VOL. XX No. 4 APRIL, 1965 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE- ASSOCIATION OF JEWISII REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN a FAIRFAX MANSIONS, FINCHLEY RD. (corner Falrtax Rd.). London. N.W.I 0//ice and Consulting Houn:

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and the choice of appropriate subjects have JOINT EFFORTS BEAR FRUIT been secured. The appeal received a good deal of notice Response to "Thank-you Britain" Fund in the national press and on radio and tele­ vision, but though good progress has been In this issue readers wUl find a prelimi­ agreement with the wording of an appeal made in terms of money collected, the nary list of contributors to the " Thank-you letter should be no excuse if one is in number of contributors is as important as Britain " Fund. It includes former refugees favour of the cause for which it is meant. the total amount. Therefore, for the benefit from all walks of life, among them many As it happened, quite a few expressly of those AJR niembers and their friends Well-known personalities. In addition, stated that it was just the impact of the who so far have not contributed, a dona­ there have been quite a few contributors letter which prompted them to associate tion form is enclosed in this issue. Those *ho wished to remain anonymous. themselves with the Fund. who want to contribute outright donations At the time of going to press about The suggestion was also put forward that should return the form, together with their i-67,000 has been raised, of which £46,000 contributors should have been given a remittance. Those who want to make their ^''e gross payments under deeds of choice between several diflerent objects of payment under a Deed of Covenant, thus covenant. This result is certainly encourag­ the Fund. This would have been impos­ increasing the benefit from their contribu­ ing., especially as it has been achieved sible because, whatever the ultimate result tion at no cost to themselves, should ask Jpainly by written propaganda and, there- will be, nothing useful could be done if for the necessary forms. Contributors lore, at very lov/ administrative cost. the sum were split up into three or more should also state on the donation form When the appeal was initiated its spon­ parts. Others said that a more " tangible " whether their name may be included in sors were entirely uncertain of the result. object should have been chosen. With the the final list of donors, which will not Iherefore they had to conceive a scheme best intentions each of them proposed a mention the amounts. which did not depend on a fixed target, but cause particularly near to his heart, and The Fund will only have achieved its Would lend itself to a certain elasticity. This the wide range of suggestions included, actual object if it has commanded the Was one of the reasons—though by no among others, care for handicapped chil­ active support of the vast majority of the ^eans the decisive one—for which the dren, for disabled soldiers or for refugees former refugees in this country. For this establishment of annual research fellow­ from South Africa, as well as support of reason it is vital that everybody should ships, the amounts of which could be organisations which fight for freedom and give something — be it large or small, adjusted to the funds available, appeared justice in this country and abroad. The according to his means — but, at any rate, particularly suUabie. variety of suggested objects in itself shows a token of participation. that it would have been impossible to con­ Approvals and Comments ceive a scheme which would have appealed GEORGE MIKES LAUNCHES APPEAL to thousands of people without exception. AMONG HUNGAKLINS Taking stock at this stage, it would be Yet valuable as aU these causes are, the To launch the "Thank-You Britain" Fund Wrong to deny that the scheme has met not beneficiaries would have been organisations appeal among refugees from Hungary, the °nly with general enthusiastic approval but already in existence. What the prepara­ author, Mr. George Mikes, held an "At Home " also with some criticism. Some people said tory committee had to aim at was a scheme v/hich was attended by a number of prominent that our debt of gratUude had already been which stands out in its own right as an scientists, scholars, artists and industrialists. amply repaid, because quite a few in our identifiable lasting mark of gratitude It was decided to form an Appeal Committee which, among others, will include the con­ Jl^i.dst had rendered outstanding services to expressed by a community which, in a cer­ ductor, Mr. Georg Solti, the pianist, Mr. Louis this country as scholars, scientists and tain phase of history, was faced with a Kentner, and Dr. Julius Jakobovits, Chairman ^rtists. It appears anyhow doubtful common fate, but which in the course of of the Federation of Hungarian Jews in Great Whether the ordinary refugee is entitled to time is bound to disintegrate. Britain. jake credit for such individual achieve- f^ents ; but it is certainly no accident that Proceeds for Practical Purpose Jne scheme has been endorsed to a particu­ AJR SPONSORS MEMORIAL MEETING larly high extent by these prominent per- The research to be sponsored by the This year's meeting in memory of the ^onaUties, some of whom act as Patrons, Fund will not be devoted to abstract or ^^ many of whom have contributed to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and of the six theoretical subjects, but to questions of miUion Jewish martyrs wiU be held on Sun­ dire practical importance. None of the day, April 25, at the Shaftesbury Theatre. , *t was also put forward that practically manifold problems with which society is It will, at the same time, mark the 20th ail refugees had done their duty during the confronted in our days can be brought anniversary of the Uberation of the concen­ war, especially as members of the Forces, nearer to a solution by mere empirical tration camps. Sir EHwyn Jones, Q.C., M.P., t?K ^^^^ ^" peace-time they had also con- action. Any large-scale and comprehensive the Attorney-General, has agreed to address ij^uted to the development of industry measures have to be based on fact-finding the meeting, and the names of the other °nd commerce. Therefore, it was claimed, and analytical research work. The prob­ speakers, which will probably include Dr. tni ^°^^^ overdo the case if they now lem of higher education, at present under Nahum Goldmann, will be announced °°^ additional steps for expressing their discussion, could not have been approached shortly. The meeting will start at 3 p.m. ^jatitude. As an answer to this argument in a methodical way but for the Robbins As in previous years the AJR is among int ^^finot do better than quote a successful Report, produced under the guidance of the sponsoring organisations of the func­ '"dustriaUst: "We certainly have contri­ one of the patrons of the " Thank-you tion, and it is earnestly hoped that many buted to this country, but if we had not Britain " Fund. The same applies to ques­ members will attend, thus paying tribute to een admitted this opportunity would not tions such as housing, care for elderly the memory of those whom they have lost in i!, . arisen and our Uves would have ended people, integration of immigrants from the holocaust. Tickets for reserved seats m Auschwitz". overseas, to mention only a few of them. (free of charge) may be obtained from the I ythers again felt that our sense of grati- The need for thorough research in the field AJR Office, 8 Fairfax Mansions, London, jifle had been stated in an unduly strong of welfare work has been repeatedly N.W.3 (MAIda Vale 9096/7), which, after r?y m the appeal letter. A letter which is stressed by all quarters concerned. By the publication of this issue, will also be able *aaressed to more than 10,000 persons can co-operation of the British Academy in the to give further information about the pro­ gp^^r be expected to meet with the unquali- administration of the Fund, the qualifica­ gramme. ^0 approval of every recipient, but dis­ tions of the research workers to be selected Page 2 AJR INFORMATION April, 1965 GERMAISY TODAY TRLALS Warsaw Ghetto STATUTE OF LIMITATION INVESTIGATOR'S PAST A Bielefeld court has imposed nine sen­ Bonn Parliament Considers Extension Herr Erwin Schuele, head of the Central tences of hard labour for life on Heinrich Agency for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Klaustermeyer, one for each of the nine Jews The first step towards extension or even Ludwigsburg, has admitted that he had been he was convicted of kilUng in the Warsaw aboUtion of the statute of Umitation on Nazi a member of the Nazi Party, but denied East Ghetto in 1941-43. The judge said Klauster­ war crimes was taken by the Federal German German charges that he has been shielding meyer had not received orders for these ParUament on March 10, when it was decided war criminals. He told reporters that he had kilUngs but had acted from " sheer lusl foj to pass on the matter to the Legal Committee appUed for Nazi Party membership in 1937 to murder ". He had hated Jews all his Ufe and for further consideration. Among the speakers escape persecution for his anti-Nazi beliefs. his attitude had not changed. According to who passionately pleaded for a prolongation He never received a party card or took part in Nazi reports, between April and December were Deputies Ernst Benda, of the Christian Nazi activities, he said. alone more than 7,000 Ghetto inmates had died Democratic Party, and Dr. Adolf Arndt, of the Ministry of Justice officials said they were from " bullet wounds ", which meant that they Sociai Democratic Party. The Independent aware Herr Schuele had been a nominal party had been shot in the street for no other reason Democrats, headed by the Minister of Justice, member, but they knew he had done no wrong. than that they were there when a Nazi or S.S- Ewald Bucher—who also presented to the official walked by. Klaustermeyer had been House the Cabinet's report on steps taken since "EXECUTED NAZI" one of these officials, said the judge. the matter was debated last—are against a prolongation, but, at the time of going to According to a statement posted from Executions in Zakopane Area press, it appears that some form of extension DUsseldorf and sent to news agencies in Bonn is favoured by the majority of Deputies. by a group who called themselves " Those who Robert Weissmann, a former S.S. officer, is can never forget", a body found in a bullet- on trial in Freiburg. He admitted that he was REPORT ON EXTREME RIGHT-WING riddled trunk in Montevideo was that of an in charge of a mass execution of mostly old ACTIVITIES " executed" Nazi who supervised the killing and sick Jews in the Novy Targ cemetery lO of more than 30,000 people. The rnan, it was the Zakopane area of Poland in August, 1942. According to the 1964 report by the Federal stated, was Herbert Cukurs, 65, a Latvian, who but said he was obeying orders and had killed Ministry of the Interior there has been a had been " tried and sentenced". a few Jews " to set an example " for his men- decrease of extreme right-wing and antisemitic The body was discovered after a " tip-off " An Israeli witness told the court that the activities in the Federal RepubUc. The number to the agencies telling of Cukurs's " execu­ entire Jewish population of Novy Targ ha" of their parties and organisations amounts to tion" and giving the Montevideo poUce direc­ been deported to an extermination camp on a 119, of which only eight have more than 500 tions on where to find the remains. single day after the execution. Arno Sehmiscn, members, and their total membership is 22,500 The statement said that after the conquest who succeeded Weismann in the area in 1943' (against 24,600 in 1963 and 56,200 in 1959). of Latvia by the Germans in 1940, Cukurs is also charged with responsibility for the mass There are 45 extreme right-wing papers with a " devoted his entire energies to serving the murder of Jews. total average circulation of about 183,000 Germans, personally supervising the imple­ copies. The report mentions by way of com­ mentation of their orders to massacre Jews Knimey Appeal parison that the circulation of the daiUes— and undesirables". With the Russian entry none of which has extreme right-wing tenden­ into Latvia, Cukurs fled to Berlin, later to cies—amounts to 20 million copies. On the France, and from there to South America, The public prosecutor in Frankfurt i^ other hand, 66 Fascist periodicals are infil­ where he is beUeved to have settled in Brazil. appealing against the court decision freeing trated from other countries. From Sao Paulo it appears he flew to Monte­ ex-S.S. Lieut-Col. Hermann Krumey, a former There were 171 neo-Nazi and antisemitic video on February 23—the day on which, Eichmann aide. Krumey was sentenced to 6^^ incidents. In 30 cases Jews and prosecutors according to the statement, he was "executed". years' hard labour for complicity in the murder of Nazi crimes received ananymous threatening of at least 300,000 Hungarian Jews. He was letters. JEWISH COMMUNITIES freed because he had spent nearly five V^^l in custody, pending trial, on condition that ne EX-NAZI JUDGES According to a statistical survey recently reports to the police twice a month. published, the total membership of West The recent appointment of Dr. Carl Germany's Jewish communities was 25,132 at Rajakovitch Sentenced Creifelds as a judge of the West German the end of 1964. Their average age is 46. The Supreme Court caused controversy because largest community, with 5,890 members, is in Erich Rajakovitch, a former S.S. officer a:n d Dr. Heinrich Luebke refused to give his West Berlin. Frankfurt has 4,055 ; Munich, alleged assistant of Eichmann, was sentenced approval on the ground of Creifelds' pro-Nazi 3,148 : Hamburg, 1,464 ; Duesseldorf, 1,302 ; in Vienna to two and a half years' imprison­ activities during the Third Reich. It has now Cologne, 1,211. Ninety-six Jews left during ment for " actions and omissions" whicn been stated that Dr. Creifelds has resigned, as the last quarter of 1964, and 250 Jews from caused the death of 82 Dutch Jews in Auscn- from June. The West BerUn Senator for other countries settled in West Germany. witz concentration camp. The period of almost Justice said that President Luebke's attitude two years which Rajakovitch spent under seemed justified since documents had been arrest will count towards the sentence. He was found in BerUn showing that Creifelds had NOVELLE ZUM OESTERREICHISCHEN acquitted of the charge of complicity in tne been head of a department at the Nazi Ministry OPFERFUERSORGEGESETZ murder of the Dutch Jews. of Justice. Dr. Ernst Kovacs, the public prosecutor, nas The Karlsmhe Federal Court has stated that In der in der Maerz-Nummer der "AJR- appealed against the " mildness " of the sen­ Dr. Heinrich Jagusch, a senior West German Information " erschienenen Darstellung wurde tence. Federal judge who was suspended in January after being accused of lying about his member­ unter anderem darauf hingewiesen, dass Prague War Crimes Evidence ship of the Nazi Party, had been retired on HinterbJtebcne nunmehr eine Entschaedigung health grounds. A disciplinary suit has already beanspruchen koennen, wenn das Opfer beim According to C.T.K., the Prague news been opened against him.—(J.C.) Versuch, sich der Verhaftung zu entziehen, agency, the Minister of Justice has announceo getoetet worden war oder wegen einer unmit­ that the Czech Government is handing over TREBLINKA MURDERS important evidence on Nazi war criminals i" telbar drohenden Verhaftung Selbstmord France, Belgium, Yugoslavia and HoUanp- begangen hatte. Franz Suchomel is one of ten former guards West Germany would be given copies of tne at the Treblinka camp on trial in Duesseldorf, Der Hinweis erfordert eine Klarstellung: evidence, which came from the war archives accused of complicity in the murder of about die Neuerung kommt lediglich hinterbliebenen that the Nazi Waffen S.S. left behind on Czecn 700,000 Jews—(J.C.) Witvjen zugute. F.L.B. territory.—(J.C.) Feuchtwanger (London) Ltd. Gorta Radiovision Service Bankers (Member R.T.R-A.) 13 Frognal Parade, BASILDON HOUSE, 7-11, MOORGATE, E.C.2 Finchley Road, N.W.3 Telephone: METropolitan 8151 SALES REPAIRS Agents for Bush, Pye, Philips, Ferranti, Representing: Grundig, etc. Television Rentals from 8/- Per Week I. L FEUCHTWANGER BANK LTD. I FEUCHTWANGER CORPORATION Mr. Gort will always be pleased to TEL AVIV ; JERUSALEM : HAIFA 60 EAST 42nd ST., NEW YORK. 17, N.Y. advise you. (HAM. 8635) AJR INFORMATION April, 1965 Page 3 HOME NEWS ANGLOJUDAICA THE LATE LORD MORRISON LEYTON CLASH Queen Mother Visits Home Lord Morrison of Lambeth, who died on Mr. Frederick MuUey, Army Minister, in a The Queen Mother paid an informal visit to March 6, was a lifelong friend of the Zionist reply in the House of Commons stated that a the Lewis W. Hammerson Memorial Home for cause. He fought Chamberlain's White Paper soldier who was present at the disturbance at Elderly Jewish People, at The Bishop's Avenue, in 1939, repeatedly visited Palestine and Leyton Town Hall on January 7 when Mr. Hampstead Garden Suburb. Three of the 30 later, Israel, and on numerous occasions spoke Patrick Gordon Walker, the then Foreign residents, veterans of past wars, wore their PubUcly in support of the Zionist cause and Secretary, was involved in clashes with Colin decorations. The design of the Home, with its •^f the State of Israel. However, he did not Jordan and other members of the British Nazi 26 single bedrooms and extensive, well-laid-out oppose Bevin's policy in the post-war Labour Party, has been discharged from the Army. gardens, particularly impressed the Queen W)vernment because, as he later remarked, Mr. Reginald Freeson, M.P., who brought Mother. Hammerson House, administered as this would have meant blowing up the Govern­ the matter up, said afterwards that he would a voluntary Society, was officially opened in ment. When the Labour Party went back into be keeping a watch in future on the activities 1962 after seven years' planning and fund- opposition and later, when he himself went to of those people who were stirring up trouble. raising at a site donated by the widow of the the House of Lords as a Life Peer, he re- He was determined to do all in his power to late Mr. L. W. Hammerson. The Society plans emerged as a friend of Israel- bring to the notice of the appropriate authority to build an additional wing when the money is His concern for London Jewry vvas shown by any instances he came across of racial or available, which will cost over £50,000. There the important part he played in the discussion religious intolerance. is a waiting list of nearly 200. of Government action against Mosley's fascist activities, especially during the pre-war period, CIVIC APPOINTMENTS ^ord Morrison also repeatedly addressed The next Lord Mayor of Newcastle is to Minister for Hampstead Synagogue Jewish gatherings, including a Board of Depu­ be Alderman Mrs. Theresa Science Russell, the The Rev. Raymond Apple, minister of the ties dinner. Sheriff's Lady, who has been a member of the Bayswater Synagogue, has been appointed Newcastle City Council for 20 years. Alder­ AGAINST RACE LITERATURE mimster of the Hampstead Synagogue in suc­ man Dr. Henry Russell and Mrs. Russell were cession to the Rev. Dr. Isaac Levy, who became In a ParUamentary reply Sir Frank Soskice, the first Jews to be Lord Mayor and Lady director of the Jewish National Fund. Mr. pie Home Secretary, stated he would be Mayoress of Newcastle in 1962. Mrs. Russell's Apple will take up his appointment in May. ^"nging to the notice of the police material position is believed to be unique in civic alleging " raciaUst pornography ", examples of history in this country, she having been Lady Which had been suppUed to him by Mr. Hugh Mayoress and Sheriff's Lady and soon to be RehabiUtation Hostel Opened Jenkins, Labour M.P. for Putney. Mr. Jenkins the Lord Mayor. ^.uggested that the dissemination of such pub­ Ealon House, the Jewish Welfare Board's Alderman Samuel Fisher is first mayor of new long-term hostel at Mapesbury Road, Wil­ lications should be prohibited in the forth­ the new Greater London Borough of Camden. coming legislation against racial discrimina­ lesden, for patients discharged from mental He was formally installed on April 1, the day hospitals, was officially opened by the former tion. Sir Frank replied that he was not yet in Camden superseded the boroughs of Hamp­ a position to add what had previously been Minister of Health, Mr. Enoch Powell, M.P. stead, Holborn and St. Pancras under the The hostel accommodates 24 residents whom announced as regards the content of possible Greater London Council scheme. legislation. it is helping to return to normal life, and was Mr. Daniel Schonfield, Mr. Sigmund Stern­ established at a cost of £60,000. A second , Mr. w. E. Garrett, M.P. for Wallsend, met berg and Mr. Marcus Stitcher have been sworn opening ceremony took place under the leaders of the local Jewish community to in as Justices of the Peace for the County of auspices of the Ealon Aid Society, which pro­ aiscuss " race hate " leaflets being distributed Middlesex. Dr. R. Sheridan has been appointed vided the furniture and equipment. It was in the area. Mr. Garrett is being supported in a Justice of the Peace for the County of stressed that no other society was known, "lis matter by Mr. Harry Randall, M.P. for Middlesex and the Middlesex area of the new either Jewish or non-Jewish, which had got ^ateshead West, and Mr. Geoffrey Rhodes, Greater London Council. together so quickly to provide facilities of that *'•"• for Newcastle East. nature. FIGHT AGAINST RISE IN CRIME ADVISERS TO FOREIGN OFFICE In an address on " The Rise of Crime in Among experts appointed to advise the Modern Society " to the annual evening recep­ Book Week foreign Secretary on matters dealing with tion of the League of Jewish Women, Judge Jewish Book Week took place from March conciliation and international affairs and law Bernard GilUs, Q.C., stated that, although the sre Mr. EU Lauterpacht, Mr. CoUn Legum, Dr. 22 to 25 and was held at the Adolph Tuck Hall Jewish community could pride itself on ifs Woburn House, London. A number of * • A. Mann and Mr. Andrew Shonfield. The low rate of juvenile delinquency, there were ^PPointments, made by the former Foreign important lectures were held, including signs that in recent years that record was " Literature and Assimilation", by Mr. John r^cretary, are in connection with the Govern- being lowered. He said he would like to see a i^ent's desire to make positive suggestions to Gross, the writer. Dr. Elizabeth Eppler gaVe national crusade against the rise in crime and a lecture on "Jewish Women, Past and "I.e new United Nations peace-keeping com­ for the restoration of moral standards in their mittee. Present". widest sense. The Jewish Book Exhibition comprised a SIR EDGAR COHEN PRAISE FOR COMMUNITY selection of books, journals, etc., covering all aspects of Jewish literature. Sir Edgar Cohen has been appointed per­ Lord Chuter-Ede was guest of honour at the manent British representative in the Organisa- 18th anniversary dinner of the Jewish Secon­ ji°i for European Co-operation and dary Schools and the Hasmonean Schools. He House-Parents' Shortage said that the Anglo-Jewish eommunity is an .^^elopment. and will have the personal rank The Norwood House Committee, which 1 Ambassador. He has been the permanent essential part of the Ufe of Britain and its administers the Norwood Home for Jewish °rttish delegate to the Council of the Euro­ members are among the most useful and help­ children, is gravely concerned over an acute pean Free Trade Association and to G.A.T.T. ful in the nation. Earlier he referred to the shortage of Jewish house-parents. Individual days when he was Home Secretary and to his PARLIAMENTARIANS residences designed to provide the children contacts with the Jewish community concern­ with a normal family life make it necessary Sir Barnett Janner, M.P., was elected chair- ing refugees. for house-parents who will provide the neces­ He \ *^^ Anglo-Israel ParUamentary Group. SYNAGOGUES ROBBED sary Jewish atmosphere. The Jewish Welfare 19^1 held office in this organisation since Board also has to face the same problem in ffrn ^* i* ^'le largest inter-parliamentary Thieves broke into the Boreham Wood and its children's homes. If the situation worsens, sroup with a membership of almost 70. Elstree Synagogue and took the silver from the Norwood Joint Committee will have to tell re^?*=3"se of illness. Sir Barnett Stross has the sifrei Torah. No official estimate has yet the local authorities that Jewish children will ivrr'^iied as Parliamentary Secretary to the been made of the value of the stolen silver, have to go into non-Jewish homes. -Ministry of Health. but it is understood it wiU run into hundreds. Silver valued at almost £1,000 was taken from "ANTISEMITISM IN COMMONS" the sifrei Torah at the DolUs Hill Synagogue. Training for TV No damage was done to the synagogues. ri,„P^3king as guest of honour at a dinner and Students of Jews' College will be able to Snnf^ ^^'d by the Cockfosters and North take training courses in the techniques of pre­ OrK l^te J.P.A. Committee, Mr. Maurice senting religion on British television, as well of p*^"' M-P-. alleged that even in the House as an intensified course of Hebrew study in s„ Vommons insidious undercurrents of anti- Israel. The faciUties of the Churches' Tele­ (j-Vp t^m and bias against Israel could be vision Training Centre in London have been (jjA "^ted. That undercurrent was aU the more Wir kaufen Einielwerke, Bibliotheken. placed at the disposal of the College. An offer apt; f"ing when one thought of what had been Aufogrophen und moderne Graphik has also been accepted from the Jewish Qjjp^^'ed in Israel. The process of education Direktor : Dr. Joseph Suschitzky Agency's Torah Department to enable students WoriJ^ ^^^^ ^^^^ a century more before the 38a BOUNDARY RD., LONDON, N.W.S of Jews' College to attend the Hebrew courses hn^ would accept that there was " only one at the Machon Gold Institute for the training 'uman race". Mr. Orbach added.—(J-C.) Teleohone : MAI 3030 of teachers in Israel during vacation periods. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION April, 1965 NEWS FROM ABROAD JEWRY IN THE EAST People's Judge THE AMERICAN SCENE THE NETHERLANDS Mr. Reuben Borisovitch Goldberg is one of the two People's Judges for Birobidjan, tne Federal School Aid Amsterdam Honours Resistance Jewish autonomous region in the east of tne Soviet Union. The district attorney of tne In President Johnson's anti-poverty scheme Amsterdam held its annual ceremony in town since 1962 and qualified as an engineer, there is a section on federal aid to religious Jonas Daniel Meyer Square, commemorating he is the holder of a high military decoration. schools. Jewish day schools stand to gain very the strike by a section of Amsterdam workers little from the educational section of the anti- in February, 1941, in protest against the first Arthur Miller in Moscow poverty law since Jews are far from being German deportation of Jews from the city. The under-privileged in America. An attempt by deputy mayor announced that a square in The playwright Arthur Miller, during a the Kennedy Administration to help religious Amsterdam is to be named after the late recent visit to Moscow, visited the oflSces-Oi schools directly from federal nmds was Dr. L. E. Visser, the Jewish president of the the Yiddish periodical, Sovietish Heimland. previously defeated. It is felt that the present Netherlands Supreme Court from 1939 to proposals may be dangerous to the principles November, 1940, when he was replaced by the Writers' Union of Church and State separation. Germans. Dr. Visser, who was a judge of the Supreme Court for many years, was prominent Ilya Ehrenburg and six other Jewish writers in the moral resistance to the anti-Jewish have been elected to the new secretariat of tne " Godless " Rabbi measures of the Germans. He died in The board of the Moscow section of the Soviei Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, who admitted a Hague in January, 1942, aged 71. Writers' Union. They include A. Stein, A- short time ago that he did not believe in God, The mayor of Amsterdam has presented a Kronn, I. Gordon and A. Dymshits. . has been ordered to move his 140-member con­ replica of the " Stevedore" statue in Jonas The Ust of the newly elected board of tne gregation from its meeting place in the Bir­ Daniel Meyer Square to Yad Vashem in Jeru­ Leningrad section of the Union is headed oy mingham (Michigan) Masonic Temple, for salem. The statue pays tribute to the Amster­ Anna Akhmatova, the Russian-Jewish poetess. dam workers who protested. Other Jews on the board include Y. Etkini, " theological reasons ". V. Shefner, E. Grin, I. Aizenshtok and Gj^°\; It was stated that the letter giving notice to Once expelled from the Union, Anna Akhma­ quit insisted that a positive commitment to the BELGIAN VICTIMS' DEMAND existence of a Supreme Being was requisite for tova is now clearly regarded as rehabilitateo- continued use of the Masonic Temple. An association of Jews of Belgian origin The Birmingham Council of Ministers, of who were victims of Nazism has been formed Leningrad Cemetery which Rabbi Wine is a member, protested at to support the compensation claims of mem­ It is reported by visitors from Leningrad the action. bers who wore the yellow star and lived in that the old Jewish cemetery there is full. Tne hiding during the war to avoid deportation. city authorities, who earlier allowed for new "Soviet Sabbath" This category has been excluded from West Jewish burial grounds, have withdrawn their Germany's allocation of 80 million DM to the permission. Experts on the Jewish reUgion, The Washington rabbinate proclaimed Belgian Government to pay compensation to claimed the authorities, agreed that there was Friday and Saturday, March 12 and 13, as a Belgian victims of Nazism. no Jewish law requiring separate buna' " Sabbath for Soviet Jewry" in protest at The Minister of Health told the Belgian ground so that, according to Soviet policy, only Russia's discrimination against the Jewish ParUament that the West German Government mixed cemeteries can be provided. population. The services were announced by refused to take into account the claims of these the presidents of the Rabbinical Council of Jews in the negotiations for compensation. Music for Peretz Washington and the Washington Board of West German compensation authorities did not Rabbis. accept their individual claims because they Moise Weinberg, a pupil of Shostakovich and were Belgian citizens. son-in-law of Solomon Mikhoels, the Soviei- Yiddish Dictionary Jewish actor executed during the Staun FRENCH PROTEST AGAINST NAZI ARTIST regime, has written new music to I. L. Peretz » The municipally owned City of New York " Children's Poem ". It will be performed in College will pubUsh the " Great Dictionary of A campaign preparing for a revival of the a concert of the Moscow Philharmonic the Yiddish Language", a $1,275,000 (about artistic activities of Arno Brecker, the former Orchestra. £455,300) project which has been under way official sculptor of Nazism, has met with pro­ since 1953. The Institute of Yiddish Lexico­ test in Paris. Issued by M. R. Feigelson, the Rumanian Liberalisation graphy has been established for the purpose, secretary-general of the Amicale des Juifs and a Yiddish Dictionary Committee has been Anciens Resistants, the protest refers to Dr. David Rosen, Chief Rabbi of Rumania, incorporated to raise money. Ten volumes are Brecker's sculptures of Aryan " warlords", during a private visit to Scotland, told » planned, of which the first was issued in 1961. incarnating " racial superiority" and justi­ Jewish Chronicle correspondent that Rumaman The project is expected to be completed in 17 fying the extermination of innocent people, Jewry was better off now than two years ago- years. The dictionary is to be published first displayed in anti-Jewish exhibitions of Hitler's There was a more liberal atmosphere m tne in Yiddish and then bilingual editions in Yid­ Germany. " We cannot forget the numerous country generally. Jews had complete fre^ dish, EngUsh, Hebrew and Spanish will be Jewish artists murdered in Auschwitz in the dom and the anti-reUgious Jews who naa issued.—(J.C.) formerly controlled the religious organisation* name of Nazi culture, which Arno Brecker no longer did so. Rabbi Rosen said Rumania * served as propagandist, his sculptures sym­ Jewish population was estimated at abou "PROTOCOLS" AGAIN bolising the reign of violence", states the 130,000, organised into 100 communities. There protest. were not nearly enough rabbis for the com­ Walter Klinck, chairman of the Alberta munity's needs and there was also a shortag University Social Credit group, has been MONTEFIORE STREET IN LEGHORN of ritual slaughterers, teachers and communa expelled from the party for putting on sale the officials.—(J.C.) " Protocols of the Elders of Zion " at the Social A memorial plaque was unveiled in Leghorn, Credit booth in the university's bookshop. Italy, in memory of Sir Moses Montefiore. The CHILE Some weeks before, the Social Party's national plaque is on the wall of the Jewish community leader wrote to the Canadian Jewish Congress centre facing the site of the building where Appointments rejecting antisemitism and undertaking to Sir Moses was born in 1784, and a street was expel any Social Credit member advocating it. named after him. ItaUan-Jewish leaders and Senor Enrique Berstein, of Jewish descent, representatives of the civil and military has been appointed Chilean Ambassador t" CO-ORDINATION OF JEWISH RELIEF authorities in the town attended. Tribute was France. He heads the special commission .se paid to Sir Moses as a pioneer of Jewish up by Chile to prepare evidence for submissioi Jewish leaders met in Paris to discuss com­ diplomacy and forerunner of Zionism. Mr. to Britain, which has agreed to arbitrate in 'i munity and social welfare problems of common and Mrs. John Sebag-Montefiore and Mr. and border dispute between Chile and Argentina- interest in America. Israel and Europe. The Mrs. Oliver Sebag-Montefiore, from England, A newly appointed member of the commi' organisations represented were the Jewish were present. sion is a Sephardi Jew, Seiior Santiago Berna- Agency, the Council of Jewish Federations and dava, who is First Secretary at the Chiiea' Welfare Funds, the Standing Conference of Embassy in Holland. European Jewish Community Services and the • • . and I can tell you American Joint Distribution Committee. Racialism Banned An oflicial statement said that this " explora­ "NORWEST ' is BEST The Santiago municipality has promulgated tory meeting ", which was the first of its kind, FOR CHAUFFEUR-DRIVEN a by-law banning all forms of racialist Pi"°P ^ " may well lead to a programme of mutual CAR HIRE ganda and forbidding the display of .anf co-operation for Jews throughout the world 'Phone : " emblems of regimes which no longer exist • on those non-political goals on which all Jews Day and Night HAM. 4150 Chilean radio stations and the broadcastins can unite". Subjects discussed included & Day HAM. 4154 stations of Argentina, Brazil, Peru and uru Jewish education, community centres and guay were represented at a meeting ^"}\f. youth activities, fund-raising, employment and NORWEST CAR HIRE LTD. BTHA passed a resolution calling on members not^, training of staff and ways to overcome trends 331-5 FINCHLEY RD., N.W.3 allow the stations of their countries to be useo to assimilation. Your advance bookings welcomed. for discriminatory programmes.—(J.C.) AJR INFORMATION April, 1965 Page 5 Or. Sigrid Herzog (Berlin) Old Acquaintances Obituary: Franz Hoebling, for 50 years a ALFRED-WOLFENSTEINAUSSTELLUNG member of Vienna's Burg and the last to become " Hofschauspieler ", has died at the age of 78-—Frank Reicher, son of the once famous IN BERLIN actor, Emanuel Reicher, and step-brother of the German film star Ernst Reicher, of Am 7. Februar wurde in der Berliner scheinen, und zwar " Der Narr der Insel" und " Stuart Webbs " fame, died near Los Angeles Akademie der Kiinste mit einer Ausstellung "Die Nacht vor dem Beil". Ausserdem where he lived since 1915.—The well-known und eiuer Feierstunde das Alfred-Wolfenstein- bereitet dieser Verlag eine historisch-kritische typographer, Fritz Helmuth Ehmke, who Archiv eroffnet. Anwesend waren dabei die Werkausgabe vor. Der Diinndmckband mit designed the famous Ullstein owl, has died langjahrige Lebensgefahrtin und der Sohn des etwa 1,000 Seiten wird vermutlich in zwei in Bavaria. Dichters, die heute in London leben. Aus Jahren erscheinen. Man darf gespannt sein, ob Germony: Lucie Mannheim appears in " Die dem Nachlass Wolfensteins, soweit er von den auch eine deutsche BUhne sich entschliessen Ratten " with Inge Meysels and Karl John at Erben gerettet werden konnte, hat die wird, ein Stuck von Wolfenstein wieder Hamburg's ThaUa.—Zarah Leander will star Akademie nun ihre 34. Sammlung dieser Art aufzufiihren. in Peter Kreuder's musical " Lady aus Paris " zusammengestellt. Bei der Eroft'nung der Ausstellung hatte with Ubretto by Karl Farkas, at BerUn's Im Foyer und in der Glasgalerie werden man Gelegenheit, sich davon zu Uberzeugen, Theater des Westens.—Annemarie Hase is to einige Dokumente aus dem Leben und Werk dass zumindest eines dieser Dramen noch appear in " Billy Liar " adapted by F. and D. des " ersten Linksintellektuellen des Jahr­ aktuell ist : " Die Nacht vor dem Beil", eine Gotfurt, at Berlin's Berliner Theater.—Eric hunderts ", des " Rilke aus Thuringen und szenische Versuchsreihe mit Argumenten fiir Burger's adaptation of Gardner's " 1,000 existentialistischen Expressionisten" gezeigt. und gegen die Todesstrafe. Die Lesung aus Clowns " was successfully presented in Berlin So nannte ihn der Leiter des Archivs der diesem Stiick, in der vorziiglichen Interpreta­ and Munich.—Ernst Busch received the East Akademie, Dr. Walther Huder. Briefe, Manu­ tion von zwei bekannten Berliner Schau- German Johannes R. Becher Medal.—Maria skripte. Erstdrucke und Fotos sind in iiber- spielern, Ernst Schroder und Stefan Wigger, Fein read excerpts from her autobiography sichtUcher Folge aufgestellt. Ueber dem Ein­ war—auch ohne das Pathos der zwanziger " Engagierter Lebenslauf" in Berlin.—Elsa gang zur Glasgalerie hangt eine Kopie des Jahre gesprochen—hochst eindmcksvoU. Wagner gave a reading of Else Lasker- Strassenschildes aus Halle, der Heimatstadt Dr. Ludwig Berger, Direktor der Abteilung Schueler's works at BerUn's Academy. des Dichters, wo man eine Strasse nach ihm Darstellende Kunst an der Akademie, sprach Coffee House versut Espresso: Guests of benannt hat. in seinem Eroffnungs-Referat davon, dass man Vienna's coffee houses—and there are still 300 Diese kleine aber lebendige Ausstellung diesen Dichter behutsam ehren miisse. Berger, left—will get a free cup of coffee this month vermittelt nicht nur die Bekanntschaft mit der lange Jahre hindurch mit Wolfenstein if they answer a questionnaire. The owners einer ausserordentlichen Personlichkeit, sie befreundet war, verglich ihn mit dem anderen want to know: do the Viennese prefer Ounet zugleich ein Fenster zu einer der inten- grossen Einsamen, Novalis. Und es wurde in Espresso, Turkish or the usual choice of a sivsten Epochen kiinstlerischen Lebens in der Tat keine der iiblichen lauten Festreden, "Braunen", "Schale Gold" or "Melange", Deutschland. Mit vielen Grossen dieser Zeit sondern eine sehr verhaltene, bedeutsame and do they want an orchestra or a juke box ? war Wolfenstein personlich verbunden. Da Wiirdigung dieses ungewbhnlichen Dichters. The " regulars" will not be asked whether gibt es Briefe und Fotos von Georg Kaiser, they want to receive glasses of fresh water Carl V. Ossietzky und vielen anderen. Rilke Autor und Uebersetzer and Austrian and foreign newspapers and hatte die Lyrik Wolfensteins " Gedichte von periodicals, because all that will, of course, ergreifender Neuheit und Schonheit " genannt, Nur wenige wissen heute, dass der am 28. remain as it always was. Whatever happens, die durch den Geist aufgenommen, das Herz Dezember, 1888, in Halle geborene Dichter Vienna's coffee houses will fight for their bewegen ". promovierter Jurist war. Er lebte—mit vier- existence until the last " Schwarzen ". Alfred Wolfenstein war einer der jahriger Unterbrechung in Miinchen—in Berlin Milestones: The grand old lady of Uterature, bedeutendsten Vertreter des Expressionismus. als freier Schriftsteller. Bekannt wurde er Annette Kolb, born in Badenweiler as the jj'er sich jedoch in den neueren Literatur- durch seine Dramen und die Lyrikbande " Die daughter of a French pianist, is 95 years old.— geschichten iiber ihn informieren will, findet gottlosen Jahre" (1914 erschienen), "Die Heinz Hilpert, who is director of the theatre in iiur sparUche und ungenaue Angaben. Ausser Freundschaft " und " Der menschliche Kamp­ Goettingen, is 75 years old; he began as a wenigen Gedichten und kurzen Prosastiicken fer ". 1920 gab er das Jahrbuch "Die producer with Max Reinhardt and ran Berlin's 11 wiederaufgelegten Anthologien und einem Erhebung" heraus. Darin kamen die Ver­ Deutsches Theater during the Third Reich.— schmalen Bandchen in der Reihe "Verschol­ treter des spaten Expressionismus zu Worte. Hans Tasiemka, who lives in London and is a lene und Vergessene " wurde nach 1945 nichts Wolfensteins Uebersetzungen der Werke correspondent for German papers and TV von ihm neu gedmckt. Jetzt ebnet das Wol- Molieres, Flauberts, Hugos and Shelleys gelten adviser, is 60 ; he started in Berlin as co-foun­ tenstein-Archiv der Forschung und den Ver- bis heute als unubertroffen. Fiir seine Ueber­ der of the " Jung-Republikanische Partei j^gern den Zugang zum Werk des Dichters. tragung Rimbauds verlieh ihm die Academie Deutschlands" and was on the .staff of " 12 ^s bleibt zu hoffen, dass sie diese Chance Francaise den Uebersetzerpreis. Uhrblatt".—Professor Dr. Max Horkheimer, of nutzen. im Verlag Kiepenheuer und Witsch the Frankfurt University, who lectured at the r^rden demnachst in der Reihe " Kollektion 1933 emigrierte Wolfenstein nach Prag und Columbia University until he returned to Ger­ von dort nach Paris, wo er von der Gestapo many, is 70 years old. "sater" zwei seiner Dramen wiederer- in das Gefangnis " Sante " verschleppt wurde. Dort entstand sein Gedichtzkylus " Der Gefan­ Between Tel .iviv and Berlin: Austrian Eva gene " der im Berliner Archiv jetzt zum Kerbler-Lion, for three years a gifted member ersten Mal zuganglich ist. Auf der Flucht of Israel's Habimah ensemble, was scheduled Your NOUI* for:— durch Siidfrankreich schrieb Wolfenstein for the part of Maggie in Arthur Miller's einen bisher noch unveroffentlichten Roman, " After the Fall" at BerUn's Schiller-Theater. CURTAINS, CARPETS, LINO, dem er den Namen seines Sohnes gab : The rehearsals had already started when she UPHOLSTERY " Frank, die Geschichte eines jungen Menschen suddenly cancelled her contract because unserer Zeit". Habimah actors are not permitted to perform in Germany. Actually in 1959 she appeared in SPiCIAUTY Nach seiner Befreiung schied der Dichter " Ein klarer Fall" at Berlin's Komoedie. freiwillig aus dem Leben. Seine Gedanken Director Barlog had to postpone the first night CONTINENTAL DOWN werden in vielerlei Gestalt lebendig bleiben. while looking for another actress. By the Er schrieb einmal von sich selbst : " Geboren way, Eva Kerbler will visit London with the QUILTS! wurde ich an vielen Tagen. . . . Denn es gibt Habimah ensemble in April. nur die Lichter der Welt, die wir selbst Home ^etrs: On his way back from America, ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS entzunden. Biographie gibt es nicht. . . . Nur where he gave recitals in New York and Mon­ was ein Mensch formt, hat Sprache, um den eSTIMATlS Fktt treal, Werner Finck will stop over in London Menschen zu formen ! Das Werk. Niemand and will give a lecture at the German Institute wird geboren, ehe nicht von ihm geboren on May 10.—In August, East BerUn's "^Ber­ DAWSON-LANE LIMITED wird. . . . Das ist unsere Steraenfreiheit und liner Ensemble" will come to London for '7 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK des Scheinlebens gleich-ewige Gefahr. Aber three weeks. They will present Brecht's Telephone : ARN. 6671 der Gefahr spottet jede Dichtung und ver­ " Dreigroschenoper ", " Arturo Ui ", " Corio- kiindet : Wir selbst bringen uns hervor ! Zu lanus " and " Days of the Commune " at the F*rto^al Mtfnlion of Mr. W. Shackmwi. unserem Grabe werden nur kommen, die Old Vic. pg^j unsere Gestalten nicht sehen ". Page 6 AJR INFORMATION April, 1965

Frils Friedlaender the blame on others became abjectly obvious when he declared before the Reichstag Com­ mittee of Enquiry in November, 1920 : * FAMOUS JEWS AND LUDENDORFF regret that I am compelled to repeat Walther Rathenau's remark that on the day the Kaiser On the Occasion of his Birth Centenary—April 9, 1965 and his paladins on their white chargers ride victoriously through the Brandenburger Tor, " Ludendorff offers rich material to any Ludendorff again he was disappointed : " Ich history will have lost all meaning. There were future imaginative writer in search of a fand Ludendorff stark verandert, schon ausser­ currents of opinion in the nation, which did subject among the figures of the present lich. ... Ich hatte ihn ausserordentlich hoch not subscribe to the view of the Supreme Com­ time. He makes a strong and effective stage verehrt and war recht traurig tiber diese mand that we must fight to a victorious end, character, by reason of the wealth and Verandemng; ich habe mich damals ver­ and these currents of opinion must be taken variety of his own traits ". trauten Freunden gegeniiber sofort dahin into account." —Theodor Wolff. geaussert, dass ich an ihm die ersten Zeichen While a wave of enthusiasm swept Germany des Caesarenwahnsinns zu bemerken glaubte, In an article published in the Berliner in August, 1914, Walther Rathenau, conscious dem er spater zu unserm Schmerze immer Tageblatt the outraged Rathenau strongly of the terrible risk of war, was worried and, mehr verfiel". protested against Ludendorff's accusation of driven by his ardent patriotism, did his best Walther Rathenau had to undergo a similar his having undermined German morale during to help by organising the supply of raw experience. When he strongly warned Luden­ the war ; he also proved that Ludendorff had materials. With regard to the military aspect dorff against the monstrous assumption that maliciously distorted the meaning of one sen­ of warfare he, like his friend Maximilian Britain could be forced by the unrestricted tence of his essay " Der Kaiser." Yet, despite Harden, set his hopes on the person of General submarine war to capitulate in the summer of his defence, Rathenau became a marked man Erich Ludendorff, who had distinguished him­ 1917, Ludendorff ill-humouredly cut the con­ and his assassination in 1922 was to a large self at Liege and in the battle of Tannenberg. versation short. However, when Rathenau degree a consequence of this vile attack- It was in Kovno, at the end of 1915, that reminded him by letter in June, 1917, that his Ludendorff's statement before the Reichstag Rathenau was first introduced to Ludendorff. prediction had proved correct, Ludendorff was only a step to his notorious "crusade He was deeply impressed by the General's thoroughly discussed the matter with him at against Jews, Jesuits and Freemasons, which strong personality, his immense will-power, Kreuznach on July 10. Rathenau based his can only be interpreted as the outburst of the intelligence and quick understanding. Rathenau argument on statistical material. He empha­ persecution mania of a man who, conscious was too sober and realistic to expect a smash­ sised that this was not a question of strategy, of his qualities, was revolting against the ing German victory, but he considered Luden­ but of economy and technology, and for this acceptance of his failure. dorff as the man who, by virtue of his military reason dared to oppose Ludendorff's opinion. If we try to analyse the General's former talents, would at least secure an honourable Ludendorff appreciated Rathenau's concern, relationship with Jewish people, we come to peace. He therefore did everything he could but did not accept his view because, as he said, the conclusion that, subconsciously, he to support Ludendorff in the field of war he had to follow his intuition. regarded the German Jew still as the " Court- economy, particularly in the execution of the Jew " of the age of Absolutism, i.e., a tool so-called " Hindenburg-Programme ". He also After this Rathenau lost confidence in him. to be used as long as it was useful, to be associated himself with those who tried to Events proved Rathenau right and Ludendorff dispensed with as soon as it had lost its manoeuvre the Supreme Command into the wrong. On the other hand, it must be stated usefulness. Mutatis mutandis, Ludendorff, to General's hands : probably he secretly hoped in the latter's favour that Britain was really further his ends, used, or tried to use, the to imbue Ludendorff's mind with his own ideas. at the brink of a breakdown in consequence prominent Jews whom he met, and he either Another great economic expert of Jewish of the submarine war, and that Germany's turned against them, as in Rathenau's case- origin, Franz Oppenheimer, despite his Zionist situation was so aesperate that Ludendorff had or ignored them when they no longer servei;! sympathies, was, like Rathenau, inspired by to gamble everything on one stake, namely, to his purpose. a strong German patriotism and wanted to try to knock out Britain before the American assist the " common fatherland" to the best support could be effective. of his abilities. In consequence he was When Ludendorff, weighed down by the dis­ requested to discuss matters of war economy astrous military situation, urged the Reich with Ludendorff, who, as Chief of Staff of the Government on September 29, 1918, to nego­ German High Command in the East, was then tiate for an armistice, Rathenau, in a sensa­ Hindenburg's right hand. Before the meeting tional article published in the Vossische staff officers politely asked Oppenheimer to Zeitung on October 7, 1918, strongly opposed consider the General's Umited time, but they this and recommended a levee en masse. He were much surprised when their chief con­ also incautiously suggested that " the man who versed with his caller for an unusually long has lost his nerve must be replaced." Thus J. C. Gilbert Ltd. time. Ludendorff and Oppenheimer got along he became the target of Ludendorff's vin­ very well, the latter stating afterwards : dictive hate. When Reich Chancellor Prince " Damals hatte ich den allerstarksten Eindruck Max von Baden asked Ludendorff for his von der Gedankenkraft und Personlichkeit des opinion he refused Rathenau's desperate pro­ Siegers von Tannenberg (Ludendorff). Es war posal, and there is no doubt that in this case ein blitzschnelles Verstehen, und jede neue he was right and Rathenau wrong. Frage zielte fehllos auf den Kern der noch After his own downfall and Germany's iibrigen Dinge ". defeat, Ludendorff tried to vindicate his leadership in the war. For this purpose he On January 29, 1916, Paul Nathan, the asked Theodor Wolff, the influential editor of eminent Jewish politician and humanitarian, the Berliner Tageblatt, for a meeting, received an invitation from Ludendorff to take though this eminent Jewish journalist had * part in an Eastern German High Command con­ always opposed Ludendorff's war policy. Wo'.ff ference in Kovno scheduled for Febmary 21. met Ludendorff at a private party in BerUn. Nathan's opinion was sought as an expert on In a passionate statement the General insisted Eastern Jewish questions, because the German that he was unjustly charged with having miUtary administration was toying with the interfered in politics, set up the Kingdom of idea of transporting masses of Eastern Jews Poland, and initiated the unrestricted sub­ overseas in order to alleviate the food shortage marine war. He announced that he intended in the German-occupied area of East Europe. to write a book to prove his point of view. It was strange that Paul Nathan, the civiUan, When Theodor Wolff dared to raise objections had to tell the military men that it was impos­ Ludendorff hardly concealed his chagrin. sible to send such transports over an ocean Despite this, his personality impressed Wolff, Columbia House ruled by the enemy. The Jews could be too : " Perhaps it was not greatness, but, at brought on the ships only by force, and enemy all events, bigness." Aldwych propaganda would decry this as an act of violence. Ludendorff saw the vaUdity of Like Wolff, democratically-minded people Nathan's objections and dropped the plan. were unconvinced by Ludendorff's published London, W.C2 Nathan, on the other hand, was impressed by War Memoirs and. when, in Berlin, the bel­ Ludendorff's ability of comprehension and of ligerent author came across Professor Ludwig taking his decision accordingly. Stein, the Jewish thinker and wTiter, he gave However, when Franz Oppenheimer saw vent to his bad temper. But his determina­ tion to whitewash himself and to try to shift AJR INFORMATION April, 1965 Page 7

F. L. Brassloff VAUGHAN WILLIAMS'S WORK FOR REFUGEES SINISTER SHADOWS AND DIM LIGHT Ursula Vaughan Williams's biography of her Almost twenty years ago, immediately after were quite different from those described by late husband* includes several references to the collapse of the Third Reich, Christine, a Frau Recheis. The occupation authorities the efforts which the great EngUsh composer seventeen-year-old Austrian girl, had a deep immediately provided ample help for the sur­ made on behalf of refugee musicians. He traumatic experience. Liberated Jewish con­ vivors. The story is therefore essentially abhorred the Nazi regime, and when, in 1937, centration camp inmates suffering from devoid of, and even contrary to, historic tmth. the University of Hamburg offered him the typhoid are being temporarily housed in Dr. Lingens also considers the Commander to Shakespeare Prize, he wrote to Professor miserable sheds. By order of the local Com­ be the key-figure. The readers are bound to Fiedler: " I feel bound to explain that I am mander of the American occupation forces draw the conclusion that the Jewish returnees strongly opposed to the present system of they have to be attended to by her father, the were and are despicable human beings : government in Germany, especially with regard village doctor, assisted by colleagues from " They lived abroad in clover, marched in and to its treatment of artists and scholars. I among the Jewish survivors. Christine and a avenged themselves indiscriminately on the belong to more than one English society whose few other girls volunteer to nurse the patients, people of their former home country, they let object is to combat all that the present German who are a collection of strange human beings, their poor and wretched, but suddenly so nice, regime stands for." He finally decided to disturbed and ugly from their sufferings. co-religionists perish—only to give vent to accept, but he stipulated in his letter to the Christine's attitude to them is ambivalent. their abysmal hatred against people repre­ University authorities that " I shall feel free Repugnance and pity intermingle with an sented so nobly by Christine and her father. as an honourable man, if I accept, to hold and attachment which leads to a girlish infatuation. They try to buy fresh young girls—just as express any views on the general state of Germany which are allowable to any British The mysterious Commander is responsible already before the ' Stiirmer' of blessed memory had described it". citizen". Later, his music was banned in for the lack of food, medical supplies and Germany, " owing to his anti-Nazi propa­ elementary comfort of the makeshift hospital. A piece of antisemitism in its slyest form, ganda ". Christine calls on him, even wilUng to pay propagating the most recent thesis that the with her virginity for an alleviation of the decent Jews perished while the bad ones In December, 1938, he joined the Dorking PUght of the hapless patients. Her sacrifice survived—thus runs Dr. Lingens's stern Committee for Refugees from Nazi oppression •s rejected. The Commander reveals to her judgement. and " took a full share of work. He went to the reason for his refusal to accede to her The concern felt by the Viennese critics is all the meetings, wrote many letters, raised pleadings : " I was bora in Vienna, my parents commendable. It is, no doubt, appropriate money . . . and visited frequently—usually Were Austrians, Austrian Jews. . . . Yes, I and necessary that steps are being taken lest once a week—the house which the Committee know. I should help. Not only your father the poison of racial and religious hatred con­ had acquired to lodge some of the refugees '. came to me but also the other doctors. They taminates once more the minds of a highly (The author herself, together with Maud are Jews, I am a Jew, but I do not care for susceptible young generation. The awards Karpeles, helped with the work at Bloomsbury them. Whom would I help ? These Jews ? accorded to the book will secure it a wide House.) They can no longer be helped. I would only pubUc. It will be bought by schools and indi­ In 1940 Vaughan Williams became Chairman h?lp your father and you and the other village viduals not only in Austria but also in Ger­ of the Home Office Committee for the Release people. You see, this is what I do not want many and Switzerland. Professional educa­ of Interned Alien Musicians, where his judge­ to do. I do not want it, I cannot do it." A tionists and the authorities are rightly being ment, knowledge and experience enabled him few days later, however, the Commander sends taken to task for having failed to recognise to help his colleagues and fellow-musicians. all the things his visitor has asked him to Ihat the " Schattennetz" is not particularly There were many other interned musicians on provide. suitable for official praise and distinction. whose behalf he saw officials in Government Christine's father dies, a victim of the Frau Recheis may, however. legitimately departments, interviewed M.P.s and for whom disease he tried to treat. When the Jews are plead that she had not the slightest intention he w.ote letters urging suitable employment heing moved to another place she becomes of spreading antisemitism. Not all the Jewish and help to emigrate. He was also able to Painfully aware that she does not belong to characters in the book are unpleasant. Gentiles bring back others who had been swept off to them : " The pain dissolved imperceptibly and are also shown in an unfavourable light. A internment in Australia or Canada. I felt the peace of the afternoon. The sun work of fiction does not claim to be a correct H.W.F. Ho longer hurt my eyes ; it had set so low record of history. Even the nastiness of the • Oxford University Press, li»&4. 50s. Ihat I could look at it without having to cover Commander is explained, if not justified. He my eyes ; when it will have gone completely, is not a representative type, but an excep­ it will be mild, big and red". tional case conditioned by such circumstances as illness and extreme loneliness. Thinking A Controversial Novel readers should be capable of distinguishing between fact and fiction. Moreover, they will This is the story " Das Schattennetz," by understand that the story is told by a woman Kathe Recheis. published by the distinguished who recollects her emotions and experiences Catholic Herder Verlag of Vienna. It was in adolescence. The moral which may be in 1964 accorded both the Austrian State Prize drawn from the " Schattennetz" is that love for the best book of the year for youth and and understanding has to be extended also to the Youth Book Award of the City of Vienna. those who are alien to oneself in origin and Shortly before the prize-giving ceremony the thinking, but that there are limits to a suc­ Vienna Jewish Community Council expressed cessful " bridge building " between peoples. apprehension at the decision of the jury. Its Such an assessment does not amount to an iionthly " Die Gemeinde " published two criti­ outright refutation of the serious objections cal appreciations of the book. The journalist, made against the decisions of the adjudicators Alexander Charim, concedes that Frau Recheis in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education has considerable descriptive abilities. He con­ and their colleagues at the Viennese Town jectures that a personal experience of hers Hall. It would be advisable if reprints of the 's likely to have caused her to draw such a articles by Alexander Charim and Dr. Ella particularly hateful character as the Comman- Lingens could be distributed to teachers and "er. Be that as it may : " The gentlemen youth leaders as a warning that the " Net of *ho had to scmtinise the book ought to have Shadows" may ensnare inexperienced and ocen objective experts of contemporary his­ gullible readers. tory. . . . xhey would then not have given There should be no quarrel with the an official award to such a book for young intuitive conclusion arrived at by the heroine people ". of tha book. Friendly contacts with a group I^r. Ella Lingens, a non-Jewish victim of to which one does not belong cannot, and ^azi persecution, who had gone through the ought not. to lead to ignoring genuine differ­ hell of Auschwitz and was an important wit­ ences. This would be a particularly useful ness at the Frankfurt trial, strongly condemns lesson in view of facile and ill-considered 'he book and its author. Her reasoning is attempts at an all-too-superficial Christian- J^iish weightier and partly sounder than Jewish understanding, which often contributes ^narim's sweeping assumptions. She points to. but does not remove, dangerous mis­ "Ut that camp conditions after the liberation understandings. Page 8 AJR INFORMATION April, 1965

a brief interlude, he has throughout been BIRTHDAY TRIBUTES TO DR. C. KAPRALIK connected with the Central British Fund or with one of its committees. For many years FRIENDSHIP AND CO-OPERATION it has been possible to establish and run the he was the principal assistant to Mr. Stephany, Homes in a spirit which does justice to the and when the latter retired in 1958, Dr. Readers who know Dr. C. Kapralik will be background of those for whom they are meant, surprised that the occasion which prompts this it is to a high extent due to the approach and KapraUk was a natural choice as Joint Secre­ tribute is his 70th birthday which he will cele­ qualifications of Charles Kapralik. His know­ tary. brate on April 24. His youthful energy and ledge and experience are enhanced by an His duties have brought him into contact almost unlimited working power make it efficiency which, notwithstanding his Danubian with a wider section of the community and his difficult to beUeve that he has attained that background, one almost feels tempted to knowledge and sincerity have deservedly venerable age. His signal services as Joint describe as Prussian. What makes his work so earned for him the high respect of all. Secretary of the Central British Fund and as particularly valuable is his personal identifica­ General Secretary of the Jewish Trust Having worked in close association with tion with his task : every discussion and every him for almost 20 years I have had ample Corporation are described in the tributes by decision shows anew that he has his heart in the chairmen of these two organisations. Yet it. He never forgets that we have to deal with opportunities and good reasons to recognise his the AJR has many special reasons for also human beings, and with fellow refugees at valuable qualities. He has combined a deep expressing its own feelings of gratitude to the that. His grasp of the wider problems involved feeUng of humanity with an intelUgent reluctant septuagenarian. is coupled with an astounding sense of detail. appraisal of the many problems that have Our close co-operation with Dr. Kapralik For the administration of the Homes and for confronted our organisation. His advice has started when part of the recovered heirless the welfare of the former refugees in general always been constmctive and he has never Jewish assets in Germany became available for it has proved a decisive asset that a very failed to show a great sense of loyalty— constmctive and large-scale social work in this important key position is held by a man of his loyalty to the cause as well as to the lay country. It was generally agreed at that time outlook and talents. that one of the most important tasks to be leaders. I am very glad indeed, therefore, to It is only natural that service to a common be allowed to pay my tribute on the occasion carried out with the help of these funds was cause and daily exchanges of views have also the establishment of Homes for the Aged. resulted in strong personal bonds with him. of his 70th birthday. I am confident, too, that However, it was less uncontroversial whether We have also got to know him as a personality I am expressing the sentiments of the the Homes should be run autonomously by the of wide cultural interests. His birthday serves Honorary Officers and Members of the Council former refugees themselves or in co-operation as a happy opportunity for expressing our as well as of the officials and members of the with the C.B.F. which had many years of work thanks and good wishes to him. At the same staff of the C.B.F. in wishing him many more for refugees to its credit and which had also time we look forward to many further years years of good health and contentment in which built up the machinery for recovering the of co-operation. to render further services to the Jewish people- heirless property. In the end the latter course ALFRED S. DRESEL. was taken and now, as five Homes have been WERNER ROSENSTOCK. established in London, it can be stated that, LONDON REFUGEES ON TV after unavoidable teething troubles, this arrangement has proved most beneficial for all WORK FOR JEWISH TRUST On Febmary 23, the Bavarian television net­ parties concerned. The day-to-day work is done CORPORATION work showed a documentary film by Egon by enthusiastic and devoted AJR members who Larsen and Gerald Sharp, Sie kamen nach serve on the various House Committees, and SIR HENRY D'AVIGDOR-GOLDSMID, Bt., D.S.O., London. In this 50-minute programme, which questions of general jwUcy are dealt with by MC, M.P., writes: was produced last autumn, the experiences of a Management Committee which consists of It is a great pleasure for me to add my Central European refugees are recalled in a representatives of the AJR and of the C.B.F. tribute to the many that Dr. Charles Kapralik series of interviews : their struggles to find Dr. Kapralik has been a member of the will be receiving on the celebration of his shelter from persecution; internment and Management Committee since its inception 70th birthday. pioneer corps; problems of settling in a new and, throughout the years, has also dealt with a It is now almost exactly fourteen years since country, and—for most of them—success in great amount of the administrative work building up a new life. The problems ol involved. In the course of time, the Manage­ the Jewish Trust Corporation came into being, elderly refugees are also dealt with, and some ment Committee has become a happy team of and in all that time it has had only one General scenes were shot at Leo Baeck House. friends and colleagues, each of whom is solely Secretary and one Chairman. For myself, I The film begins with an historical survey guided by his personal convictions without can say that it has been a happy and most of Britain as the traditional asylum for the petty considerations of organisational rewarding joint relationship, and one that exiled and ends with some spontaneous prestige. Equally, a happy collaboration has promises to go on for quite a time yet. His answers to the question why many of those developed between the offices of the two friends note with pleasure that the passing of who were driven out by the Nazis preferred organisations at Woburn House and Fairfax the years has not made any difference to the to stay in England instead of returning to Mansions- vigour and devotion with which Dr. Kapralik Germany. The programme may be transmitted If this could be achieved and if, above all. has controlled the affairs of the Corporation. also by other German networks. The book that he wrote, " Reclaiming the Nazi Loot," has become a classic in the field of reparation and will be a monument to him. Nevertheless, his best memorial will be the Ackermans gratitude and appreciation of innumerable victims of Nazism, to whom he has brought aid, comfort and a renewal of hope. No one working in this field can surpass his record of Chocolates service which goes back to pre-war Vienna ; everyone who works or has worked in this De Luxe field will know that Charles Kapralik made an invaluable and irreplaceable contribution to it. IN BEAUTIFULLT It has always been a great pleasure to be DESIGNED associated with him in this work in an PRESENTATION honorary capacity, and I am delighted that BOXES you have given me the chance of telling him through your pages how highly he is cherished MARZIPAN by all who know and work with him. SPECIALITIES SERVICE TO C.B.F. DIABETIC MR. H. OSCAR JOSEPH, Chairman of the Central British Fund, writes : CHOCOLATES Even before he came to this country Dr. Kapralik was working on behalf of refugees. 43, KENSINGTON CHURCH ST., After the Anschluss in 1938 he joined the LONDON, W.8 Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Vienna to WES. 4359 and assist in the emigration of those whose lives had become unbearable. In consequence he 9. GOLOHURST TERRACE, and his wife were among the last to leave Austria, and they arrived here only a few FINCHLEY ROAD, N.W.6 months before the outbreak of war. MAI. 2742 Since then he has been engaged almost exclusively on similar work; and, except for AP lOOP AJR INFORMATION April, 1965 Page 9

memorandum reflects are apt to refute some of the misconceptions of the K.C.'s original aims. ALMA MATER'S STEPSONS To meet the opponent on his own ground, it appeared necessary to accept his code of Reminiscences of a K.C. Member honour, and the book relates many examples of bravery. Yet this code became outdated Among the manifestations of antisemitism political adversaries. Others again felt that after the war and attempts aiming at an adap­ in Germany between the period of emancipa­ the energies required for the fight against anti­ tation to the changed circumstances did not tion and the advent of the Nazi regime, the semitism at the universities would be used in meet with success. atmosphere at the universities was perhaps the a more constructive way if they were dedi­ The narration is interspersed with personal severest one. We realise this even more since cated to the idea of a Jewish renaissance ; they recollections and comments by the author. we have had the opportunity of getting some joined the Zionist fraternities, or Zionist, However, its main value arises from the insight into the university Ufe of this country. " neutral" and also non-Zionist Jewish youth quotation of important source material, some While there may also be some prejudice and organisations. of which might otherwise soon have fallen into occasional social discrimination, on the whole Yet there was one federation of fraternities, oblivion. The book is therefore not only Jewish students mix freely with their non- the K.C., which took up the challenge under a interesting to those who shared the author's Jewish fellow students. Jewish flag and fought for the rights of the experiences but will also render useful services In Germany, after a short halcyon period, Jewish students. Some of the vicissitudes of to the future historian of German Jewry. Jewish students were always in a more or the K.C. from the inception of its first frater­ W. ROSENSTOCK. less underprivileged position. There were only nity in 1886 up to the end of its activities in comparatively few progressive elements in the 1933 are recorded in a recently published book THE LATE PROFESSOR RAHEL HIRSCH German middle-classes from which the by Dr. Adolph Asch.* Dealing first with the Information Required students hailed ; the majority adhered to right- political trends at the German universities wing tendencies and to a narrow aggressive until 1886, the author sets out to describe the A German medical student wants to include nationalism. Thus, the Jewish students were creation and development of the K.C. frater­ in her doctor thesis some reference to Pro­ nities, linking up the internal happenings with fessor Rahel Hirsch, the second woman who left to their own devices. They reacted to their obtained a German professorship. Professor predicament in different ways. Some joined the impact of German events and problems Hirsch, who made an important discovery hands with Uberal Germans and founded .so- before, during and after the First World War. in the field of gastro-enterology, held a posi­ called " paritaetische " fraternities ; yet soon Among the documents quoted is the memoran­ tion with the Charit6 in Berlin from 1903 to most of these fraternities consisted almost dum which led to the foundation of the first 1919. She left Germany in 1938 for London, exclusively of Jewish members. Others, fraternity, the Viadrina, in Breslau. The sin­ where she died in Friern Hospital (Barnet) especially after the First World War, joined cere and reaUstic analysis of the Jewish posi­ on October 6, 1953, at the age of 83. The tion and the Jewish self-respect which the student is particularly anxious to obtain the poUtical Uberal and left-wing student information about Professor Hirsch's life groups ; they, too, soon had an unduly high * Dr. Adolph Asch : Geschichte des K.C. im Lichte between 1919 and 1938. Any details should proportion of Jewish members and thus laid der deutschen kulturellen und politischen Entwick­ lung. 138 Seiten. 1964. Im Selbstverlag des Ver­ be sent to : Miss Adelheid Molwitz, Kirchstr. 5, themselves open to antisemitic attacks by their fassers, 412 Wimbledon Park Road, London, S.W.19. Markkleeberg-Ost bei Leipzig, East Germany. Whatever your figure whafever the occasion

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work done. Dr. A. Levy donated a subscription ORGANISATIONAL NEWS for a daily or weekly newspaper. The soloists at the celebration concert were SELF-SUPPOR-nNG FLATLET HOME greater part of the finance required. This will Mrs. Martha Freudmann, Johanna Metzger- mean that those who only possess very Lichtenstern and Paul Lichtenstern. Mrs. About 30 persons who had notified the AJR limited capital may be able to participate in Freudmann, a resident of Heinrich-Stahl House of their interest in a Self-Supporting Flatlet the venture. and frequent visitor to the Club, played a Home met on Febmary 21 at Zion House for an number of piano solos ranging from Beet­ exchange of ideas. It appears that most mem­ All members who are, in principle, interested hoven's Senate Pathetique to a Strauss Waltz bers would like this Home to be erected in the in participating in the scheme should there­ with a verve and artistic sensibility which North-West of London, near the public trans­ fore, if they have not yet done so, notify the beUed her age and earned her sustained port and a shopping centre. Prospective AJR under the heading " Self-Supporting applause. Johanna Metzger-Lichtenstern, Flatlet Home", so that their names may be accompanied by Paul Lichtenstern, enhanced tenants were also anxious that this Home the festive atmosphere by her vast repertory should provide a certain amount of care for put on the list of persons who will receive further circulars regarding the project. of songs which included some less well-known the residents and that the appointment of a Schubert apd many Jewish and other folk­ Matron and caretaker-couple would therefore songs. be desirable. All flats should have their own NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AJR CLUB At the informal gathering which followed, kitchens and bathrooms. While some potential over 110 people celebrated the anniversary participants would be satisfied with one-room Some 150 enthusiastic supporters gathered over a glass of wine and home-made cakes. flats, the majority seemed more interested in at 57 Eton Avenue on February 28 to cele­ MP. two-room apartments. brate the ninth birthday of the AJR Club. Mrs. Margaret Jacoby, to whose warm-hearted The meeting appointed a small committee energy much of the success of the Club is due, Letter to the Editor which, as a first step, should prepare the welcomed the guests and expressed her special formation of a Housing Society. After regis­ satisfaction at Mrs. Gertmd Schachne's retum "READER'S DIGEST" COPIES REQUIRED tration, the Housing Society would look for a after a prolonged illness. She thanked the suitable building site and would also negotiate hostesses Mesdames Wilker, Sheiner, Berlowitz, Sir,—I would greatly appreciate it if any with the authorities for a building loan. Bernstein, Berent, Dean, Seidel and Segall, readers of the German and French "Reader's In the meantime the detailed requirements whose untiring work for the Club was greatly Digest" could send copies to me when they of future residents will be ascertained by a appreciated. She was looking forward to no longer require them. I would pass theni celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Club on to some refugee mental patients in hos­ questionnaire which the office of the AJR is in its new home, which is now under constrac­ pitals whom I visit regularly and who going to send out to all interested parties. tion and which will provide far more adequate expressed a special interest in these publica­ From negotiafions already conducted by our accommodation for its ever-growing ranks. tions. solicitor, it appears that the Housing Corpora­ Greetings from well-wishers included tele­ Yours, etc., tion formed by the Government in 1964 may grams from Dr. and Mrs. Falk and Miss Susan MISS ROSA SCHLESINGER. be able to be of special assistance in the Markus, and letters from club-members show­ ing their gratitude and appreciation of the 4 Mount Park Crescent, execution of this project by lending it the Ealing, London. W.5.

FAMILY EVENTS Women AJR Needlewomen Service Kluger.—Mr. Bruno Kluger, born Birthdajrs EXPERIENCED COOK, good refer­ in Munich, about 60 years old. Korn.—Miss Irma Korn, of 17 Bel­ ences, seeks part-time work. Box WOMEN available for alterations, Please 'phone FOOtscray 6553, Mr. size Park, N.W.S, will celebrate her 545. mending, handicrafts. 'Phone MAI. M. Wolff, 31 Hurst Road, Sidcup. 80th birthday on April 6. Her many 4449. Kent. friends, to whom she has always TYPIST, own machine, reliable, Kogon.—Mrs. Elsa Kogon (nee been particularly helpful, and the seeks homework. Box 546. Personal Buerger), originally from Russia, AJR, of which she has been an CASHIER/RECEPTIONIST, versa­ moved from Berlin to London in interested member since its incep­ tile, good references, seeks full- DOCTOR'S WIDOW, 49, journaUst, 1931, sought by Mrs. Alexandra tion, extend to her their heartiest time work. Box 548. (Schura) Le Cerf (nee Knaub). congratulations. youthful in appearance and out­ look, owner of good home in N.W. Sachsenring 35, 5, Koln, W. Ger­ Schlesinger.—Mrs. Minnie Schles- Accommodation Vacant London and car ; family grown up many. inger-Woolf, 42, Nevera Square, MODERN, S-C, TWO-ROOM FLAT, and on their own; desires to meet Kristeller.—Hermine (n6e Stern), London, S.W.5 (formerly BerUn), all con., c h, £288 p.a. excL Situated cultured companion (non-Ortho­ born in Hamburg and believed to will celebrate her 98th birthday on Highgate/IsUngton. F. & f. as dox), view marriage ; free partner­ have died in London some years April 17. reqd. 'Phone WEL. 2140 or NOR. ship in old-established, very profit­ ago. Next-of-kin please communi­ 4991. able business offered to acceptable cate with Dr. F. P. Jaques, 7 Stone CLASSIFIED applicant, if desired; must be Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, London, Situations Vacant PLEASANT BED-SITTING-ROOM. intelligent and of kindly disposi­ W.C.2, with regard to a possible Men Gent. Board optional. HAM. 7026. tion ; widower no obstacle. Apply claim. Box 535. WE REQUIRE an agent for London COMFORTABLE BED - SITTING- Enquiries by AJR to promote the sales of a range of medium to high-class fancy leather ROOM. Suit one or two persons. WIDOW, good-looking, middle- Gradnauer. — Erwin Gradnauer, goods. Business already well intro­ H & c w. Gas fire, gas ring. N.W.2 aged, wishes to meet educated born about 1900, of Dresden, son of duced. Box 537. district. GLA. 4641. gentieman, object friendship and S.P.D. politician. Supposed to have companionship. Box 536. emigrated to London. Women TO LET, 1 double and 1 single ATTENDANT WANTED for furnished room, together or SPAIN. Widely traveUed mer­ elderly gentleman to stay over­ separately, N.W.ll. Breakfast chant, 60, of East German origin, night (9 p.m. to 9 a.m.). Only optional. Box 541. car driver, of cheerful disposition, AJR CHARITABLE morning duties. Near Belsize Park property on the South Coast of underground station. Box 549. Accommodation Wanted Spain, wants to remarry and looks TRUST SECRETARY/ SHORTHAND- 1/2 UNFURNISHED ROOMS with for pleasant Jewish lady with sub­ TYPIST, English and German, stantial financial assets to share in These ore the ways in which you cooking facilities, running water. expanding enterprise. Replies with wanted by Jewish organisation. N.W. district. Box 542. con help : Box 539. photographs. Box 538. CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER UNFURNISHED ROOM with kit­ Sitnations Wanted chenette or one large room with GOOD-LOOKING, INTELLIGENT COVENANT Men running water and gas, ground WIDOW, mid-50s, independent (in lieu of your membership subscription CASHIER, wages/ledger clerk, floor, wanted by retired, very quiet means, warmhearted, optimistic, to the A|R) good background and personality, A Covenant commits the covenanter elderly, good references, requires lady with first-class references. for a period of seven years or for his full-/part-time work. Box 543. Box 544. would appreciate the companion­ lifetime, whichever period is shorter. PACKER, experienced in glass and ship of refined gentleman 60/65. textile trades, reliable, versatile, Miscellaneous Box 540. GIFTS IN YOUR LIFETIME seeks full-time work. Box 547. ALTERATIONS WANTED? A BEQUEST IN YOUR 'Phone experienced dressmaker for MISSING PERSONS WILL best work. HAMpstead 8775. SHOE REPAIRS Personal Enquiries Ask for partciulars from : The Secretary, AIR Charitable Trust. RICH'S SHOE REPAIR SERVICE SUPERFLUOUS HAIR removed 8 Fairfax Mansions, London. N.W.3. now at 250 Finchley Rd. (Palace safely and permanently by experi­ Braun.—The physician. Dr. Charlie Court). N.W.3, and 133 Hamilton enced Physiotherapist and Elec- Braun, of Bratislava, and his wife, Soace donated by Road, N.W.n trologist. Mrs. Dutch, D.R.E., Lizi (nee Klein), sought by Mrs. TRADE CUTTERS LIMITED. WE COLLECT AND DELIVER Britannia Worlcs. 25 St. Pancras WaT. •PHONE HAM. 1336, SPE. 7463 R.M.T., 239 Willesden Lane, N.W.2. L. Freundlichowa. Soukenicka 14/ N.W.1. 'Phone WILlesden 1849. VI, Praha 1, Czechoslovakia. AJR INFORMATION April, 1965 Page 11 CULTURAL NEWS DEATH OF DR. HEINZ UNGER The conductor. Dr. Heinz Unger, died in Toronto at the age of 79. He was born in OLD MASTER DRAWINGS AT ALBERT SCHWEITZER PRIZE Berlin as the son of a well-known Justizrat BROD GALLERY Mrs. Gertrud Kiirz, a Swiss Protestant and, at the request of his father, studied law. However, after having acquired his doctor's The range of this exhibition was uncom­ woman who helped many Jewish refugees during the war, was, in Amsterdam, awarded degree, he switched over to music. He became monly wide : from the fifteenth to the nine­ one of the two Albert Schweitzer Prizes for a conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic teenth centuries, from the Orient to the 1964. The prize was estabUshed four years Orchestra, where he obtained particular recog­ Occident. ago by the Dutch Albert Schweitzer Founda­ nition for his interpretation of Gustav Mahler's For those interested in things German : A tion for outstanding achievements in the field works. He also founded and conducted the drawing of c. 1550 depicts the Castle of Pless. of Christian humanitarian work. Mrs. Kiirz Berlin Caecilienchor and later on became a has for a long time worked to help refugees conductor at the concerts promoted by the " A Satyr and a Satyress " by Giovanni Battista Berliner Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. Tiepolo is an extremely beautiful piece, the of many countries, and has been very active foreshortening of the head reminiscent of for Youth Aliyah, particularly for the Swiss In 1933, Dr. Unger emigrated and was Daumier. The Morgan Library in New York children's village near Jemsalem. appointed conductor of the Northern Phil­ harmonic Orchestra in Leeds. At the same from the present exhibition bought four time he toured many European countries and, drawings by Eustache Le Sueur (from a sketch­ MAX BROD HONOURED until 1937, for six months of each year con­ book of 150). Dr. Max Brod was, in Tel Aviv, presented ducted the Leningrad Radio Orchestra. He In general, George Romney is not among the with the Austrian Order of Arts and Sciences, recorded his experiences in Russia in a book, most exciting of artists. But here he is repre­ first class, for his contribution to Austrian " Hammer, Sickle and Baton," published in sented by a " Figure Study" of remarkable culture as poet, author, musicologist and London in 1939. During the Second World liveUness and motion. Obviously, it is a study composer. War, he was guest conductor of several English for an Annunciation. The angel with his Accepting the decoration from the Austrian orchestras. Powerful black wings is towering over the Ambassador to Israel, Dr. Brod said that In 1948, Dr. Unger emigrated to Canada. He demure and expecting Virgin. The same " apart from the recent period of barbarism " took charge of the orchestra of the York qualities of rapturous draughtsmanship are to he had always been warmly welcomed in Concert Society in Toronto but also gave Austria and was almost as devoted to Austria he seen in Constantin Guys's "A Young performances in many other countries of the as to Israel, his second fatherland. American continent. He was an Hon. Board Woman ". The rapid movement in the bottom Member of the Gustav Mahler Society of half slows down when going up to the face. GERMAN AWARD FOR NELLY SACHS America and a holder of the Mahler Medal, It is quite obvious that Guys had feeUngs for awarded by the Bruckner Society of America. this woman. This year's annual Peace Prize of the Francesco Guardi's son, Giacomo, is repre­ Federation of German Booksellers has been RICHARD A. EHRLICH (AUston, Mass.,U.S.A.) sented by a number of views of Venice. awarded to the poetess Nelly Sachs. Since the Fascinating to compare the father and teacher Prize was endowed in 1951, she is the first RUSSIAN-ISRAELI CULTURAL with his son and pupil. Tme, the quality is woman to receive it. Among the other Prize EXCHANGE not as delicate as Francesco's, the water has winners were Martin Buber, Victor Gollancz, not the same lovely limpidity, but Giacomo's Hermann Hesse, Theodor Heuss, Karl Jaspers Under an agreement signed in Moscow, the and Albert Schweitzer. pieces are of interest all the same. Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will give con­ Nelly Sachs was born in Berlin in 1891. Due certs in Moscow, Leningrad and three other A. ROSENBERG. to the intervention of Selma Lagerloef, she Soviet cities in May, 1966. The Bolshoi and found refuge in Sweden in June, 1940, and has Kirov Ballets and David Oistrakh, the Soviet " DYBBUK " FILM ? been living there since. Her poetry has, to a violinist, have signed contracts to appear in The Habima Theatre Company's production high extent, been inspired by the destiny of Israel. of "The Dybbuk," to be performed at the the Jewish people. Aldwych Theatre, London, as part of the World APPOINTMENT Theatre Season, may soon be filmed. The ELECTED TO FRENCH ACADEMY company is very seriously considering the idea, Rabbi Dr. O. Lehmann (Oxford) has been and the filming would be carried out in Israel. Professor Henri Baruk, the psychiatrist, who elected a member of the American Oriental The Habima will perform at the Aldwych is prominent in the French Jewish community Society, the American Society of Biblical during the week beginning April 26 and will and well known as a friend of Israel, has been Literature, and Visiting Associate Professor give a total of nine performances.—(J.C.) elected to the French Academy of Medicine. of Hebrew in Chicago.

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Cowell not only kept her watchful eye on their progress at school but was also concerned in their personal well-being. Whenever she feu Round and About that a girl was not too happily placed in ner new surroundings, she would, without hesita­ tion, offer her hospitality in her own home. HAIFA-PORTSMOUTH " TWINNED " Her help and advice were always niosi CZECH VISITOR STAYS IN ISRAEL generously given, even long after the girls nao In August, the first twinning of an Israeli Peter Preistadt, a 33-year-old Czech tele­ left school. She understood the difficulties and a British city will take place, when Haifa vision and stage director, applied for Israeli which these children, cut off from their own and Portsmouth become sister-cities. A party citizenship after stepping off the aircraft families and homes, had to experience, alter of Portsmouth children will arrive in Haifa on which was to take him back to Prague after a they had arrived penniless in a strange August 14 for the twinning. The initiative holiday in Israel. country, and she did everything in her P°*fi for the twinning was taken by the Israel- to give them strength and courage to rebuau British Commonwealth Association, under Emphasising that he was not a political their lives. ,.. Judge A. Slonim.—(J.C.) refugee and had been well treated in Czecho­ slovakia, where he had never taken part in BETZI ROSENTHAL. politics, Mr. Freistadt said he applied because "A DIFFERENT GERMANY" he was a Jew and would like to bring up his DEATH OF DR. LEON SOMMER Mr. David Ben-Gurion, the former Prime children as Jews. He also said he had fallen Dr. Leon Sommer recently died in his 94tn Minister, told a Foreign Press Association in love with an Israeli actress. year. Born in Freudenberg, Dr. Sommer was luncheon in Tel Aviv that today's Germany is Mr. Freistadt was bom in Bratislava, of a a general practitioner and obstetrician in " a different Germany ... it is not Hitler's traditional Jewish family, and spent the war Nuremberg until he emigrated to this country Germany and the present generation are not in Theresienstadt concentration camp. His in 1939. Here, he acted as assistant to his son Nazis ". He still believed the Germans ful­ parents were killed at Auschwitz.—(J.C.) filled their agreement—Adenauer's agreement for eight years. He was a deeply religious man —^with him, said Mr. Ben-Gurion, but he refused and took an active part in Jewish affairs, i^ IN MEMORY OF MISS P. D. COWELL Nuremberg, he was a founder, and ^°^ J,^{ to elaborate on the terms of the agreement. years a President, of the Maimonides B nai Asked if he considered himself a friend of Miss P. D. Cowell, former headmistress of B'rith Lodge. In this country he wa*„' today's Germany, he replied: " I am on per­ the Hulme Grammar School for Girls at founder-member of the Leo Baeck Lodge, we sonal terms with Dr. Adenauer, who is also a Oldham (Lanes.), died in Winchester on was also a member of the AJR since its inceir great friend of this country, and I for one January 29. Several Jewish refugee children tion. His mental and physical alertness were believe Dr. Erhard is following his policy as who arrived in this country between 1937 and unimpaired up to the end, and he was greatiy regards this country."—(J.C.) 1939 were given places in her school. Miss liked by all those who knew him.

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