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BUNDESTAG DEBATE ON COMPENSATION BROTHERHOOD WEEK IN GERMANY fne shortcomings of Germany's compensation It has now become an established rule in the which needed careful handling in order to avoid practices were severelv criticised in a recent Bundesrepublik to devote one week, out of the any setbacks. bundestag debate. On behalf of the Socialist Party, year's fifty-two weeks, to propagate the idea of The two Berlin radio networks, Sender Freies ^- --Vrudt urged that the Indemnification Law Toleration and the spirit of Brotherly Love. From Berlin and the .\merican sponsored RIAS, composed pe amended with the provision that " this law shall March 6 to March 13, all over the West of Germany their programmes accordingly. RL\S broadcast an °* generously interpreted and applied, enabling and in the West Sectors of Berlin, meetings, re half-hour feature, " The Berlin Jewish Community," compensation to appear as the fulfilment, in the ceptions, and public gatherings were held and written by Otto Zarek, which, often recalling the •highest degree, of a moral duty and a legal obliga- attended by Ministers, Burgomasters, leading distinguished past of the community before 1933, lon. ' He quoted in support an appeal addressed members of the Bundestag and the representatives gave a detailed picture of its present activities, .P l^r. .\denauer by the Council of the German of the churches and the Jewish community. The mainly of a humanitarian nature. Dramatised jryotestant Church which had expressed concern at " Society for Christian-Jewish Co-operation "—the stories featured great German Jews, among them "^e fact that " in the tenth year after the end of German equivalent of our Council of Christians and Moses Mendelssohn, .\lbert Einstein and others. ^azi tyranny, compensation is practically still at Jews—which has a branch in almost every city and Otto Zarek also gave a series of talks on Israel, the beginning." town, was instrumental in organising many of these introducing contemporary Israeli composers and Particular attention was drawn to some objection functions. The German press and, above all, each their music, which was played by Radio Kol Israel, able verdicts passed by German courts, which had of the many independent radio networks in Western conducted by George Singer. Most important Qenied pensions to victims of Nazi persecution, Germany made their own extensive contributions among the many German contributions was the public reading, and its repetitio.1 on the radio, of ne Supreme Prussian Court (Kammergericht), for to the " Week of Brotherly Love." example, had told a woman who had lived under " Das Brandopjer," a short novel by .\lbrecht (Joes This great and important undertaking, aiming at (published by S. Fischer Verlag) which has rightly ground that she need not have done so as she fostering and deepening the good relations between ^'ght have sought divorce from her Jewish husband, been acclaimed as the most poetic contemporary non-Jewish individuals and groups on the one hand ^he widow of an ofiicer who had been killed in German literary work, depicting the plight of the <=onnexion with the July 1944 revolt was refused and their Jewish brethren on the other, was in Jews and its echo in the hearts of the " (Germans of * pension on the ground that the officer had taken augurated by Bundesprasident Prof. Dr. Theodor goodwill." no active part in the resistance but was " merely Heuss with a deeply moving radio speech. He The most encouraging sign with regard to the "Concerned in the rescue of the plotters' wives and urged his nation-wide audience not to forget the " Week of Brotherly Love " is the widespread Children." Such verdicts, Dr. .\rndt said, showed crimes against the Jews, but to continue to help public interest in it, especially on the part of the Jhat some judges had " lost the ability to distinguish the victims of Nazism materially as well as psycho academic youth of both the Berlin Free I'niversity '^tween Right and Wrong." logically. In Berlin, the Senator for Culture, Prof. and Technische Hochschule. "is criticism was reinforced by Dr. Franz Bohm, Tiburtius, opened the festive gathering at the From a Berlin Correspondent th Christian Democratic champion of justice for Opera-House, Charlottenburg, in a similar vein; the persecuted. He confirmed that the court cases then, the great German poet, Rudolf Hagelstange, CONFERENCE ON CHURCH AND exposed by Dr. .\mdt were by no means isolated rendered what was generally considered the most JUDAISM 'apses, but he thought that they would not be moving and thoughtful speech heard for a long time. The seventh annual study group on " Church possible if the judges did not have reason to count Each of the Berlin Bezirke held its own celebrations and Judaism," arranged by Professor Karl Heinrich On widespread appreciation. " We have to say quite in its own Town Hall, and among those who Rengstorf, held a four-day meeting in Hildesheim Openly," Dr. Bohm declared, " Compensation is addressed gatherings were Heinz Galinski, Chairman to discuss " Our Fellow Man from the Christian lot popular amongst us." This state of public of the Jewish Community of Berlin, who stated— and Jewish point of view." The speakers included Opinion had to do with a re-Nazification which, and later repeated his statement in a radio talk— Dr. Niemoeller, Bishop Liljes, Professor (Jollwitzer. '^r. Bohm said, was not as bad as some feared but that the Berlin Jews were ready to co-operate with Dr. Cierfrud Luckner, and, on the Jewish side, ^•orse than many liked to think, all non-Jews of good will, and prepared to re Rabbi Dr. Wilhelm (Stockholm), Dr. Alfred Wiener th P WIGHTIG FUER PENSIONISTEN DER RESTITUTION NEWS STADT WIEN Die folgende Zuschrift ist vom Magistrat der APPLICATIONS FOR CLAIMS SHANGHAI GHETTO CONFERENCE SCHOLARSHIPS Stadt Wien an die Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Frankfurt Test Case Wien ergangen:— Time Limit, April 15, 1955 The question whether former internees of the The second annual programme of the Conference Shanghai Ghetto are entitled to compensation for " Es wird mitgeteilt, dass der Herr amtsfueh- on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc., loss of freedom is at present under the consideration rende Stadtrat der Verwaltungs-Ciruppe I ent Suite 800, 270, Madison Avenue, New York 16, of the Frankfurt .Appeal Court, after the local schieden hat, dass in sinngemaesser Anwendung der includes scholarship grants to Jewish victims of Wiesbaden Court had rejected the claim of a former Richtlinien, die vom Bund fuer die Gewaehrung Nazi persecution who are engaged in programmes Ghetto inmate. Witnesses so far heard include von ausserordentlichen Versorgungsgenuessen fuer of Jewish study or research. Candidates may apply members of the Nazi-German Diplomatic Corps, ehemalige Bundesbedienstete, die unter Verlust der for training at Jewish teachers' seminaries, for such.as the former German Consul Fuchs, the oesterr. Staatsangehoerigkeit eine fremde Staats studies at accredited graduate schools and for Consuls General Fischer and Wiedemann, and the buergerschaft erworben haben, festgelegt worden independent research and writing in the fields of former (ierman Embassy Counsellor Ministerialrat sind, auch bei der Stadt Wien an ehcmalige staedt. Jewish arts, letters or social science. Applications Dr. Erich Kordt. Bedienstete, auf welche die gleichen Vorausset for 1955 must be submitted to the Claims Con zungen zutreffen, ausserordentliche Zuwendungen ference by .A.pril 15, 1955. Application forms may gewaehrt werden koennen. Diesbezuegliche An be obtained from the offices of the Claims Con CREDITS FOR JEWISH BUSINESS MEN traege werden beim Gemeinderatsausschuss fuer ference, New York, and from the Central British The Association of Jewish Businessmen and Personalangelegenheiten, Verwaltungs- und Be- Fund, Woburn House, Upper Woburn Place, Industrialists in Germany has received assurances triebsreform eingebracht bzw. solche ausseror I.X)ndon, W.C.l. that guarantees for bank credits will be given to dentliche Zuwendungen von den Direktionen der Jewish D.P. business men, artisans and manu einzelnen staedtischen Unternehmungen zuerkannt I.G. FARBEN CASE facturers who so far were excluded from the Federal werden." .\fter several adjournments, the decision in the Govemment credit programme. .\llen frueheren Bediensteten der Gemeinde Wien test case Norbert Wollheim versus I.G. Farben for (Hoheitsverwaltung) und auch den Bediensteten slave labour in Buna-Monowitz (near Auschwitz) der staedtischen Betriebe wird daher empfohlen, was again postponed by the Frankfurt local HEBREW SONGS ON GERMAN RADIO umgehend das entsprechende .\n3ucl1en wegen Supreme Court on March 15. The presiding judge In the course of the " Brotherhood Week," the Zuerkennung der Pension beim Gemeinderats announced that the Court would ask experts named North-west German Radio presented musical pieces ausschuss fuer Personalangelegenheiten bzw. bei by the West Cierman Chamber of Commerce in Bonn from eight nations, among them eighteen Hebrew- der Direktion der betreffenden I.'nternehniungen to investigate whether I.G. Farben could have hymns and songs. The recital was given by a einzubringen. treated its slave labourers better than it did. children's choir of 35 Christian youngsters. W'ir bitten auch unsere Leser diese Nachricht unter ihren oesterreichischen Freunden zu ver' breiten. stungen in folgender Rangfolge aufgerufen und 4. IJnterhaltszuschuss fuer Schaeden in der befriedigt: Berufsausbildung, wenn der Antragsteller sich BERLIN COMMEMORATES 1. Ansprueche von Berechtigten, die das 60. noch in der Berufsausbildung befindet. LIEBERMANN AND BAB Lebensjahr vollendet haben oder beduerftig oder II. Daruber hinaus werden folgende Ansprtteche To mark the twentieth anniversary of Max durch Krankheit oder durch Gebrechen in ihrer von Antragstellern die der bevorrechtigten Klasse Liebermann's death a memorial meeting took place Erwerbsfaehigkeit um mindestens 50% gemindert angehoeren, befriedigt :— under the auspices of the Hochschule fuer bildende sind, Kuenste, Berlin. The audience was welcomed by a) auf Entschaedigung fuer Schaeden im 1. Voile Entschaedigung fuer Schaeden an Senator Professor Tiburtius, and the main address beruflichen und wirtschaltlichen Fortkommen Freiheit. Bisher wurde Schaeden an Freiheit niir was delivered by Professor Dr. Ferdinand Stutt- bis zum Hoechstbetrage von DM 10.000.-, bis zur Hoehe von 3.000 DM befriedigt, mann. Director of the Hannover Museum. fc) auf den Restbetrag der Entschaedigung 2. Schaeden an Vermoegen bis 5.000 DM, Under the auspices of the Freie Volksbuehiie, a fuer Freiheitsentziehung, 3. Die Kapitalentschaedigung fuer Schaeden memorial meeting for Julius Bab was held in Berlin- c) auf Entschaedigung fuer Schaeden an In his address Dr. Siegfried Nestriepke recalled the Eigentum und Verraoegen bis zum Betrage von am Leben und Koerper und Gesundheit, Bisher wurden nur die sich aus diesem Schaeden erge- decisive contribution made by the deceased to the DM 5.000.-, sofern die Berechtigten nicht " Volksbuehnenbewegung " in Germany. bereits Entschaedigungsleistungen nach Absatz benden Rentenansprueche befriedigt, 2 Nr. 4 (i) erhalten haben, 4. Entschaedigung fuer Schaeden am beruf d) auf Entschaedigung fuer Schaeden an lichen und wirtschaftlichen Fortkommen bis zur PROFESSOR HORKHEIMER HONORARV Leben, Koerper imd Gesundheit. Hoehe von 10.000 DM. Es handelt sich hier um MEMBER OF JEWISH COMMUNITY 2. Ansprueche aui Entschaedigung fuer Schae die Kapitalentschaedigung. The Frankfurt Jewish Community has conferretl den an Leben, Koerper und Gesundheit. 3. An Die Rangfolge und die lange Zeit, ueber die sich honorary membership upon Professor Max Hork heimer, the former rector of Frankfurt UniversitVr sprueche auf Entschaedigung fuer Freiheitsentzie die Befriedigung erstreckt, ergeben fuer die Antrag on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. hung. 4. .\nsprueche auf Entschaedigung fuer steller grosse Haerten. Hierauf hatten wir schon in Verlust des Hausrats. 5. .\nsprueche auf Ent der Sonderbeilage ueber den Inhalt des BEG schaedigung fuer Schaeden an Eigentum und (September, 1953) hingewiesen. Wir hatten damals HAMBURG JEWISH COMMUNITY V'ermoegen bis zum Hoechstbetrage von gesagt, dass die Regelung einer starren Rangfolge According to a report given at its General Meeting, DM 20.000.-. 6. .\nsprueche auf Entschaedigung geeignet ist, zu grossen Ungerechtigkeiten zu the Hamburg Jewish Community consists of 1,100 luer Schaeden im beruftichen und wirtschaftlichen fuehren und dass sie auch im Widerspruch zum members. The Board includes Mr. Harry Goldstein. Fortkommen. 7. Ansprueche auf Entschaedigung Haager Abkommen steht; dieses enthaelt die Dr. Simonsohn, Rechtsanwalt Dr. Manasse, Rechts fuer Schaeden an Eigentum und Vermoegen. Vcrpflichtung der Bundesregierung, Mittel bereit- anwalt Dr. Rosenhaft and Mr. Dick. Aufgerufene Forderungen zustellen, durch die die .\nsprueche der nicht Der erste Aufruf ist jetzt durch die lirste Ver besonders bevorzugten Gruppen schon in den ersten ordnung ueber den Aufruf von Entschaedigitngs- JEWISH BOXER WINS Jahrcn nach Inkrafttreten des Gesetzes weitgehend The only Jewish boxer in Germany, .\brahani leistungen vom 22.2.1955 (1 .\V BEG) erfolgt. Die beruecksichtigt werden koennen. Die juedischen Verordnung ist im Bundesgesetzblatt vom 25.2.1955 Rosenberg, a member of the .German " Eintracht'' Organisationen haben eine .\baenderung verlangt, Sports Club (Frankfurt), won the heavy-weight veroeffentlicht. Sie gilt auch im Lande Berlin und die eine schnellere Befriedigung gewaehrleistet. tritt am 25.2,1955 in Kraft. Durch die Verordnung championship against the Hesse champion Frit? Auch von nichtjuedischer Seite sind solche ."Vntraege Lahr. werden die in § 78 Abs. 3 Nr. 1 genannten Ent- gestellt worden. schaedigungsansprueche zur Befriedigung auf gerufen. Die in § 78 Abs. 3 Nr. 2-7 genannten Vorschusszahlungen RELEASE OF WAR CRIMINALS .^nsprueche sind noch nicht aufgenifen. .\ccording to a statement by Secretary of Statt^ Um die bestehenden Haerten zu mildern, sind Der Aufruf bezieht sich somit nur aiif bevor Professor W. Hallstein, the three Western Allic* rechtigte Antragsteller. von alien Laendern Verordnungen erlassen worden, have released all but 315 of the 3,657 Nazi waf die es ihnen ermoeglichen, im Falle der Beduerftig criminals held five years ago. Augenblicklicher Stand keit oder einer Notlage schon vor einer Entscheidung Der augenblickliche Stand fuer eine Befriedigung Vorschuesse auch auf noch nicht aufgerufene ist hiernach folgender: Ansprueche zu zahlen, wenn diese glaubhaft NEO-NAZIS DENY EXTERMINATION OF I. Ohne Ruecksicht auf die persoenlichen Ver gemacht sind. Zum Beweis der Beduerftigkeit und JEWS haeltnisse des Antragstellers werden befriedigt:— der Notlage verlangen die Behoerden eiiie Be- The paper " Die Anklage," issued by the organi 1. Ansprueche, die am 1.10.1953 bereits rechts scheinigung des zustaendigen Deutschen Konsiilats. sation of " Entrechtete Nachkriegsgeschaedigte, kraeftig festgestellt und auf Grund der Laender- ].>ies ist aber eine sehr unvollkommene Regelung, calls the death roll of 6,000,000 Jews " the most gesetze zur Befriedigung aufgerufen sind, da ein Rechtsanspruech auf Gewaehrung eines defamatory forgery." The article claims that the number of killed persons was 250,000 at the utmost, 2. .\nsprueche auf Durchfuehrung eines Heil- Vorschusses nicht besteht. verfahrens fuer Schaeden an Koerper und Gesund and that the German people " with the exception heit, Wirkliche .\bhilfe kann nur durch Aenderung des of 30, 70 or 120 persons in charge " knew nothinS 3. Ansprueche auf wiederkehrende Leistungen, Gesetzes geschafien werden. Es ist zu hoffen, dass about the extermination of the Jews. In th^ d.h. Renten fuer Schaeden an Leben, Koerper das in Vorbereitung befindliche Gesetz zur .\baende- Federal Parliament, Professor Franz Boehm raise" und Gesundheit und Schaeden im beruflichen rung des Bundes-Entschaedigungsgesetzes eine the question why in view of such statements tb^ Fortkommen. Verbesserung bringen wird. paper had not been forbidden. A;;miNFORMATION April, 1955 Page 3 LEGALISED CRIMES I ANGLO-JUDAICA Threat to Shechita A Compendium of Anti- Jewish Nazi Measures Mr. R. F. Crouch's priN'ate member's Bill which Last year, in August, this paper paid tribute to ground, whilst the preface by Hans Fabian will seeks the prohibition of Shechita will receive its the late Dr. Bruno Blau, on the occasion of his help them to put the individual items into their second reading at the end of this month, and the death. Since then his book, " Das Ausnahmerecht true and appalling context. Soon after Hitler had community is being aroused to ward off the threat. fuer die Juden in Deutschland 1933-1945," has come to power he managed to push the infamous The Board of Deputies has launched a campaign oeen published, sponsored by URO (Duesseldorf, "Enabling Law" through an only too willing by circulating the considered views of rabbinical Verlag der Allgemeinen Wochenzeitung der Juden parliament; it will always remain a credit to the and scientific authorities. Two distinguished non- in Deutschland, 1954, DM. 7.80). Social Democrats that they and virtually only they Jews have testified on the humaneness of Shechita .^t first sight, this publication might not seem \oted against. By this law, under the screen of —Sir C. A. Lovatt Evans, a former chairman of the attractive to the ordinary reader. It does not pseudo-legality, the way was paved for unconsti Executive Council of the Royal Veterinary College, contain a consecutive text. It is more of a reference tutional discriminatory laws against the Jews. In and Lord Horder, who expressly confirmed the oook, listing those anti-Jewish laws, decrees and the beginning, this legislation only affected Jewish opinion he gave fifteen years ago that " it is difficult ordinances which were issued in Nazi Germany activities in certain spheres, e.g., in the civil service, to conceive a more painless and a more rapid mode during the years of persecution. They are recorded the cultural field and certain professions; but soon of death." >n chronological order with their headings, dates it embraced all aspects of Jewish life in Germany, As public opinion in general continues to be and places of publication, and brief summaries including the economic sector. Eventually it was critically divided, a Defence Fund is to be estab of their contents. the pseudo-legal basis for the complete elimination lished to counter the strong and growing support Even so, Jews from Germany will soon grasp the of Jewry from the German scene. Outstanding for the Bill which is felt to be an insult to the civic full meaning of the book and reconstruct its back- links in this chain of discriminatory measures were status of every Jew. .\lready some of the opponents the so-called Nurnberg laws and, at a later stage, of Shechita have shown themselves to be no friends those orders which robbed the Jews of their of Jews generally, and correspondence in the belongings, first through the levy on Jewish property provincial press has carried a good deal of outright LETTER FROM JERUSALEM and then by outright confiscation. antisemitic abuse. Characteristic, too, were the The past w-eeks brought again a fresh crop of Boycott and Pogrom sympathies for the adamant Mr. Crouch in localities casualties in the borderland. When we set out to Beside these pseudo-legal actions, taken by the where no Jews live. Mr. Crouch himself, a Conser ^'isit this area we were accompanied by an armed State and published in the official gazette, the vative, has denied any antisemitic intention, in fact guard. We did not go there just for the thrill of organs of the Nazi party, not satisfied with such he claims to have received letters of support from tasting danger—there is a project on foot to slow progress, took measures of their own, by far Jews. transform this area into a colonisation centre of exceeding those " legally " enacted and destroying .\t the same time, some M.P.s have come forward ^rge dimensions. The novelty is that, for the first the few safeguards established by them. The as determined opponents of the Bill. Sir L. Plummer, time, a whole region, extending over almost one boycott and the November pogrom are examples for example, recalled that the spreading of false million dunams, is blueprinted for development as of such party activities. In the long run, state and hoods about Jewish ritual practices was a favourite an entity, involving the settlement of 20,000 people party melted into each other, state ministers more trick of Hitler's while scheming extermination. It within the next few years. and more shedding traditional inhibitions and is also pointed out that not only Jews would be This part of Judea is ancient historic country, backing the programme of complete annihilation. directly affected but Moslems too, and the hope is which once supported a large population. Beit The chronological order followed by the author cherished that the Government will provide no Guvrin, now a small kibbutz, w-as famous at the may have certain drawbacks, though these are facilities for the objectionable Bill. time of the Romans and named by King Herod partly made up for by the index. One might have Support for Israel Eliothropolis," the city of freedom. There are preferred a systematic order according to subjects, The Joint Palestine Appeal for 1955, launched many sites recalling the past—mosaics from the showing the individual items under headings such with a speech by Mr. Trygve Lie, the former liyzantine period, traces of the Crusaders, and as professional restrictions, discriminatory taxation, Secretary-General of the United Nations, realised primeval caves, 40 metres high, the legendary etc. (This way of grouping the material has been the record sum of nearly £600,000 towards its abode of giants. followed in a similar publication issued by the £•2 million target. The total for 1954 was /1,216,000 A dirt track leads into a remote and sheltered Jewish Trust Corporation.) However, the chrono —£50,000 more tlian the previous year. The grand valley, where a hill rises steeply from the base, logical order has the merit of showing the relentless total of all Israeli funds collected in Britain in 1954 with a flat top, towering over the plain like a fort intensification, progressing step by step and faster was ,£2,218,000—the largest figure ever achieved of yore. The simile is not deceptive, for this is the and faster, eventually culminating in the removal here and almost equal to the total raised in the site of ancient Lachish, a city which for thousands of every vestige of human rights, and in the " final rest of the (x)mmonwealth. Since the establishment of years dominated the road from Israel to Egypt. solution," in other words, physical extermination. of the State in 1948, British Jewry has contributed, Joshua ben Nun conquered her; the Kings of For reasons explained in the foreword, this last through its official voluntary funds, £15 million Judea battled for her possession; the mighty Senna- phase is not covered by Blau's book. out of the £^200 million raised by the whole of Jewry. charib of Assyria encamped his army in her The list contains not only those major " laws " A bleak picture of the community's cultural state precincts; and Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, which deprived German Jews of their livelihood, was drawn by the President of the Board of Depu made the city a stronghold in his wars. property and civic rights, but also the innumerable ties, Dr. A. Cohen, when he spoke on the prepara Lachish has given the name to the new develop minor measures of humiliating and disgusting tions for the Tercentenary next year. .\nglo-Jewry, ment project, which has its provisional headquarters chicanery, aimed at depriving the Jews of all human he said, was not well educated in Jewish knowledge. at the coast in Migdal .\shkelon. There, sjil tests dignity. Many of those measures, however, had a There was not the love of books which distinguished and soil surveys, topographical studies and layouts more far-reaching aim, often not even realised by other Jewries. It was tragic that University lor settlements, plans for roads and pipelines are the victims themselves. The Jewish Star on the students (among them some of the best brains of ^ing made. Each settlement point will be inter clothing and the doors of Jews marked them as the community) concentrated on the vineyards of related to the other and supplement it economically, future victims of deportation and annihilation, other peoples and knew nothing about the literature rhe compact villages are planned for a population assisting the Gestapo in singling them out. of their own. Dr. Cohen announceil a plan to larger than is customEiry now and their economy The merit of publications of this kind is not only establish readerships in Jewish Studies at those W'lll be based mainly on industrial crops, such as that they contain valuable historical material. universities, such as London, which had none. ^ugar beet, groundnuts and cotton. They can also serve an important practical purpose Deficit if furnished to restitution and compensation Yet in another respect does the project differ The expenditure in 1954 of the London Board of from present settlement activities. While in the authorities in Germany. Experience has shown that part of the judges and officials staffing these authori Jewish Religious Education—£81,237—fell short of Negev and Galilee the new immigrants are brought the receipts by £^9,129. The previous year the uirectly from the port to their respective places of ties have not sufficient knowledge of what really happened in the years of persecution. They find it deficit was £7,564, and this year it is expected to final settlement, the newcomers here are first be some £16~000. housed in two large work camps, which have all difficult to understand individual items in their true context. This applies particularly to those An annual amount of ;^2,000 for seven years was the prerequisites of a settlement—school, kinder provided by Mr. Isaac Wolfson, the financier, to garten, cultural centre, synagogue and social German lawyers who were only youngsters during the years of the Third Reich. For them, Blau's establish a " Manchester Journal of Semitic Amenities—where they will stay tor 6-8 months. Studies," to be published by the Manchester Univer Preparing the land for agriculture, tree planting book is an important source of information, all the more as it contains even those decrees which were sity Press. . ^^d building their villages in the neighbourhood not published in the official gazette but only in Two Jewisli actors received distinctions from the niake up their programme of work. the Nazi press or in Nazi-controlled information British Film Academy. Miss Yvonne Mitchell was ^^hen we came to visit Hanivit—one of the two papers issued by Jewish communities. Some awarded a British " Oscar " as the best British Camps—the first 28 families had arrived just two measures listed in the book were not even published actress of the year, Mr. David Kossoff the prize for days previously, numbering 162 persons, all of them at all but only channelled to the subordinate the most promising newcomer to films. tfom Morocco, all in good health and spirits. They authorities. It is a matter of course that lawyers Of the total number of mental patients in had come late one afternoon and the next morning representing Jewish claimants will find Blau's England, about 1.8 per cent are Jewish. they were already at work for the Jewish National book indispensable. . und—sorting out saplings for afforestation. They The writer, when studying Blau, was again *ere not questioning the kind of work nor the rate overcome by a feeling which all of us experience epoch of " Wiedergutmachung," fragmentary though ,'J'f pay, but were ready to tackle the job without from time to time: that the sufferings Nazi Germany it is. It is something that the West German Govern osing any time in adjusting themselves. One of inflicted on the Jews are too terrible to be true. ment has acknowledged the resiMUsibility, or at the immigrants had made the journey twice—he Surely, all this is but an evil dream, a nightmau-e. least the liability, for the deeds of its predecessors. •-•|*a5 onerrf the " yordim " who had left the country But soon, we awake and realise anew that these May Blau's book serve as a valuable tool in the disgruntled, and now he was back again trying all atrocities were facts. If we think of those victims practical application of restitution and compensation the harder to prove his mettle. who are no longer with us, it is small comfort, but laws. HERBERT FREEDEN. it is some comfort that we have lived to see the E. SCH.'VEFER Pa£e 4 AJR INFORMATION April, 1955 Hans Jaeger: THE COCKNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE NAZIS HANGOVER OF THE PAST WTien, in 1952, the Lower Court in Frankfurt recognised Norbert WoUheim's claim against Some recent German Publications I.G. Farben, it paid tribute to two ex-prisoners of A large proportion of the novels appearing in Front who united forces to bring Hitler into power. war, who had testified during the hearing. These Germany still deals in one form or another with the And somehow both have a split personality. two witnesses, the Cxjurt stated in the judgment, past, partly condemning it, partly trying to white had tried to alleviate the plight of the Jewish slave Hans Helmuth Kirst, " 08/15 im Krieg," 2nd vol labourers. Though, unlike the officials of I.G. wash, to minimise or to glorify. Even when the ume, Kurt Desch, Munich, 432 pp. Usually, a second present is described, the shadows of the past Farben, they were not supposed to care for the volume means an anti-climax and is a dangerous " living " conditions of the Jewish pariahs, they reappear. People struggle with an experience, a temptation to the author to repeat himself and to nightmare they cannot easily get rid of. used every possible device, arising from their status, water down what he has said before. Here it is to be of help. When the judgment became known, This impression is particularly strong if one reads different. It is astonishing to observe that he has the AJR felt urged to write to the two witnesses the novel of Wolfgang Koeppen, " Das Treibhaus " the strength to surpass his former achievements. thanking them for their courageous attitude w-hich (Scherz & Cioverts, Stuttgart, 223 pp.) It is a typical Apart from few exceptions, it is not the battle front helped the Jewish prisoners to retain their belief example of how little one can rely on hearsay as but life close to the front which is in the foreground in humanity. This letter has now been incorporated far as literary achievements are concerned. The of this novel. He depicts various types, often with in an interesting book,* in which the manifold war first one heard was a public outcry that this " key a grim sense of humour, with a deep insight into adventures of one of them, Charles Coward, have novel " was slanderous and insulting, malicious the human soul. Some characters, such as Captain been put on record. Coward was captured as early and untrue, apart from lacking any literary value. Witterer, who, in his ambitious longing for decora as 1940, having missed the evacuation boats in Admitted that it is difficult to read, as the author tions, wants to drill soldiers who have fought in Calais. From then onwards, his life became a has an absolute contempt for all form, writing many battles, but whose fear is in grotesque continuous story of escape, re-imprisonment and sentences stretching over several pages or rather contrast with his boastfulness, or the N.C.O. Soeft, further more or less successful attempts of gaining putting words together without any commas and who is always organising something and becomes freedom. He did not manage to reach his goal, but full-stops if he feels like it, this does not diminish rich in an atmosphere of scarcity, are unforgettable. ultimately landed in the Monovitz Camp near its literary value. It can be taken rather as a We get a glimpse at the conspiracy leading to Auschwitz. Bad as this may have been for him, it symbol of the chaotic present, and perhaps of the July 20, 1944, when some officers recognise each had its blessing for many of our people. Not less chaos of feelings in the soul of the author when the other by the slogan, " The chimneys are still than 400 Jews, doomed to death, were helped by ordeal of the Third Reich and the Second World smoking." It is a satire in itself if the very lieutenant him to find their ways out of the camp. As for us, War was over. The author, whose judgment on who still believes in Hitler in an atmosphere of the word "Auschwitz" is associated with the scepticism, cynicism, personal ambition and selfish National Socialism is beyond any doubt, shows remembrance of perished parents, brothers, sisters ness, falls into the trap of a Russian girl who manages and other relatives it would not be appropriate to genuine feelings and makes desperate efforts to to extract vital secrets from him (we are gradually cope with the problems of our time. That gives recount in detail how he managed to do so. On the used to this cliche of all Russian civilians being other hand, the story is told with restraint, and, quality to his book and makes us excuse some cases described as agents or partisans, as it is in Plievier's of lack of tact or of good taste, though it will not therefore, even readers of our background need novel, too). Kirst certainly has made his contri have no inhibitions to become acquainted with the reconcile the Philistines who resent the ruthless bution to deglorification of militarism, depriving it and almost cruel realism. The novel describes the book. On the contrary, they should get hold of it, of its glamour, without any one-sidedness or unjust because it will reassure them that in the depth of gradual decay of a parliamentarian (a former generalisation. refugee w-ho returned to Germany), who feels disgust degradation the light of human understanding was with the general atmosphere and, feeling unable to That he did not restrict himself to the not entirely extinct. make a fresh start, ends in suicide. Nevertheless, sphere of the army is shown in another novel Experiences in Auschwitz - Monowitz, where the book is, basically, neither cynical nor nihilist. he wrote, " Aufruhr in einer kleinen Stadt " (Verlag Coward was also in touch with the Polish Under This case does not allow for generalisation. On Kurt Descli, Munich, 383 pp.). This time we are ground Movement, are reported in one chapter of the contrary, it is as if the author himself was in a small German town, breeding-place of intoler the book, which especially for us is the most looking for relief in this way. He knows quite well ance and narrowmindedness, false dignity and important one. Throughout the report we accom that life is not a one-way street. The process of quarrelsomeness. Again he attacks nationalistic pany Charles Coward, the (xjckney from Edmonton, decomposition is illustrated with a demoniacal phraseology, and this he has in common with in his single-handed fight against the huge German strength of vision. One will never forget the .scene Koeppen. The younger generation, disillusioned war machinery. Never at a loss, he got his way where the " hero " of this novel walks drunkenly and disgusted by words which are not in accordance time and again. Where the intellectual might among the ruins of Bonn and sees at the same time with facts and reality, simply hates phrases, boasts, have been lost, the matter-of-fact Cockney was the daughters of the Rhine, the skeletons of the slogans, and this is a sound sign which we have to guided to success by his innate instinct. As a Camp victims of war and Nazism, and the hills of the register, as it seems promising for the future. Leader he also obtained authority over his British Rhinish landscape in the background. Credulity has been followed by distrust, which is fellow-prisoners: he did not pose as their superior, almost the other extreme. The novel is a satire, but found his way to their hearts as an equal. SS. Men and Nationalists exposing those who, in their longing for demon The book is composed in a well-balanced way. Wolfgang Koeppen's next novel, " Der Tod in strations, want to falsify the suicide of a weakling When humorous incidents are described, it never Rom " (Scherz & Goverts, Stuttgart, 254 pp.), into a victim of the post-war period which, in their becomes flippant, and though, at first sight, the indicates a remarkable progress and will silence opinion, did not appreciate enough the achieve approach seems to be that of an escape story, the those who doubted his literary qualities, though his ments of the " glorious " era before. But that is serious background is never forgotten. It is a true language will still sometimes appear shocking to only one of the truths this fine novel teaches us. document humain of our turbulent times. some people. He certainly does not know inhibitions The man who, coming out of jail, is actually W. ROSENSTOCK and he wants to shock in order to make people victimised and never gets a chance, the big shot • John Castle: Password to Courage. Souvenir Press, 15/- listen to him. They all meet in Rome : the former who " owns " the town and has everybody at his SS.-general who cannot return yet to Germany (as mercy, the sneaks, they all round off a picture those " ungrateful " people have not paved the which is rather familiar. way yet, and this courageous " hero " does not The same happens when he talks about the want to take the slightest risk) and is acting now as Memoirs of the Arbeitsdienstfuehrer concentration camps. He says that food was better " adviser" in some .Arab country, the typical Finally, we must mention Konstantin Hierl, than in the internment camps where he was after " super-man," a queer mixture of sergeant-major former chief of Germany's Labour Service, who the war; he did not make any ^lnfavourable obser and titanic megalomaniac, tortured by an inferiority also wTote his memoirs in " Im Dienst fuer vations, and the reports after the war were the out come of hatred and even the more serious news complex, looking at people of the former upper Deutschland " (1918-1945, Kurt Vowinckel-Verlag, " one-sided." But then he adds, obviously feeling a class with a mixture of contempt and adoration, Heidelberg, 208 pp.). This man, who once followed Ludendorff and his Tannenberg-Bund and then bit uneasy, that the concentration camps should using his morbid nationalism as a thin cover for have served protection of the State instead of his insatiable lust for power and the satisfaction deserted him to follow the Fuehrer instead, still uses his old Nazi cliches. Not even the " plutocrats " vengeance, and he graciously admits that there of his desires. On the other hand, there is his were " sometimes " denunciations and atrocities. brother-in-law, representative of that former upper are missing. His formula that Germany must have class, who, as a " realist," always adapts himself an army of its own which serves neither the West One can imagine what he has to say as to the to the circumstances, though using the nationalist nor the East, but Germany, might easily bring him extermination of the Jews. He shares the typical phrase no less than his counterpart (considering it in line with Otto Strasser. He expounds the prejudices and repeats the old accusations. The as his monopoly and symbol of his standard), somewhat amusing theory that the programme of only thing he has to say is that very often the admiring him as long as he was in power, disowning the N.S.D.A.P. would have been compatible with nations went " far beyond the measures of pro tection and self-defence which were justified " and him when it became dangerous to be associated democracy, freedom of political opinion being replaced wrong by new and even bigger wrong. with him, but even then taking all precautions as really necessary, that dictatorship v/as only the He rejects this revenge, he graciously rejects times might change again; he is even more product of later development. The "shortcomings " generalisations, he admits the high gifts and special ambiguous since his reinstatement as he has to were due to the party spirit. In the late 'thirties qualities of the Jews, he speaks about an elite consider both those who restored him to power and safeguards against misuse of power would have been which establishes the State of Israel. Though he is those whose predecessor he might be, falling under possible and necessary, but Hitler had no time, still antisemitic, he will not meet the approval of his spell as soon as he starts to boast again, and then because he was absorbed by his military schemes. his former comrades for these concessions. disowning him when he becomes a nuisance. Both However, in the war bad conditions worsened. Then We see, to sum up, that novels and memoirs have their eyes on the main chance, the " job " Hierl gets afraid of what he has said and starts likewise are dealing with the past which even and the power and protection it carries writh it. withdrawing. He praises the bulk of the party overshadows the present. The hangover of the past They symbolise the two partners of the Harzburg members. is still strong.- ^^INFORMATION April, 1958 Page 5 J^*:ob Jacohson: 0/d Acquaintances THE FIRST GERMAN-JEWISH DOCTORS Vienna in Elstree:—"Oh Rosalinda,' the 19.15 version of the immortal " Fledermaus," is the first fn 1731 Benjamin de Lemos, then 16 years old, This was quite an unusual step and it remained co-production of a British (A.B.P.) and a German came to Halle to study medicine. There he took unsuccessful. company; Michael Powell and Hungary-born lodgings with the Jewish family Charleville, and As a foreigner, the young doctor was at first not E. Piessburger sign as authors and directors. They eventually, just before taking his doctor's degree, allowed to practise in Prussia, but he came to did not change the story, though the plot is married Hanna, the somewhat oldish daughter of Berlin after having stayed in Dessau for some time. modernised and placed in Vienna of to-day under '''mon .\braham Charleville, much to the dismay the four occupation jxjwers. Michael Redgrave as y his father, the Hamburg broker, Abraham de There Hanna—the " cunning hussy," as her " Eisenstein " is now- a Frenchman, Mel Ferrer '^mos. The latter naturally objected to the con indignant father-in-law had called her—died in (.\lfred) an American, Dennis Price (Frank) English. siderable difference of age; apart from that, however, 1762, and one year later Benjamin de Lemos .•\nthony Quayle (Orlofsky) a Russian, and Anton "e, the Portuguese Jew, considered his son's married her niece Esther, the 20-year-old daughter Walbiook as " Dr. Falke," of course, a " native.' maiTiage to a German Jewess quite intolerable, of his former university colleague, Dr. Samuel •Rosalinda" is played by beautiful Ludmilla just as unusual and intolerable as that between Charleville, who was then established in Glogau. Tcherina and " .\dele " sung by .\nnaliese Rothen- *-nristians and Jews." In his anger he went so far Esther waus the mother of the famous Henriette berger, a young opera singer of Hamburg, while Oskar Sima is " Frosch." Hein Heckroth, also a *s to ask the Prussian Government to declare his Herz, the beautiful wife of Professor Dr. Marcus Herz, once highly esteemed both as physician and Continental artist, designed the colourful decors ^P s marriage null and void. (Professor Guido and costumes, and the new- version of this classical Kisch in " Sachsen und .-Vrdialt," Magdeburg, 1929.) philosopher, and a member of the circle around operetta will be done in cinemascope. The directors Moses Mendelssohn. Only after the death of her work with real ensemble, so there will not be any mother, Henriette Herz changed her religion and ' crowd "; they rehearsed every shot iveeks before, DR. BELA HOROVITZ became a Christian, under the influence of Friedrich and the music was recorded in .Austria. So there is AND " THE PHAIDON PRESS " Schleiermacher (1817). quite an international atmosphere in the studios at Elstree, and everybody is hoping " Oh Rosalinda " On Tuesdav, March 9, Dr. Bela Horovitz, Doctors like their sons also to become doctors will have the expected success. When we visited f irector of " The Phaidon Press." died suddenly and their daughters to marry doctors, and so it the set we met two Continental actors, Fritz m New- York, w-here he was on a visit. He was happened in this case. The brother of Henriette's Schrecker and Rolf Carston, in uniforms on the °ne of the most outstanding and prolific publishers mother, i.e. the son of the Glogau doctor, practised floor. jn this country and a man of finest culture with up to his old age " in the province," as Henriette "SeedsofTime" :—Walter Rilla, the stage and f-een interest in all spheres of spiritual life, especially Herz rather vaguely relates in her " Early screen star who started as editor of a literary maga "\ the eternal values of the Jewish heritage to Reminiscences." zine in Breslau after the first war, returned to his ^nich he devoted a special section of his publishing Johanna, Henriette's younger sister, married a first love by writing a novel; it has just been house, " The East and West Library." Dr. Simon Herz in Prenzlau, and her two brothers published by Neville Spearman in London. " Seeds Born fifty-six years ago in Budapest, he began also became doctors. The elder returned to Ham of Time " (a Shakespeare quotation) is a psycho ms career as a publisher of expensive de luxe burg, the town of his ancestors, and died there in logical book of tremendous proportions; the study ?Jitions in Vienna, and, in 1923, founded the 1845 (Hans Landsberger, Henriette Herz, Weimar, of a woman in love with three men: her father, her f^naidon Press, whose name has since become 1913); the younger, however, Dr. Daniel de Lemos, husband, and her son; and the three are in a way 'amous throughout the world. The publisher's who was born in 1770 and graduated in Koenigsberg identical with each other. You would not expect a novel, so far removed from everything the author ^•m was to produce good art books which, at in 1797, went to Warsaw as a doctor. There he died did until now, from Rilla, who made a name for ••easonable prices, should appeal to a big general as early as 1805. public and at the same time should satisfy the himself in Germany and in this country, where he expert scholar, the art historian by a sound scientific Medical Officers in Polish Prussia has been living since 1933. His story is moving, esearch. This aim was achieved in the first How had he come to Warsaw—he, whose ancestor and the analysis always warm-hearted, although his "Stance by the pictures, which show the work of did not like German Jews, and probably Polish leading lady seems to be quite selfish in her love. n artist as completely as possible in the best Jews even less ? When, at the end of the 18th While waiting for the first visit of her future daughter-in-law her life comes as a flash-back before Possible reproductions, further by a guiding century, Prussia had acquired the Polish provinces, her inner eye. " Seeds of Time " is beautifully and 'storical introduction and by a critical " catalogue she had also undertaken to reorganise medical affairs and tried to enrol new members for health sensitively written, and not only outstanding ^isonne," containing all the scientific details because it is unexpected coming from an actor of service schemes. Thus there was a new hope and *'^ailable. In this new type of art books, all the Rilla's standing. sTeat artists of the past and of our times arc repre- a new sphere of activities for many Jewish doctors. ented in large volumes, the Italian and the French, We know the names of several Jewish doctors who Home Neu;s!—Dr. Paul Czinner, Elisabeth he Spanish and the English, the Dutch and the worked in the provinces at that time, and we also Bergner's husband, will show his " Don Giovanni ' erman, and have found their way to all the libraries know that they studied in Koenigsberg and in picture, which he shot on the stage of Salzburg's jthe world, public and private. For example , a Frankfurt/Oder, in Halle and in Buetzow (Mecklen opera house, in London's " Royal Festival Hall."— Dr. F. Loewenstein, bibliographer of the late G. B. l^k on Van Gogh sold 50,000 copies on the day burg). We further know the names of young and "' Its publication old doctors who applied for the position of a Shaw, will return to Frankfurt for good.—Bert " medical district officer." Surprisingly, some of Brecht's " Mother Courage " will be presented at ^'hen the Nazis invaded .\ustria in 1938, Dr the Devon Festival in Barnstaple during the Horovit, z succeeded in transferring the Phaidon them were successful in their applications. The competent Minister, Count Hoym, in Breslau, more summer.—Rolf Carston, who used to run the ess to London, and here it has grown into one " Blue Danube " cabaret in Finchley Road, will be the biggest Publishing Houses, with branches liberal than the supreme medical authority of Prussia, did not mind the " difference of religion " Jose Ferrer's acting stand-by for " Cockleshell Over the world. Its scope widened and its Heroes," to be produced in Portugal. tivities were extraordinary. It includes " Rem- as long as a Jewish candidate was efficient in his andt's Etchings" in six volumes, a standard profession. Thus, Dr. Samuel Wolff Frankenstein, U.S.A.:—Oscar Homolka played Ibsen's from Strasburg (West Prussia), became medical at vx-'- ^^'^ ^^^ Catalogues of the Queen's Drawings " Masterbuilder " on Broadway.—Maria Riva, district officer in Lentschitz; Dr. Joseph Bewern, Marlene Dietrich's daughter, took over the Stam , " indsor, eleven volumes of which have already from Halle, became temporary medical district ford Playhouse and w-ill open with " Bell, Book, and ^*n published. .\11 of them are splendidly printed, officer in Schroda; and Dr. Isaac Jacob Gura, from Candle."—Theodore Bikel, the Israeli actor who hnd, with a text of the highest standard, pro- Lissa, became medicaj district officer of the lived and worked in London, had a success in New- j^uetions which, to quote Sir Kenneth Clark, " have Ostrzewo (Schildberg) district. Dr. .Abraham Judka York, when he played in " Tonight in Samarkand." th^ become one of the few- civilizing influences of Felix, physician-in-ordinary of Count Zaluski, and —Felix Jackson, the German-born producer of fat *™®- Here, in London, in 1944, this inde- probably a member of the famous family Kat T.V.'s " The Best of Broadway," finished a book Di v,?^^'*^ man added a separate section to his zenellenbogen, became medical district officer in for early publication.—Grete Mosheim and Ludwig ""Shing house, his own department under his Lask. Dr. Berend Joachim Borchardt became Donath scored a big success in the German pro ^l^nal care, " The East and West Library," to medical district officer in Rawa. He had previously duction of Hauptmann's " Biberpelz " in New York. altvf ^* devoted himself with the greatest love, been in the service of Prince Czartoryski, was a Milestones:—One of the youngest journalists of , nougij it never actually paid. In this section member of the well-known Jewish family Borchardt Berlin in the twenties, Hans Tasiemka, celebrated jj Published among others Weizmann's " Trial and in Koeslin, and was married to a Jewess from Breslau. his fiftieth birthday in London, w-here he has been 0-^^' ' an illustrated edition, Buber's " Moses," I cannot say w-ith certaintj' whether he obtained running a newspaper agency since leaving the ^" Roth's " .\ Short History of the Jewish his position by conversion to Christianity or whether British Army five years ago. Bom in Gnesen, he Q, ,;" Jew-ish philosophers " Philo," " Sadia he remained a Jew. The same applies to Dr. Joseph started with interviews in " Filmkurier" and p. h, ' " Jehuda Halevy," and the last one " Essays Loeben, who was medical district officer of Mlawa. became co-founder of a party of young Republicans. *• esented to Leo Baeck." For it was Dr. Loeben's application which—under —Werner Richard Heymann, who scored with such j>. ?e death of Dr. Horovitz is a great loss to the a different Minister—had met with strong opposition successful Ufa pictures as " Kongress tanzt," is publishers. *h Press and to the world of art publ and had again aroused the earlier objections to the sixty years old. He returned from Hollyivood a ^•"e he was a leading figure. admission of " doctors of the Jewish nation " to few years ago to Ciermany and is working again in \\.j(., personally regret the loss of a generous friend positions of an official character. These objections pictures.—Two well-known Cierman producers got •han ^'^"'n l" often had intimate talks on art and still existed during the reactionary era after 1815 a lot of praise: Juergen Fehling when he had his vyjj. y topics of cultural and spiritual life, talks and remained effective for a long time. seventy-fifth birthday; Heinz Hilpert when he was lev ^^""^ alwavs inspiring and which I shall sixty-five vears old last month, er forget. DR. ARTHUR GALLINER {To be contit^ued) PEM Page 6 AJR INFORMATION April, 195* A GREAT ISRAELI ARTIST DR. C. KAPRALIK-SIXTY We welcome the opportunity of expressing ool In Memoriam — Leopold Krakauer thanks and good w-ishes to Dr. Charles Kapralik oD I^-opold Krakauer. who died in Jerusalem last work is comparatively little known outside of the occasion of his 60th birthday on April 24. For month at the age of 64. was in my view one of Israel and should, one day, be exhibited in this almost 14 years. Dr. Kapralik has been associated I he greatest artists in Israel. 1 know of nobody countrv. with the work at Woburii House, first as an official • Ise who succeeded to such a degree in interpretinsj; ROBERT WELTSCH of the Central British Fund and now as the Cieneral the mystery of the Jerusalem scenery and its Secretary of the Jewish Trust Corporation. Having spiritual message. Krakauer came to Jerusalem held senior positions with leading Viennese banking from Vienna with his wife Grete Wolf, who is als(j DEATH OF DR. JULIUS FLIESS and insurance enterprises until 1938, he excels by a gifted painter, more than thirty years ago. He Rechtsanwalt Dr. Julius Fliess died in Berlin his widespread knowledge and his administrative lived (as long as security considerations allowed) recently, 78 years old. For many years Dr. Fliess ability. Yet for us it is of particular value that on the outskirts of the city, near the abyss where was one of the most respected barristers of the a refugee himself knows the needs of "U' Che dark rugged valleys slope down towards the Berlin Appeal Court (Kammergericht), equally w-ell community from his own experience. Through Dead Sea; there h<; fell in mystic love with this out the years, he has been a faithful friend of the known for his legal know-ledge, his forensic gifts landscape. wi,th its barren hills and fading desert, .\JR, whose help and advice have been most with its floating air and light, with its lonely trees and his straight and noble character. He was also valuable to us. Now, as the preparatory work f<" which look like living creatures, with its rocks and a very upright Jew, who behaved most courageously the establishment of Old Age Homes is going of- thorn-bushes and endless thistles. This revelation during the Nazi period. Only during the war he these bonds have grown even stronger and the daily impressed itself deeply on the artist's mind, and he emigrated to Switzerland, but returned soon after co-operation betw-een ^^^oburn House and Fairfax' was able to reproduce it in ever new variants, a 1945 to resume his legal practice. He was inde Mansions have resulted in a close personal relation glorious image of demonic Nature in its everlasting fatigable; it is understood that his last illness ship with him. In the interest of tlie community grandeur. Some of his pictures, especially chalk- developed as a consequence of a continuous spell to which he devotes his services with unliniite" drawings, express the full interusity of Biblical of work which much younger men would have youthful energy and enthusiasm, we w-ish D^' feeling. hesitated to undertake. W. B. Kapralik many happy and successful years to But Krakauer was not only a great painter, ho come. was also one of the leading architects of the country W. R. and devoted much thought to the problems of Israeli architecture in its relation to the character PHYSICAL -AND PSYCHICAL RESEARCH of the country. He admired the .\rab villages in In their recent study, Miss .\nita Kohsen (who their perfect harmony with the Palestinian land came to t'nis country as a Cierman-Jew-ish Refugee) trickery, fraud, hallucinations, self-deception, the scape, but he realised that this cannot be copied for and Mr. C. C. L. Gregory attempt " the start of a frequent lack of experimental repeatability of the quite different requirements of modern Jewish scientific revolution, the issues to be based on phenomena; and also the coincidence with the society. His aim was to combine utilitarian necessi methodology and not on belief in hypotheses, as psychopathological. ties of modern building with as much as could be a first step to bringing about the unification of The book certainly raises many important saved of consistency- with the natural scenery. He science." The book is primarily intended " for problems with regard to the relation of facts, the't vas a pioneer in Kibbutz planning and building. professional and lay scientists "; but the latter interpretation, and the value of hypotheses and Some of the most remarkable public buildings should have some knowledge of the language and theories as not only verifying facts, but also a^ (usually called ' Chadar ha-Ochel " or dining-hall) principles of cybernetics, modern physics, psycho leading to experiments which may result in the in the early Kibbutzim were the work of Krakaucr. analysis and psychical research. finding of new data and thus confirm or disprove who was a frequent visitor in the Emek and else existing theories, including their ow-n. where and very popular among the early settlers, There is much speculation at times with the The authors rightly express the hope that the e.specially those who came from ("entral Europe. attempt at a formation of a new language and new- book " will be widely read and call forth the This man of genius was a very amiable, human concepts, on how to explain psychical phenomena, the existence of which is assumed as being proven. criticism it so richly deserves." 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As suggested in the article, Former Kitchener Camp men will remember the t-ibrary is open Mondav to Thursday, 10-1 and I got in touch with the Federal Ministry of Finances magician in their midst who, under the name •'-'', Friday 10-1. in Vienna, and to-day 1 received the good new-s Harun al Rashid, delighted them by his perform Permanent Handicraft Exhibition and Sale that my application has been granted. I consider it my duty to thank you for having published this ances. His real name was E. Herrnstadt. Now he •^ tile holiday time is nearing, w-e again draw the announcement. If I had not read ' -AJR Infor has turned Mr. E. Hearn and ow-ns a laundry in attention of our members and friends to this mation ' I would not have been aware of my London. .\n interesting innovation, introduced by 'exhibition, in w-hich ever>-one can find useful and claim." him., is reported in The West London Observer. His attractive articles. Orders are accepted. Gift laundry van has been equipped with a two-way radio tokens can be acquired. The second story has a sadder background. One day, an official of the London Main Post Office rang telephone. Thus, in the case of emergency orders, the AJR. A parcel from Germany addressed to a contacts may be established 'at once between the COMPANION TO ISRAEL former German Jew- had been returned to him head office in Shepherds Biish and the van wherever ,.'. 'ady who cannot afford the fares to Israel to marked " Unknown." The official w-as most it happens to be, and immediate collection can be visit her only sister would like to make the voyage anxious to find out the present w-hereabouts, because arranged for. .\s far as it is known, his is the only •IS companion. Interested readers are asked to the parcel seemed to contain belongings of the laundry in this country operating with such an 'communicate with the AJR Social Services Depart- addressee's deported relatives. An enquiry under equipment. "lent, 8 Fairfax Mansions, N.W.3 (MAI.4449). " Missing Persons " was pubhshed in " -\JR Mr. Hearn has also remained faithful to his Inforrhation." A few days later, a reader gave the Harun al Rashid activities and rendered his volun THE ITVPHEN full new address of the man who had re-emigrated tary services for the benefit of many a good cause. Sunda3ay- , April 17, at 7.3lt p.m., at 57 Eton to the United States, and to whom the parcel can NATURALISATION f^venue :—Talk by Eustace Chesser, " Sex and now be forwarded. On March 10 Captain Kerby asked the Home LT-'^iage." (Admission for non-members, Is. 6d.) Secretary if he w-ould publish the names of those 'here w-ill also be a few rambles and At Homes in persons who, since 1933, have been accorded British '^pril. 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