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ing environment, and it is an achievement that, notwithstanding this "Funktionswandel", CONFroENCE AND SOLIDABITY the AJR has preserved its identity. The Director's report was followed by a AJR Board Meeting report of the General Secretary of the AJR, Mrs. S. R. Taussig. She stated that although This year's Board Meeting of the AJR, held ter, but in November last, the GDR unex­ there had been an actual increase of our in­ on January 30 in the Hall of Hannah Kar- pectedly offered a payment of one million come over the year, in view of the inflation minski House, excelled by its particularly large dollars to the Claims Conference as the repre­ it was not sufiicient to cover the expenditure. attendance and the lively discussion, which fol­ sentative Jewish body, with the proviso that The sharing of premises with Self Aid will lowed the reports and which reflected the the money should only be used for those Nazi certainly help to some extent but still be Board members' deep feelings of co-respon­ victims from the territory of the GDR who insufficient. On membership, in spite of the sibility for the numerous present activities of are now USA citizens. For reasons explained inevitable losses in the course of the year, the AJR and the tasks it might have to fulfil ia the January, 1977 issue of "AJR Informa­ 169 new members had been enrolled, leaving in the future. tion", this offer was rejected. the total membership at 4,000. The Meeting was opened by the Chairman, Turning to the position in the German Dealing with the various services of the Mr. C. T. Marx, who extended a special wel­ Federal Republic, Mr. Rosenstock stated that, AJR, Mrs. Taussig reported that the Meals- come to the considerable number of members so far, she had made payments of various on-Wheels Service, which was operating under from the Provinces. He paid tribute to the kinds totalling DM 50,000 million, to which a the direction of Mrs. R. Anderman, sent out members who had died during the year: Mr. further DM 30,000 million for future payments 950 meals in December. The extension of the W. M. Behr, the former Chairman of the AJR, (pensions, etc.) have to be added. There are service, made by the installation of a freezer Rabbi Dr. I. Maybaum, Mr. E. Speyer, Mrs. M. still gaps in the existing legislation but there in Eleanor Rathbone House, had proved very Schurmann, Prof. Albert Reimann and Dr. appears hardly any chance of further improve­ successful. The Meals-on-Wheels Service is an ments. extremely useful and highly popular one and L. G. T. King, and to Sir Henry d'Avigdor in spite of all the difficulties of inflation, the Goldsmid. The relationship with the Jews in the cost and charges have increased only slightly. Although the date of the Meeting marked German Federal Republic had been close dur­ It is subsidised by the AJR Charitable Trust. the 44th anniversary of a particularly inaus­ ing the first post-war years, but now there are The Social Services Department, of which picious day for German Jews, he hoped that hardly any problems which call for joint action. Mrs. M. Casson is in charge, faces a growing We would now be able to look forward to the On the other hand, there is a constant con­ demand for services and a considerable in­ future rather than dwell on the past. tact between the organisations built up by the crease in office consultations. People now Dr. W. Rosenstock (Director of the AJR) former Jews in their countries of resettlement. seeking work tend to be in a younger age first reported on some impressions he had They are united under the auspices of the group and are in the main sufficient to answer gained at recent visits to East and West Council of Jews from Germany, which holds most calls for help. Having Self Aid on the Berlin. The position of the Jews in the German its plenary sessions at certain intervals and premises has tumed out to be a valuable step Democratic Republic differs from that in whose leading honorary officers are in touch in co-ordinating the services. several other Eastem European countries in vvith each other throughout the time. One of so far as several Jews hold responsible the activities, which at present plays an im­ Accommodation Problems Govemment positions, whilst others play an portant part, is the research work on the active part in the cultural life of the country. history of immigration of the former German The accommodation problems are still However, of the total Jewish population of Jews. For the time being, the work is concen­ grave, particularly for the younger people East Berlin, only a minority are members of trated on four of the main countries of re­ who are not ready for the Old Age Homes and the Jewish community. The 35-year-old Chair- settlement, Israel, U.S.A., Britain and France, who have great difficulty in finding reasonable nian of the Community Dr. Peter Kirchner, has and it is expected that the manuscripts of accommodation since this has virtually dis­ succeeded in strengthening the contacts be­ those in charge of the work will be available appeared from the market. The total of 13 soon. rooms available to us in Hannah Karminski tween members by literary and musical func­ House and Marie Baneth House (both owned tions, which are well attended. He has twice Dealing with "AJR Information", Mr. Rosen­ by the AJR Charitable Trust) are occupied visited London, and on one of these occasions, stock reported that for some time he has had for the most part by people who were very he was shown our Homes and also attended the benefit of the editorial co-operation of much in need of such accommodation but the ? meeting of the AJR Executive, informing Mrs. Margot Pottlitzer. Financially, the journal Committee has decided to seek a further Its members on the Jewish position in the is the largest single expenditure of the AJR. property to increase this type of accommoda­ GDR. The cemetery in Weissensee is in a However, if the production of AJR Informa­ tion. fairly good condition. The paved walks have tion were discontinued the loss of income heen cleared. On the other hand, the graves from contributions would certainly exceed the On the Old Age Homes, Mrs. Taussig re­ ^ the rows behind the paved walks are hardly savings thus achieved. In its contents the ported that Occupational Therapy was accessible. At the expense of the Berlin muni­ editors always aim at keeping an equilibrium attempted again towards the end of 1976 but cipality and with the help of "Aktion between news and feature articles. has still not been successful and will not be ^uehnezeichen" and other voluntary young until the right therapist has been found. At '-hristian helpers, the clearing up work goes In conclusion, Mr. Rosenstock paid tribute the expense of the AJR Charitable Trust com­ ?n, but it will take a very long time to finish to the work of his successor as General Secre­ munal television aerial systems are now being tary, Mrs. S. R. Taussig. With regard to the installed in the three Homes in The Bishop's wider issues involved in the present and future Avenue, and this will be greatly welcomed by With regard to restitution for emigrated position of the AJR he quoted from a letter the residents. ^ctims of Nazi persecution, the attitude of by Professor Otto Kahn-Freund, received after With regard to the admissions procedure, the GDR has, until two years ago, been en­ the AJR had congratulated him on the con­ Mrs. Taussig expressed the view that the pro­ tirely negative. However, when the United ferment of a Knighthood. In this letter. cedure could be simplified. She also referred 5,tates opened diplomatic relations with the Professor Kahn-Freund described the AJR as to the restrictions on the admission of frail ^DR, they made it a condition that, like the a good example for what used to be called people to Osmond House and suggested that German Federal Republic, the GDR should "Funktionswandel". The purposes of the AJR, more money should be spent if necessary on ^tso atone for the crimes committed against the letter says, have undergone tremendous the Jews. There was no progress in this mat­ changes under the impact of a rapidly chang­ Continaed on page 2, colamn 1 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION March, 1977

to hold an Open Day for ordinary members AJR BOARD MEETING thus giving them an opportunity of acquaint­ ing themselves with the atmosphere and Continaed from page 1 granted. The Department of Environment was facilities provided for in the Homes. Several asked by the Camden Borough for a ruling in Board members who are also members of one additional staff, in order to be able to accom­ this matter, but it has shown little under­ of the House Committees reported that for modate those who are in need of a great deal standing for the problem. Energetic efforts in various reasons they often felt frustrated in of care and attention. She also suggested that this direction are continuing. bringing their efforts to fruition. One House the functions of the House Committees should Committee member stated that sometimes be looked into and discussed with the view Mrs. M. Jacoby (Chairman of the AJR Club) residents who, rightly or wrongly, felt to have to defining more clearly their terms of refer­ gave her always welcome report on the AJR reasons for complaints were reluctant to come ence, and she appealed for younger members Club's activities which had been very con­ forward and suggested that one or two repre­ to join in the work of the House Committees. siderable in 1976. The highlights were the sentatives of the residents should be present Club's 20th anniversary party, the Purim, Dr. F. E. Falk (Vice-Chairman of the AJR), at the beginning of the House Committee Seder and Chanucah celebrations and her own meetings. reviewing the use of the AJR Charitable Trust 94th birthday party. She also mentioned that funds paid tribute to the Trust's Secretary, one Club member, Mrs. Kate Mamlock, who The need for looking also after the numer­ Dr. E. A. Lomnitz, by whose efforts the Trust died last year, had left a legacy for the Club ous lonely refugees who are not accommodated had received, over the years, substantial and referred to the assistance rendered in in Homes was also stressed. To organise legacies. In addition to bearing the expenses cases of need by the Margaret Jacoby Fund regular visits to them, members who are able for Hannah Karminski House and Marie and the Gertmd Schachne Fund. The Club, to volunteer for this important task were Baneth House, the Trust makes welfare pay­ she stressed, is very much more than a card asked to report to the Office. Conversely, a ments and grants which, in the last year, playing venue, and its function in keeping the list of people to be visited would be compiled, amounted to £5,000. In this sum are included spirit and continuity of the community and and in this respect the co-operation of the a number of scholarship grants, in particular providing a forum for people to discuss Board members would be equally welcomed. for post-graduate Jewish students from abroad matters of mutual interest is paramount. At (especially Israel), which, in some cases, are the end she expressed her thanks to the Several Board members suggested an inten­ given in co-operation with the Scholarship helpers, who acted as hostesses and in other sification of the propaganda by the production Fund Committee of the Leo Baeck Lodge of capacities, and to the Club's Vice-Chairman, of an attractive brochure describing the wide B'nai B'rith. Certain welfare grants are made Mrs. Dora Segall. At the same time, she field of the AJR's activities. More information jointly with Self Aid. should also be given to members about the stressed the need of enlisting the co-operation procedure regarding the applications for ad­ Dr. Falk then referred to the realisation by of younger members of the community. mission to the Homes. Last but not least it the Executive and the Trustees that the scope was proposed to hold annual social functions, of the Association's activities could be ex­ Lively Discussion at which members could meet in an informal tended. This led to the setting up of a special way and discuss matters of mutual interest. Sub-Committee of the Executive which gives Mr. L. Spiro (Hon. Treasurer of the AJR) detailed consideration to projects falling opened the discussion in the second part of The Chairman summed up and expressed under the terms of reference of the AJR the Meeting. He referred to the discussion of his delight that there had been more than 20 and the Trust. the 1976 Board Meeting, when it was sug­ contributions to the discussion. He replied to gested that every Board member should help a number of questions and assured the Board Dr. Falk then tumed to the taxation of to increase the membership. This is particularly members that all their suggestions had been Gennan and Austrian pensions paid to necessary, because the work of the AJR will noted and would be carefully considered by refugees from Nazism. The 50% exemption of have to go on for a long time to come. He the Executive. the Public Servants' and Social Insurance also asked Board members to come forward Dr. Laura Stein moved a vote of thanks to pensions introduced in the Finance Act 1974 with their own thoughts on the future of the the Chairman and stated that she had feW is working well in practice and comparatively organisation, thus contributing constructively greatly encouraged by the constmctive spirit few difficulties are experienced. The official to the forging of a philosophy which we re­ which prevailed throughout the proceedings. concession obtained in 1975 which exempts quire to retain the impulse of earlier years. completely from U.K. tax Invalidity Pensions paid by foreign countries has also in practice, The introductory remarks by Mr. Spiro were so far, been fully implemented. Occasional followed by a particularly vivid discussion, in NEWS FROM THE AJR SOCIAL SERVICES queries and difficulties arise however, and the which the following members took part: Mrs. DEPARTMENT AJR has given guidance and help whenever it E. Trent, Dr. L. Nelken, Dr. Laura Stein, was approached. Mrs. S. Friedlaender, Mrs. M. Mautner, Mrs. 1. Fuel Charges Rita Lehmaim, Mrs. M. Casson, Mrs. K. (a) Electricity Discounts The 50% exemption has caused a few tech­ Freyhan, Mr. M. Kochmann, Mr. W. Salinger, Householders who are on Supplementary nical problems which we are trying to resolve Dr. S. F. Hallgarten, Miss M. Babington, Benefit or Family Income Supplement are for the benefit of the Nazi victims. For the Dr. J. Loeb, Mr. J. Sachs, Mrs. G. Meyer, entitled to a discount of one quarter of the Age Allowances to be given to persons over Mr. H. C. Mayer, Mrs. D. Segall, Miss I. Fuss cost of current they have consumed in tn^ 65 years, their total income must not exceed (Glasgow), Mrs. I. Lowenthal, Mrs. Ruth Wolf quarter ending in February, March or Apru- certain limits. In calculating the total income, (Birmingham). The fact that so many speakers A leaflet describing this scheme in detail is many Tax Inspectors included the pensions at contributed to the discussion and made con­ available at their local office of the Depart­ their full amounts. This was resisted in all ment of Health and Social Security (D.H.S£-> stmctive suggestions in itself testifies to the and can also be obtained at the Post Office cases and it appiears now that practically all inner strength of the organisation. Inspectors include the pensions at one half when people claim their benefits. only, which results in some further benefit to Among the questions raised the generation the taxpayer. problem played a large part. Whilst some (b) Disconnections Board members expressed the view that it The Gas and Electricity Supply Industries We are also endeavouring to secure that the would not be possible to retain an organisa­ have published a code of practice on domestic Austrian so-called Hilflosenzuschuesse are fuel bills which is concemed mainly with dis­ tion like the AJR for a number of generations, connections in cases of debt. The provisions treated as incapacity supplements, wholly others were of the opinion that the sense of include a limited time to make arrangements exempt from tax in the same way as invalidity identity, based on the common background for payment to people on Supplementary pensions are. The assistance of the Austrian and origin, would persist for quite some time Benefit or Family Income Supplement, tne Embassy has been sought in this matter. to come. As on previous occasions, the prob­ unemployed and families where there a^e Another problem has arisen with the Local lem of a change of name of the AJR was yoimg children. The supply of pensioners wi^ Authorities. These grant rent and rate rebates raised anew. The protagonists of a change not be disconnected during the winter. based on the total income of a person, where argued that for all intents and purposes we had ceased to be refugees and that for this 2. Earnings Rule for Retirement Pensioned the income does not exceed certain limits. At present, men under 70 and women u^^^J The local authorities, in their calculations, in­ reason the name also presented an obstacle 65 years of age can eam £35 per week witho" clude the whole of the German and Austrian in obtaining new members, especially younger a deduction in their Retirement Pension, ^p pensions received by the applicant. Efforts are ones. Others felt that we had no reason to Social Security Act 1975 provides for this ivm^l being made to persuade the local authorities eliminate the reference to our origin and that to be raised to £50 from April 4, 1977. BOrj to adopt the same treatment as for Income it might also be difficult to find a more suit­ ever, a Bill now before Parliament ^^JJiU Tax, that is to include only one half of the able name, especially if one wants to retain maintain the limit of £35 until November, 19'j pension, which would have the result in many the initials "AJR", which have become a It would rise annually in line with the genera cases, of rebates being available which other­ household word. movement of eamings. . „$ Any inquiries about changes in the Eamins wise would not, or greater rebates being With regard to the Homes, it was suggested Rule should be made to the D.H.S.S. AJR INFORMATION March, 1977 Page 3

LORD CARADON'S ADVICE HOME NEWS Lord Caradon who was Britain's UN rep­ resentative during the period of the Six Day War, has retumed from a visit to the Middle INTERESTING BROADCASTS HAROLD WILSON FOREST East, convinced that the next six months By a strange coincidence, three broadcasts, Sir Harold Wilson has agreed to the planting present the best chance ever of ending the which had some bearing on the past and of a Forest in his name in Israel. The Forest hostility between the Palestinians and Israel present of the Jews from Germany, were pre­ will be sited at Cana near Nazareth. It is and of resolving peacefully the Arab-Israeli sented during the recent weeks. The first, on leamed that in the three weeks since its conflict. He had talked to King Hussein and January 23, was part of the Radio London pro­ launching 40 per cent of its minimum target government officials in Amman, Damascus gramme, "You don't have to be Jewish", per­ has been subscribed. The list of patrons and Cairo as well as with PLO members and formed every Sunday moming from 10.30 to includes parliamentarians of all three political ordinary Palestinians. It had left him with 11 a.m. One of the participants was Mr. Herbert parties as well as leading Anglo-Jewish the impression that the overwhelming Sulzbach. He referred to the recently pub­ personalities. Any contributions should be majority wanted a peaceful settlement. He lished book, "Total War—Total Tmst" (Oswald forwarded to the Chairman of the Appeal, had introduced Resolution 242 in the Security Wolff in co-operation with the German Mr. Harold MLQer, c./o. Rex House, 4/12 Council in 1967, but this did not mean return Embassy, London), to which he had contri­ Regent Street, London, SWIY 4PG, and made to the previous rotten boundaries which were buted a chapter on his experience as education payable to the Sir Harold Wilson Forest merely cease-fire positions from way back in officer of the German prisoner of war camp, Appeal. 1947/48. It laid down that territory could not Featherstone Park. He considered it as one of be acquired by war, but withdrawal must be his tasks as a former German Jew to make to secure and recognised frontiers which would JEWS IN GERMAN ARMIES have to be negotiated. The Israelis were the inmates of the camp aware of the Nazi entitled to demand and to obtain security atrocities and the extermination of six million At a reception held at the German Embassy "which comes from recognition by one's of his fellow Jews. The dignified way in which, in London on January 19, a German language neighbours". referring to his own fate as a former German book "Ein Stiick von uns" was launched, which Jew, he dealt with the subject was bound to describes the war services rendered by the leave a deep impression on the listeners. German Jews from the 1813 War of Liberation SHYLOCK ROCK OPERA On the same day, during the interval be­ onwards up to the First World War. The author, tween two acts of a recorded "Meistersinger" Rolf Vogel, of Bonn, is editor of the monthly A rock opera version of the "Merchant of performance under Georg Solti on Radio 3, a press bulletin "Deutschland-Berichte", which Venice" will open at Her Majesty's Theatre Jewish former refugee from Nuemberg, Ida deals with events pertinent to German-Jewish in London this month. The play is set in Little Herz, spoke about the personal reminiscences and German-Israel relations. At the reception, Italy in New York, and all Christians are she had of her city of birth. Her task was not the Ambassador, H.E. Karl-Giinther von Hase, shown to be members of the Mafia. One script an easy one ; she had to face the dichotomy welcomed the author, who had come over from Bonn for the occasion. Quoting from the book ended the play with Shylock, called Barach with which every one of us is confronted when Herr von Hase stated that during the First here, appearing on a balcony above the cele­ he thinks of his past life in Germany. On the World War out of half a million Jews, 100,000 brating Christians and singing a song of one hand, there are happy memories of a more had served in the German Army and that vengeance. Dr Gewirtz, director of Defence or less carefree youth and, on the other hand. 12,000 had fallen. The formal proceedings were at the Board of Deputies, approached the We also experienced limitations in the personal concluded by a speech by Mr. Herbert Sulzbach director of the show, Braham Murray, and relationship with non-Jews ranging from dis­ who said that the book was designed as a asked to be allowed to see the show before sociation to outright antisemitism. Ida Herz weapon against antisemitism. Mr. Rolf it opens, in the company of some other Jews. kept the balance between these two conflicting Vogel reported about the efforts of the He said he was worried about jingles being aspects. She described the beauty of the ancient post-war Bundeswehr to keep the memory of sung out of context with Shylock saying that city with its historical buildings, the local pride the Jewish war contributions in the pre-Nazi the loss of his money mattered more than of the citizens of the once "Freie Reichsstadt", period alive and mentioned by way of example the loss of his daughter. Mr Murray replied and at the same time recalled antisemitic inci­ that barracks had been named after Ludwig that he would not dream of staging an anti­ dents she had to experience already as a school Frank, the first Reichstag member who joined semitic work. He said any West End musical girl and the role played by Nuemberg under the army as a volunteer, and the air pilot, was only a hit if the Jewish audience crowded the Nazis as the town of the Nazi Party rallies. Wilhelm Frankl, both of whom had lost their the theatre for the first three months. The third feature, broadcast on Radio 3 on lives in the war. The book also carries remini­ February 1, led us back to Jewish life in Ger­ scences of Jewish soldiers, some of whom had many in the first part of the past century. to endure antisemitic treatment by their JEWISH ciRCurr JUDGE Under the title heading "A General's Grand­ superiors and comrades as well as references father", Mr. Peter Fraenkel, head of the B.B.C. to the infamous "Judenzahlung" of 1916. It Mr. Anthony Tibber of Hampstead Garden East European Service, produced the memoirs also mentions attempts of German Army Suburb was appointed a circuit judge of the of Baer Loew Monasch of Krotoschin, the officers to counteract the atrocities of the S.S. South Eastem circuit. Initially he will be grandfather of Australian General Sir John units during the Second World War. sitting at Snaresbrook and Knightsbridge Monash, whose father, Louis Monash, had emi­ Crown Courts. Mr. Tibber was for six years grated to Australia. It was a moving story a Liberal CounciUor at Finchley and Bamet. of a Jew in Prussian Poland, who had to He has represented the St. John's Wood struggle very hard and more often than not With acknowledgement to the news Synagogue at the Board of Deputies and has Was stmck by misfortune. The most touching service of the Jewish Chronicle been a board member of the Norrice Lea aspect of poor Monasch's attitude was that he Synagogue where he takes the children's Would never complain when things went wrong services. hut always expressed his thanks to God on the few occasions when things took a tempor­ ary tura for the better. He became best known ANTISEMTFISM IN BARNET to posterity as a printer of Hebrew books. Your House for:— Peter Fraenkel, who translated the memoirs Mr. Dennis Signy, editor of the "Hendon from German (with its slight tinge of Yiddish) Times" said in a recent editorial that in the mto English is, through another line of the CURTAINS, CARPETS, Borough of Bamet, antisemitism was a worse family, a great-great-grandson of B. L. Monasch. problem than the colour issue. Mr. Signy, fn his commentary he mentions that to get an himself a Jew, has lived in the Borough for Idea of the way of life of his ancestor, he paid FLOOR COVERINGS 45 years and subsequently reported that the a visit to Krotoschin. This is interesting from letters he received in reply to his article were a more than personal point of view. There are SPECIAUTY divided 50-50 on antisemitism. Out of the suite a few younger members of German Jew­ total population of 300,000 an estimated ish families in this country who, though they 58,000 are Jews, and 10,000 Hindus. A high nave spent the major part of their youth in CONTINENTAL DOWN proportion of Barnet Council are Jewish, and this country and later attained recognised posi- the Borough has twinned with Ramat Gan in "Ons, all the same feel the urge to get some QUILTS Israel. tirst-hand knowledge of their roots and to make fhe pilgrimage to the places where their fami­ ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS lies originally stem from. W.R. HOFFNUNG BEQUEST TO HIGHGATE ESTIMATES FREE SCHOOL JEWISH CHOIR AT WESTMINSTER Mr. Altham Parker who taught modem CATHEDRAL DAWSON-LANE LIMITED languages at Highgate school from 1928 to (Eatabllahed 1946) 1962 and who died last year, has bequeathed The Zemel Choir from East Bamet gave a to the school 12 illustrations of German fairy Concert at the Roman Catholic Westminster 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK stories and 12 caricatures of masters by the Jrathedral. The programme consisted of Jewish Telephone: 904 6671 late Gerard Hoffnung who attended the school liturgy and folk and secular music by Jews for a few years during the war. Hoffnung who ^HQ of a contemporary cantata on an Old Perional attention ol Mr. W. Shackman. died in 1959, came to Britain from Berlin as testament text. a small boy. Page 4 AJR INFORMATION March, 1977 NEWS FROM GERMANY

NEWS FROM ABROAD PAROLE FOR S.S. MURDERERS UNITED STATES MOSCOW RABBI ON FREEDOM OF The Parole Committee of the Hamburg RELIGION Senate has provoked a spate of protests by Antisemitic Propaganda in America releasing four Nazi criminals, sentenced to In an agency interview, the Moscow Rabbi life imprisonment for mass murder, for periods According to a B'nai B'rith report, a lot of Fishman criticised the "distorted" picture of of six months. Wilhelm Rosenbaum, 61, was antisemitic propaganda is at the moment Jewish life in Soviet Russia given by Western sentenced to hard labour for life in 1968 for circulating in the States and in particular on media. Nobody was prevented from fulfilling the murder of 168 Jews in the Bad Babka the West (3oast. In Los Angeles, three men what he considered his religious duty, and it area of Poland. Max Krahner, 72, received the were arrested for illegal possession of weapons was only Zionists who by their "strident same sentence for complicity in the murder oi after an enormous arsenal of weapons which campaign" talked about lack of religious free­ more than 500 Jews in Poland and Russia. He had been buried underground some years dom. The president of a small Jewish com­ headed a special operations unit which ago, was brought to light. There were also a munity in Alma-Ata said the provocation by destroyed evidence of wartime atrocities and great number of antisemitic and racially pro­ self-appointed rescuers presented the greatest subsequently killed Jewish prisoners who were vocative pamphlets. It is known that some insult to all citizens of Jewish nationality in forced to assist him in this task. Otto Drews years ago the so-called Christian Defence Soviet Russia. and Otto Goldapp, both 78, were punished for League had set up a para-military organisation the same offence. Drews committed suicide which was to fight Jews, negroes and com­ when he was due to retum to jail after six munists, and had their headquarters in Los BRFTISH APPEAL FOR DR. SHTERN'S months. Angeles. They were subsequently banned. RELEASE The action of the Parole Committee was Recently there has even been a new party attacked by members of all parties in the which recruits "homosexual Nazis". The Soviet Govemment has received an Senate, but Justice Senator Professor Klug appeal from nearly 200 leading members of said that Nazi criminals should not be treated the British medical profession to release Dr. differently from other life prisoners. The Revenge on French Wine Mikhail Shtern who is serving an eight-years Christian Democratic Union proposed a vote prison sentence. Nobel prizewinner Sir Hans of no confidence and demanded the resignation A group of Jews in Beverly Hills showed Krebs, and Sir Ludwig Guttmann are among of Senator Klug, but the Socialist/Free Demo­ their condemnation of the release of Abu the signatories. Dr. Shtern was arrested after cratic Coalition Govemment did not support Daoud bv the French Government by pouring he refused to withdraw his consent to his them. The leader of the C.D.U., JUrgen Echter­ 500 bottles of French wine and many gallons son's application to emigrate to Israel. During nach, said the outcome was an insult to the of French perfume into the gutter outside the March, an international tribunal which has survivors of Rosenbaum's victims. Hamburgs French Govemment's Tourist Office. The been collecting evidence in his case, will meet Lord Mayor Klose had been in Israel when this Synagogue for the Performing Arts in Los in Amsterdam. Heinrich Boll and Simone de happened, but on his retum said that he, too, Angeles have launched a boycott of France Beauvoir vrill attend. The findings of the was of the opinion that even Nazi prisoners and French products. tribunal will eventually be presented to the were eligible for parole. Belgrade conference in June which will moni­ tor violations of the Helsinki agreement. CANADA HONOURS JEWISH CmZENS TOO LATE FOR JUSTICE Mr. Norman Vickar, the Mayor of the The Kaiserslautem Criminal Court suspended prairie town of Melfort, has become the first A QUESTION OF PASSPORTS proceedings against former police officer ana Jewish member of the Saskatchewan Cabinet Lieutenant of the Federal Army, Wolfgang as Minister of Trade and Commerce. Mr. When 23-year-old Amner Zavurov was given Abel accused of having participated in tne Vickar was born on a farm in the "Jewish permission to emigrate to Israel in 1975, his murder of more than 150 Russian Jews during colony" of Edenbridge, founded by his family Soviet intemal passport was kept by the the last war when he was chief of the Inforrna- at the tum of the century. The Order of authorities. For a number of official hitches, tion Section of the Police Brigade South, ine Canada was awarded to Mr. David Lewis QC, he was unable to leave. In December, 1976, prosecution vrithdrew the case because alter former leader of the New Democratic Party, he was arrested and sent to jail for three a lapse of 35 years it was unable to proyi"^ who came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar years for not possessing an intemal passport, proof that Abel had acted from base motives 50 years ago, to Professor Maxwell Cohen, a "hooliganism" and "parasitism" (failure to —the only proof which would not have been former dean of law at McGill university and work). Nobody can be employed without an affected by the Statute of Limitation. to Mr. Louis Applebaum, a Toronto composer intemal passport. When she heard of her hus­ and conductor who has produced musical band's sentence his wife tried to commit POSTHUMOUS EXHIBmON works for the National Film Board and the suicide, but was rescued. Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Julo Levin RABBI SUES CONGREGATION To mark the 75th anniversary of the bi/th of FRANCE the painter Julo Levin, who perished in Ausci^ At Perth. Western Australia, 37-year-old witz, an exhibition of his works is being nei" Prizes for Jewish artists Rabbi Uri Themal has issued Supreme Court in the "Ostdeutsche Galerie" (Regensburg; Writs against members of his congregation, from January to March. It is shovra as part " The French 1976 Great National Literature claiming that they had sent a defamatory the gallery's permanent exhibits of works oy Prize has been awarded to 82-year-old French letter about him to a joumal. Rabbi Themal Jevrish artists. Julo Levin's paintings were Jewish author Armand Lunel who has des­ was bom in Germany, but spent much of his saved by Frau Mieke Monjau, the widow ot in cribed Jewish life in Provence in a series of life in Israel. Between 1971 and 1973 he was painter Franz Monjau, a friend of Jul?,^f^' picturesque novels. He also received the minister of the Sinai Reform Synagogue in who was beaten to death at Buchenwald. moij' Gobert history prize of the French Academy Leeds and resigned to take UD a post in jau's works were also on show at the Exnio for his book ""The Jews of Languedoc, Pro­ Berlin. A year later he left Berlin rather tion. At the end of March, the Exhibition wui vence and the French States of the Pope". abruotlv to become senior minister of the be transferred to Munich, and in June wprKs He has collaborated with Darius Milhaud in Perth Temple David Congregation which has by Levin and Monjau will be shown in Muei the composition of the operas "Esther de just refused to renew his contract. heim/Ruhr under the heading "Zwei Knei Carpentras" and "King David". Mr. Lunel, nische Maier". Frau Mieke Monjau, ^^^^JZ who now lives in Monaco, is a descendant of whose courage the works of the two i^^^ajj the eighteenth-century rabbi and poet Jacob AMIN'S VERDICT could be saved, was awarded the Germd de Lunel. Federal Cross of Merit a few years ago. The silver medal of the city of Paris, which President Amin of Uganda said that the is reserved for painters anii sculptors, was British actor Peter Finch who died suddenly ISRAELI PRODUCTS IN BERLIN FAIR awarded to Maxa Nordau, the daughter of while starring in a film about the Israeli res­ Max Nordau, one of the early Zionists and cue operation at Entebbe, had been punished friend and collaborator of Herzl. by God. on show, they included many kinds of yeg Snab for Dayan 25 YEARS JEWISH RADIO IN ARGENTINA tables and frait, convenience foods, vegeia" Mr Haim Steinmann has received many tri­ fats, vrines, liqueurs and fresh flowers. During a recent visit to Paris, Moshe Dayan, butes on the occasion of his 25th anniversary Israel's former Defence Minister, asked for WAR MEMORLAL NOT NAZI PROPAGANDA permission to see the 3,200 years old mummy of his Hebrew radio programmes. His regular of Pharaoh Ramses II which is being treated Sunday morning broadcasts of Jewish music During a demonstration on November • by French experts to stop the deterioration and information have become an institution. the Mannheim police confiscated a ""^'^^e" which it had suffered exhibited in an Egyptian plaque reading "Our heroes live in our neari ^^ museum. At the request of the Egyptian because they alleged it was a pro'^^^ ^neal Embassy, the French refused to let him in­ HOLLAND HONOURS NAZI VICTIMS National Socialism. The Mannheim app.g spect it. Ramses 11 is supposed to be the A monument to the people killed in court has now decided that the plaque in"^ gt- Pharaoh under whose reign the Jews in Egypt Auschwitz and Birkenau was erected in the released as it was only a testimony to tne i^ began to be treated as slaves. Municipal cemetery in Amsterdam. Ing memory of the soldiers killed in tne AJR INFORMATION March, 1977 Page 5 NEUE OESTERREIOnSCHE BESTIMMUNGEN OESTERREICHISCHER HILFSFONDS Oder Taubheit, an Krebs, an Lahmung in­ NOVELLE ZUM folge eines Gehirntumors, an multipler SOZIALVERSICHERUNGSGESETZ Auf Grund des Bundesgesetzes vom 13. Sklerose oder an Herzschwache leidet, die Dezember 1976, welches am 2. Januar 1977 in das Verlassen der Wohnung unmoglich Gegen Ende des Jahres 1976 ist in Oester­ Kraft trat, werden dem osterreichischen Hilfs­ macht Oder an beiden Beinen oder Armen reich die 32. Novelle zum Allgemeinen fonds fiir Zahlungen an bedurftige Verfolgte gelahmt ist oder diese verloren hat oder Sozialversicherungsgesetz (ASVG) publiziert des Naziregimes von der osterreichischen worden. Sie enthaelt einige Bestimmungen, Bundesregierang Sch 440,000,000 zur Verfii­ (b) in einem aus offentlichen oder pri­ die fuer die Opfer des Nazismus aus Oester­ gung gestellt. vaten Mitteln subventionierten Alters—oder reich von Interesse sind. Der Hilfsfonds, der am 3.2. 1977 in ein neues Pflegeheim wohnt und die Kosten zum Btiro (Wiedner Hauptstrasse 23-25, A-1040, iiberwiegenden Teil von einem Dritten (1) Die auf den Paragraphen 500ff des bezahlt werden oder ASVG basierenden Beguenstigungen fuer Wien, POB 126) iibersiedelt, teilt uns hiezu Opfer der Verfolgung fanden bis nun keine folgendes mit: (c) im Jahre 1908 oder vorher geboren Anwendung auf Personen, die sich nach "(1) Verfolgte, welche friiher einen Antrag ist. Kriegsende in Oesterreich (z. B. im KZ-Maut- i an den Hilfsfonds oder an eine der beiden hausen) befanden oder die nach Oesterreich SammelsteUen gestellt haben, werden in (5) Bedurftigkeit ist zu vermuten, weim ein aus anderen Lagem z. B. Auschwitz und kurzer Zeit eine Karte erhalten, aus der sie Veriolgter entweder Theresienstadt gebracht wurden, bezw. in den ersehen konnen, wo sie Antragsformulare (a) im Zusammenhang mit der Verfolgung Jahren 1946/47 aus Shanghai nach Oester­ erhalten konnen. nachweisbar mindestens ein Jahr, sofem die reich zurueckgekehrt waren und erst spaeter ausgewandert sind. (2) Antrage miissen bis spatestens 31. Haft mit besonders schweren korperiichen Dezember 1978 eingeschrieben zur Post aufge­ Oder seelischen Leiden verbunden war, Die 32. Novelle bestimmt nun, dass auch geben werden. mindestens 6 Monate in Haft war oder Personen der Beguenstigungen teilhaft wer­ Antrage werden zwar unter Beriicksichti­ (b) selbst Oder deren Ehegatte oder den, die nachweislich aus Gruenden, auf die gung des Alters des Verfolgten bearbeitet Lebensgefahrte an beiderseitiger Blindheit sie keinen Einfluss hatten, erst naeh dem 9. werden, es liegt aber trotzdem im Interesse oder Taubheit, an Krebs, an Lahmung in­ Mai 1945, jedoch nicht spaeter als am 31. der Antragsteller, ihre Antrage moglichst bald folge Gehimtumors, an multipler Sklerose Dezember 1949, ausgewandert sind. Diesen zu iiberreichen, auch wenn sie einem jiingeren Oder an Herzschwache leidet, die das Ver­ Spaetauswanderem gebuehren Leistungen ab Jahrgang angehoren. 1.1.1977, wenn der Antrag bis 31.12.1977 lassen der Wohnung unmoglich macht oder gestellt worden ist, sonst ab dem der Antrag­ (3) Zur Antragstellung berechtigt sind an beiden Beinen oder Armen gelahmt ist stellung folgenden Tag. Spaetauswanderem, bediirftige Personen, die Oder diese verloren hat, oder die bereits am 31. Dezember 1976 im Genuss 1. in der Zeit zwischen dem 5. Marz 1933 (c) durch eine dauemde Gesundheits­ einer Pension waren, kann moeglicherweise und dem 8. Mai 1945, jedoch vor dem schadigung als Folge eincr Haft oder Miss­ der Sachlage nach eine Erhoehung der Pen­ Zusammenbmch des nationalsozialistischen handlung im Zusammenhang mit einer sion gebuehren. Eine solche Erhoehung wird Regimes in ihrem Aufenthaltsort aus politi­ Verfolgung in seiner Erwerbsfahigkeit um gleichfalls ab 1.1.1977 gewaehrt, wenn der schen Griinden welcher Art immer, insbeson­ einen erheblichen Prozentsatz vermindert diesbezuegliche Antrag bis 31.12.1977 gestellt dere wegen ihrer Abstammung, Religion ist oder wird, ansonsten ab dem der Antragstellung Oder Nationalitat — mit Ausnahme wegen folgenden Tag. nationalsozialistischer Betatigung — verfolgt (d) in einem aus offentlichen oder pri­ worden sind imd vaten Mitteln subventionierten Alters—oder (2) Mit dem Ziele der schrittweisen Er­ Pflegeheim wohnt und die Kosten zum reichung eines fuer alle Pensionisten in 2. am Tage des Inkrafttretens dieses iiberwiegenden Teil von einem Dritten gleicher Hoehe gebuehrenden Hilflosenzu- Bundesgesetzes die osterreichische Staats­ bezahlt werden oder schusses, wird der Mindestbetrag ab 1.1.1977 burgerschaft bessessen haben oder vor dem auf 1231 Schilling erhoeht. Eine weitere ueber 13. Marz 1938 osterreichische Bundesbiirger (e) 1908 Oder friiher geboren ist oder die alljaehrliche Anpassung an das Lohnni­ gewesen sind oder vor dem 13. Marz 1938 (f) sich in wirtschaftlich beengten Ver­ veau hinausgehende Erhoehung von 200 mindestens 10 Jahre ununterbrochen ihren haltnissen befindet und diese Lage aus Schilling ist im Gesetz fuer den 1.1.1978 Wohnsitz und standigen Aufenthalt in vorgesehen. Oesterreich gehabt haben. personlichen und am Wohnsitz des Ver­ folgten gegebenen Verhaltnissen abgeleitet (3) Anderseits werden die Beitraege fuer 3. Einem Verfolgten gleichgestellt ist die werden kann. freiwillige Weiterversicherung ab 1.1.1977 von nicht wieder verehelichte Witwe oder unver- 17% auf 17J% erhoeht. heiratet gebliebene Lebensgefahrtin (Hin­ (6). Die Aushilfe betragt nach dem Grad terbliebene) eines Verfolgten, der in der der Bedurftigkeit einmalig mindestens S 3.000. (4) Es sei vermerkt, dass die Novelle um­ Zeit zwischen dem 5. Marz 1933 und dem —bis hochstens S 15.000.—. Verfolgte, die die fangreiche Verbesserungen fuer Rehabilita­ 8. Mai 1945 entweder als Opfer der Voraussetzung der unwiderlegbaren Vermu­ tion und Gesundheitsfuersorge auch fuer Pen­ politischen Verfolgung das Leben verloren tung erfullen, erhalten vorweg S 15.000.—. sionisten vorsieht. Von diesen Bestimmungen hat oder als Opfer des Kampfes um ein (7) Der Hilfsfonds erhalt den Betrag von werden aber Personen, die im Auslande leben, freies demokratisches Oesterreich (a) gefal­ S 440,000.000 in Vierteljahresraten von wohl nur in besonderen Ausnahmsfaellen und len ist Oder (b) hingerichtet worden ist oder S 30,000.000.—. Antragsteller, welche die nur dann Gebrauch machen koennen, wenn (c) an den Folgen einer in diesem Kampfe Voraussetzungen der unwiderlegbaren Ver­ sie nach Oesterreich zurueckkehren. eriittenen Verwundung oder erworbenen mutung nicht erfiillen, konnen nur Zahlungen Krankheit oder an den Folgen einer Haft erhalten, wenn die "Vorwegzahlung" gemass (5) Schliesslich sei noch bemerkt, dass die Oder eriittenen Misshandlung gestorben ist, vorstehendem Punkt 6 gesichert ist. Da eine Novelle die Moeglichkeit des nachtraeglichen Wenn die selbst nicht verfolgte Hinterblie- grosse Zahl der Antragsteller 1908 oder vorher Einkaufes von Versicherangszeiten, die hene die Voraussetzungen unter Punkt 3, geboren ist, miissen wir die jungeren Jahr­ zwischen dem 31.12.1955 und dem 1.1.1977 Ziffer 2 erfullt. gange um Geduld bitten. liegen, schafft. Die aufzuwendenden Betraege sind sehr erheblich. Wir werden nach sorg- (4) Eine Person gilt stets als bediirftig, (8) Ein Rechtsansprach auf Zahlung der samer Pmefung aller Umstaende auf diese *enn sie aus den oben angefiihrten Griinden Aushilfe besteht laut Gesetz nicht. Frage in einem separaten Artikel zurueck­ ^erfolgt worden ist und nachweisbar in diesem kommen, der baldmoeglichst erscheinen wird. Zusammenhang entweder mindestens ein Jahr, (9) Wer vorsatzlich oder grob fahrlassig unrichtige oder irrefiihrende Angaben macht, Derzeit wollen wir nur unseren Lesem mit­ Sofern die Haft mit besonders schweren teilen, dass Antraege auf nachtraeglichen Ein­ Korperiichen oder seelischen Leiden verbun- veranlasst oder zugelassen hat, die fiir die Leistung einer Aushilfe von wesentlicher kauf von Versicherungszeiten bis 31.12.1980 ^6n war, mindestens 6 Monate in Haft war gestellt werden koennen und dass die bis­ '^oer durch eine dauemde Gesundheitsschadi- Bedeutung sind, ist von einer Aushilfe ausgeschlossen." herigen gesetzlichen Bestimmungen (§ 17 Abs. gung als Folge einer Haft oder Misshandlung 5 ASVG), die Personen, denen die Emigra­ J™ Zusammenhang mit ihrer Verfolgung in Unsere Leser werden aus Obigem ent­ tionszeiten beguenstigt angerechnet worden ^i"er Erwerbsfahigkeit um mindestens 50 waren, die Leistung freiwilliger Beitraege *^rozent vermindert ist und entweder nehmen, dass es sich nicht um Entschadigung fur unter dem Nazi-Regime erlittenes Vnrecht zwecks Erlangung einer Pension ermoeg­ (a) selbst oder deren Ehegatte oder handelt, sondern um Hilfeleistung in Fallen lichen, auch weiterhin aufrecht bleiben. Lebensgefahrte an beiderseitiger Blindheit von Bedurftigkeit. C.I.K. Page 6 AJR INFORMATION March, 1977

Egon Larsen of the human anatomy and his enthusiasm for the beautiful in art. Furthermore he did a great number of portrait busts: the Bishop of Sheffield, Sir Clough WUliams-Ellis, the fam­ CARL ZUCKMAYER ous architect. Lady Raglan, and Lady Lloyd of Hampstead. It was Lord Lloyd who opened the exhibition. Scandals are the spice of theatrical life, success. His play about the resistance, the Like a wreath of leaves and flowers, 29 and there were many splendid ones in Berlin's symbolical Gesang im Feuerofen, was not so gouaches and some drawings surrounded the cultural heyday in the 1920s and early 1930s. well received, nor was his drama Das kalte sculptures. Most conspicuous in these land­ The first night of Der frohliche Weinberg in Licht (1955), based on the story of Klaus scapes and garden pieces was the colour green. 1925, however, brought a scandal that not Fuchs, the atom spy. In 1961, the Vienna His deep love and understanding of nature only electrified the audience—it also estab­ Burgtheater produced his play Die Uhr schldgt is vigorously expressed. lished the fame of a young new playwright, Eins, about the international arms racket, In connection with the Ben Uri Art Gallery Carl Zuckmayer; and his work fulfilled the it may be mentioned that a new director has but it was not a success either, despite Paula been appointed, the young art historian Julian hope of all who cared for German literature: Wessely's performance as a tragic heroine Freeman. He publishes a Bulletin which gives that one day the stage would again be blessed in the Third Reich. you a good idea of his spirit of enterprise and with a truly comic piece. Humour has always But his autobiography, Als war's ein Stiick his enthusiasm for his new job. He arranges been rare in the German theatre; Stemheim von mir, published in 1966, has had an enor­ or gives lectures on the history of art, there was the notable exception. are evening classes in drawing and other act­ mous readership, especially among German ivities. Zuckmayer, who died in January shortly refugees all over the world. Zuckmayer also after his 80th birthday, had set his comedy wrote a number of poems, short stories and in the village scene he knew from his youth. novels—such as Das Engele von Loewen and THEATRE AND CULTURAL NEWS He was bom in Nackenheim amidst the vine­ Der Seelenbrdu — before embarking on an­ yards of Rhenish Hessia, the son of a Christian other new play, his last: Der Rattenfanger, Visitors to London. Maxim Gorki's play father and a Jewish mother, nie Goldschmidt, the dramatisation of the medieval German "Sommergaste" is to be the first German from Mainz. Some sectors of the first-night legend, but incorporating scenes of a small­ language production to be shown at the town pogrom, typical for the era of the National Theatre between March 3 and 12- audience had probably expected rustic frolics Staged at the "Lyttelton", this wUl be the first of the Blut-und-Boden type, but Zuckmayer crusades. It had its premiere only in 1975, visit to London of Peter Stein's Berlin "Schau­ gave them nothing of the kind, and when and it may still turn out to be a posthumous biihne am Halleschen Ufer". his hero stepped out of the bushes buttoning success for one of the greatest German play­ Kurt Weill — every Wednesday. This up his fly, the storm broke. The play became wrights of our century. month, the London Sinfonietta will perform one of the greatest successes of the Weimar His wife, the Austrian-bom Alice Herdan, Weill's compositions every Wednesday at the era. described the couple's years in Vermont in a Royal Festival Hall; they will include the At that time, Zuckmayer's political profile splendid novel. Die Farm in den griinen Berliner Requiem, the "Klopslied" and "Kleine began to take shape. His experiences in the Bergen. Dreigroschenmusik". First World War—he had volunteered for Hamburg. The Thalia Theatre workshop per­ the army in 1914 and served in the trenches formed Brecht's "Furcht und Elend des Dritten A. Rosenberg Reiches". The main part in the scene "Die of France until the armistice—had made him, jiidische Frau" was played by Ursula Lingen, like so many of his generation, a left-wing HANS FEIBUSCH EXHIBrriON Theo Lingen's daughter. pacifist who wanted to express his beliefs on AT BEN URI GALLERY the stage; but his first play, produced by Statistics. A recent world-wide survey 9^ For anybody who knows anything of Hans Opera Houses (and theatres where opera is Jessner in Berlin in 1920 under the title Feibusch's work the exhibition miglit have given regularly with an ensemble engaged on Kreuzweg, was such a flop that it had to be seemed like Hamlet vrithout the Prince of Den­ a permanent basis) puts the number of sucn put off after only three performances. Clearly, mark. The painter is, of course, especially re- theatres at between 300 and 350, of whicn he had still a lot to leam about the theatre; novmed for his big murals in about 15 English nearly 100 are in West and East Germany. and Reinhardt gave him the chance when he churches. The exhibition makes hardly any Our "50 years ago" column: Whilst in 192J engaged him as one of his assistant producers, reference to them. But the fact as such might Franz Lehar wrote "Friederike", which became alongside with Bertolt Brecht and Erich have reminded Jewish visitors in particular of a world success by virtue of its link witn Engel, at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in quite a few Jewish artists who have contrib­ Richard Tauber, subsequently in the same year 1924—and Zuckmayer's years of unemploy­ uted to the embellishment of Christian places Emmerich Kalman put the finishing touches on ment and hunger were over. of worship as for instance Epstein in Coventry his operetta "Herzogin von Chicago". Althougn and elsewhere, Elkan in Westminster Abbey, very rhythmical and melodious ("Armer After the Frohliche Weinberg, of course, he Chagall in France and, the other way round, Prinz", "Rose der Praerie"), it did not quite never looked back. In 1928 two plays of his the non-Jewish refugee Nonnenmacher who get into the front rank of the composer's ^^°? were quite successful, Schinderhannes, the worked for a synagogue. successes, of which "Die Csardasfiirstin « life of the famous robber, and the circus play, Feibusch, probably a unique case, dedicated still played and sung all over Europe. the best years of his life to Christian art, Katharina Knie; two years later came his seemingly by way of accident. When he came Birthdays. Kdthe Gold, an actress for over great triumph of the pre-Hitler era, the Haupt­ to this country from Germany, he was "taken 50 years, distinguished in character parts ai mann von Kopenick, humorous and serious at up" by some clergymen and in particular by the Vienna "Burg" since 1947, celebrated her the same time, a scathing condemnation of the then Bishop of Chichester, Dr Bell. Yet 70th birthday in Vienna. Heinz Riihmann, Prussian militarism and blind obedience. In Mr Feibusch feels that the New Testament is whose stage and film career was the object oi the logical sequence to the Old. In later years appreciation in an earlier issue, has now that year he also wrote the scenario of the reached the age of 75, and is still going strong- Blue Angel, adapted from Heinrich Mann's he started sculpturing, and it is his sculpture novel Professor Unrat. which took pride of place at the exhibition. There the dominant theme was antiquity LIEBERMANN IN EAST BERLIN Zuckmayer had made his home near Salz­ or at least the Greek inspiration. Nobody can EXHIBrriON burg, from where he emigrated after Hitler's deny his great skill, his perfect knowledge occupation of Austria. He went first to Swit­ The East Berlin National GaUery held an zerland and then, via Cuba, to the United exhibition "German Impressionists" which ccw States. He tried hard, but without much suc­ tained a number of important works by Jj" cess, to work in New York and Hollywood— Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Max Slevogt, »a* Gorta Radiovision Beckmann and Lesser Ury. Max Lieberman' and then decided to become a farmer in was represented by 24 paintings lent "y, Vermont, where he spent the war years, and Service museums and private collections in East au where he wrote his famous Des Teufels West Europe. Among them were early reaiisi General, the tragedy of the air ace Udet (Member R.T.R.A.) pictures like the "Cobbler's Workshop" whic" under Hitler. It had its premiere in Zurich 13 Frogna] Parade, Wilhelm II disliked and called "gutter an- • in 1946 and became immediately a world Finchlcy Road, N.W.3 SALES REPAIRS CAMPS BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INTERNMENT—P.O.W.— 51 Belsize Square, London, N.W.S We can provide a quick and FORCED LABOUR—KZ Our new communal hall is available for efficient Colour TelevisioD I wisti to buy cards, envelopes and folded P<>*!' cultural and social functions. For details Service. marked letters from all oemps of both wortd w*^' apply to: Secretary, Synagogue Office. Please send, reflistared mail, stating price, to. (435 8635) PETER C. RICKENBACK Tel.: 01-794 3949 14 Rosslyn HIII, London, N.W.S AJR INFORMATION March, 1977 Page 7 Frits Friedlaender (Melbourne) PERSONALIA TWO PRUSSIAN JEWS ACADEMIC HONOURS An honorary doctorate of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Basle was con­ Centenaries of Johann Jacoby and Rudolf Borchardt ferred on Sir Ludwig Guttmann. Dr. Alfred Bloch (Wembley), a member of the AJR, was awarded an honorary degree In October 1850, two writers, Adolf Stahr was so great that he did not take up his of Doctor of Technology by Brunei University and his wife Fanny Lewald, called on Heine, Reichstag mandate. He felt estranged from (Uxbridge, Middlesex) in recognition of his the younger generation who saw him as a long and distinguished career in engineering then lying ill in Paris. During their lively con­ both as an academic, in the Universities of versation, Heine asked his friends: "Erklaren stubborn doctrinaire. Munich and Dublin, and as a research engin­ Sie mir den jetzigen Konigsberger par excel­ As Adolf Stahr recognised, however, Jacoby eer for the German State Railways and the lence, Johann Jacoby". Stahr replied: "Er ist possessed the moral strength of the heroes GEC. After his emigration from Germany, ein Mensch, der im Allgemeinen aufgebt: ein of antiquity. Like his contemporary, the his­ Dr. Bloch obtained a position with Dublin durchaus antiker Charakter und sicher der torian, Gervinus, he considered a republic University in 1934. In the same year he selbstloseste Mensch, der mir vorgekommen joined the GEC Research Laboratories at to be the only form of state worthy of a free Wembley, where he stajjed until 1964. He has ist". nation. He wished the Prussia of generals many publications to his credit which range In these striking words, Stahr summed up and Jimkers to be replaced by a Prussia from papers in applied mathematics and the character of a man still remembered as govemed by constitutional laws. He fought electrical engineering through to optical and one of the foremost champions of a demo­ against opportunists who, in their lust for photographic theorj'. His inventions include cratic Prussia. national power, overrode the principles of a method for improving the quality of TV liberty and justice. Aware of the dangers pictures when viewed in daylignt. As a reward for his people's loyalty and of modem imperialism he supported the sacrifices in the war against Napoleon, King intemational pacifist movement. When Bis­ Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia had promised marck developed Germany into a national PRIZE FOR DR. J. MATTLIS them a constitution. Napoleon fell—but the power-state guided by a patronising bureau­ Dr. Ya'acov J. Maitlis (London), a personal promise was not kept and the King continued cracy, Johann Jacoby became one of his most friend of many in our midst and a frequent his autocratic rule, supported by the military and highly esteemed contributor to this caste, the powerful Junkers, the Church and determined opponents. He had the courage to joumal, has been awarded the Ganapolsky a rigid bureaucracy. Konigsberg, however, the withstand the tide of rampant nationalism Literary Prize for Yiddish Literature in Paris city in which the kingdom had been estab­ and to protest strongly against Bismarck's for his book "In Gang fun doyres" (In the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine. Although this Wake of Generations), published in Israel. lished in 1701, became the centre of a liberal led to a charge of high treason and a sentence The book contains a collection of historical counter-movement vrithin Prassia, a move­ of imprisonment in a fortress, he remained essays on modern Hebrew and Yiddish ment which received great impetus from the firm. writers. Another work by Dr. Maitlis, a study Paris revolution of July 1830, in which the on "/^ Old-Yiddish Midrash to the 'Sayings progressive ideas of European liberalism won During the latter part of his life, he real­ of the Fathers'" (a manuscript written in the the day. ised that the progressive middle class and sixteenth century), which contains a most the working class must join forces in the valuable collection of folk tales, talmudical This was the intellectual climate in which fight for a modem democratic state. He acc­ stories and other narrative material, is now Johann Jacoby grew up. He was born in ordingly sided vrith the Socialists in 1870— being published by the Israel Academy of Konigsberg on May 1, 1805, of Jewish parent­ a decision praised by Karl Marx, who wrote Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem. age, and, on leaving school, studied medicine. to a friend: "Welcher 'old radical' in Europa He became a physician, but his heart was in hat diese Ehrenhaftigkeit und diesen Mut REFUGEE PHOTOGRAPHER Public affairs. In 1841, he published a pam­ besessen, so direkt sich auf die Seite der phlet entitled "Vier Fragen, beantwortet von proletarischen Bewegung zu stellen!" Felix Man who came to this country as einem Ostpreussen", advocating a reform of a refugee, had two exhibitions in London Prussia on democratic lines. The pamphlet Although Jacoby could not but suffer the during the last few weeks. The first was one stings of antisemitism, he remained a proud of portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, caused a sensation and led to a charge of Jew. Within the Jewish community, he advo­ sedition against the courageous author: he was the second a retrospective of his work from cated religious reform and was one of a 1915 to 1974 at the National Book League in however, acquitted. committee for the revision of the order of Albemarle Street, London. It contained photos Jacoby was aclcnowledged as spokesman for Jevrish worship. Moreover, he cooperated taken in the first World War when Man was the democratic cause all over Germany. He with Gabriel Riesser in defending the emanci­ an officer in the German Army who took his Was one of a deputation to King Friedrich pation of German Jewry. When Karl Streck- Waistpocket Kodak with him to the trenches. Wilhelm IV of Pmssia, asking for political fuss, a high Prassian official, published a Very few of the large coUection of his Great book in 1833, in which he proposed curtail­ War photos still exist—most of it was des­ J'eforms. The request was refused, and Jacoby troyed during an air raid in the last war. cried out: "The misfortune of kings is that ment of Jewish civil rights, Riesser and they have no wish to hear the tmth". Taken Jacoby attacked his views in militant pam­ ^hack, the King could find no answer. phlets: they not only branded Streckfuss's A RECTTAL OF PIANO MUSIC BY arguments as an outburst of reaction, but FRANZ REIZENSTEIN In 1848, the year of the unsuccessful Ger- also showed that equal rights for the Jews ^an revolution, Jacoby became a delegate in of Germany were fully justified by the tenets A recital devoted to piano music by the late the German National Assembly in Frankfurt of modem liberalism. Franz Reizenstein will be given on Sunday, ^•M. He continued to serve in the "Rumpf- March 6, at 7 p.m. at the Purcell Room on the Parlament" in Stuttgart, which was dissolved Johann Jacoby died in his native town on South Bank. It vrill include his Suite for °3 June 18, 1848. The Frankfurt National March 6, 1877. But the principles for which Piano, published in 1936 when the composer was m his 20s. It was his first published Assembly failed to create a free, liberal and he had fought throughout his life lived on, work. The pianist will be Philip Martin, who Jiiiified (Jermany, but this came as no surprise as testified by the posthumous edition of his studied under Franz Reizenstein. to him. Although the well-organised reaction- writings and speeches. Nevertheless, it is but ^ forces of the autocratic German princes too clear that his dream of a free, demo­ had thwarted a noble attempt, Jacoby was cratic and unified Germany has yet to be convinced that the Assembly's endeavours fulfilled. SEESEN JACOBSON FOUNDATION *ere based on truth and justice, while he (An article on Rudolf Borchardt, who was considered the victorious reaction to be dis­ bom on June 9, 1877, vrill follow.—The Ed.). The Jacobson Foundation, endowed in 1801 loyal and treacherous. by the Jewish reformer and founder of the Jacobsonschule in Seesen and dissolved in Johann Jacoby was endowed with all the 1922, was reconstituted at the end of last year. ®ory of a fighter for a cause which would BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER The capital, at present amounting to DM 8,000, ^Ventually triumph, but in his own time he is to be used for the assistance of gifted and ^ad no power. He stood for a great principle, Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS needy pupils of the school in Seesen. (gradually, the original object of the school, conceived at °ut was forced into sterile opposition, both Always Interested in purchasing the beginning of the emancipation to provide •f a member of the (Jerman Nationalverein well-preserved instruments for jomt education of Jewish and non- striving for a liberal and unified Germany, Jewish pupils, receded into the background, ^d also as a deputy, in 1863, of the Prussian JAQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. until it entirely disappeared under the Nazis. fiouse of Representatives, where he belonged The new school building, completed a few years Jo the left wing of the Progressive Party, 142 Edgware Road, W.2 Tel.: 723 8818/9 ago, was officially named "Jacobson-Gymna­ ^ter, in Imperial Germany, his frustration sium".—(E.G.L.) Page 8 AJR INFORMATION March, 1977

LIBEL AWARD FOR MEN OF PEACE THE ISRAELI SCENE The Jerusalem magistrate Mrs. Miriam Ben-Porath awarded nine members of the Council for Israel-Palestine Peace about £33() SETTLEMENTS FOR PALESTINLAN ABORTION LAW PASSED REFUGEES damages against the Jerusalem Sephardi The Bill legalising abortion which was hotly Council which had called them "anti-Zionists Special suburban settlements for Gaza strip opposed by the religious parties, has been and Communists". She said this was a flagrant Palestinians are being built by the Israeli passed by the Knesset. During the crucial insult to any Jew living in Israel. The nine Goverament. 5,200 houses are being con- session, hundreds of women protesters wailed stracted, 2,000 have so far been completed, at and prayed outside the parliament building. include a former Army quartermaster general, a cost of about £3,500 each. The government Abortion is now permitted for unmarried Mr. Peled, a member of the Knesset, Mr. Eliav, pays one fifth of this, the refugees have to mothers, victims of rape, women over 40 and and Mr. Uri Avneri, editor of the sensational contribute about £1,600 in cash and get an cases where there is a serious danger of a weekly "Haolam Hazeh." interest-free loan for the remainder. In spite child being born handicapped. In the past, of this, there is already a long waiting-list for about 60,000 abortions a year have been homes which will provide the refugees with performed iUegaUy and women were expected FIRST SABRA ROTHSCHILD electricity, indoor lavatories and other ameni­ to pay about £130 for each operation. ties lacking in the camps. By moving into Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild and his vrife them, they do not lose their refugee status NUi made a special trip to Israel so that their and continue to receive UNO rations. GOOD RELATIONS WFTH THE LEBANESE first child, the future Baron RothschUd, could be bom an Israeli. The Baroness is the Lebanese Christians continue to visit daughter of Vice-Admiral Mordecai Limon, a EVICTION OF ARABS ESSENTIAL? Israel for medical treatment and for small former head of the Israeli Defence Ministry's bartering transactions. In Jerasalem, a Public purchasing mission in Paris who helped to Mr. Teddy Kollek, Mayor of Jerusalem, Committee for Aiding Lebanon has been organise the escape of five French-built stated that it was essential to remove Arab established. Its members are Jews and missUe boats from Cherbourg to Israel in families from the Jewish Quarter of the Old Christian and Moslem Arabs. A campaign to 1970. The French had refused to deliver the City which is being rehabilitated. He said this raise about £300,000 to provide blankets, shoes, boats because of De Gaulle's embargo on arms was an unpleasant matter, but traditionally clothing and other necessities for Lebanese for Israel. Jerusalem was built on the basis of ethnic war victims, irrespective of religion, has been quarters. There were no Jews in the Armenian launched. In Metulla, Israel's northernmost Quarter, and no Armenians in the Moslem settled point, a soccer match between Right- SCENTED PARK FOR THE BLIND Quarter. The problem would not have arisen wing Christian Lebanese militiamen and a if the Jewish Quarter had not been destroyed team of the Israel Defence Forces ended with The city of Vienna and the Antwerp Jevrish in 1948 and its population expelled. However, a 2-0 win for the Lebanese. The Israeli community have provided the funds for a park 30 of the 45 Arab families still living in the Defence Minister, Mr. Shimon Peres, has for the blind recently opened in Jerusalem. expropriated area would be able to remain promised to study a request from Lebanon It includes a garden with scented shrabs, and the 100 Arab-owned shops would be left villagers to make more jobs available for them flowers and trees with signs in BraUle identi­ intact. Extensive modernisation was also in Israel because of growing unemployment fying them. At the opening ceremony, blind being carried out in the run-down Arab in southem Lebanon. 500 Lebanese cross the Jewish and Arab choirs sang "Jerusalem the quarters. border daily to work in Israel. Golden" together in Hebrew.

BLOCH FAMILY SEEKS FILM CHANGES The family of Mrs Dora Bloch, killed at Entebbe, have taken legal steps against the American National Broadcasting Company which produced the film "Raid on Entebbe". They allege misrepresentation. Mrs. Bloch's son, Mr. Hartuv, said the film had adopted DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX President Amin's version that British diplo­ mats had visited Mrs. Bloch in hospital before the Israeli freeing of the hostages and found LTD. that she had disappeared after the raid, implying that the Israelis had taken her with them. The Bloch family say they are acting for all the hostages for defamation of charac­ ter. The film claims that they had wi-itten to the Israeli govemment from Entebbe insist­ ing on the freeing of Arab terrorists in Israel. Mr. Hartuv, himself one of the hostages, said that they would not have presumed to tell the Israeli Government what to do. A New York law firm has been instracted to demand a rectification of such "gross distortions". Dunbee House BANKER RECEIVER OF STOLEN PROPERTY 117 Great Portland Street, Yosef Epstein, a former banker, confessed in a Tel Aviv court that he had received property worth about £460,000 which was London, W.l stolen from Barclays Discount Bank in January 1976. The robbers had puUed down a wall to reach the bank's vaults during their night­ time raid and stolen money, securities, gold and jewellery from 249 safe-deposit boxes. The total value of the loot is said to be about £13 million. Epstein returned gold, jewellery, Tel: 01-636 8677 medals and unregistered stock worth over £300,000, when he was arrested. According to the police, a great part of the stolen Grams: FLEXATEX LONDON, property was smuggled out of the country, especially to Switzerland. HOUSE OF HALLGARTEN

TELEX. FIRST BEDOUIN NURSE 53/79 Highgate Road, London, NWS m Twenty-one-year-old Safia al-Aleoni is the INT. TELEX 2-3540 first Bedouin girl to qualify as a nurse in Israel. She works at a newly opened clinic in choose Hallgarten—Choose Fine Wines the Negev which serves the Bedouin in the area. AJR INFORMATION March, 1977 Page 9

F. L. Brassloff einzelnen seiner Werke zu verknupfen. Indem sie das Schicksal dieses einen sensitiven Menschen schUdert, der seiner jiidischen Ab­ stammung wegen zum Fliichtling wird, hat NATIONAL SOaALIST TRAVESTY sie gleichzeitig dem jUdischen FlUchtling aus Zentraleuropa schlechthin ein Denkmal ge­ setzt, das dem Einfuhlungsvermogen und der OF JUSTICE humanen Weltanschauung dieser Christin aUe Ehre macht. Ungeachtet der Tatsache, ob das A Standard Work on the People's Court Judentum im bisherigen Bewusstsein eines FlUchtUngs eine wichtige, eine nebensachUche oder gar keine RoUe gespielt hat, wird die Shortly before he was kiUed by Allied terror. Freisler was a great showman who Zugehorigkeit zum jUdischen Volk mit einem bombardment early in 1945, Roland Freisler, enjoyed playing cat and mouse vrith defen­ Male das treibende Motiv seines Schicksals, the notorious president of the People's Court, dants, ridicuUng and offending them. His macht ihn zum Verfolgten und Vertriebenen, in a pubUcation for Nazi speakers, praised it judgements abound in demagogic rhetorics der den erfolgreichen und behaglichen Platz as the highest tribunal of the Greater German and manifestations of sycophantic devotion to in der GeseUschaft, den er sich geschaSen Reich destined to secure its political con­ the "FUhrer". He hated and treated vrith hatte, verlassen muss und vor die Aufgabe sistency, entrasted with the task of protecting particular venom aristocrats, inteUectuals and gesteUt ist, in einem voUig fremden Land, the country against treason and the people priests and gave fuU vent to his feelings in seiner Muttersprache beraubt, fur sich und against disintegration of its fighting power in the trials against the unsuccessful conspirators, seine FamUie eine neue Nische zu finden. the struggle for its life and freedom. Accord­ who had tried to assassinate Hitler and against Robuste Naturen und Menschen, deren Berufe ing to Freisler, the judges of the Court were those tmly noble men who had engaged in und Fahigkeiten nicht von Sprache und acting as loyal representatives of the planning for a better Germany after the faU Umgebung abhangig waren, konnten die "Fijhrer", marching in the ranks of the people, of Nazism. Quite a number of the accused Schwierigkeiten der Umstellung meistem, bei guided by the "inner law of the People's reacted to his rantings with exemplary dig­ Sommer vrirkten sich die Ereignisse dahin soul". The harshness of the verdicts, Freisler nity and courage. In contrast, the apparently aus, dass er sie zu Romanen verarbeitete, die maintained, was motivated by love for the willing participation of many jurists in what zum GrossteU jUdische Probleme behandelten, people and was directed against the defeatists amounted to a blatant violation of elemen­ nur von Wenigen verstanden wurden und in order to protect the healthy and strong tary legal principles was one of the most nicht zum Aufbau einer neuen Existenz son­ from succumbing to weakness. These were depressing features of the era of the Third dern zu Sommers eigenem tragischen physi­ obviously the guidelines for the judicature of Reich. schen Zusammenbruch fuhrten. the Court which abandoned the traditional One would wish that a younger generation concepts of administration of justice, abolished of Germans and others engaged in the legal Sommer ist der Autor von 15 gedruckten aU legal safeguards for the accused and profession would take note of the tragic con­ Buchern, einer Anzahl Artikeln und Kurz- constituted one of the main instmments of sequences of a judiciaiy slavishly serving a geschichten, von einem als Manuskript hinter­ Nazi tyranny and brutaUty. system which determinedly replaced the bliebenen, von Fachleuten als bedeutend be­ zeichneten Roman und schonen Gedichten. The Court's practices are unrolled in detail observance of the rule of law by fanaticism and arbitrariness and had nothing but con­ Aus dieser Fulle haben die Herausgeber des in a standard work which forms part of a vorliegenden Buches eine kluge Auswahl comprehensive investigation into the various tempt for the basic principle of human dignity. getroffen, die imstande ist, dem Kenner seiner aspects of Nazi law and its application.* It Werke ihren asthetischen und moralischen explains the composition and the competence * Walter Wagner : Der Volksgerlchtshol Im natlonal- sozlallatlschen Staat. (Teil III von "Die deutsche Justiz Inhalt ins Gedachtnis zu rufen, im Liebhaber of the Court, analyses its verdicts and des­ und der Nationalsozialismus".) 992 Seiten. Deutsche Ver­ guter Literatur, der niemals vorher von Som­ cribes, among others, the trials against men lags-Anstalt, Stuttgart. DM 168. mer gehort hatte, den Wunsch zu entfachen, and women who dared to resist the Nazi evil. diese Lucke in seinem literarischen Wissen Jews played a minor part among the persons auszufUUen. arraigned before the People's Court; they Nelly Engel *ere easUy dealt vrith by the notorious VERSCHOLLENE UND VERGESSENE Als Sommer starb, schrieb der Literar­ administrative measures of the Gestapo and historiker und ReligionsphUosoph Friedrich other outfits. It was, however, held against Zur reinen Freude von Menschen der alte­ Thieberger von ihm: "Er ist ein Meister des defendants brought before the Court on other ren Jahrgange, in deren Leben die Literatur historischen Romans, dessen Wert erst kom­ counts if they had tried to help persecuted eine Rolle gespielt hat, und mit dem noch mende Geschlechter voU begreifen werden". Jews or had criticised the Nazi policies and viel wichtigerem Ziel vor Augen, den jiingeren Dieses neue Buch ist dazu angetan, die actions of mass murder and elimination of Generationen zu helfen, eine wesentliche ErfUUung dieser Prophezeiung naher zu the "Jewish enemy" from German cultural Liicke in ihren literarischen Erfahrungen bringen. life. There is no trace of human sympathy auszufiillen, gibt die Akademie der Wissen­ Noticeable in the judgements pronounced by schaften und der Literatur in Mainz im Franz the judges with those who had fallen into Steiner Verlag in Wiesbaden eine Bucher- YAD VASHEM'S HALL OF NAMES their clutches; defending counsels were reihe heraus, die, schon ausgestattet und gut Roll of Holocaust Victims PracticaUy helpless and death sentences were gedruckt, den riihrenden Titel tragt: "Ver- schoUene und Vergessene". In our June 1976 issue we published a handed down even when it would have been Letter to the Editor, in which readers were Possible to refrain from imposing the ultimate Autoren, die im Geitesleben der ersten asked to record the names of relatives and Penalty. Halfte dieses Jahrhunderts eine angesehene friends on special forms to be asked for from . Roland Freisler was the best-known and par­ Rolle gespielt haben und deren Namen und the office of Yad Vashem in Jerasalem. Mean­ ticularly feared member of the Nazi judiciary, Werke, vielfach aus unerklarUchen Griinden, while, the Jerusalem Office has, at our request, hut already prior to his appointment as im Gesichtskreis der modemen Welt verblass- supplied us with a number of forms, which President of the Court in August 1942 and ten Oder gar vollig aus ihm verschwunden may thus be ordered from our office, 8 Fairfax ^^ter his replacement in February 1945, the sind, bUden den Gegenstand von bisher 18 Mansions. So far, well over two and a half Biichem. Jeder Band enthait den Lebensabriss mUlion names have been received in Jeru­ People's Court exceUed in spreading fear and salem but to commemorate as many of the und eine Auswahl aus den Werken des be­ six mUlion perished Jews as possible, the treffenden Autors. Wir finden unter ihnen co-operation of all Jews who may supply infor­ CLUB 1943 Namen, die noch immer Erinnerungen wach­ mation is required. To house the "pages of Vortrage jeden Montag um 8 p.m. im rufen, so wie z. B. Theodor Daubler, Else testimony" and thus to preserve the names Hannah Karminski House, Lasker-Schuler, Rudolf Borchardt, Karl Kraus of the martyrs, a Hall of Names has been und manche andere. constructed at Yad Vashem. 9 Adamson Road, N.W.S 7 Marz. Dr Kurt Pfliiger: Die Revolu- Vor mir liegt der Band, der das Leben tionierung des Europaischen Thea­ und Werk des aus der Tschechoslovakei stam­ FORESTS TO HONOUR GENTILES ters. Das Meininger Hoftheater. menden und in Jahre 1955 in London verstor­ To mark the centenary of the publication 14 Marz. Grete Sachs: Die Sassoons und benen Dichters und Schriftstellers Emst of George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda", the sub­ die RothschUds. Sommer behandelt. Dieser Band ist 170 Seiten ject of which is a Jew brought up by Gentiles 21 Marz. Dr. Erwin Seligmann: Theodor stark, von denen 36 Seiten die Einleitung and finding his way back to Judaism, a 1,000 Herzl. einnimmt, die von der einstigen Prager tree forest has been planted in Galilee. 28 Marz. Dr. Finni Lesser: George Universitatsprofessorin Dr. Vera Machackova- Another forest was planted to honour Mr. EUiot. Riegerova geschrieben ist. Dr. Machackova Robert Hawke, the Australian trade union "i April. Keine Veranstaltung. leader and staunch friend of Israel. At the versteht es in dieser Einleitung, den Lebens­ planting ceremony, his father, a Protestant 11 April. Keine Veranstaltung. lauf Ernst Sommers mit der Analyse jedes clergyman, read a passage from Isaiah. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION March, 1977

ALFRED UNGER 75 BIRTHDAYS Alfred Unger, the German Jewish author who has been living in London since 1937, OTTO KUESTER 70 ERICH LUETH 75 celebrated his 75th birthday. Bom in Hohen­ The lawyer Otto KUster, one of the earliest The name of Erich Lueth (Hamburg), who salza, he was hailed as a promising young champions for the indemnification of the recently celebrated his 75th birthday, is in­ author when he published his novel about victims of Nazi persecution, recently cele­ solubly associated with the first pubUc efforts Jesus, "The story of the great Nazarene" in brated his 70th birthday. Immediately after in post-war Germany to overcome the hap­ the war, he was put in charge of Indemnifica­ penings of the Nazi regime. Together vrith 1926. His first plays were published by S. tion affairs in Wuerttemberg-Baden. He held Rudolf Kuestermeier, he started the "Action Fischer, and in 1929 he was awarded the this office from 1945 until 1954. For several Peace with Israel" as far back as 1951. He German Drama Prize and the Prize of the months, he was also deputy leader of the was the first German who, in 1952, visited German Stage Confederation. In this country Israel as the guest of the Government. German delegation at the historical Hague he wrote the scripts for a number of successful Conference held in 1952 between the repre­ Throughout the foUowing decades he has con­ sentatives of the Federal German Republic tinued his work for German-Jewish and German and English films, and translated and of Jewish victims. There his sense of German-Israel understanding, and he has Charles Morgan, Terence Rattigan and Peter justice and his ethical approach to the prob­ summed up his activities in this field in his Ustinov into German. The West German lem gained him the trust and respect of the latest book "Die Friedensbitte an Israel 1951" (1976). Erich Lueth, who was Chief Press Govemment awarded him the Federal Service Jewish delegates. When he was awarded the Cross First Class. He also holds important honorary doctorate of the University of Officer of the City of Hamburg untU his re­ Tuebingen about ten years ago, the laudatio tirement in 1964, viTote, among other works, posts with a number of intemational writers' especiaUy referred to Kuster's writings in the several books about famous Hamburg Jews of federations and is a member of the Inter­ field of phUosophy of law, in which he dealt the past, e.g. Gabriel Riesser, Isaak Wolffson national PEN Club. vrith the question of indemnification in the and Salomon Heine. We vrish him many more wider context of the general idea of atone­ years of creative activities. ment. MEALS ON WHEELS FOR FLATLET HOME DR. ADELHEID LEVY Some months ago, the Meals-on-Wheels DR. OTTO BENTAL 80 Eight years have passed since Ada Levy Service was extended to Eleonor Rathbone retired from the AJR staff. Yet this does not House, the Flatlet Home in Highgate. This For those who know Dr. Otto Bental, the mean that the continuous contact between her was made possible by the installation of a head of the Berlin Office of URO, it vriU be and her former coUeagues has ceased and freezer, acquired out of the funds of the AJB difficult to believe that he recently became that all of those who worked vrith her are Charitable Trust. In a letter to the AJR one an octogenarian. His alertness and appearance not retaining an active interest in her well- of the Home's residents, Mrs. M. Ries, ex­ seem to belie his age as those of his col­ being. Her 28 years' devoted work as head of pressed her special thanks for this arrange­ leagues who met him at the latest URO the AJR Sociai Services Department vrill ment to the AJR and to the members of the Board Conference in Frankfurt noticed anew always be gratefully remembered. Home's House Committee. "The Meals-on- when he reported about the specific position As on the occasion of previous mUestones Wheels Service provides us with very good of his office with his traditional vigour and in Ada's life, there wUl be no official celebra­ cooked meals and soups in cellophane bags, clarity. Numerous former Berliners owe the tion of her 80th birthday on March 19. How­ so that we only need to heat them up. This settlement of their claims to his knowledge ever, we cannot let the event pass without is a very great help indeed, especially ioT and energy. We wish our friend Dr. Bental expressing to her anew our feelings of affec­ those of us who are old and not exactly in many more years of undiminished strength. tion and our most cordial wishes for good the best of health. To me personally it is a W.R. health and happiness. boon", she writes.

FAMILY EVENTS Muskat.—Mrs. Nelly Muskat (nee CLASSIFIED ALTERATIONS OF DRESSES, Nahab), widow of Dr. Walter etc. undertaken by ladies on our Entries in the column Family Muskat, formerly of Breslau, died The charge in these columns is register. Phone AJR Employment Events are free of charge; any on February 3, aged 82. Deeply 25p for five words plus 20p for Agency, 01-624 4449. voluntary donation would, how­ moumed by her son, Herbert, advertisements under a Box No. ever, be appreciated. Texts should daughter, Lotte Spear, son-in-law NURSING COMPANION. Conti­ and granddaughter and many nental lady, German-speaking, be sent in by the 15th of the Miscellaneous seeks non-residential position. Also month. good friends. 10 Manorway, En­ field, Middlesex. NEED A MINICAB? Bellamy Car night duty and as travelling com­ Hire at your service. Helpful and panion. Please call 01-458 8698 be­ Birthdays Rosenberg. — Mr. Jakob Rosen­ competitive. Ring aftemoons 01- tween 6 and 9 p.m. berg, of 17 Gainsborough Gardens, 907 4579. The AJR Club expresses its London, N.W.ll (fonnerly Bres­ Accommodation Vacant gratitude to Dr. Adelheid Levy, lau), passed away on January 21. COMFORTABLE BED - SITTER its founder-mother, for her de­ Sadly missed by his wife. REVLON MANICURIST / PEDI- voted work for the Club, and its CURIST. WiU visit your home. vrith breakfast. North Finchley. sincerest congratulations on the Schuster. — Dr. Friedl Schuster 01-445 2915. suitable business person or occasion of her 80th birthday, passed away suddenly on Thurs­ student.—01-445 2915. wishing her health and happiness. day, February 10. A dedicated ENGLISH / GERMAN speaking worker for community welfare, author researching for a book on Personal The AJR Club also extends very member of the Leo Baeck Lodge German Anti - Nazis 1919 -1939 WELL - EDUCATED, MUSICAL good wishes to its members, Mrs. and founder member of the Surrey would like to interview in London lady, late 40s, divorcee, two Camella Renney, on her 90th, and B'nai B'rith Women's Lodge, she people who had lived in Germany daughters, one a student, looks,for Miss Margaret Ziffer on her 80th wUl be sadly missed by aU her at that time. Please contact Eve sincere gentleman for companion­ birthday. many friends and coUeagues. Dessarre, 11 Rue Condorcet, 94800 ship, possibly marriage. Not Ortho­ VUlejuif, France, after March 15. Wiener. — On Febraary 6, Dr. dox. Residing near the Cotswolds. Steiner.—Mr. Kurt Steiner, of 790 —Box 645. North Circular Road, London, Fritz I. Wiener, of Morris Fein­ GERMAN AND ENGLISH coins N.W.2 wUl celebrate his 65th birth­ mann House, Manchester. Deeply WIDOW, in her 60s, independent mourned by his only son, Harry, wanted. High prices paid. Phone day on March 23. With love and 01-455 8578 after 6 p.m. means, vrith comfortable house, no good wishes from his wife, famUy relatives in Israel and U.S.A., chUdren, is looking for a kinu, and aU his friends. former pupils (Mittelschule Ber­ Situations Vacant sympathetic widower for com­ lin and Liverpool University) and panionship in order to buUd up » Thanks for Congratulations a large circle of friends. WE WOULD WELCOME to hear new life. When replying, pl^^q Wiener.—Mrs. Hedwig Wiener, our from more ladies who would be give telephone number. Box 64J- Philipps.—Miss Else Philipps, of willing to shop and cook for an 108 Vivian Court, London, W.9, beloved mother, passed away on Febraary 7, shortly before cele­ elderly person in their neighbour­ wishes to thank all her friends and hood on a temporary or permanent Personal Enquiries acquaintances for their good wishes brating her 92nd birthday. Deeply moumed by chUdren, grandchild­ basis. Current rate of pay £1-00 Oettinger.—Ruth Oettinger, pup£ on the occasion of her 80th birth­ per hour. Please ring Mrs. Casson day. ren and one great-grandson.—E. H. of the North London CoUegiate Wiener and family, 115 The Vale, 01-624 4449, AJR Employment, for School between 1929-1934, la^i London, N.W.ll. appointment. knovra address before the war: i' Deatlis Chatsworth Road, London, ^•^•i' Memorial Stone Situations Wanted is wanted by former school fnenu- Liebel. — Camilla Liebel (bom —Box 644. Vienna), resident of the Otto Schiff Fisher. — The memorial stone in GERMAN / FRENCH shorthand House, beloved mother and aunt, ever-loving memory of David typist with fluent spoken English, AJR Enquiries passed away peacefiUly in her 98th Fisher, beloved husband of Irene Spanish, Italian seeks secretarial year. A most remarkable person (aie Wiener), wUl be consecrated or teaching job in London. Would Glaser.—Mr. Guido Glaser, »"^las't who will be sadlv missed by all who at Bushey (iemetery on Sunday, consider part-time.—AJR Employ­ known address: 25 Burford Roa" ktiew her.—WUly, Hanni, Beryl. March 13, at 2.15 p.m. ment Agency. 01-624 4449. Manchester, M16 SEW. AJR INFORMATION March, 1977 Page 11 the Vienna Jewish community. Yet I resent the way, in which the last chapter of the pre- Letters to the Editor 1945 epoch is belittled. The text only briefly refers to the "Reichskristallnacht", but it does "THE GREAT PARADOX" long to Mr. Wistrich's list of Jewish antisem­ not mention the events leading up to the bru­ ites because, in my view, he was rather a "man talities of 1938-9 and the part played in it Sir,—May I add a few comments to the art­ about toum" (albeit an intelligent one) than by the authorities and the intelligentsia. icle "The Great Paradox" by Eua Reichmann, a reliable leader of Socialists. Neither does it record that of the 180,000 Jews which was published in your December 1976 On the whole, I agree with Eric Heffer, who in Austria some 60,000 perished in concentra­ issue and in which she reviews Robert Wist­ wrote in a recent issue of the "Tribune" that tion camps and that some 20,000 houses once rich's book on Revolutionary Jews. My critic­ both Marx and Trotsky are outdated and can belonging to Jewish citizens were declared as ism is not directed against Mrs. Reichmann's no longer be regarded as spiritual leaders of "herrenloses Eigentum", and taken over by review, which, as always, is very much to the modern Socialists. Wistrich rightly mentions the Austrian Govemment. point and objective but against certain aspects leading socialists, who were definitely not One should also have expected the enumera­ of the book. Jewish antisemites, e.g. Leon Blum and Eduard tion of at least some Austrian Jews who, in Eva Reichmann rightly stated that after the Bemstein. One could add many other names, recognition of their outstanding achievements first period the Socialist movement became a e.g. Oscar Cohn, and one should in any case not in the field of scholarship and science, were party of absolute faimess towards the Jews generalise on the basis of a few examples, awarded the Nobel Prize or other honours. within its midst and that Socialists were even though they were well-known personali- The irony is that not even those of them arc their very reliable defenders, convinced camp­ tics referred to who were depicted on previous aigners against antisemitism. Mrs. Reichmann (Dr.) W. BRESLAUER post-war Austrian stamps. is particularly justified in making this state­ 17 Southwood Lawn Road, 23 Puriey Avenue, KAMILLO WEISS ment, because her late husband, Hans Reich­ London, N6. 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DR. DR. JOSEF NEUBERGER Professor Dr. Dr. Josef Neuberger, from OBITUARY 1966 to 1972 Minister of Justice of the State of North Rhine Westphalia, has died at JUSTIN THANNHAUSER YVONNE DE ROTHSCHILD Diisseldorf, aged 74. He was bom in Antwerp, but at the outbreak of war in 1914 his family Munich-bom art dealer Justin Thannhauser Mrs Yvonne de Rothschild, widow of the were expelled from Belgium and settled in died during a holiday at Gstaad, Switzerland, late Anthony de Rothschild, died at Ascot, Dusseldorf. He studied at Cologne during the aged 84. In 1963, after the death of his first aged 77. She came of a distinguished family German inflation period and worked at the wife and his two sons, he donated his of bankers and race-horse ovraers, the Cahen same time to pay for his studies. He was a collection of art treasures, including Impress­ d'Anvers, and was married at the Paris Grand member of the "Blau Weiss" Youth organisa­ ionists, 34 Picassos, Van Goghs and Modiglianis Synagogue in 1926 with the Chief Rabbi of tion and a co-founder of the Poale Zion in to the New York Guggenheim Museum. His France officiating. Before and during the last Germany. In 1932 he started practising as father's gallery in Munich had become known war, she was very active on behalf of refugees a lawyer in Diisseldorf, but vras prevented all over the world for the first exhibitions of from Nazi oppression. She was president of from continuing soon after the Nazis came expressionist art and of the "Blaue Reiter". the Women's Appeal Committee for German to power. As early as 1920 he had joined the In 1913 Justin joined his father and opened Jewish Women and Children, part of the Social Democratic Party. During the November the first exhibition of Picasso pictures in Jevnsh Refugees Committee, and at her pogroms in 1938 he was throvm out of the Germany. After the first world war, he Mayfair residence many appeal meetings on window of his parents' flat and severely opened galleries in Luzem, Berlin and New behalf of German and Austrian Jewish injured. Friends helped him to escape to York and became one of the most important refugees were held. She was also a life-long Holland and later he went to Palestine vntn agents for impressionist and expressionist supporter of the Ben Uri Art Gallery. his parents. He returned to Germany soon paintings in the USA. Several of his collections after the war and was soon elected to the were looted or destroyed by the Nazis in North Rhine Westphalia State Parliament. As Gennany and France, but he went to New a member of the DUsseldorf City Council he York himself in 1941 and started collecting HERTA FEINER became chairman of the restitution committee from scratch. and spokesman on economics and science. In Herta Feiner, well-known all over Wales 1959 he became a member of the W. German MR. H. H. GOLDSTAUB for her fund-raising activities for Zionist Parliament, in 1966 Minister of Justice in North organisations, has died in Pontypridd. In 1938 Rhine Westphalia. In this capacity he worked Mr Henry Herbert Goldstaub, a long-stand­ she came to this country with her doctor for the liberalisation of Justice and for humane ing member of the AJR, died on January 27 husband and baby son as a refugee from sentences. In some of the early concentration in his 62nd year. He was founder and co- Austria and took on a job as cook and house­ camp trials, such as Treblinka and Sobibor, director of Electrothermal Engineering Ltd he acted as public prosecutor. He also took (London) and has made several inventions in keeper to enable her husband to study for a an active interest in Jewish affairs, was .a the field of electrical heating. At the same British qualification. After three years, the member of the Central Council of Jews m time, he played a leading part in a number family settled in Pontypridd where they had Germany and of the Diisseldorf Synagogue of trade associations in the UK and was the to overcome a great deal of suspicion and Board. He was an expert on restitution matters co-founder of a European Trade Association animosity. During the years that followed and gave a talk on the developments dunng even before the U.K. became a member of they gained the respect and admiration of a visit to London some six years ago. Members the European community. He held the vice- of the Govemment, of Parliament and of the presidency of this Federation from 1967 until the local population. Herta Feiner's special Lawyers' Association attended his funeral 1974 and was its president from 1974 until concem was the Jerusalem Baby Home where where Prime Minister Heinz Kiihn stresseci he passed away. her name is marked on a panel of honour. his humanitarian and liberal attitude. L.M-

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