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members were contributing between £10 and £50 —but this was still not enough. LOOKING AHEAD In the recruitment of the younger generation it had been agreed to create a new term "Friends Constructive AJR Board Meeting of the AJR" for those people who had no wish to think of themselves as or to be called refugees, as This year's AJR Board Meeting, which was held administered with the CBF/World Jewish Relief. well as for those who were children and grand­ on 25 January at Hannah Karminski Hall, differed In addition, the AJR owned three houses which children of refugees and any other people who from previous occasions in a twofold way. At the offered sheltered accommodation. Altogether, we wish to support the AJR. The privileges of the suggestion of the Executive, several Board mem­ have more than 260 people to look after. The need "Friends" would be the same as those of members, bers brought interested relatives and friends with for maintaining these homes for refugees, the and further details would be announced in one of them, who attended the meeting as guests. The speaker stated, would continue for the rest of the the next issues of the AJR Information. second departure from the usual routine was that century. The average age—in the fifties under 70— Referring to the front page article in the '"Stead of a number of special reports, one sum­ was now the mid-80s, most of them already frail January issue of AJR Information the Chairman marising address on the salient points of AJR when entering the Homes. There were also grow­ stressed anew the need for voluntary helpers policy was presented by the Chairman, Mr. C. T. ing financial difficulties. The funds recovered in especially by Board members, their familes and f^arx, as the introduction of the discussion, which Germany by the Jewish Trust Corporation were friends. turned out to be more lively than it used to be shrinking; the amount of subsidies by the local ouring the past years. authorities was affected by the general situation, In opening the meeting, Mr. Marx first paid and at the same time, the German pensions had Organisational Alignments tribute to the memory of an old and valued Board lost their previous value due to the present ex­ At the end, Mr. Marx reported on organis­ member, Dr. WUly Selig. He also announced that change rates. Lastly a stage would soon be ational alignments of the AJR, Self Aid and the mere were three newly elected Board members, reached, where new residents belonged to an age AJR Charitable Trust. While retaining their Dr- Alice Apt and Dr. Hans Freund, who were group, which no longer qualified for German or identity, their amalgamation had proved most present, and Mr. Richard Fisher, who had sent his Austrian pensions. effective in the day-to-day work. Equally, the apologies. Lastly, he referred to the recent 90th The speaker then summarised the other welfare Hon. Officers had become more involved in the birthday of the AJR President, Mr. A. S. Dresel, activities of the AJR which included the work of day-to-day work, and although there were some­ which had been celebrated with him in excellent the AJR Social Services Department, the Meals- times disagreements and arguments, the co-oper­ health and strength. on-Wheels Service (with about 1,000 meals per ation with the loyal and long serving staff was In his stimulating survey of the wide range of month) and the AJR Club. Self-Aid, now closely harmonious and hearty thanks were due to all. activities, Mr. Marx first dealt with our efforts to co-operating with the AJR, provided regular help The Report was followed by a discussion, to wiff"^'^'' the material interests of our community. for more than 120 people; this year's concert had which the following Board members and guests con­ Whilst matters of restitution and compensation raised £5,700. tributed: Dr. R. Lehmann, Miss J. Lee, Dr. H. G. nad to a certain extent come to a conclusion, there Francken, Mrs. D. Segall, Mrs. A. Schwab, Mrs. ^h^r ^'"^ ^'arious questions concerning the tax- M. Casson, Dr. A. Rosenstrauch (Reading), Mrs. °'hty of German payments. In this respect, our Financial Situation M. Pottlitzer, Mrs. A. Marx, Dr. L. Nelken, Dr. Vice-Chairman, Dr. F. E. Falk, had been success- Dealing with problems, which have to be tackled A. Horwell, Mr. G. Selby, Mrs. Margaret Jacoby th I ^^'"^ during the past decades, and one of in the immediate future, the Chairman first re­ and Mrs. E. Trent. One of the subjects raised by e latest achievements consisted in the stipulation ported about the financial situation. The total several speakers was the possibility of recruiting o' the Finance Act 1974 by which of those pay­ outgoings now amounted to £100,000, of which members of the younger generation as voluntary ments to victims of Nazi persecution which were £50,000 were used for salaries and £25,000 for helpers. Some members expressed the view that "f*' f"''""^'y exempted from taxation, only one-half AJR Information. Of these, just under £50,000 many younger people had not sufficient time for 01 the received amounts was subject to UK tax. were covered by subscriptions, and a further taking on extra duties because they had to look pother material issue, which now stood in the £25,000 came from the Allocations Committee for after their households and their children. Others foreground, was the recently established German AJR and Self Aid together. The balance was made quoted examples which showed that both fields of Hardship Fund ("Abschlussgesle Wiedergutma- up in various ways but it was obvious that the activities could very well be combined. With chung"). Whilst the regulations of this Fund books could not continue to be balanced in this regard to the Homes, it was suggested that the njainly provided individual payments to individual way without further income. Legacies formed a lives of the residents should not only be enhanced victims who could not submit their claims in time, very important part of this income and deep by concerts, talks and other kinds of entertain­ attempts were being made to obtain a share in the thanks were due to our former Deputy Secretary, ment, but that quite a few residents needed help per cent of the Fund which was to be allocated Mr. E. A. Lomnitz, who had helped very much to in dealing with clerical work, especially for the to organisations for their welfare work. encourage the making of legacies which were of completion of forms required by German auth­ A further essential task of the AJR was the enormous assistance in building up the AJR orities. There was also a need for a visitor to production of AJR Information, now in its 36th Charitable Trust. members of the AJR Club, who were in hospital. UK. ^' '"yolved at present three main problems: Membership was still at approximately 4,100. Mrs. Margaret Jacoby appealed to Board members .^ame increasingly urgent to relieve the editor The Membership Drive which had taken place to attend the "Silver Wedding" Bring-and-Buy Sale rer*f ^°'* responsibility for the job and to find during 1980 had brought in a further 262 mem­ of the AJR Club on 22 February. She also re­ se H^"'' eventually a successor for him. The bers and another 39 new members had been en­ ported that the ccmgregation "Habonim" (New- cond set of problems concerned the contents of rolled apart from the Drive. The losses had been York) had sent a donation to the Club. bm ^?"™^'- which must not only relive the past 206, making a net increase of 95 new members. At the request of the Chairman, Dr. F. E. Falk, JJt clearly indicate the role we wish to—and can Subscriptions from 1979 had amounted to £41,000 Vice-Chairman of the AJR, reported that during ^^Play m the eighties and beyond. Lastly, for and for 1980 to approximately £47,000. This sub­ the past year he had made strong efforts to have tiif^'^"^ beyond our control, the journal was get- stantial increase was very much welcomed but still pensions, of which at present one-half was taxable, ^ '""«asingly expensive and took up almost a insufficient. Age would eventually make great totally exempted from tax. He had met with some TTi °^ °^^ operating costs. losses in our membership but the Membership degree of success at least in having the problem ^ he third point raised by the speaker was Committee under the leadership of the Hon. noted and a promise that it would be kept in A ^f^ for the Homes. There were three Old Treasurer, Mr. L. Spiro, would continue its work mind by the Treasury. Further endeavours were in Fl Osmond House and the Flatlets to improve this situation. Publicity was available •Eleanor Rathbone House, which were jointly as always through AJR Information and new Continued at column I page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION March 1981 LOOKING AHEAD Egon Larsen Continued from page 1 being made in connection with the preparation of LEST WE FORGET the new Budget with the added ground that The more questions about Germany's past are Munich's special characteristic was that many pensions were now very much reduced in value being answered, the more are still being asked. of its citizens had come from other parts of because of the strength of the English Pound. Recently there has been a spate of new publi­ Germany, Central and eastern Europe—all In answer to several questions about AJR cations which attempt to fill the gaps. The history attracted by its unique social and cultural cli­ Information Dr. W. Rosenstock stated that the and fate of the German Jews is being described mate. This was especially true of Munich's Jews; editorial work had become increasingly difficult, and documented in books dealing with the Jewish there were 11,000 of them in 1910, but only 3,000 especially with regard to staffing. Thanks were due communities in the various regions, LUnder and had been born in the town. A great number of to Mrs. Margot Pottlitzer who, until recently, had towns; Baden-Wiirttemberg and Hesse have been the new residents had come from small places lent her co-operation and who continued to assist, dealt with, and now it is Bavaria's turn. Already in Swabia and Franconia, and after the Russian albeit on a limited scale. As far as the contents in 1972, a Yad-Vashem volume on that country pogroms at the turn of the century many im­ were concerned, more stress would be laid on the was published in Hebrew in Jerusalem as part of migrated from their eastern shetels. Cahnmann work of the AJR. In connection with the pro­ the "Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities"; it lists the numerous Jewish organizations and posals to deal more with current questions and has now been translated and re-edited under the associations which were active in Munich, proof less with the past it had to be kept in mind that title Die jiidischen Gemeinden in Bayern 1918- enough that the town's old and new Jewish there is no strict borderline between the past and 1945: Geschichte und Zerstorung by Baruch Z. citizens saw no reason for trying to cover up the present. There was, e.g., a flood of new litera­ Ophir and Falk Wiesemann (Oldenbourg Verlag, their Jewish descent. ture dealing with the Nazi past, and readers Munich, 1979). On 500 pages some 200 Jewish expected of their paper that it dealt with these communities, with a former total of 50,000 Upheavals in Bavaria § publications. Copies of AJR Information were not people, have been treated with meticulous atten­ But the Weimar era started by bringing non- only sent to members but also to various Anglo- tion to detail: not just the facts and figures, but Bavarian Jews into the limelight: Kurt Eisner as Jewish organisations and personalities, a select much of the human story of persecution and the first revolutionary prime minister of the number of Members of Parliament and the press. destruction. country; Toller and MUhsam, Levine and The paper also went to subscribers and organis­ Landauer as the leaders of the short-lived Riitere- Bavaria, together with the Rhineland, housed ations abroad and to University libraries, where it publik, just what the antisemites needed for their Germany's oldest Jewish communities, largely was very often used by research workers as source propaganda: the Jews were attempting to con­ integrated with the Christian population by the material. quer the world. That was the cue for Hitler's turn of our century. Antisemitic propaganda and entry on the political stage. When Cahnmann Age Problem activity grew increasingly strong during the last enrolled at the Munich university in 1922, he At the end, the Chairman called on Mr. Spiro years of the Republic. In 1933, less than two- found a nucleus of National Socialists among the in his capacity as chairman of the Management thirds of the original Jewish population were left students. He took part in the work of the liberal Committee for the Homes. There were Mr. Spiro in Bavaria; the November 1938 pjogroms reduced academic and Jewish groups which tried to stem stated, financial problems. The administration was their numbers further by emigration, and when the tide; in 1930 he began his activities at the shared with the CBF/Worid Jewish Relief which war broke out only 10,000 Jews remained. Dis­ Central-Verein; but some of its leading members did it well and was highly competent. The AJR crimination was soon followed by depwrtation were still too German-nationalistic and assimila- provided more "motherly help" and was the giver between 1941 and 1943; however, a few thousand tory for his taste. of quality of life. The composition of the House able-bodied men were drafted into armament factories, usually after spells of imprisonment at Cahnmann was arrested in 1933, though not Committees was also an age problem, as many for long; he believes that his release was due to members had served on them for over 20 years Dachau and Flossenbiirg. The rest were shot in Riga and Trawniki or gassed in Belzec and Rudolf Hess' intervention at police headquarters. and were much in need of successors. He de­ In 1938 he was arrested again and sent to Dachau, scribed it as embarrassing that the community Sobibor. Only a few Jews retumed from There­ sienstadt. "not yet a death camp, but inhuman enough". A could not provide a sufficient number of volun­ visa for Paraguay, "probably forged by the teers for the Homes among its own members. Among the Jewish communities in Bavaria, FUrth had been the relatively largest before consul", got him out of the KZ. He emigrated to In concluding the meeting, the Chairman reiter­ World War I, with some 3,(XX) members; fewer England in June, 1939, and from there to the U.S. ated the need for the co-operation of members of than 800 were left in 1939, and a mere 23 in Cahnmann's analysis of the tragedy of the the comparatively younger generation. He thanked 1944. Most Jews who were able to emigrate had German Jews gives his essay much historical the Board members and guests for their interest chosen America as their destination—and value. He discerns three stages of the Nazi assault and for their contributions to the debate. Shanghai. on the Jews: first, their defamation to separate The official part of the meeting was followed by them from the rest of the population; then, legal Neighbouring Nuremberg had reached its an informal gathering at which refreshments were isolation; and, after the removal of all moral highest number of Jews in 1922, with well over served. resistance, their physical annihilation. 9,(XX). As was to be expected on Streicher's own The process of outlawing the Jews began with hunting-ground, persecution had been particu­ the boycott of 1 April 1933. In Munich, says STRONG OPPOSITION TO larly brutal already in 1933: in a single night, Cahnmann, it did not come up to Nazi expect­ NATIONALITY BILL stormtroopers raided and ransacked the homes of ations—during the preceding days, masses of 400 Jews, and 3(X)—mainly members of the B'nai The Government's Nationality Bill is being customers flooded into the Jewish shops, and B'rith Lodge—were arrested. They were as­ fiercely opposed by the Labour and Liberal Par­ there was no looting as the organizers had anti­ ties, leading Protestant and Catholic Church sembled at the outskirts, beaten and made to cipated: the people were not judenfeindlich leaders, immigrant organisations, and the Board weed the lawn with their hands and even with enough. Stronger impulses had to be created, and of Deputies, upon behalf of the Jewish com­ their teeth. Crowds of Nuremberg's citizens overwhelming propaganda made the November po­ munity. The main concern of its opponents is that watched the degrading spectacle. the new law, if adopted, will tend to discriminate groms a Nazi "success". Still, even in 1939 there against commonwealth immigrants. But the Board The November pogrom was systematically were many Christian citizens who supplied their was placing its emphasis also upon those pro­ prepared in Nuremberg: iron rods and crowbars Jewish neighbours, banned from the food shops, visions which would discriminate unfairly against had been issued to the SA for their "spontaneous" with provisions, often without payment. And we naturalised British citizens who would no longer action. That night, 16 Jews were murdered, 10 know that later, when the whole power of the be able to transfer British citizenship to their took their own lives. 1,000 of the 2,500 Nurem­ children who are born abroad. This clause has Nazi state was mobilized for the third stage, the berg Jews who emigrated until the end of 1939 "final solution", numerous Christians were hiding meanwhile been removed from the Bill. The went to the USA, nearly 600 to Britain. Board also pointed out that the Bill in its present Jews in their own homes and at the risk of their form abandons the traditional British concern for In 1958, Hans Lamm published his excellent own lives. minorities, for which hitherto the Jewish com­ work. Von Juden in Miinchen. Now we have a Cahnmann ends his essay with the grim argu­ munity has had profound cause to be grateful. new, concise publication of 60 pages, full of ment: "The total number of victims of the 'final little-known details, by the former Syndikus of MEMORIAL TO J. MENDELSON, MP solution' is incomplete if one disregards the the Bavarian branch of the Central-Verein, suicides. Their great number shows that this last A John Jacob Mendelson library and reading Werner J. Cahnmann.* His family had been resid­ room was opened at the Northem College, Went- resort, the choice between life and death, cannot ing in the town since 1860, closely connected be denied to human decision." worth Castle in Yorkshire. It contains the 8,000 with its cultural life. Cahnmann's booklet. Die volume library of the late MP who was originally a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had also been Juden in Miinchen 1918-1943, is a reprint from the Zeitschrifl fiir Bayerische Landesgeschichte a lecturer in political science at Sheffield univer­ *As readers will have seen from our Novemljer 1980 issue. sity. (1979). Werner Cahnmann unfortunately died last autumn.

« 81 AJR INFORMATION March 1981 Page 3 HOME NEWS AJR ROUND-UP MRS. THATCHER ON THE PLO SHELTER AID DOUBLED The Zionist Federation has received a strong The work of the Jews' Temporary Shelter has THANK-YOU BRITAIN FUND LECTURE pledge from the Prime Minister concerning the more than doubled during 1980 compared with Readers are reminded that, as announced in our Government's attitude to the Palestine Liberation the previous year. The increase has been mainly previous issue (p. 3), the next Thank-You Britain Organisation. In a letter to the ZF Chaimian she due to an influx of Middle Eastern Jews en route Fund lecture will be held in memory of Robert stated: "The PLO must renounce terrorist activi- to other destinations: 6,188 nights lodgings were Auty, to whom many Nazi persecutecs owe their :li- ties and the use of force, and our (EEC) initiative provided for 250 people, compared with 3,000 lives, on Thursday, 12 March, at 5 p.m., at the IS intended to seek that end. I believe that we nights for a similar period in 1979. The period of British Academy, Piccadilly. The speaker will be must continue our efforts to achieve a settlement stay has also lengthened considerably with resi­ Professor G. H. N. Seton-Watson, FBA, on which provides security for Israel and peace in dents spending between one and nine months "Language and National Consciousness". No ad­ the Middle East. . . . The Venice Declaration after being referred to the Shelter by the Jewish mission cards will be required but it will be recorded our belief that the PLO will, at some Welfare Board, CBF-Worid Jewish Relief or the helpful if acceptances (with the indication of how stage, have to be associated with peace negoti­ Home Office. many will attend) could be notified to the Sec­ ations. Let me make quite clear that, for this to retary. The British Academy, Burlington House, happen, the PLO like all the parties concerned, CENTENARY OF RABBI DR. ITALIENER Piccadilly, London WIV ONS. will have to accept fully the principles of a To mark the centenary of the birth of Rabbi negotiated settlement. These, of course, include Dr. Bruno Italiener, the State Library of Darm­ RETIREMENT OF A COLLEAGUE Israel's right to live in peace and security." stadt exhibited one of its most precious posses­ Rose Seidman retired from AJR at the end of Despite this assurance considerable disquiet is still sions, the 15th century so-called Darmstadt January. She came to AJR in 1%2 and joined the felt at the revelation that Sir John Graham, the Passover Haggadah which, by a miracle, has sur­ department which deals with the admission of ^eputy Permanent Secretary of the Foreign vived the destruction of Jewish cultural works elderly refugees to Homes. She was widely res­ Office, had met with Yasser Arafat in Beirut, one under the Nazis. pected by colleagues and old people alike arrang­ of a number of such meetings between Foreign Dr. Italiener, who was bom on 6 February in ing for their admission to Homes when they Office persormel and the terrorist organisation. Burgdorf and lived in London 25 years ago, wished it and helping them to stay in their own studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in homes for as long as possible when they did not. PUBLIC ORDER ACT MAY BE EXTENDED Breslau and the universities of Breslau and Erlan­ Her service to the community in general and The Government is giving consideration to gen. From 1907 to 1927 he was Rabbi of the Homes in particular was always much appreci­ amending the Public Order Act, 1936, to bring in Darmstadt. During the First World War he served ated and will be long remembered. She carries all a power to ban marches on the ground that they as a German Army chaplain. In 1928, he became our good wishes for a lon| and happy retirement are likely to stir up racial hatred. Although a Chief Rabbi of the Tempel Congregation in with her husband and family. clause was inserted into the Public Order Act at Hamburg, where he stayed until he was forced to the time of the publication of the Race Relations emigrate under the Nazis and settled in London. ROYAL GREETING FOR lOOTH BIRTHDAY Act, 1976—and effective from 1977—that made it Here he acted as rabbi first of the Bernhard Baron The Queen sent a telegram of congratulation to an offence to publish or use in a public place Settlement and, from 1941 until his retirement, Dr. Siegfried Kiewe, who came to Britain as a words that could incite racial hatred, the pro­ of the West London Synagogue. refugee from Nazi Germany and is a member of vision has largely been ineffective. Both the He was above all a Jewish scholar and writer the AJR. to mark his 100th birthday which he Haldane Society and the Society of Socialist of inunense learning and erudition. Probably his celebrated at the Morris Feinman Trust Hoine, Lawyers have called for powers to ban marches greatest work in the field of Jewish scholarship Manchester. Dr. Kiewe practised as a psychiatrist H? A ?''°^t"^s of incitement to racial hatred, but was the facsimile edition of the "Darmstadt at a York hospital for many years. tne addition of such provisions would probably Pessach Haggadah" in 1927. ^opposed by the National Council of Civil But he was also in ihe forefront of the fight FRED UHLMAN, 80 Liberties and similar bodies. against antisemitism, as is evidenced by the pub­ Fred Uhlman, the painter and writer who has RACIAL HATRED MEN GAOLED lication in 1920 of a powerful programme for lived in Hampstead for many years celebrated his A member of the extreme right-wing British combating antisemitism under the title "Waffen 80th birthday. He was a lawyer in his native Movement, Roderick Lewis Roberts, 27, was im Abwehrkampf". In 1925, he took part in Stuttgart until the Nazis came to power. After entenced to seven years' imprisonment for con­ London in the foundation of the "World Union his emigration to this country he took up painting spiring to stir up racial hatred, illegal possession for Progressive Judaism", thus becoming one of and supported by his British-born wife Diana, ha ^"r^^ ^^^ ammunition and arson at Birming- its founder members. helped many Jewish and other persecuted artists "*^ Crown Court. Roberts was quartermaster for There are many who have cause to remember to escape. The Kulturbund, in later years a pol­ a ZO member branch of the Movement in the his work, his accomplishments and, above all, his itical organisation, was started at their Downshire west Midlands. A sten gun, an anti-riot gun, warm-hearted kindliness and goodness. O.E.F. Hill home for the benefit of such artists. His own arm "^ and pistols were found in his secret landscape paintings and his sketches revealed a rms cache. Six other members of the movement AWARD FOR TOM KEMPESSKI highly gifted and sensitive artist and were widely also received sentences. Tom Kempinski, the Berlin-born playwright acclaimed. Recently, some sketches from the in­ and actor, received, together with Michael Frayn ternment camp which he himself thinks are AUSCHWITZ EXfflBmON PLANNED and Ronald Harwood, the "Best New Play" award among his best work, were included in Ronald bv tK ^r'**' George Him, has been commissioned of the London critics for 1980 for his play "Duet Stent's book about internment "A Bespattered dL Auschwitz in England Initiative Group to for One". Another work of his, much acclaimed Page". His novelette "Reunion"—unhappily out ti^i'-^" ^° exhibition about the notorious concen- during its original run at Oxford, "The Work­ of print in this country—was hailed as a minor ration camp for display in Leicester. The Group shop", was equally successful at the Hampstead masterpiece by, among others, Arthur Koestler 's composed of three English Roman Catholics Theatre. It is a translation by him of a French and recently named as the only book writer 1"°.? ••Iinister of the United Reform Church. A play by Jean-Claude Grumberg dealing with a Jeffrey Archer would want to take with him to a ber Physician in the city, Dr. David Rosen- woman's vain efforts to obtain restitution for the desert island. rpt, ' J ° '^ assisting in the project, recently death of her deported husband and at th& same weev" • *" Auschwitz, where he lived for a time showing survivors facing incomprehension HERBERT WEICHMANN, 85 Th^ '".the former camp commandant's office, and hatred in present-day France. Professor Dr. Herbert Weichmann who lives in s^r jf''"ly'tion will include photographs taken retirement in Hamburg celebrated his 85th birth­ Kal- J ^ prisoners, paintings, sculptures and HITLER BACK AT NUMBER ONE day on 23 February. Between 1965 and 1971 he J;azi documents. George Him designed the In the Madame Tussaud 1980 customers' was First Mayor of Hamburg. Since then he has national Warsaw Ghetto Exhibition held in Lon- opinion poll, Adolf Hitler replaced AyotoUah been regarded as a kind of "elder statesman" in 'ton in l%i. Khomenei as number one in the "Hate and Fear" West Germany and beyond. He celebrated his ^ APOLOGY TO ACTRESS category. birthday by publishing a new book "Committed Chi ""f C^'^or Cruise O'Brien, former Editor in to Society and to the State" which contains a Vk^i l^ ^^^ paper, The Observer, have accepted number of imjxjrtant essays and public speeches te^A !i actress Siobhan McKenna had not in- from the recent past. Its subtitle is "Simple and Amp • ^"^ offence to the Jewish People in an Your House for— difficult truths" and in it Weichmann continues semv"^^^'"^^"'*^^ ^^^ t**^' ^^^ ^^^ "Ot anti- FLOOR COVERINGS his endeavours to teach a new generation the brn, k' J°® matter arose out of a libel action CURTAINS, CARPETS, values underlying political thought and action. It •'0„ 1 • "y ^'^ McKenna over an article headed also reveals the author's undiminished involve­ Diikr u'j8 a Jewish wild goose," by Dr. O'Brien, SPECIALITY ment in the spiritual life of the period. E.G.L. di.ril ?* ,°° 3 June, 1979. The action was ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL einr ^°^ on agreed terms and The Observer TRIBUTE TO REV. HARDMAN expressed its regret. DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, Communal and Civic leaders turned out in force to join congregants of the Hendon Syna­ REFUGEE SCULPTURE FOR CATHEDRAL DUVET COVERS & SHEETS gogue in paying tribute to the Rev. Leslie Hard- ha.s ^" P*"r® entitled "Refugee" by Naomi Blake ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS man on his retirement as Minister to the unv^nf™ P'^'^^ outside Bristol Cathedral. The ESTIMATES FREE Congregation after 33 years. His experiences as an Mavnr«^ was attended by the Lord and Lady army chaplain during the war, particularly of the &/^ of the City and leading members of the DAWSON-LANE LIMITED relief of Belsen, led to his strong sense of com­ of all Community. It is dedicated to the victims (•(tabllthed 1946) mitment and convictions, expressed both in and ail racial persecution. 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK out of the pulpit. Telephone: 904 6671 Page 4 AJR INFORMATION March 1981

HOLLAND Menten's Fuial Appeal Fails NEWS FROM ABROAD The Supreme Court of the Netherlands has UNITED STATES Mixed Attitude to Jeviish Hostages rejected the final appeal of Pieter Menten, the Citizenship Revocation Conflnned Mr. Barry Rosen, the former Press Attache at Dutch millionaire and art collector, against his The United States' Supreme Court confirmed by the US Embassy in Iran, who was one of the 52 10-year sentence and 100,000 guilders fine (£22,000) a 7-to-2 vote that Feodor Federenko who is hostages released on the presidential inauguration for complicity in the mass execution of Jews by accused of shooting, whipping and beating Jewish day, in recalling his experiences during the 14 the Nazi SS in Poland in 1941. The Court held prisoners to death at Treblinka, should have his months of captivity has described his captors as that despite his age (81), and sickness the sentence citizenship revoked because he failed to tell im­ "very strange." He told his old friend, John was justified because of the gravity of the crime. migration officials of his wartime background on Vinocur, a New York Times' correspondent, how War Crime Admitted entering the country 32 years ago. The justices they allowed him to have a package of Passover An Amsterdam-born man, Jan Bulder, 66, who stated that his long history as a law-abiding US food sent to him from his home, but when, at the lives in the Hague, has admitted involvement in resident had no bearing on the legality of his case. same time, he told them his wife lived in Brook­ the deportation of Dutch Jews to the Nazi death camps. He had fled to South Africa in 1945, but Further Deportation Move lyn they said she should be in Tel Aviv and called him "a dirty Zionist." He had expected to receive returned to Holland in 1969 because he believed The US Justice Department has taken the first that prosecutions for war crimes had elapsed. steps towards the deportation of Mr. Talivaldis hard treatment because he was Jewish, but had foimd no consistent antisemitic attitude. Another Anne Frank Diary: Complete Version Karklins, 66 of Los Angeles. It has applied to a It has been announced in Arnsterdam that the Federal Court for his citizenship to be revoked on Jewish prisoner, Jerry Plotkin, had a religious medal ripiJed from his neck, Mr. Rosen reported. complete text of the Anne Frank Diary will be the grounds that he concealed his wartime activi­ publishal next year, including the "personal" ties when applying for American citizenship in US Otizenship Proposed for Wallenberg passages that her late father. Otto Frank, decided 1962. In the deposition the government claimed A first-time member of the US House of Rep­ to leave out because of their intimate character. that at the time of the Nazi occupation of Latvia resentatives, Mr. Tom Lantos, 52, a Democrat in 1941, Karklins was "a member first of a from Hillsborough, Califomia, is gathering bi­ FRANCE vigilante group and then the police force and partisan support for a resolution recommending Downgrading of Holocaust Controversy while a memtner assisted in the persecution and United States' citizenship be granted to Raoul Professor Noam Chomsky, the radical linguist, murder of unarmed Jewish civilians." While he Wallenberg, the missing Swedish diplomat. He anti-Zionist and militant supporter of the PLO, was commandant of the Madona concentration believes that if Wallenberg is given that status the has become involved in the controversy surround­ camp, inmates were starved, beaten, tortured, Soviet Union could be effectively pressed to give ing the activities of Robert Faurisson, a French murdered and otherwise brutalised by him, the fuller information about him. The action is Rep. exponent of the movement to downgrade the truth complaint states. If deported Karklins could face Lantos's way of repaying Wallenberg for his own of the Nazi Holocaust. Without even reading it war crimes charges. freedom, which he owes to the activities of Chomsky has provided a foreword for Faurisson's US Nazis Exporting Race Hate to Europe Wallenberg in Budapest. At the time Lantos acted latest book on the topic, justifying doing so as A rally of 2,500 people in Los Angeles was told as a courier for the Hungarian underground, was defending the right of freedom of expression. by Simon Wiesenthal that neo-Nazis in the USA twice captured and escaped from the Nazis and Faurisson is a former lecturer in classical and were printing racial and political propaganda in survived the war in one of Wallenberg's Swedish modern literature at the University of Lyons, but five or six languages and exporting it to Europe "safe houses." His wife, Annette Tillemen Lantos, otherwise holds no particular prominence in where it was distributed via a mailing list of also escaped from Hungary through Wallenberg's French intellectual or academic life. The Uni­ 50,000 names. European neo-Nazis "could not indirect help. versity suspended him from his post following a exist without printed propaganda from the United lawsuit brought against him for defamation by States," Wiesenthal told his audience. Referring to CANADA former resistance fighters and victims of Nazi a number of anti-semitic events that had occurred Where Jews are included Out persecution. The book for which Chomsky has at the Centre of Los Angeles which bears his An original survey by two professors from provided the foreword is a collection of scattered name, he said he thought that after the recent Windsor University, Ontario, has demonstrated articles and press clippings that roughly constitute anti-Jewish outrages in Europe, American Nazis that being either Jewish or female is a handicap his defence in the court case against him. French felt compelled to "give others a sign they are to achieving success as a Canadian lawryer. writers have joined in the polemic, arguing that alive." Earlier the newly-elected US President, Although the percentage of Jewish graduates was Chomsky's preface, whether he intended it or not, Ronald Reagan, descril^ed these incidents as "an high when compared to the overall population inevitably built up publicity for Faurisson's un­ outrage to Americans". They included an attack not one Jew had joined one of the "elite" law acceptable viewpoint. on a rabbi, the breaking of a stained glass window firms. Commenting on the results Miss Harriet SWITZERLAND by an airgun, youths in Nazi regalia making anti- Sachs, a Jewish lawyer said: "I think particularly Red Cross Archives Opened Jewish remarks to women on duty at the Centre to become a partner in those elite law firms, you The International Red Cross is to allow un­ and the daubing of the building with the slogan: have to have access to the corporate elite of restricted access to its archives so that Professor "Kill Jews." Canadian society, and if you are a woman or a Jean-Claude Fave of Geneva University can con­ Jew you normally don't have it." Sharp Increase in Anti-Semitic Attacks duct research into the organisation's humanitarian Anti-semitic incidents in the United States rose BEIXJIUM activities at extermination camps during the Nazi sharply in 1980 compared with the previous year Sentence for Auschwitz Libeller period. the Anti-Defamation League of the Bnai Brith The publisher of the book "Open Letter to the reports. They record 377 attacks or attempted Pope concerning Auschwitz" by wartime Nazi attacks on property in 1980, with 129 being the collaborator Leon Degrelle has been sentenced in 1979 figure. Individual assaults had numbered 112 absentia by an Antwerp court to 15 months' im­ and these were listed individually as no compar­ prisonment. He is Jean-Robert Bebbaut who fled able record had been kept in 1979. Nearly all the Belgium to live in the South of France. The incidents appeared to be the work "of hostile author, Degrelle, lives in exile in Spain and his individuals acting without organisational direc­ book perpetuates neo-Nazi assertions that the gas tion," the report stated. It also showed that 20 chambers al Auschwitz and other Nazi death people had been arrested in II of the actions camps did not exist. against property. Two people arrested on sus­ picion of arson at a Los Angeles synagogue which DENMARK caused £43,500 of damage, were described by the Swastika Attack on El Al Office police as members of the National Socialist The manager of El Al in Copenhagen was American Workers Party. Arson was reported at seriously injured by attackers who invaded his nine other Jewish institutions, plus two attempted office in the Danish capital. Before leaving they arsons; four fire-bombings, two attempted fire- daubed huge swastikas on the walls, stole 1,000 bombings ; and the desecration of five cemeteries. kroners and damaged most of the fumiture. Important Changes in Foreign Relations Committee The defeat of Mr. Jacob Javits and Mr. Richard With acknowledgement to the news service Fights Rust Stone in their bids for re-election to the United of the Jewish Chronicle. Newly developed. Zinc compounds States Senate on whose Foreign Relations Com­ mittee they served has to some extent been are some of the finest rust inhibitors.The balanced by the appointment to it of the newly- synthetic resin base forms a tough skin, elected Senator Rudy Boschwitz (Republican, DO YOU WANT TO EAT WELL? which seals the surface from moisture. Minnesota), a Berlin-bom Jew whose parents fled Luncheon, Dinner, Parties, Teas, etc. From all good hardware and accessory stores. from Nazi Germany to America when he was Free literature from David's ISOPON, FREEPOST three years old. Another Jewish member of the Moderate Prices Northway House, London N20 9BR. Committee will be Senator Edward Zorinsky of Nebraska, but it is Senator Boschwitz who is Quick Service expected to emerge as the leading pro-Israel Ring: 01-794 4247 spokesman among the six Jews elected to serve in Between 9-10 a.m. or 6-9 p.m. aSH'JJ'm the 97th Senate. AJR INFORMATION March 1981 Pages

Julius Carlebach people he so desperately wanted to help and to elevate. If Isaac Deutscher was a "non-Jewish Jew", HONOURED OR HONORARY Moses Mendelssohn was the non-Jew's Jew. With the benefit of hindsight, with the bitter-sweet THAT IS THE QUESTION memory of the past 250 years, we can imderstand Moses Mendelssohn was born on 6 September how the errors of Mendelssohn came to be seen views, the first German to postulate the possibility as virtues, how his most fundamental failure came 1729. The two volumes to be considered here* are of Jewish existence in a European civil order. It just a part of the extensive literature and the to be regarded as the essence of an ideal solution. is, however, equally tme, as Lowenthal shows, that Mendelssohn's ability to harmonise the seemingly manifold events which were inspired by and 200 years later such figures as Franz Rosenzweig organised to commemorate the 250th Anniversary incompatible was hailed as an appropriate intel­ and Leo Baeck expressed grave reservations about lectual framework for a Jewish emancipation of his birth. One volume consists of a number of Mendelssohn's mission, whilst to this day, many papers and essays which deal with varying aspects which would give freedom to the Jews by assimi­ devoutly religious Jewish circles adhere to and lating them into the body-politic so completely of the philosopher's life and work, and the influ­ transmit the traditional injunction "Al tishlach ence he has exercised over successive generations. that their physical presence would be dissolved Yad be'Kitvei R'Mad'" (Do not touch the writ­ into an intellectualised nostalgia. They would be Of particular interest is the fact that one of the ings of Rabbi Moses of Dessau). editors of this book, Cecile Lowenthal-Hcnsel, is accepted by being incorporated, tolerated by being This pervasive, though mostly implicit ambiv­ absorbed. From David Friedlander to Walther a direct descendant of the great philosopher. The alence towards the revered memory of a great second volume is an especially handsome edition Rathenau this was the goal they sought to achieve pt some 202 letters written by and to Mendelssohn Jewish humanitarian reflects the painful recog­ and from Leopold Zunz to Franz Rosenzweig it 1" *"^ final phase of his life, between January nition that Mendelssohn sadly misjudged some of was a threat they fought to resist. If Mendelssohn 1/81 and December 1785. Mendelssohn died on the most critical issues which faced him and with remains a giant, whose anniversaries will continue 4 January 1786. him, his fellow Jews. His complete lack of a sense to inspire future generations to pay homage to a of history, his rejection of Jewish national aspir­ great man, then it will be precisely because he There are many insights to be gained from a ations, his failure to comprehend the depth of made manifest the conflict which lies at the heart perusal of these volumes. Interesting new material Gentile antipathy towards Jews and Judaism, of the quest for Jewish survival. Mendelssohn was can be gleaned from both, some of it speculative, distorted his perceptions. At the same time, his an individualist, a Jew and a philosopher who some thought-provoking, all of it, however, reflect­ somewhat oversimplified manipulation of the ten­ demanded and expected, as he reiterates in the last ing the devotion and admiration which the per­ sion in the Jewish intellectual tradition, between letter he ever wrote, that both Judaism and sonality of Moses Mendelssohn inspired, as much theory and practice (nicely illustrated in the col­ philosophy had to conform to and comply with n the presem editors and contributors as he lection of Letters in a letter to Wolf Dessau), led the standards and values he had defined as basic oia in those who knew him personally. Without him into a position in which his own hopes, to human dignity and reason. Neither Judaism n any way wishing to devalue the many contri- expectations and sweetness of character, blinded nor philosophy, not even the social world in Du ions here, I would like to concemrate particu- him to the bitter realities of the world in which which he lived, were willing to bend, to adjust to driy on the carefuUy researched and vividly pre­ he lived. In fairness it should be stressed that such whimsical gentility—they honoured him for sented paper by Ernst G. Lowenthal, the stalwart Mendelssohn, at the very height of his fame and what he strove to be, but granted only honorary historianr., n °^' post-war Germany, on the cele- reputation, repudiated any suggestion that he had bnttic citizenship to that genial soul that would not °Wions of Mendelssohn's 200th birthday—a mere or wanted any power over people and events, march in step to any music which was not of his sta/^P ^^°' ^"* ™^^^ ^'^a' different circum- other than those of his immediate circle of rela­ own making. t^ T ^"^°"8h Mendelssohn was by no means tives and friends. Tragically, even these misin­ " ,"' prominent Jew in Europe, he certainly terpreted his ideas and intentions. Most of his (Dr. Carlebach is Reader in Sociology at the Uni­ evr;»!5^ example, par excellence, of the Jew who relatives did not retain their Judaism, while the versity of Sussex and a member of the London wTs t greatest admiration, both because he descendants of most of his friends did not retain Board of the Leo Baeck Institute.) * Mendelssohn Studien—Band 4—Zum 250 Geburtstag von it AT "^ ^""^ '" ^^^y instances also in spite of their Jews. A man so loved and yet so wrong, so Moses Mendelssohn—Hrsg. Cccile Lowenthal-Hcnsel und brilliant and yet so obtuse, so clever and yet so Rudolf Elvers. Berlin—Duncker + Humblot—1979. 312 pp. soh ''^?'*^'" '^'mann, the biographer of Mendels- DM 59. des^K^ editor of the new volumes of letters, undiscerning, so gentle and yet so increasingly * Moses Mendelssohn—Briefwechsei der lerzlen Jahre Son- scribed Mendelssohn in his Introduction as the detached from the real needs and feelings of the derausgabe zum 250. Geburtstag. cingeleitet von Alex­ great mass ("den grossen Haufen"!) of Jews, the ander Altmann Frommann-Holzboog Verlag. Stuttgart treat tiarmoniser. the synthesizesvnthpsi^pr nf opposing 1979 342 pp. DM 48.

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If Adler had really made the 19th century, terminating with the outbreak of there are simply no grounds for suspecting the thorough investigations into Mozart's death at the philanthropic intentions of those who came to the hands of his rival Salieri, as stated by the Russian the First World War; and the second, prior to the musical historian, I. Belsa, then 1 feel sure that a Second World War, comprising Jews predomi- help of fellow-Jews less fortunate than themselves. rumour of such investigations would have seeped mantly from Germany and Austria. The first wave If Mr. White's thesis were to be accepted, we through to the Vienna Musikwissenschaftliches settled in the East End of London and established ought perhaps to examine the records of the Seminar. Yet during my years under Adler we the large and amorphous "ghetto" which has German Refugee Committee for signs of duplicity students never heard one word about them. Adler largely disappeared, but which many recall, some on the part of the willing donors to its funds! is supposed to have carried out his investigations even with a degree of nostalgia. However, in fairness and ignoring some of its in the Vienna Archives. Which archives? And is it wilder interpretations, this book does provide a likely that Salieri's father-confessor would have Rothschild Buildings, now demolished, were broken his sacred oath and divulged what Salieri one of a group of tenement dwellings erected in very informative and readable picture of Jewish told him in his confession? Moreover, did the Writ 1887 under the inspiration of and with consider­ life in the East End. It was, of course, not a true of the Vatican extend to the Vienna University in able support from Baron N. M. Rothschild (later working-class commxmity, since the general aim the 1920s when Austria was a republic? the First Lord Rothschild). Jerry White, a self- of almost every person was to become an em­ The only fact that might be supposed to link made historian, who just published a book about ployer rather than an employee. This is, indeed, Mozart's death with Salieri, is an entry in them, has used extensive recorded material as well reflected in many life-histories quoted. The pass­ Beethoven's conversation books to the effect that as personal accounts of former inhabitants of the age from operative to sweat-shop operator was Salieri attempted, in 1823, suicide by cutting his building to construct a picture of life in the East narrow and required the minimum of capital. throat and only wounding himself. According lo Often this was the first step. Tremendously hard Mary Novello who met Mozart's widow in 1829— End at about the turn of the century.' thirty-eight (!) years after her husband's death— It is a pity that the author's political prejudices, work and luck could and did produce dramatic Constanze told her that on his death-bed he said which should not find expression in a work of changes in personal circumstances—and these to her, "1 know I must die. Somebody has given this nature, sometimes appear to blur the picture were not isolated cases. This struggle for a better me acqua toffana" (a poison containing arsenic). or even to give it a totally wrong interpretation. life led to a change in the whole structure of If true, this must have been said in a state of For instance, after reporting that Rothschild took East End Jewish life (quite apart from the Blitz delirious fantasising. Mozart's mysterious death is the first step in setting the building scheme in which dealt the final blow). But that is another of course a fertile subject for dramatic treatment, story. e.g. Pushkin's "Mozart and Salieri" and Peter motion, in the next sentence the author baldly Shaffer's recent "Amadeus". We do not know and states that Rothschild was given a peerage in the The East End which the author describes is not will probably never know what was the "real" following month. The intended inference is clear, the community that the later immigrants from cause of Mozart's death. "Hitziges Frieselfieber" but unacceptable unless supported by incontro­ Germany found on their arrival in England, but which is a harmless dermatological illness, was vertible evidence. The facts are that the existing it was still close-knit, badly housed, over-crowded, given as the cause in Vienna's Register of Deaths. Rothschild prestige and the services that they had yet vibrant with life and activity. The new im­ The theory which seems the most acceptable in rendered to the government were of such import­ migrants came from a different social background, explaining Mozart's death is along the line that he ance as to warrant the over-due honour, without suffered from kidney trouble already in his youth, with different attitudes, skills and experiences, and which became gradually more acute as the years any reliance on this minor philanthropic act they sought a different and more familiar en­ passed, and finally led in December 1791 to fatal within the wide range of Rothschild benevolent vironment. WTien they arrived, the cleavage be­ uraemia. deeds. tween East and West was already breaking down. 14 Elsworthy Road, Later on, the author suggests that the provision Today, half a century later, the Anglo-Jewish London NW3 3DJ. 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"JEWS IN PRUSSIA" EXHIBrnON The New York Leo Baeck Institute and the NEWS FROM GERMANY Picture Archive of Prussian Culture are jointly preparing a travelling exhibition "Jews in Prussia" AUSCHWITZ GUARDS FREED EX-REFUGEE PRESIDENT OF which will be shown in Berlin in the autumn and An Aschaffenburg court acquitted two former GERMAN FIRM later in Frankfurt, Hamburg and New York. It SS guards at Jaworzno, a subsidiary Auschwitz The newly appointed president of the Federal will demonstrate the development of the Jewish 9^nip, of the murder of 21 inmates because of German motor car firm, Porsche, 50-year-old community in Prussia since the Brandenburg insufficient proof. The judge said that no one Peter Schutz, is the son of German Jews who period in pictures and quoted texts, but without could know how much had been stored in the left Germany under the Nazis. He grew up in a commentary. A 15-minute film will cover the memories of prisoners in camp conditions and Chicago and, until two years ago, did not know period between 1933 and 1945. Professor Fritz how much had been magnified in nightmares enough German to read a newspaper. He was Stem, New York, has been asked to open the afterwards. Furthermore, witnesses brought from employed by the Caterpillar Tractor Company. exhibition. There will be a two-volume catalogue. overseas could well have felt that they had to give "The fact that he has been named to head one of The second volume is the work of our friend Dr the evidence "expected of them". The court the most prestigious firms in West Germany granted compensation to Hans Olejak, 62, and E. G. Lowenthal and will contain short bio­ (writes the Canadian Jewish News) is of import­ graphies of between 2,000 and 2,500 Jewish twald Pansegrau, 59, for the time spent in prison ance because it illustrates, to an extent at least, ouring the investigation. citizens who made contributions to public life that the trauma inflicted by the Nazis is beginning and culture in Prussia. HITLEjR PROPAGANDA FROM ABROAD to wear off." P According to an announcement made in the "ENCOUNTERS WITH JUDAISM" *^?^sral Parliament, the German customs seized HISTORY OF A PRE-WAR COMMUNITY Under the heading "Begegnungen mit dem ^00 packages with neo-Nazi propaganda material Dr. Karl E. Demandt, chief keeper of public Judentum" the "Suedwestfunk Baden-Baden" has irom Canada, the US, Britain and France during records in Hesse, who specialises in the history of embarked on a comprehensive series of 200 a period of 18 months. Apart from books and Hesse, has published a "History of the population broadcasts from December 1980 to June 1981. It periodicals, they included badges, medals, films, and the social life of the Jewish community of covers subjects of religion, culture, literature, records and tapes as well as a consignment of five Niedenstein 1633-1866—a contribution to the his­ history and music, to quote only a few examples. Hitler busts from Canada. The distribution of tory of Jewish life in the Electorate of Hesse", The Jewish and non-Jewish speakers and artists such material is banned in the Federal Republic. published as volume V of the pamphlets of the are highly qualified experts in their particular fields GERMAN ACTION AGAINST MENTEN Commission for the History of Jews in Hesse— and the entire so-called "Schwerpunktprogramm" The Federal Republic has started proceedings (Wiesbaden 1980). Niedenstein near Fritzlar once exceeds the single or serialised broadcasts by J5^ Berlin court to demand repayment of some had one of the largest percentages of Jews in its which special facts and problems are usually ft 10,000 from the Dutch art dealer, Menten, now population: between 1861 and 1880 they consti­ transmitted to the listeners. Interested readers may impnsoned for his war crimes. In 1964 he tuted 21 per cent. It was only surpassed by two obtain the well made up illustrated brochure, successfully claimed restitution for his possessions other townlets in Hesse, Grebenstein with 25 per which carries the full details, from: Suedwestfunk, 'n Poland. rent and Rhina with up to 60 per cent and by PO Box 820, Hoerer-und Zuschauerpost, Baden- Gailingen (60 per cent) in Southern Germany. So Baden, F.R.G. ^_)fEARS mCH COURT OF RESTITUTION far, not much was known about Niedenstein, but an 1 "^"^"rd High Court of Restitution, the the rediscovery of the town archives for the 17th, PEN CLUB IN EXILE EXHIBITION ,PPf^' court for controversial cases, celebrated its 18th and 19th centuries enabled Dr. Demandt who The German Library in Frankfurt which con­ Ut ^'V"'^^^'^'- °''- H J- Vogel, the former Min- knew Jewish citizens of Niedenstein in his youth, cerns itself in particular with literature written by ttC^rt u •'"s'ice, said that during that time the to accomplish his research. A 58-page index con­ emigrants, is showing an exhibition "THE GER­ anH k J '^^'^ ^'^ ^-'^ decisions on principle tains details of individuals and families, their MAN PEN CLUB IN EXILE 1933-1948" which iu

borough since 1968 and found expression both in poetry and painting. She has come to love and NEW LITERATURE understand the English countryside, but the past is still with her. She remembers being a small GDR HISTORY OF WEISSENSEE cemetery, including those of Ludwig Geiger, child by the side of her father—this must have CEMETERY Joseph Mendelssohn, Leopold Ullstein, Gerson been in 1929, the only year in this century when On the occasion of the centenary of the Berlin von Bleichroder and many others. Finally the the Rhine froze: Weissensee cemetery, the Jewish community of booklet refers to three smaller cemeteries: the East Berlin in collaboration with the Institute for "Adass Jisroel congregation" cemetery in Weis­ sensee, opened in 1878, and the medieval and the "Our feet step in careful tread on the ice the Preservation of Ancient Monuments in the The Rhine German Democratic Republic has published an 1859 cemeteries of Spandau. Old Berliners and many others will find much valuable information Now a new white street without end. excellent 64-page booklet, with some 50 photo­ The reliable river vanished or dead . . ." graphs of tombstones, which is to be the first of a in this publication which is a step in the right number of publications on historical cemeteries direction in recording Jewish life in pre-war In another poem "Final Solution" she asks: in the GDR. Its editor is Dr. Peter Kirchner, Berlin. E. G. LOWENTHAL. (Requests for copies of the publication may be "And they, who were cutting the grasses chairman of the East Berlin community, and an And stifling the weed in the lane. epilogue has as its author Klaus Gysi, Secretary sent to the Juedische Gemeinde von Gross-Berlin of State for Church Affairs in the GDR. Many (Oranienburgerstr. 28, 104 Berlin, DDR), which Did they care for the shape of a flower. Jewish citizens buried in the cemetery are men­ will pass them on to one of the distributing firms. Did they know of the herb for the pain? tioned, and quite a few of the names belong to It is understood that the price will be about And they who had ordered the killing men who once played leading roles in Jewish life DM 6.50 but money should not be sent before On well-polished telephones— and in Berlin public life. They include the names receipt of the invoice.) Was it easy when men are so willing of the Jewish resistance fighter Herbert Baum, To diminish each other like stones?" This small treasure of poetic insight deserves murdered by the Nazis in 1942, of Micha Bin- TWO CULTURES IN POEMS Gorion, the collector and editor of Jewish fairy to be read both by those who are haunted by the tales and sagas, of Professor Salomon Kalischer of Many of Lotte Kramer's poems have been past like the writer and by their children who the Charlottenburg Technical College, of the pub­ published in anthologies and periodicals in this never knew it. M.P- lisher Rudolf Mosse, of the artist Lesser Ury and country and in the United States. Sonse of them of Theodor Wolff, for many years editor-in-chief she has now collected in a beautifully produced of the "Berliner Tageblatt". With many others, slim volume with imaginative illustrations by HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN they were laid to rest in the "row of honour" of Swiss-born Edith Covey (ICEBREAK. Poems by the cemetery. The book also shows the memorial Hephzibah Menuhin (Mrs. Richard Hauser), for the victims of Nazi persecution, the field of Lotte Kramer, published by Annakin Fine Arts pianist, and frequent accompanist to her violinist honour and the monument dedicated to the Jew­ Limited, 13 Geneva Street, Peterborough. Price brother, Yehudi, died in London aged 60. Like her ish soldiers killed in the First World War, the £2.25 plus 30p postage and packing). brother she vras deeply conscious of her Jewish­ The writer came to this country in her teens in ness and together and separately they gave con­ memorial stone for the members of the resistance siderable support to Jewish and Israeli charitable group Baum, executed in 1942/43, and the plaque 1939. She worked as a lady's companion, in a causes, especially ORT. A great admirer of Israeli remembering Kurt Tucholsky's parents. There are laundry and in a dress shop, while studying Art culture she participated in the 1966 Israel Festival- also reproductions of Moses Mendelssohn's origi­ and the History of Art at Richmond Institute. She was an active social worker, particularly in nal tombstone in the Grosse Hamburger Strasse Married with one son, she has lived in Peter- cemetery which was closed down in 1827 and collaboration with her husband, who is the direc­ destroyed by the Nazis and the new stone erected tor of the Centre for Human Rights and Responsi­ in his memory near his grave. The second oldest bilities. In 1977 she was elected President of the of the Berlin cemeteries, in Schonhauser Allee Women's Intemational League tor Peace and which also exists no longer, is remembered by Freedom. She was buried under the auspices of photos of the Giacomo Meyerbeer tombstone and the Liberal Jewish Synagogue at Willesden of painter Max Liebermann's family vault. 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N.WJ Tain: Chacom G W.lull 33t212 LfJU Tel: 01-465 8672 AJR INFORMATION March 1981 Pa6e9 Isca Salzberger- Wittenberg ALL ABOUT THE JEWS Unless you are allergic to transatlantic pub­ lications, you will find that The Jewish Almanac, with its more than 600 pages (Bantam/Corgi A MANY-SIDED AUTOBIOGRAPHY Books), is well worth the £5.95 it costs. Two American academics, Richard Siegel and Carl "Hindsight" by Charlotte Wolff brought her to England where she continued to Rheins, have compiled it from innumerable This is a very frank account of the events in live but never felt at home. She remained restless sources and with original contributions by over the long life of a highly inteUigent, gifted woman and unsettled. Eventually, and at first unwillingly, 50 expert writers so that it can tell you all about (Quartet Books £8.95). Chariotte Wolff is the she made trips to Germany. There she was wel­ the Jews you would ever want to know. You can author of a number of books on the study of the comed with open arms, admired and celebrated skip the purely American parts and still have half nand and bisexuality which won her international by the lesbian groups in a way which gave her a thousand pages about Jewish history and trad­ recognition. I found this autobiography at times deep satisfaction. itions, religion and accomplishments. Significantly, lascinating but also often irritating and tedious. Her wish to be a boy showed itself early, her the book starts with a motto by the German It becomes downright boring towards the end passion for women flourished in her teens and philosopher Franz Rosenzweig: "Nothing Jewish when she records endless encounters with German became the dominant theme of her life. Although is alien to me." lesbians in the greatest of detail. she derides psychoanalytic views on the import­ Thus you will find chapter and verse about the The book is interesting in three respects: for ance of childhood experiences, her statements tragedies of Jewry from the Babylonian exile to tne evocative description of the German towns bear witness to the early stunting of her emotional the Holocaust, about its achievements from the Which Charlotte knew in her youth, the extra­ development. She quotes her mother as saying creation of the alphabet to Entebbe, about Jewish ordinary range of well-known personalities she that Charlotte "was never the same" after the age sportsmen and Nobel-Prize winners. You can sit encountered and formed friendships with, and the of two when her wet-nurse (who had simul­ down at the piano and play, with one finger, the ight her account shows on the development of a taneously reared her own boy) left her. In spite of melodies of the 10 most popular Hasidic songs; or lesbian personality. Although she calls her book caring parents, she remained a very insecure per­ retire to the kitchen and try out 10 classical recipes Hindsight", it does not bear the hallmark of a son, a fact she repeatedly stresses. Driven by a for gefilte fish and egg cream. You can discuss the considered review of past experiences: rather the need to be loved and admired she pursued women mystery of the 10 lost tribes and the Hebrew names author attempts to reconstruct the events of her and showered them with her passionate love. As of God on the basis of factual information in the w 1"*^ "^^ passion and emotional ups and downs she tells us of her first lesbian relationship: "I was Almanac. And there are also the original names of wmch are characteristic of her. compelled by nostalgia for the lost paradise of film stars, from Peter Lorre (Laszlo Loewenstein) Charlotte Wolff was bom in the town of childhood which only the loving care of a maternal and Sophie Tucker (Sonia Kalisch) to Woody Allen Kiesenburg, on the banks of the river "Liebe" figure could provide. 1 could stand on my (Allen Konigsberg) and Tony Randall (Leonard wtuch flows into the "Sorgensee",—all names to own feet in the ways of the world but became Rosenberg). One chapter, for the armchair phil­ In^ *° 'he romantic nature of this young girl, emotionally bound to another woman." Her nega­ osophers, deals with the Jewish "identity crisis", n adolescence she had an overwhelming experi- tive attitude to men developed only later, reaching another with the Kabbalah, and there is a long ™ce: 'I was unable to move. I had been taken its full expression in the 70's, and leads to such list of Jewish gangsters in the American under­ ver by an inner power. I had felt a cosmic energy extreme statements as: "Emotional freedom from world. We are told which places in Israel, Poland, the male is the condition sine qua non for the nowing through me which made me one with the Hong Kong and London (the Bevis Marks Syna­ freedom of all women". Such one-sidedness is gogue) are "musts" for the Jewish sightseer; but universe." This marked the beginning of a reflected in the poverty of her literary style, the wh-^k^"^ awareness of the beauty of Danzig (to the book also lists no fewer than 71 member lack of warmth in her relationships and an ab­ states of the UN with less than 50 Jews. wmch she had meanwhile moved), the Rathaus sence of depth in her views on life which is M, M*" '"""^ '='°*='^' "'^ Arthurshof, the Alte surprising and sad in someone so obviously This is only a very short selection from the tooW h • '^^^ ^'^'^ '°^" *° "^^^^^ ^^^ studies endowed with talent. Almanac. It is profusely illustrated, though many OK her is experienced and sketched with a vivid- of the pictures are of a rather poor quality of " „ "^Mch brings alive for the reader its special reproduction. 2 B'"^- ^'"^'''"'•8' Koenigsberg, Tubingen, and JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DROPS NAZI CASE EGON LARSEN. Israel's chief Nazi War Crimes' investigator, we'^^'i?^-^'^ 'he famous teachers she encountered Lt.-Col. Menachim Russek, has sharply criticised JEWISH QUIZ MASTER'S LIFE the US Justice Department for its decision not to "Das Leben in Deutschland", published by the fon "f"*«88er and Husserl. For although she Ltibbe Verlag, Bergisch-Gladbach. is the title of "owed her parents' advice to be practical and retry Frank Walus for committing acts of per­ secution as a member of the Gestapo. In 1978, the impressive autobiography written by Hans nee studied medicine, she also pursued her Rosenthal, West Germany's most popular quiz j«ssionate interest in philosophy and poetry. She a Federal judge ordered that Walus' citizenship should be revoked after finding that he had com­ master in radio and television. Born in Berlin in Clini ^.^ ^ a doctor in the first Birth Control mitted "acts of unjustified violence" as a Gestapo 1925. he lived underground in Berlin during the the "^ ^^'^''" ^^^ ^^^^ stimulated an interest in agent in two ghettos in Poland and had concealed war and is now well-known for his popular pro­ Patie^t^^'Ti. ^""^ psychological aspects of her that fact when applying for citizenship in 1970. grammes in W. Germany and abroad. For a Weim P*^ freedom, and exciting times of the Later a circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new number of years he has also been president of the donm^'' ^^P"hlic which allowed a life of aban- trial before a new judge, but it is this the Justice "Representantenversammlung" of the Berlin to an i" ^^^ \esb\?in night clubs of Berlin came Department decided not to pursue because the Jewish community. E.G.L. wa., = if"? ^'^^^ ^^^ "^« °f Hit'"- In 1933, she weight of the evidence had now changed. Col. next ^ '° '^^^ 'he Krankenkasse and the very Russek, in a letter to the Department, said: "Your BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE decision has left me in a state of shock. I respect wi , ^ ^^ arrested suspected of spying. She it, but cannot understand or accept it." He said 51 BeMze Squara, London, N.W.3 her a Vk^^*^ '''^^" '^^ Gestapo officer recognised he could not justify the decision to the Israeli Our new communal hall Is available for thp A ^^ "^''^" Doktor" who treated his wife at citizens who, at the trial in Chicago, had identi­ ""^Ariibulatorium. cultural and social functions For dstalls fied Walus as the perpetrator of crimes against apply to: Secretary, Synagogue OfNc* Julh^^c^^**'^^'"'^ *he left Germany for France, civilians in Poland. Tel-- 01-794 2949 atten^^^'*'''* ^^^^ in chirology which she had EMANUEL CELLER baslr f ^ ^"'^ ^^^"""^ ^^"^ emigration became the Congressman Emanuel Celler has died in his and M ^ *^«'nd career. Encouraged by Aldous native Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 92. BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER comnT-^'''^ Huxley she began her researches, During his period as Chairman of the House of Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS vidual""^ hands of normal and abnormal indi- Representatives judiciary committee he sponsored the ^^. '^'*^'' hands of apes and monkeys. At bills to facilitate the admission of immigrants, Always interested in purchasing suotyvrt^^ *""^ hand-reading became a means of particularly refugees. In 1957 he wrote and saw well-preserved instruments enacted into law the first comprehensive civil and ,v'n^- ^^"^'f- She had great intuitive gifts rights legislation enacted by Congress for 82 years JACQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. past A '" reading the character and divining and was the author of further Civil Rights Bills 142 Edgware Road, W.2 Tel: 7S3 8881/9 hands w ""^ ^^°^ 'he study of her clients' in 1%0 and 1964. An outspoken opponent of the ho ""eputation in this field took her into McCarthyism he was placed on the index of the niidst !!f^u°^ *^^ French aristocracy and into the House Un-American Activities Committee during CAMPS incisiv^ • ^'^''^''^ ^°^^^ °f P^"5- In ^ s^"es of the "witch-himting" era. He was a fervent cham­ INTERNMENT-P.O.W.- and sii ^'^"^"^ she describes the French women pion of Zionism from his early twenties and the FORCED LABOUR-KZ Later ic'" Pointers who became her friends. persecution of European Jewry intensified his I with to buy cards, envelopes and folded post­ ^Voolf? 5°8'and she read the hands of Virginia convictions. He established a trust fund for the marked letteit from all camps of both world wars. establishing of a Semitics division in the Library Please send, registered mall, stating price, to: her re^ !^^ Duchess of Windsor. She combined of Congress, was Chairman of the Magen David o'ogv^^ "* chirology with studies in sex- 14 Roaslyn Hill, London, NWS 1PF Adom in the USA, and an ardent supporter of the PETER C. RICKENBACK '*•'• ine publication of her first book had United Jewish Appeal. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION March 1981

HONOUR FOR WALTER HUBERT An honorary fellowship of the Bar-IIan Uni­ NEWS FROM ISRAEL versity, Tel Aviv, was conferred on philanthro­ pist, Mr Walter Hubert, at a dinner at St. Annes WIESENTHAL GETS JERUSALEM MEDAL KORCZAK TRIBUTE Synagogue which was attended by the mayor and Mr. Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem, pre­ The Polish Minister for Religious Affairs, Mr. mayoress of St. Annes and Blackburn and guests sented Mr. Simon Wiesenthal, Director of the Jerzy Kuberski, led a Polish delegation to Israel from Israel, Switzerland, Scotland, South Wales, Jewish Documentation Centre in Vieima, with the for a meeting of the Janusz Korczak Society, the London, Manchester and Sheffield. The Israeli Jerusalem Medal for his work in helping bring international organisation to perpetuate the ideals Minister of Education, Mr. Zevulun Hammer, Nazi criminals to justice during the past 30 years. of the Polish-Jewish educationist who chose to die paid tribute to Mr. Hubert and his parents, Mr. At the presentation ceremony in Jerusalem Mr. with the 200 orphans in his charge at Auschwitz and Mrs. Arthur Hubert, who were also among Wiesenthal predicted that the Auschwitz death- in 1942 rather than accept a Nazi offer of his the 200 guests and expressed his admiration for camp doctor Josef Mengele may soon give himself personal freedom. The delegation also visited a their great munificence. The evening resulted in up from his hiding place in a Latin American number of Kibbutzim, including Yad Mordecai, £25,000 being raised for the Hubert Scholarship country. Paraguay had deprived Mengele of named after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising leader, Fund enabling needy students to attend Bar Ilan. citizenship last year and he had been running Mordechai Anielwitz, and Yad V'Shem. They from country to country ever since. The "Angel were received by President Navon and also held of Death", accused of inhuman experiments on talks with members of the Association of Former ERNST CHAIN CHAIR ESTABLISHED Auschwitz inmates and responsibility for murder­ Concentration Camp Inmates and Anti-Nazi Parti­ A new chair has been established at the Weiz­ ing up to 400,OCX) Jews, was either on the verge sans. Before leaving Israel Mr. Kuberski said: mann Institute of Science in honour of the late of suicide or of surrendering to the West German "We knew you had a fine country but the reality Professor Ernst Boris Chain, 1945 Nobel Prize­ authorities, who had been seeking him for 19 exceeds all that we had anticipated." winner for Medicine and pioneer in the develop­ years, but had hitherto failed to obtain his ex­ ment of penicillin. The first incumbent will be tradition. Israeli-born Professor Sara Fuchs. CARPING CRITICISM That wondrous bird the Pelican (whose beak GRAHAM GREENE WINS can hold more than his belly can, according to the GERMAN CONTRIBUTION TO JERUSALEM PRIZE popular limerick) has been playing havoc with a CARMEL SYNAGOGUE British novelist Graham Greene is the 1981 prosperous Israeli industry—the breeding of Carp. The Government of Baden-Wuerttemberg, the winner of the Jerusalem Prize, which is given Kibbutz Maayan Zvi, 15 miles north-east of Stuttgart city treasury and the local churches are every two years to a writer who expresses in his Netanya, is famous for its fish ponds, but was contributing about £4,0(X) to the building of a work the ideals of human freedom. unable to market a single fish for a three-month synagogue on Mount Carmel to be dedicated to period beginning last September, causing it a the memory of Rabbi Dr. Fritz E. Bloch, who NEW BOEINGS FOR EL AL financial loss of nearly £30,000. The fish-ponds was rabbi of the State's Jewish communities from The Israeli Government has authorised the are a regular stop-over for some 1,500 Pelicans 1950 until his death in 1979. The Govenunent national airline. El Al, to purchase four fuel- during their annual migration from southern accompanied its donation with a letter in which efficient Boeing 767 aircraft to help cut the com­ Russia to Africa. This season instead of their they said they wished to honour Dr. Bloch's pany's losses which have culminated after three usual two-week sojourn they stayed for three devotion to peace and reconciliation and his con­ years with a record deficit of $98.6 million for the months, resisting all efforts to urge them south­ tinued dialogue with the Christian churches. They last financial year. The airline is threatened with wards, and devoured 35 tons of carp, thus adding also wished to express their and the German closure if it does not reduce its workforce and cut to the Jewish State's many hardships by curtailing people's determination to atone for the wrong expenses. Big economies in fuel consumption are normal supplies of gefilte fish. done to the Jews. expected when the new aircraft join the fleet.

FAMILY EVENTS Rockman:— My beloved husband, "PERZINA" 5' Grand Piano for sale. INFORMATION REQUIRED Entries in the column Family Events Henry Rockman, passed away on Fig. Mahogany. Concert pitch. £950. Personal Enquiry are free of charge: any voluntary 26 January after many years of sxdler- Box 862. Weiss;— Particulars about Dr. med donation would, however, be appreci­ ing at the age of 88. Deeply mourned Fritz A. Weiss, bom 4 July, 1898, io ated. Texts should be sent in by ISih by his wife Irma, his beloved Personal Berlin (parents Dr. Berthold Weiss of the month. daughter, Stevie, relatives and friends. and Elisbeth nee Rathenau), came to GENTLEMAN late 70, House and England via Czechoslovakia, would car owner wishes to meet lady to be greatly appreciated for research Birthday CLASSIFIED share life together. All letters with work by: Professor Stephan Leibfried, Gnttmann:— Hilde Guttmann of The charge in these columns is 50p name and address will be replied to Universitaet Bremen, PO Box 33O440i London, N.W.I, will be celebrating for five words plus 25p for advertise­ immediately. Box 857. 2800 Bremen 33. her 80th birthday on 18 March. Her ments under a Box No. EDUCATED LADY, early 30s, from many friends and her family from all Manchester, independent, music lover over the world wish her good health and artistic, would like to meet sin­ and much happiness for many years Situations Vacant cere gentleman. Box 858. DRESSMAKER to come. WE WOULD WELCOME hearing from more ladies who would be will­ MIDDLE-AGED German bom lady HIGHLY QUALIFIED Philippson:— Mr. Felix Philippson (for­ ing to shop and cook for an elderly wishes to meet cheerful lady travel merly Berlin and England) will celebrate jjerson in their neighbourhood on a companion. 2-3 weeks summer, pref­ VIENNA TRAINED his 90th birthday on 1 March. temporary or permanent basis. Cur­ erably Black Forest. Please state your St. Johns Wood Area rent rate of pay £1.80 per hour. telephone number. Box 859. Deaths Please ring Mrs. Matus 01-624 4449, WIDOWER, 75, young in outlook and Phone for appointment: Besser:— Rose Besser, nee Bandmann, AJR Employment, for Appointment. appearance. Continental origin, indepen­ 01-328 8718 passed away peacefully on 9 February, dent, good pension, own flat, would like sadly missed by her husband Felix, son, RESIDENT HOUSEKEEPER sought to meet a nice lady for companionship and daughter-in-law, grandchildren, sister by disabled elderly Continental Jew­ friendship, holiday at home and abroad. and brother in Melbourne. ish lady (non-orthodox) living in a Box 861. PHYSIOTHERAPY David:— Walter David of London, small North West London house, who by has existing daily help. Would inter­ MisceUaneons N.20, died on 14 January, deeply ested persons please apply to Anthony fully qualified physiotherapist moumed by his wife Reggi and sons J. Newton & Co., Solicitors, 22 Fitz- WANTED: Paintings, Drawings, in patient's own home Bernard and Colin. john's Avenue, London, N.W.S (794 Prints by: Kollwitz, Ury, Corinth, Goldschmidt:— Robert Goldschmidt 9696). Orlik, Meidner, Steinhardt, Lieber­ Phone; 624-4424before 8.30 a.m- (formerly Offenbach) died suddenly on mann, Lilien, Menzel, Stmck, Budko, or after 7. p.m. 3 February. Deeply moumed by his ELDERLY LADY requires middle-aged Zille and contemporaries. Good wife, children and grandchildren. or retired person, in good health, to live Prices, Viewing free. Box 860. Hamment:— Alice Hamment passed in and help (No housework). Box 863. GERMAN-JEWISH BOOKS, especi­ away peacefully on 24 January. ally the "Juedische Lexikon" wanted. CHARLES N. GILBERT Deeply moumed by her brother Otto For Sale Nicola Galliner, 27 Queens Grove, F.B.Ch.A. Berneck, New York, niece and WEGEN AUSWANDERUNG: London, N.W.8. Tel.: 01-722 0361. CHIROPODIST nephew, Betty and Tom Belina, San Singer Naehmaschine, 33 Zubehoerteile, REVLON MANICURIST. Will visit Francisco, her cousins and friends. at "Richey" Massage-Apparat, Mixer, Belling-Ofen, your home. Phone 01-445 2915. 169 FincUey Road Lindley:— Emest Lindley died peace­ Belling Convector, Kaffeemaschine, JEWISH COUPLE would value op­ N.WJ fully on 14 January, aged 83. Teekessel, Stehlampen, Buegeleisen-alles portunity to purchase Persian carpet near Sainsbury Moumed by his heartbroken wife elektrisch. Kochtoepfe. Schwarz/Weiss to help furnish their home. Tel.: Irma, relatives and many friends. T.V. Tel.: 435 4736. 458 3010. 624 8626/7 AJR INFORMATION March 1981 Paget!

ESTHER KLEE RAWIDOWICZ Dr. Esther Rawidowicz died in Waltham, Mass., IN MEMORIAM at the age of 80. She was the daughter of the MRS. STELLA EPSTEIN SIR ANDREW SHONFEELD prominent lawyer and Zionist leader Alfred Klee Stella Epstein who died on 12 January was not The distinguished economist and joumalist, Sir and the sister of the late Ruth Klee-Goslar and only a valued colleague, until she retired from the Andrew Akiba Shonfield, has died aged 63. Since Dr. Hans Klee. Her husband was the eminent Secretaryship of the Jewish Refugees Committee 1978 he had been professor of economics at the scholar in the field of Jewish philosophy. Eh-. in 1973, but also a dear friend to the end of her European University in Florence, having pre­ Simon Rawidowicz, who died in 1957. hfe. This, I am sure, is not only true for me, but viously been Director of the Royal Institute of Esther Rawidowicz received her doctorate at the lor innumerable others. Intemational Affairs (Chatham House) from 1972- University of Munster and later was a research She joined us in Bloomsbury House in 1939, 77, following a period as economic editor of The worker at the "Charit6" in Berlin. After a stay in soon after she came to this country from Austria. Oi)server. TTie son of Rabbi Avigdor Schonfeld this country from 1933 to 1948, the family went to She remained a loyal and devoted member of the and the younger brother of Rabbi Dr. Solomon the US, where Simon Rawidowicz obtained an staff throughout the years, finally heading the team Schonfeld, he had a strictly religious upbringing, appointment at Brandeis' Department Near Eastem oi professionals who cared for those seeking but moved away from orthodoxy during his and Judaic Studies and his wife first became a refuge in this country. student years. He was a frequent broadcaster and research assistant in biochemistry and later a There must be many among your readers who the author of several books on economics and lecturer in European languages and Comparative benefited from her untiring efforts to help those international affairs, and served with distinction Literature, specialising in the field of German in real need; many who appreciated, as her col­ in the Royal Artillery during World War 11. literature. When she retired in 1967, the Brandeis leagues did, her almost uncanny perception which Board of Trustees unanimously voted her an could discover the basic problems that her clients assistant professor emeritus. She is survived by Old not always recognise themselves. Stella was on DEATH OF THEKLA KAUFFMANN her son Benjamin C. I. Ravid, Associate Professor the Interviewing Committee of the Old Age Mrs. Thekla Kauifmann, known for her social of Jewish History at Brandeis, and two grandchil­ Homes for many years and always took a great and communal political activity in her native dren, Sara Simone and Michael. A woman of interest in them. Her husband died in concen­ Stuttgart before 1933, has died in New York aged unusual warmth and understanding, she was loved tration camp, but her two sisters (only one of nearly 98. She was one of the first woman mem­ and admired by everybody who knew her. whom survives her) were very close to her and she bers of the Wurttemberg parliament after the was constantly concerned for their wellbeing. First World War and afterwards head of the DR. WALTER MEYER Even today we miss her wise judgement and Social Welfare Department of the Land Labour Dr. Walter Meyer, who left Germany in 1933 sound commonsense in the new problems which Office. Between 1933 and 1941 she helped many with his wife Vera, a fellow medical practitioner, tace the Jewish Refugees Committee and the people to emigrate, working as a Hilfsverein has died in Harrogate where they both settled. He tribute I want to pay is to a woman who always counsellor. In the US she was director of a was a member of the AJR and active in service ^n^ '?'hers before herself and who is missed by Mothers' Home, and after her retirement worked to the local Hebrew congregation, where he was an who knew her. JOAN STIEBEL. for many years in the Chicago University library. held in the deepest respect.

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