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INFORMATION ISSUED by the ASSOCIATION of JEWISH REFUGEES in GREAT BRITAIN Office and Consulting Hours: 8 FAIRFAX MANSIONS, FINCHLEY RD, (Corner Fairfax Rd.) VOL, XX No. 11 November, 1965 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN Office and Consulting Hours: 8 FAIRFAX MANSIONS, FINCHLEY RD, (corner Fairfax Rd.). London, N,W,3 Monday lo Thunday 10a.m.—Ip.m. 3-6p.m. Telephone : MAIda Vale 9096 7 (General Ollice and Welfare ter the Aged), MAIda Vale 4449 (Empioyment Agency, annuallv licensed by the L.CC,. Friday lOa.m.—lp.m. and Social Services Dept.} of radical right-wing parties and groups in Germany should not be underestimated. WORLD-WIDE SOLIDARITY Furthermore, it was realised that the task of strengthening democracy and eradicating Council of Jews from Germany Meets group hatred and extreme nationalism in Germany could only be carried out by the Germans themselves. On the other hand, Last month, the Council of Jews from authorities in charge of legislation on it was realised that genuine efforts at over­ Germany held a Conference in London, at indemnification. A detailed account of the coming the past and arriving at a new con­ which its affiliated organisations from Council's effective work in this sphere ception of the image of the Jew were being Belgium. France. Great Britain, Israel, would be published soon. made by various sections of the German South America and the U.S.A. were repre­ In his financial report, Mr. B. Woyda people, especially the younger generation. sented. This wide range of countries in (London), Hon. Secretary of the Council, The importance of these efforts was itself testifies to the strong sense of solid­ dealt with the distribution of the funds recognised by the Conference and, in the arity and to the organisational capacity received by the Council in the course of view of all participants, called for a Declara­ retained by the German Jews after their the past years out of the heirless Jewish tion of the Council on its present attitude to dispersion. Without wishing to minimise property in Germany. But for the tenacity post-war Germany. A resolution substanti­ the importance of world-wide federations of the Council, these funds would hardly ating this attitude was unanimously passed. built up by emigrated victims of Nazi perse­ have become available for the organisations Its full text is published below, cution from other European countries, it of former German Jews all over the world. W.R. can certainly be stated that the Council They enabled the affiliated groups to carry of Jews from Germany has a particularly out constructive relief work, especially by high degree of success to its credit. This the establishment of Homes for the Aged. is, to no mean extent, due to the fact that However, Mr, Woyda stated, no substantial RESOLUTION PASSED AT its affiliates in each country carry out wide­ further payments were to be expected, and COUNCIL CONFERENCE spread activities under the guidance of a the affiliates would therefore soon have to large number of devoted, experienced and secure the continuation of their relief work On October 10, 1965, the Council of Jews responsible personalities. These affiliates by their own efforts. Equally, they would from Germany, the representative world comprise the Council's founder organisa­ also have to contribute to the modest organisation of the former German Jews, tions in Israel (Irgun Olej Merkas Europa), administrative expenses of the Council, as held a conference in London at which its U.S.A. (American Federation of Jews from they had done during the first post-war affiliated organisations from Belgium, Central Europe) and Great Britain (AJR), years. France, Great Britain, Israel, South the groups of the twice-persecuted German America and the U.S.A. were represented. Jews in Belgium (Coref) and France (Solid­ Mr. Woyda also reported that the book, After a thorough discussion, particularly arite). and the federation of communities in " Bewaehrung im Untergang," published by about the attitude of the former German South American countries (Centra). Beyond the Council in memory of the perished Jews to Germany, it was stated that by the this, the Council maintains contacts with Jewish communal workers, had met with a completion of legislation on indemnification former German Jews in many other wide response, and that the publication of a and by the opening of diplomatic relations countries of resettlement. second edition was under consideration. between the Federal Republic and the State of Israel, a decisive stage in the develop­ Founded in 1945, with the late Dr. Leo Attitude to Germany ment of post-war policy has been reached. Baeck as its first President, the Council It was also stressed that, especially by the may now look back on 20 years' continuous The activities so far referred to re-affirm German trials of Nazi criminals and by work. It has acted as the spokesman and the need for a world-wide representation relevant literature, the catastrophe of the trustee of the Jews from Germany in those of the Jews from Germany. Yet the raison National Socialist terror regime has been questions which concern all former German d'etre of the Council is not based solely on fully exposed before the eyes of the Ger­ Jews wherever they may now live. Its two the " practical " tasks it has to fulfil. The man people and of mankind. Special outstanding achievements are the work for Council also has to clarify, define and reference was made to the fact that for a indemnification and the foundation of the express its views on the wider problems to number of years important sections of the Leo Baeck Institute for the promotion of which its members have a specific approach German people, particularly of German research work on the history of the Jews in in view of the specific fate they have in youth, have endeavoured to arrive at a Germany. common. It was under this aspect that the genuine understanding of the Jewish ques­ participants of the Conference felt the need tion and its part in the German past, and Report on Indemnification for a thorough discussion on the attitude have made efforts to eradicate the dis­ of the Jews from Germany towards their torted image of the Jew created by the country of origin. The timing of the debate propaganda machinery of the Nazi regime. The Conference was presided over by was prompted by two recent events : the JJr. S. Moses (Jerusalem), President of the completion of legislation on indemnification The Council welcomes such efforts and Council. In his report on indemnification and the establishment of diplomatic rela­ considers it its task to support them Or- W. Breslauer (London), a Vice-President tions between the Federal Republic and the within the limits of its capacity, as far as of the Council, stated that the main requests State of Israel, this is desired on the German side. On the put forward by the Council when the Final Jewish side, during the past ten years the Indemnification Law was prepared, have Whilst there were differences of opinion Leo Baeck Institute, founded by the Coun­ been met. Inter alia, widows who had amongst the participants of the debate with cil, has been trying to contribute to the iost their husbands before 1953 were regard to a number of details, there was rectification of the historical misinterpre­ now eligible for the award of pensions for unanimity on the principles. All agreed tations by the publication of unbiased their husbands' loss of career. Further­ that the wounds inflicted on our generation works on the history of the German Jews more, the discrimination against widows can never heal, and that it would, therefore, and its interdependence with German his­ Whose husbands had died in the Eastern be out of place to conceive the idea of a tory. The Council takes the view that, as part of pre-war Germany had been elimi­ " normalisation" of the relationship far as this is possible during the lifetime of nated. Throughout the years, the speaker between Jews and Germans in our lifetime. our generation, these efforts on both sides stated, the representatives of the Council It was also stated by some speakers that, may help to further the gradual relaxation nad been in contact with the German in the light of past experience, the activities of the tension between Jews and Germans. Page 2 AJR INFORMATION November, 1965 GERMANY TODAY TRIALS Extermination of Lithuanian Jews ISRAELI ENVOY RECEIVED NEO-NAZI INCIDENTS The West Berlin Senate of the West German Federal Supreme Court, in a retrial on charges President Heinrich Luebke of West Germany A series of neo-Nazi and antisemitic inci­ of complicity in the mass murder of Lithua­ received the Israeli Ambassador, Mr. Asher dents occurred in the Charlottenburg district nian Jews in 1941, sentenced two former S.S. Ben-Nathan, for the first time since his arrival of West Berlin just before the West German officers to hard labour for life. Dr. Werner six weeks previously. When Mr, Ben-Nathan parliamentary elections, A Jewish woman Schey and Karl Struve had been sentenced arrived President Luebke was on holiday and was hit over the head by a German artist, on the charges to ten and nine years' hard Mr. Ben-Nathan presented his credentials to who called her a " dirty Jewish swine " and labour respectively by a court in Aurich, the President's representative, the Premier of a " Jewish rat ". A pohceman was beaten up North Germany, last year. The retrial was Hesse, Dr, Georg August Zinn, by a man suspected of smearing Nazi swas­ ordered after the prosecution appealed. tikas. A stone, bearing a note to the effect The President raised the (juestion of the that the beating of the policeman was " a first Sobibor Camp Jerusalem demonstrations against Dr, Rolf warning to traitors " was thrown through the Pauls, the first West Gennan Ambassador to window of Charlottenburg police station, Twelve former S.S.
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