Klarsfeld Details Her Anti-Nazi Struggle by RUTH KAHANE Many Are Not in Hiding but Are High Interest Opmlon
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. 2 - THE .JEWISH POST, Thursday, December 1,1977 • Early Deadline Staff holidays will mean .that Our Best Wishes for a Very Happy and Peaceful Chanukah the offices of 'The Jewish Post' will be closed Friday, Dec. 23, Monday, Dec. 26 aud A Joyous' Chanukah Monday, .Jan. 2. Copy deadline for the issue dated Dec. 29 is Thursday; Dec. 22, 2:30 p.m. Copy deadline for the issue dated Jan. 5, 1978 is 12 noon Friday, Dec. 30. To ensure 1st Oldest and Largest Anglo-Jewish Weekly in Western Canada that we get your copy, it Is best to deliver it; the post office's Candle lighting time Friday is 4:12 p.m. Shabbat ends 5:19 p,m, By mail in Western Canada $7 holiday schedule may be dif Vol. LIII No. 45 WINNIPIEG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 19n 21 Days in Kislev place to go ferent from ours. High interest for Chequing Accounts Klarsfeld Details Her Anti-Nazi Struggle By RUTH KAHANE many are not in hiding but are High interest opmlOn. Barbie was jailed for a Dachau and try her in a Gennan three books they have written Every baker in Canada will recognize this carner. Over ",uuU,'vuu Winnipeg: The lights dim; a film living "honored and free." short time, but released after the have been produced for this market to date. All & Savings Accounts rolls. A woman begins her court for the attempted kidnaping and published to German jour Slow Involvement Bolivian government refused to of Lischka. The trial made world . tooling, mllnufacturlng and sales are carried out within our own narration of the 1974 'visits' she, She told a capacity audience extradite him to France: nalists and members of parlia headlines when Beate was sen ment. organization. You are paying for the services of only one company. her husband, and an Israeli gathered at the Bnay Abraham One of the Klarsfelds',' major When you buy a Drader Carrier which, as a majority of Canada's High interest cameraman made to two Nazi tenced to two months in jail for Fight NeD-Nazis ,& Synagogue for the Town Hall goals was to force the German trying to bring a mass murderer bakers know, has resulted in an economical yet extrllmely efficient Term Deposits criminals in Germany. Series, that she grew up blind to The Klarsfelds have also been goverment to ratify the treaty to justice. active in a campaign against neo system of distribution. While it has proven its superior durability The woman is Beate Klars~eld, what had happened during the with France signed by Willy 38-year-old German-born gentile Nazism and the negation of the and efficiency in North America and Europe, we can now offer a Prompt service war-"at school our eyes were Brandt in 1971, permitting the combination steel and plastic carrier for those who wish to take activist from Paris, world-famous not opened." It was only when Holocaust. Beate held up several & on Mortgages trial of Nazi criminals charged copies of a weekly Munich paper advantage of an even more attractive retail merchandising c1isplay. for her daring tactics to expose she went to France as an ex with committing war crimes in We deeply appreciate the patronage over the years of Canada's high-placed Germans with Nazi change student and met her France. called the National Zeitung and backgrounds. read its neo-Nazi headlines as bakers and welcome any queries you may have. Ask about our Low-cost husband Serge Klarsfeld, a French-German Accord new plastic liner and four-sided designs. " On the screen, a tall, ordinary Jewish law student who as a well as a half-page ad calling for & Personal Loans looking businessman walks Having retreated with the the German public "to give child had suffered persecutions Wehnnacht after the war, 1026 quickly c,lown a street followed by and whose father had been a vic money to fight against Klar the eye 'of the camera. He stops criminals were sentenced in ab sfeld." -all your financial needs. tim at Auschwitz, that she sentia by French courts to sen abruptly and turns around in his became aware and .. increasingly She said that in December, path, covering his face with a tences of death or life imprison 1976 her husband stood up at a involved in learning about the ment. In 1954 the French and RADE briefcase. He is Kurt Lischka, political background of Nazi 1000 person rally of neo-Nazis Germans signed a protocol for wartime head of the Gestapo in Germany. wearing a yellow star and a , ' - SALES LTD. bidding trials in Germany for the Permanent France, responsible for the roun Her actions began when Kurt Magen David, and he was thrown men tried in absentia, and at that dups of 80,000 Jews sent to the Keisinger was elected Chancellor out of the meeting hall and Canada Permanent Trust time all the criminals reappeared beaten up. Though the police death camps; here on hs way to of West Germany in 1966. Beate in Germany, she said. Canada Permanent Mort,a,e Cotpoaation work in Cologne as the director of refused to take note, the incident Distributors of Space Saving Carriers was in France and wrote artides " When France asked for the ex set off a news scandaL , Serving Canadians Since IBM an important grain import-export exposing his Nazi background for tradition of these criminals Ger Phones: 467·7731 • 467-7390 company. F'or the first time in "Now it is difficult for the neo the French press and was fired many refused because its con Box 18, RR No.2, South Edmonton, Alberta T6C 4E6 Western Region Branches his life he has been confronted Nazis to have a public meeting. from her job because of the ar stitution fQ.rbil,ls extradition. It about his wartime activities. The The mayors are afraid," she In Quebec: Contact Mr. Victor Montminy , Thunder B_y - Winnipeg - Regina • Salk_toon • Edmonton _ C_I"ery ticles. was not until 1971 that France 665 Franklin, C.P. 332, Quebec, P.Q. G1K 6W3 . Klarsfelds have shown him said. Member - Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation In 1968 Beate slapped the Ger succeeded in reaching an accord BEATE KLARSFELD Phone: (418) 681.5746 documents with his signature, man Chancellor publicaJly in Beate's work in support of with Germany. However the ac The repercussions of the Israel has taken her to demon ~ proving his involvement in the , front of a Christian Democrat cord could not go into effect Lischka trial grew and in "final solution" of the Jews in convention in West Berlin, and strate in Damascus, Rabat, Cairo \ France. because Nazi parliamentarians February 1975 the German and Beirut "to tell the Arab was sentenced, to one year in jail. like Achenbach exerted pressure parliament was forced to take ac Another middle-aged man The publicity focused world at people not to take an ellample of climbs into a station wagon out to block ratification, she said. tion and ratified the French the crimes of which my people , tention on Keisinger's record as a Between 1971 and 1975 when the German accord. side his suburban home. His wife Nazi, and mobilized German are guilty. " Following her stands at the door watching. treaty was finally ratified, the However the accord provided demonstration just after the Yom youth to demonstrate against Klarsfelds engaged in exhaustive Beate and Serge Klarsfeld ap no stipulation that the trials ever Kippur War., in Damascus, the him. In 1969 her action bore fruit , ' proach the car and compel him to research to conclusively prove take place, and the Klarsfelds Israeli government awarded her as Keisinger was defeated by the the guilt of several of the stop and answer their questions. are now focussing their efforts on the Medal of the Revolt of the } anti-fascist leader Willy Brandt. criminals and through demon A Joyous Chanukah He is Herbert Hagen, the boss of putting pressure on Germany to Ghettos. This year she was t In 1970 she began a campaign strations and protests brought" to initiate judicial proceedings, by " Adolf Eichmann, head of the anti against the rehabilitation of Nazis nominated by Israel for the Nobel f the public's awareness the recor distribUting documentation and Peace Prize. I A Joyous Jewish service of the SD, later, in when Ernst Achenbach was ds of SS leaders living in Ger . France, the political head of the nominated to represent West many-including Lischka; Hagen, SS. He tells the Klarsfelds he Germany in the European Com Hans-Dietrich Ernst, Heinrich didn't know what happened to the Synagogues in S. Ontario mon Market. She and her Illers, and Ernst Heinrichson. I Chanukah Jews after they were deported husband did extensive research from France. The campaign to expost Ernst, to prove that Achenbach, who head of the Nazi police in west Desecrated by Vandals Like hundreds of other Nazi directed the political section of France, brought about his ex criminals these men live in im- London, Onto A group calling it ti-Zionist Forces of America.) the German embassy in Paris pulSion from the law association. self the Anti-Zionist Forces of . punity in Germany because the during the war, played an active Shortly after the synagogues I\lers, Lischka's deputy and head America has claimed respon were defiled, a spokesman for the German people "have drawn a role in the deportation of Jews of the Getsapo in Paris, was line of oblivion and non-identity" sibility for the defacement of two group telephoned local radio WE WELCOME YOU TO from France to the death camps.