The rabbis afterwards marched in a silent Israeli Government will commemorate the to Brno. A new exhibition has been mounteo procession through the streets of New York occasion by issuing a special postage stamp, again honouring a Jewish writer, Richara to the Soviet Union's mission at the United Weiner, a contemporary of Kafka. . Nations, where Rabbi Max Schenk, president CANADA The City Council has allocated funds for tne of the New York Board of Rabbis, attempted restoration and preservation of the anciem to hand to a Soviet official a ten-point docu­ Fifth Jewish M.P. Prague cemetery.—(J.C.) ment urging religious, cultural and educational freedom for Soviet Jewry. The Russian A fifth Jewish M.P. was returned to the Polish Award refused to accept the document on the ground Canadian Parliament when Mr. Max Saltsman that the board was not a governmental won a by-election for the New Democratic Nachman Kramarz, a veteran Jewish Conv organisation. Party. He is a former chairman of the United munist and revolutionary, gaoled for 13 y^?^^ Jewish Appeal in Gait. Ontario, under the Tsar, was one of 30 Jews, including Broadcast by Jewish Judge nine women, who received Polish State awards Mixed Marriages to mark the 47th anniversary of the Russian Mr. Justice Arthur J. Goldberg, an associate Statistics on mixed marriages among Jews Revolution in 1917. justice of the United States Supreme Court, in Canada indicate that the percentage has defined fhe " supreme test" of an Ameri­ increased from 3,8 per cent in 1931 to 18.5 per Wroclaw War Crimes Trial can citizen and a Jew as " one who does not cent in 1963. The total number of marriages Two Poles are on trial in Wroclaw (formerly conceal but affirms his origin ; who is proud among the Jewish population in Canada of whatever he may be". Speaking on the Breslau), Poland, charged with co-operating decreased by 6,6 per cent between 1941 and with the Gestapo in the murder of more than New York television programme " The Eternal 1963. The marriage rate per 1.000 decreased Light", Mr. Goldberg said he believed the 100 Jewish men, women and children in Buas- from 12.1 in 1941 to 6.4 in 1961, the lowest law, western Poland, during the war. Tne Torah to be the real essence of Jewish tradi­ since 1921.—(J.C.) tion. Mr. Goldberg, who was a strong sup­ victims formed the entire Jewish community porter of the idea of an International Court BRAZILIAN GENERAL of Budslaw. of Human Rights to enforce the Universal IsraeUs Visit U.S.S.R. Declaration of Human Rights, was asked if he Major-General Valdemar Levy Cardoso is saw a role for such a court over the denial one of four Brazilian divisional commanders Members of the Israel-Russia Friendship of human rights in South Africa and the mal­ promoted to full general, the highest active Society paid a ten-day visit to the .Soviet treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. He service rank in the Brazilian Army. Sixty- Union. Moscow radio gave much prominence replied strongly in the affirmative, stating that two-year-old General Cardoso, a Jew, whose to the visit. In an interview broadcast by tne Americans ought to be the principal pro­ brother is a retired brigadier, was born in station a Tel Aviv surgeon expressed, n'» ponents of such an idea. In Russia, Mr, Gold Rio de Janeiro, admiration of Russian medical institutions, berg said, the Jews should be entitled by while the leader of the visiting party said ttiat Soviet law " to all the rights of a nationality " HOLLAND Israelis would never forget that the Soviet a language, schools, their own literature— Union had played the " main part in rojj^'^ and no obstacles should be placed in the way Ph.D. Thesis on Yiddish Subject the fascist gangsters". Professor Abram of practising their religion. Amsterdam University has awarded Hol­ Rubinstein, a lecturer in modern Hebrew at Moscow University, was among those who wel­ Jubilee of Habonim Congregation land's first Ph.D, degree for a thesis on a Yiddish subject to Dr. L. Fuks, librarian of comed the delegation. the Bibliotheca RosenthaUana, the university To mark the 25th anniversary of its founda­ Gift Parcels Scorned tion, the Congregation " Habonim ", built up library's Judaica and Hebraica department. by Jews from Central Europe, held a well- Dr. Fuks's thesis dealt with the Hebrew and Lithuanians have been warned by ^'^^j attended Remembrance Ceremony in New Aramaic sources of the fourteenth-century radio not to write letters to relatives abroao York Town Hall, The main speaker was Rabbi " Melokim-Buch ". an epic version in Yiddish asking for parcels of clothing and other coin- Dr, Max Nussbaum, formerly Berlin, now of the First aud Second Books of Kings, modities. This created the impression i"^ Hollywood. A brief address was also Dr, Fuks's sponsor was Professor M, A, Soviet citizens were short of clothes and otne delivered by Dr. Friedrich Brodnitz, the first Beek, professor of Old Testament in the Pro­ articles and was used as an element of anti- President of the Congregation, and a Psalm testant theological faculty and professor of Soviet propaganda.—(J.C) was recited by the—non-Jewish—theologian. Hebrew Literature at Amsterdam University. Professor Wilhelm Pauck. Special tributes Although milhons still spoke Yi(ldish in New BELGIUM EXTENDS PROSECUTION LIMIT were paid to Rabbi Dr. Hugo Hahn. the co- York and Moscow, he said, this degree was The Belgian Chamber of Representatives founder and spiritual leader of the Congrega­ the first of its kind in Dutch history.—(J.C.) agreed to extend by ten years the 20-year lii"'J tion since its inception. on the prosecution of Nazi war criminals, Ai AUSTRIAN COMMUNITY'S GRATITUDE Catholic, Socialist and Liberal members yoteo HEROIC ITALIAN MONK In 1958 the Federation of Austrian Jewish for the extension. Five members of "°^.^*i' " Look " magazine, published in New York, Communities decided to award annually Gold union, the Flemist nationalist party, ^^J^g in a recent issue stated that a rural Italian Medals to non-Jewish public personalities who against. The Communists abstained, ^Jl^ monk. Father Rufino Niccacci, a Franciscan of have been prominent in the fight against anti­ Minister of Justice told the chamber tna Assisi, organised an escape route during the semitism and neo-Nazism. At a ceremony held 1,338 people sentenced to death in. tnei' war with the sanction of Pope Pius XII, saving in Graz on November 10. the anniversary of absence could return if the time limit wa the lives of 5,000 Jews. the November pogroms, the awards for 1963 not extended.— (J.C) Father Niccacci, the magazine states, began and 1964 were handed over to Federal Minis­ operations in the summer of 1943 and was ter of Social Administration, Mr. Anton ZAMBIAN JEWS allowed to continue by the Pope. The under­ Proksch, and to Professor Franz Goebhart, To mark the establishment of the neW ground organisation grew to include 500 Director of the Teachers' Training College in Republic of Zambia (formerly Northern priests and half the townspeople of Assisi, Graz. The President of the Fe(ieration, Dr. Rhodesia), a Jewish service of thanksgiving and none of the refugees who passed through Feldsberg. paid tribute to Minister Proksch's was held in Lusaka, attended by leaders ot their hands was ever caught. After the war constant helpfulness to the victims of Nazi the Republic. A special prayer for the Presi­ the monk founded an orphanage at Assisi, persecution. Professor Goebhart's courageous dent and the State, composed by a Jewisn which he still supervises and to the upkeep of fight against recent neo-Nazi activities in Graz Member of the Zambian Parliament, was which. " Look" says, many of the Jews he was recalled by Regierungsrat Krell, Director recited. There are some 600 Jews living i" helpe(i to escape contribute,—(J.C.) of the Vienna Jewish community. Zambia, AJR INFORMATION January, 1965 Page 5 Rofefei Dr. S. Neufeld Old Acquaintances THE TOYNBEE HALL IN BERLIN Milestones : Grete Mosheim will celebrate her sixtieth birthday on January 8. Born in Some Reminiscences Berlin, she was a star in her own right as Gretchen with Oskar Homolka, in von Unruh's , In the 'seventies of the last century an to reminisce about his Rhine-Hessian back­ " Phaea " with Curt Bois and in " Jim und Jill" institution, intended to raise the cultural level ground and to speak about his long residence before she left Germany for the States. After of the common people, was founded by an in the U.S.A, her return she made a comeback to the Berlin Anglican clergyman, Toynbee, Free lectures, Later the factory building became too small stage.—Paula Busch, of Berlin's once-famous simply expressed, were delivered in London and the Toynbee Hall was removed to circus, has just celebrated her seventieth birth­ and usually refreshments were also served. different, better located and more spacious day.—Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, of " Pan- After the death of its founder in 1883 this quarters. The old synagogue of the Adass europa " fame is seventy. institution was named " Toynbee Hall ", Yisroel in the Gipsestrasse had been closed in Germany: Annie Mewis, Lutz Altschul, About the turn of the century it was also 1904 after the consecration of the new syna­ Ulla Jacobson and Hans Soehnker are in extended to Jewish conditions in certain large gogue in the Artilleriestrasse. Sometimes a Gerald Savory's " Die verschenkten Jahre " on Communities, first in London, then in certain small minyan was still held on Shabbat in the tour with A. E. Franke's " Gruener Wagen ".— Austrian communities and in 1904 to Berlin, old building, but otherwise the house stood The East German Republic will rebuild the Here the B'nai B'rith Lodges rendered special empty. The Lodges were glad to take the Bauhaus in Dessau,—Therese Giehse will play service in this communal work. Every evening, opportunity and about 1910 transferred the the lead in Gert Hofmann's "Der Sohn" at except Fridays, lectures were given in a rented Toynbee Hall to the synagogue building, with Munich's Kammerspiele.—Heinz Ruehmann nail and were followed after a short interval, which so many memories were linked. I spent and Lilo Pulver are in the remake of Curt nuring which tea and cakes were served, by many pleasant and interesting evenings there. Goetz's " Haus in Montevideo ".—Stewart music or literary activities. The members of I think of Rabbi Dr. Ackermann from Branden­ Granger will become a German star in the Karl the Lodges took it in turn to look after fhe burg, who not only delivered a simply May picture "Unter Geiern ".—Trude Kol­ arrangements, the men as supervisors, the expressed lecture there, but also appeared as mann, of Munich's " Kleine Freiheit", will «dies preparing the refreshments. a pianist in the artistic part of the evening. produce Offenbach's " Le Pont des Soupirs" My parents were often present in this My first shy attempts as a lecturer were made at Gaertnerplatz-Theater.—84-year-old Heinz capacity at the Toynbee Hall on Saturday there in the years 1911 and 1912. It was Tietjen will direct "Ariadne auf Naxos" in Evenings and sometimes I was allowed to an odd experience to stand in the pulpit Trier. accompany them. My most pleasant childhood that had been occupied by my teachers, Dr, Obituary: Rudolph Mate, the Polish-born memories are associated with the rooms of the Hildesheimer and Dr. Munk. camera man and film director, died in Bever­ Toynbee Hall, At first it was located in a My most pleasant experience was a lecture ly Hills aged 66; he shot the scenes of tormer hat factory which had belonged to a by the eye specialist. Dr. Salomon Hildes­ Dreyer's famous "Jeanne d'Arc" with Fal- member of the Lodge, Caspar Lichtenstein, heimer, who was more widely known by his conetti, and won five Oscar nominations,— The family lived in the front building, which Eduard Steuermann, the 72-year-old composer *as Unked with the factory premises by a large nickname, " Pom". He was the son of Dr. Hirsch Hildesheimer and the grandson of and pianist, has died in New York. He studied 'eranda. The roof of the veranda could be under Schoenberg and at one time was accom­ opened and it was therefore used as a Succah, Rabbi Dr. Azriel Hildesheimer, the founder of the Adass Yisroel community. " Pom " Hildes­ panist for Karl Kraus,—The once-famous opera t^he house lay in the Kaiserstrasse opposite the tenor, Laurenz Hofer, died in Hanover at the communal synagogue. Since the communal heimer delivered a lecture and then, like Dr, Ackermann, also appeared in the second, age of 78,—Dr. Fritz Schiff, the 73-year-old '^uccah was not nearly large enough, which former art critic of Berlin's " Welt am Abend " ^ade it necessary to hold Kiddush in two or artistic part of the evening. There he recited some of his own poems, one of which has and later director of the museum in Haifa, has three shifts, many people who did not like died in that city.—The formerly well-known Waiting gladly took the opportunity of going become particularly well known. He described the achievements of those days, such as the actress. Ilka Gmening, died in Hollywood at '0 the Lichtensteins. Mr. and Mrs. Liehten- the age of 87. She started at Beriin's Kleines stein made every effort to comply with the motor bus, electric tram, telephone, etc. (they commandment Hiddur Mitzvah and decorated had not yet progressed as far as radio and the Theater Unter den Linden before the First the Succah as beautifully as possible. To my atom bomb), and closed each verse with the War and taught many actors. ^yes at that age it was a most tasteful Succah. refrain: " Unsere Owaus Awaussenu haben !\ewg from Everyuihere : Leopold Lindtberg oszer dran gedacht", Then came the final will succeed Kurt Hirschfeld as director of had never seen such a profusion of silver verse, which was directed at this room and Zurich's " Schauspielhaus ". Carl Zuckmayer's J^d so many chestnuts, grapes, apples and only fitted a member of the Hildesheimer new play, "Das Leben des Horace A. W, noney. family. It ran something like this: Tabor", was first produced there by W, About 1902 the factory was moved to "Diese alten heil'gen Raeume Dueggelin, with Gustav Knuth, Marianne another building and in consequence the now Hoppe, Sonja Ziemann and film cameraman empty rooms could be let to the Berlin Lodges, Sind von Jugend mir vertraut, Hans Schneeberger in the cast.—For the first tn these rooms I heard, between 1905 and 1910 Meine ersten Kindertraeume hab in ihnen time Fritz Kortner directed a play in Vienna, approximately, a whole range of interesting ich geschaut, He presented his own adaptation of "John lectures, I think back to the literary historian Dass in diesen heil'gen Baeumen meine Gabriel Borkmann", with Paula Wessely and ^Ustav Karpeles, who was particularly con­ Spaesse iver'n belacht Ewald Balser, at the Burg. His own play, " Die cerned with research on Heine, to Albert Meine Owaus Awaussenu haben oszer dran Zwiesprache ", directed by Reichert, was staged ^ausner, who translated the poems of the gedacht!" at the Akademie-Theater. *>ible, but who was also active in politics and Here it has only been possible to give a Miscellanea: The memory of the author, Some decades previously had sometimes been short glimpse at the activities of the Toynbee Alfred Wolfenstein, who died shortly after the eceived by Bismarck and later by von Biilow Hall. The expression "Winter Help" was liberation of Paris on January 25, 1945, will be ^^ entrusted with various missions connected only invented later, but spiritual winter help honoured by the Academy of Arts in Berlin ^•th the Jews. I think of Arthur Kahn, the was surely provided in this warm atmosphere on February 7 with the foundation of a lather of Fritz Kahn (Jerusalem), who liked even in those days. " Wolfenstein Exhibition " and a " Wolfenstein Archiv". His works will be published by Kiepenheuer and Witsch.—Otto Katz, also known under the name of Andre Simone, who Feuchtwanger (London) Ltd. was executed in Prague at the time of the Slansky trial, was posthumously rehabilitated. Before 1933 he lived in Berlin and worked for Bankers Piscator, Home ISetvs: Josef Somlo, the film pro­ BASILDON HOUSE, 7-11, MOORGATE, E.C.2 ducer, who before 1933 worked in Berlin, has left London to live in Locarno.—Peter de Telephone: METropolitan 8151 Mendelssohn and your columnist took part in Representing : a broadcast about the history of Caf6 Kranzler for Berlin's " Rias" from London's German I, L FEUCHTWANGER BANK LTD I FEUCHTWANGER CORPORATION Food Centre,—Irene Prador is preparing a new B,B,C, series, " The World of Sound ". TEL AVIV : JERUSALEM : HAIFA 60 EAST 42nd ST,. NEW YORK, 17, N.Y, PEM 1965 Page 6 AJR INFORMATION January, was the spirited and witty leader of the con­ Josef Maitlis versation, full of humour and great wisdom_ The conversation revolved round the tasKS and work of the scientific institute and its A LEGACY BY FREUD London department. We wanted to secure Freud's supporting and guiding collaboration- Twenty-five years have now gone by since immediate tasks and plans, and to assure them­ He assured us that he would continue to take the death of Sigmund Freud, the illustrious selves, if possible, of the benevolent support a keen interest in the work of YIVO and that investigator of the soul-life of man and of its and collaboration of the London Institute, our work was very close to his heart. He had. complexes. I still possess notes and a number When I, as a member, sent the committee's he added, " common interests and feelings of letters connected with a visit to Freud greetings to Freud, he quickly replied with a with us, but, owing to his illness, and as ne after his arrival in England. warmth and friendliness characteristic of him, was almost an invalid, he could not take on Sigmund Freud's arrival in London in 1938, at the same time proudly professing himself any new tasks. The conversation now turnefl following terrible experiences under Nazi rule a Jew. He wrote : " I was very pleased to have to questions concerning his scientific works, in Vienna during the first months after the your greetings in London. You probably know- his struggle for the freedom of the researcher, seizure of power in Austria, understandably that I am glad and proud to profess that I which he carried on imperturbably all his evoked joy, and indeed, enthusiasm, every­ belong to Jewry, whereas my attitude to all life long. His face lit up when he spoke ol where in England. For days the English press religions, and therefore also to ours, is one these matters. He added modestly, with a was full of the event. Photographs and of critical rejection". When he had smile that said a lot: ". . . one thus has reports on Freud's arrival, lengthy articles " recovered from the recent event* in Vienna occasion to talk about oneself ". , devoted to the personality of this outstanding and the fatigue due to the subsequent man, appeared everywhere. Demonstrations In the course of the conversation Freuo journey " he would " be glad to have a visit talked about antisemitism. We know, 91 of friendship from all quarters were made to from you". Unfortunately, as he said in a him.. He received telegrams and greetings course, that in his earliest youth and later in second letter, also written by hand, his health his academic career, he had been shown from many people, some of whom did not even was " not so good as you wish and as I myself know him. Flowers came as well, and valuable unmistakable signs of Austrian antisemitisni- could desire ", Nevertheless, in his letter of His proud avowal of his Jewishness and of the presents, including many antiques such as June 23, he expressed the hope that we Freud greatly loved. The number of visitors, values of Jewry, despite his critical attitude to could soon go to see him ; he wanted, how­ religion, was that of a dignified and seli- too, who came to greet this famous guest in ever, to telephone me the following week and their midst, was never-ending ; among them confident Jew. "We are all of the same were personalities from every sphere of arrange a suitable time for the visit. But blood", he said emphatically. "At bottom cultural life, such as the English writer, he was too broken down in health, his troubles they are all antisemites", he continueo- H, G, Wells, Prinz Loewenstein, Stefan Zweig, became more acute and he still needed care " Perhaps here and there this is only latent, Amold HoUriegel, Professor Yahuda, the and rest. but antisemitism is there. Certainly there ar anthropologist. Professor Malinowski and last, Visit to Maresfield Gardens praiseworthy exceptions, such as Coudenhove- but not least, Chaim Weizmann, Calergi, for instance, and his book on anti­ Not until November 7, 1938 (two days before semitism" ("The Essence of Antisemitism The London Committee of the well-known Crystal Night in Germany) was a delegation appeared as early as 1901 and went throiign Yiddish Institute of Science in Vilna (YIVO) of the London YIVO Committee received by several editions, the last in 1930), "in whicn had sent Freud greetings, taking at the same Freud, The delegation comprised Dr, I, N. he takes the greatest pains to be just to u^ time the opportunity of asking him to receive Steinberg (the former Commissar of Justice But except for that the masses, broadly a delegation from the committee. Together in Lenin's Cabinet, later leader of the Freiland speaking, are antisemitic here as well as with Albert Einstein and Simon Dubnow, Movement), the Anglo-Jewish writer Joseph Freud was a member of the Honorary Board there"—thus Freud ended his remarks witn Leftwich and the writer of these lines. In resignation of the YIVO in Vilna and followed with great the roomy study of his pleasant house at interest the scientific works and achieve­ 20 Maresfield Gardens in Hampstead, a man Freud continued that he had found mu^.^ ments of the Institute since its foundation in of medium height, thin and frail, but with a friendship in England, and that since his 1925, The delegation wanted to acquaint the arrival he had met with inuch sympathy ana good-humoured, friendly smile, came to meet love. He confirmed with a certain amount 01 great Jewish scholar with the Institute's us. It was the 82-year-old Freud who stood before us, upright, with a rather sceptical, yet friendly expression. And his eyes had still their old brilliance, the passionate fire of the seeker after truth. His expressive forehead bespoke depth of character and Ackermans serenity. We had before us a man of true stature : unperturbed and honest, critical and upright, humane and noble, an indefatigable fighter—a man all of a piece. Thus the Gaon, R. Elijahu of Vilna, must have looked. Soon Chocolates he stretched out his delicate hand to us in greeting. Quickly a friendly atmosphere De Luxe reigned between the host and his guests. Freud spoke quietly and with calm certi­ tude. His voice was even, yet from time to IN BEAUTIFULLT time one noticed difficulties of speech DESIGNED occasioned by the apparatus he had in his PRESENTATION chin since an operation. Often his otherwise BOXES serene face showed signs of pain, which— scarcely noticed by the visitor—he was able MARZIPAN to control quickly. And his whole behaviour also changed. Once more his face had SPEOALITIES regained its lively expression, the wrinkles on his forehead disappeared as if by magic DIABETIC and his eyes had their old brilliance. The tone of his voice grew warmer and soon he CHOCOLATES

43, KENSINGTON CHURCH ST., LONDON, W.8 WES. 4359 and Wir kaufen Einzelwerke, Bibliotheken, 9. GOLDHURST TERRACE, Autographen und moderne Graphik FINCHLEY ROAD, N.W.6 Direktor : Dr, Joseph Suschitzky AP lOOt MAI. 2742 38a BOUNDARY RD., LONDON, N.W.S Telephone: MAI, 3030 AJR INFORMATION January, 1965 Page 7 A LEGACY BY FREUD "THANK-YOU BRITAIN" FUND (Continued from previous page) The appeal of the " Thank-You Britain " Fund has met with a wide response. Con­ satisfaction that he had received moving unshakeable belief in the eternal values of tributions have been received from all declarations of friendship, many telegrams and Jewry, which at a difficult time in the life of sections of the community, including flowers, "How does the beginning of 'La that community must be preserved and prominent scholars, scientists and artists, Belle Helene' run so nicely ? I see nothing cultivated, but is also an identification of him­ and it is particularly gratifying that the list but flowers' ", he added with a gentle smile. self with the fate of his sorely-tried people, of donors comprises not only members of But now, he feared, he would lose all this " We Jews", so reads this noteworthy the AJR and the other sponsoring organi­ sympathy. His latest book, "Moses and document, " have always held spiritual values sations, but also former refugees who Monotheism ", just about to appear, would be in high esteem, we have held them together usually have only little contact with their regarded as an attack on religion, specially by means of ideas and to them we owe our fellow immigrants from the Continent. on the Bible, all the more so in a country preservation up to the present day. One event There is a steady influx of payments, and which was closely bound up with the Bible. in our history has always seemed to me to During this intimate conversation, which was it can be stated at this stage that the lower be exemplary, that was when Rabbi Jochanan limit of the target indicated in the appeal frequently spiced with humour, he said he ben Sakkai elicited from the conqueror, after continuously received tracts and pamphlets letter has been reached. However, the from believers. Some wanted to convert him Fund will only be commensurate with the to Christianity, whereas the Jews wanted to size and standing of our community if oring him back to Judaism. " I shall lose ultimately a considerably higher amount sympathy, and I have no influence ", he added will be raised. It should also be kept in ruefully. mind that, to make the Fund representa­ tive of the community as a whole, it should Prom all sides he was warned not to have comprise contributions from everybody in the book published. Friends even tried to U-iL^f*'. our midst. The need for increased convince him that he could only increase research into social questions of this antisemitism in England, and moreover, that country, for which the Fund is to be used, the Anglican Church would never forgive him has only recently been stressed again in a for it. A well-known Jewish scholar (did he publication on " Social Research and a mean Professor Yahuda ?) had intervened National Policy for Science ". with him personally on the matter, he said, and Freud showed us a letter he had received The appeal will soon draw to its end. We, therefore, ask all those who so far have from him. Continuing the conversation <^A^x^- Without a change of tone, Freud said he knew not responded to let us have their contri­ ne would be hated for this. His theory of butions now. Payments may also be made religion had brought him an incredible num­ under a Deed of Covenant. Any material ber of insults ; " there is not an insult that I (donation forms, covenant forms, etc.) may nave not received ". And he admitted with a be obtained from the office of the " Thank- Snn that he was none the less looking forward You Britain" Fund, 8 Fairfax Mansions, to the appearance of the book. " The Jews London, N.W.3. Telephone : MAIda Vale Will be angry", but that would not do him 9096/7. sny harm, he said in conclusion. Many contributors added appreciative letters to their pajmients. The following Such was the great man in the intellectual letter from New Jersey (U.S.A.) may serve World. Incorruptible and imperturbable, honest as an example of a great number of and fearless, a gallant fighter for the ultimate messages written in the same vein : scientific tmths, a man who never compro­ mised. For him the greatest good and the " I was only eight years old when we eternal task of man on this earth was the came to Britain from (Jermany. The ways search for truth—not the " gleichgeschaltete " in which we were accepted in those diffi­ approach, regulated from above. cult times can never be repaid financially, From a Letter to the Author but the heartfelt gratitude that so many Shortly after our visit to Freud I was of us felt for many years needed a form approached by YIVO in Vilna with the pro­ (Transcript below) of expression. posal that I should undertake a propaganda the destruction of the Temple, permission to Journey to South Africa. I had told Freud " I am delighted to be able to contribute ?bout this and asked him to let me have an build the first institute of Jewish knowledge in to your fitting memorial". introduction of a few lines to take with me, Jabne (both words underhned by Freud), •vith characteristic warmth and friend- A difficult time for our people has come nness he reacted at once to my request. He again. It admonishes us to gather up our fhd not keep me waiting long, but sent me strength anew, in order to preserve our ^uite soon a letter written in his own hand culture and our knowledge undamaged amidst oated November 30, 1938; it may serve as a these storms ". legacy by Freud to Jewry and its cultural This legacy emanates from the loyalty to Values. In it is expressed not only Freud's his people of a great, proud Jew, who was able to make himself a link in the long chain of Jewish intellectualism, from Rabbi ben Sakkai via generations of great Jews to the Your Houu for:— present time. It was a worthy confession by Sigmund Freud, the faithful son of his people, CURTAINS, CARPETS, LINO, the investigator and thinker, who placed UPHOLSTERY culture and research above all other values in the world SPICIAUTY CONTINENTAL DOWN TRANSCREPT OF FACSIMILE Auch jetzt ist wieder eine schwere Zeit QUILTS! fuer unser Volk gekommen, Sie mahnt uns, unsere Kraefte von neuem zu sammein um unsere Kultur und unsere Wissenschaft ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS in diesen Stuermen ungeschaedigt zu bewahren, Welche Bedeutung unter IST I MATES FREB unseren Institutionen grade der Vivo in Wilna zukommt, das wissen Sie besser als DAWSON-LANE LIMITED ich und werden es den Freunden in Suedafrika ueberzeugend darstellen 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK koennen. Telephone : ARN. 6671 Mit herzlichen Wuenschen Ihr ergebener. Pmoml MtMtloa ef Mr. W. Shaclcman. Sigm. Freud. Page 8 AJR INFORMATION January, 1965 MEETING OF YOUNG GERMANS IN LONDON CHANUKAH AT THE AJR CLUB More than 150 people attended this year's Chanukah celebration of the AJR Club. They Address by Rabbi Dr. G. Salzberger were welcomed by the club's indefatigable chairman, Mrs. M. Jacoby. She also conveyea At a meeting of young Germans in London, urge of young people to clarify their own atti­ greetings from Mrs, G. Schachne, who was stiU Rabbi Dr. G, Salzberger gave a stimulating tude to a problem very much on their minds. recovering from a recent illness and, to tne talk about his experiences as a German Jew The meeting was held under the auspices great regret of the members, could not be before 1933, under the Nazi regime and after of the " Arbeitskreis 1961 ", a committee com­ present. Dr. Adelheid Levy spoke about tne the war. message of the Chanukah story which shoulo prising, amongst others, the Ministers of the inspire every Jew to work for the realisation Like the individual, he stated, each nation, German Protestant and Catholic Congrega­ of the Messianic vision of Judaism. . too, has its characteristic traits, though, when tions in London and former refugees from In the course of time the part taken by tne trying to define them, one has to beware of Germany. Its first Chairman was the late Dr. Horwell family in the club Chanukah cele­ unjustified generalisations. The Germans had Alfred Wiener. After his death, he was suc­ brations has become a tradition, and a very been described as a people of poets and ceeded by Mr. Herbert Sulzbach, who only welcome one at that. Under the motto. thinkers, and they had also excelled in the recently was awarded the Federal German "Something Old and Something New" there field of music. On the other hand, they had Cross of Merit, First Class, in recognition of was again a well-selected and varied pro­ developed an uncritical and unreserved belief his work for the promotion of understanding gramme of gramophone records. After tne in authority, especially in miUtary authority. recitals the members enjoyed cake, vyine ana between Germans and Jews and between Great lively conversations at the club premises, But for such an attitude, the happenings under Britain and the Federal Republic. the Nazi dictatorship would not have been The Arbeitskreis addresses itself to young conceivable. The speaker gave examples of Germans who are in this country as students, FRANKFURT JUDAICA LIBRARY the sufferings of the Jews in Germany between trainees, au pair girls or household helps. The A short while ago the Frankfurt City and 1933 and 1939, stressing that those who were meetings take place at about monthly intervals University Library was moved from the Rotn- unable to emigrate had to endure a much more and their subjects are connected with ques schild House am Untermainkai and the .emer­ cruel fate. tions of Germany's past and present as well gency bunkers into a new, modern building Turning to the position after the war, he as with the life in this country. The talks in the Bockenheimer Landstrasse, near tne said that he considered it as one of his tasks are given by expert German and English University and the Deutsche BibUothek, ine to encourage those Germans who were of good­ reading room of the Judaica Department speakers and are followed by lively discussions. has been accommodated on the third floor, ine will. Therefore, he followed invitations to At the next meeting on Wednesday, Janu­ Judaica Collection is the largest of its kind in address meetings in German cities, e.g,, dur­ ary 27th, at 8 p,m,, Dr. Kamperick, of the Germany ; formerly it was even the largest one ing Brotherhood Week. On such occasions, B.B.C, German Section, himself a member of on the whole Continent. Its nucleus consists he had noticed a deep interest in Judaism and a group of young anti-Nazi resistance fighters, of preserved pre-war possessions which haa Jewry, especially amongst young Germans who will speak about " Deutsche Jugend im been catalogued by the former director. Pro­ were children or even unborn when the Widerstand ", The meetings are held in the fessor Aron Freimann, in 1932. Whilst rnost atrocities against the Jews were perpetrated. CVJM, 35 Craven Terrace, W,2 (Underground of the Hebraica were destroyed by war action, These young people had had no part in the Lancaster Gate and Paddington, Buses 12 and the majority of the Judaica have been sayeo- As far as possible, they have been brought up happenings and could not be blamed for them 88 to Lancaster Gate and 27 and 38 to Pad to date and are continuously replenished. Thus, The audience listened to the talk with an dington). It would be appreciated if readers the collection has again attained its high pre­ attention rarely experienced at public meet­ who know young Germans drew their attention war standard. This is to a high extent due ings, and the ensuing debate testified not only to the work of the " Arbeitskreis". Pro­ to the assistance rendered by the Deutscne to the close contact which the speaker had grammes may be obtained from the German Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bad Godesberg) ana established with the listeners, but also to the CVJM. by the Frankfurt Municipality.—(E.G.L.)

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36 SACKVILLE STREET, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.I REGENT 7883 AJR INFORMATION January, 1965 Pag: 9 FELIX WELTSCH Dr. FeUx Weltsch died in Jerusalem a few OBITUARY weeks after his 80th birthday. As a dis­ tinguished philosopher he played a prominent LORD MARKS PROFESSOR ARTHUR NUSSBAUM part in the Jewish life of Prague, his city of Lord Marks, Chairman and Managing Professor Arthur Nussbaum died in New birth. He was also editor of the Jewish Director of Marks and Spencer, died in London York on November 22 in his 87th year. He periodical " Selbstwehr." At the same time, he at the age of 76. He was born in Manchester was an authority on Commercial and Inter­ held a responsible position with the Prague as the son of an immigrant from Poland, national Private Law, Until 1933 he was a University Library. After his emigration in Michael Marks, who, in partnership with Tom widely recognised Professor at BerUn Univer­ 1939 he worked with the Jewish National and Spencer, started the Penny Bazaars which sity, When he had to emigrate he was offered University Library in Jerusalem, He was also were to become the foundation of the chain- hospitaUty by Columbia University which closely associated with the activities of the store empire. Simon Marks was knighted in enabled him to continue his research and organisations of Jews from Central Europe, 1944 and created a baron in 1961. His teaching activities. He has several standard many of whose leaders were his personal achievements in business, coupled with his works, both in German and in English, to his friends. concern for the welfare of his employees, were credit. Professor Nussbaum also took an Felix Weltsch wrote a number of remark­ widely praised in the obituaries published in active interest in Jewish affairs. When he able philosophical books, most of them in the national press. Lord Marks was also a was still a young lecturer he pubUshed a mono­ German, e.g., " Das Wagnis der Mitte. Ein munificent philanthropist and gave consider­ graph to which his teacher, Franz von Liszt, Beitrag zur Ethik und PoUtik der Zeit" able sums to British concerns, including gifts wrote the preface, unmasking the ritual (1936). His last great book, "Nature, Ethics of over £160,000 to University College and murder legend. For many years he was a and Politics ", was published only in Hebrew. over £150,000 to the Royal College of Surgeons. Board member of the " Central-Verein ". He was one of the two most intimate friends From his early youth Lord Marks was of Franz Kafka (the other being Max Brod), closely associated with Zionism. As a friend and one of his works deals with " Religion of Chaim Weizmann he was one of the PROFESSOR FRIEDRICH HERTZ and Humour in Kafka's Life and Work". founders of what came to be known as the Manchester school of Zionist ideology. He The economist and sociologist Professor JULIUS GOLDSCHMIDT took part in the discussions which led to Friedrich Hertz passed away in London on The art dealer, Mr. Julius Goldschmldt. died the Balfour Declaration and substantially con­ November 20, 86 years old. He was born in in London, Born in Frankfurt (Main) in 1882, tributed to funds required for building up Vienna where he was Counsellor at the he became a member of the celebrated firm Israel, When, in 1933, the Central British Austrian Chancellery for 12 years from 1918, of J, M, S. Goldschmidt, which had been jund was founded to meet the emergency In 1930 he became Professor of Sociology of founded in 1859 by his father and his two tor the German Jews, he agreed to become Halle University, Accused of complicity at uncles. In 1935 he moved to London. " His one of the Directors of the Appeal. He served the time of the Reichstag fire, he returned to interests from the first were canaUsed in on the Council of the C.B.F. for many years Vienna in 1933 and, after the " Anschluss ", sculpture and he was the best connoisseur of ^nd was later made one of the C.B.F.'s Hon. emigrated to England. His works include Renaissance bronzes of his time", writes Mr. residents. "Rasse und Kultur" (1925) in which he John Pope-Hennessy in The Times. Mr, Gold­ The AJR and the Council of Jews from exposes the fallacies of H. S. Chamberlain's schmidt was also a member of the London ^ermany have sent messages of sympathy to race theories. His last work was a trilogy, Committee set up for the preparation of a the family of the late Lord Marks. " The Development of the German Mind ". History of the Jews in Frankfurt, Whatever your figure whatever the occasion MUNICH i jS^ GREETS ITS EMIGRATED FORMER FELLOW-CITIZENS

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emerging also in the old-established democra­ cies such at the United States. IN MEMORY OF TWO ARTISTS Also, by virtue of the Jews' social-economic position today, the Jew was now for the nrsi Irene Triesch Leopold Lindtberg, Kurt Horwitz, Ernst Gins­ time on the other side of the " have-nots . berg, Erwin Kaiser, Wolfgang Heinz, von In countries on the verge of revolution ana Although unknown to the younger genera­ Beneckendorff and many others have to thank social upheaval this represented a most tion, Irene Triesch will still be remembered him for a place in Zurich's ensemble. He dangerous situation. Although Castro was by many. She took her own life in a hoUday paved the way for the two Swiss playwrights, probably the most pro-Jewish ruler in tne home near Berne because she was afraid of Frisch and Duerrenmatt; Zuckmayer's "Devil's world, as a middle-class community Cuban going blind. The 87-year-old widow of the General" was first produced in Zurich, and Jewry was ruined and this, said the speaker, once famous pianist. Frederic Lamond, until Brecht directed his " Puntilla " there after his could happen any day to much larger Jewisn a few years ago lived near London. return from the States. communities.—(J.C) Irene Triesch started as a member of Otto After the war, Hirschfeld staged Ibsen's Brahm's ensemble at Berlin's Lessing-Theater, " Doll's House " in Tel Aviv, but refused offers CATHOLICS AND JEWS until Rudolf Bernauer and Carl Meinhardt put to return to Germany. Instead he interested her under contract. She played Lady Macbeth, Gustav Knuth and Rolf Henninger in tlie The third session of the Ecumenical Council Strindberg's " Kronbraut", partnered by Paul Schauspielhaus after many of the regulars had ended without the promulgation of tne Wegener, and " Hedda Gabler ", with Ludwig left for German theatres. One day, when the " Jewish chapter ", part of a " Declaration on Hartau as Eylert Loewberg. She took the history of German literature and the German- Non-Christians". This will not take place part of Indra's daughter in " Traumspiel", speaking theatre in exile is written, Kurt until the next session of the Ecumenical with Hartau, Kaysler. Alfred Abel, Frieda Hirschfeld's name will feature prominently in Council, which it is presumed will be late i" Richard, Heinz Mierendorff. Julie Marba, Her­ it. He will be missed by many, 1965 or early in 1966. There was, however, mann Picha and Guido Herzfeld in the cast. an overwhelmingly favourable vote for a But one day she decided not to act again and PEM declaration on relations between the Roman turned down all offers. Instead, she travelled CathoUc Church and the Jews, and on a section all over the country and gave lecture tours containing condemnation of any and an with readings from the Bible and poetry. GOLDMANN ON JEWISH SURVIVAL discrimination. . . Eventually she completely disappeared Delivering the Herbert Samuel commemora­ Father T. Corbishley, a leading Jesuit i.n from the public scene. Soon she was entirely tive lecture of the British Friends of the this country, spoke on "The Vatican CouncU forgotten. Nobody knew that she lived in Hebrew University in London, Dr, Nahum and the Jews " at a meeting of the B'nai B ntn Scotland after the death of her beloved hus­ Goldman made the forecast that the present First Lodge of England. He refuted any sug­ band. Several years ago she wrote to me, century might turn out to he a most diflScult gestion that Church teachings were responsiDie though we had never met, and asked me to one from the point of view of Jewish survival. for antisemitism, stating it was important to visit her in Tunbridge Wells, but I am sorry Throughout centuries of persecution and distinguish between the official teachings oi to say I never went. poverty, he said, the Jewish people in the the Church and the unfortunate way in whicn Diaspora had learned how to remain Jews in those teachings were often interpreted in Kurt Hirschfeld bad times. The new problem which had arisen Sunday schools. The Church had no ofBciai was how to survive as a distinctive community accusation of deicide against the Jews, ana Kurt Hirschfeld died in Tegernsee, after a when it seemed comparatively easy to be a in putting forward its Schema the Vatican long illness, at the age of 62. He was buried Jew. Council was simply trying to rid the '""J^ in Zurich where, since 1961, he was the suc­ No Jewish community, including that of primitive-minded CathoUcs of this idea and to cessor of Dr, O. WaelterUn as the director of Russia, was in any serious physical danger, re-educate those who needed re-educating. Schauspielhaus. but Russian Jewry's survival as a community Roman Catholics were today fully aware or Hirschfeld was born in Lehrte, near Han­ with ties to Jewish religion and Jewish culture the injustices perpetrated by Christians over, and started as a journalist in Berlin. and with links to the Jewish people outside towards Jews for centuries. " Thank God v/e Later he became the literary manager of was in danger. The Russian Government, said are coming out of our Catholic ghetto. Gustav Hartung in Darmstadt. In 1933 he Dr. Goldmann was not conducting " a conscious declared the speaker, stating that the respon­ went to Switzerland and joined the theatre in antisemitic policy " but the effect of the totali­ sibility of Catholics was not primarily to their Zurich as Dramaturg. There, he became the tarian system was a grave threat to minorities fellow-Catholics but to all fellow-men. Tod^y rallying point of refugee actors and made the generally. This type of threat was not con­ any reasonably intelligent Catholic knew tnai Schauspielhaus the leading German-speaking fined only to the totalitarian regimes. It was they had a lot to learn from other traditions stage outside the Nazi-governed territories. spreading in the newly established States and and most of all from the Jews.—(J.C.)

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Si'r? AJR INFORMATION January, 1965 Page 11 INTERNATIONALES ERBRECHT Birthdays Eiii neues Quellenwerk . Auf dem Gebiete des internationalen Rechts (mit der bemerkenswerten Abweichung des PROFESSOR FRIEDA WUNDERLICH 80 ^t fiir die Juden unseres Zeitalters das Erbrechts uberlebender Eltern neben den *^rbrecht zu besonderer Bedeutung gelangt, Kindern des Erblassers), als vor allem auf The authority on social science. Professor sind doch durch die Zerstreuung der Juden das historisch bedingte Nebeneinander der Dr. Frieda Wunderlich, recently celebrated "^ber die ganze Erde vor allem durch die her SOth birthday in New York. Until 1933 gesetzlichen Regelung aus der turkischen Zeit, she was professor at the " Berufspaedagogische flucht vor dem Naziregime und dem zweiten den Gesetzen aus der Zeit des englischen Institut" in Berlin. She also edited the Weltkrieg auf der einen Seite und die massen- Mandats und den seit der Errichtung des periodical " Soziale Praxis" and headed the nafte Vernichtung jiidischen Lebens auf der Staates Israel ergangenen Vorschriften. " Buero fuer Sozialpolitik ". After her emi­ anderen Seite zahllose erbrechtliche Bezie- Fiir viele Juden ist das Erbrecht Polens von gration Professor Wunderlich taught at the nungen entstanden,. Es besteht daher das grosstem Interesse. Es ist dadurch kom­ New School for Social Research in New York. i^ediirfnis nach Orientierung iiber die in den pliziert, dass alle Erbfalle aus der Zeit der Though she retired several years ago she is verschiedenen Staaten und im internationalen deutschen Besetzung wahrend des zweiten still active as a research worker and as late nechtsverkehr geltenden erbrechtlichen Vor­ Weltkrieges nicht dem einheitlichen polnischen as 1958 pubhshed a monograph about " Farmer schriften, and Farm Labor in the Russian Zone of Erbrechtsdekret von 1946 unterliegen, das am Germany". She was awarded an Honorary Hier erfiillt das von Prof. Af, Ferid und 1. Januar 1947 in Kraft getreten ist, sondern Doctorate by the University of Cologne in 1954. Amtsgerichtsrat Dr. K. Firsching herausgege- dem Recht desjenigen Teils der Polnischen Dene Quellenwerk Internationales Erbrecht Republik, dem der Erblasser in der Verfol­ (yerlag c, H, Beck, Miinchen und Berlin) eine gungszeit, die mit dem 8, Mai 1945 endete, WILL ESSINGER 80 Wichtige Aufgabe. Von diesem Werk sind unterstand. Dies ist vor allem auch fiir das Dereits friiher die Abschnitte iiber den deutsche Wiedergutmachungsrecht von Bedeu­ Mr. Will Essinger (fonnerly Mannheim), a ^itteleuropaischen Rechtskreis (Deutschland, tung. Bis zum Inkrafttreten des einheitlichen brother of the late Miss Anna Essinger, cele­ ^esterreich, Schweiz), iiber den romanischen polnischen Erbrechtsdekrets umfasste das brated his 80th birthday on November 1 with Kechtskreis (Frankreich, Italien, Vatikan- polnische Staatsgebiet namlich funf Rechts- his family and his friends. Mr. Essinger is stadt), Uber das Recht der Vereinigten gebiete entsprechend der fruheren Zugehorig- well known through his activities in the Zionist ^taaten von Amerika, und uber den slawischen Movement and through his collection of old keit, und in jedem dieser Teilgebiete gait ein and classic works on bees. wechtskreis (Sowjetunion, Tschechoslowakei, anderes Erbrecht. In der Darstellung des ^.ulgarien, Jugoslawien) erschienen. Die polnischen Erbrechts durch Dr. G, Geilke von einzelnen Landerabschnitte bringen nicht der Universitat Hamburg kommt diese beson­ hur die einschlagigen Gesetzestexte (in der dere historisch bedingte Eigenart des polnischen AJR GLASGOW Landesprache und in deutscher Uebersetzung) Erbrechts deutlich zum Ausdruck und eine sondern auch eine systematische Darstellung At the annual general meeting held by the vergleichende Tabelle sowie eine Kartenskizze Society of Jewish Refugees on Sunday, Novem­ ler Grundziige einschliesslich des Kollisions- geben einen Ueberblick iiber diese kompli­ '^echts und auch des Erbschaftssteuerrechts. ber 22, 1964, the following oflSce-bearers were zierten Rechtsverhaltnisse, elected: Chairman, Mr. B. N. Bergmann; In der soeben erschienenen vierten Lieferung Die Darstellung des Erbrechts Ungarns hon. treasurer. Miss Ilse Fuss; hon. auditor, des umfangreichen Werks wird das Erbrecht entspricht nicht dem der anderen Lander. Zwar Mr. J. Singer ; delegates to the Glasgow Jewish ^es Staates Israel sowie das fiir viele Juden ist das Erbrecht des Zivilgesetzbuchs der Representative Council, Mr. B. N. Bergmann so wichtige Erbrecht Polens und Ungarns Ungarischen Volksrepublik von 1959 im and Mr. J. Singer. oehandelt. ungarischen und deutschen Text abgedruckt, The Society of Jewish Refugees in Glasgow doch ist das alte ungarische Recht, das auf is affiUated to the Association of Jewish Refu­ Das Erbrecht Israels ist von dem Tel Aviver gees in Great Britain. It holds monthly meet­ ^echtsanwalt Dr. Fritz H. Strauss bearbeitet, ganz anderen Grundsatzen beruht, nur in seinen Grundziigen skizziert. ings for members and friends, whose interests ^s ist ihm gelungen, dieses von anderen it protects. ^echtsgebieten so verschiedene Erbrecht in Fiir die funfte Lieferung, die bereits vorbereitet wird, sind die Abschnitte Spanien, Through its delegates it keeps in contact Seinen Besonderheiten dem Auslander nahe zu with the community. At the moment it sup­ wingen. Dies bezieht sich weniger auf die Niederlande, Belgien und Luxemburg vor­ gesehen. Auch das englische Erbrecht ist in ports the Thank-You Britain Fund, whereby "egelung der gesetzlichen Erbfolge, die in lasting expression will be given of the grati­ vielem dem deutschen Recht entspricht Vorbereitung. p^ RUDOLF R. LEVY. tude felt by the refugees to the British people.

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SOUTH AFRICAN JEWRY AND APARTHEID GERMANY AND ISRAEL London Lecture of Dr. de Blank This year's Robert Waley Cohen Memorial Lecture under the auspices of the Council oi SCIENTISTS AND MILITARY AID between Germany and Israel and for effective Christians and Jews was delivered by th^ measures against the activities of German Right Rev, Joost de Blank (Canon of West­ Although Bonn has failed to deny reports scientists in Egypt. The signatories Include minster, formerly Archbishop of Cape Tovin) that West Gennany has provided military aid Professor D. Gollwitzer and the Nobel Prize who spoke about " Inter-Race Relationships • for Israel, the larger and more responsible winner Professor Max Born. Professors of Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, M,P., was m German newspapers continued to show under­ all German universities will be asked to asso­ the chair. standing of Israel's security situation and ciate themselves with the appeal. In the course of his address Dr, de BlanK demanded that the Government should take a A plea for diplomatic recognition was also said that the whole matter of inter-race rela­ clear and proper stand on the question of made by Franz Josef Strauss, chairman of the tionships had been bedevilled by man's refusal relations with Israel. Only the most extremist Bavarian Section of the Christian Democratic to live up to the conception of brotherhood oi newspapers denounced this alleged military Party, in an article published in the weekly all men, as it is taught by the great religions. aid, but it was suggested by some papers that Der Stern. After dealing with the evils of apartheid he Israel should realise that nothing can be done said: " Among the most valued opponents oi to halt the activities of German scientists in Collection of Signatures Illegal? segregation in South Africa have been some Egypt or to extend the statute of limitations Jews, but by no means all. This came as a on the prosecution of war criminals. The Federal Board of Employers' Organisa­ somewhat shattering shock to me. I was <1^*? Two scientists. Dr. Hans Jensen and Dr. tions in Duesseldorf has criticised the cam­ certain that the Jews, who, alas, know what Wolfgang Centner, of Heidelberg, on their paign for West Germany's diplomatic recogni­ it means to be discriminated against, will be retum from a visit to Israel have denied mili­ tion of Israel which is being conducted among the chief enemy of any discrimination policy tary co-operation between West German and employees of West German firms by the Trade against other people. And it is by no means Israeli atomic research experts. They said that Union Federation. always the religious Jews in South Africa wno their associations with Israeli colleagues were In a circular the employers' board points have been most forthcoming and courageous the same as those maintained with more than out that the collection of signatures for the in the conflict. It is said that official Jewry, fifty scientists from many other countries. A appeal is illegal as this is a political issue and through its South African Board of Deputies, recent statement by the official spokesman of political activities of any kind within firms are has been pathetically reluctant to speak ajio the West German Government in Bonn that not allowed by German law. work boldly for racial justice. Indeed, on one West Germany was co-operating with Israel occasion its secretary came to see me to apolo­ in the peaceful use of atomic energy was des­ gise for the weakness of its witness. It was cribed as untrue by the two men. There CO-OPERATION IN HOUSING SCHEME disheartening but understandable. The Jews were no plans to extend co-operation beyond According to Herr Georg Leber, trade union had suffered so much themselves. The flames basic research, they said, leader and member of the board of directors of antisemitism had burned so dangerously of Neue Heimat, the building company of the brightly in South Africa during the years oi PLEAS FOR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS West German trade unions, it is possible that Hitler's war that perhaps they were bound to Neue Heimat may co-operate with Rassco, be timorous." In an Open Letter, addressed to Federal the Israeli construction company, in the erec­ However, whilst it might be easy to criticise Parliament President Gerstenmaier, Chancel­ tion of 3,000 housing units near Tel Aviv. the position in countries overseas, we hao lor Erhard and Foreign Minister Schroeder. Herr Leber, who recently returned from a visit only to think of places like Smethwick or 14 well-known university professors called to Israel, said that the project would cost Notting Hill to realise that we, too, had to for the establishment of diplomatic relations 50 million marks. stand the test.

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