Vol. XI No. 7 JULY, 1956 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN 8 FAIRFAX MANSIONS. Office ond Consulting Hours: FINCHLEY ROAD (Corner Ftirfix Rotd). Monday to Thursday 10 a.m.— I p.m. 3—6 p.m. LONDON. N.W.3 Friday 10 a.m.— I p.m. Telephone: MAIda Vale 9096/7 (General Office) MAIda Vale 44^9 (Employment Agency and Social Services Dept.)

always been in the happy position of giving. Only JEWS FROM GERMANY & HEIRLESS PROPERTY in the most miserable period of their history did they have to tum to their brethren abroad for assistance, which was given with an open hand. A LETTER . . . Committee, fully met. This should, I think, It was a moral obligation incumbent on the Ger­ dispose of the suggestion that the CBF uses its man Jews who survived the Nazi catastrophe, to /// our .April issue we expressed our disappoint- share of the JTC funds for its own purposes and repay this debt, and part of the communal pro­ litem at the refusal by the Jewish Trust Corporation without regard to the needs of former German perty built up by many generations of German UTC) oj an application of the " Council of lews Jews. Jews, together with the unclaimed and heirless from Germany " for an increase from 10 per cent to There is another matter which should be men­ property, should serve this purpose. That the 12i per cent of its share in the heirless, unclaimed, tioned in Ihis connection. Jewish needs are very funds should also be used to alleviate the plight of and communal property in the former British Zone great and pressing, and the funds allotted by the Jewish Nazi victims from countries other than of Germany. JTC to the Jewish Agency and the AJDC are Germany was and is the declared view of the We have now received the followirtg letter from spent as soon as they are received. The funds Council. Sir Henry d'Avigdor Goldsmid, Bart., M.P., Chair­ allotted to the CBF have been fully budgeted for 2. From the foregoing, it is evident that the man of the JTC : in its building and relief plans for refugees, arrived Council has always gratefully recognised the at in co-operation with the AJR. On the other assistance given to German Jewry before their The Editor. hand, the Leo Baeck Charitable Trust—the body emigration and after. This applies particularly to AJR Information, receiving the allocations of the Council of Jews the Central British Fund for Jewish Relief and London, N.W.3. from Germany—still has available for distribution Rehabilitation in this country, to whom the Council Dear Sir, approximately 1,600,000 DM. out of a total allo­ and the AJR have paid tribute on more than one My attention has been drawn to the leading cation so far of 2,333,000 DM., i.e. more than occasion. two-thirds is as yet unspent. The Leo Baeck Trust article in your April issue entitled " An Our criticism was not directed against the Unanswerable Case—Dismissed," which deals with can expect a further sum of L.'^OO.OOO DM. in the near future from the JTC. apart from considerable Central British Fund and the use it makes of the the allocation of funds arising from German funds accruing lo it from the JTC for welfare restitution in the former British Zone of Germany. sums which will accrue in the next few months from JRSO. purposes in the United Kingdom. The points I hope I shall not be thought to be trespassing on thereanent raised by Sir Henry have never been your readers' patience if I attempt to correct some These figures speak for themselves: in the light contested and we cannot understand why he of the misapprehensions to which this article is, of them, an increase in the allocation of the thinks it necessary to dispose of an alleged sug­ in my opinion, likely to have given rise. Council of Jews from Germany at the expense of gestion " that the CBF uses its share of the JTC All those acquainted with the position eight or other organisations, who have already spent up to funds for its own purposes" ; such a suggestion nine years ago wjll remember that it was the the hilt, is quite unjustifiable, and T am grateful has never been made by us. Jewish Agency and the American Joint Distribu­ to you for giving me space to indicate lo your readers some of the considerations which influenced What we did and still do regret, is that some tion Committee who combined to form the Jewish representatives of the Central British Fund who, Restitution Successor Organisation to deal with the Council of the Jewish Trust Corporation in their decision. in general, show so much understanding of the heirless and unclaimed property in the American needs of refugees from Germany, did not support Zone and. later on, under the leadership of the Yours faithfully. the Council's claim for an increased share in the Central British Fund, formed the Jewish Trust H. D'AVIGDOR GOLDSMID. heirless property—a claim which one CBF repre­ Corporation to deal with the British Zone of sentative called " an unanswerable case." The Germany. Chairman, Jewish Trust Corporation. increase was needed to assist the large number of In these matters the Council of Jews from Woburn House, German Jews residing outside the United Kingdom. Germany played only a very minor part, for the London. W.C.l. 3. It is correct that the Leo Baeck Charitabli! pood reason thai they had no funds available to June I, I9.S6. Trust (the financing body of the Council of .Tews nieet the considerable expenditure involved. from Gennany) has not immediately used up the Moreover, legislation recognised the fact that, .so total amount so far received from the JTC. li fiendishly thorough had been Hitler's work, thai . . . AND A REPLY would have acted frivolously had it done so. These no .single group of Jews within Germany or out­ funds present the last opportunity for the Council side of it could justifiably be described as the Without wishing to enter into detailed comments of Jews from Germany to render assistance to tlieir successor to the heirless and unclaimed property we feel we have to state the following facts : needy brethren. Whilst this source will have ceased in Germany. Had this not been so, the nece,ssily 1. It is quite true that owing to the expropriation within a comparatively short period, the need for for the establishment of the successor organisations of the German Jews by the Nazi regime, their assistance will continue for a long time to come. Would not have arisen. organisation, the Council of Jews from Germany, The Council has therefore to embark on a long- The assumption made in the second paragraph did not have the means to establish a successor term financial policy and has t.T budget ahead, in of the article that the Council of Jews from organisation for the heirless, unclnimed nd com­ fhe same way as the CBF does not spend its con­ Germany has made some concession or suffered a munal Jewish property in Germany. Wliilst siderably larger total allocation now but, quite derogation of its legal rights in allowing the according to the restitution laws the successor rightly, keeps substantial reserves for needs which, establishment of the successor organisations is organisations are entitled to the restitution of that inevitably, will ari,se in the future, especially therefore quite unjustified. property the buildine up of a leoal machinery for the maintenance of fhe homes for the aged. It might be added that the United Restitution does not entitle the financing party to the benefit The Council's policy does not indicate a lack of Organisation also owed its creation to the CBF, of the claims as such. The Council has always need but. on the contrary, shows a responsibility which was the first body to provide the financial regarded the successor organisations as trustees of towards the future. pieans for the establishment of URO and for the the assets and not as heirs, and we do not doubt We hone that the friendly relations which have i.nitial research work in Germany, and was later that the organisations themselves share this existed throughout the years between fhe Council loined by the AJDC and the Jewish Agency, in opinion. of Jews from Germany and the leading Jewish 'he financing of URO operations. We also maintain that the Jews within Germany welfare organisations will eventually lead to a As to the spending of the funds allocated by the and outside comprising altogether 270,000 people recognition of our " unanswerable case." JTC, a casual reader would hardly gather that the can justifiablv be described as the successors to the ponies allocated to the CBF are spent exclusively property. The British authorities, for example, 'Or refugees in this country, the great majority of acknowledged the position of the Council of Jews GERMAN INDEMNIFICATION LAW whom are refugees from Germany and Austria. from Germanv at a time when the JTC was no' Nor would such a reader think that the running even formed. They negotiated with the Council as The new Federal German Indemnification of the Old Age Homes programme (except for the proper organisation about the details of the I.aw has been passed. Accountancy) has deliberately been left to the impending legislation and gave facilities to one of Details on pas^e 4. •association of Jewish Refugees, and that nearly its Vice-Chairmen to go to Germany in order to ijl members of the Pre-Selection and House discuss there the preparatory work with the Committees are their nominees. British officials in charge. AUSTRIAN " HILFSFONDS " The reouirements of the Association of Jewish The Council's main motive in agreemg to the The full wording of the oflficial announce­ Refugees for social work, etc., have also been met leading lewish international welfare organisations ^.v the Allocations Committee of the CBF. taking charge of prosecutrng the claims was one ment is published in a special supplement -Similarly, the ,Self-Aid of Refugees, another body which, we regret, has not been fully recognised. to this issue. •"iin exclusively by refugees, has had all its Before 1933. German Jewry, in fhe words of Dr. For further particulars see page 3. fequirements, as submitted to the Allocations Leo Baeck, had never to accept charity but had Page 2 AJR INFORMATION July, ig.se "THEY HAVE ENRICHED OUR COMMUNITY" Tribute to Refugees at the Guildhall Tercentenary Banquet TRIKING tribules to the achievement of H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh Britivsh .Tews in the cultural and social T THINK it is most appropriate that I and, of course, in the wide world of enter- S life of this country were paid hy 1 should propose the toast to tlie Anglo tainmeni. members of the Jewish community H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh and the Jewish community. Bui here's the .mag : have achieved great things, which have left Prime Minister at the splendid banquet held do 1 congratulate the ancestors of this com- or made a lasting impression. in Guildhall on May 29. 1956. lo mark the miiniiy on having had the good sense to come This year might well he celebrated by the Tercentenary of Jewish Resettlement in the liere in llie first place, or do I congratulate Gentiles of this country also. Three hundred British Isles. Mention was made especially the coiniiiiinily on having stuck it here for years of tolerance may not be a very long and conspicuously of the recent refugees three hundred years ? I will say this: you time in the annals of the world, hut tolerance whose contribution lo the national cause was at lea.Kt have had more lasting good fortune is not (I natural incUnaticm for anybody, any­ generously acknowledged. Extensive extracts al maliing a living in these islands, and you where : and in fact intolerance, particularly from some of the pnncipal speeches are have also done the country more good, than among ilioughtless people, is never far below printed on this page, as we believe that my ancestors at any rate. the surface. We have had too many recent our friends who may have listened in to The Jewish community's record in this reminders of what happens when tolerance the broadcast part of the proceedings will country is truly remarkable. Every part of breaks down, lo imagine that there is no wish to keep a record of the memorable our national life has heen enriched by your further cause to worry. This year Jews and utterances. contrihution over the years. As statesmen Gentiles of this country alike can thank God and politicians, in ihe arts and sciences, in tliat they have come through .so many years tlie professions, in himness and commerce, without a stain on their honour. We naturally feel gratified at the honour­ able recognition of which so signal an example was the advancement last month of The Prime Minister (Sir Anthony Eden) a distinguished member of our community. O people in hi.story has been the magnet civilised when racial arrogance is universally Professor Sir Francis Simon, F.R.S. We N for .so much cruelty and persecution as condemned both hy instinct and by con­ rejoice, for our own and our adopted the Jews. This reached depths of unimagin­ viction. country's sake, in the sturdy sound sense and able bestiality in the ten years from 1935 to Thinking hack over those tragic years, I the largesse of mind shown by Britain in 1Q45. I am proud to have had the privilege am glad to recall that at moments of special spite of troubles at home and abroad. While during that time of moving in fhe House of we, who found a refuge here from persecu­ Commons the resolution (denouncing the peril of Jewry in other countries, Govern­ tion, are profoundly grateful for the blessings Nazi atrocities). The world .should be for ever ments here in the United Kingdom have not of a new life in which we have proved our in moral debt to the Jewish people for the been slow to give facilities to victims of worth as useful citizens, we wholeheartedly pogroms of the dictators. Out of all that persecution. We have welcomed them here, agree with His Royal Highness that " this suffering we pray that one lesson has been and they now live among us. In those year .Tews and Gentiles of this country alike learned a freer development of racial ominous days before the war Britain received can thank God that they have come through tolerance. Tolerance is the test of civilisation. .something like 70,000 Jews from Germany, so many years without a stain on their The world will have the right to call itself and thev have enriched our communitv. honour." The Bishop of Chichester (The Rt. Rev. G. K. A. Bell) Hotii ihc Duke and the Prime Minister representing the Archbishop of Canterbury aiUided to the " receni reminders of what MYSELF had personal experience of I hope that never again will so fearful a happens when tolerance breaks down." and T Jewish-Christian co-operation in those calamity strike the human race ; and that no section of the people is more likely to terrible years when the Nazis .set out on their appreciate the truth in that observation than men and women of the younger generation campaign of extermination in Germany. Two in the various nations will be ready to with­ we, the erstwhile refugees, for our very story things impressed me particularly then. The is one of those reminders. Tt is a warning to first was the magnificent generosity of the stand any such po.ssihility. I hope also that all nations, too. for it is. like the whole story whole Jewish community, and the resolution not the least result of this great celebration of Judaism (in Dr. Baeck's wordvs). " a with which its members went to the rescue of the Resettlement will he a determination demurrer which nothing can silence, to the of their coreligionists. The second was the hy hosts and gue.sts together to resist tyranny claim of the multitude to crowd out the law, fact that they extended their help in so many and intolerance wherever they raise their head an abiding demurrer to force when it seeks ways to non-Arvan Christians as well. to rule over truth." within range of British influence. Bacon that " all .States that are liberal of "Beyond Toleration" Much has changed since we came into this Naturalisation towards strangers, are fit for Empire." Bacon commends the practice of Another grand event in the Tercentenary cele­ country, much is changing. The days of the brations was the garden party given on behalf of Empire are gone, and the Commonwealth the Roman Empire, whose manner was " to the Council of Christians and Jews by Dr. Geoffrey under the Crown has grown into an, as yet grant Naturalisation and to grant it in the Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at his official highest degree." so that " it was not the home in Lambeth Palace. Viscount .Samuel, who undefined, partnership of free nations. was introduced by the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. R. A- British Jews can no longer hope to be the Romans that spread upon the world, but it Butler, presented the Archbishop with a silver rod and staff of their suffering brethren any­ was the world that spread upon the Romans," medal struck to commemorate the Tercentenary- where in the world, and of the England that and that, says Bacon, was " the sure way of In his replv, referring to the Council's work. Dr- greatness." Fisher said " tolerance " was a good thing but " was aflame with the idea of Israel's word now out of date, being " negative and resurrection, little is left. It seemed We believe that whatever her fortunes may neutral." " Wc must go further," he said- significant that, apart from one brief yet be and however material power may have " bevond toleration to reconciliation, to a recon­ reference in the Chief Rabbi's address, shrunk, Britain is moving forward on that ciled society in which people accept each other if sure way. and long may she remain an a bond of fellowship and co-operation." neither Israel nor even the Balfour Declara­ In a letter to the Council of Christians and Jews tion was mentioned at the Guildhall banquet. inspiration to all that seek the ideal of ordered conveying Her Majesty's pleasure at the garden But though much has changed and much freedom under the law. party, the Queen's Private Secretary wrote: " Ij] is bound to change, the fundamentals, we these days when the principles of religious and racial toleration are challenged in so many way?- pray, shall remain. As naturalised citizens, The Association of Jewi.sh Refugees was repre­ Her Majesty reioices that this outstanding anni­ we gladly remember the words of Francis sented at the banquet by its Vice-Chairman, Mr. versary in the life of her people should be marked Continued al foot of iicxi cohinin A. Drescl. by such a gathering of Christians and Jews." AJR INFORMATION July, 1956 Page 3 DIE ANSPRUECHE AUF ZUWENDUNGEN YOM OESTERREICHISCHEN COMPENSATION FOR POLISH CLAIMS AUSWANDERER-HILFSFONDS N November II, 1954, an agreement was Oreached between the U.K. and the Polish in der amtlichen " Wiener Zeitung " vom 10. Antragsteller der dritten Kategorie (ueber 60 Government concerning the settlement of financial Juni wurdc der Aufruf veroeffentlicht, mit dem Jahre alte Verl'olgte in Not) sollen, wenn sie von matters. I he Polish Government undertook to pay die aus Oesterreich stammenden Opfer der Ver­ Fuersorge- oder Wohlfahrtsstellen iinteistuetzl £2,665,000 in full settlement of claims for British folgung aufgel'ordert werden, innerhalb eines properly nationalised or expropriated by the werden, hierueber Beslaetigungen vorlegen. Polish Government, and an additional amount of Jahres ihre Antraege auf Zuwendungen an den Andeie Angehoerige dieser Kategorie werden £2,800,000 in settlement of debts due to British Hilfsfonds (Postadresse: Wien 49, Poslfach 138) ihie Anlraege aut die ihrem jeweiligen Sonder- nationals. On April 24, 1956, two Orders in Council zu richten. Die Antragsteller sollen sich der tall angemessenen Nachweise stuetzen. were laid before Parliament authorising Ihe Foreign otfiziellen Formulaie bedienen. Der voile Text Eine Haflciitschaedigung, der Bezug von Compensation Commission (1, Princes Gate. des Aufrul's liegt dieser Nummer von "AJR Staatsbeamtenpensionen, ausserordentlichen London, S.W.7) to accept applications, to assess Information " bei. the amount of claims, and lo distribute the funds Versorgungsgenuessen und Renten in der paid in by fhe Polish Government among the Anspruchsberechtigt sind alle aus Oesterreich Sozialversicherung beruehren die Berechtigung persons who establish claims. stammenden emigrierten Verfolgten, die sich zu einer Zuwendung durch den Hilfsfonds nichl; The first Order refers lo claims for British pro­ am I. Jaenner I9.'i6 noch im Ausland befanden, Bezieher von Opferrenten koennen atjer keine perty affected by Polish measures of nationalisation falls sie entweder am 13. Maerz 1938 die Oester- Zuwendung aus dem Hilfsfonds erhalten. or expropriation. Persons who were British subjects leichische .Staatsbuergerschaft besassen oder Es soil nur eiii Antrag, durch den Haushal- on November II, 1954, or corporations existing on damals durch mindestens zehn Jahre (seit dem lungsvorstand, fuer die Familienmitglieder that date under the laws of this country, are 13. Maerz 1928) ihren staendigen Aiifenthali in (Ehefrau iind Kinder, die im selben Haushalt qualified to claim. Oesterieich hatten. leben) ge.stellt werden. Witwen von Oplern oder To establish u claim persons so quahfied have to Da mit Kuecksicht auf die beschraenkten satisfy the Foreign Compensation Commission that Personen, die durch Haft oder Misshandlung they have been deprived of title or enjoyment by Mittel des l-onds nicht zu erwarten ist, dass alle dauernd in ihrer CJesundheit geschaedigt und in a Polish Law mentioned in the Schedule attached Vcrfolgten Zuwendungen erhalten koennen, isl ihrer Erwerbslaehigkeit erheblich beeintraech- to the Order and that the property was British at eine Prioritaetenordnung vorgesehen. In der ligt sind, koennen aber einen Sonderantrag the dale of publication of the Polish Law under ersten Kategorie sollen Verfolgte, die eine stellen. which the property was affected. In the Schedule dauernde Gesundheitsschaedigung als Folge von Der Fonds wird die Zuwendungen nach sixteen Polish Laws are listed, dated from 1945 to Haft oder Misshandlung erlitlen haben und Massgabe der jhm zur Verfuegung steiienden 1951, deren Erwerbsfaehigkeit erheblich vermindert Mitlel (insgesamt 550 Millionen S,die laengstens Persons who acquired British nationality after ist, sowie Witwen nach Verfolglen, die in der November 14, 1954, can therefore make no claim. innerhalb von zehn Jahren bereitgestellt werden Persons qualified have to prove that their property Haft oder dutch Misshandlung gestorben sind, sollen) auszahlen. Er wird auf der Beachtiing had been nationalised or expropriated under a beruecksichtigt werden. Die zweite Kategorie der oben wiedergegebenen Nachweise und Polish Law mentioned in the Schedule, and that bilden sonstige dauernd Erwerbsunfaehige ; eine Bedingungen bestehen muessen,damit diejenigen, they were British subjects on the date of publica­ mindestens sechsmonatige Haft berechtigt zu welche bei den Zuwendungen aus sachlichen tion of this Law. einer erhoehten Zuwendung. Die dritte Gruppe Gruenden bevorzugt behandelt werden sollen, The amount of the claim will be assessed by the bilden Verfolgte im Alter von ueber 60 Jahren, tatsaechlich womoeglich zuerst zum Zuge kom­ Commission without regard lo the rules of com­ die sich in Not belinden. Schliesslich sollen die pensation laid down by Polish Compensation Laws. men. Die Zuwendungen sind eine Hilfsmass- It is obvious that fhe amount of claims will be far uebrigen emigrierten Verlolgten nach Alters­ nahme und nicht eine Cinadengabe. Mit der in excess of fhe sum of £2,665,000 payable by fhe kategorien (beginnend mit den Aeltesten) zum Errichtung des Fonds wurde von Oesterreich Polish Government. Claimants cannot expect to Zuge kommen. anerkannt, dass die Massen der in die Emigration receive fhe full award and will have lo be satisfied Der Fonds wird sich von den oeslerreichischen Getriebenen dort in eine Lage versetzt wurden, with a modest quota. Behoerden die Nachweise betreffend die seiner- welche eine Hill'eleistung eri'orderlich niacht. A large part of the properties was nationalised zeitige oeslerreichische Staatsbuergerschaft und Es kann daher wohl erwartet werden, dass by the Law of January 3, 1946, and all who were diejenigen, fuer die mil Ruecksicht auf ihre naturalised after that date will succeed with their den seinerzeitigen Aufenthalt in Oesterreich claims only if they can satisfy the Commission that beschaffen koennen. Dokumente hieruebei guenstige tinanzielle Position Betraege im they have been deprived of their property by a werden daher in der Regel nicht vorgelegt Gegenwert von 20.000 bis 30.000 S nicht von Polish Law after the date of naturalisation. werden muessen. Es wird aber in alien Faellen Belang sind, von einer Anlragstellung Abstand Applications have to reach the Commission eine Bescheinigung ueber den gegenwaertigen nehmen werden, damit solche Verfolgte zum before April 24, 1957. but the Commission can Aul'enthalt im Ausland, und womoeglich die Zuge kommen koennen, denen mit diesen Lei­ accept amendments or additions to applications Dauer dieses Aulenthaltes, mindesiens fuer die stungen wesenllich geholfen werden kann. lodged in time even after April 24. 1957. The C ommission is not bound by rules of evidence. Zeit seit 1. Jaenner 1955, zu erbringen sein. Eine Die Leistungen durch den Hilfsfonds sind Each applicant is entitled lo ask the Commission Bestaetigung eines Justice of the Peace (oder nicht zur Wiedcrgulmachung erliltencr Ver- to determine his claim at an oral hearing. At the wohl auch einer aehnlichen veitrauenswuerdigen moegensschaeden bestimmt ; die Geltend­ hearing the Legal Officer represents the interest of Stelle) wird genuegen. machung oder auch nur Anfuehrung solcher the Funds against the applicant. Schaeden im Antrag ist daher zwecklos und soil Evidence as fo title and value has to be sub~ Erforderliche Nachweise initted by the claimant. The agreement between unbedingt unterbleiben. fhe two Governments provides for co-operation and Verfolgte, die wuenschen, dass ihr Antrag F.L.B. furnishing of necessary information. The experi­ bevorzugt innerhalb der ersten vier Gruppen Der Austrian Desk des United Restitution ence with other Governments behind the Iron beruecksichtigt wild, werden die besonderen Office (183-189, Finchley Road, London, N.W.3) Curtain was disappointing. Claimants are there- Umstaende durch weitere Nachweise belegen fungiert als Ausgabestelle fuer die Anmelde- I fore advised not to expect that the necessary muessen. Haft oder Misshandlung, Verwit- I information about deprivation and value will be I'ormulare und beraet Interessenten betreffend obtained by fhe Commission in co-operation with wung nach einem in der Haft oder durch Miss­ das weitere Vorgehen. handlungen Gestorbenen koennen durch wahr- the Polish Government. heitsgemaesse eidesstattliche Erklaerungen zweier The second Order in Council refers to lb-: dis­ ADDRESS OF URO tribution of £2.800,000 payable by the Polish Auskunftspersonen bekraeftigl werden. Gesund­ Government in settlement of debts due to British heitsschaedigung und dauernde Erwerbsun- In spite of various announcements, enquirers nationals. This fund consists of three parts— I'aehigkeit oder verminderte Edwerbsfaehigkeit keep on turning to 8, Fairfax Mansions, when the> wish to get in touch with the United Restitution (a) for compensation of debts due or sind durch aerztliche Zeugnisse zu bescheinigen. guaranteed by the Polish Government; Fuer den Nachweis einer Anspruchberechtigung Organisation. They are reminded that the offices of URO are now at 183/189 Finchley Road. (b) for compensation of pre-war banking in der ersten Prioritaetsgruppe wird das aerzt­ debts: liche Zeugnis den Zusammenhang der dauerden N.W.3; telephone : KILburn 0021-0025. Fristablauf (c) for compensation for pre-war com- Erwerbsunl'aehigkeit oder der verminderten FREIE EHEN RASSISCH VERFOLGTER mercial debts. Erwerbsfaehigkeit mil der Verfolgung (Halt, Ehen. die zur Zeit des Nazi-Regimes in To establish a claim the applicants have to Misshandlung) klarzustellen haben. Es wird Deutschland wegen der Rassengesetzgebung nicht satisfy the Commission— sich auch aus ihm ergeben muessen, in welchem geschlossen oder, falls sie zwangsgeschieden waren, Ausmass die Erwerbsfaehigkeil des Antrag­ (i) that they are qualified; nicht wiedergeschlossen werden konnten, weil ein (ii) that the debt arose out of a contract stellers vermindert ist. Fhegatte (oder Verlobter) verstorben ist, koennen existing on September 1, 1939; Wurde der Gatte einer Anlragstellerin depor­ auf Antrag des ueberlebenden Partners fuer (iii) that both on the date on which the debt tiert und liegt seit dem 8. Mai 1945 keine Nach- wirksam erklaert wcrden. Da eine solche Wirk- became due and payable and on Novem­ richl vor, so wird angenommen weiden, dass er samkeitserklaerung fuer Wiedergulmachungsfragen ber 11. 1954. the creditor was a British als Opfer der Verfolgung ums Leben gekommen von Bedeutung sein kann, weisen wir darauf hin. national. dass die Frist zur Stelhing von Anlraegen am The purpose of my notes was only to outline the ist. In den Faellen, in denen Antragsteller bereits .;/ Dezemher 1957 ablaeufl. Antraege. die infolge most important provisions of both Orders, which Antraege auf Haflentschaedigung auf Grund Versaeumnis der urspruenglich im Jahre 1951 raise a number of highly involved leipal questions des Opferfuersorgegesetzes eingebracht haben, abgelaufenen Frist keine Beruccksichtigung and contain numerous other qualifications and werden die in diesen Verfahren erbrachten gefunden haben, koennen nunmehr von neuem exceptions. Nachweise nicht wiederholt werden muessen. gestellt werden. Dr. A. BOBASCH Page 4 AJR INFORMATION July, 19.16 DAS NEUE BUNDESENTSCHAEDIGUNGSGESETZ ANGLO-JUDAICA Der Entwurf des neuen Bundesentschaedi­ sich auch auf die Behoerden und Gerichtc aus- The Guildhall Tercentenary Banquet gungsgesetzes ist vom Bundestag in seiner wirkeh moege, die zur Rechtsanwendung The third outstanding feature of the Tercen­ Sitzung am 6. Juni 1956 in zweiter und dritter berufen sind." tenary—after the service at Bevis Marks and fhe Lesung verabschiedet worden. Der Bundesrat Praesident Dr. Gerstenmaier fuehrte aus: Historical Exhibition—was a banquet held at the hat dem Gesetzenlwurf in seiner Sitzung am "' Wenn wir dieses Gesetz heute verabschieden, Guildhall, where a notable company of Jews and i5.6.1956 einstimmig seine Zustimmung gegeben. non-Jews was addressed by H.R.H. the Duke of dann ist das ein Werk und ein Zeugnis des guten Edinburgh, fhe Prime Minister, fhe Chief Rabbi, Mit der Veroeffentlichung wird dieser Entwurf Willens des ganzen Deulschen Voikes. Es bleibt Gesetz werden. and other distinguished speakers. The Duke dann immer noch ein Rest zu tragen - bitter stressed the common loyally of all citizens, Mitdicsem Gesetz ist, wie Bundesiinanzminis- peinlich!- etwas Irreparables und Unkorrigier- remembered Anglo-Jewry's 12,000 dead in fhe two fer Schaeffer betont hat, die abschliessende baies, das weder mit Geld noch Gut noch wars, and, like the Prime Minister, paid homage bundcsgeselzliche Regelung des Rechts der Rechlssatzungen korrigiert weiden kann. Weil to the Jewish achievement in every sphere of Entschaedigung fuer Opfer der nationalsozialis­ wir uns dessen bewusst sind, solllen wir uns nicht national life in Britain. " Let us freely acknow­ tischen Verfolgung getroffen. verhaerten den Problemen gegenueber, die auch ledge that they have richly repaid their welcome here," declared Sir Anthony Eden ; the Jewish Wir werden ueber den Jnhalt des Gesetzes in Zukunft in dieser Hinsicht auf iins zukommen contribution to British society, he said, was '" both in einer besonderen Beilage zur August-Nummer werden. Niemand sollte sagen: Nun its doch distinctive and highly valued." von " AJR Information " berichten. Es sind diese Sache endlich abgegolten und wir sind The Chief Rabbi (Dr. I. Brodie) recalled from bei alien Schadensarten Verbesserungen und, damil un.scier Verpflichtung ledig. Das mag in Anglo-Jewry's history " illuslralions of the courage z.B. bei den besonderen Verfolgtengruppen, linanzicller iind rechtlicher Hinsicht gueltig and sympathy of successive British Governments erhebliche Ausweitungen cingefuehrt worden. sein ; in seinem letzten bleiben vvir hier aber who by solemn utterance and diplomatic inter­ Durch Einfuchrung der Witwen—und Waisen­ inimer noch Schuldner unserer Vergangenheit." vention supported ihe etforls of the leaders of our rente bei Berufschaden und durch Einbeziehung fortunate and happily placed community who championed the cause of our coreligionists in der Verfolglen, die aus dcr Ostzone ausgewan­ Bundestag t'ordcrt Besclilcuuigung different lands where Ihey were exposed to dert sind, ist das Bundesentschaedigungsgesetz cruelties and deprivations." Viscount Samuel auf einen Personenkreis ausgedehnt worden, Prof. Dr. Boehm und Dr. Greve machten presided over the occasion, which the Bishop of dem bisher eine Entschaedigung versagt war. Ausfuehrungen im gleichen Sinne und richteten Chichester, representing the Archbishop of Canter­ Da die Regelung bezueglich der Ostzone der einen besonderen Appell an die Lander, jede bury, described as " a landmark in the annals of Kernpunkt des neuen Gesetzes ist, sei diese Verzoegerung in der Bearbeitung der Antraege the religious and political liberty of the whole Bestimmung woertlich wiedergegeben. § 4 Abs. zu vermeiden. Prof. Dr. Boehm wies darauf of our people." (Extracts from some of the I Ziff. c des neuen Gesetzes lautet: hin, dass das eine oder andere Land seinen speeches are printed elsewhere in this issue.) Personalbestand bereits erhoeht hat, zum Teil "Anspruch auf Entschaedigung besteht, bis zu 20%, und gab der Hoffnung Ausdruck, Honours wenn der Verfolgte vor dem 31.12.1952 aus­ dass auch die anderen Laender diesem rueh- gewandert isl, deportierf oder ausgewiesen Among Ihe Queen's Birthday Honours was a menswerten Beispiel nacheifern werden. Er baronetcy for Sir Henry Cohen for services to worden ist und seinen lelzten Wohnsitz oder betonte, dass viele der jetzt betagten Opfer des medicine. Sir Henry, Professor of Medicine at dauernden Aulenthall in Gebieten gehabt hat, Nationalsozialismus slerben bevor sie eine Ent­ Liverpool University, is Chairman of the Standing die am 31.12.1937 zum Deut.schen Reich schaedigung erhalten und schloss niit den Medical Advisory Committee of fhe Ministry of gehoert haben, es sei denn, dass er im Zeit­ Wortcn " Das Unrecht liegt jetzl 11 bis 23 Jahie Health. A knighthood was conferred on Brigadier punkl dcr Entscheidung seinen Wohnsitz oder E. H. I.. Beddington, Chairman of the Hertford­ zurueck. Jeder Tag der verstreicht belastet shire County Council, and an O.B.E. on the Editor dauernden Aufenthalt in Gebieten hat, mil unser Gewis.sen." deren Regierungen die Bundesrepublik of The lewish Chronicle, Mr. J. M. Shaftesley, Deuiscliland keine diplomatischen Bezie­ Dr. Greve hatte in seinem schriftlichen Bericht also on Messrs. H. Berman, Temporary Chief auf Entscheidungen der Entschaedigungbehoer- Executive Officer, British Information Services, hungen unterhaelt." Bonn ; and I. I. Ungar, Deputy Director of den iind Gerichte hingewiesen, die vom Bundes­ Housing, L.C.C. tag und ihm nur mit Erschrecken und Entsetzen EinbeiciehiiiiK der Ost/one Four neighbouring London boroughs are each zur Kenntnis genommen werden konnten. Der having a Jewish Mayor as a result of the recent Abgeordnete Dr. Reif FDP sagte: " Es muss in Borough Council elections. They are Hackney Diese Bestimmung bezieht sich auf die Ost­ diesem Hause, es muss nach aussen hin an die (Cllr. J. Kahn), Stoke Newington (Cllr. L. Levy). zone und diejenigen .sogenannten Verlreibungs- ausfuehrenden Behoerden, an die Gerichte und Finsbury (Aid. M. Cliffe). and Shoreditch (Aid. gcbiete, die am 31.12.1937 zum Deutschen Reich die Oeffentlichkeit gesagt werden: Dieser D. Wray). The candidates put forward hy gehoerten. Zur Ostzone, d.h dem Gebiet der Bundestag wuenscht, dass die Bestimmungen Mosley's Union Movement failed to win any seats. Deutschen Demokrafischen Republik, gehoeren dieses Gesetzes, sofern Zweifel beslehen, A Comparison vfith U.S.A. Thueringen, Land und Provinz Sachsen, Ost- zugunsten des Verfolgten ausgelegt werden." Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg und Vor- Dr. Greve wies darauf hin, dass nach dem Interesting observations on British, as compared pommern ; Verlreibungsgebiele, die am 31.12. Gesetz alle Ansprueche bis zum Ablauf des with U.S., Jewry were made by Rabbi Dr. Robert 1937 zum Deutsehen Reich gehoerten, sind Ost- Rechnungsjahres 1962 befriedigt werden sollen. Oordis, the distinguished American Jewish und Westpreussen, Grenzmark, Schlesien und Er betonte der Sinn dieser Bestimmung sei nicht, scholar, who recently visited London. He found Hinterpommern. that many British Jews lived by their Judaism, dass nun die Entscheicungen bis 1962 hinauszu- many more loved it, but relatively few were ready Die Reden, die in der Silzung des Bundestages ziehen seien. " Der Wille des Gesetzgebers ist to pay for it ; while in the U.S.A. the situation gehalten wiirden, zeichneten sich durch ein es, dass alle Antraege so schnell wie nur moeglich was almost the reverse—some lived by their besonders hohes Niveau aus. Sie waren an die nicht nur bearbeitet sondern auch erledigt Judaism, more loved it, and many more were in aller Welt lebenden Verfolgten gerichtet und werden." ready to pay for il! He claimed that more than half of the 5,000,000 U.S. Jews were actual legen die Grenzen einer moglichen Wiedergul- Wir haben ueber diese Sitzung so ausfuehrlich machung dar sowie die Gruende, die bisher zu paying members of synagogues—a much higher berichlet, damit die in ihr gemachten Ausfueh­ proportion than in Britain. einer schleppenden Erledigung der anhaengigen rungen nicht in Vergessenheit geraten und Verfahren gefuehrt halten. This fact, according to Dr. Cordis, explained damit die Behoerden an sie erinnert werden why American congregations could pay their Die Sitzung ergab, dass bezueglich des Inhalts konnen, wenn schleppende Eriedigung oder rabbis and cantors salaries which by British des Gesetzes keine Meinungsverschiedenheit Ueberl'ormalismus beiechligten Anlass zur standards would be considered fabulous. British zwischen Regierung und Opposition bestand. Kritik geben. rabbis, ministers, and teachers are being " grossly Die Verhandlung wurde behcrrscht von den underpaid." the American visitor thought. A Hebrew teacher in New York, he pointed out, Reden des Praesidenten des Bundestags Dr. could probably command as high a salary as the Gerstenmaier, des Finanzministers Schaeffer, New Tax Relief for Pensions highest-paid rabbi in London, even after taking des Vorsitzenden des Wiedergutmachungsaiis- into consideration the difference in the cost of schusses und Bcrichterslatters Greve (SPD) und The Budget will greatly benefit self-employed living. des Abgeordneten Prof. Dr. Boehni (CDU/ persons, directors,, and many others. How­ The Association of (Reform) Synagogues in CSU). ever, without expert guidance it will be Great Britain decided af their annual meeting to Finanzminisler Sichaeller wies darauf liin, dass impossible to choose from the confusing appoint a Director of Religious Studies as a variety of pension plans that will be offered. preliminary to the establishment of a Theological das Gesetz bis an die aeusserste Grenze des fuer Advice of this kind is our business. It is College at Oxford or Cambridge for the purpose die Laender und den Bund finanziell Tragbaren free and without obligation. of training ministers and teachers. gegangen sei. Die Gesamtlasten der Entschaedi­ gung bezifferle Dr. .Schaeffer auf 7, 5 Milliarden, LEROI, FLESCH & CO. LTD. Anglo-Israel Corporation Incorporated Insurance Brokers, von dene 3, 5 Milliarden auf die neu eingefuehr- An Anglo-Israel Development Corporation with ten Verbesserungen entfallen, und sagte: "Ich 1.67/8, Tottenham Court Road, LONDON, W.l an authorised capital of £500,000 has been darf abschliessend der Holfung Ausdruck geben, •Phone . EUSton 8464 registered for the purpose of promoting Anglo- dass der Geist in dem dieses Weik entstanden (Private Bronch Exchange) Jewish group settlement and investment in Kiryat ist an dem alle Beteiligien mitgearbeilel haben, Gat. AJR INFORMATION July, 1956 Page 5 IRREDENTA AMONG EAST GERMAN REFUGEES JEWISH LIFE IN THE Claim to Lost Lands " Beyond 1937 Frontiers " FEDERAL REPUBLIC Irredentist demands, appreciably more aggressive the Refugee Party, said that the time had gone than in the past, were put forward at public meet­ when it was politic lo show reserve, and there was " German Jewry is Here fo Stay," runs the head­ ings held on Whitsun by East German refugees no longer any need to consider fhe position of fhe line of an article in the B'nai B'rith's National in Nuremberg, Cologne, Bochum, and Dinkels'biihl. Federal Republic. lewish Monthly, Washington, by Dr. Hans Lamm, Strong attacks were made on the West German In an article on the Sudeten Germans' confer­ head of the cultural department of the Central Com­ Foreign Minister, von Brentano, who. during his ence, Siegfried Zoglmann, the former .Sudeten Nazi, mittee of Jews in Germany. " While opinions may visit to London, had spoken of " our somewhat now a prominent Free Democrat, declares that " in vary as fo the desirability of a resurrection and problematical title " to the lost territories. Cries of international law. Siidctenland continues to be as maintenance of Jewish communal life in Germany •• shame " also greeted the mention of a statement unequivocally German as are the territories East of (he writes), there is no denying the fact that if is by Dr. O. Grcve. the Socialist M.P.. who had the Oder-Ncisse at present under Russian and Polish here to slay and that if will have fo be reckoned described Sudctenland as Czech territory and administration." with, regardless of its size in the years fo come." denounced those who were again planning "the rape of foreign lands." The Sudeten Germans, al their Whitsun meeting, Dr. Lamm states that 20.000 are formal members In an address to the refugees, Herr Scebohm, chose as the recipient of their Literary Prize of of Jewish congregations in Western Germany and Federal Minister of Transport, described the reuni­ I.OOODM the Nazi author Wilhclm Plcycr. The West Berlin, and fhe " uiiafTiliated " arc estimated fication of Germany as the prerequisite of the Munich Abend Zeitun/; describes the award as al between 3.000 and 25.000. In his optimistic sur­ " recovery of the Sudeten German homes in peace "highly objectionable." It quotes from Pleyer's vey. Dr. Lamm notes that more than 2,000 are and freedom." For the sake of reunification, how­ writings to show that he had not ceased lo be a under 20 and that the birth-rate is rather high. ever, he said, there must be no renunciation of the Nazi after the war. Also more Jews, of all ages and walks of life, are said to be returning to Germany than leaving it. homes of all those Germans who once lived East Criticism of the " Greater Germany policy " pro­ of the Oder-Neisse and beyond the frontiers of 1937. claimed at the refugee meetings was expressed in the Suddeutsche Zeitung, which called on the Bonn New Community in Bayreuth " Time for Reserve is past " Government to " reconsider their relations to cer­ In an address to the Pomeranian refugees in tain chieftains of the refugee associations." The In Bayreuth, which once had a Jewish population Bochum, the Schleswig-Holstein Minister for Social Frankfurter Rund.tchau warned against a revival of of more than 500, a Jewish community consisting Affairs, Hans Adolf Asbach, himself a member of the " Henlein-Hitler mentality of 1938." of twelve men, as well as 28 women and children, has been formally re-established. The newly con­ stituted community, which is the 13lh in Bavaria, is The War Criminals headed by Heinz I.oebinger. who returned from Eighteen former Austrian S.S. and Gestapo Nazi rdgime arc commonly regarded as advisers Israel, as Chairman and by Mrs. Friedel Reinauer officials who were released last year from Russian to Hitler." Notwithstanding this statement, bolh as Deputy Chairman. She is one of the few sur­ prison camps were arrested in Vienna and charged gentlemen attended fhe ceremony organised by the vivors of the 1941 deportation of German Jews to with having taken part in massacres in Poland af League fo commemorate the fallen of fhe last war Riga. The foundation meeting was attended by the which several hundred Jews were killed. In reply and the Baffle of Jutland. President of the Munich community, Siegfried to attacks in fhe pro-Nazi press, fhe Austrian Neuland, who is a member of the Bavarian Senate. Minister of Justice, Dr. Kapfer, pointed out that Gauleiter's Compensation the men had been accused of atrocities against Jews Otto Hclmuth. former Gauleiter of Main- in the ghettoes of Kolomea, Stryj, and Borislav ; Franconia. is to receive from the municipality .lews Honour Berlin Senator they arc alleged to have driven a large number, of Kassel a " homecomers' compensation" of .Senator Joachim l.ipschitz. West Berlin's Minister including old men, women, and children, on to a 5.161 DM. He was originally sentenced to death by of the Interior, was awarded the " Heinrich Stahl public square, forced them to undress, and dragged the Americans on a charge of shooting Allied Cultural Prize " by the President of the Jewish com­ them away info already prepared pits where all p.o.w.s ; he was then reprieved and in June, 1955. munity, Heinz Galinski. The prize, bestowed annu­ were shot. Should these charges be proved. Dr. released from Landsberg war crimes prison. ally, was presented lo Lipschiiz, a half-Jewish Social Kapfer said, the accused would be liable to Ijfe The former Nazi Mayor of Hanau. Junker, is to Democrat, to honour his efforts fo champion fhe imprisonment. receive nol only his pension but also arrears amount­ cause of Nazi victims. Referring to fhe case of Johann Sanitzer, a ing fo 4O,00ODM., it was decided by the Flesse Gestapo inspector, who had been sentenced fo Administrative Court. Lipschitz made the £166 which the Sfahl Prize life imprisonment by an Austrian court. Dr. "Insolent indemnification claims" by the carries with if available to a Jewish student whose Kapfer said that he was guilty of ill-treatment but " Brown bosses " are denounced in an article in the parents were Nazi victims. He promised to finance not of any killings, and he had therefore been illustrated magazine Revue. Also in another. Der a sludy of the Nazi regime by a group of young conditionally released after nine years in prison, Stern, which exposed this " example of the Berlin historians and pledged to see to it that the including six in Russia. Should fresh evidence systematic provocation of the new Germany by the French documentary concentration camp film, submitted hy organisations of former concentra­ beneficiaries of the Hitler rdgime." " Nighl and Fog," which was withdrawn from the tion camp inmates indicate that Sanil/cr had al.so International Film Festival at Cannes after an inter­ been guilty of killings, then he would be Waffen-SS Banned vention by the German Embassy, will be shown in re-arrested. Dr. Kapfer stated. The Waffen-.SS meeting which was to have been Berlin. held at Lildenscheid. Westphalia, was cancelled after A Torturer of Raveasbriicli permission to use a local hall had been withdrawn. Dr. Baecli at Miin.stcr Universily Former inmates of the Ravensbriick concentra­ As a result of a decision by the trade unions to tion camp for women are requested to submit evi­ stage a protest meeting, the SS organisers found it At the invitation of the Rector of MUnster dence about the activities of Herta Oberheuser. impossible to obtain the use of other premises. University, Dr. Leo Baeck addressed fhe Institutum formerly a doctor in that camp. Charges against Cemeteries Desecrated Jiidaicum Delitzschianum there on the subject her are at present being investigated by the Public " From Moses Mendelssohn to Franz Rosenzweig : Prosecutor af Kiel. The old Jewish cemetery at Beckum. in the Riihr. has been desecrated. A number of gravestones Typical Examples of How Jews Regarded Them­ Af the Nuremberg trials Oberheuser was found selves in the Last Two Centuries." guilty of conducting medical experiments on were overturned and badly damaged. The local women prisoners, including Tcwesses. and of Jewish community has offered a reward for infor­ Professor Martin Buber addressed a crowded adminislering lethal injections in a number of mation ahout the identity of the vandals. audience at the West Berlin University on " Chas- cases. For these crimes she was sentenced to The Jewish community of Vienna has protested sidisni and the Western World." He also partici­ 20 years" hard labour, but she was released several lo the Austrian Ministry of the Inferior against the pated in a symposium arranged by the Protestant years ago. recent desecration of the Jewish cemetery in Academy on the subject " Images of Good and II was recently reported that she was again work­ Gaenserndonf. Lower Austria, where eleven fomfc- Evil." ing as a doctor af Stocksee. in .Sohleswig-Holsfein. stones were overturned and damaged. Organisations representing victims of Nazism then A paper on " The Beginnings of Jewish Neo- demanded the withdrawal of her licence and investi­ Soviet Zone Plafonism " was read by Dr. Alexander Altmann. gation of her war crimes. Communal Rabbi of Manchester, at fhe Universily The Ratebi of East Berlin. Martin Riesenberger. of Frankfurt. His was one of the Loeb Lectures Honour for Raeder was awarded the National Order of Merit. Also, fo be regularly given by Jewish scholars fo German on the occasion of his 60th birthday, he was given students under an endowment from a fund The former Admiral Raeder. who was released the " Clasp of Honour " of the East German Peace established in the will of Eda Kuhn Loeb, a from the Allied war crimes prison at .Spandau in Council. member of fhe New York banking family. September. 1955. was made an honorary member The former .Secretary of State in the Ministry of of the German Navy League at a meeting of 12.000 Supply, Paul Bender, who was dismissed in 1952 of its 22.000 members in Kiel. A former President of and sentenced to six years' forced labour in 1953, They Returned 'he League. Otto Kretschmer. who resigned fhe was released from prison. presidency when he joined the new German navy, Among those who recently returned to settle in extolled Raeder as a man who " as C-in-C always Statistics Germany again was Klaus Pringshcim. the conduc­ had a warm heart for the affairs of the old and fhe Some detailed figures of " affiliated" Jews in tor. He had held a distinguished appointment in new Navy League." Western Germany are given by a Yiddish observer, Tokio. In a joint statement, the Prime Minister of H. Ayaiti (writing in the South African Jewish The former Professor of Philosophy in Goetfin- Schleswig-Holstein, von Hassel. and fhe leader of Times). According to him. there are about 4.500 gcn University. Georg Misch, w.Rhine- dcnv his claim lo leadership nor en-. Fngland- Metalworkers Denounce Nazi Revival Wcstphalia, Herr Steinhoff, visited the Jewish communal offices in Dortmund, he declared that .\merica anv lonccr refuse the most far-reachinc A resolution against "Ihe resurgence of Richtist co-oneration." Indeed. Lord Lothian added (pace he had deliberately ordered a police escort so radical and Nazi groups that threaten our young that everybody could see whom he was visiting. Trott). " Hitler holds in his hands the shapinc of demorrnrv- " wa« unanimously adopted at a meeting opinion in the whole Anglo-Saxon world, to ,T He wanted to make it crystal clear that he would in Diisseldorf of the National Board of the power­ always be a reliable friend of fhe Jewish com­ "reater extent perhaps than is imderstood in Ber­ ful Metalworkers Trade Union. " Democratic lin. Where today the courage of despair rises iin munity. He said: "As we have suffered in institutions are .shamelessly vilified in many publica­ common, there is no going hack. There can only against him. gratitude towards him could prevail tions of the radical Right." the resolution says and tomorrow." be one aim: to do everything to prevent the coes on to voice "serious misgivings" ahout Ger­ happenings of the past being repeated." As long No doubt in reportinc these opinions. Trolt was man court verdicts in ca.ses involving Nazi crimes inclined to a good deal of overstatement as pirt as he was al the head of the Government no neo- " While the victims of Fascism still wait for fair Nazi movement would be successful. of his purpose lo impress Hitler with the British indemnification." the resolution points out, "those carrot as much as with Ihc British stick But Builtv of Ihe terrible crimes of Nazism receive hich As to the problem of restitution, Hcrr Steinhoff fiindamcntallv his report is true to fact as one pensions and substantial compensation payments, declared that soon after his appointment he saw more proof that UP lo the Nazi occiipalion of which are hound to encourace these circles to per­ to it that the restitution authorities cot more staff. Pra"ue. in March 1939. and even some lime later severe in their political aspirations." He personally was worried by the slow progress sironc forces in Britain were prepared to trust in. of restitution, especially as sufficient funds were and parlcv with, a rdoimc that niready stood con­ available. He promised that within his consti­ demned bv cvcrv standard of human decency and P.E.N. Centre's Protest tutional powers he was always prepared fo accept reason. After all. il was not six months yet since Jewish advice. the November pogrom had been staged. But fhe The German P.E.N, centre, at its annual ncr.secufion of the Tfws—the one point that would congress in Freiburc. approved a resolution Federal Army and Democracy denouncinc neo-Nazi literature. Its President. have rcdnrcd to hollow mockerv all thought of An appeal to senior officers of the new anv settlement with Hitler—does not for a moment F.rich Kaestner. drew fhe attention of the Federal Government, the Bundestag, the l.Snder covern- Bundeswehr to justify the confidence which the rnter. Tt seemed all hut irrelevant in the realm of German people have put in them was made by Renlpolilik and it is perhaps characteristic that menls. and their parliaments fo the subversive activities of some publishers and publicists. The the Federal Defence Minister. Herr Blank. He Ihc poSwitzerland. Even at the dress for the first time, has been specially advice to devote himself entirely to the Muses. The rehearsal of " Mrs. Warren's Profession " the revised by the author. 30s. net. poet's judgment was. in this case, better justified director of the Raimund Theatre, who had been than in fhe case of Franz Xaver Kappus, to whom coaxed by fhe translator info producing it for the VALLENTINE, MITCHELL his famous "Brief an einen jungen Dichter" had sentimental reason that if was his duty fo do so as been wrilten without the recipient heeding the warn­ one of Shaw's discoverers, implored Trebitsch not ing. Through Rilke's recommendation, Trebitsch to insist upon the First Night. Trebitsch's reply took place simultaneously, and the two cities pre­ became an author of fhe S. Fischer Verlag, and the was that if a criminal was to Be executed on a ceded London and New York, promising young man did not cut a bad figure among Saturday he would refuse to suffer that fate already Barnowsky, whose name is not associated with the other exponents of the "Wiener .Schule." on Friday. TTius he would rather wait for the any special literary movement—that is why his There can be no question of their quality, but it is catastrophe instead of trying lo avoid it. Trebitsch profile seems less distinct in the history of the not easy today to assess their literary merits, works was right: " Mrs. Warren's Profession " had a long Berlin theatre—was one of Shaw's earliest admirers of even greater originality having dated consider­ run in Vienna. and was the first fo put on the stage even more ably. Under .Schnitzler's influence Trebitsch dealt difficult works such as "John Bull's Other Island " with themes such as death and disease and the In Berlin. Trebitsch offered each pjay of Shaw's and " Back to Methuselah." (Though Reinhardt had psychic troubles oi fin du slide lovers and married first to Otto Brahm who was appreciative of Tre- shown " Man and Superman." if was—hard to couples. bitsch's own works, but did not realise that .Shaw, believe today—without the central part, " Don in his way. was Ibsen's successor, a fact not Juan in Hell.'") Condensing for Barnowsky's pro­ " Die Genesung " is a characteristic title of his overlooked by Archer in England and by Brahm's first novel,"Die Frau ohne Dienstag" was serialised duction of Shaw's " Biological Pentateuch " for two younger German contemporaries such as Kerr, evenings, with the knowledge that Shaw was against in the Berliner Tageblall (1 remember having beci Jacobson Floesser, Bah and Morilz Heiman on thrilled, still a youth, then). " Frau Giffas Siihne " it and that Trebitsch did not risk committing him­ whose advice S. Fischer had published Trebitsch's self, was the most difficult job in my theatrical was adapted^ by Shaw, as a token of recognition, Shaw edition. for the English stage, but rejected in Germany by career. everybody except the Rotters who must have Max Reinhardt discovered the potentialities I have drawn these recollections from my per­ thought of fhe play in terms of a box-office success, which parts such as Candida and Lady Cicely (in sonal memories. Trebitsch completed his owoi and " Kaiser Dioklefian" is an ambitious verse " Captain Brassbound's Conversion ") offered to memoirs ("Chronik eines Lebens") shortly before drama which emerges in my memory as both cul­ Agnes Sorma, but the public did not become his death. They contribute to our knowledge not tured and .somewhat colourless. interested in Shaw's plays until Victor Barnowsky's only of his championship of Shaw in Germany but production of "Pygmalion." with Tilla Durieux, af also of the literary climate in the first half of our century. Service to a Greater Man the Lessing Theater. The Viennese Uratiffiihrung A mood of resignation permeates the great TWO PERFORMANCES number of his works, as if his subconscious mind had felt the urge to express his destiny: fhe " TEN DAYS TO LIVE " bv the lake and didn't see the child drown ? Or sacrifice of his own creative desires to the service was she thinking he was just bathing and shouting of a greater man. Something of this mood also A film directed by G. W. Pabst based on a book for fun ? Does ignorance protect you from was in his personal relations fo fellow-writers and by A. Musmanno, film story hy E, M. Remarque niinishment? If this woman appears in an members of the acting profession. There was The aim of this picture ? To give a factual historical film, is if enough just fo let her he "» something touching in his gentlemanly adoration account of what happened in the bunker under A.R. for the first " Saint Joan " in Vienna, who was a the Reichs Chancellery in Berlin during the last " DARK SUMMER " charming Saloiidame. but not altogether suited to ten days of Hitler's life. Not more and not less. that part. Af the rehearsals we were sometimes in The heroine of Wynyard Browne's play. " Dark despair, but Trebitsch. coming from Rcinhardt's Before saying anything about the possibility or desirability of such an undertaking, let us look Summer." recently revived at the Irving Theatre. rehearsals in Berlin, with his own niece. Elizabeth I ondon. is an Austrian Jewess who has lived Bergner, tried to reassure us how much belter the for a moment at (he film itself. We experience Ihis eerie almosphcrc in which the mightiest man through the horrors of a concentration camp ; hut Viennese actress was. Trebitsch. in turn, was Ihis is not essentially a play about the refugee exasperated about the way in which Anton on earth is without any might, where high-ranking Edthofer, who played the Dauphin, treated the text generals move. Ihc Commanders of vast armies problem. A young English officer, blinded in the of his translation. without anv armies, where the Minister of Propa­ war, is losing his grip on life. His fiancee still loves ganda still makes his powerful propaganda to him. but. unable to understand his despair and Tn spite of minor flaws. Trebitsch's German nobody and about nothing any longer. antagonised bv the distrust of his over-pious and Shaw is an imposing accomplishment, as good as So much for the host of ghosts. There arc n irrow-minded. thougih kind, mother, runs away. any version can be, Trebifsch had a kind dis­ people of flesh and blood as well. i.e. THE He turns to Gisela. a refugee girl working in his position and therefore not many enemies, hut fhe people. The hoy soldier who worries about his mother's household, who has nursed and secretly royalties he cirned with Shaw and Couricline mother, ihc young army captain who has a loved him since he returned from the war. The created envv. and some colleagues maintained that ending is very much as one would expect it to be his translations were no longer .Shaw, Shaw message in the double meaning of the word: from his colonel and from his conscience. He is killed in a popular play : an operation restores the younc always backed him most chivalrously and retorted man's eyesight ; he offers to ".stick to his bargain." that, if that were so. Trcbitsch must be a very for tellinc the Fuehrer fhe truth and has to pa\ Ihc supreme penalty, whilst the boy soldier is but Gisela renounces her love and nobly brings generous man sharing with him an income for about his reunion with the fiancee. When she leaves words which ho. .Shaw, had encccdly not written. lookinc for his mother in the wantonly flooded tunnels of the Berlin Underground railway, All to take up her former profession of a research When Trchilsch was introduced to Shaw's plays ihis. ably acted and photographed but uiihoiil chemist she has won everybody's admiration and by the Ibsen anostic William Archer during his much distinction, adds up to a picture rcportaec gratitude : even the class- and race-conscious spin­ I ondon stay in 1900. the Irish n'rifer was known as as a documentary could have done it, Yel we who ster who lodges in the house withdraws all the a Fabian politician only, but Trebitsch. fascinated have suffered from that man and who have fried wounding thinss she has said to the Jewess. by "Candida" faflracted first bv the title), was to get at the hidden motives of the vilest and most resolved to become Shaw's pioneer in the German- Clearly, this plot could have been built around abhorrent criminal who has ever lived on this any stranger in the home. The fact that the heroine sneaking countries. This task was made much earth, can we be content with such a film about harder bv fhe fact that .Shaw's nlavs. though pub­ happens to he Jewish and a refugee is merely inci­ lished in three volumes, had not been performed such a subiect ? T said to mvself: so. that's what dental—or rather, if would be if the director Peter in England then at all, Trehitsch has told how it looks like when a turning-point of historv is Munk. and his leading actress, both Jewish refugees Shaw, on fhe one hand declared htm simplv mad enacted, when fhe fate of the world is being decided, themselves had not succeeded in imparting a par­ to undertake this task, but was. on fhe other ouite the stuff for books, dissertations, philosophies ticular and tragic sicnificance to the play. Carmen a business man. Although fhe French translation nocms. novels, and plavs. Tt all boils down of Blanck-Sichel's Gisela is a woman of bewildered of " Die Genesunc" reassured him about Tre- the squabbles of a few despicable individuals and and restained passion who. instead of being the hitsch's literary standing he shunned the risk of the rantings of mass murderers. passive victim of an individual situation, seems enfrustine him with 'he German conyrights of his And. perhaps as an anticlimax, there is Eva herself fo reiect a happiness too shallow to match life's work. Trehii«ch. as touch as he was daring, Braun. A verv nice-look ine. modestly hut the depth of her experience -her Jewish experience. made fhe pronosal to let him translate three nlavs. handsomely dressed vouneish ladv whose main From the first moment the sullen awkwardness nnd if he could not nlace one of them and find a business in the film consists in standinc around which she displays at the daily ritual of the tea- nublisher for all within a vear. Shaw should be his and eventually marrying fhe monster. T thought: table is more telling than all the speeches explaining free agent aeain. when T in this countrv see a child drowning and her position A fine performance, and a highly intelligent interpretation of the plav. The firrx- limit was ncarinc its c'ose. when the don't CO to his help. T am nuni'-hable bv law. director of the Raimimd Theater, in order not to What then about Eva Braun? Have we fo be I understand that this production of " Dark he importuned by Trebifsch anv more, promised resigned fo consider her an "extra " on Ihe stage Summer " may be staged again in the near future. 'hat he would consider " The Devil's f)iscinle " if of world historv with her modest dress, her good If these plans materialise readers should not miss the the translator could persuade a certain actor fo looks, and her friendly smile ? Was she walking opportunity of seeing it. LK. Page 8 AJR INFORMATION July, 1956 ROBERT WELTSCH ZUM 65. GEBURTSTAG MAX FRIEDLAENDER ZUM GEDAECHTNIS Will man von cinem Lehrer erzahlen, so kann die Unabhiingigkeil des Denkens und die Festig- man schwcrlich anders als von seiner Wirkung keii. mit der gewonnene Erkenninisse vertreten In den letzten Tagen des Mai dieses Jahres hat Dr. sprechen. Handelt es sich dabei um eine so wurden. Mut und Charakter wurden Kennzeichen Max Friedlaender, London, fast 82-jahrig, diese Welt ausgepragle Personlichkeit wie Robert Wehsch, so fiir den Journalisten, den Politiker, den Zionisfen, verlassen. Mit ihm ist einer der fuhrenden deufschen wird das Bild notwendig vielerlei Ergiinzungen den Denker Robert Weltsch. Rechtsanwalle aus der Vor-Hitlerzeit dahingegangen. erfahrcn miisscn, soil es seine vollstandige Belich- "Juden konnen nicht andcrs als als Juden Er war ein Jurist von hohen Graden. Vor allem war tung erhalten, sollen alle Seiten seiner reichen sprechert"—dieses von Weltsch oft wiederholte er Rechtsanwalt. Eine ausgedehnte, aber auch Wirkung auf viele Menschen, auf die jUdische Wort, das er auch in seinem so sehr bertihmt ausgesuchlc Klientel wurde von ihm beraten und vor Journalisfik im Allgcmeinen, seiner heule schon gewordenen Aufsatz "Tragt ihn mit Sfolz, den den Miinchener Gerichfen elegant verlreten. Aus- geschichtlioh gewordenen Wirkung auf den Welt- gelben Fleck !" zum 1. April. 1933. eindringlich gezeichnet war Friedlaender durch .seine vornehme zionismus in eincr bestimmten Periode, auf die unterslrich. begriindet wohl die tiefe Wirkung. die Berufsauffassung. Der Anwaltsberuf war ihm nicht Zionistische Vcreinigung fur Deutschland, aiif die ihm gegeben isl ausziiUben. Gewiss. man musste ein Gewerbe, mittels dessen man mocglichst viel Geld Enlwicklung in Paliislina in Frscheinung treten. Zur Jude sein, Zionist, das Ethos jiidischcr Renaissance verdient, sondern einc ars liberalis, deren Ausiibung Feier seines 65. Geburtstages kann uns wohl nur mit all seiner Problematik in sich aufgenommen zwar durch ein honorarium, einen Ehrensold, entlohnt gegehen sein. mit schr andeutenden und .sehr haben, wolltc man den ficfstcn Sinn dieses Safzes werden muss, die aber um einer ethischen und su'bjekliven Strichcn nachzuzcichncn, was uns verstehen lernen—aber ein Rest blicb. der Rest, sozialen Pflicht willcn und in den Grenzen dieser Robert Wcltsch bcdeulet. der eben dcm Kiinstler Wellsch vorbehahen war. Pflicht ausgeiibt wird. Nach diesem Grundgedanken Jiidischer Journalismus, zionistischer Journalis- dem meistcrhaflen Formulierer. dem genialen handelte er in der tiiglichcn Anwaltspraxis und ihn mus hal einc andere Form, ein anderes Niveau, .Schilderer, dem Schriftsteller, dem das rechte Wort verfraf er in Wort und Schrift. Seine umfangreichc man mochte sogar sagen : einen anderen Klang zur rechten Stunde zu Gebote steht. Von Weltsch juristisch-schriftstellerische Tatigkeit gait im wesent­ angenommen. seit Robert Wcltsch in den Spalten konnte und musste man lernen. dass Schreiben lichen dem Standesrecht der Rechtsanwiilte. In der "judischen Rundschau" erschien. Was da keine leichtzunehmcnde Sache isl. sondern der seinem llaupiwerk, dem (zusammen mit seinem erschien. war cin neuer Ton, eine Eigenheit und sehr veranlworfliche Niederschlag einer Gesinnung. Bruder, [..andgerichfsral Adolf Friedlaender, heraus- Freiheit des Gedankens, eine Weite des Blick- Wer sich Weltsch zum Lehrmeister nahm, musste gegebenen) Kommentar zur Rechfsanwaltsordnung punkfes und der Belrachtung. eine Methode der wissen. dass er diese Gesinnung immer wieder zu (1930 S. 8 fl*.), i.st dieser Ciedanke klar und tief Darstellung von Problemen. die bis dahin nichl iiberprtifen habe. er sollte aber auch erfahren. entwickelt. Dieser Kommentar wurde das in der zum Ueblichcn gehorten. Und noch eins fiel bald dass Gesinniingslreiie 'ein Gut ist. zu dessen Ver- Praxis fuhrende Werk des deutschen Anwaltsrechts. auf und war charakteristisch fiir Robert Weltsch : leidigung Mut und Tapferkeit und nicht seiten Durch ihn wurde Max Friedlaender eine anerkannte Iiersflnlicher Verzicht auf Ehren und Hrfolg Autoritat des Standesrechts. Seine standesrechtlichen gehoren. Gedanken beruhren sich mil den Grundideen der Dr. Robert Weltsch wurdc am 20. Juni 1891. soziologisch-jurislischen Werke seines im Wesen von RICHARD FRIEDENTHAL AT 60 in Prag geboren. F.r gehorte dem Kreis des Prager Ihm vielfach verschiedenen Munchener Kollegen Vereins jiidischer Hochschiiler " Bar Koohba " an. Sigbert Feuchtwanger, den wir vor wenigen Wochen in dem Martin Buber 1909 seine erste Rede "Der in Tel-Aviv begraben haben. Auch Friedlaenders Richard Friedenthal. who became a sexagenarian Sinn des Judentums" gehalten halte. .Seit I9I9 Kommenfar zur Rechtsanwaltsgebuhrenordnung liess on June 9. thanked his congratulating friends with bis zum allerletzlen Ende war Weltsch der Chef- seine grundsatzliche standesrechtliche Auffassung a delicious gift, an offprint of a chapter from his redakteiir der " Jtidischen Rundschau " in Berlin klar erkennen. Zahlreiche Aufsatze in der Jurisfischen novel " Die Welt in der Nusschale," to be pub­ und damit der literarische Wortflihrer des dcutschen Wochenschriff und im Deufschen Anwaltsblatf waren lished by R. Piper & Co.. Munich. This poly- Zionismus. F.ine enge Freundschaft verhand ihn standesrechllichen Fragen gewidmet. Hand in Hand histor. who was. by the way, the editor of the mit Chajim Weizmann. dessen damaHge politische mit seiner praktischen und schriftstellerischen Tatig­ " Kleine Knaur" and of an excellent Goethe selec­ Aeusserungen wohl nachweisbare Spuren keit ging eine fruchfbare Arbeit in den anwalflichen tion in two volumes, prefaced by Gerhart Haupt­ Weltsch'scher Formulierungskraft aufweisen. Nach Standesverbanden und Standesorganen. Als Mitglied mann (1932). is not a prolific writer, thus a book einem durch den Beginn des zweiten Weltkrieges des Vorstandes der Anwaltskammer Miinchen, of his is a major event, and his new work promises vereitclten Versuch, eine "JUdische Weltrund- Griinder und Vorsitzender des Bayerischen Anwalfs- fo be the long-awaited refugee novel with fhe schau" ins Leben zu rufen. hat Wellsch vieic verbandes, Vorsfandsmitglied des Deufschen An- setting in this country. The chapter " Die Achte Jahr seine ausserordentlichen Fiihigkeilcn dem waltsvereins war er geachfef und geehrt, bis die in F-Dur" tells us about a concert in an intern­ " Mitleilungs'blatl " der Vereiniiiung zentraleuro- Machtergreifung des Nationalsozialismus seine viel- ment camp and describes the mood and mentality paischcr Juden in Israel zur Verfiigung geslellt. seitige Tafigkeit unferbrach. Es war wohl nichf nur of those who shared our fate. The final passage In seinem Hauptberuf wirkt cr seit einigen Jahren seine jijdische Absfammung, die den alferen Mann in illustrates well both Friedenlhal's anecdotic style als der Londoner Korrespondent des " Haarez." die Emigration trieb. Der vielseitig gebildete Marin and his talent to create atmosphere. war ein musischer Mensch, ein Humanist und ein The internees feel themselves transported into Wir haben von Weltsch gelernt. dass die Ehrfurcht vor den Werfen. die unser jOdisches Sein wirklicher Demokrat. In seinem Kommentar zur the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and falk shop Rechtsanwalfsordnung erklarfe er die Verleihung von about music and musicians : bedingcn. unserem Zionismus innewohnen. unserem .Staate seine Basis geben. nicht dem Tagc unferanig Tifeln an Rechtsanwiilte als ycrfa.ssungswidrig, und ".Sic tralcn zwischen den schwarzen Kilchcn- scin darf. Diesc Ehrfurcht ist einc Rhrfurcht vor folgerichtig hatte er den hayerischen "Justizraf" kesscln hindurch und gingen wie abwesend zwischen dem Wort, das die Tat begleitet, und sie Icgt dcm abgelehnl. Fur einen solchen Menschen war im den dichten Reihen der anderen HHfflinge hindurch. .Schrcihcnden (iind dem Handelnden) die hohe Dritfen Reich keinesfalls Raum. Auch in der Emigra­ mit leuchtenden Augen. UnwillkOrlich machfc man Vera nl wort ling vor dem Gesamtbcrcich dcr tion beschiiftigfen ihn seine Lieblingsprobleme. Das ihncn Platz." Geschichtc auf. rechfsvergleichcnde Werk ubcr Anwaltsrecht der Discovered by Stefan Zweig. whose posthumous verschiedenen Lander, an dem er arbeifete, ist nicht works he was to edit knowingly and conscien­ Wenn wir Robert Wcllsch. dem Lehrer und Freunde, zu seinem 65. Geburtstage fUr das vielc. mehr erschienen. Aber 1954 lasen wir wieder eine tiously, he started as an author of the Insel with wichtige Arbeit im Deutschen Anwalfsblaft. Jefzf a volume of verse. " Demeter." and a novel about was wir von ihm empfangen hahen. einen kleinen Tri'but enlrichten dUrfen. so kann es nur der sein. ruht die fleissige Feder. Die deutsche Anwaltschaft Cortez. " Der Froberer." dealing with the theme gedachfe Max Friedlaenders in der Neuen Jurisfischen of Eduard .Stucken's three-volumed novel " Die dass wir hoffen. noch viele. viele Jahre in engster Verbundenheit mit ihm seine Schtiler bleiben zu Wochenschrift (1953, 1253) aus Anlass seines 80. Wcissen GOtter." If was typical of fhe literary Geburtstages. Wir wollen hoffen, dass sie seiner situation in that period that there was no room konncn. Und das heis.st : in seinem Geiste unser Werk zu tun mit Mut und Charakfer und in Treiic ! immer gedenke, for two great novels about the same subject, and Dusseldorf und Haifa Dr. Alfred Werner. voung Friedenthal's congenial work was submerged HANS TRAMER (Tcl Aviv) in the shadow of Ihc elder master. His resilience is great, he did not become cmhiltcred through this setback, nor through his life in Ihc emigration. His short "Goethe Chronicle." an essential contribution to the Goethe OBITUARY Year 1949 fAcorn Press. London) shows him as a " Germanist " at his best, while his verse " Brot und Salz." published bv Hegner in I ondon during Dr. Carl Alexander Nciiberg, the well-known The popular Lieder compo.ser. Dr. Max Kowul- the war. and his five short stories " Das Frbe des biochemist, a former member of the Central Verein ski. died in London aged 73. Of Russian birth but Kolumhus." which came out in Germany fBechtIc Board, died at his home in New York, aged 78. of Frankfurt upbringing, he originally studied law, Verlaa. Esslingen) shortly after the war. show his When he left Germany in 1938 he had made an but soon began fo reveal his true talents by pub­ poetic imagination unimpaired and his artistic craft international reputation which brought him lishing " cycles " of Lieder, establishing his fame matured in spite of the fact that his energies had academic honours from many German and foreign with •• The Pierrot Lunaire," which was heard in been diverted lo other activities. He reorganised universities. He was a director of the Kaiser Wil­ most of the concert halls of Europe. After 1933 he toccther with Alfred Kerr, whom he succeeded helm Institute of Biochemistry and Experimental found his second home in this country. later as a President, the London Group of fhe therapy. In 1941 he was appointed fo a research P.E.N. Club of German Authors Abroad, worked professorship in New York University, which he as a translator with the B.B.C.. and returned, for a held until 1950, and from 1951 he had held a Rechtsanwalt Gustav Bnicck (Wupperfal) passed couple of years, to Germany in order to build up similar post at New York Medical College, away at the age of 79. Throughout his life he took the Drocmcr Vcrlag. The sudden death occurred in London of Mr. a responsible part in German Jewish affairs, He possesses the virtues of patience and of Bernard (Benno) .Silbiger, the distinguished laryng- especially as chairman of his home community. moderation, and even now. when he can. at last, ologist. A native of Prague, he became outstand­ As one of the few survivors of fhe catastrophe in release all he had stored in his mind and memory ing alike by his professional prowess and his Germany he built up the Wuppertal community so lone, his power does not burst the safety valves. understanding of music. " There are many singers, anew after 1945. His outstanding sei|vices as a It seldom happens in literature, for all its vicissi­ old and young, residents and visitors, who owe a lawyer were recognised on the occasion of his tudes, that anything remains unsaid what is fo great deal to his wise and sympathetic patience," professional Golden Jubilee in 1954 when he was be said. L.W. writes a correspondent in The Times. awarded the Federal German Cross of Merit. AJR INFORMATION July, 1956 Page 9 Ex-German Jews in the News Sketches of the Past Eduard Plielz.ich: Heiter ist die Kunst. Begeg­ Sir Francis Simon Champion of Religious Harmony nungen mit Kuenstlern und Kennern. 287 pp. Sir Francis Simon, the eminent atom scientist, The non-political Jewish-Chrisiian-Muslim Illiislraied. C. Bertelsmann, 1955. DM. 12. tvill succeed Lord Cherwell as Professor of Experi­ Friendship Society, which was recently formed in When Claire Walldoff, fhe famous music-hall mental Philosophy at the University of Oxford London, is fhe work of an Austrian Jewish refugee, comedienne, in 1945, saw what had happened fo wiiere he has been, since 1949, Professor of Mr. George Shepherd, now an engineering draughts­ her beloved Berlin, her mind went back to 1918 thermodynamics. He was formerly Professor man in Rugby, who came to this country in 1938. and she exclaimed: •' Dervorige Zusammenbruch Ordinary and Director of the Physical Chemistry He had then already visited the Middle East and war scheener" (The former collapse was more I aboiatory. Brcslau, but in 1933 promptly resigned now began to see many other parts of fhe world in pleasant). This is one of fhe innumerable anec­ aud came to Oxford at the invitation of Lord adventurous, though not always self-chosen, cir­ dotes about famous, or at least picturesque, people Cherwell (then Professor Lindemann), cumstances. He first went out, for Unilever's, to which this book contains. Dr. Pliefzsch, for many Sir Francis who was knighted in 1954—the first Nigeria. Thence he was deported in 1940 back years a keeper at a Berlin museum and later an Jewish refugee lo be so honoured -was closely con­ to England, where he was promptly put aboard the art dealer with the firm of van Diemen, author of nected with the atomic energy project from its hapless " Arandora Star." Instead of reaching a number of books on Dutch painters, has known beginnings and contributed much to the introduction Canada, he returned as one of the survivors, everybody who was something jn the Berlin of und use ol the diffusion process for preparing only to be launched on the second of the ill-famed William II and fhe Weimar Republic, As his Uranium 235, He is a consultant to the Atomic refugee ships, fhe " Dunera," which took him fo style is very lively and witty (sometimes too much l-ncrgy Authority and intimately associated with Ihc Australia. He then joined the Pjoneer Corps. One so), he gives us most enjoyable pen portraits, or Harwell scicniisls. Being a vigorous and oulspokcn hopes that Mr. Shepherd's new venture will pass rather snapshots, of Wilhelm von Bode, the all- wriler on general scientific policy and on the correct through less hazardous seas before achieving its powerful Director-General of the Berlin Museums, use of science and its social implications, he has nobly ct)nceiyed goal. of Max Friedlander, fhe Director of the rcpL-alcdly referred lo the danger that Russia jua.v " Kupferstichkabinetl," Max Liebermann, I.ovis outstrip the West in scientific development and C^orinth. Else Laskcr-Schueler, Kurt Tucholsky, education. Daniel Preiui, Junior Hans Reimann, Gerhari Haupfmann, General von Lord Cherwell said of the appointment : " ,Sir Seeckf, and many more. Francis Simon is, I think, universally recognised Daniel Prenn is a name still well remembered He tells us thai the Kroll Oper, where Hitler's as the world's foremost worker in the field of low- among all lovers of tennis, and it seems that the Reichstag met, was built—irony of fate—by Oskar leinperature physics, and the section built up in grand gifts which gained fame some .30 years ago Kaufmann from Budapest and decorated by the the Clarendon Laboratory largely under his a;gis have been handed down from father to son. sculptor Georg Leschnifzer from Tarnowitz. He is probably fhe most lively and enterprising in Eighteen-year-old Oliver Prenn is now a British reminds us of fhe great number of important the world." junior champion. But for fhe mishap oftwisfing Jewish art collectors in Berlin: Oscar Hainauer, a muscle, he would have won fhe men's singles in Marcus Kappel, Oscar Huldschinsky, Eduard and Lady Becrbohm the Kent championships at Beckenham, achieving James Simon, Hollitscher and Leopold Koppel. Sir Max Beerbohm, the writer, whose significance what the Manchester Guardian called " fhe most in English letters somehow eludes the naturalised remarkable result in lawn tennis this year" by Hauptmann and Licbcrmann observer, married secretly, a month before his reason of his " service aces, devastating smashes, He relates that in 1910 the Italian Futurists held recent death. Miss Elizabeth Jungmann, whom and brilliantly angled volleys." The father, whom an exhibition in Berlin and that Max Liebermann, many of our readers will know as the sister of the Daily E.xpress described as a " millionaire," deep in thought, looked af their pictures for three Dr. Eva G. Reichmann. She had been Sir Max's watched fhe match, and the son is said to have hours. It can't have made much difference lo his secretary and companion for several years, and all the hobby of writing psychological novels. very proper bourgeois way of life, otherwise accounis of his career stressed the devoted care Gerhart Hauptmann couldn't have exclaimed in a with which she had served the widowed author, Liebermann exhibition: "It is unbelievable that just as she had ministered, many years previously, such a Philistine should paint such excellent fo another famous author, Gerhart Hauptmann. pictures." Referring to Lady Becrbohm's '" quality, generosity, Dr. Plietzsch was a good friend of the well- and extraordinary devotion," a niece of Sir Max, ALFRED BROD GALLERY known Jewish writer Else Lasker-Schueler. Far Countess I.edebur, said: "The family will be abso­ away from mother nature, she either lived in the lutely delighted by the marriage." Her feelings The other day I visited for the first time the Brod unreal fairy tale world of her oriental imagination were shared by her sister. Lady Cory-Wright, who Gallery (writes A.R.). Il is just off Piccadilly, in or in our hideous modern cities. Once she had to said—and in saying so expressed the sentiments of Sackville .Street. A wonderful harmony between stay for some private reasons in a village in the all friends of the Reichmanns: " We are very happy. the rooms and their contents has been achieved. Bavarian Alps and seeing fhe lu.scious meadows, We love Elizabeth." Their speciality: Dutch and Flemish masters, these the dark and light green frees, she was moved to comparatively small pictures from which radiate exclaim: " Alles Spinat, alles Spinat" (All Mr. Benno Elkan stillness, beauty, and contentment. Very fittingly spinach). the three rooms are intimate and decorated in excel­ The author understands the tragedy which was Mr. Benno Elkan, fhe sculptor of the giai\( lent quiet taste, " Only the best is good enough for inherent in the character and work of Kurt Menorah v»hich was presented fo the Knesset as a our customers." the lady in charge said to me. Thus, Tucholsky. Already in 1923, after he had very gift of Britain's Parliament, received little for this there are not many paintings on show, but they are " successfully " toured Germany, reading from his great work in relation to its artistic worth, it was a delight lo look al and fo linger over. own works, he complained about the hopelessness stated by Dr. Alec Lerner, Treasurer of the of his mission. The public crowded his per­ Menorah Fund Committee, at a meeting held at Willem Kalf, a contemporary of Rembrandt, perhaps the greatest of all still-life painters, is repre­ formances, but who were they ? Intellectuals who fhe House of Commons where Mr. Clement Davies, did not need any convincing. With deep fore­ O.C., M.P., the Liberal leader, reported on fhe sented by one of his early works. If we prefer land­ scapes we shall be specially attracted by Jodocus bodings TuchoLsky noticed that no young people presentation. Dr. Lerner added that he, his father- turned to hjm and that young men of opposed in-law. Sir Simon Marks, and Mr. Israel Sieff had de Momper, who flourished at the end of the six­ teenth century. How delicate his colours are: the political persuasions would not even fake notice made an arrangement whereby Mr. and Mrs. Elkan of him. Thus Plietzsch suggested to Tucholsky should enjoy an annuity of between £600 and £700 pink and grey sky. and I liked particularly his feathery trees. as the title for his next book: Ins Leere Per year. gesprochen (Talked into the void). Somewhat more robust is the Fleming Jan Well, read fhe book and you will be informed Dr. Isaac Breuer Wildens, who lived in the seventeenth century. 1 and quite often amused. A.R. The memory of the distinguished Agudist wouldn't mind having his picture of a ford with an • philosopher (who died in 1946, aged 63) has been old water mill and the castle-like building in the Three London concerts devoted to the promotion honoured by ihe Jacob Rosenheim Foundation, background. of Jewish composers and Jewish performing artists London, which has just published " Selected For those seeking pictures of that time, and in were part of fhe first "Jewish Music Week" in Essays" by him entitled " The People of the particular Dutch and Flemish ones, a visit to fhe Britain organised by the World Jewish Congress Torah." The purpose of the little volume is to Gallery will he rewarding. (British .Section), who also arranged a one-day acquaint British Jews with Breuer's thought, and seminar on the subject of " Modern Jewish in a useful introduction, fhe Director of the Literature." ^^____^^___^^^^^ Poundation, Dr. S, Ehrmann, Zurich, tells the life story of a man whose father, .Solomon, has been Impressions of New York and other paintings Mr. Heinrich Eisemann, the antique dealer, of described as " the conscience of German Orthodox by Mr. Fred Uhlman were shown at the Zwemmer Maida Vale, W.. informs us that the original of Jewry." Interesting in a Ijst of Breuer's works Ciallery. London. Heine's letter to Moser of May. 1823 (mentioned 's an unpublished manuscript wrillen in 1942 under Another former derman-Jewish artist, Mr. by H. G. Reissncr's article in our February issue), the title "Shaali S'rufa—Memories of German Ernest Ullman, opened his own exhibition of about " ein glUcklicheres Geschlechf am Mississippi Jewry." Like his aulobiography (1946), if should posters and paintings at the City Gallery, Johannes­ Lulaf benscht und Mazzes kaut," is in his private Perhaps not be left unpublished. burg. collection.

103 Years Old One of the oldest inhabitants of Holland is a OLD MASTERS ^6wish refugee from Austria, Mrs. Marie Heinrich at the '"^e Spitzer). who last week celebrated her 103rd JJiithday al Soest. near Amersfoort. .She came to "•olland in 1938 and lived in hiding during the Nazi Dally 10-J p.m. ALFRED BROD GALLERY 29cupation. Her onlv son is a resident ot 36 Sackville Street, London, W.i. ""mingham. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION July, 1956 Rabbi Dr. Max Eachelhacher: Old Acquaintances A TEACHER AT A JEWISH VILLAGE SCHOOL Of beinn a returnee:—With the German " Wirt- The Life of my Grandfather Loew Eschelbacher (1804-1881) sohaftswunder " as it is, during the past few years, (Concluded) quite a lot of refugees returned to Germany more or less for good, though for diflerent reasons. Some After his marriage, grandfather had a difficult short of money they were, every passing traveller because they couldn't find their feet anywhere else, lask, although his family, compared with the would receive help. This made it possible for my olhers. such as actors and writers, because they average of those days, was not a large one. His grandfather fo ask others to give to the poor, too. wanted to work in their own mother-tongue again. annual salary was 200 gulden and free living Amongst his papers is a draft of a letter recom­ Most of these returnees are doing extremely well, quarters, and this salary was never raised. In mending that help be given lo a needy man from without ever losing the feeling they are not really 1835 teachers af fhe Jewish State Schools received Hainsfadt. A certain Jacob Hecht—otherwise wanted. Yes, there is a slight resentment to be felt salaries between 150 and 450 gulden. So that the unknown fo me—writes to him on impressive look­ by all those who didn't have to leave Germany to post in Hainsfadt was one of the lowest paid, and ing nofepaper, the best quality paper of all the save their skins and lives. They seem to say: grandfather had to be extremely careful with documents, headed " Permanent Land Company " Why didn't you stay abroad ? . . . you lost money. of the City of Baltimore," dated March Isl, 1881, touch with us by your absence ... we can do Someone who spends his whole life in such that he is enclosing a cheque for 175 marks, 50 without you just as well. . . ." Even returnees who narrow surroundings and has to adapt himself to marks of which to repay a debt to my grandfather don't feet like mat have a bad conscience and will them, can quite easily become narrow and petty- and 125 marks "to distribute among our friends af Passover, as usual." This letter is another tell you again and again: "... but you have to minded himself. This is not a character defect, admit the people are nice lo us, aren't they ?" And, but an inevitable consequence of the existing condi­ inferesiing document. Wrilten on noiepaper with an elaborate American letter-head, but written indeed, why shouldn't they be nice. Very few feel tions. My grandfather was nol able entirely to guilty and want to make good. I he majority is so escape this danger, either. Witness to this develop­ in Hebrew script, giving first the Christian and then the Hebrew dates, the letter is in the German proud oi and drunken by the German " miracle " ment is fhe first leiter he wrote, in Jewish-German that il resents the presence of rcliirnecs in its midst. .script, to my father in Breslau, dated October 29, language, but full of Hebrew turns of phrase, 1868, when the latter had just entered the Jewish which, like almost all the Hebrew letters I have seen written by uneducated people at this period Nome ,Veic)» : Walter Rilla plays the lead in " I he Theological .Seminary. This reads: "Tue was Night ot the Fourth " at the Westminster Theatre. moeglich ist um vom Schulgeld befreit zu werden. is full of mis-spellings (for instance " simchah " with sajin). The writer is obviously a local man, -Heinrich Fischer resigned after many years with Du wei.sst unsere Verhaeltnissc. Ich sende Dir Ihe German section of the B.B.C. and is going lo hiermif den vom Oberraf erhaltenen 20 Gulden- a boyhood friend, who learnt more Hebrew than German as a child, in other words he was educated Munich to join the Bavarian TV as chief lector.— schein. Kannst Du es ohne Ueberrock machen, Elisabeth Bergner read from the Bible on TV— so bewahre den Schein noch auf, Du hast by a Melammed or perhaps already in a JewLsh vordersamst ziemlich Kleider. An Nahrung sage State School. He must have emigrated a long Luise Rainer returned fo London for good to join ich nicht dass Du Dich einschraenken soUst, denn time before and achieved success in America. After her husband, Robert Knillel, who works for a well- Du musst darauf bedacht sein, Dich kraeftig zum 1848, there had been very widespread emigration known publishing company.—Martin Miller scored Leben zu suchen. Im naechsten Brief telle uns to fhe United Slates and almost every Jewish a personal success in " Off the Mainland " al fhe mit, ob Du gut im Lernen vorkommst, wieviel family had close relatives there. The assistance Arts Theatre.—Annemarie Selinko, 41-years-old and Schueler allda in der Anstalf sind, ob Du dich given by the emigres, in sending sums of money born in Vienna, authoress of best-selling " Desiree," immer allein vorbereitest oder mit Gefaehrten, regularly to the communities back home, especially said, on a visit here from Copenhagen, that she sowie ob Du gutes und warmes Logis hast, worauf for the Festivals, was a major contribution to hasn't started a new novel because she is loo busy Du bedacht sein musst. Hoffenflich wirsl Du dich raising their standards of living. After 1933, they with the education of her son. -Bert Brecht's auch verlacssigt haben, da&s da, wo Du Miltagessen gave affidavits for their often quite distant relatives " Berliner Ensemble" will come lo London's hast, auch koscher isf. Falls Du noch mit Jemand who were still in Germany, so that these early Palace Theatre in August and present " Mother zusammen logierst sehe Dich soviel wie moeglich emigrations helped to save many from the fate Courage" and "The Recruiting Olficer."—Desmond vor, dass Du um nichts kommsl, indem Du alles that befell German Jewry as a whole. At bottom, Leslie, a Churchill relative and husband of actress Noefige hast !" It is all the more laudable that Jakob Hecht remained the Hardheim or Hainstadl Agnes Bernelle-Bernauer. published a novel, " Hold in spite of his poverty grandfather was most Jew he had been. He signs himself Jakob Zwi Back the Nighl."—Viktor Skulezjky's production of generous. My father often told me that however bar Mordekhai. '• It's Great to be Young," a musical with children, had a successful West End showing. Drawbacks in Emancipation The nuiu ii'ho teas slapped:—A Viennese court The period during! which grandfather held his an end to fhe rising." Summing up, Rosenthal sentenced Kacthe Dorsch lo pay 500 Schillinge for teacher's post coincided largely with the years of writes : " As the mob did not know against whom having slapped dramatic critic Hans Weigel because reaction which also set in in Baden, a long-lasting to vent their wrath, in the coursg of ihe rising, the actress didn't like what he wrote about her per­ and violent reaction. As in other German states, in many places, this led to excesses againsl oHTicials, formance in Fry's "The Dark is Light Enough" it was directed primarily against the Jews. Like landowners and Jews." Strange bedfellows indeed ! at the Burg. I he proceedings lasted eight hours, in Prussia, it manifested itself in attempts by the At that time a remarkable appeal was sent to and witnesses included Albin Skoda, Josef Meinrad, legislature and administration fo restrict the rights the Upper House by 23 Flehingen Jews, asking, Moog, and Alma Seidler, testifying on behalf of the which the Edict of January I3fh, 1809, had given in fhe interest of their safety, not to be accused. The best and longest speech was made by them. Whilst their State citizenship was emancipated ! About Easter, 1848. pamphlets were old-timer Raoul Asian, who asked lor the expulsion unmolested, fhe possibility of their achieving full distributed in the Odenwald, quite near lo of people who didn't respect the institution of municipal rights was severely curtailed. This had Hainsfadt, calling for a general persecution of the Vienna's famous State Theatre. " For people like already been effected by a law of 1820. The Jews. Among the places mentioned by Rosenthal Weigel the death penalty is the proper punishment." "very liberal" law of December 31st, 1831, relat­ as having been fhe scenes of anti-Jewish demonstra­ lie said earnestly, but the judge didn't agree. Criti­ ing the achievement of Civic rights, designated that tions, with Jewish houses plundered, windows cism is no reason for a box on Ihe ear and no argu­ il should not apply fo Jews and that in places broken, etc.. are Adelsheim, Buchen, Wallduern. ment at all. Weigel asked for a revision of the light where no Jews were living they should not be Eberstadl, Boedingheim and Krautheim—all quite sentence. admitted. That is the reason why in Freiburg close to Hainstadt. It can hardly have been much i.B. the Jewish Community was not founded until better in Hainstadl itself. Grandfather and his Obituaries ; -After a car accident shortly after his Ihe 'sixties. Liberalism in Baden drew the line family must have gone through some difficult return from New York. 65-year-old film producer. at Jews. But at lea.st as a result of the Revolution times, all the more so, as my grandmother was Israel (Isy) Rosenfeld, died in Berlin.—Anna Wolff, and in face of the demands of the Frankfurt just expecting a child, her son Josef, my father. widow of the late editor of Berliner Tageblalt, Parliament, the Baden Government granted the Then, over the next few months, things gradually Theodor Wolff, died, aged 85, in an old age home Jews full political rights in 1849. and, in 1862, fhe quietened down. in New York. last barriers were removed which still prevented them from attaining full Civic rights. When grandfather Loew was in his 'sixties, he II.S.A. :—Otto Zoff, New York correspondent of suffered the loss of his wife. After thirty years of Radio Baden-Baden, finished his new comedy The life of the Hainstadt Jews was a quiet one. marriage and after a long illness, she died on " Koenig Hirsch" for production in Zurich.—Felix Oppenheimer's pictures typify Jewish family life, November 7lh. 1867, of a stroke al fhe age of 52. Jackson-Joachimsohn will produce " Good Old although they are more concerned with well-off Soon after that my grandfather, feeling that his Charley Faye " for J. L. Mankiewicz.—F. Waxman. and rich Jewish families. The unrest among the strength was waning asked for leave to go into conducting fhe tenth music festival in Hollywood peasant population has already been mentioned. retirement. This was granted him on January 6th. and scoring " Back from Eternity " for R.K.O.— Its dissatisfaction combined with the general 1869. Richard Oswald's son Gerd will direct " Love ferment of the 'forties and broke out violently in Story " for United Artists.—W. Dielerle is on the 1848. The Jews were among the victims of fhe floor with "Omar Khayyam" and preparing excited populace. Rosenthal writes (Heimafsgc- Schiinberf; Premiere in Cologne "Joseph and his Brethren."--Crete Mosheim took schichte der Badischen Juden. p. 287): "The over Lotte I.enja's part in the New York production ' Allgemeine Zeifung ' reports from Karlsruhe in Arnold Schonberg's last work, a series of ten of "Threepenny Opera."—Eric Pommcr had a leg Number 72 of March 9th, 1848: A general persecu­ poems in prose entitled " Psalms. Prayers, and Other amputated in Hollywood.—Fritz Lang formed his tion of fhe Jews has begun in the country districts ; Conversations with and about God," writien in fhe own company and will produce " Dark Spring." the refugees are flocking towards the towns, year of his death (1951). had its world premiere especially Mannheim, where most of their friend:; in Cologne, where it was performed by the West This and ihni ;^Rolf Gerard will do the decors and supporters live. This popular movement takes German Broadcasting Station. Jewish critics thought for " Don Giovanni " in Sabburg this year.—Gina no notice of the speeches of our government it somewhat emharrassing that this important event officials. In Bruchsal the mob even crowded out­ Falkenberg and Maria Matray-Solveg scripted the did not take place in one of the great centres of new Robert Siodmak film " Mein Vater der Schau- side fhe house of one of the most liberal of our spiritual and cultural Judaism with their rich musical M.P.s. Brentano, with yells of: 'Down with fhe spieler" produced in Berlin—Hans Jaray directed life. It will be recalled that Schonberg's Hebrew "Wiener Blut " in Munich.—Vienna's Theater an Kin§ of the Jews !' as Brentano reported today in Psalm, sung in Hebrew, had also been first per­ Parliament, Only interference by the military put formed at Cologne some years ago. der Wien will become a cinema.- PEM AJR INFORMATION July, 19.56 Page II lierhrrt Freeden: DR. GEORG SCHATZKY A grievous loss was suffered by the AJR in the JERUSALEM PLANNING AHEAD death on May 28 of Dr. Georg Schatzky, Chair­ man of the organisation in Cambridge. He was 78. A Talk with the Mayor He leaves a widow, lo whom we offer our sincerest " My plan is to make a capital out of Jerusalem," artists, and engineers. One of the first problems thej condolence. Gershon Agron, the Mayor of Jerusalem, fold me discussed was the improvement of Ifie entrance lo A friend of the deceased. Dr. Kurt Levin, of me when 1 came fo see him in his office. " Most the capital. They also decided on better street Cambridge, sends us this appreciation ; capitals are born, not made; they giow, as il were, lighting. The number of lamp posts, now spaced naturally and organically. Jerusalem was a capital at too metres, is to be doubled and the current SchaUky.am II. August, 1878,inBreslau geboren, long befoie people thought in such terms at stepped up. In some instance, beauty and utility war ein Jurist von ungewohnlichen Gaben. Er war the time of David. Our problem is fo preserve the go together. Thus, Jerusalem's drainage system in den Jahren zwischen den Kriegen als Anwalf am continuity of those parls left to us and yet make will soon be completed, and the perpetual water Berliner Kammergericht zu hohcm Ansehen und everything new ; fhe city must look as if il grew problem solved by two large reservoirs—one, in Wohlstand gekommen. In England, wo er, wic out of the past and nol as if the modern changes the centre of the town, holding 30,000 cubic metres viele seiner Alfersgenossen, lange keine Mbglich­ were artificially superimposed on it—no hothouse of water, and fhe other, in a western suburb, keit zu berutlicher Arbeit fand, blicb er doch nicht growth, but gradual development. That is why we 100,000 cubic metres. Two pipelines pump the untatig. Die Londoner Verwallung unserer AJR insist that natural stone be used for erecting new water 2,400 feet up, in sutlicient quaniities bolh schatzte seincn klugen und warmherzigen Rat bei buildings." for the city and the settlements in the "corridor." ihrcn Tagungen, und unsere Cambridger Gruppe Things have been getting "moving," since Mr. verliert mit ihm ihren Mittclpunki und ihre Seele. Green Areas Agron assumed office just a year ago. It is not In dcm prachtigen Mann waren klares Urteil, for the first time in his life that he has shown Green areas and recreation facilities are another concern of the Mayor. Eleven playgrounds are to Wissen und grosse GUte in seltener Weise vcreint initiative. Twenty-five years ago, for example, he Sein behagliches Heim zog jeden an, der Rat, Trost, founded fhe English daily " Jerusalem Post," be opened, from fhe town centre to the periphery, despite the many doubts about a daily paper being and parks and open spaces are being mapped out Oder belebende Unterhaltung suchtc. Er crziihlle able fo survive outside Tel Aviv, the centre of the or are in various stages of completion. But Mr. gern und anschaulich von alien Zeiten ; und seine national press. Agron stuck tenaciously lo his Agron warned : " One should lake notice that we oeschjchteii, selbst wenn sie von tiaurigen Erleb- venture, even during fhe dark days of the cifs''s do not mean lo make a dolls' house out of nissen benchlclen, klangcn doch immer heiter und siege, when the paper helped much to maintain Jerusalem. We want il to be a city with sound freundlich ; sein echter Humor half ihm, das Bose public morale. In Februaiy. 1948. the Post" industrial and economic possibihlies. He spoke of zu vergessen. Er war ein Meistcr der dcufschen building was blown up and the printing press des­ the lask of '" enticing capital to the capital." Sprache in Wort und Schrift, und seine Leidenschaft troyed. But those who had hoped to silence the " Jerusalem's climate and facilities," he said, tur Genauigkeit des sprachlichcn Ausdrucks konnte " Post" were disappointed. Ihe nexi moiiuug me " are good for light industries, such as the manu­ ihn zuweden sehr ungeduldig machen, wenn sein paper appeared al the usual time—printed on an facture of precision instruments and light Gesprachspartner den Anforderungen nicht ganz emergency press. machinery, walch-making, ceramics, and printing. cnlsprach. Scin eignes gesprochenes Englisch war, At present, 100 industrial plants employ 5,000 wie er selbst lachend zugab, von einer erheiternden In 1906, Gcrshon Agron—or, as he was then Unbeholfenheit ; abcr mit der Fedcr kam er auch named, Agronsky—came from Russia to the United people ; another 5,000 are employed in the building States at the age of 13. Ten years later he industry. If we stop at that," Mr. Agron da der Mejslerschaft nahe. joined the Jewish Legion in which he served emphasised, " we shall never have the 250,000 Die Beschranklhcit der iiusseren UmsUinde seines together with Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. David Ben-Gunoa, inhabitants by 1965, whom we want under Jerusalem's Ten-Year Plan." Lebensabends hat er mit ruhrendcr Bescheidenheit and Moshe Sharelf. After demobilisation he erlragen. Er klagte nicht, und niemand hat von settled in Jerusalem and became the head of the The capital's lack of cultural amenities has been ihm riassausbruche gegen die Urheber des Elends press bureau of fhe Zionist Organisation. After a sore point to residents and tourists alike. Al gchort. Niemals hat er sjch auch in sejner Liebe the establishment of the State ol Israel he was piil present, three large halls, suitable for concerts and zu dem alten Deutschland beirren lassen, in dem in charge of Ihe government's information service. theatrical shows, arc under construction, and the er aufgewachsen war und gewirkt hatte. Gleich Out of the spokesman has become the planner city adminislralion will try to induce each ol anhiinglich war er aber auch der judischen Tradi­ of a new and greater Jerusalem. "The main job Pel Aviv's three theatrical companies to give one tion. Dieser doppelten Gebundenheil entsprang of this city's administration," he said, "is lo do performance a week in Jerusalem. Mr. Agron is not seine lloffnung, dass die deutschen Juden, als away with Jerusalem's sense of isolation, satisfied even with Ihis. although il would mean a vast improvement. " the lime has come," he Besilzer einer werlvoUen deulsch—-jUdischen Kul­ geographically and geopolitically. How does one lur, auch in ihrer neuen Heimat dieses Gut bewahren refer to Jerusalem ? ' A city that is aloof and declared, '" lo think of making Jerusalem the centre of a national theatre." And then as an after und pllegen mochlcn. So vcrsuchte er nach Kriiften brooding, on top of a hill, at a road leading lo seine immer kleiner werdende Gruppe von Refugees nowhere.' That isolation which creates a sense of thought: " It is criminal that we don't make use of the facilities we have. After all, Jerusalem is iusammcn zu halten und ihncn ein gemeinsames insecurity is as much in the minds as in the matter. Zjel zu geben. Wir sollfen, so meinte er, unserc My belief is that fhe minds can be led away from a University city. But the impact of the University is not sufliciently felt. Town and Gown must go doppelten Wurzeln nicht vergesscn und den Namen if, by making the city more accessible and more " Refugees from Germany " mil Slolz weitertragen. attractive." together." He enumerated some basic requirements—more " Lack of money," the Mayor concluded. Ob sein Wunsch erfUllbar ist, ob vor allem unsere and better roads, for example. He pointed out that '" should not serve as an excuse for lack of enter­ Jugend gewillt ist, ihre deufschen Erinnerungen zu another highway, linking Jerusalem and the coastal prise. With enthusiasm and perseverance, much bewahren, muss die Zeit zeigen. Unser toter plain, is under construction and that 40 kilometres can be done with fhe little the city has at its dis­ Freund hat sich mit Oberzeugung eingesetzt fUr of unpaved roads within the city are being gradu­ posal However," he stressed lorcefulK. " Jerusalem das, was er fiir recht hiclt. Uns selbst bleibt nur ally asphalted. must be the concern nol only of iis citizens, not iibrig, ihm zu danken ftir das, was er fiir uns gelan, For this purpose, he explained, he had called even exclusiveLy of the State of Israel, but of the und noch mehr fiir das, was er uns gewesen ist: together a number of Jerusalem's le:iding architects, entire Jewish people." ein warmherziger, guter Freund. P.E.N, Centre of German Authors Abroad AJ.R. CLUB LEO HOROVITZ SIEGFRIED DEUTSCH In conjunction with the CLUB 1943 fruehcr Sobolewsky & Dcutach' Wien, presents SCULPTOR — STONEMASON 57, ETON AVENUE, N.W.3 crstklassigcr Hcrrcii & Uamenschneider ERICH KAESTNER Macs^igClPreJse. Donnerstog d. 12. Juli, 1956, 8 Uhr obds. Memorials for all MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ Cerheteries 84 Hanojiaf'Rd., London, N.W.W. HERMANN KESTEN Tel.: WILIesden 0268 Forbiger LioMtbildervortrag von read trom their works (In Germon) 16 FAWLEY ROAD Dr. Bfld Mrs. A. HORWELL : Monday, July 9th, 8 p.m. W«T HAMPSTEAD, N.W.6 The Exclusive Salon de Cortetorle BEVERIDGE HALL, Eine Reise nach Spanien Telephone: HAMpsteod 2564 and Lingerie ^>^ UNIVERSITY fllF LONDON, Mme. H. LIEBERG Senate House, >Rosenberg, the Treasurer easier for him that he is blessed wilh an artistic such persecutees who live abroad and who—we of the .Society. Dr. Rosenberg had been a barrister mind, that he can enjoy the beauty of nature wilii must understand—have certain justified inhibitions in Berlin, a civil servant in the Prussian Ministry of the artist's eye and the sound of music with the against being represented by German lawyers. the Interior, and a prominent member of the Social understanding of the professional. May harmony These people are domiciled abroad and do not Democratic Party. In Glasgow he devoted most of work and leisure, of personal success and self­ know much about present-day Germany, whereas of his time to communal and cultural activities in less service 10 his rellow-nicn always prevail in hi; the United Restitution Organisation enjoys their the interest of his fellow-refugees. The Chairman life. This is our sincerest birthday wish for Hans confidence, and rightly so without any doubt. of the Society, Dr. Loewensohn, paid tribute to Dr. Blumenau. The branches (of URO) have gained the confidence Rosenberg's faithful service. W.R.

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Prilchard, German-speaking resident nur.se. interests, would like to meet gentle­ Harold Winton Englefield & Co., 12 Bridewell Place, Box 138. man between 58 and 65, iu good E.C.4. 23, Chepstow Court, London, FIR.ST-CLASS ROOM, live minutes circumstances. Box 120. COMPANION required, hoard and Regent's Park; piano; breakfast; 5 gns W.ll (formerly Wedell. Berlin, MISSING PER.SONS lodging at nominal price, ottered in pet-week. PRI. 2420. Enquiries from AJR Brandenburgia, Berlin), exchange for helping housekeeper to Mrs. Acunc Meyer, nee Cossniann, look after aged gentleman. Box 137. Miscellaneous The B.C. in Great Britain. DEUTSCHE BUECHER GESUCHT! came lo England in 1934, for Hein­ R. & E. Steiner, 64 Talgarth Road, rich Rothert, Bielefeld. AGENTS calling on stationers for W.14. FUL. 7924. Sonya and Hela Golomb, born 1929 FAMILY EVENTS easy selling article. High com­ CORSETS, corselettes, brassieres made and 1932, from Wiesbaden, Neue EiUries in Ihis column are free of mission. Box 139. to measure, moderate prices; also every Gasse 3. Last address: c/o Mrs. charge. Texts should be sent in by the kind of alteration. L. Frank, 9 Lester, 41 Windsor Rd., N.3, for aunt Belsize Square. N.W.3. PRI. 1418. in Israel. 18/^1 of the month. Situations Wanted Men KAPS UPRIGHT PIANO, ebony Mr. Fiesch, was solicitor in Erfurt, Births black, very good condition, on sale. Schutiert. On June 8, 19.'i6, a son CHEMIST (COSMETICS), thoroughly Thuringia. Last address: Flat 8, £45 or near offer. Box 136. Chessington Court, N.3, for Mrs. R. (Jonathan) to Monica (n^e Kohsen) experienced, own modern recipes, PENSION ROMA, Rome. Fjrst-class and Josef Schubert, c/o The Reali wants suitable situation. Box 122. Graham, 22 l.lanvanor Rd.. N.W.2. rooms; partial board; 35/- per day; Mrs. Ida Laudenheimer, widow of Dr. School, Haifa, Israel. EXP. HANDBAG BENC HWORKER room and breakfast, 25/- per day. PraKcr. A daughter (Hazel) was born wants suitable position. Box 123. Good connection. 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An­ sohn, born 15.2.1914, Berlin-Spandau, Place, W.l, formerly Trier, will cele­ GERMAN SHORTHAND-TYPIST fragen mit Bild und Rueckporto daughter, Bela Gumpcrt, born 6.8.42, brate his 60th birthday on August 3. wants full- or part-time work. Box 126. erbcten. Berlin, for Kurt Simonsohn, Peters- BACHELOR. Jew, 40, qualified hagen. near Berlin, Thaelmannstr. 21. Marriages SALAD HAND or preparing veg., full-time sitting job, wanted by elderly engineer. University diploma, own Personal Enquiries Pick : Sctiuhmann. On May 6 the woman living W.CI. Box 127. workshop, South Africa, wishes to Dr. Emst Wreszinski, Dermatologist, marriage took place of Werner S. exchange letters with a nice German- Schuhmann, B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., of R COMPANION job with light duties and his wife, Ellen Wrcszinski, nee 3-4 hours daily wanted by educated Jewish lady up lo 35, view ultimate Lillian Avenue, W.3, to Evelyn Pick, marriage.—Box 140. Auerbach, wanted for Mrs. Lotle F.S.M.C, of 52 Foscote Road, N.W.4. lady. Box 128. Soellner, Berlin. HOME TYPING AND TRANSLA­ The late Nathan Nawratzlty, born Heymann : Phillips. The marriage TIONS done by expd., reliable ALL MAKES 20.8.1879, last known address: Berlin. will take place on July 18, 1956, of woman. Box 129. BOUGHT Wiesenburger Strasse 1 ; information Annemarie Heymann, daughter of the LINENKEEPER/MACHINIST, neat wanted by his widow, Mrs. Taylor, late Dr. Hans Heymann and Ella worker, wants part-lime work. Box 130. SOLD Glasgow. Kindly contact Rabbi C. E. Heymann (formerly Hamburg), to Dr. ALTERATIONS, MENDING, EXCHANGED Cassell, West London Synagogue, 33 Donald Phillips, 10 Western Road, DARNING done by cxpd., reliable Seymour Place, W.l. Sutton, Surrey. worker, in- or out-door. Box 131. REPAIRED & MAINTAINED Theresienstadt und Auschwitz Silver Wedding COOK, expd., wants part-time work Dcporticrte. die zwischen Oktober Pfinisst. On June 23 the 25th anni- in private household. Box 132. 1942 und Mai 1944 mit Frau Kaethe versarv of marriage took place of ATTENDING WORK for sick and ELITE TYPEWRITER Co. Ltd. Hirsch, gcb. Lcvfin aus Berlin (Dr. Rabbi Dr. and Mrs. G. Pfingst, 74 invalid people done by experienced WELbeck lilt Hirsch) lebtcn, werden gebeten, sich Dee Street, Aberdeen. Their marriage woman, full- or part-time. Box 133. mil dem Unterzeichneten in Verbin­ was .solemnised at Nordhausen Harz, LIGHT HOMEWORK wanted by 18 CRAWFORD STREET dung zu setzen. Waller Hirsch, 39 on June 23, 1931. elderly woman. Box 134. /off BAKER STREET, W.l Mowbray Road, London, N.W.6. AJR INFORMATION July, 19.S6 Page 13 " PHILANTHROPIN " ASSOCIATION THE AJR AT WORK A " Philanthropin " Association was founded in A,IR SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT She also thanked the hostess, Mrs. Schachne, for London at a meeting attended 'by more than 75 her untiring work. former pupils of the famous Frankfurt School. Eniplornieiit Agency. We are still receiving more Hon. President of the Association will be Dr. Arthur offers of vacancies than we can fill with suitable May we take this opportunity of expressing our Galliner, and Chairman. Mr. K. J. Liebman (.30 applicants and equally experience a shortage of gratitude lo all Ihe Indies who regularly lend their Great Tower Street, London, E.C.3), who will be holiday relief workers. On the other hand there services to the Club, thus helpipg to make its pleased lo hear from other former "Philanthro- are on our records elderly people for part-time efforts a success for the benefit of the visitors. pinians." The Association hopes to organise meet­ work in sewing, cooking, attending, homework, The Opening Hours of the Club (Zion House, 57 ings three times a year. bookkeeping and typing. We have also been able Eton Avenue, N.W.3) are: Sunday, Tuesday, U) provide help in cases of illness. Thursday 4-10 p.m.. Monday and Wednesday •THE MOTHER OF THE CAMBRIDGE 4-7 p.m. All interested friends are welcome. AcconiiHodation. The number of people who REFUGEES " Special attention is drawn to the Lantern Slides A Quaker lady known and revered as the mother uigenlly require accommodation is steadily increas­ .Show on July 12. announced in this issue. ing. Some had been given notice because the house of the refugees in Cambridge. Miss Hilda Sturge, in which they had a furnished room was sold, some celebrated her 80th birthday on June 26 last. From FOUR RAMBLES ON "HYPHEN" JULY 1935 to 1945 she was the Hon. .Secretary of the moved from the Provinces to London, and others PROGRAMME Cambridge Refugee Committee. Her former were released from Hospital. We have been able charges still gratefirtly remember her unfailing lo place applicants permanently or temporarily, During Ihis monlh. "The Hyphen" plans devotion and care in the days of their need. "They and we thank those of our friends who have shown rambles to Pangbournc (July 15). Marlow (July 29). joined hands to show their appreciation by making much understanding in cases of emergency. We and two other s'maller walks, details of which are a birthday present, together with an appropriate still require rooms at moderate prices. contained in the current programme of this group. poem composed by Mr. Hugo Aufseesser. AJH Chih. A special function was held on June On July 21. at Zion House. 57 Eton Avenue. 1.1 when Mrs. Dora Segall recited works from Ger­ N.W,3. Mr. Pablo Lisenberg will address the §roup TRIBUTE TO THE LATE MR. BERNSTEIN man liteiature. The large audience was most Ihank- at 8 p.m.. his subject being the treatiment of minori­ The consecration took place of the tombstone of I'ul for her wonderful performance. In her wel­ ties in Ihc United .States. our friend Kurt Bernstein, member of our Board, coming address Mrs. M. Jacohy, Chairman of the Full details and further information can he who passed away last July. A tribute to his work Committee, gave a short survey of the Club's obtained from Fxigar Lewy, 41 Charlwood Street. on behalf of the AJR was paid by Mr. M. activities during the first months of its existence. London. S.W.I, the Secretary. Potthtzer.

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