Volume XXXIV No. 4 April 1979 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOOATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN CREAT BRITAOI
»'.K osenstock the French army during the summer 1939. The only chance of release from internment was the "voluntary" enlistment with the Foreign Legion. Those, who made use of this WHERE EXODUS FAILED "chance" were departed to North Africa, German Jews in Occupied France where they had to endure terrible hardship, especially as their "comrades" and superiors included criminals. In 1940, the intemment ^'Tj's month, when we are celebratmg Pesach, peated itself; like many German Jews before camps were transformed into labour camps. U) th-"^ °^ **^"* ^^''^ exodus from Germany 1933 in their aittitude to the "Ostjuden", many After the beginning of the German offensive this country. We also remember those, who French Jews considered the newcomers with in May 1940, the intemment was extended to ^shed in the holocaust because they could their alien habits as a danger to their own men up to 65 and to women between 17 and Y emigrate or were caught up in a Westem social and political security. Some of them, 55. When the German-French armistice was PuTr''^^ country during the war. A recent the authors note, felt so safe in their and concluded on June 22, 1940, some comman lication about the emigrants in France their ancestors' homeland thait even after the dants opened the gates, giving the inmates "^rds their fate.* German occupation they could not believe that the chance to try and escape to the Southern, ^Tne book is the first pubUcation under a they, too, were afTected by the anti-Jewish unoccupied Zone of France. There were, how 6na^'"*^' ^^^*^h was launched and partly measures. On the other hand, they actively ever, also commandants, who handed over all _^'wncod by the "Council of Jews from Ger- participated in the charitable work for the camp intemees to the Nazis. ,^ """V ' at the suggestion of Professor Herbert refugees and, to quote one example, one of the leading French-Jewish honorary oflicers Those, who reached the Southem Zone ^"^uss (New York), and whose ultimate aim ("Vichy France") were intemed anew. The Jtu f^^^Pr^hensive history of the emigrated of the responsible relief organisations, Staats rat Jacques Helbronner shared the fate of authors give detailed descriptions of the con •s from Germany in their main countries of ditions in the various camps. In accordance J.J, ."dement. In the preface to the book, Ruth many of his fellow Jews and was deported to Auschwitz. with the Armistice Agreement, German lan pays tribute to the preparatory work ofiBcials visited the camps, to liberate the ^^^ by the late Dr. Kurt L. Lang, "genuine" Germans and to hand over those, y. ^'itrary to other countries, France was con- Immigrants' Insecurity who were supposed to be active anti-Nazis, to M^^'^ by most immigrants as a temporary the Gestapo. ^h'f*^' P^'^ding a re-emigration overseas. The book gives a detailed survey of the various organisations in charge of the refugees. The Jewish and non-Jewish relief organisa (• "Jf the total number of immigrants from tions retained the opportunity of looking after ^"•rrnany iji France between 1933 and 1940 Of course, there were hound to arise difficul ties also on the part of the recipients. Having the refugees inside and outside the camps. ((^''""latod at 150,000, there were never more They were also instnunental in rescuing many 'im" '^^^ °f them in the country at the same been financially independent before their flight, they did not find it easy to become by providing them with immigration papers beneficiaries of welfare support. Another, to the United States. Their work was, how a,' further difTerence between France and ever, complicated by "the requirement of an tj^ other countries of emigration arises from almost unsurmountable, difliculty the emi grants had to face during the pre-war years exit visa from the Vichy authorities. In many jf^.-'^^'^Paratively higher proportion of—non- cases, the endangered emigrants had to cross ^ ^'sh and Jewish—political refugees. There arose from the insecurity of their status. The book carries meticulous descriptions of the the border illegally. Thc book gives several ,n ."^ ''Wet demarcation line between political examples of the tragedies involved in this— Jewish refugees, but it is certainly no various regulations goveming their residence and labour permits. often unsuccessful—exodus. ^''icnt that the book carries the Utle "Ger- In 1941, a special department for Jewish ».,, J^'"iigration. Unfortunately, some political A special chapter is dedicated to the mani alTairs was established by the Vichy Govern {j^rj'^'its labelled those of their fellow emi- fold political and cultural activities before the ment at the order of the German authorities, ^J^^'•s who had left Germany "only" because war. Notwithstanding the frictions between and a few months later, a "General Repre T>,^ ^^'^'"^ Jews, as "Wirtschaftsemigranten". the various political groups there were also sentation of the Israelites in France" was fr«,i ""'bors strongly dissociate themselves unifying enterprises such as the creation brought into being. Thc two foundations were •>^" 'bis derogatory classification, stating of a "Deutsche Freihcitsbibliothek" on May in charge both of thc alien and of tlie French ^^^ 'be non-political emigrants, too, left Ger- 10, 1934, the first anniversary of the buming Jews and operated in Vichy France as well ,f_,j -^ 'n the first place to save their lives of books by the Nazis. It comprised more as in the occupied zone. c;^^"*^' only because their economic basis in than 20,000 volumes, most of which were 'any was destroyed or endangered, donated by emigrants, and was later linked A special task of the relief organisations, j^^^'c book deals in its first part with the with the "Internationale anti-faschistische in particular of OSE, was the care for Jewish t.v '["" •'''tuation. The second section describes Archiv", which by 1939 had collected more children. Some were liberated from the camps W j., '.^''^lopment during the war from the than 200,000 newspapers and thousands of and accommodated in homes or with private leaflets and brochures. families. Their fate was bound to result in '*•«! ""r"^ °^ tbe hostilities up to the occupa- psychological difficulties which still have their H«i^. ."t the whole country. The post-war The anti-alien, and even pro-German, aftCT-eflects. When the deportations set in, H;^''"*" of the surviving refugees is briefiy attitude of certain sections of the French the children were in particular danger, because ' "•^'d to in an Epilogue. administration is, among other things, reflected Laval wanted to have as many children as 'v'*','^'"" the years between 1933 and 1938, in a law, promulgated as early as November, possible "at his disposal" in order to fulfil »>i,,''""*''"ants from Germany, 80 per cent of 1930, which gave the authorities the right to the quotas of deportees demanded by the ^'^11 \v(,pp je^yg^ jjjj^i to face the hostility of arrest "undesirable aliens". Significantly, this Germans. In this connection, thc authors V^-j''f">itic and fascist elements, last but not law was first put into eflect on the occasion mention that Laval only got a bad conscience j,^^ '" tlie administration. The French-bom of Ribbentrop's visit to Paris on December 6, when the fate of the French-bom Jews was at W^. ^^^"'"9 first sympathetic to them, because 1938, when a number of emigrants were stake, and even then only "to a limitwl *i ./^""^idcrcd the assimilated German Jews arrested and interned or forbidden to stay extent". **
Continued from page 1 IMPACT ON TV STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS "Council" addresses Chancellor sicherheits-Hauptamt" in Berlin. It took its In Germany, the discussions started by the measures in several stages: first the registra showing of the "Holocaust" films continue. The Council of Jews from Germany, of A collection of documentary material, pub which the AJR is a constituent member, ha* tion of all Jews, then their elimination from lished by the North Rhine Westfalia Office for submitted a Resolution to Federal Chancellor the economic life and, on June 1, 1942, the Political Education, has been snapped up. Schmidt strongly pleading for the abolition of introduction of the "Judenstcm". (235,000 copies were distributed). The Fed thc statute of limitations. Thc Jews from Gcr^ eral Centre of the PEN Club and thc Federa many, the Resolution .states, were the first Things came to a licad when Vichy France tion of German Authors have appealed for a victims of Nazi persecution. Those who were Was also occupied and massacres and deporta second showing of the programme at a time able to save their lives by emigration arc tions to thc East were carried out in both more convenient for general viewing and by almo.st without exception survivors of exter parts of Fi-ancc. It is estimated that about one ot the major TV stations. Two large scale minated families. The Council warns that, one third of thc 350,000 Jews in pre-war questionnaires were sent out by the Federal unless thc statute of limitations is revoked, France perished in thc deportation camps. Thc Government to establish the reactions of the many criminals under the Nazi r6gimc, against general population, subdivided according to whom proceedings could not yet be started, proportion of foreign Jews among thc victims age, religion, and profession. A third question was higher than that of thc French Jews. would come into thc open and take a Icadinc naire will be sent out in April to estabish long- part in neo-Nazi activities in Germany. Above While the authors repeatedly refer to thc term reactions to the programme. During a all, it was the moral duty of the responsible willing collaboration of French authorities further TV programme "Report", three former legislative bodies to see to it that crimes of with the Germans, they also stress that the Auschwitz guards, serving life terms for par the magnitude as those committed under the total number of victims would have been con ticipation in Nazi crimes, reported on their Nazi regime should not go unpunished. siderably higher, had there not been thousands own involvement. They will again appear in a programme "Lagerstrasse Auschwitz" in April. A resolution was also passed by the Americ.nn of French people who, at risk to theii- own The First Federal TV Service ARD showed a Federation of Jews from Central Europe, the lives, kept Jews in hiding. film "From a German Life" by Theodor Council's constituent in the U.S., calling upon Kotulla, which describes the fate of Rudolf the Government of the Federal Republic of When France was liberated in 1944, the vic Hoss, the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz, Germany to remove all impediments hinderinq tory had a very sad side-effect for quite a few showing a frighteningly ordinary person the continued prosecution in the Federal Jewish survivors. Their flats had been taken executing any criminal act on orders from Republic of persons accused of murder. "End over by Frenchmen, who refused to move out. above, immune to any feelings of guilt. In Bonn, ing thc statute of limitations for murder", the Thus, many Jews were homeless and their the Anti-Fascist Federation sponsored the Resolution concludes, "would make a further position was aggravated by widespread anti premiere of a film "In thc Name of the contribution towards the liquidation of thc Fiihrer", made by the Belgian director Lydia heritage of the 'Third Reich'." semitism in the countrj'. Among thc organisa Chagoll with documentary material from Ger tions, which helped to ease the situation, was man and Belgian sources which showed the Statement by Chief Prosecutor the Committee of Jewish Refugees of German crimes committed on Jewish and other perse Oberstaatsanwalt Dr. Adalbert Rueckcrl. Origin, which was founded in 1946 and mainly cuted children, contrasted with the raising of chief of thc Central Office for the Prosecution coucentrated on questions of thc refugees' model "Germanic" children. The film has also of Nazi War Crimes told the Foreign Press legal status. The Committee was dissolved in been shown in many Belgian and French Association in Bonn that during the "Holo 1952 and succeeded by "Solidarity of Jewish cinemas, but Mrs. Chagoll complained that it had not been accepted by the Berlin film caust" screening his office had received many Refugees", which was and still is mainly active festival and that German TV stations did not calls giving the names of persons who may m the social sphere and which is also affiliated show any interest in it. have been involved in war crimes. This in to the Council of Jews from Germany. formation would be followed up. He said thc Bundestag should abolish the statute of limita The authors have done spadework in re tions on "moral principles rather than judicial cording the fate of a twice-persecuted com Belgium grounds" even though "it would not have n munity of Jews from Germany. They have In the meantime, "Holocaust" has also been very great practical effect". Most major war crimes, such as those involving guards at N.nzi Produced a documentary about the main shown to large audiences on French and Bel. gian TV. In Belgium, the Jewish national death camps like Auschwitz, had been cleared measures which determined the destiny of the up. It was, however, conceivable that Soviet yictims. Unfortunately, as tliey stress in the committee which is about to build a memorial to wartime Belgian Jewish resistance fighters, bloc countries withhold information on N.n?! ^troduction, they had to rely on second-hand has drafted a pamphlet for distribution to war crimes, with the intention of relcasinc iiterature, because numerous archives were teachers, after a TV inquiry showed that most the data in order to embarrass Bonn if the destroyed by the Germans and thc Vichy Bundestag fails to lift thc statute of limitations. young viewers between ten and fourteen years Whilst Poland had been most co-operative in Govemment shortly before the breakdown of of age did not know the facts, but wanted to helping West German courts by providinc the Nazi regime; furthermore, after the war, know more. extensive documents and thousands of wit the new French regime ordered thc destruc Holland nesses. East Germany had been the least co tion of all documents which "reflect a policy operative, rendering help only in a few case*. of racial discrimination". In Holland, the showing of the "Holocaust" film in May has been thoroughly prepared. Notwithstanding these limitations which are The TV stations have issued vast amounts EAST GERMANY JAILS MASS KILLER.S ^ot of their making, the authors have provided of documents to schools so that their teaching At a two-week trial in Halle, two former 3 reliable survey of one chapter of our history, can prepare the pupils for the showing. Repre Nazi policemen were given life sentcncej. *hich resulted in innumerable human sentatives of organisations of persecutees have whilst a third was sent to prison for fourteen tragedies. offered to answer questions in special TV and years for having participated in the m.n^i radio programmes, and the editors of school murder of Jews in the Soviet Union in 19-11 newspapers were asked to attend a special According to state prosecutor Dr. Horst Busse. information meeting in March. the three had been given special training in efficient murder methods at an SS school In BARON ROTHSCHILD UNDER FIRE France Cracow and were involved in the murder of .ii In France "Holocaust" was watched by 75 least 5,000 Jews. Each day, they had fetched Members of the French Jewish community per cent of viewers. Before the programme 15 .Tews from the ghetto and killed tliem *?d of French Immigrants in Israel have M. Beulac, Minister of Education, appealed to getting marks and awards for efficiency. All •lolenUy attacked Baron Guy dc Rothschild parents to explain thc background to their three had volunteered for SS police service ici lor a recent interview in thc French monthly chDdrcn. After the showing of the fourth avoid service at the front. After thc war, tlirr J-ui". He was quoted as saying that when he and last episode of the film, Mrs. Simone destroyed all papers and claimed to have been i^ited Israel, he felt like a stranger, and in the German Army, but they were cvcniu f^^nch, British and German Jews had very Veil, the ftench^ Health Minister, who is a survivor of Auschwitz and Birkenau death ally traced to their homes in East Gerni.Tm *«Ue to say to each other. "They only meet and arrested in 1977. JO make donations". Representatives of the camps, took part with others in a televised 'J.^ich Jewish Students and Aliyah Movement debate. A CRIMINAL ORGANISATION ^iQ. the RothschUds had always led thc Two leaders of the "NSDAP FrankfurtCsu -ewish community, but with the aid of the TIIE AMERICAN DOCUMENT CENTER a„Tblishment which they helped to create, Hessen Nassau" were arrested for hnvini; »i;lo-Israel Chamber of Commerce, the said that in 1974, shortly after the Yom Kippur the contemporary challenge." Mr. Steel said "'•iti.sh Government's failure to stand up to War, President Sadat had asked him to tell that Jews who in this country and in the States "le Arab boycott was "weak-kAeed and lily- Golda Meir that he desired a new start in enjoyed full civil rights and considerable in iivi-red, concentrating on a fast buck to the Egyptian-Israeli relations. Mrs. Meir had fluence, should use this influence to support '"'triment of our medium- and long-term reacted "in her simple direct wajr". She had the oppressed coloured minorities. The late interests". The United States, Germany, and shared the wish for a new beginning, but Lord Constantine, the famous cricketer who ['I her countries which traded successfuly with "argued Israel's case with clarity and deter became High Commissioner for Trinidad and »'>'b States, continued to develop an increas- mination". ^ Tobago, had once told Hampstead Jews that •"Jt export business with Israel and did not they owed the coloured people a great debt ^'"fiT for it. DISAPPOINTED MP RETIRES of gratitude, because they now took the place of the Jews as victims of prejudice and 'bo Saudi Arabian regional boycott office Mr. Paul Bernard Rose who has represented oppression. "^^ just declared that Saudi tourists should the Blackley division of Manchester since 1964, "^t shop at Marks and Spencer, Selfridges is the eighth Jewish MP to announce his re •iml Great Universal Stores, because of these tirement at the next general election. When Lord Mayor at Jewish Service Miops' "strong connections with Israel". How- he was first elected, he was, at 28, the young ''^'T. the usual large number of Arab shop- est Jewish MP which he remained for ten The Lord Mayor, Councillor Ruth Dean and '"••^ is seen at all three stores, and an official years. lie has stated that his decision was the Lady Mayoress, Mrs. Barbara Brickncll, "' 'lie Marlborough Street magistrates court prompted by "increasing disenchantment with attended the annual civic service of the *»n«o.sted the stores should display notices the actions and complacency of various govern Liverpool Jewish community at Childwall j Mat they are on the blacklist and saying that ment departments". As a member of the "Tri Synagogue in full state, complete with the ;"e names of shoplifters would be sent to the bune" group, he infuriated other Left-wingers horse drawn civic coach and mounted police. '•".^•cott office. by his unswerving support for Israel. Mr. Rose The Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff of the is a ban-ister and a deputy circuit judge. The County of Mcrscyside also attended, as did ••^n American publication states that many other seven MPs who will not stand for re the Recorder of Liverpool, the chief constable, najor US companies are expanding their election, are Sir Myer Galpem, Mr. Maurice five former Lord Mayors, Mayors of neigh "I'^'rations in the Arab world despite their Orbach, Mr. Harry Selby, Mr. George Strauss, bouring boroughs, and other civic and ecclesi "jving [)epj, blacklisted for doing business Mr. Raphael Tuck, Mr. David Weitzman, and astical dignitaries. .'"' Israel. They include the Ford Motor Mr. Edmund Dell. .".'"Pany, Coca Cola, IBM, TWA, Hertz Cars, "I'ton Hotels, Sheraton Hotels, American Ex- A Jew speaks in Cathedral j''^'ss, and many more. Many Arab nations pay NO OIL FOR ISRAEL ' more than lip-service to the boycott. Dr. B. Fisher, president of the Leicester The Department of Energy denied a report Hebrew Congregation, spoke at the Innocents' '." Holland, however, a parliamentary en- that it 'had instructed oil companies in the Day Service in Leicester Cathedral to which .' '"7 has shown that many firms are only British sector of the North Sea not to sell he had been invited by the Bishop of Leicester. l'^, ^villing to undertake not to do business crude oil to Israel, but added that for the time The service was held by the Society for the [, I "Israel and that the Foreign Ministry and being, Britain had no spare oil supplies for Protection of Unborn Children, and Dr. , "ch cliambers of commerce were prepared new customers. Mr. Tony Benn, the Energy Fisher's subject was "The Sanctity of Life" ;. j'uthenticate statements by fii-ms that they Secretary, stated that British crude oil could underlined by quotations from the Bible in ,,•»' no links with Israel. The Netherlands not be used to make up for the loss of Iranian Hebrew and English. •^'"t Insurance Company includes a clause supplies, because all available oil was already ff>i. • contracts that it will not meet clauses under contract. '°^ violation of the boycott. Seder for Methodists ISRAEL BONDS FOR BRITAIN »eiit r*^^ of London, one of the most repre- At a Methodist ministers' conference near from ty^- ^^'y. institutions, had a narrow escape After years of negotiation, the Bank of Bath, Mr. Clive Lawton, of the Board of III,, being involved in a boycott procedure. England and the Treasury have given their Deputies' Information Committee, presided at rcIV ^^""^ threatened by the Saudi Arabian consent to the sale of Israel Bonds in Britain. a model Seder arranged for thirty Christian (l,p {"3l boycott office with being included in They are an important way to invest in the ministers. The participants were impressed by h,, boycott, because—unbelievably—they had Israeli economy and have for years been the experience, and not only downed their (j.-t confused with the Leeds matzo manu- widely sold in the United States, in West four cups of wine with great gusto, but even ^•ne"?^ firm of Lloyds Rakusen and Son. A Germany, and in other West European spent several minutes searching for the Ijtort • trading bureau in Saudi Arabia circu- countries. afikomen. >.'oori '^^ clients not to insure their export 'li-ih 1^*^ Lloyds because they would not be TRAVEL FACILITIES FOR Dearth of Jewish sportsmen I loJ V" by Saudi Arabian customs officials. SENIOR CITIZENS *> nil took the threat seriously enough to After a Sports Council Meeting at the House uQi' a long explanatory letter to the boycott As readers know, senior citizens qualify for of Commons, it was decided to set up a working coiiin" ^ 't, it was said that Lloyds was not a half-price rail travel in this country, if they party to find ways to encourage young Jewisn in,l P.^ny, but an association of some 17,000 purchase so-called Senior Citizen Railcards. sportsmen and women to reach for the top. At 'Vntl underwriting members, working in Aceording to a brochure issued by the the meeting, former Wimbledon star Angela 1^ (iicates, and business was only transacted "Schweizer Hotelier-Verein", reduced cnarges Buxton said Jewish parents did not sufficiently ly^j-rf^jlon, not as the boycott offlce had for accommodation in a number of hotels at encourage their children to do serious training. '^r,"o?^ inter alia at a branch office in certain periods of the year as well as reduced The working party will include Mr. Paul Yogi fares may also be obtained by senior citizens Mayer, the athletic coach, Mr. Ben Helfgott, a under special torms in Switzerland. Senior concentration camp survivor, and Miss Buxton. lhe"n public statement, the British section of citizens who wish to spend their holidays in ^rah j'.rliamentary Association for European- Switzerland or, for that purpose, in other Hjy '-o-operation has declared that thc only Continental countries, are advised to ask their Jewish revivalist meeting "••iiisft K ^°^ the boycott was to remove its travel agencies about anj[ advantageous her ,-,y persuading Israel to stop imposing facilities which might be available to them. Mrs. Esther Jungreis, the American founder !u ,.^T'V,9n her Arab neighbours by force and president of the Orthodox revivalist movement siablish a genuine Palestine homeland. Hineni addressed 250 people in the Florence Your House for:— Michaels Hall of the St. John's Wood Syna- gogue and formed a chapter of the movement FLOOR COVERINGS in London. Later this year, she will hold a EGYPT IGNORES BOYCOTT CURTAINS, CARPETS, large-scale meeting at the Royal Albert Hall. iiai'^'Ptian representatives have started nego- SPECIALITY In New York, 24,000 people attended her first ilrsDjP ^'^^ Cadbury-Schweppes in London "event" in Madison Square Gardens six years ''niii, • ^^^ ^^^ that the firm produces soft ENGLISH & CONTINENTAL ago. Mrs. Jungreis was bom in Hungary and '"s in Israel under licence. comes from a long line of rabbis. She said that DOWN QUILTS, DUVETS, before the war, there had been 85 rabbis DUVET COVERS & SHEETS called Jungreis—today only her husband was CITY RESPECTS YOM KIPPUR ALSO RE-MAKES AND RE-COVERS left. She herself survived Bergen-Belsen and ESTIMATES FREE arrived in the States in 1947. Und^ 'Election of the next Lord Mayor of DAWSON-LANE LIMITED *voi,i°" bas been put back a day in order to (eitebllthed 1946) the r,? clash with Yom Kippur. According to 17 BRIDGE ROAD, WEMBLEY PARK With acknowledgement to the news ix)ss:i ,'ty's statutes, such a postponement is '^ain» • to avoid a clash "with a festival of Telephone: 904 6671 service of the Jewish Chronicle. J^r importance." pertonel atlenllon o< Mr. W. Shackman Page 4 AJR INFORMATION April 1979
EXODUS FROM RHODESIA NEWS FROM ABROAD Since 1961, some 2,800 Jews have left Rhodesia. Many of them have settled in South UNITED STATES DB. MENGELE'S MEMOIRS Africa. Today, there are about 3,700 left in Dr. Berhom, a Danish-Norwegian physician the country. One of them, Mr. Donald Goldin. Memorial to Holocaust who has returned to Denmark after working MP, was killed in the Viscount airliner The 34-memt»er commission under the presi with South American Indians for a number of brought down by terrorists. Mr. Goldin was thc dency of Elie Wiesel, himself a concentration years, has stated that Josef Mengele, the owner of the Victoria Falls Casino Hotel, one camp survivor, which was set up by President Auschwitz doctor known as the "angel of of the most popular tourist hotels in Rhodesia. Carter last year to recommend a plan for a death" for his inhuman experiments on in iiational US memorial for Holocaust victims, mates, is writing his memoirs in his Para THE JEWS OF IRAN suggested at its first meeting to establish a guayan refuge. He lives in thc borderland multi-functional centre in Washington. Con- between Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina, A top secret Israeli mission went to Iran pess has also decreed two "Days of Remem a few days before the Ayatullah Khomeini's brance of Victims of the Holocaust" to be known as the "Nazi Ti-ianglc" and is venerated advent to power in order to help Iranian Jews held on April 28 and 29, thc anniversary of by local p>eople because he cured President to escape and settle in Israel. Its leader, Mr. the Amencan Uberation of concentration Stroessner of cancer. He is protected by Mordechai Ben Porat, a veteran in the rescue camp survivors in Germany in 1945. The five numerous guards who are reported to have of Jews from Moslem countrics, reported to Senators on the committee include IVLr. Rudy shot several Israeli agents trying to capture the Knesset on its retum that many Jews who Boschwitz who was bom in Germany in 1930 him. Mengele is said to have told Dr. Berhom: had been reluctant to leave, were now eager ^d came to the U.S. as an unaccompanied "If I can live in peace here, I will repay man to do so. but this was made impossible by thc child. Another committee member is Dr. Tel. kind for what I have done to it". Government's regulation that no one with an ford Taylor, a former prosecutor at the Iranian passport should leave the countr>'. Nuremberg trials. President Carter sent Mr. MEXICAN PRESIDENT PRAISES ISRAEL During the past six months, 20,000 Iranian Wicscl a series of aerial photographs of Jews liad come to Israel, but there were still Auschwitz concentration camp taken by U.S. During the conference of the Friends of between 55,000 and 60,000 in the country. planes in 1944 and 1945 and recently released the Hebrew University in North America, It is said that the immigrants from Iran by the C.I.A. This has revived the question, Mexico and the Caribbean, whicii was held in who managed to reach Israel, brought about often asl(ed before, why thc United States and Mexico City, Mr. Harman, president of the 25,000 Persian rugs with them. The Iranian Britain, knowing of the camp's existence, did University, conferred an honorary degree of community was regarded as the second richest not bomb the railway lines on which the vic Doctor of Philosophy on President Portillo in thc world, the richest being the US one. tims were taken to tJie camp. Thc Americans who, in his address of thanks, hailed Israel's have stated that the camp pictures were taken independence and achievements as "among ROME JEWS HELP VIETNAMESE by accident, when the planes photographed the the most extraordinary events in the history mfamous IG Farben plant five miles away of mankind". Members of the Mexican govem The first Vietnamese refugee family admitted which was bombed some time later. ment attended the ceremony, as did repre to Italy has been provided with housing, sentatives of the United States and ouier maintenance and employment by the Rome countries. Jewish community who declared they felt it Libyans Rebuffed in California their duty as Jews and as Italians to make thi.<; When a 30-man Libyan good-will mission symbolic gesture. P^id a five-day visit to California, they were JEWISH MAYOR FOR RIO DE JANEIRO taced with an unusually militant Jewish com The first Jewish mayor in the 400-year his BOYCOTT ON ZURICH ROTHSCHILD BANK munity, many cancelled invitations and hostile tory of Rio de Janeiro was appointed in the press conferences. In California's State Capi person of Dr. Israel Klabin, a 53-year-oId The Swiss Ministry of the Interior dccidcil tal, Sacramento, Govemor Brown and two- millionaire industrialist whose grandfather that it was not illegal to exclude the Roth.s 'hirds of thc city councU declined to attend a came to Brazil from Lithuania 70 years ago. child Bank AG in Zurich from the syndicate Pnyate luncheon with the group. In San Another Jew, 43-year-old journalist Mr. which organised a £25J million loan for 'rancisco, only members of the local Arab Amaldo Niskier, has been appointed State Algeria. TVo Amercan hanks resigned from community and a handful of businessmen seek Secretary of Education. the syndicate so as not to be caught by ing links with Libya, tumed up at a reception. American anti-boycott legislation. At a press conference in Los Angeles with the SOUTH AFRICA subject "Zionist control of the media", Mr. DEPORTATION MUSEUM VANDALISED Bob Manning of thc non-violent Conference of Coal for Israel Jewish Activists, rushed to the podium and Israel and South Africa have signed a long- The Deportation Museum on the site of Uic Shouted: "Why do you support people who term coal supply contract according to whicn SLruthof concentration camp in Alsace, wa.«; «ll Munich athletes?" up to a million tons of coal for the Israel broken into. A number of historic flags wcrv Electric Corporation's new coal-fired elec stolen, the museum's Golden Ixiok was muti Jewish Hospital Bankrupt lated and a photographic display and other tricity generator at Hadera will be shipped valuable records were destroyed. The Brooklyn Jewish hospital, one of New during 1980. fork's best-known private hospitals, has filed Gun attack on Jewish Shop [or bankruptcy, with a deficit of about £4 mil- National Front Leader barred Rnr\' ^ben it was opened 78 years ago with John Tyndall, the leader of the National The Chief Rabbi of Bordeaux, Rabbi Claude OOO beds, there were many fairly well-to-do Front in Britain, has been refused an entry Maman joined the Roman Catholic Archbishop Jews living in the district, but most of them visa to South Africa where National Front and the Protestant pastor of thc city in con nave by now moved out. members from Britain, West Germany, Italy demning the machine-gunning of the shop of and other European countries have launched Mr. Leon Levy, president of the local branch CANADIAN JEWS WITHDRAW FROM an anti-Jewish campaign under the guise of of the Inter-National League against Anti EXHIBITION "anti-Zionism". semitism and Racism. On the outside of the Canadian B'nai B'rith has withdrawn from shop a man with a pistol in his hand wa.^ [be Toronto Intemational Caravan Exhibition, depicted with a note: "We will kill you. Tlie "Ccause they were not allowed to name their gas chambers are still in action". The incident Pavilion "Jerusalem Pavilion", as it had always happened after the showing of "Holocau.sf ^een since the first exhibition in 1973. Several CAMDEN AUCTIONS on TV. Arab groups are suspected of having objected against the name. Next sale of Antiques to t>e held at NEW RABBI FOR BERNE AUSTRALIA BUYS ISRAELI JET The Old Town Hall Thirty-year-old Marcel Marcus, for three Haverstock HIII, N.W.3. years rabbi of the Reform Synagogue in New The "Jet Charter Company" has bought a castle-on-Tyne, was elected Rabbi of the Com u?n;seater Israeli-designed and manufactured on munity of Bemc. Thc son of German Jcwi."!!! Whirlwind" jet for £1,740,000. It was ferried parents, he was bom in Paris but was brought th o"^* South Wales from Israel via Nairobi, Sth April at 6.30 p.m. up in Berlin, where he went to school and 'ae Seychelles Islands, Madras, and Singapore later studied at the Free University. He wa.» °y an Israeli pilot who will stay to train At 3 p.m. on the same day there will be an also trained at the Leo Baeck College in •Australians to fly and maintain the aircraft. extra sale of approx. 150 books on Judaica London. and allied subjects. ' Viewing Sunday 12.30-4.00 p.m. and CAMTPS Monday from 10.00 a.m. BELSIZE SQUARE SYNAGOGUE INTERNMENT—P.O.W.— Entries welcome for this and other sales. 91 Beltize Square, London, N.W.S FORCED LABOUR—KZ Commission 10%. Our new communal hall Is availabi* for ' *>Ui to buy ccrdi. envelope* end fotded posl- Enquiries to '"•rked letter* Irom til c«mp« o* both world wars. cultural and social functions. For detail* Pl*«*e tend, regltlered mail, tlatlng price, to: CAMDEN AUCTIONS, apply to: Secretary, Synagogue Oftic*. 14 Roeelra HIII. LMdm. N.W.a 14 Allow Road, N.21 Tai.: 01-794 9tA9 _ PTTER C. RICKEMSACK 886 1445 *J'l INFORMATION April 1979 Page 5
^f'illiam Stern porary, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch in Frankfurt. The point at issue was whether Hirsch was right, and could be supported, in 99 his idea of "segregation" from the main com THE "WUERZBURGER RAV munity (the so-called "Av.stritt"). Hirsch's own congregation, and then some others Centenary of his Death following his example, segregated from the main community in order to be able to adhere •^n the second day of the Festival of Sukkot Bing, was in failing health, Bamberger was to their own strict orthodoxy without encoun ^tobcr 17th, 1978) it was 100 years to the asked by him to attend to various rabbinical tering any obstacles or difficulties. For this y^ that the world-famous rabbinical authority, duties in his area of jurisdiction. In 1840 the programme he wanted to gain Bamberger's "Dl Seligmann Baer Bamberger, District Wuerzburg post fell vacant on Rabbi Bing's endorsement, but this was not forthcoming. i)bi in Wuerzburg, died during the Service in death, and much against his own inclination So, Hirsch published open letters challenging tZ. ^^'"^Sogue. On the occasion of this 100th Bamberger allowed himself to be appointed. Bamberger, and the latter saw himself con J^urrcnce of his "Yahrzeit" the present First, however, some considerable local strained, greatly against his wish, to answer ^•"'mhip of the (post-war) Jewish community objections had to be overcome, because Reform a fellow rabbi in public. ^ *• uenburg organised a most dignified "Day Judaism was by then a strong force in German Hirsch was anxious to obtain his famous jij I '^mmemoration". This was on October Jewry and its adherents in Wuerzburg would colleague's support because Bamberger was , '• 1378, i.e., as soon as possible after the have preferred a spiritual leader with an aca by then a widely acknowledged rabbinical ^['usion of the Sukkot Festival. Members demic background and a Ph.D. to his name. authority whose v/ord carried considerable ,^ 't local community, Jewish lay and religious All the same. Rabbi Bamberger was able, weight. However, Bamberger held the view— •uth ^ from all over West Germany and civic during the 38 years of holding office, to exert and shiningly put it into practice in his own HI "rities of the city were joined by numerous his authority in his community, and also within area of jurisdiction—that you can have a jrr'f"^^ from abroad, members of the Bamber- the more than 20 other communities belong unified community where orthodox religious Pr, r^^^y and others, to honour in an appro- ing to his district, and finally all over Orthodox influence remains strong and can confer much 't»m '"'''""er a great Jew who had put his Jewry in Germany and indeed in Central benefit in the widest possible field. This stand ^, P ^n his contemporary scene and left a Europe. He wrote a number of leamed books, was, probably, his major contribution to the I. ,'".*! impact on subsequent generations, even mainly on Halacha (Jewish law). He founded a religious survival of what was then German ft.day. Jewish primary school and a secondary school, Jewry; especially in Bavaria his noble spiritual '>ov''ii Seligmann Baer Bamberger (Jizchak and in 1864 he established the Wuerzburg Jew bequest was greatly in evidence up to the ,ji y lalevi) was bom on November 6th, 1807, ish Teacher's Academy which carried on until time of the destruction of German Jewry. Iran '.''tie town of Wiesenbronn tn Lower November, 1938, and in the course of time His funeral on October 14th, 1878, was atten '^ncoil^'a . He never went to university but supplied the (then) German Jewry with many "Nied hundreds of teachers, cantors and spiritual ded by large crowds. Many rabbis had travel •fiilt at the great Jeshivah (Talmudical led through the night, from all over Germany, ,^11 "^y) in Fuerth where he obtained his leaders. to be present (though Hirsch was not one of 4,,^;''"'cal diploma at the early age of 20. Soon In fact, Bamberger's fame spread so far them). No less than 100 carriages followed »i(p i^rds he married, and together with his that numerous rabbinical colleagues would the hearse, apart from a multitude of pedes he ran a small shop in Wiesenbronn. come to visit and consult him, whilst dozens trians. Amongst the latter were the Roman Kjiip^'^r, the business did not flourish because of others corresponded with him. He answered, Catholic Bishop of Wuerzburg and some mem « iii'. ^^mborger was far too much engaged in writing, countless questions on Jewish bers of his clergy. In all the streets through Up uJ'^rtber studies and in teaching pupils. law, but he did not permit these "responsa" which the cortege passed, all the shops were loft it to be published. However, during the last «ioi to his wife Kela to look after the closed, and their (non-Jewish) owners and ••rlv himself being credited with saying decade a descendant, basing himself on the staff lined the pavements. fim' each morning: "I hope that today no permission given by later rabbinic authorities, •lisii 7*^'^^ ^11 come, so that I may not be has published, in Jerusalem, a volume of The gravestones of Rabbi Bamberger and ,,^'"bod in my studies"! Bamberger's "responsa" chosen out of a large of his wife, in Hoechberg cemetery (on a ^libi • "° ^'^'^ °^ intention of holding collection of extant manuscripts. steep hill two miles outside the city), are in ^i,ij,,!"cal office. Nonetheless, his fame spread Towards the end of his life, in 1877, Rabbi good condition; altogether this cemetery is In ig,^ all over the rabbinical world, and when Bamberger became embroiled in a public well looked after, and no stones were destroyed controversy with his no less famous contem- by the Nazis. The cemetery is being preserved ' the then Rabbi of Wuerzburg, Abraham by the municipality as an ancient monument ("Denkmalschutz"). The inscription on his gravestone includes the titles of all his books and writings. His descendants, spread all over the world, are numbered by hundreds; his pupils, adherents and spiritual heirs may be RENAULT counted in their thousands.
See the Renault range THE TORTURE MYTH According to a report published by the at Old Oak "Washington Post", several cables from the US Consulate in Jemsalem to the State Depart ment last year alleged that there was "a possi IWIR SPRECHEN DEinSCH/MLUVIME CESKY) bility that the use of brutality in the interroga tion of Arab prisoners" was a systematic prac Where we believe that changing your car is a very tice. The cables were drafted by Miss Alexandra important business antd you deserve to be treated as an U. Johnson who had been briefly engaged to one of the Arabs involved. Miss Johnson's individual, not just a sales figure. employment by the Consulate has since been Where you can see the whole Renault range of value for terminated. Her allegations were not sub money cars and light vans. We try to keep most models stantiated by the State Department annual report on the human rights record of more in stock all the time. If we haven't got it, we'll get it. than 100 countries which states: "Israel is a And where we try and make things easy by offering fully-fledged democracy with extremely high sensible part exchange prices, helping with finance and standards of justice and human rights", and during a press briefing, President Carter said insurance where necessary and generally looking after the newspaper report did not present an you. We're a family firm, and to us our customers always accurate picture of the situation. In the come first. Knesset, Mr. Shmuel Tamir, the Israeli Minis ter of Justice, said the allegations were entire Come and see for yourself. Old Oak-Service for cars-and people ly without foundation. Israel rejected the torture of suspects to obtain information, MOTOR because such a method was demeaning to the people who employ it—the investigators and COMPANY their society. Torture was forbidden and mOLD OAK LIMITED illegal in Israel. rw 79 WINDMILL HILL. ENFIELD 01-363 2261 Page 6 AJR INFORMATION April 1979
f. Thorn Again a word of admiration for thc trans lator of a little masterpiece by one who earns his ordinary living by translating much lesser THE VANISHED NATION works. * The Hlllllet, People ot a Thousand Gods, by Johannat There are some books which a conscienti and, alas, it seems the last one—to tolerate the Lohmann, Collins. London, 316 pp. £5-75. ous reviewer approaches with some trepida- gods of other peoples and gave themselves tjon, because both the subject matter and the the name of "the People of a Thousand Gods". Challenge facing the author seem beyond his Only a century ago Meyers Konversations- •—the reviewer's—"terms of reference". The A FILM OF THE BIBLE Jearned treatise about a people of which lexilcon dedicated exactly seven lines to the nardly anything was known only a hundred Hittites. They read as follows: "Canaanite In a multi-million dollar venture, backed by years ago with the exception of vague men tribe encountered in Palestine by the Israel American and British businessmen, a film tions in the Bible, catching up with what must ites, resident among and alongside the "Project Genesis" has been planned which i.s eem an irretrievable advance in all other Amorites in the region of Bethel. They were to tell the whole story of the Bible in 300 oelds, belongs to this category. Johannes pressed into service by Solomon. Still later, separate 20-minutc episodes in a subdued, J^hmann's book about the Hittites*, however, however, an independent and monarchically credible and authentic manner. Its chief ex govemed Hittitc (German: Hethiter) existed ecutor and producer is Mr. John Heymann. 'Urns out to be a delightful story, written with 45-year-old Leipzig-bora Jew who came lo «y humour and a dash of irony, directed partly nearer Syria". And even these few lines were Britain as a child and went from Oxford inlo at scholarly arrogance. This sort of treat- false, simply untrue. Since then not less than TV and films. Another backer is Chaim Topol. went was by tradition a privilege of English 46 publications, books and essays, not count the actor who will play Abraham in an early Pjstorians, and the excellent translator J. ing learaed articles, dealt with the "tribe". The episode. The series will be shown on TV and ^axwell Brownjohn obviously enjoyed his major part of these works appeared in Ger used for religious instruction in schools, lib •aeeting with a kindred spirit. many, and the Mitteilungen der Vorderasiati raries, and similar cultural institutions. schen Gesellschaft (1903) and Cornelius' Archaeology—probably the noblest kind of Geschichte der Hethiter mit besonderer "WHEN HITLER STOLE PINK RABBIT' ^when-dunit) detection—was never so thrilling Beriicksichtigung dcr geographischen Ver ^ m the case of this people, which miracul- hdltnisse und der Rechtsgeschichte (1973) Judith Kerr's Story on German TV usly appeared and disappeared literally he have the faint smell of musty studies, always re history began, and whose capital Catal ridiculed, and inhabited by secluded litUe A German Television film, made after oiri ^^—excavated only 20 years ago—was the men, bearded and grumpy. And it so happens Judith Kerr's childhood memories, published iQest city in the world. A wall-painting found that the most tremendous discoveries were in this country under the title "When Hitler ther('e and showing giant vultures attacking stole Pink Rabbit", which was shown in Ger bead!, made—among others—by just these people many on Boxing Day, was not an unqualified old ess humans is approximately 8,000 years who resembled the caricature of the German success. The author, daughter of pre-Nazi Jl • • The city was located in the southem Privatgelehrten to the point of complete iden Germany's foremost theatre critic Alfred Kerr, ™rt of Asia Minor on two hills north of the tity. stated in a German paper that she would JJT)"^ Mountains, and its people ruled over liave nothing to do with it, because it com I Se parts of Asia Minor and were as power- The most remarkable of them was one Dr. pletely distorted the story by over-sentimen jT as the Egyptians and the Assyrians. The Hugo Winckler, from Grafenhainichen in Sax talising it. The scenario was written by Nigel "'ttites were the first nation in thc world— ony into the bargain, an unpleasant neurotic, Kneale, Miss Kerr's husband. envious of more successful colleagues and a rabid antisemite, which did not prevent him from looking for financial support for his ex peditions among wealthy Jews. But it was Dr. Winckler who, after an abortive search in southern Lebanon for texts in the Arzawan LEON JESSEL LIMITED language (continuously in fear of and fighting against bed-bugs), was sent a cuneiform tablet in a language which turned out to be Hittite, and who in 1906 started digging near the vil with the compliments of Manufacturers of lage of Bogazkoy on the central Anatolien Plateau. And after a series of events too Fancy Leather Goods, complicated even for a modern spy thriller the newly gained experiences led to the ex Gift Goods ploration of Catal Hiiyiik and a rc-assessmcnt of our knowledge of the Stone Age . . . •^nidi are advertised throughout the Dr. Lehmann's book in eight painstakingly re searched and documented chapters begins with world as so intriguing an item as "A surprise for King Suppiluliuma" in the preliminary "The Quest" section, and pursues "The Discovery", the "EMBLEMS OF GOOD CRAFTSMANSHIP BY "Surprise" and "A Round Trip to the Stone Age", followed by a meticidous study of the THE JESSEL ORGANISATION" Hittite empire and culture up to the final oblivion under the melancholic and wistful heading of "... as if it never had been". It Pafra begins with this sad and beautiful sentence: "Although there are no records of how thc synthetic adhesives We also manufacture Industrial Hittite empire perished, we probably know ^^uipmenf in Leather and Canvas why. The end [of the Hittite empire] was a mirror image of its own beginnings. 'Then, it adhesive applicators had been the Hittites who penetrated Asia Minor, rose to power over the centuries and ruled for 600 years. Now it was their tum to •0 Box 12. Corporation Street be supplanted by others". In a sweeping summary we are made aware Walsall, WSl 4HP how tremendous were the changes that took Pafra Limited place around 1200 BC: the destruction of the West Midlands Minoan culture of Crete, Greece's "relapse Bentalls * Basildon into a dark age unilluminated by historical records", thc conquest of the Promised Lanud Essex • SS14 3BU ^•••pKon., 0922-24649 or 0922-220S8 by the Israelites and the westward trek of an Asian people into Italy to become the Etrus ^•••X: Owcom G W.IMII 338212 LEJES cans . . . The epilogue of an immensely en joyable book, lehr-reich in every sense of the word. ^^ INFORMATION April 1979 Page 7
MRS. SISSIE LASKI Mrs. Sissie Laski who has died, aged 84, IN MEMORIAM played a prominent part in the Anglo-Jewish community as a whole and in particular in the DR. JULIUS LOEB to his wife Else who shared many of his in Sephardi congregation as the daughter of thc .Thi. terests in B'nai B'rith (she founded the unforgotten Haham Moses Gaster and the wife V-h f".*si"g away of Dr. Julius Loeb (o n "Schwestornvereinigung" in Hildesheim of of Judge Neville Laski, one-time president of •,^1," '• in his 85th year, was received with a which she was president for four years). We the Board of Deputies. She took a particular <."j| / "' deep loss by his friends, his brothers extend our warmest sympathy to Else Loeb. interest in the welfare of the elderiy and r|,„,'^"''<^rs in Bnai B'rith and the many May the knowledge that the memoi->' of Julius helped to establish two Union of Jewish .ll,'"-Victims of Nazi oppression—in whose Loeb will live on in our hearts and minds give Women's old age homes, Frank House in (,r n,? be strove unceasingly and devotedly her some comfort in her grief. F.E.F. Notting Hill Gate and the Hany Rubens Houso '•ny years Jul in Adamson Road, next door to Hannah Kar •"'icur!^ .^oeb was a respected and successful DR. ADELHEID LEVY minski House. Before and during the war, she •ifuvp L-'" llildesheim when Nazi persecution worked for the Jewish Refugees Committee, lie j "'m and his wife to emigrate in 1939. Dr Adelheid Levy, former head of the AJR and many refugees benefited from her un '*mn-'?- refuge at first in the Kitchener Social Services Department and vice-chairman tiring energy on theii- behalf. She and her iliill' • 'ncnds in the B'nai B'rith Lodge in of the AJR Club, died on March 11, a few days husband ollered friendship and hosuitality to *•"! to p '^ possible for his wife to follow before her 82nd birthday. She came to this many refugees whom they met through their tllor in, f^^and. During the war Julius Locb— country shortly before the outbreak of war, worli in difi'erent fields. "U'r ,1'''"iment—did wai- work in Leeds, and after liaving held a responsible position with 'W , ,)^'^r the Loebs moved to Harrogate the Welfare Department of the Berlin Jewish SIR ISRAEL BRODIE eommunity. When the AJR was founded in *T1 hi^ I'M^ Loeb's strong sense of duty had The Emeritus Chief Rabbi, Sir Israel Brodie, 'W iCr-.-^'^S ofTered a responsible commer- 1941, sho became thc first member of its staff. who has died, aged 83, was buried at Willes Though in those days legal and political den Cemetery next to the grave of his pre •Acj ''"•' enactment of the German restitution questions stood in the foreground, the founder decessor. Chief Rabbi Dr. J. 11. Hertz. The Orn I "'Pensation legislation, there was a members also realised the need for looking present Chief Rabbi, Dr. Jakobovits, inter ||ii.„| ""land by many of Julius Loeb's former after the manifold personal problems of the rupted a lectui'e lour in America to give the wico in'""' others for liLs professional assist- refugees. They therefore created a Social Ser funeral oration. Sir Israel was Chief Rabbi '""'ion •P"''S"mg their clauns. He moved to vices Department and put Adelheid Levy in from 1948 to 1965. He had been a chap 'Vjrpi" !" the late 1950s to devote himself charge of it. She held this position for 27 lain in the First World War, and later on '•''xlina ^'^^ work which he did with out- years, giving personal advice, visiting the sick served as head of the Beth Din in Victoria ""''Ti'st'' • ^'^'^"^^ss and unsurpassed personal and the lonely, knowing no limits of time and and minister of the Melboiu-ne congregation '•rx, •[ "} his clients. He was involved in devotion. She continued her work also after for 14 years. In the Second World War, ^ '"'W £ '"^tivities until his very last days. her retirement, especially for the members of he was again an Army chaplain and was '' his . 7°"'bs ago, on the SOth anniversary the AJR Club. Her unreserved care for her in the last party to leave France in the Dun ^'
Margot Pottlilser was a house originally built for young Jew.s who had been trained in Gross-Brecsen in Silesia, but who had been denied immigration TWO WOMEN FROM FRANKFURT visas by the fascist government of President Vargas. Goethe once said that Frankfurt, his native stitutions owed their excellence largely to the Mrs. Maier's book is a joy to read, and her '*wn, bristled with curiosities. If this applied civic spirit and generosity of many Jewish inspired drawings give an idea of thc man> fo thc city as a whole, it certainly applied to citizens who in return, shared the many in plants she grew and discovered. She and her Its Jewish community. Jews are known to have tellectual opportunities as equals. This very husband found complete happiness and fulfil lived in Frankfurt since thc twelfth century, often meant that their ties with their Jewish ment in their new surroundings, whore they aad in 1933, they formed 4-7 per cent of the background became rather tenuous, and that did pioneering work in coffee planting and population (Berlin had 3-8 per cent). Frank the 1933 catastrophe found them largely un raising many new kinds of other plants with furt's long history as a free city, which only prepared. Even then it took a long time for out giving up the cultural background from ®nded with its reluctant incorporation into old connections to be severed, and it is signifi which they themselves had grown: they Prussia in 1866, gave its Jews a much greater cant that after the war, many old Frankfurters brought with them a large library, from which latitude than they enjoyed in other German visiting their native city, found little diffi she liberally quotes. culty in renewing such friendships. cities. Long before the emancipation, there Mrs. Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel describes a *ere close contacts between Jews and non- Two Jewish women who grew up in Frank pioneering life of an entirely different kind: "'ews in economic and even more in cultural furt at the turn of the century and who emi during a long life she has contributed such o activities. Goethe himself visited the Juden- grated from there in the 'thirties have recently vast amount of firsts to the science of medical Sasse and attended a number of services, a published their autobiographies which, in their microbiology and thus to the early diagnosi.s wedding, a brith, and Hebrew classes. The very different ways, throw some light on their and treatment of many infectious diseases that Rothschilds not only played an important part particular experiences. Both of them enjoyed the German medical-phairmaceutical Study |n the economy of the city and the surround- to the full the educational opportunities pro Society and the Pfizer works in Karlsruhe and jng countryside, they became part of its folk gressive Frankfurt offered to women, both of Upsala have sponsored the publication of her lore. Even after the last war, Carl Roessler's tliem went to university—but othea-wise they autobiography**. She, too, enjoyed the educa romantic comedy about them "Die Fiinf have very little in common. tional facilities of her home town where she '^ankfurter" attracted a large non-Jewish Mathilde Maier abandoned her studies when also spent the first successful period of her audience who like Goethe found no difiiculty in 1920 sho married the lawyer Max Hermann professional life, but her background was a in understanding the "Judendeutsch" which it Maior*, but even earlier she had found the very different one, though yet another facet eontained. The writer Bocme and Paul central interest of her activities when she in of Jewish life in FYankfurt. Her father was a Ehrlich, the discoverer of Salvarsan, were terrupted her studies at Munich to work in wine dealer from Austria who had settled in lUoted with pride as outstanding citizens. All a market-garden as a kind of land-girl during Frankfurt and married the daughter of a shades of religious opinions were to be found the First World War. Sho took a passionate highly respected Hanau lawyer, Justizrat Ham among the Frankfurt Jews; the city was the interest in all plant life. Her husband has burger. She was thc yoimgest by a number of bome both of an ultra-Orthodox and of an described his professional Ufe in Frankfurt years of their four children. There was no early reform movement, and the late Rabbi and tlie couple's adventures farming success Jewish background or awareness in the famiy. Salzberger was a witness to the intellectual fully in Brazil in two fascinating little books, The Klieneberger parents considered them traditions of the large liberal community. which hers complements in describing their selves "freircligios" (agnostics) and left the Frankfurt's museums and its twentieth-cen- joint involvement in everything that could be '•Ury university as wcU as many scholarly in- made to grow and produce flowers and fruit. Continued on page 9, column 1 Both of them had grown up as conscious Jews, though with no particular religious ties. As a young student, Mathilde joined the "Blau- Weiss" group of the Jewish youth movement Franee & Gerinany s and soon became one of its local leaders. At the time, it was less involved in Zionist ideals DUNBEE-COMBEX-MARX tham in those of thc general Gorman Youth Finest Wines Movement: return to nature and social aware ness, but it also concemed itself with thc prob LTD. lem of German-Jewish relationships. She met SHIPPED BY her husband at a philosophical study circle which he ran and which counted Carl Zuck mayer among its members. He was a descen dant of the Baal Shem of Michclstadt, and HOUSE OF during their early married life, when they had no garden of their own, they used to go for long walks in the surrounding countryside and HALLGARTEN in the Odenwald. After the difficult years of the inflation, they moved into their first house with a garden, the first of many. In her I am able to offer you a superb memoirs, she describes them all, and she also selection of French (ind. Kosher describes the many bonds of friendship with other gardeners in similar walks of life, Dunbee House Alsace) and German wines, quite a few of which survived thc Nazi days shipped by the famous importers, and were renewed after the war. His work— advising other Jews on the problems of emi 117 Great Portland Street, House of Hallgarten, and to advise gration—kept hor husband in Frankfurt until you personally and help you with 1938. In that year they emigrated to Rolandia in Brazil, a settlement shared with many refu London, W.l your wine purchases. The selection gees, most of them fonner professional men ranges from your everyday wines and women like themselves. They took with to the finest for your special them an orphaned niece who had received some horticultural training in a nursery near Simcha. Lake Constance where many young people received a thorough grounding for a new and Tol: 01-636 8677 Delivery to all U.K. addresses. different life abroad. In Brazil, their first home Grams. FLEXATEX LONDON, Please write or phone: JUSTIN GOLOMEIER THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1979 You are cordially Invlled lo take part In • Coflae TELEX. Wine Merchant Morning and Bring and Buy Sale In aid ol UM Resldenit Communlly Fund at 22 Pennine Drive, London, N.W.2 Osmond House INT. TELEX 2-3540 The Bishop's Avenue, London, N.Z Tel: 01-455 8672 From 10.30 a.m.-12.00 noon ^ INFORMATION April 1979 Page 9 Two Women From Frankfurt MEMORIAL MEETING FOR MARTYRS Continued from page 8 and highly gifted paediatrician from Austria, Sunday, April 29 Dr. Nobel, but he unfortunately died after only This year's Commemoration Meeting for *wish community. The two elder brothers two years of a happy married life. the Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto *^° studied medicine, were baptised to facili- Uprising and the Six Million Jewish Martyrs J? their acceptance by duelling student Mrs. Klieneberger-Nobel's book is a very of Nazism will be held on Simday, April ,^"iities. They also persuaded the elder modestly told success story. The list of her 29, at 3 p.m. At the time of going to press, ^r to undergo baptism, and seven-year-old publications fills nearly five pages, and there the venue and the details of the programme ^"ly joined her without quite knowing what is hardly any important congress in her field were not yet known, but further informa .^happening. Of her schooldays, she says: which she has not attended and addressed. tion will be obtainable at the AJR office ^T^kfurt was a town of Jews at the time, Yet, looking back, she feels that there are from thc first April week onwards. jT^t the girls' high school which I attended, many more things she would have wanted to As readers know, the AJR is one of the I 'be pupils were Jewish". She thinks that do. However, her scholarly achievements are sponsoring organisations, and meml)ers of ,..*"'s reason, she remained unaware of any not only of interest to fellow-scientists, they the AJR and their friends are urgently ^ 'Semitic incidents throughout her school- are often breathtaking scientific thrillers, and requested to attend the function, which >s. though with hindsight, she identifies as a personality she cannot fail to impress. throughout the years has been a most *ijf '^^ted incidents as antisemitic in Whilst saddened by the tragedies she and her appropriate and dignified way of paying ^ fm. Her studies and her early professional friends had to endure, she is not embittered, tribute to our nearest ones. For reserved ^^•ccr at the Frankfurt Institute of Hygiene, and she treasures the memory of scholars and scats, orders (with stamped and addressed "lUaM ^""^^y days of the Weimar Republic, scientists of her Frankfurt days who remained envelope) should be sent to: The Secretary, uf [y progressed unhampered by any trace loyal to her and her family. And her attitude AJEX, 5A East Bank, London N16 5RT. •( p^'^itism. When she became a lecturer remains ambivalent. She admires Israel and its ^''ankfurt University, a great future tn achievements, but on balance she would iff ,b seemed open to her. She, as well as favour assimilation. She says: "I had a German jj^colleagues and immediate friends were so Christian education and I regarded Germany GERMAN NEWS '*«k'^h "^ ^^^'^ professional work, that they as my fatherland until Hitler appeared. When AXEL SPRINGER APOLOGISES 'X'lit ^^y interest in political develop- the Nazis came to power, the Jews were driven out and annihilated. That does not prove, how During a reception given for him by thc 'ore^l "^bc Nazi seizure of power came there- ever, that the idea of assimilation was false. Berlin Jewish Community, publisher Axel i\ti^ * terrible shock. Professor Neisser, the On the strength of my upbringing, I could not Springer presented the chairman, Mr. Galinski, the Institute of Hygiene who had have become a Zionist or to have emigrated to with a Polish bronze menorah which he had Wcnn?. professional career, and who had Palestine. This is why I chose a European bought at a London auction and said lie was '''sini "^ P*'"^**"''^ friend, was immediately greatly upset that the "Propylaenverlag" country of culture as my adopted home". Her which belonged to his publishing empire, had '''sinL ^ as a baptised Jew. She herself was youth in Frankfurt has certaiinly left its mark. published a book "History of the Germans" (^.jjf^^ a few months later and at once by Hellmut Diwald which was insulting to ^ to continue her work in Britain. ' Mathilde Maier, Allt Girlen melnet Lebeni. Verlag Jews. He had therefore ordered it to be with •Sh Josel Knecht, Frankfurt am Main. 1978. drawn. He apologised for not having read the In s *as 41, when she came to this country book before it appeared, as he would then ha^e «caj^'.^"iber 1933. On the strength of her •* Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel, Plonlerlelilungan IDr dia seen to it that the offending passages were Medizinische Mikroblologla. Guslav Fischer Verlag Stutt \j^ mc achievements, and with the help of gart. New York. 1977. DM 24. deleted. Thc Propyliienverlag had already *oric ^f^^^^i*^ Assistance Council, she found published an apology, announcing a future "le f ^^^ Lister Institute in Chelsea where revised version. DR. ADOLF LESCHNITZER 80 •fl hcr^"^^'"^ "nta her retirement in 1962. PROTEST AGAINST AGNES MIEGEL '•1 gM^^^y days, when it became impossible Dr. Adolf Leschnitzer (New York) recently •vjrdpj "'^^ney out of Germany, she was celebrated his 80th birthday. Bom in Posen, STAMP 'Uji^ T^ ^ residential scholarship in Crosby he studied in Berlin, where he joined the The British Board of Deputies has strongly K.J.V. fratemity, and later obtained his doc protested against the decision of the Federal ''*''oi^ another scholarship from the Inter- toral degree in Heidelberg. When he was Post Office to mark the 100th birthday of the «0(! (^ f'ederation of University Women. At dismissed as Studienrat in 1933, he was poet Agnes Miegel with a commemorative t^fiiti^*' .^^^ ^^s offered a very well-paid appointed head of the School Department of stamp. During the years of the Weimar '*r. i^. *ith the Glaxo works and consulted the "Reichsvertretung". In this capacity he Republic, Koenigsberg-bom Agnes Miegel was ^''oiiw^^^^™' director of the Lister Institute not only coped with the difficult administra widely quoted in schoolbooks and anthologies *»nt ^^ '° acce-pt it. His answer was "If you tive problems under the Nazi regime but also as the author of mythical and historical ballads. "M J 'Wake money—yes; otherwise you are rendered essential educational services, After Hitler came to power, she was awarded especially by editing "Juedische Lesehefte" for the Frankfurt Goethe Prize and wrote many ^\ ^^'^^"- She did not apply for the job, the guidance of Jewish teachers and pupils. poems glorifying the regime. Hermann Goering '»Tir,i^*? aftarwards the Lister Institute In 1939, he emigrated to the United States, wrote the foreword to a collection of her dk '^^ Jenner Memorial Scholarship. where he taught English for newcomers in the poems distributed in schools. Sn nw?^^"«s in the field of microbiology "American Institute of Modem Languages". Sli„„ ^^^ name well-known among the After the war, he became Professor of German TEACHERS WHO HAVE LEARNT NOTHING N f^^ '^searchers of this country and abroad, Literature, flrst at Brooklyn College and later at New York City College (now University). At the request of girl students, a handicraft '•''^iaji^'any years she was asked to address From 1952 onwards, he also was for many teacher in Bad Berleburg was dismissed be ^"'^rjon "meetings all over Europe, in years a regular guest lecturer at the Free cause after the showing of the "Holocaust" ';' 84, • ""d in Australia. In 1976, at the age University in Berlin. His main sub^'ect was the TV film she had told her charges that she 'V Iriu ^as present at the foundation of approved of the killing of Jews. In Hanau, a history of the position of the Jews in Germany. mathematics teacher was similarly dismissed, '^''logy '"'national Organisation for Microplas- His research in this field also resulted in his because he had distributed a book "The '^'"ber"''^ was appointed its first honorary book "Saul und David—Die Problematik der deutsch - juedischen Lebensgemeinschaft" Auschwitz Lie" to his pupils and shown them (1954). Professor Leschnitzer is a Board photographs which were supposed to disprove member of the New York Leo Baeck Institute. the existence of camps. In tnis case, too, the "^Dy u^pPy life in Britain, where she made Now in retirement, he continues his construc pupils complained. l^jTsfijT^^nal and professional friends, was tive work in the fields of history and literature. The Lower Saxony Ministry of Education j"<^er *^ by the fate of her fanuly. Her We extend our sincerest birthday wishes to suspended Navy Head Teacher Harm Menkens s'^'^'lto^^^ widowed sister, for whom she him. E.G.L. from Griinendcich who had written to a State "''led ^'^H^e admission to this country, com- newspaper that the mass murder of Jews in ,^/Vjjf^Pide as did one of her brothers the Third Reich was an atrocity story spread by enemy propaganda. The Jews had been > did T^'^^ ^ practise had been taken away. interned in camps for reasons of national •.^'ivT-Jte t'^^^ to help her second brother to security. ;'' ^ttlp • ^ Pa^ arid his wife and children BECHSTEIN STEINWAY BLUTHNER t'^ * short* England. He, too had stayed here Finest selection reconditioned PIANOS THE PASSION PLAY CONTROVERSY .'^'•n k time on the strength of a guarantv Cardinal Ratzinger, Archbishop of Munich W^Rniie ^^^ ^^^ **"• Bertrand Russell. Always Interested In purchasing and Freising, has stated that he is satisfied , "*io\vs '^ ^'''^ managed to bring five of her that the revised text of the Oberammergau ^^'fh ovft*'^^ nieces to this country and to well-preserved Instruments passion play now conforms with the principles J Out o ^^^' ™til they had settled and of the Second Vatican Council which cleared ,>i>,.. n their own careers. She herself JACQUES SAMUEL PIANOS LTD. the Jews of "deicide", and is no longer anti .>M semitic. He therefore declared hii wiUingness ^ in \if ^^ able to find personal fulfilment 142 Edgware Road, W.2 Tel.: 723 8818/9 to open the 1980 performances with a religious ^ when she married a well-known service. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION April 1979
NO HONORARY CITIZENSHIP FOR NAIIU.M THE ISRAELI SCENE GOLDMANN For the last two years, the Mayor of Tcl Aviv, Mr. Lahat, and the Liberals on thc city 'SRAELI DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL ISRAELI FOOTBALLER IN LIVERPOOL council have nominated 83-year-old Dr. Nahum ROTARY CLUB Goldmann, founder president of the World 22-year-old Avi Cohen, Israel's international Jewish Congress, for honorary citizenship in f^r- Cegla, President of the Israeli branch centre-back, completed a seven-day trial with recognition of his active support in creatine "I Rotary International, was elected a member European champions Liverpool, who are pre the Museum of the Diaspora in the grounds of 2' the international directorate of the pared to pay around £200,000 for him. Israel's Tel Aviv University. However, members of thc qP'^rians. The Rotary movement which has Football Association will have to relax a rule National Religious Party have so far blocked |"JIJ,000 members in 152 countries, has flour- that its players must be at least 28 or have the nomination. 'sned in Israel for over 50 years. Dr. Cegla, 50 international caps before being permitted ?^nieraber for 30 years, is a lawyer from Ger- to sign for a foreign club. Cohen is the first STOLEN DIAMONDS RECOVERED tin ^1 ^^° ""^ "^ member of the Rotary Interna- Israeli player ever considered good enough to onal Finance Committee has introduced new turn professional and succeed in thc English ,°^fsurcs of financial politics of great benefit league. Israeli police have recovered £24 million 'y the organisation. He is one of Israel's fin worth of stolen diamonds in their attempt."; ancial wizards, and a member of the board of to end a plague of thefts of polished diamond.-; i^e Israel Corporation, of the ZIM Line and THE SIR LUDWIG GUTTMANN INSTITUTE from Ben-Gurion airport. Five members of tner leading establishments, as well as a thc Ramat Gan diamond exchange, two mcr. governor of Tel Aviv University. The first patients are about to be admitted chants, and 15 airport porters have been to the recently opened Sir Ludwig Guttmann arrested. Diamonds worth five times that RUDOLF KUESTERMEIER GROVE Institute for the treatment of spinal cord in amount are estimated to have disappeared juries at Tel Hashomer Hospital near Tel during the past five years. Polished diamonds j,^ grove in the Keren Kayemet Forest near Aviv. Its intensive care imit is probably one are Israel's largest single export commodity. of R was recently dedicated to the memory of the most advanced in the world. Mr. and „ J^udolf Kuestermeier, who was the Israel Mrs. Ronson of London, have given the Insti THE GOOD FENCE STILL WORKS frf^cspondent to the German Press Agency tute a closed-circuit television system in memory in S 1957 to 1967. He retained his residence of their late daughter. Mavis Ronson, a dis With the fighting between the PLO and thc in'p 1 <^oiintry after his retirement and died tinguished photographer. vf^.cl Aviv in December, 1977. A staunch anti- Christians in Lebanon abating, the Safed Re Q5^I. he was imprisoned in 1934 as a member £1 MILLION BAIL FOR EX-MAYOR becca Sieff hospital near the border is busier cpr^ resistance group and remained incar- than ever. Many ordinary Arabs are daily walk toB *u^ until the end of the war. He was also, Mr. Oved Ben-Ami, former Mayor of Netanya, ing across the "Good Fence" at Metullah in to,_^gether r witwiuhi ii.ricErichn LuethJjuein, one ofr thtne iniiiainitia- was arrested on suspicion of having mis search of medical attention, particularly for eye in iQ*^ the "Peace with Israel" movement and, appropriated some I£300,000 (worth about complaints. Whilst nobody is turned back, thc £30,000 in 1973) from a public land develop, to T ' ^^^ ^^^ German to be given a visa hospital's facilities are stretched and there is art- ,^"^^1- from where he wrote a series of ment company linked with Netanya munici ST^cles on the new Jewish State for "Die pality. He was released on I£l million (about a shortage even of items like surgical scissors Welt- £26,300) baU. and forceps.
FAMILY EVENTS Fisher.—Ralph Bernard Fisher, CLASSIFIED WEALTHY Continental widow. formerly of Berlin, passed away 60, 5'6" taU, highly attractive and Entries in the column Family suddenly on January 30, aged 57. The charge in these columns is musical, with elegant home and SOp for five words plus 25p for ^^nts are free of charge; any Deeply moumed and sadly missed kind nature—seeks cultured life- by his wife, sister, mother and two advertisements under a Box No. partner up to 75 years. Apply in ""Juntarj/ doTiation would, how- sons, Howard and Harold. confidence, Heidi Fisher Consul Situations Vacant "*''. be appreciated. Texts should tancy, 307 Finchlcy Road, N.W.3. Frccdman.—Freddie, of 15 Queens WE WOULD WELCOME hearing Tcl: 794 6526 & 589 2384. * ^ent in bt/ 15th of the month. Mead, St. John's Wood Park, Lon from more ladies who would be don, NWS, much loved husband, INFORMATION REQUIRED willing to shop and cook for an Personal Enquiries Birthdays father and grandfather, died peace elderly person in their neighbour fully on February 11. Singer.—I am looking for thc hood on a temporary or permanent address of two school friends. Tc h'« AJR Club extends heartiest basis. Current rate of pay £1-40 Herman. — Siegfried Frederick HUde Singer, bom 1910, pupil of m.Sratulations to its octogenarian per hour. Please ring Mrs. Matus the "CecUien-Schule" in Breslau jembers: Dr. Alfred Cook, Mrs. Herman (Siegie) of 33 Ncthcrwood 01-624 4449, AJR Employment, for Road, Northenden, Manchester 22, from 1916-1929, daughter of the an^f'^.^berg. Miss Welt, Mrs. Wolff, appointment. Inspector of the Cosel cemeter>-. biyi ^0 Mrs. Wallace on her 70th died peacefully on Thursday, Feb ruary 15, aged 74. He will always Accommodation Wanted and Hamburger. — Miriam Ham burger, daughter of a Rnbhi. to . remain in the hearts of his adoring and devoted wife, Gretchen, his ROOM WANTED with cooking same age group and school. Both Fnr "•—Mr. Ernest Weiler of 84 loving son, Danny, and daughter- facilities for retired lady from apparently settled in this country'. do« ^J Court, Edgware Road, Lon- in-law, Pat, and his devoted grand May 1 to June 30, 1979. If possible Any information to be sent to • ^'i- W2, wUl celebrate his SOth in N.W.ll district. Phone after Mrs. HUde Brass-Friedmann, 29-* •"iniida children, Linda, Karen, Keith and ^ay on April 14. Julie, and his mechutanim, Fay and 4 p.m. 01455 8045. Meams Road, Newton Mcara."i. Glasgow. Sam Benster, and family, and his Miscellaneous Deaths many friends and associates. CONSULTANT ASTROLOGER Til Kann.—Rudolph Francis Kann, at DENTAL REPAIR CLINIC del,n>embers of the AJR Club helps personal/business problems. DENTURES REPAIRED Vic^^Z "loum the death of their Wellington Hospital, New Zealand, £15.00 analysis/chart. Please send to ^>bairman. Dr. Adclheid Levy, in December, 1978. Deariy loved birthdate/time/place. Box 768. (WHILE YOU WAIT) ilts pv-°^<^ initiative the Club owes husband of Peggy, beloved father 1 TRANSEPT ST, LONDON, NW a^i^^'stencc. Her selfless devotion of Melanie and Gabrielle (Welling HOME-MADE BISCUITS, only best ton), and loved brother of Antonia ingredients used. £1-50 per lb. (5 doors from Edgware Road Met hcin '•cadiness to help whenever Stafion In Chapel Street) bei-L^'^s needed will be remem- (London). Phonc 01-455 4649. h&r^ gratefully by all who knew REVLON MANICURIST. WiU visit (1st corner from Marks & Spencer Scgg^ Margaret Jacoby, Dora Perlhocfter.—Mrs. Helenc Perl Edgwaro Road) hoefter (formerly Breslau) passed your home. Phone 01-445 2915. away peacefully in her 96th year 01-723 6558 to AVERAGE BRIDGEPLAVERS Man spricht Deutsch on February 21. Very dearly loved wanted for private circle, N.W. Pcaei'/wanger. — On March 12, by aU her family. — Margaretc area. Box 770. On parle Francais Wij, Villy in a nursing home in Schaefer, (London), Eva Pollard, Besz^lQnk Magyarut Witiyjester, Ema Feuchtwanger (London), Wemer Perlhoefter, PERSIAN CARPET REQUIRED by Wy spreken Hollandsh ^e-Z ^^ Ludwig and mother of appreciative private famUy.—01-458 (Buenos Aires), Renate Logan We also speak English year ^^"chtwanger in her 92nd (Sidney) and their families. 3010. Personal fijjj In Memoriam ly vf""""Margarethe Fialla, fomier- CHIROPODIST LONELY DOCTOR'S WIDOW, 63, CHARLES N. GILBERT ,on if„J?'ia, passed awav peacefully Sinai.—In cherished memory of a seeks social contact. Box 767. be saSfuary ll, aged 92. She will dearly loved wife, mother and F.B.Ch.A.. M.E.. M.S.F.. M.E.Ch.A. ."•enik y missed and always re- grandmother. Rose who passed PROFESSIONAL MAN, Ph.D., late Now in practice al M^ered by her sons, Erast and away on March 17 (Nissan 4), 1964. 20s, many interests, own car, would ZIGGY'S, 47 FAIRFAX HOAD, N.W.B. hfij, *^r, her two daughters-in-law, Never to be forgotten by her still like to meet attractive young lady. BY APPOINTMENT ONLY '^hii^grandchildren, great-grand- grieving husband, children and Reply, preferably with photograph. 328 5024 ^0, and her friends. grandchildren. Box 769. ^ INFORMATION April 1979 Page 11
SIGNAL SERVICES IN THE PROVINCES Letters to the Editor Birthday of Kate Freyhan (Bedford) Kate Freyhan, who recently celebrated her "tSTORY OF AUSTRIAN COMMUNITIES In this country, "Rctinion" has been pub 70th birthday, deserves tribute not only be Hj ""'TrUnder the auspices of "Yad Vashem", lished by Collins in hard back and in paper cause of her personal achievements in the ,
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AN OPERA FROM TIIERESIENSTADT THEATRE AM) CULTURE BBC-2 showed the West German TV film "Der Kaiser von Atlantis". It is an open, Berlin. An insight into the Berlin of thc 30 years ago, New York's Broadway greeted written and composed in 1943/44 by two in early 1930s was given when the "Theater des the Rodgers/Hammerstein musical "South mates of Theresienstadt concentration camp, Westens" reopened with thc American musical Pacific" as one of the greatest of our time. Its the Schoenberg pupil Viktor UUmann and hu Cabaret". It was presented in a rather realis run extended to 1,925 performances, a figure librettist Peter Kien. First intended to br tic form; the younger ones of a rather be onlv beaten by "Oklahoma" and, in popular shown in the camp, the authorities later banned wildered audience were perhaps for the first acclaim, exceeded merely twice by "My Fair the production and sent the authors to Ausch time confronted with stage scenes depicting Lady" and "Fiddler on the Roof". witz where they perished. The manuscript, Qemonstrations, persecution of Jews, in short, Obituary. Luxemburg-bom, German sta^e given up for lost by other survivors, was dl»- glimpses of the beginning of the Nazi era. Horst and screen actor Rene Deltgen has died m covered in London 30 years later by conductor ouchholz, the internationally known star, acted Cologne a few weeks before his VOth birthday. Kerry Woodward. It was first shown in 3s dancing and singing compare, whilst the He was a well-liked character player whose Holland, and later by Westdeutscher Rundfunk talented and cfTcctivc Jutta Boll had thc thank- classical roles included Franz Moor, Gcsslcr, which won the 1978 Prix Italia for the produe jess task of following in the footsteps of Liza Petmcchio and Mephisto; for a long time there tion, sung in German. It is an allegory of per Minelli in the (now almost classical) part of was hardly a major German film in which he secution and cruelty, but with a firm hope of Sally Bowles. did not take part. S.B. redemption. The programme was introduced Austria—not "made in Vienna". During the by H. G. Adler. a survivor of both Thercsicn recent years Bundeslaender theatres have ad THE 1979 BUBER-ROSENZWEIG MEDAL stadt and Auschwitz, who described the fun^ vanced with rapid strides, and the level of The author Manes Sperber, a pupil of Alfred tion of Thcresienstadt as a kind of cultunl tneir productions can no longer be regarded Adler and writer on subjects connected with shop-window for the camps, but stressed th«t ^s "provincial". Significantly, these theatres "Individualpsychologie", who denounced the of the 150,000 people who passed through It seem to be catching up with presenting more Nazis at an early date and has lived in Paris only some 20,000 survived. He also revealed sophisticated plays by modem and fonner since 1934, received this year's Buber- that the manuscript had been written on Undesirable" authors, meeting interest and Rosenzweig Medal. The laudatio at the open Gestapo Deportation forms. i^te of a new generation of theatre goers, ing of the German "week of brotherliness"_in ^ammerspiele Linz have just brought out Hanover was given by Professor Dr. Friedrich LUDWIG MEIDNER EXHIBITION Miller's "Death of a Salesman", whilst Ephraim Heer, Vienna, the first recipient of the medaL •ft Jj^hon's "Es war die Lerche" is included in IN COLOGNE 'ne repertoire in Innsbruck, where, incident LUBITSCII PRIZE FOR ally, Lincke's operetta "Frau Luna" still ELISABETH BERGNER The Cologne Ruchti Gallery has ju-<< I araws the crowds. The Berlin Club of Cinema Journalists launched an exhibition of the drawings of thr Munich — Daughters and Son. 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