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C. C. Aronsfeld duce the foul brutality of the German original Juda verreckel—perish like a lice-ridden cur in the gutter. This was the slogan of a party's leader who for once meant precisely what he HITLER AND THE JEWS said. He did not always mean what he said and he was of course an accomplished liar, but so far as the extermination of the Jews A Case of Distorted History was concerned, he had reason to jeer (in Mein Kampf) at "those scared simpletons" (inside Germany) who were trying to "guess The intriguing quip that Shakespeare's plays "no liquidation" (yet) of one particular trans­ what we are up to" as they seemed to regard are not written by Shakespeare, but by port of Jews from Berlin. Irving was so over­ his programme (he says) as "the ideas of a different man of the same name, is called to whelmed by this veritable treasure trove that some demented ideologist", and during the mind by a new book on Hitler which deals he prints a photo of the note which he inter­ war, at the height of his power, in 1941, he with his life during the war years. It bears prets — no less and quite seriously — as a poured the same scorn on those "silly fools" the very apposite title "Hitler's War'"*, for the general ban on the extermination of the Jews! throughout the world who would not believe war was truly Hitler's: he preached it, he Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, in his review in the deadly seriousness of Nazi bestiality— prepared for it and he provoked it. But this of the book, drily remarks : "Generally speak­ they (he said) "ought to have read what I is not how the author of the book, David ing, one does not veto an action unless one have written not once but a thousand times. Irving, conceives of his subject. He is not thinks that it is otherwise likely to occur", More often than I, no one has ever explained concemed with any analytical criticism of and Mr. A. J. P. Taylor thought the whole idea what he really means to do". Hitler, he presents the story "as far as possi­ "too silly to be worth arguing about". ble through Hitler's eyes"; he has written, as In his very first political statement, in 1919, Hitler explained that his antisemitism it were, a ghost autobiography. While no Irving's Discovery moral judgment is passed on Hitler, it is would be different from that of his forerunners Churchill and Roosevelt who must stand con­ Actually Irving's discovery is not original, and rivals. Their antisemitism, he said, was demned, also the foolish Poles who refused to and as a discoverer he, on this occasion, "purely emotional" and so would "ultimately surrender in 1939 and the British who fought distinctly differs from Columbus. Whereas express itself in pogroms'. This, he argued, on in 1940, ignoring the fact that Hitler re­ Columbus thought he had found a part of the had always failed to bring about a final solu­ garded them as some of his best friends. old world which proved to be new, in Irving's tion—after all the Jews were still around— case it is the other way round—what he and therefore this vvas not what he had in In the course of elaborate researches that fancies to be new turns out to be old hat. The mind. never failed to look up what the proverbial discovery of Hitler's innocence of the Holo­ Nor was it expulsion, or "emigration". Had butler saw, but did not see the wood for trees, caust was made by Germans as far back as the Jews been shipped to a German-controlled Irving made some discoveries. He, as it were, August, 1956, when the neo-fascist monthly Madagascar (and this was realistically con­ specialises in discoveries. He discovered, for magazine Nation Europa. while not denying sidered after the fall of France), "Auschwitz" example, in a previous book, that Churchill the extermination, found satisfaction in the would have been enacted there, for since arranged the death of Sikorski, the Polish thought that "secret crimes were committed Jewry was thought of as "the racial tuber­ Prime Minister (in 1943), a wretched libel for by a group of secret agents acting behind the culosis of the nations", a "fearful threat to which not a shred of evidence could be pro­ back of the German people, the German every nation". Hitler obviously could see no duced when it was tested in court. He has soldiers, even behind the back of the National "solution" in an action which, from his point now discovered that Hitler was "perhaps the Socialists". In October, 1962, the editor of of view, would only spread what he regarded weakest leader Germany has known in this Nation Europa is pleased to note that there as a "pestilence", "bacilli worse than the centur>" . . . but the most sensational dis- vvas "no evidence to show that Hitler knew Black Death". Dr Robert Ley, the Nazi labour coverj- he claims to have made is that Hitler of the mad doings of a very small clique of chief, summed up the idea: "It is not enough did not authorise or even know about the criminals". Never is there as much as a to isolate the Jewish enemy of mankind, the extermination of the Jews, that the Final passing reference to the Nazis' campaign of Jews have got to be exterminated". Solution merely meant expulsion "to the East" murderous hate, of which the crimes com­ Not that "emigration" was entirely ruled and that the—undenied—crimes were perpe­ mitted during the war were only the logical trated behind his back by Himmler, the S.S. out, but as conceived by the Nazis it was to consummation. serve the "final solution'". Alfred Rosenberg, chief, and Dr. Goebbels, who had to "recon­ But Irving's book is only one, the latest cile" the author of Mein Kampf by telling the party philosopher, put it this way: instance of an increasing tendency to re-view "Germany will regard the Jewish Question him that the British bombing raids were Hitler, and it seems time to restate the truth directed by the Jews ! as solved only after the last Jew has left the in terms that make sense. To begin with, Greater German living space. Europe will have How so? Well, Irving has found no written the destruction of millions of Jews was not its Jewish Question solved only after the last evidence of Hitler's responsibility, and his a -war crime". It had nothing to do with Jew has left the European continent". It conclusion is, because the written evidence war (except that it happened during the war). hardly requires more than ordinary imagina­ has not been found, it does not exist, and be­ Being part of the Nazi campaign from the tion to understand when and how the "Jewish cause it does not exist he was able to tell very beginning, it was to be enforced, war Question" in the world would be "solved" the blissfully innocent David Frost that "the or no war. Such was the consistent and to satisfy a Nazi's obsession. kind of documents that have been used to ferocious incitement to hate over a period of convict Hitler would not stand up in a magis­ 25 years that there could be no doubt of The obsession was refined by the calcula­ trates' court to convict a gypsy of bicycle- the murderous outcome—even if it had not tion that the ruthlessly impoverished Jews stealing". been intended. This hate is deliberately who were allowed to emigrate would add to But apart from the negative non-evidence, ignored by the neo-Nazi presentation of the the difficulties of such countries as might Irving has come up with a positive one, a events as (isolated) "war crimes". But it is agree to receive them; these difficulties were document which for once is not dismissed. this hate that must be understood if the to be Hitler's opportunities. Moreover expul­ It is a casual brief note of a telephone call slaughter is to appear credible as well as intel­ sion was carefully contrived to advance the by Himmler from Hitler's headquarters on ligible to a new generation. grand design of extermination by producing November 30, 1941, telling Heydrich, "Pro­ a "mass influx" of aliens, which exploited in Thc hate vvas proclaimed back in 1920 the traditional manner, would expand the tector" of Bohemia, that there was to be under the slogan "Perish Judah", which, in • Hitler's War by David Irving. Hodder 4 Stoughton. £9-9*. its English version, does not remotely repro­ Continued on page 2, cobunn 1 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION October 1977 quite a few have been made—it was the Nazi HITLER AND THE JEWS attempt which was as competently undertaken as human (or inhuman) ingenuity can ever Continued from page 1 gramme in now distinctly traceable stages. hope for, and it achieved as much as it did They conformed to the rule laid down in because a formidable organisation was fuelled bounds of aggressive antisemitism. With this Af ein Kampf (p. 273): "Where it is a case by a hellish hate. strategy. Hitler could hope to win either way: of achieving seemingly impossible demands" This background to the crimes appears to when the Jews were admitted, antisemitism —as the extermination of Jewry certainly was be increasingly neglected as new, insidious (i.e. pro-Hitler feeling) could be expected to —"you have to divide the path before you manipulators of history arise. If hatred breeds grow; when Jews were not admitted (as into various successive stages and then make murder, Nazi hatred could only end in holo­ happened more often than not), the demo­ every, even the most determined effort to caust. This hatred was the text, the rest was cracies could be exposed as false to their overcome them, step by step". This device commentary. Inasmuch as these reflections ideals, undeserving of trust and thus, so far was applied in the larger field of Hitler's are, alas, not merely theoretical, nor related as the Jews were concerned, a broken reed. interaational policy, as he himself explained only to past history or to foreign countries There was amazing method in the madness. in a Reichstag speech during the war: "In of which we notoriously know little, a wide The "purely emotional" antisemitism of others 1934 began German rearmament, in 1935 I field opens for the enlightenment of those ordered conscription, in 1936 I occupied the who wish to be enlightened. was converted by Hitler into a "rational" Rhineland, in 1937 came the Four Year Plan, one—Antisemitismus der Vemunft—involving in 1938 Austria and Sudetenland were incor­ (he stressed in 1919) not only "the planned porated, and in 1939 . . .", the rest is suffi­ legal repeal of the Jews' privileges" but ciently known. PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR FREED "ultimately, implacably, the elimination of NAZI MURDERER the Jews altogether", an aim to be pursued IWurder Step by Step with a "determination to attack the evil at Former SS Colonel Herbert Kappler who its roots and to eradicate it root and branch". The same "step by step" device was applied was smuggled out of Italy by his wife and who to the extermination of the Jews which was is known to be vnth her at his home in Soltau. This aim which barred any altemative was is being treated as a hero by many Germans. always uppermost in his mind. He committed able to benefit from the lack of interference Congratulatory telegrams and masses of it to paper in his book Mein Kampf which by a largely unsuspecting, unbelieving or un­ floral tributes reach him every day. Kappler roundly outlaws the Jews and dooms them caring world. The stages here were the had been sentenced to death and later re­ to a fate to be enforced with "ruthlessness", ostracism of the Boycott in 1933, the Nurem­ prieved 30 years ago for his part in the mass­ "brutality", "fiery fanaticism" and "infallible berg Laws in 1935, the large scale plunder acre of 335 hostages, many of them Jews, in intolerance". No words occur more frequently called "Aryanisation" in 1936-37, the burning a cave near Rome in 1944. He is suffering of the synagogues in 1938 and finally the from terminal cancer and had been cared for than these in that Bible of Hate, and "exter­ in a Rome hospital for a long time. His wife, mination" is constantly in the writer's thought deportations (begun in 1940) to the places of physical destruction. a 53-year-old nature healer who had married when he talks of any of the objects of his him in prison, smuggled him out of hospital detestation. All the time, day in day out, a technically and, probably with the help of Nazi under­ Nor did Hitler leave his intention only to consummate propaganda accompanied the ground members, spirited him avray. cold print—Mein Kampf—whieh might be "solution of the Jewish question" with the According to the German Basic Law, there (and in fact was) read by few. He spread oldest of Nazi slogans that Jews—"things that is no extradition of German citizens to other the lawless incitement in countless public only zoologists will recognise as human beings" countries. To protect Kappler against a pos­ —existed, like vermin, only for the purpose sible kidnapping by angry Italians, West Ger­ meetings and in other vehicles of propaganda of being killed off. In 1935, the Berlin man police are guarding his home day and designed to "pour oil into the fire" so per­ Correspondent of The Times wrote: "Like night. The German conservative newspaper sistently that (he vowed) only a miracle so many Nazi catchwords, Juda verrecke— "Die Welt" subsequently risked public criti­ could prevent an explosion. In 1921 the cism by publishing the horrors of the mass­ Berliner Tageblatt noted the Nazis' "blootl- 'May Jewry Perish'—was meant literally and acre in which Kappler had been involved. It curdling pesters" and their campaign "exceed­ will be literally brought to pass if the fanatics said he had distributed cognac to the execu; ing any record ever reached in the field of have their way". They had. The most fanatical tion commanders "who were wading in blood the most vicious and hate-infested party of them was Hitler himself who kept re­ and had himself shot some of the hostages polemics". Konrad Heiden, the classic historian peating (nine times) during the war the "to set an example." of the early Nazi movement, writes: "Hitler solemn "promise" ostentatiously given before Support for Kappler is not restricted to the war that his "prophecy" of the "exter­ German right-wingers. A Social-Democrat MP- and his likes had for years filled the country mination of Jewry" would indeed be fulfilled. Mr Adolf Scheu who heads the parliamentary with violence, murder and destruction, and He spoke about it to Dr Goebbels who noted group for the release of aU German war crim­ the State had not found the strength to sup­ it in his diary and indeed publicly declared inals still in prison, said that he had supported press them. Where Hitler began to speak, in May 1943 that "no prophetic utterance of Frau Kappler with all the means at his dis­ murder could be expected to follow". After posal in recent years. Dr Emst Wilm, the a brief spell of "honourable detention" in the Fiihrer is coming true with so gaunt an Dean of the Westphalian Evangelical Church, 1924-25, he resumed his campaign with an assurance and inescapable force as that a former inmate of Dachau concentration immediate call for "the extermination of another world war would bring about the camp and an active member of the anti-Hitler Jewry"—"the very images of the devil". extinction of the Jewish race". resistance, publicly welcomed Kappler's es­ Not all were exterminated, to be sure, but cape. He has for years been in contact with This theme was hammered home by an army not for any want of Nazi determination. Many Nazi criminals in Westem countries and de­ of agitators up and down the country. Dr managed to escape, either through their own manded their release on behalf of his Church- Goebbels, the chief propagandist, openly de­ He has offered to ^o to jaU in Italy, takiBf exertions or the humanity of brave souls who Kappler's place, saying that the latter's treat­ clared Jews to be htiman beings in the sense refused to be degraded to raving beasts. Also ment by the Italians had been a crime against that fleas were animals, fit only for exter­ the most efiiciently concocted schemes are humanity. , mination, and another, sneering at conscien­ liable to miscarry at some point; there are The Mayor of Rome and the president ot tious scruples, elaborated the point: "You don't limits to the cunning of iniquity: the wicked the Chamber of Deputies led a protest march say there are decent fleas after all and decent don't always have it all their own way. How to the Ardeatine Caves. Earlier, relatives oj bugs—you kill the lot!". One of the storm many exactly perished, no one can tell with the 71 Jews among the 335 Italians murdered troopers' most popular songs contained the certainty. Who could keep statistics in a had made a spontaneous pilgrimage to the lines: "And when Jews' blood spurts from the slaughter so vast and indiscriminate? Some victims' graves, after holding a memorial knife, things go twice as well". of the chief killers have put the figure at service at the Chief Synagogue in Rome. All this was long before 1933. In 1930 the six million; Himmler thought there must have Before leaving the hospital with Kappler- his wife left a message in his room saying that London Times referred to "the moral nausea been more. Conscientious scholarship has since she and her father had risked their lives J" felt by everybody outside Germany at recent arrived at an estimate somewhere between years ago to help Jewish friends to escape attacks, surpassing all previous brutalities, four and five million. But there is little point to the United States. upon the Jews". One of the chief German in the "numbers game". The murders began In Paris the windows of the Italian consul­ .Jewish papers then pathetically warned not just on arrival in the extermination ate were broken and the front door was dam^ against that "raving disease of the mind and camps but long before—during the inhumanly aged in protest against Italy's request for Kapp­ arrant sadism" which was "impatiently anti­ conducted transports which in themselves ler's extradition. Leaflets put into the letter­ cipating the moment when they will be free were calculated to kill, or through suicide, box were signed "SS France". The major to throw themselves upon the Jews unre­ starvation, forced labour, action by special French newspapers, reporting the rescue, strained". murder squads and countless other varieties talked of growing neo-Nazism in Germany, and the magazine "L'Expres" carried a» When that moment came, putting Hitler in involved in the crime. article under the heading: "37 years after tne absolute control, calculation and obsession If ever an attempt to destroy the Jews, all 20 million dead and the camps . . . Hitler^ combined to act upon the murderous pro­ of them, had a chance of succeeding—and Superstar." AJR INFORMATION October 1977 Page 3 HOME NEWS Anglo-Judaica Bazaar at Otto Schiff House FOREIGN SECRETARY ON RUSSIAN JEWS KING HUSSEIN INTERVIEWED Almost 150 people attended the Bazaar held In a letter to Peter Shooman, chairman of In a Profile interview on BBC's Radio 4, at Otto Schiff House on September 4. It the Leeds campaign for Soviet Jewry, the King Hussein of Jordan was presented as a testifies to the widely-felt attachment to the Foreign Secretary, Dr. Owen, wrote that he pro-West and anti-Communist protagonist of Home that not only the families of the present saw no evidence for a deliberate Soviet cam­ a negotiated peace with Israel. When asked residents but also relatives and friends of paign against Jews which might be compared whether his understanding of Israel's situation former residents were among the guests. The to events in Germany forty years ago. extended to sympathy, Hussein replied that stalls displayed many attractive goods, and Practising Christians in the Soviet Union he did not necessarily sympathise, but he the sale over the counter was complemented were similarly harassed. He added that never­ always tried to put himself in the other side's by a raffle. At the end of the function, theless if the British Govemment did see position. He realised that the Jewish people practically all articles had gone. The proceeds evidence of a deliberate campaign against had suffered enormously in the world, but amounted to about £800—-and will be most Jews or other minorities in the USSR, it they had been wrong to try to remedy that welcome to replenish the Home's depleted would make its views known to the Soviet situation at the expense of another people Amenity Fimd, from which functions, theatre authorities and at the Belgrade conference. in another part of the world. visits, outings and other benefits will be defrayed. There was a particularly joyful atmosphere, and thanks for the success are AMIN ACCUSED OVER DORA BLOCH due to the Matron, Miss A. Rieger, and all TRADE WITH ISRAEL UP those committee members and friends who Mr. Henry Kyemba, the former Ugandan also took part in the elaborate preparatory Minister of Health who sought political During the first seven months of 1977, work. asylum in London, told Mr. Greville Janner, exports from the UK to Israel went up by QC, MP, that President Amin had been 6 per cent as compared to last year. During personally implicated in the murder of Mrs. the same period, imports from Israel went up Balfour Trust formed Dora Bloch at Entebbe and that he would by 33 per cent. Israel's State Railways are The Zionist Federation has set up a Balfour be willing to testify to this fact at the Inter­ now operating ten passenger coaches bought diamond jubilee committee to mark the 60th national Court of Justice at the Hague. in Britain for nearly £500,000 and rail phos­ phate wagons costing almost £250,000. The anniversary of the Declaration and to establish National Coal Board is acting as consultant a £250,000 trust fund which will be used to THE "DAILY EXPRESS" AND THE JEWS on purchasing policy and handling to the promote better understanding between Jews Israel Electricity Authority on its new coal- and non-Jews of the historic links between Britain and Israel. George Gale, the "Daily Express" column­ fired power station which will use 3i million ist said in an article "Look on the black tons of coal annually. The British Israel side..." which gave his views on post-war Trade Services have started operations by Funds for Hebrew University immigration: "Although we undoubtedly de­ setting up a marketing company in Britain rived great benefit from Jewish immigration, for the Dexter Chemical Corporation of New The North West London Women's Group the Jews' own religion, culture, sense of York and Tel Aviv which manufacture of the Friends of the Hebrew University identity and facial appearance have prevented auxiliaries for textile dyeing and finishing raised funds for two post-graduate one-year any fiill absorption, although I suspect that industries which are technically advanced. scholarships at a cost of £2,000 each. They the existence of Israel, increased inter­ The organisation was set up on the initiative will be in the name of Mr. Hugh Fraser, MP, marriage and the weakening of family ties of the Anglo-Israel Chamber of Commerce by and Dr. Rosalind Higgins, a member of the and religious belief, will result in their fairly a group of British businessmen to develop staflf of the international relations department complete assimilation". The new editor of specialised areas of trade and investment with of the London School of Economics. The the "Express", Mr. Derek Jameson, who is Israel. group was founded by Lady Karminski after half-Jewish, took oflBce after the publication the Six-Day-War in 1967, and has, under the of the article and declared that he would chairmanship of Councillor Rita Levy, so far take strong measures to prevent similar com­ contributed £30,000 to the University through ment from appearing under his editorship. AJR CONTRIBUTES TO the endowment of lecture rooms and scholar­ It smacked of watered-down Goebbels. Mr. SILVER JUBILEE TRUST ships. Jameson said he attributed his own drive and tenacity to the Jewish blood in him. "I tell The AJR sent a contribution to The Queen's everyone I have Jewish blood". He said he Jubilee Trust. In his accompanying letter, to Ajex Day Centre in Fincbley came from the East End of the 'twenties the Hon. Treasurer of the Tmst, the Chair­ Rabbi Hugo Gryn, senior minister of the "where Jews tended to tura the other cheek" man of the AJR, Mr. C. T. Marx, referred to West London Synagogue, performed the dedi­ and for this reason he greatly admired the the fact that most members of the AJR had cation ceremony at the new Finchley and Israel's fighting qualities. found refuge in this country during the nine­ teen-thirties, around the time of the Jubilee Garden Suburb day centre at Ajex House in of the Queen's grandfather, King George V, memory of its former chairman Robert Wool- stone. The centre which has its own kitchen, ZIONIST ELECTION ROW and that they particularly welcomed the opportunity of making a contribution to the will accommodate 150 people. The appointment of delegates to the Zionist Trust. Congress has led to a major row among Kosher Meat Plant for Moslems British Zionists. The majority of the parties— Mizrachi, Mapam, Labour Zionists and the Mr. Markovic, a director of Cheetham United Zionists—agreed to give up seats to Your House for:— Kosher Poulterers in Manchester, suggested provide representation for students and the that all local poultry slaughterhouses, threat­ General Zionist Organisation. Herut, which ened with closure because of stringent EEC was to have three mandates, insists on five CURTAINS, CARPETS, regulations, should amalgamate and use the and demands an election which will cost over Northviich factory of his firm. He also £100,000. FLOOR COVERINGS oflered a site of over six acres for the killing of cattle to the Kosher Butchers Association. It seems, however, that his offer will be re­ CBJ. GRANTS FOR YOUNG DISABLED SPECIAUTY jected, as another firm, Collingham Quality Foods, has been granted a licence on the The Grants made by the Central British strength of new plans submitted. Because of Fund at its latest Council meeting, totalling ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL an annual loss of £35,000 the Cheetham £68,000 include a contribution to provide fur­ modern factory may now be sold to Moslems niture and equipment for the new Han Insti­ DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, who are encountering similar diflSculties. tution for Young Disabled in Israel. DUVET COVERS & SHEETS A Married Doable SOUTH BANK POST FOR PINCHAS ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS ZUKERMAN Mr. A. Maxwell Caplin of Southport has been elected Master of the Company of Build­ . Pinchas Zukerman has accepted an invita­ fSr/A1-4r£S FREE ers. He has been a member of one of the tion to become artistic collaborator in South oldest livery companies, the Worshipful Bank Summer Music, the Greater London DAWSON-LANE LIMITED Company of Plumbers, and is a Freeman of Council's annual festival of chamber music (Established 1946) the City of London. As Master he admitted on the South Bank, from 1978-1980. The post 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK his wife. Vera as a member of the Company has previously been held by Daniel Baren- Telephone: 904 6671 of Builders. She has also been made a Free­ boim, Andre Previn and is at present held man of the City. Mr. Caplin has been on the by Neville Marriner. Zuckerman made his Parsonal attention ol Mr. W. Shacknian council of Southport Synagogue for many London d^but in the 1968 festival. years. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION October 1977

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UNITED STATES A 26-year old Leningrad radio technician, ARGENTINA Mr. Gregory Vellinzon, is said to have started Treblinka Murderer accused Community President's son kidnapped a fast until the Soviet authorities allow him to emigrate to Israel with his 72-year old 69-year old retired carpenter Feodore Extreme right-wing elements of the Argen­ father, a former salesman. The father who Federenko is under investigation by the U.S. tine Army kidnapped the 22-year-old son of has suffered several heart attacks, has been Immigration and Naturalisation Service. He Dr. Nehemias Resnitzky, president of Daia, permitted to leave, but he cannot live alone immigrated in 1949 as a displaced person from the representative organisation of Argentine and refuses to go without his son whose Bremen and claimed to be Polish. He settled Jews. The Argentine community of 500,000 is application was rejected on the ground that in the largely Jewish district of Miami Beach. the largest in Latin America and the fifth he had access to military secrets. Gregory told It has now been found that he was in fact largest in the world. Lately Jews in Argentina a London student whom he met during a a Ukrainian who headed the "Ukrainian have become increasingly worried about the service at a Leningrad synagogue that he was Guard" at TreblLnka death camp and that flood of neo-Nazi and antisemitic material discharged from the army in 1972 and that he had beaten up and killed Jews there. If published by right-wing extremists which, he never had access to secret information. this is proved, his naturalisation will be although banned by the govemment, continu­ When his father recently suffered a heart revoked. ously appear under new names. The American attack, his doctors did not put him into inten­ Jewish Committee recently closed its Buenos sive care, but he survived miraculously. "Son of Sam" not a Jew Aires offices because of threats to the lives of its representative and his family. Dr. David Berkowitz, the recently arrested Resnitzky did not inform the press of his AUSTRIA alleged mass-murderer who calls himself "Son son's disappearance, but reported it to General of Sam", had been adopted as a 17-month- Villareal, a leading member of President News about Nazi Doctor old baby by a childless Jewish couple in the Videla's staff, who asked him to keep the Bronx, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Berkowitz. His matter secret. Dr. Resnitzky replied that he Mr. Simon Wiesenthal, the head of the original name had been Richard David Falco, could only do so for a few days, as the Vienna Jewish Documentation Centre, said he and his real parents were non-Jewish. Whilst wedding of his daughter was imminent. had positive proof that Dr. Josef Mengele, serving in the Army in Korea, his personality Before these days had elapsed his son was the wanted Nazi Auschwitz doctor, was living changed drastically owing to drug-taking, and returned to him. The general discovered him in Paraguay where he had been naturalised he renounced Judaism, joined the Baptist in a house in Palermo, a well-to-do district in 1959 and now lived in luxury in military Church and attempted to convert others. of Buenos Aires, near the Army Headquarters. areas with special Government protection. It was decorated with swastikas and pictures His wife lives in Meran. According to Wiesen­ Law to protect Mezuzot of Hitler and was said to be a torture centre thal, Mengele regularly travels overseas. He where Army Officers interrogated their kid­ had been disinherited by his father, a farm Under a new New York State Law mezuzot napped prisoners. A number of other victims machine manufacturer, but might receive and tefillin will have to show details of manu­ were found in the house. They were released money from the factory's agents in South facturers or importers, and if they do not after a gun battle in which two Army officers America. Paraguay rejected demands for confirm with the Kashrut laws, this will have were wounded. Mengele's extradition on the pretext that he to be clearly stated. Violators of the new cannot be found. Dr. Adenauer had already law will be prosecuted for fraudulent SOUTH AFRICA offered Paraguay economic aid in exchange practices. It had been found that some for Mengele's extradition. Mengele is supposed mezuzot had been printed on ordinary paper New Zionist Party launched to have sent thousands of Auschwitz inmates instead of being handwritten on parchment. The South African Reform Movement has to the gas-chambers and to have conducted Kosher food has enjoyed similar protection launched a new Zionist Party, "dedicated to cruel experiments on women and children. for the last 40 years. fostering religious pluralism and freedom in Israel" after its demand that the South Nazis in Vienna Nazi March in Chicago? African Zionist Federation should repudiate Begin's agreement with the religious parties Austrian neo-Nazis carried out a co-ordinated Many survivors of concentration camps who in Israel, was refused. Under this agreement. live in the Chicago suburb of Skokie have series of daubings in Vienna, smearing anti­ Reform and Liberal converts would not be semitic slogans on the main synagogue, the protested against a planned march by the admitted to Israel, and the Reform rabbis say National Socialist White People's Party, the prayer hall in the Jewish cemetery, the this would mean that there would be religious Sigmund Freud memorial and other Jewish American Neo-Nazi party which has been freedom in Israel for everybody except Jews. banned once, but has appealed to the Appelate institutions. Court. The party's leader is one Frank Collin, KENYA Two members of the extremist "Action reported to be the son of a German-bom Jew New Right", one of them a West Germ.an, who survived Dachau and became a natural­ Arabs walk out of U.N. conference were arrested by the police in connection with the daubings. ised American citizen, changing his name Many Arab delegations walked out of the from Cohn to Collin. He said that at the United Nations Conference on deserts in age of seven, he had been convinceu of Nairobi when the Israeli delegate. Professor Arab Gratitude Hitler's greatness after a newsreel showing Schechter, head of the Ben-Gurion University's him in close-up. He had not understood what institute of applied research, rose to make General Karl Luetgendorf, Austria's former he said, but had seen that the thousands who a statement for his country. The Algerian Defence Minister who lost his job because he listened to him, were transfixed and concluded assistant secretary-general of the Organisation sanctioned the illegal export of arms to Saudi that what he was saying was important. for African Unity, Mr. Djoudi, accused Israel Arabia, has been asked to become legal of making anti-Islamic propaganda. He said adviser to an Arab StatCj but refused. He CANADA that in a paper "The Negev: A Desert re­ has, however, accepted an mvitation, to spend a holiday in Syria as personal guest of the WaUer Trier exhibition in Toronto claimed" it was stated that after the Moslem conquest of 640 CE, a rapid decline in agri­ Defence Minister, General Tias. The family of the great cartoonist Walter culture had begun, so that now only a few Trier who was a constant contributor to nomadic Bedouin lived in the area. A hand- SCANDINAVIA "Simplizissimus", "Jugend" and "Lustige drawn map, accompanying the paper, called Blatter", have donated many of his drawings the West Bank by its new name "Judaea". Neo-Nazis on the move to the new Art Gallery of Toronto, where they will be shown in one large exhibition hall INDIA 57-year old Thies Christopherson, a farmer who is president of an association of Nazis of their own. In Berlin, Trier had designed Refusal to recognise Israel Erich-Charell-Revues and illustrated all books with members in Denmark, Norway, Sweden by Erich Kaestner. He came to England in When the Jewish State was founded in 1948, and Schleswig-Holstein, has been electea 1936 and designed the title-pages of "Liliput" de facto recognition by India followed quickly "FUhrer" of the association's North European while also becoming a constant contributor and Israel opened a consulate in Bombay. Region. He owns a publishing firm in Flens­ to the "Daily Herald" and during the war to India needed strong ties with Arab countries burg which distributes his books and pampn- the German-language "Zeitung". In 1947, he and so far there has been no de jure recogni­ lets to many countries. He had been » re-emigrated to Canada. He died in 1951. tion. When the new goverament came to gardener in Auschwitz and has said that tne power this spring, it was hoped that there holocaust was Zionist propaganda, and tnai Eichmann's spiritual adviser would be a change, because some newly Jews had only died from overweight m elected MPs belong to Indo-Israeli friendship Auschwitz. The Rev William Hull of Orangeville, organisations, but the Prime Minister, Mr. Ontario, who was spiritual adviser to Eichmann Desai, said that India had too many diploma­ Jews and Arabs compete peacefully during his trial, has donated his papers to tic missions abroad, and to open another one the Hebrew University. 79-year old Mr. Hull, in Israel would be too expensive. The Indian Israelis and Arabs competed peacefully in a member of the Pentecostalist Church, who Foreign Minister, Mr. Vajpayee stated that the athletic games held m Copenhagen. i» lived in Israel for 27 years, said that Eichmann Israel would have to withdraw from the occu­ spite of early protests by the 13-member Sauoi was the hardest man he ever saw and de­ pied territories before the question of diplo­ team, they competed directly against Israeli* served to be hanged. matic relations could be considered. in a number of events. »<••" •?:••'•• ^'- rV-Y^f\-'^\- '«:;^r>:j^V! s^aamsmi^i^waf^ismBmm^wmimHamm

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Egon Larsen to eat pork, are they?", he would have to say, "But in my family we have always eaten ham and things like that". 'A BOY IN YOUR SITUATION' Gradually, he felt more sure of himself, more part of an English boys' community. "This was a great luxury to him," recalls Han­ Few books published in England during the Karl was transferred to a farm camp near nam, "and although he enjoyed it he was also last decades have given an idea of what Oxford; only later did he find out that it scared—he remembered his German form- it was like to be a refugee child before and was part of an approved school for juvenile master saying to him, 'A boy in your situ­ during the war; and whatever has been writ­ delinquents. When he arrived the other boys ation ' He was still 'in a situation', but ten, does not strike the reader as such a told him: "It's awful. They pay you a few it was a kinder one". Even from that sacred truthful, unemotional, deliberately artless pence and they make you work all hours. occupation of the natives, cricket, he was per­ account as A Boy in Your Situation by Charles When they have worn us out they will send mitted, without hard feelings, to be absent, Hannam (Andre Deutsch, £3.25). Hannam us to Australia. They take away your pocket and to work in the garden instead. He never is, of course, not the writer's original name; money if you do anything wrong, and the understood why they had "stood him in front in the book he calls his autobiographical hero food is pure shit." One boy had been in of three sticks with a piece of wood in his Karl Hartland, but the Kennkarte of the 13- Dachau: "It's just the same here, the wooden hand". No one could be found "willing to year-old boy, made out by the police at Essen huts and the barbed wire". The supervisor teach him the intricacies of the game" . in 1939 and reproduced on the cover of the was a Jewish ex-captain from Austria, a dis­ He was still too young for intemment, but book, mentions yet another surname of his ciplinarian of un-English strictness. The food he had to register as an enemy alien and German-Jewish family. There may be psycho­ —Karl's first meal was porridge—was indeed was banned from riding a bicycle. They made logical reasons for this double alias—as well inedible. "You will eat when you get hungry," him appear before a tribunal: as for the delay of nearly forty years be­ a boy told him. "It is what the English eat, Karl had to face a large man in a grey fore he could bring himself to vmte it all so we might as well get used to it." suit who smiled nicely and asked him how down, dedicating the book to his wife and The work, sorting potatoes, was deadly he liked it in England. "Very much", said his three sons. Obviously, he wrote it with boring. The ex-captain hit Karl when the Karl. "Do you play cricket at school"? his family in mind, answering once for all boy showed signs of "insubordination". "I try to, but it is very difficult". At this those questions which we are still being they laughed, and a lady with a hat on Christmas was particularly depressing. He had asked Karl what he was going to do when asked by younger people. to sing carols and thought it would be im­ he finished school. Karl said that he would Hannam-Hartland describes, in the first polite to say that Jews had "a different fest­ like to go to university, but that he wanted part of his book, a milieu we know well ival". The cold in that first winter of the to go into the army to help in the war enough: that of a well-to-do Jewish middle- war was excruciating. Karl fell sick, despite if that were possible. "I hope you mean class family without any strong religious ties, sleeping in his working clothes. In the sick our army", said the man. assimilating successfully—or so they thought ward, another inmate called him a "bloody, Karl was allowed to stay at school. When —to gentile German society. But the children fucking foreign bastard". invasion seemed likely, he offered his services were made to feel their "apartheid" at school. His sister, though herself none too happy to the Home Guard, but aliens were not Once, after a boyish prank, the teacher re­ as a domestic, had been moved into action wanted. He tried the air force, but he was primanded Karl with a sentence so significant by his miserable letters and succeeded in too young and the interviewing officer said that he never forgot it, and eventually used getting him into a grammar school, with to him, "In any case, we can't take the risk it as the title for his book: "For a boy in financial help from some New York relatives. that the Germans get a present of a bomber, your situation it is very unwise to do any­ Karl was overjoyed. More than anything else, can we"? Hannam continues: thing that attracts special attention. You are he wanted to have "an education", and was Karl felt it was hopeless. How could he lucky to be here at all". prepared to work hard for it and to save explain his position to people who could not tell the difference between a CJerman The rest of the family did not really un­ his relatives any extra expenses—^no tennis National Socialist and a German Jewish derstand what was happening until the Kris­ lessons for him, no milk in the evening, no refugee? tallnacht brought it home to them—this, too, dances with the girls from a neighbouring The book ends with Karl getting his school was typical of many Jewish circles which school. There were some other refugee boys certificate which allowed him to go into the were hoping that it would all "blow over". at Karl's school, including a former Hitler sixth form, and there is an Epilogue with Only now, emigration seemed advisable, Youth member who had been chucked out a dispassionate account of what happened to though first of all for the children; Karl's when they found he was half Jewish; he his family: "died in a concentration camp" father (the mother had died earlier) stayed was, of course, violently antisemitic. —"liberated from Belsen"—"disappeared with­ on and was later transported to Theresien­ In one paragraph, Hannam describes that out trace"—"escaped to America"—"died in stadt, where he was to end his life. In 1939, situation we have all had to face during our Argentina". Karl finished school and then Karl and his sister Margot were sent to early years in England: England: he to a refugee boys' hostel at Rams­ joined the army after all, serving in Burma gate, she to a provincial English family as He was embarrassed because of his bad and India. One of his former teachers in a domestic servant. English. Every time he talked to anybody Essen wrote to him after the war, asking they would say, "And where are you him to testify that he had never been anti­ What makes the book particularly readable from?, and he would say, "From Ger­ semitic. Karl went to Cambridge University is that Karl never feels sorry for himself. many , and they would look puzzled as and is now a senior lecturer at Bristol Yet he had every reason for it. His cool and li *°„o^^' V^"t ^« we not at war with University School of Education. sober accoimt is that of a terrible loneliness; them ? And he wanted to add, "But I am he knew very little English, the strange life Jewish, you see, and they threw me out". in this country bewildered him deeply. The But he felt bad about telling people that ILSE JOSEPH'S CRUSADE FOR PEACE he was Jewish. What did it mean to him? other refugee boys at the hostel were no great He had refused to join the prayer circle, Mrs. Ilse Joseph who was awarded the help, being just as confused as Karl. They he reaUy did not know in what sense MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List consoled themselves with one basic impres­ bemg Jewish was supposed to make him for her services to world harmony and under­ sion: that England was "a good and benevol­ different. U, when they had pork for din­ standing, is to start a crusade for peace in ent place", that here the Jews had equal ner, they said, "But Jews aren't allowed Northem Ireland at the age of 77. For years, rights—after all, even the editor of Picture Mrs. Joseph, a gifted violinist from Berlin Post, their main textbook for leaming who has given thousands of concerts and CLUB 1943 broadcasts in Britain, Germany and America, English, was a refugee. to promote peace between nations and creeds But when the war started, things changed. Meetings every Monday at 8 p.m. in memory of her children murdered at The hysteria of the British authorities made at Hannah KamiinskI House, Auschwitz, has said that as her contribution itself felt even in Ramsgate. Two plain-clothes 9 Adamson Road, N.W.S to Jubilee Year, she wants to go to Northem policemen came to investigate a report that As already announced in fhe previous issue Ireland and talk to children and adolescents on the need for reconciliation and peace. On someone had been watched sketching the Dr. Fred Grubel (New York] that occasion she will unveil a memorial harbour. Karl was asked to show his drawing- will speak on plaque for her children in a Youth Centre book; it was fuU of ships. The policemen The History and Collections of and tell her audience that they should not looked at it gravely, but seemed to decide grow up with hate in their hearts—^the kind that these were not a spy's sketches. "You the Leo Baeck Institute in of hate that led to the cmel death of her see," said the hostel leader, "they are watch­ New York children. Recovering from severe illness which ing us aU the time". (with slides) has somewhat restricted her activities, Mrs. Joseph has agreed with Save the Children Then came a great shock for the boys. on Monday, October 10, at 8 p.m. The hostel, which had been supported by Fund and Youth Aliyah to give all the pro­ Guests will i>e welcome ceeds of her activities during Silver Jubilee a group of Jewish doctors, had to close down. Year to the children of Ireland. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION October 1977

Alfons Rosenberg Nobel Peace Prize. This came to nothing, be­ cause the committee in Stockholm decided the prize would have to be shared with an MARTIN BLBER THE RELIGIOUS ANARCHIST Arab of similar standing, and no such person could be found. In the Middle Ages human life was divided fuer eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen ihnen In the last decades of his life, Buber's fame up into three epochs: tumbheit, zwivel and aufwies—der einzige Weg, der zum Heil and influence had spread to many parts of saelde. The last one was the age of wisdom des Landes und seiner beiden Voelker fueh­ the world. Thus he received admiring letters and awareness. We now have the third volume ren kann." from Japan where some of his books were of Martin Buber's correspondence in his state Soon after the creation of the State Eduard translated and successfully published. In of saelde.* With its more than 700 pages, Strauss quotes from one of Buber's letters: England he impressed Christian theologians it conveys a comprehensive insight into his "Ich verlasse dieses unselige Land nicht." much more frequently and deeply than their life and, in particular, his thought during his But he adapts to the new situation. In 1961 Jewish colleagues. The United States over­ last 30 years. To those of us who knew Buber to Robert Weltsch: ". . . da wir diesen Staat whelmed him with invitations to universities in Germany he was an almost permanent pre­ Israel, die neue geschichtliche Form unserer as well as Christian and Jewish institutions. sence. We read and reread his Hassidic books, Selbstbestimmung, . . . kritisch bejahen und Surprisingly, he had practically no correspon­ we loved and respected him, we went to his ihm kritisch dienen." dents from Italy, France or Belgium. conferences or lectures. Our youthful longings There was a third fact that tended to isolate Another gap: references to music and fiction had found a focus. To misquote Rilke: we Buber in Israel: his intense and positive in­ are very sparse, but Thomas Mann is men­ heard his message and had to change our lives. terest in Christianity and especially in Jesus. tioned in 1957: Buber left Germany in 1938. We others were In looking through the correspondence, some "An Ihr Buch ueber Thomas Mann habe ich dispersed all over the world and the man who people might be surprised by the great number noch nicht herangehen koennen, was zum was our anything but abstract guide receded of Christian theologians, writers and philo­ Teil auch an meinem ambivalenten Ver­ into the invisible realm where other "great sophers who in their letters express their haeltnis zu diesem ausserordentlichen men" have their dwelling. We kept wondering indebtedness to Buber. He writes in 1943: Kuenstler liegen mag (seiten habe ich eine what had happened to him, what he was doing, Erzaehlung so verwundet [sic] gelesen wie "... Jesus, dem ich mich nah und in man­ 'Das Gesetz')". what had become of him in his new country chem verbunden fuehle, [ist] fuer mich eben Palestine/Israel. Only now has a recently nicht der Messias . . . Ich glaube nicht an Here one might add that neither humour published book given us a partial answer to Jesus, aber glaube mit ihm." nor irony are evident in any letters. our questions.** But the letters, naturally, In 1949: "Judentum und Christentum stehen Those who are not close students of Buber's give a much fuller, more immediate picture miteinander im Geheimnis unseres Vaters und work may well be surprised by his intense of the man in his 'saelde'. He was blessed with Richters: so darf der Jude vom Christen und interest in psychology, which becomes clear in a burst of creativity by which even he himself der Christ vom Juden nicht anders als in his correspondence with psychologists and was amazed. No less amazing is the number Furcht und Zittem vor dem Creheimnis Gottes which evoked invitations to AJnerican institu­ and variety of his correspondents, ranging reden." tions of psychological research. Just as he from Tony Benn to Stefan Zweig. In a way, cannot accept Marx, he radically criticises he was the most Jewish of all thinkers in the A professor of Protestant theology makes Freud. His concem was man, the living human German language, yet he had a greater the criticism that Buber was putting Jesus being in his relationship to his fellow humans influence on Christian theology than any on the same level as a false messiah. Buber and to God. Like a golden thread the "I and Jewish writer of our age. The ardent 'Zionist' answers: Thou" runs through his correspondence. Ewald became one of the seminal influences in Wes­ "... in der Reihe der Messiasse ist Jesus Wasmuth wrote to him in 1952: tem thought. Paradoxically, it was this der unvergleichlich Reinste, Rechtmaessigste, phenomenon which made his position in Israel mit wirklich messianischer Kraft Begab- ". . . die Stellung des Menschen in der so difficult and ineffectual. Could it be called teste." Schoepfung zwischen der Natur und Gott Another "shock of recognition" which could wieder ins Rechte zu fuehren. Wie wichtig the final tragedy of his existence? und wie beglueckend und den Menschen not enhance his popularity in Israel was his wieder zum Leben fuehrend das ist, werden, Let us briefly examine this situation. Ger­ deeply felt attachment to Germany. glaube ich, erst spaetere Generationen . . • shom Scholem wrote of Buber's "religioese In 1949: "Eine Liebschaft me die meine begreifen." Anarchic". In a letter to Maurice Friedmann mit der deutschen Sprache ist eben ein objek- * Martin Buber. Briefwechsei aus sieben Jshrzehntan III : the "anarchist" explains: tives Faktum." 1«38-19t5. Heidelberg, 1975. In 1950: * * Aubrey Modes, Encounter with Martin Buber. Allen "... nichts in mir treibt mich dazu, genau im Lane, The Penguin Press, London 1972, also a Penguin einzelnen zu befolgen, was das Religions- "Auch durch oeffentliche Aeusserungen ver­ paperback. gesetz erlaubt und was nicht. In bestimmten schiedener Art habe ich mein ungemindertes Augenblicken . . . habe ich das Beduerfnis Interesse fuer die deutschen Menschen, die zu beten, und dann bete ich natuerlich guten Willens sind, bekundet. . . Ich bringe LONDON FOCUS allein . .." allem was an echter Geistigkeit und an ON JEWISH SCHOLARSHIP echter Menschlichkeit in Deutschland besteht It is easy to see that such an attitude goes At the Annual General Meeting of the Insti­ against the grain of traditional Judaism, and und geschieht, eine tiefe und rueckhaltlose Sympathie entgegen." tute of Jewish Studies, which is associated the Orthodox Jew might exclaim that this is with the University College London, the Protestantism. In Israel, where liberal Judaism Hans Blueher wrote to Buber in 1954: Chairman, Mr. Victor Mishcon, D.L., and the hardly exists, it was regarded as a provocation, "Obwohl Sie der Todfeind meines Vaterlandes Director, Mr. Raphael Loewe, reported that indeed as heresy. In 1963, moreover, Buber waren . . ." during the last academic year 28 seminar writes to a Gennan correspondent: Yet Buber's real attitude to Germany is sessions had been held, at which papers were reflected in a letter written in 1945: "Ich read by leading scholars and research students ". . . so glaube ich in der Tat an eine Viel- from Israel, the United States, Europe and the heit goettlicher Oflfenbarungen. Was sich darf dir sagen, dass meine Abgeschiedenheit United Kingdom. The Institute maintains close daraus ergibt, ist in dem rechtverstandenen von Deutschland mir schwer zu schaffen contacts with other scholastic organisations m evangeliscnen Satz ausgesprochen, es gebe machte und noch macht. . ." this country and abroad. A volume of "Studies in des Vaters Haus viele Wohnimgen." The Federal President Theodor Heuss in Jewish Religious and Intellectual History, And politics, nationalism and the Jewish praises Buber's work and its creative German- in honour of Professor Alexander Altmann is State? In a letter to Professor Magnes, shortly in print, and the three volumes of the Inst^ Jewish symbiosis. tute Bulletin which have so far appeared before the proclamation of the State of Israel, Hesse proposed that Buber should be have met with great success. Buber recalls that he was fighting for a awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and The Institute welcomes new participants in "juedisch-arabischen Bund": Dag Hammarskjoeld suggested him for the the weekly seminars, or others interested m "Ich hatte einen Resolutionsantrag entwor­ their work. Full information will be given fen, der die Gemeinsamkeit der Interessen by: The Director of the Institute of Jewisn der beiden Voelker betonte imd den Weg Studies, University College London, Gower BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER Street, London, WCl. BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS CAMPS 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.3 Always interested in purchasing INTERNMENT—P.O.W.— Our new communal hall Is available for well-preserved instruments FORCED LABOUR—KZ cultural and social functions. For details I wlsti to buy cards, envelopes and folded post­ JAQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. marked letters from ali oamps al both world «••. apply to: Secretary, Synagogue Office. Please send, registered mail, stating prlca. to: 142 Edgware Road, W.2 Tel.: 723 8818/9 PETER C. RICKENBACK Tel-- 01-794 3949 14 Rosalyn HIII, London, M.WJ . AJR INFORMATION October 1977 Page 7

CANADIAN SCIENTIST HONOURED THE ISRAEU SCENE 63-year old Mr. Sidney Hurwich of Toronto, a self-taught electronics expert, was recently NEW FEDERAL AMBASSADOR IN ISRAEL MAFLA CONNECTIONS IN ISRAEL? awarded the Israeli Medal of Honour. It was presented to him by a rabbi who said Israel Dr. Klaus Schiitz, former Lord Mayor of Mr. Bezalel Mizrachi, a Jerusalem buUding was grateful to him for a secret device he Berlin, will be the new German Ambassador contractor and hotel ovraer, has sued had invented which had saved thousands of in Israel. He entered the Bundestag in 1957 "Haaretz", the independent Hebrew-language lives in the operations of war. This device and was elected Lord Mayor of West Berlin paper, its editor Mr. Gershon Shocken and is said to have been used to scramble radar in 1967. He has always shown a deep one of its reporters, Mr. Avi Valentine, for at military bases between Israel and Uganda personal understanding for Jewish and Israeli libel and is claiming about £600,000 damages. and the Ugandan radar installations in problems. The Berlin Jewish Community gave In an article about organised crime, Mr. Entebbe and thus made the rescue of the a farewell party for him which was attended Valentine had named a number of prominent hostages by the Israeli commandos possible. by nearly 800 people. people alleged to be involved with a crime Mr. Hurwich who recently had an open-heart syndicate engaged in diamond and dmgs operation and was told to take things easy, POLICEMEN ARRESTED smuggling and protection rackets. Another refused to give details, but he said that the alleged member of the syndicate is Major- device was electrically-operated and could be Eleven Tel Aviv policemen were arrested General Rehavam Zeevi, who was accused by used to "freeze" moving parts and to stop on suspicion of theft and burglary. About "Haaretz" and by a Likud Knessed member, tanks, cars and buses from a distance. He had half of them, including an inspector, are ex­ Mr. Olmert from whom he tries to recover originally invented it to stop a series of bank- plosives experts. They are accused of having £115,000 in damages if his immunity as a raids in Canada, but the banks had not agreed stolen hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth Knesset member is waived. "Haaretz" also to its use in spite of its proven efficiency. of jewellery and other valuables when in­ claims that the French fugitive Mr. Flatto- He eventually offered it to the Israeli govem­ vestigating burglaries at homes and shops. Sharon who got himself elected to the Knesset, ment and had been seen by some top Israeli Six of the arrested have been dismissed from was being considered for the vacant post of military men in Toronto. He has never been the force, the others have been suspended. financial overlord of the crime syndicate. to Israel, but he said he understood it had Dr. Yosef Burg, Minister of the Interior, often been used to dismantle bombs. POLICE BUGGED said on television that he believes there is no organised crime in Israel. The police, he ARMY TIDIED UP After three weeks of investigation, the Tel added, must tackle organised crime with more Aviv police had to admit that they had not daring. When Ezer Weizman became Defence Min­ been able to discover the person who bugged ister, he started a campaign to smarten up police headquarters in order to listen to ARABS BEAT ARABS the Defence Forces which has been very suc­ secret conferences and interrogations. cessful. Improperly dressed men and women Six suspected Arab terrorists are to be soldiers are fined on the spot. A major had charged by the Israeli authorities to have in­ to pay several hundred Israeli pounds for FREUD CHAIR AT HEBREW UNIVERSITY terrogated and cruelly beaten fellow Arab not wearing his beret. A girl soldier wras fined prisoners in Nablus jail who had been accused for wearing too many rings. Soldiers form A Sigmund Freud Chair in psychoanalysis is of having collaborated with the Israeli author­ long queues at barbers' shops to have their to be established at the Hebrew University ities. The State Attorney, Mr. Gabriel Bach, hair cut to regulation length. with financial assistance from psychoanalysts told the press that many Arab prisoners from all over the world. This was announced claimed to have been tortured to explain that at an intemational conference of psycho­ they had given information to the Israelis, analysts in Jemsalem, the first ever to be and this was the basis for many of the stories held in Israel. recently published by the "Sunday Times". The four prisoners in this case, however, had made solemnly swom statements that they had been harshly beaten and bumt with cigarette ends by fellow Arabs. RECORD MEETING OF JEWISH SCHOLARS The 7th Congress of Jewish scholarship, the DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX largest since the foundation of the World Union of Jewish Studies 30 years ago, was opened in Jerusalem by President Katzir. LTD. More than 300 scholars from 30 countries, including Japan, Finland, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Portugal delivered more that 700 lectures. Ten lectures alone referred to Maimonides. Many of the participants were non-Jewish specialists on particular subjects of Jewisii scholarship.

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One of them, "KunstschuLreform teacher Silvia Gingold against her dismissal 1900-1933", shown near the Charlottenburg because she was a member of the Federal Ger­ other German-speaking countries, it was hardly Schloss, deals with the pioneer work of lead­ man Communist Party. She explained that her expected that within the comparatively short ing schools of art before 1933. An attractively father had been a Jewish Communist fighter span of two decades, no less than 200 books and for the Resistance in France during the war monographs would be produced under the In­ laid out 295-page hand book, published on and had been decorated by the French Gov­ the occasion, carries essays on the history emment in recognition of his bravery. Sev­ stitute's auspices. This is borne out by a r^' and achievements of the five leading schools eral members of her family had been killed in cently published, attractively laid out 100-page of art, represented at the Exhibition, among catalogue of the Institute's publications. them the Reimann-Schule in Berlin; the other concentration camps, and for this reason she four are the Kunstschule Debschitz (Munich), had joined the Communist Party after her In his preface, Dr Max Kreutzberger, who the Bauhaus, the Frankfurter Kunstschule and retum to Germany. edited the catalogue in co-operation with the Akademie fuer Kunst und Kunstgewerbe Irmgard Foerg, surveys the development of the Breslau. ROCK-STAR ADOLF HITLER Institute. He describes it as particularly signi­ Three young Hamburg musicians have organ­ The chapter about the Reimann-Schule in­ ised a band of 60, including many prominent ficant that the research on the history of the cludes excerpts from the late Professor Albert artists of the city, to record a rock opera Jews in Central Europe from their emancipa­ Reimann's reminiscences of the beginnings of about Adolf Hitler. A Cologne record firm tion up to the destmction of their communities the school and a number of essays, among wiU release the double album which will also has attracted not only scholars of German-Jew­ them one by Max Osbom, about the wide­ ish background but also many other Jewish spread teaching facilities of the steadily ex­ be sold in this country and in the U.S. When panding institute. It also shows photographs they were attacked in the German press the and non-Jewish historians of high standard- of works by pupils of the school, many of producers said that there was a tendency in Dr Kreutzberger, who was the first Director of whom were to attain fame in their particular Anglo-Saxon countries to make Hitler the sub­ the American centre, also mentions that the fields. ject of show-business. The U.S. rock group LBI House in New York with its library of "Kiss" had the "SS" emblem on its records. The book also deals with the defamation more than 40,000 books, its archives and per­ and ultimate elimination of the ideas on which "QUICK'S" HITLER SERLVL sonal memoirs is the most comprehensive col­ these five art schools were based. The position The West German illustrated weekly lection in this specific fleld. [The London talk was particularly perturbing in the case of (with slides) of its Secretary, Dr Gmbel, the Reimann-Schule because its founder and "Quick" has begun the publication of a series owner was a Jew. In 1935, the school had to of articles by the American historian John announced on page 5, wiU therefore be of be "sold" and, under a different management, Toland, who describes Hitler as "sentimental, special interest to our readers.—The Ed.] lingered on until 1943, when it was bombed unhappy, in love, crying, mthless, calculated, The publications, listed and annotated in the out. despairing"—in that order. The Editors state that such an article should help to explain catalogue include, above all, the Year Books As our readers know. Professor Reimann to the 30 mUlion young people born since (edited by Dr Robert Weltsch, lately in co-opera­ emigrated to this country, together with his 1945 why "the whole German people" were tion with Dr Arnold Paucker), which, since first wife and helpmate, the late Mrs. Clara taken in by that man. 1956, have appeared with a regularity rarely Reimann. He had to share all the hardships of achieved by similar ventures. Each Year Book the refugees, aggravated in his case by the fact FORMER REFUGEES VISIT BERLIN that he was too old to make a new start. carries a number of monographs by expert Since the city of Berlin invited its former authors; these contributions are not only in­ Fortunately, some time after the war, things Jewish citizens to come back on a visit, 6843 took a turn for the better, and he was granted former Berliners have accepted this invitation. valuable in their own right as works of scholar­ a carefree old age under the loving care of his This year, 342 arrived in a special plane from ship but will also serve as indispensable source second wife, Mrs. Elly Reimann. He died in material for a future comprehensive historio­ 1976 at the great age of 101. It was a grati­ the United States and Canada, another 144 fying thought of the promoters of the Exhi­ from Israel, and all were welcomed by a rep­ graphy of Central European Jewry- The Year bition to invite his widow, Mrs. Elly Reimann, resentative of the Berlin Govemment. Heinz Books are complemented by Bulletins (editea to Berlin as their guest. Galinski, head of the Jewish community said by Dr. Hans Tramer, Tel-Aviv) of which, at the at a reception which was attended by the pre­ time of the publication of the catalogue, 49 sent Lord Mayor of West Berlin, Dietrich volumes have been published; they parry FOUR YEARS FOR 320 MURDERS Stobbe, that among the visitors there were shorter but no less scholarly articles pertinent people who had left Berlin 43 years ago and A Hamburg Court sent 64-year old former others whom he had first met as part of a to the terms of reference of the LBI. Both the SS Obersturmfiihrer Maywald to prison for Siemens forced labour group to which he had Year Books and the Bulletins are sen^ free ot four years for having assisted in the murder belonged or in Auschwitz. charge to members of the Society of Friends of 320 Jews in the Riga ghetto. The public of the LBI (address in Britain: 4 Devonshire prosecutor had demanded a life sentence. 60 YEARS "UFA" Street, London, W.l, where particulars about The Court gave as reasons for the mUdness The Universal-Film-A.G., better known enrolment may be obtained). of the sentence that it had been Maywald's under the abbreviation "UFA", was founded duty to select those to be killed, but selection in 1917 and dissolved in 1945. It was, however, Another section of the catalogue lists books was not the same as murder. The sentence re-established eleven years later in Berlin published in the Institute's "Schriftenreihe was suspended and Maywald can continue his and Duesseldorf. To mark the 60th anniversary wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen". So ^^^'.j^ career as a cosmetics merchant at Neun- of its creation, 14 films produced during the publications have appeared, covering the wid^ kirchen/Saar. Before the court had been years 1930/44 were shown in the Berlin ground of German Jewish history. One °^y^, depositions by witnesses now in the U.S. and "Marmorhaus". The personalities associated in Sweden which had been written down in with the "old" UFA include Paul Davidsohn latest publications was the greatly needeo, detail two years after the events. (1866-1927), Hermann Fellner (1878-1936), unbiased analysis of the Jews in Wilhelmmian Erich Pommer (1889-1966), Fritz Lang (1890- Germany (1890-1914), reviewed in the 3vae DUTIFUL MURDERER IN COURT 1976) and Robert Siodmak (1900-1973). 1977 issue of this joumal. . . E.GX. A further category of publications consists Wemer Poehls, former "SS Obersturmbann- of biographies and evaluations of German-Jew­ fiihrer", was accused before the Kiel High EAST GERMAN SYNAGOGUE'S ish personalities, among them Baeck an Court of having assisted in the murder of 417 ANNIVERSARY Buber, Mendelssohn and Wolfskehl (to quote adults and children in Brest Litovsk in 1942. The small Jewish community in the German The Public Prosecutor produced documents only a few examples) as well as of memoirs, Democratic Republic recently celebrated the e.g. by Herman Zondek and Margaret Susman- which showed that Poehls had written to his 25th anniversary of the synagogue in Erfurt, superior that the most active partisans of his the first synagogue to be rebuilt in the GDR Last but not least, the Jerusalem LBI has district had not been killed and asked to be after the war. The original Erfurt synagogue undertaken the translation of works by out­ allowed to make up for this omission. When was bumed down during the November 1938 standing German Jews into Hebrew. , he was given the permission he requested, pogroms and was rebuilt in 1952. Before the It is to be welcomed that the widespreao he acted upon it and reported back that more war, there lived about 1,000 Jews in Erfurt, achievements on which the LBI may look bacR than 350 adults and 60 children had been but among the members of the present small have been put on record. Yet even more i™po' executed. The court used this document to community only 15 had been residents of absolve him from guilt, stating that he had tant is the fact that, as a living organism, tne the city before the Holocaust, most of them Leo Baeck Institute carries on with its unique been acting in war time, promoted by a sense are survivors of concentration camps.—(JTA). of duty rather than from a mthless desire work and wUl have to do so for a very lons to kill and had not been guUty of special time to come. To some extent, the degree o cruelty. For this reason, the charges against further progress will depend on the assistanc him were dismissed. Poehls had joined the With acknowledgement to the news service rendered by former Central European Je*" Nazi party in 1933 and had received high of the Jewish Chronicle. and their chUdren. E.GJ>- awards from the Nazi govemment. AJR INFORMATION October 1977 Page 9

a change of practice as compared with the SOCIAL INSURANCE PAYMENTS previous practice of treating these pensions as income taxable on a 50% basis (Section PREVIOUS STATUS RESTORED ments in respect of pensions paid by virtue 22(2) Finance Act 1974) and prior to that on of the former Section 100, now Section 99 a remittance basis. The Inland Revenue con­ As our readers know from previous publi­ that were not final and conclusive on April 3, sider, however, that assessments which were cations in this paper (see AprU 1977 issue), 1977. final prior to April 3, 1977 were made in there was for some time the danger that new accordance with the practice then generaUy applicants might be excluded from German If the recipient of a German Social Insur­ prevaUing and can, under a provision of the Social Insurance payments, if and as far as ance pension residing abroad (i.e., outside Taxes Management Act, 1970 (Section 33), not they had paid their contributions for employ­ West Germany or West Berlin) is a German be re-opened. ment in territories of the former Reich out­ national or a former German national, who Normally an Award made by the Bundes­ side the Federal Republic and outside Berlin. was deprived of his German nationality due versicherungsanstalt states if the pension is In fact, appUcations of this category of Nazi to racial, religious or political discrimination payable to a resident of this country under •f (i.e., a Nazi victim) and his insurance contri­ victims had been rejected since November Section 100, or now Section 99, and no fur­ 1976. At our General Meeting, held on May butions were paid in the territory which is now ther query should then arise conceming the 17, we were already able to report (see our the Federal German Republic, a Social Insur­ recipient's claim to fuU tax exemption of the July issue) that in aU likelihood the previous ance pension is payable to him abroad, by pension under the above-quoted ruling. If status would be restored because the draft right, if the necessary conditions (completed on production of such an Award, H.M. In­ of the 20th Rentenanpassungsgesetz (RAG) contribution periods, including "Ersatzzeiten") spector of Taxes does not agree to full exemp­ which also provides certain changes of the are fulfilled. Recipients entitled under these tion, reference should be made to the com­ regulations on social insurance payments, provisions do not qualify for full tax exemp­ munication sent by the Inland Revenue, carried a clause to that effect. Meanwhile, tion in respect of their pensions which are Policy Division, to this Association. this draft has become law (published in Bun­ paid abroad under Sections 97 and 98 of the AVG. The 50% tax exemption under Section desgesetzblatt No. 39 of June 30, 1977). The TAX EXEMPTION FOR AUSTRIAN Insurance Institutes have been requested by 22(2), Finance Act 1974, continues to apply the Federal Ministry of Labour to revert to to them. "HILFSLOSENZUSCHUESSE" their previous practice and to rescind any Section 99 deals with payment abroad of Foreign social security invaUdity pensions rejections they had decided upon during the pensions not covered by Sections 97, 98 and past months. paid to residents of this country were exempt stipulates that such pensions can be paid to from U.K. tax from the tax year 1974/75 on­ DetaUs about the amended sections (Sec­ victims of National Socialist persecution (not wards by Extra-Statutory Concession No. .'/^i tion 99, previously Sections 100 and 101) of confined here to former German nationals). of 1975, now renumbered A26 (see the the AngesteUten-Versichemngsgesetz (AVG) It covers not only persons whose contribu­ notice in our issue of September 1975). Efforts and the U.K. tax exemptions for payments tions were paid in the German Reich out­ have been made for some time to obtain an under these sections, recently notified by the side the territory of the Federal Republic Inland Revenue ruling clarifying that the Inland Revenue, are described in the follow­ or in Danzig. It also extends, in Sub-Section 2, Austrian "HUfslosenzuschiisse" were in­ ing article. No. 1 of Section 99, to those victims of cluded in this tax exemption. The AJR has National Socialist persecution whose entitle­ now received confirmation from the Inland TAX EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN ment derives from contributions in the terri­ Revenue "that as a matter of practice we GERMAN BENEFITS tories annexed by the German Reich in 1938, treat the Austrian Social Security DisabUity 1939—e.g., Bohemia, Moravia, certain Polish Supplementary Benefit ("HUfslosenzuschusse") territories—as long as they belonged to the paid under Section 105a of the Austrian The AJR has been advised by the Inland German-speaking minority (in German: Deut­ Revenue, Policy Division, that those West General Social Insurance Law (ASVG) as sche Volkszugehoerige). This second group is exempt for the tax years 1974/75 and subse­ German Social Insurance benefits which are referred to as "Vertriebene", i.e. expelled paid under Section 99 of the "AngesteUten- quent years in accordance with the terms of persons. Dependants are included in the regu­ Extra Statutory Concession A26". F.E.F. Versichemngsgesetz" (AVG) can be regarded lations of Section 99. as not liable to Income Tax. Section 99 re­ places the former Sections 100/101 of the There are special provisions, not dealt with AVG; pensions paid under those sections simi­ here in detaU, for cases in which some but CORRECTION larly are not regarded as liable to Income not all contributions were paid in the Fed­ A strange misprint occurred in the last Tax. (The corresponding sections applying to eral Republic. It can be assumed that the tax paragraph of my article "Pitfalls of Messianic pensions paid imder the Reichsversicherangs- treatment—100% or 50% exemption—wUl be Thinking", in the September issue of this ordnung (RVO) are Sections 1321/22, now re­ on the basis of the respective proportions paper on page 2. On line 4 of that paragraph placed by Section 1320.) of the pensions. it was stated that "after the formation of a small state compeUed to conduct earth-bound We are further advised that this change of We are advised that the reason for the foreign and military policy" there was no practice is effective from April 4, 1977 and tax exemption of benefits paid under Section point in messianic ideology. But instead of the new practice wUl be applied to aU asess- 99 (formerly Section 100) is that the recipi­ "small state", as written in the manuscript, ents have no right to the payment abroad it was printed "a friendly state", which makes of these benefits which are entirely within no sense in the context. the discretion of the German authority Robert Weltsch ("Kann"-Vorschrift). As there is no such en­ titlement, the Revenue now regard these pay­ fJ'fiXwJter! ments not as income in the meaning of the needs Income Tax Acts. This treatment represents Overcome the problem of dry air in SELF AIO OF REFUGEES stuffy homes and offices! For your health's sake and that of your pets, piano, furniture, antiques, paintings THIRTIETH ANNUAL CONCERT ADD the required moisture with an THEODOR HERZL SOCIETY K.C. AND K.J.V. IN GREAT BRITAIN Monday, 28 November, at 7.45 p.m. THE HON. TERENCE PRITTiE. MM Queen Elizabeth Hall, will speak on London, S.E.1 PROSPECTS OF PEACE FOR ISRAEL EGRO HUMIDIFIER PARK LANE MUSIC PLAYERS (made in Switzerland^ Conductor RUDOLF SCHWARZ Simple to use. Models available for all on Tuesday, November 1, tvpes of heating. Phone or write for frea at 8.15 p.m. • Kplanatory leaflet to Soloist IDA HAENDEL THE HUMIDIFIER CO. 25 Bridge Road, Wembley Park, at Hannah Karminski House, Tickets from Box Office. Royal Festival Hall (01-928 3191) and trom Self Aid of Refugees, Middlesex, HA9 9AB 9 Adamson Road, N.W.3 litiephone: 01-904 7603 (est,1958) 8 Fairfax Mansions, London, NWS 6JY Guests will be welcome (01-328 3255/6) Page 10 AJR INFORMATION October 1977

MRS. LUISE FEISTMANN OBITUARY Mrs. Luise Feistmann, a resident of Hein­ rich Stahl House, died on August 28, in her 91st year. Before she came to England in Sm MISHA BLACK DR. ROBERT O. HELD 1938, she had worked for several years with the "Aufbringungswerk" of the Berlin Jewish Baku-bom Professor Sir Misha Black who Dr. Robert 0. Held died in Starnberg in community. During the war, she took up has died, aged 66, was an architect and in­ his 88th year. Before the Nazis came to power, employment of various kinds. In 1947, she dustrial designer of intemational repute. He he was a practising lawyer in Munich and, decided to join her sister in the United was 18 months old when his Russian-Jewish at an early age, was elected a Board member States. There, she did again valuable socm parents brought him to Britain. His only of the Deutsche Anwaltsverein and the work. After her sister's death, she retumed formal training was acquired in evening Anwaltskammer in Munich. He emigrated to to London in 1967, to be near her daughters. classes, and at the beginning of the Second the United States where, after having obtained When she could no longer look after herself, World War, he was appointed principal exhi­ his American legal qualifications, he again she applied for admission to one of our Homes. bitions officer for the Ministry of Information. practised in his profession. After the promul­ Being a mentally alert personality, used to He was co-ordinating architect for part of the gation of the restitution and compensation independence, this decision certainly did not Festival of Britain, design consultant for laws he became an authority in this field. come easy to her. Yet once she was admitted London Transport, architect to the Zoological Dr. Held was also a co-founder of the Jewish to Heinrich Stahl House in 1971, she did not Museum and design consiUtant for BOAC PhUanthropic Fund of 1933 and actively put up with a life of inactivity. On the headquarters at London Airport. Govemments associated with several other Jewish organisa­ contrary, she introduced various schemes of in BrazU, Ceylon^ Israel and Argentina tions. He spent the last years of his life in occupation and thus became a source of employed his services. In the liner Queen retirement in Stamberg near Munich. inspiration for her feUow residents. Her suc­ Elizabeth II he designed the synagogue, and cessful efforts were described in a local paper he was also supervisor for the renovation as an example to be followed by other Homes for the Elderiy. . , of the New London Synagogue for which he MR. JACK MORRISON designed sUver Sifrei "Torah. He was knighted In the course of her long life, Mrs. Feist­ in 1972. mann had no easy passage. Yet notwithstand­ Mr. Jack Morrison, who died on August 29 ing the vicissitudes she had to experience, LORD COHEN OF BIRKENHEAD at the age of 75, took a leading part in the she always retained her self-confidence and work of B'nai B'rith. He was grand president she continued to excel by her mental clarity Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, who died during of the District Grand Lodge of Great Britain even when her health started to give way. a medical conference at Bath at the age of and Ireland from 1952 to 1966 and, on his She wiU be remembered with affection by ai^ 77, was one of Britain's most eminent phy­ retirement from office, was appointed to be those who had the privilege of knowing h^- sicians. In his time, he was president of the the lodge's first honorary president. As vice- British Medical Association, the General president of world B'nai B'rith he represented Medical CouncU, the Royal Society of Anglo-Jewry at many intemational gatherings. DR. RUDOLF ILTIS Medicine and the Royal Society of Health. A great phUanthropist, he generously sup­ He was knighted in 1949, created first Baron ported many causes, including the establish­ The secretary-general of the CouncU of Cohen of Birkenhead in 1956 and appointed ment of HUlel House in London and, as Jewish ReUgious Communities in Czecho­ a Companion of Honour for services to honorary president of HUlel Foundation, he slovakia, Dr. Rudolf ntis, has died in Prague, medicine in 1974. He worked untiringly for was a frequent speaker and guest of honour at the age of 78. A lawyer by profession, Jewish causes, as life president of the King at student gatherings at London HiUel he was deported to Theresienstadt by tn^ David Foundation (Liverpool's Jewish schools) House and in the provinces. Mr. Morrison Nazis and remained there untU the end oi and of the Liverpool Home for the Aged. was founder and chairman of Amalgamated the war, when he played a leading part m In 1962, he spoke in the House of Lords in Securities Limited, which he buUt up into the reorganisation of the Czechoslovakian defence of shechita, and a biU, trying to a multi-miUion pound development enterprise Jewish community about which he publisnea abolish it, was subsequently withdrawn. for shops and offices throughout the country. a scholarly book in 1959.

FAMILY EVENTS Deaths Wachsberger.—Mr. Alfons Wachs- Personal berger (formerly Berlin) passed Entries in the column Family Broch. — Mr. Erich Broch (for­ away in Haifa (Carmel), on Aug­ WHICH INTELLIGENT young Events are free of charge; any merly Bochum) died in Heinrich ust 30, aged 58. Deeply mourned man, possibly professional, up i" voluntary donation would, how­ Stahl House, The Bishop's Avenue, by his sister, Mrs. Steffi Feher, 36, with matrimony in mind, tea ever, be appreciated. Texts should N.2, on September 7, aged 77. and niece, Kitty. up with clubs, would like to meei be sent in by 15th of the month. Deeply mourned by his son, our very attractive and educateo brother, sister-in-law, niece and CLASSIFDED daughter? Box 684. Birthdays nephew, and sadly missed by the The charge in these columns is WIDOW in her 60s, with no chil­ residents of the Home. Never to 25p for five words plus 20p for dren, of independent means, wuii Goodman. — Mrs. Ruth Goodman be forgotten. advertisements under a Box No. (nee Mannheimer), formerly a nice home, wishes to meet a synr Worms, of 24 Hardwick Crescent, Feistmann.—Our beloved courage­ Situations Vacant pathetic retired widower in tnf Bamsley, Yorkshire, will celebrate ous mother, Mrs. Luise Feistmann same position. Marriage ^'^^' (nee Merzbacher), died on August WE WOULD WELCOME to hear sidered. When replying, PjS,, her 70th birthday on October 5. 28 after another severe Ulness. In from more ladies who would be give telephone number. Box 68^- the name of her famUy and friends wUUng to shop and cook for an Guttmann.—The AJR Club extends Helen (Leni) Reinfrank. elderly person in their neighbour­ INFORMATION REQUIRBD heartiest congratulations on the hood on a temporary or permanent combined 135th birthday of their Friday.—Mrs. Kaethe Friday (nee basis. Current rate of pay £1-25 Personal Enquiries dear members Sidonie Guttmann Grosser) died on September 10 in per hour. Please ring Mrs. Casson (85) and Charles H. Guttmaim (50). her 82nd year. Moumed by her 01-624 4449, AJR Employment, for Tichauer.—WiU Miss Ilse Tichauer son, Uri KeUer, and Eva Aloni and appointment. (may have changed her name) las"; Hans SUberstein in Israel. known in London, or any reaaei Luchs.—Mrs. Erna Luchs (nee Accommodation Available who knows her address please COB Hertz), of Beckum/Westf., former­ Grundmann. — Dr. Hans Grund­ tact Mr. Eric Zorek, 37 Eton ly Berlin and Exeter Road, Lon­ mann, of 35 Stumperlowe Park HENDON CENTRAL, s/c spacious Avenue, London, N.W.S (Phone. don, N.W.2, now of Apt. 92, Rua Road, Sheffield 10, died suddenly three-roomed flat, tiled bathroom, 794 2218). Itacema 330, Sao Paulo 04530, and unexpectedly on September 10, separate wc, kitchen, c/h, c.h.w. BrazU, will celebrate her 70th of a heart attack. 99-year lease; banker's reference. Homung.—Miss Amalie Hornung. birthday on October 13. Mrs. EdUh £14,500. Box 685. last known address (in 1940) Pojs, Freiwald is wishing "many happy Rath.—Mrs. Luise Rath, widow of damerstrasse, Berlin-CharlotteD returns of the day" and countless Salli Rath formerly of Cambridge, Miscellaneous burg 5. Believed to have come J" more to come in good health p. G'd died suddenly on August 29. Sadly REVLON MANICURIST / PEDI- England in 1946 with famUy Hocn to her dear friend on this occa­ missed by her daughters, their mann from Internment ^^„lix sion. CURIST. WiU visit your home. famUies and her friends. 01-445 2915. Biberach-Ryss (Germany), wu^ anybody knowing anything ano Merzbach. — Mrs. Anna Merzbach, Rose.—Miss Edith Rose, formerly PERSIAN CARPET wanted to her write to Box 683. of 10 Addisland Court, Addison from Hanover, died peacefully on purchase by family. 01458 3010. Road, W.14, celebrated her 95th September 18, aged 82. Sadly birthday on September 13. missed by her family and friends. LADY'S OMEGA WATCH and wide bracelet, 18 carat gold—£220. CHANGE OF ADDRESS Semmel.—Mrs. EUa Semmel (n6e Phone 01-889 4129. Salinger. — Mrs. Hilde Salinger Schluechterer), of 21 Dorset Drive, In order to ensure '"a* V^" (formerly Fabian, nee Baruch), of Edgware, died on September 19. WANTED: PAINTINGS, Drawings receive your copy of "AJR inW 30 Baliol Square, Durham, cele­ Deeply mourned by her chUdren, and Prints by Kollwitz, Ury, mallon" regulariy, please Inlonn brated her 90th birthday on August Heinz (Israel), Hanna (Stanmore), Stmck, Liebermann, Corinth, Orlik us Immediately of any change oi 27. Congratulations from her and Walter (London, W.2), rela­ and contemporaries. Good prices address. chUdren and grandchUdren. tives and many friends. paid. Box 686. AJR INFORMATION October 1977 Page 11

F. HellendaU Talmud? And would the modern State of Israel have been possible without the assimilation of European Jews to the culture and civilisa­ tion of their environment? A PAPERBACK HISTORY OF GERMAN JEWRY Yet, notwithstanding these shortcomings, the Many of us who often regret that our cess to which men of different backgrounds author has by and large succeeded in giving younger generation has so little access to our are liable whenever they meet and live a good, brief summary of our history of which own history will welcome a recent attempt together on equal terms—as an evil. Thus he too many of us know too little. made to publish a short popular history of states (p. 42): German Jewry in paperback.* "German Jewry's faith . . . was inter­ The book traces the history of German Jews mittently subjected to the trials of persecu­ Letter to the Editor back from its beginning in the ninth century tion, the temptations(!) of assimilation and The Refugee Children's Movement —and probably earlier times—to its end in the terror of destruction.' Sir,—May I add one more letter to the cor­ 1933 although deliberately refraining from and he evidently regards assimUation as being respondence on the subject of the refugee describing the Holocaust in detaU. on the same level as "apostasy" when he children? The talk I recently gave to the Birmingham Whoever looks at recent German-Jewish writes (p. 19) : Jewish Historical Society has aroused wide­ history is bound to ask the question why anti­ "Between the time of Frederick the spread comment on the basis of a press report. semitism developed to such a catastrophic Great's death and Hitler's rise to power, But the Jewish Chronicle could only report extent in the "seemingly enlightened intellec­ assimilation and apostasy had almost some facets of what I then said. To avoid tual climate" of Germany. The author gives assumed the dimensions of mass movements misunderstanding, may I stress through your the explanation that whereas the emancipation amongst German Jews." columns what I stressed in my talk, that of the Jews in other West European countries thousands of us owe our lives to the efforts It is therefore not surprising that in the of the Refugee Children's Movement and that was a consequence of the enlightenment and few concluding pages of this book dealing with we will remain for ever gratefid for this fact. bourgeois revolutions of the peoples of those events after 1945 not a word is mentioned I paid partictdar tribute to individual efforts countries, in Germany it was imposed by about the contributions which former German of those connected with the movement by Napoleon's victorious armies and was, as the Jews rendered and are still rendering to the name. writer correctly points out, "accompanied by cultural and scientific life of the countries At the same time it seems to me to be right the humiliation of German arms" and thus in which they found refuge. and proper thirty years after the event to •'expUcitly associated with defeat and the With hindsight it is easy to speak of call for a great research effort before the foreigner". After the "liberation" of 1815 most "the moment when many German Jews were evidence is lost. I made it especially clear that of the achievements of Jewish emancipation I felt no personal sense of deprivation but I making their last (and as Hitler proved(!) did express a suspicion that there seemed to were swept away. It is one of the tragedies of futUe) efforts to assimilate . . ." (p. 62), but be a tendency among some of those in charge German Jewry that thus antisemitism became we who are the products of this assimilation to discourage not just higher education but part of the "national heritage" of Germany. have no reason to be ashamed of it. Could any academic education even where this was Unfortunately the book suffers from the any of the astounding proportion of outstand­ possible full-time or part-time. The reasons basic premise of its author which regards ing men of science, art and culture which our for this are not fully understood, but as they assimUation—a natural, almost biological pro- small community of 600,000 (about 1 per cent affected so many hves of a distinguishable in a nation of 60 million) produced in less minority group, they are worth research­ * Popular Judaica Library—Gerinany. Edited bv Stuart ing into. To do so implies no disrespect or Cohen. Keter Books. Jerusalem (POB 7146). £2. Readers than 150 years of emancipation and assimila­ ingratitude to all those who devoted them­ may obtain copies at the Jewish Memorial Bookshop, tion and to whom the author justifiably refers Woburn House, Upper Woburn Place, London, W.C.1 or, selves to saving children from certain death. at a reduced rate of El -25, direct from the publishers in detail, have achieved what they did if they (Prof.) JOHN GRENVILLE in Jerusalem after having paid the remittance to the London had remained in their ghettoes and confined 42 SeUy Wick Road, account of Keter Ltd., at the Bank Leumi, 7 Woodstock their intellectual activities to the study of the Street, W.l, or 101 Golders Green Road, N.W.II. Birmingham, B29 7JA.

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TEN YEARS OF DEVOTED SERVICES PERSONALIA Tribute to Matron of Otto Schiff House DR. LOHMEYER RETIRED Theatre and Cultured News This month, ten years have passed since Miss A. Rieger was appointed Matron of Otto Dr. Brigitte Lohmeyer, for many years cul­ Salzburg. "Winter Melody", an operetta by Schiflf House, after she had already held a tural attache at the Federal German Embassy the Hungarian-Jewish composer Paul Abraham responsible position as a qualified nurse at in London, has retired. In the course of her (whose "Viktoria und ihr Husar" and "Blume Leo Baeck House. The anniversary of her ten­ activities she has developed personal relat­ von Hawai" remain unforgotten), completed ure of office serves as a welcome opportunity ionships with many members of our com­ and published after Abraham's death, is being to express to her our sincere thanks for her munity to whom she endeared herself by prepared by the Landestheater for the forth­ unsurpassed loyalty and her signal services her cordiality and helpfulness. We wish to the Home. The main beneficiaries are, of her happinesss and creative leisure in her coming season. course, the residents. It is due to her efforts well-deserved retirement. Berlin. A revival of Sternheim's "Kassette" that people of diflferent outlooks, expectations at the Schlossparktheater did not succeed, and temperaments have been welded into MR. ARTHUR NEY 75 critics complaining about the lack of sarcastic one family. The mutual attachment between humoiu- in this production without which such her and the residents became particularly Mr. Arthur Ney, who celebrates his 75th a characteristic play cannot reach its public. evident, when after a fire in the Home, the birthday on October 17, is a native of Stutt­ residents had to be temporarily accommo­ gart. He came to this country in 1936 and, Evergreens. Continental pavement cafes still dated in other Homes. She constantly kept together with two friends from Stuttgart, have their bands playing to the ice cream-eat­ contact with them,and great was the joy, when founded Londex Ltd., a company specialising ing crowds inside and outside. How gratifying the whole family was assembled again under in electrical remote control. It was very to note that in these pop-tune times Italian and the same roof. successful and is now part of General Tyrolian resorts are still scoring long-lasting At the helm of the Home, which is run on Elictric Co. Ltd. applause with "Valencia", "Ramona", "Jeal­ strictly Orthodox lines. Miss Rieger has al­ For over twenty years, Arthur Ney has ousy" and "You are my heart's delight". There ways excelled by a deep respect for the Jew­ been an active member of B'nai B'rith, first certainly seems to have been no great change ish religion and a punctilious observance of in the Leo Baeck Lodge, then, since the 1060s, since the melodious 'thirties. the ritual requirements. Her human under­ as a founder member of the Surrey Lodge, standing of the residents is linked with high of which he is a past president. His special Recollections—but no regrets. The marriage administrative qualities, which are reflected interest in the Surrey Lodge is the welfare of Czech-bom film star Anna Ondra and fonner in her relationship with the staff, many of of the lonely and elderly, whom he visits boxing champion Max Schmeling is now 44 whose members have served under her guid­ regularly. He has also been a member of the years old; the couple are living "happily ever ance for a long time. Equally, she has buUt AJR for many years. after" in retirement in Germany. up an atmosphere of mutual trust with the members of the House Committee, all of With his wide interests in business, the More Hoerbigers. A son was born to Meresa, whom realise and deeply appreciate her un­ Lodge, travel and the arts, Arthur Ney enjoys youngest daughter of the actor couple Paula tiring eflorts and who, in the course of many a busy retirement. Wessely-Attila Hoerbiger. Proudly, all three years of close co-operation, have become per­ Hoerbiger daughters now possess male heirs. sonally attached to her. KNITTING EXHIBITIGN IN SYDNEY Birthdays. German actress Kaethe Haack was 80 years old in August; Heinrich Schnitzler, For "Loni" Rieger Matronship of Otto Schiff Arranged by AJR Member House means more tlian the fulfilment of son of the Austrian dramatist Arthur Schnitz­ duties involved in the job. She knows of no ler, a disciple of Reinhardt, director and pro­ limits in the amount of time she devotes to Under the auspices of the Australian Wool ducer, is 75; Kurt Meisel, stage and screen star, the Home and, as a matter of course, puts upon Corporation, a "History of Knitting" Exhi­ formerly chief producer at the Vienna "Burg" herself additional duties whenever the need bition was recently held in Sydney. It was and now Intendant of the Bavarian "Staats- arises. Equally, it is her ambition to create an atmosphere of homeliness in the house, the first exhibition of its kind in the world schauspiele" in Munich, celebrated his 65th and nothing gives her more pleasure than the and arranged by Mr. Heinz Edgar Kiewe birthday. beautification of the Home by a new piece (Oxford), a member of the AJR, who has Obituary. Philip von Zeska whose death is of furniture or art. Otto Schifi' House has be­ spent a lifetime travelling and researching announced at the age of 82, is moiUTied by the come an integral part of her life, just as she needlecraft. The Exhibition was opened by Vienna Burgtheater where he had been an has become an integral part of Otto Schift House. For all this we want to thank her. the Lord Mayor and Mayoress of Sydney, Mr. actor from 1920 until June this year. Wanda May we have the benefit of her devoted ser­ and Mrs. Leo Port. Mr. Port (formerly Achsel, Berlin-born soprano of the Vienna vices for many more years to come, and may Rapoport), a well-known engineer and tele­ State Opera from 1923 to 1939, famous Rosa­ she too continue to find happiness and satis­ vision lecturer in Sydney, hails from the linda in the Bruno Walter "Fledermaus" at faction in the work which has become her Province of Poznan, and his wife was born Salzburg's Festival in the 'thirties, has died in vocation. in Berlin. Vienna, aged 90. S.B. W.R-

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