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Richard Grunberger the Party then capitulated to Hiller over the Ermiichtigungsgesetz such constancy was ultimate­ ly of little avail. For me the most absorbing theme touched on in this volume is the degree to which anti.>cmitism ^ NAZI ON THE LEFT buttressed the appeal of Nazism. The conclusions are so important that 1 quote them almost verbatim: l>uism was the ideology of the double blulT. It operation with General Schleicher. When Hitler In the transformation from viilki.sch sect to ctalcd the modern world-and used high tech- vetoed this, he resigned all his Party offices and mass party, antiscmitism played no more than a "logy. It dubbed all Jews capitali.sts-and departed the political scene. secondary role. Areas such as Franconia and ^omniunisls. H took power through the ballot- Then, when the Nazis took power a short time Hesse were exceptions. A lengthy tradition of nd the bullet. later, Strasser, the self-proclaimed anti-capitalist, anlLsemitism in such areas had much of its The very term Nationaisozialismus was as self- settled into a well-paid executive position in the source in the dominance of local trade and rural 0 iradictory as dry rain or vegetarian butcher. pharmaceutical industry. He was, however, to credit by a relatively large and widely dispersed ' l^r managed, by and large, to mask the contra- enjoy the lifestyle ofa tycoon for only a little over Jewish population. In most parts of Germany, Mion but in the mid-Twenties some Party mem- a year—ending his life in a hail of SS bullets on however, even where the NSDAP did dispro­ , , J ,^'' ^' the imbalance between the the Night of the Long Knives (30th June 1934). portionately well at the polls, there was little J.lionalisl and Socialist strands in his Paradoxically the other two most prominent history of outright hostility towards the Jews rotramnie. The point at issue was whether the victims of this bloodbath were his ex-enemy going beyond latent .ircjudicc, and antiscmitism VL mar Republic should pay compensation for Roehm and his ex-ally General Schleicher. was not usually a particularly striking feature of f>"iiscalcd princely estates. Hitler look the side of Dr. Stachura thinks Slrasser's reputation as a Nazi propaganda. Though antiscmitism prob­ I- princes thus arousing the opposition of some Socialist undeserved, but quotes with approval ex- ably played a more important motivating role 'li'sLclt-lcaning followers, Chanccllor Hriining's statement; 'He was the only for certain more 'ideologically' inclined social "ic best known 'Lcff Nazi was Gregor Stra.s- person in the NSDAP who could have one day groups, such as teachers and students, it came in . suDjcct ofa new biography by Peter Stachura eliminated Hitler and similar figures, and prepared the Depression period to be generally relegated ^ en & Unwin, £12.50). Strasser's career made a party evolution which might have spared to a role as backcloth to appeals made directly ; ,, ;' 'yP'ff' representative of the so-called Old Germany and Europe all that has occurred." I find to economic interest. itmcrs. iJnlikc many of them he had solid little to quarrel with in this conclusion. • ofcssional qualifications (as a pharmacist), but. 1 reacted somewhat more critically to The Nazi '1111 his shaven bullet-head and stentorian voice, Machtergreifung, a collection of essays on sUch .^nonetheless conformed to type. He was a themes as "National Socialism and Women' and Jew-baiting in Vienna UAT K1 *^'"'"' ^'"•- "'C postwar Freikorps 'Ideology, Propaganda and Ihe Rise of the Nazi , , ""^/^"nich bcerhall putsch. While Hitler was Parly". Some of the contributors to this volume Since sophisticated modern polling techniques n l^andsbcrg jail Strasscr expanded the Party into (occasioned by the SOth anniversary of 1933) make cannot be retrospectively applied to 1933. we shall . ucimany; later he led the Na^i group in the it hard for the reader to sec the wood for the trees. never be able to quantify the exact contribution of ,,,'*'«• O'^w-'ld Spengler thought him one of (Ldited by Peter D. Stachura, Allen & Unwin, Hitler's Jew-baiting to his election victory and , Vrr"' ""'" '''-• '^^'^ "^^"^r "let. Top Nazis like £15.) As conscientious, and carccr-niindcd, mass appeal. It is certainly the case that in 1938, as ^' -I'bcls and Roehm intrigued against him. The academics Ihey obviously feel compelled to show can be read in the recollections of Robert Wcitsch suit ol vendettas in the upper Party echelons themselves au fait with everything written on their and George Clare, Bcrliners exhibited less anti- ''lowed predictable lines. Gocbbels alleged that chosen topic—but the display of their apparatus of scmilisni Ihan the population of Viciin;i. >n.issers mother and wife were Jewish. Strasser scholarship hardly makes for readability. Even so Mention of Vienna, once the medical 'capital' of uu one heller: he attributed Goebbcls' clubfoot the book deals with a number of important issues, F.uropc, brings me to David Irving's biography of jar -Jewish ancestry (Folgc der Ra.s.senvermi- and repays diligent, if selective, study. One such Dr. Morcll, the Fuehrer's court physician. Lntilled •"'«)•. Neither side came lo much harm, for topic is the appeal of Nazism to German women. Adolf Hitler: The Medical Diaries, (Sidgwick & 1 iicr viewed such infighting among his satraps What emerges is that throughout the 1920s Jackson, £10.95) this book seems to have been ' '^^•l -interested Olympian detachment. women voters remained more loyal lo the commissioned on the a.ssumption that any printed ^iHiitiy afterwards the Nazis moved from the clerical/Conservative parlies than men. However mailer wilh Hitler's name in the title will lind |- iphcry 10 the centre of German politics. Their in the elections of the early Thirties, and with the willing buyers. The a.ssumption may be correct, but concurrent deinise of the Proleslanl conservative 1 found reading the thing a mind-numbing chore. iir iss""-''"'^'''"'" '" "''' "^''''y ''^^0' °^«='' '""'='^ 'o Deutsche Volkspartei, Nazism made deep inroads Who wants to wade through 300 pages loaded ^n'lvTi'' ^""^"^ '"* Keichsorgani.sationsleiter of the into the female electorate. In the Catholic constitu­ iv.rV. , .^'-'^'='">'" the political manoeuvring that with nuggets of information like 'two or three ency the Zentrum managed to retain the loyally of i.v M. I r '*'=""' "^'"°« ol" Weimar, Strasscr times a day 1 inject lOcc of twenty per cent glucose its women voters right up to March 1933, bul since J^vialcd from the Party line by advocating co­ Continued on page 2 Page 2 AJR INFORMATION JANUARY 1984

Continued from page I and top secret operations were deliberately left BEST NOT TO STAND TRIAL solution and after that lOcc of Septomid. Intra­ without documentary trace. A Diisseldorf court has finally decided that muscular injections of Vitamultin Calcium have Another revisionary historian who has recently Werner Best, second in command to Reinhard tlone a lot of good. . . .".> been heard on university campuses is Lenni Heydrich, is not fit to stand trial for his crimes. Now and then, however, my boredom abated Brenner, but with a dilTerent emphasis. A left-wing Best, now 80 years old, is said to be so enfeebled in jind gave way to nausea. One day Hitler had no Jewish civil rights activist, Lenni Brenner develops his memory and mental processes that he could bowel evacuation for five hours, whereupon Dr. a thesis of "Zionist collaboration with the Nazis". not stand the strain of proceedings. This decision Morell administered an enema. Afterwards he sent confirms an earlier pronouncement by the courts ^fecal specimen to Prof Nissel for examination. that no improvement was to be looked for in the I he latter returned his analysis post haste, attach­ condition of the accused. REHABILITATION OF FORMER NAZIS ing a note full of envy at Dr. Morell's proximity to Best, the German representative in occupied the centre of the action. The PEN Centre of German-Speaking Writers Denmark, was sentenced to death by a Danish Connoisseurs of nausea will also glean from Abroad issued a statement, protesting against a court in 1945 for his acts of terror; the sentence these pages that Morell munched his food like a number of incidents in which former adherents of was commuted, however, and he was released in pig at a trough, closed his eyes from the bottom up the Nazi ideology were rehabilitated by being 1951. The current accusations against him fill a and exuded foul body odours. awarded prizes named after prominent Jews. thousand-page volume and treat of some 8,700 Nor will connoisseurs of David Irving's persona Thus, about five years ago, the Sigmund Freud murders of Jews in Eastern Europe, carried out by i^e disappointed. Irving, it will be remembered, Prize of the "Deutsche Akademie fuer Sprache Einsatzgruppen. tii-sl disputed the authenticity of the Stern- und Dichtung" (Darmstadt) was awarded to Sieg­ It was stated during the Nuremberg Trials that Promoted Hitler Diaries, but did a volte-face when fried Melchinger; according to the statement, during his term of office in Denmark, Best had allowed access to a forged volume, because the Melchinger had written an enthusiastic review of made the arrest of Jews virtually impossible by nandwnting in it fitted in with Dr. Morell's dia­ the antisemitic interpretation of Shylock by forbidding police to break open apartment doors. gnosis ol Hitler's Parkinson syndrome. Werner Krauss in 1943. Last year, the Hermann This information was confirmed at his Danish trial It emerges subliminally from Irving's study that Sinsheimer Literary Prize ofthe city of Freinsheim by a former Auswartiges Amt official, who de­ tne decay of Hitler's body in no way alTected his wasi awarded to Dr. Wolfgang Schwarz, whose clared that the RHSA (Reichssicherheilsamt) had Character. The Fuehrer moves through these pages book "Italienische Dichtung von Dante bis Mus­ complained ofhis action, since arrests were limited as kindness incarnate. After a minor operation he solini" (1942) carried a homage to Mussolini at a to Jews who chose to open their doors to the i tells the surgeon who wants lo waive the fee 'Be time when the anti-Jewish legislation, resulting in police. reasonable—you've got eight children!' After the ultimate expulsion and extermination of • vi°''P'"'^ '" unannounced for lunch on the Italian Jews, was already promulgated. Another EMOTIONAL EVIDENCE ON SOBIBOR 1 ^'^'•^"^ t^e gives the Frau Doktor ration coupons example is the intended erection of a Heine Statue 'or tiie cheese consumed. At the end of the war, in Norderney, modelled in 1931 by Arno Breker, One of the rare survivors of the death camp of and on the verge of suicide, he still spares a later Vice-President of the Nazi-Reichs- Sobibor, Esther Raab was scarcely able to speak "fought for Morcll. "Act as if you've 'never seen kunstkammer. It was in view of these antecedents through her sobs as she gave evidence against Karl me Get out of that uniform, put on some plain that, a few years ago, the municipality of Diis- Frenzel in a Hagen court. She told of Frenzel clothes, and go back to being the doctor of seldorf had rejected basing the statue on Breker's shooting a carpenter—"that was the only time 1 K-urfurstendamm." model in Heine's city of birth. saw him personally shoot anyone"; of his casual murder of a baby; of the festivity when the uZ° ^^"1 "P °" '' ^"ol^ «'hich also assures us that "tier did not have VD: although boring as medi- millionth Jew was gassed. Whippings, hangings and beatings were carried out before the as­ the Fueh7 " '^ " '"'"'•''"'"'"8 Charakterzeugnis of OATH TAKEN AT MAUTHAUSEN sembled prisoners: the SS-men were so sure that none of the inmates would survive that they spoke When an Austrian private soldier found himself openly and in detail of their crimes. Mrs. Raab among those detailed to clean the "Stairway of was selected to work sorting clothes of the victims death" at Mauthausen—each stone, it is said, and later helped in the camp garden, always under IRVING RENEWS HIS OFFER represents a human life—it made him realise that the threat of death by shooting ("that was a luxury his knowledge of history was sadly inadequate. He The revisionist historian David Irving, who not in Sobibor"), hanging or beating. Her evidence, had never been taught at school that "there had ong ago addressed the far-right Institute for which she had previously given at an earlier trial in been a real concentration camp in Austria"" where I 'i;.torical Review and has been invited to speak by Hagen, has been corroborated by other witnesses. 110,000 people had been murdered, and the idea 1 T"^?^^ ^^ universities in this country and in After four days in the witness-box, Mrs. Raab came to him that it would be fitting for other Army Ireland, recently attended a meeting of the became too distressed lo go on. At one point she recruits to know something of the recent past. "jcrman Historical Institute in London. He re­ exclaimed, "If I have a few more years to live, I Austrian .soldiers take an oath as follows: "I swear newed his oirer of $1,000 for documentary proof don't want to be always living with Sobibor. Here to protect my Fatherland, the Republic of Austria, " '^"''-'f knew of the existence of the death in thc'court I relive that dreadful time—I am in and its people and to engage in their armed *^"?\P'' ^''ving a bundle of dollar notes in the air. Sobibor again!"". Mr. Irving, who recently enhanced his reputa- defence." The soldier thought that an oath taken iion ,n Germany when he first rejected and then in the surroundings of Mauthausen would make nacked the alleged "Hitler diaries", issued leanels his comrades understand what they in fact would "FINAL SOLUTION A WILD neiore the GHI meeting, stating that he would be have lo defend in the last instance. RUMOUR" ne principal target of Professor Eberhard Recently his idea came to fruition when Defence Two American professors, Alan Kraut and Jacckel s lecture and again challenging the propo- Minister Frischenschlager and President Kirch- Richard Breilmann of the American University, '^--•nts of Hitler's direct guilt. schliiger attended a parade of nearly 600 recruits at Washington, D. C, believe that ihe man who first ' rofessor Jaeckel, an eminent scholar at Stutt- Mauthausen and heard them .swear to defend their told Ihe Allies thai Ihe l-'inal Solution had begun HH "'^'^'•'''ty- told his audience that "of course native country. The event marks something of a was Eduard Rcinhold Karl .Schullc. Dr. Schulle, a "'tier knew—his role was essential in the whole change in Austrian attitudes, since many of them German businessman, had been an Allied inlelli- process . (|t was at this point that David Irving believe that their country was more sinned against gencc agent since 1939 and had conlacis with Ihc waved the $1,000 in the air). But he suggested that than sinning in the Hitler epoch and seek to evade upper levels of the Nazi governmcni. "Someone responsibility for Nazi crimes. high up under Hitler" had Icl information slip, rather that the death camps evolved in a more Yet only lately the Viennese paper "Profil"' has Schulle heard about iheexterminalion programme gradual process with the continuing approbation recalled that when 419 Mauthausen inmates broke and passed his informalion lo the Allies. However, „' '"^J^.'ctator. He quoted Goebbels as saying out of the camp in the last stages of the war, the ihe American Ollice of Strategic Services— 'he Fuhrer is an unrelenting advocate of the local people joined in killing them. Even today, a forerunners of the CIA -dismissed his story as "a •nal Solution", and pointed out that the docu­ public opinion poll has revealed that 85% of the wild rumour inspired by Jewish fears". The two mentation of the time was difRcult to evaluate, population would have no objection to "workshy"" historians have written about their researches in a i-'nce important matters were referred to in code people being conscripted for labour. recent issue of "Commentary". AJR INFORMATION JANUARY 1984 Page 3

MAYOR APPOINTS SPRINGER NEWS FROM GERMANY "FRIEND" By a unanimous vote of the Jerusalen City Council, publisher Axel Springer has been awar­ MUNICH OLYMPICS CASE HITLER'S "OEUVRE" PROHIBITED ded the honorary title of "Friend of Jerusalem"". RECONSIDERED The distinction, created a year ago, gives the The Munich publishing house "Amber"' faces a Mayor of Jerusalem the right to nominate three The Bavarian authorities have asked Israel Televi­ fine of half-a-million DM if it continues to put out foreigners annually as "Friends of Jerusalem"'. sion for a copy of their recent programme on the its "Catalogue of Works", containing paintings, Axel Springer was Teddy Kollek's first choice. deaih of the Israeli hostages during the Munich drawings and architectural sketches by Adolf Olympics of 1972. Although the Bavarians say Hitler. The publication, which first appeared ear­ MANCUNIANS VISIT CHEMNITZ thai all enquiries have been completed, they still lier this year, was backed by an American in­ maintain their interest in this tragic event. Indeed, dustrialist, Billy F. Price. Although the publishers In the course of a civic visit to Karl-Marx-Stadt 't IS still discussed throughout Germany. asserted that the book was merely a work of (formerly Chemnitz) in the German Democratic The Israeli film accuses the German police of reference without any political intention, a Republic, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of •iiupidity in their attempts to save the nine Bavarian court declared that it was "an article Manchester (Dr. Michael and Mrs. Rosemary hostages. Two high-ranking Israeli officers were inculcating veneration for the person of Hitler". Taylor) made a point of contacting the Jewish apparently dismissed because they had let the The publishers have given notice of appeal. community. The president of the community, t'crnian security forces continue with their mis-, Siegmund Rotstein, told them that there were only handled plan of action. 11 Jewish families left in the city, where 3,000 had RETROSPECTIVE FOR KULVIANSKI lived before the war, and the synagogue was used CENTENARY OF HAMBURG Painter, sculptor and father-figure of the "Neue as a centre with occasional services only. If people GRAVEYARD Sachlichkeit" artistic movement, Issai Kulvianski wanted to attend service, they normally went to Dresden. During Iheir visit, Ihe Taylors were told Hamburg Jewry marked an important anniversary has lately been honoured by a retrospective exhi­ bition in Dusseldorf. Kulvianski, a Lithuanian by that East German youth were encouraged to visit when the centenary of the cemetery in Hamburg- the sites of concentration camps in order to rein­ Ohlsdorf was celebrated by the community with birth, came to Berlin before the First World War and worked there with Max Liebermann, force the teaching against antisemitism which they speeches and lectures, together with a tour of the received. graveyard. The Director of Ihe Hamburg Institute Hermann Struck, Ernst Fritsch and other well- . |or the History of German Jews has written an known artists. He was also friendly with John •nlormative booklet about the cemeteries of Heartfield, Brecht, Chagall and many other repre­ THE THIRD REICH AND THE BAHAIS Hamburg, including Altona, dating from 1616, sentatives of European culture. Kulvianski From Iran today, we often hear news of death ^rindelfriedhof, destroyed in 1937, and Ottensen. emigrated to Palestine in the thirties, but returned sentences pronounced against Bahais because of iviany of the remains and tombstones from these to Germany in 1950, where he continued to work Iheir alleged spying activities, for the USA, for ccmeieries have now been brought to Ohisdorf, over a wide range of media, paint, pen and ink, Britain, for "Zionism". Other Bahais are executed •ncluding those of Heine"s relatives. ceramics, wood, bronze and others. Eventually he for teaching their children religion or on other retired to the South of France and died in London transparent pretexts. International appeals on NAZI SALUTE INCURRED FINE in 1970. behalf of the victims have proved fruitless. Bahais are particularly subject to the charge of A former Ritterkreuztriiger who gave the Nazi "Zionist spying" because many of them have ^alute at the burial of Hans-Ulrich Rudel has had MATHEMATICS UNDER THE NAZIS visited Israel. The founders of their faith (which "s fine reduced from 3,000 to 1,500 DM by a Two members of the Technical University Berlin, began in the last century) are buried there and the I'ccision of the Weissenburg magistrates. The Professor H. W. Schutt and Dr. H. Mehrtens, have world centre of Bahaism is in Haifa, with many reason given for the reduction was the worsening undertaken an intensive study of mathematics fine buildings, built without slate subsidy or con­ "nancial situation of the accused, a 62-year-old under the National Socialists. The regime made a tributions from anyone but Bahais. Israel re­ man running a taxi service. In the course of his sustained attempt to politicise the sciences, in cognised Ihe faith in 1971, which further aroused appeal lor a lower fine, the man declared Ihat he which the attack by "German physics"" on the the suspicions of Moslem fundamentalists, but its 'ad promised former fiying ace Rudel to bid him "Jewish" theory of relativity was a well-known members hold themselves strictly apart from the 'atcwell in proper military fashion. feature. But the attitude towards mathematics was Arab-Jewish confiicl in accordance with their paci­ more two-sided: while the politico-romantic, vol- fist and unitary tenets. ^'URDER OF "SS-MAN" AND HIS kisch ideologisation of the field was one aspect, Until a few years ago, not many people had WIFE there was also a definite trend towards moderni­ sation free from any political taint, and a true heard of the Bahais, but they did not escape the [J^urder followed the screening of a television advance in technology. The Reichsforschungsrat, notice ofthe Nazis. The Third Reich was the home programme in which former concentration camp founded under the Third Reich, was a respectable of the largest European Bahai community and, jnmates spoke of an SS-man named Blum and institution and it was in those years, too, that the although they did not resist the law, none of them laving a ruddy complexion. It is alleged by the Diploma for Mathematics and Science was joined the NSDAP or took part in elections and •locholt (Westphalia) prosecutor that after watch- inaugurated. Yet there was also a system of plebiscites. This, added to their pacifism and inter­ ["^. ''"^ programme, a 40-year-old Polish refugee "German mathematics"" which called for clarity as nationalism, drew a special order from Himmler in '.',". , German mistress began to suspect that an against the "Jewish juggling with definitions"'. The 1937, specifically forbidding the Bahai faith and ••'iicrly neighbour, Heinrich Blum, was the high- two scholars are shortly to publish a book on their closing all their institutions. There followed ranking SS-man mentioned. After a visit to Blum, researches. spoliation, looting, show trials and in some cases in winch the old man apparently admitted to years of imprisonment. having been in the SS, the Pole was convinced in The Bahai movement was one of the first to re­ •nis Idea. He bought a rope and strangled Blum establish itself in West Germany and Austria after and his wife, afterwards setting fire to the bodies. 1945. Pilgrimages were made to Israel and the JACK'S EARLY CAR bones of the founder, Baha'u'llah, were secretly SERVICE brought from Persia lo Akko. Annely Juda Fine Art 959 6473 " Tottenham Mews. 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LIDICE CHILD VICTIMS NEWS FROM ABROAD REMEMBERED A group of young Russian girls recently visited the SOVIET ANTISEMITE ATTACKED PROBLEM AT VANCOUVER memorial at Lidice in Czechoslovakia to pay A strong protest has been made by a non-Jewish UNIVERSITY particular tribute to the memory of the children ^oviet scholar against the antisemitic propagan­ Although the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los who died when the town was razed to the ground dist Lev Korneyev (mentioned in our issue of Angeles cabled the President of British Columbia in 1942. In revenge for Ihe assassination of Hey­ August 1983). Ivan Fyodorovich Martynov sent University informing him that one ofhis lecturers drich, all 173 men of the village were shot, the an open letter to the Soviet Academy of Sciences, was a convicted war criminal, the university has women were deported to Ravensbruck, 88 of the at the same time renouncing his title of Candidate refused to take any action in the matter. Jakob children died in concentration camps and others 01 Pedagogical Science. He protested againt the Luitjens, a botany lecturer at the Vancouver uni­ were "re-educated" in German families. Only nine retention of an academic title by Korneyev, "who versity, was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment of the children are known to have survived the nas blasphemously revised the number of Jewish by a Dutch court in 1948 for his collaboration with war. The Russian girls, dressed in their "Young victims" and called for a public discussion of his the German occupiers. He had, however, already Pioneers" uniform, laid roses at the Lidice mem­ own reasons for renouncing his academic title. left the Netherlands. Now the Dutch government orial and visited the nearby museum. Martynov further demanded that his colleagues is seeking his extradition, a claim rebutted on the Should "condemn mercilessly and expel from the grounds that the relevant treaty does not cover the scientific community L. A. Korneyev, a pro- olTence of collaboration with the Nazis. The lessionally bankrupt ignoramus and falsifier who BELGIAN-DUTCH ANTI- Simon Wiesenthal Center urged the dismissal of TERRORIST OPERATION disseminates the most vicious Black Hundred Luitjens if the extradition proceedings should fail, I mperial Russian pogromists] type of antisemit- but British Columbia University has taken the In a joint operation by Belgian and Dutch police, 'sm m the pages of the Soviet press . . .". position that the matter is a question for the another Arab implicated in the murderous attack Canadian government, and that a man is innocent on Shiomo Argov has been arrested near Brussels. until proved guilty. The wife ofthe suspect, a Syrian, and another man MORE BOMBS IN PARIS have been detained by the Dutch police and four The sound of terrorist bombs was again heard in more people have been arrested in Belgium. I'aris recently when 30 people were injured at the KORCZAK ORPHAN'S HARMONICA The Rotterdam police uncovered two Polish israeh-owned restaurant L'Oree du Bois in the CONCERTS Rak 63 machine-guns at the house ofa suspect, the uois de Boulogne. The restaurant is often used by Forty years have passed since Janus Korczak went type of weapon used in the attempt on Mr. Argov, pro-Israel groups and was shortly to have been the with "his" children to the death camp of Trc- at the Seitenstettengasse Synagogue outrage in venue for a meeting of representatives of the Vienna, in the attack on a Jewish restaurant in the blinka, from which not one of them returned. But French Jewish community and the new Israeli Rue des Rosiers and in the Rosh Hashanah some former inmates of the orphanage who had Ambassador. woundings at the Great Synagogue of Brussels. experienced Korczak's goodness did live to tell the The Rak guns found in Rotterdam are now in the Another explosive device was also found in a car tale—and one of these was Schmuel Gogol. hands of ballistic experts. parked outside the synagogue in Versailles. It was A mouth-organ player, Gogol was forced to ound that the bomb would have exploded at the play his instrument while Jews went to their death lime ol morning service on the following Saturday. in Au-schwitz. After the war, he regarded his talent as a responsibility to be used to help Israeli FROM HAMBURG TO CANBERRA "FIDDLER" IN SOVIET GEORGIA children. He formed a school of harmonica Yissakhar Ben-Yaacov, who became Israeli A Soviet version of "Fiddler on the Roof"" has playing in Tel Aviv and has recently been touring Ambassador to Australia a short while ago, was recently been produced in Tbilisi, its first pro- the Rhineland area with an orchestra of 31 young born in Hamburg in 1926 as Walter Jacobson. He 'essional performance in the USSR. It is not quite players, all trained by him. The concert repertoire emigrated to Palestine in 1933 and has held pos­ Clear how closely it follows the musical familiar to ranges from Bach and Mozart to pop, including itions in the Israeli foreign service since the es­ i Israeli folk tunes. tablishment ofthe State. Before he was transferred Lonaon and Broadway: Tass"s Tbilisi correspond­ ent relerred to the play under the title of "Tevye to Australia, he was Ambassador to Austria. irom Anatevka"" and said that the musical themes E.G.L. echo those ofthe well-known musical 'Fiddler on ne KooP by Jerry Bock. However, a different nlerpretation of the characters, which is closer to HISTORIC ROMAN ine iiie-asserting spirit of the original, gives a new DENTS,RUSi;$CRATCH£$ PLACE-NAME REVIVED aimension to the musical basis ofthe production". Car body repair.We^ made yourchoice easy! One ofthe most historic parts of the Old Ghetto in Rome once again bears its traditional name— CANADIAN TEACHER'S SETBACKS Piazza delle Cinque Schole (Five Synagogues Square). For many years it has been simply known Jim Keegstra, the Canadian teacher who sought to as the Via del Progresso, but it has remained a mdoctrinate his pupils with antisemitism and neo- favourite meeting-place for the Jews of Rome. The MZ ' " "° '""Ser Mayor of Eckville, Alberta, five synagogues no longer exist, having been de­ reco^'"'-."''^ ^'*"^'"''' T'^^'^hers" Association has molished about 75 years ago when the area under­ recommended revocation of his teaching certi- went civic rebuilding, but the present chief syna­ h A '^^ ""^ported in our issue of October 1983, gogue of the city is only a short distance away. me Association had formerly backed Keegstra and g vcn him legal help when he appealed against his d. missal last May. He has also been requested to CreSt Pa^rl" ""^ ^'ee-presidency of the Social "WELCOME IN LIMOURS" Indeed, it was only by one vote that Mr. The Home of La Solidarity, the corresponding ^cegstra was saved from complete suspension of THE PBOTESSIONAL-S THE NON-PROFESSIONAL'S BODYFILXER BODYKILLLR organisation of the AJR in France, has been his membership of the SCP of Canada. rebuilt and modernised. 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(oquiiM d pftxluci Itwt's quitk ami ttd&y lu tion may be obtained from: La Solidarite, 14 Rue of the Jewish Chronicle use, thai sdrxts to a nwioi amootU Firush diHt wiltKtidiMK IIM; worst bumps attd ISOPOML St. Lazare, 75009 Paris, Tel. 526-58-17 (Monday vitiiattonk lo uull

the Jews were finally expelled and he had the HOME NEWS opportunity to make etchings of the interior of the synagogue before it was razed to the ground. EICHMANN AGAIN ON STAGE DAMAGES FOR "LABOUR HERALD" These etchings, reproduced in the booklet, give a ^ new play by Thomas Wiseman was recently EDITORS fine indication of what a synagogue must have eiven its premiere at Southampton. The title "The Following allegations by "Private Eye" and ano­ looked like at the time. The Regensburg commun­ Scaler" refers to the attempts to bargain for ther magazine that the "Labour Herald" was ity, the oldest in Bavaria, had mixed fortunes, the Jewish lives with Adolf Eichmann in the Vienna of financed by Colonel Gaddafi, the leader of the Jews being pawns in the continual struggles be­ •he loriies. The author had personal experience of GLC, Ken Livingstone, and two members of tween emperor, duke and municipal council. At Vienna up to 1938, although he was still a child, Lambeth Council have obtained substantial, first the council protected their Jews, but as their •ind he has drawn on his own experience for his though undisclosed, damages for libel. The three economic value declined, with the decline in the Mory of persecution and desperate bargaining. councillors were the joint editors of the "Labour fortunes of the town itself, the attitude of the Herald" when the libel was printed and their municipality to the Jews changed, leading to their final expulsion in 1519, in which Altdorfer took a VISITORS AT AJEX PARADE counsel stated that the paper was entirely financed by themselves, their friends and sympathisers. part. How far he was an active anti-semite or ^or the first time, representatives of the Associa­ simply followed popular opinion of the time is an tion of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and women were open question. 'iDle to lay a wreath in memory of the dead at the YOUTH CHOIR'S 25 YEARS 'oiocaust memorial in Hyde Park, before the To mark the 25th anniversary ofthe Youth choir Hockney as a Photographer •>(T '''^'^'^^ '°°'' P'""'" Whitehall on November attached to Belsize Square Synagogue, the choir- P "• Wreaths were laid at the Cenotaph and mistress Sue Straus arranged for a special youth David Hockney is well-known as a painter, but he general Sir John Stanier, Chief of the General service to be held. The choir has a remarkably has also been using the camera since the early ;!:",• ^°°^ the salute, while the Chief Rabbi solid tradition, for Mrs. Straus is only the second 1960s and an exhibition ofhis work in this field is "inducted the traditional service. Some 5,000 conductor and herself sang under Johanna now on view at the Hayward Gallery until 5 n-'rchers took part in the parade and contingents (Kanni) Lichtenstern. Mrs. Lichtenstern was a February 1984. It would be wrong to attempt to 'rom the US, Finland, France, Denmark and trained soprano in her native Germany and she compare the merits ofhis paintings and his photo­ ^iDraltar joined the British veterans. Police look- has sung at many concerts under her maiden graphs, but the latter are a sheer delight and show i'> were to be seen on nearby roofs as evidence of surname of Metzger. She says that really the what the camera is capable of when directed by the "It security measures in force. original choirmaster was her husband Paul but he discerning eye of a consummate artist. handed over thejob to his wife on the grounds that The opening ofthe New Roman Britain room at he couldn't sing. the British Museum has brought together familiar f^OUNTBATTEN HELPED ESCAPES masterpieces such as the Mildenhall Treasure and Hanni Lichtenstern is still active in the world of the Lullingstone paintings, together with other Among the guests at the unveiling by the Queen of music, although she left Belsize Square Synagogue major discoveries of recent years. "Roman Mr AM""""*' "'""'= '° E''^' Mountbalten were six years ago. Another choir has come under her Britain", an illustrated introduction to the subject th-',^ ' ' '^"ckenbroch. Mr. Hackenbroch is baton, the all-woman Kol Rinah. ine chairman of the Sabbath Observance Bureau by T. W. Potter, is available at the Museum Sv M"" ' Elsbeth is distantly related to the late bookshops. Cassel T"""""' " granddaughter of Sir Ernest WOMAN RABBI ORDAINED familv Mountbatten, conscious of the The fifth woman rabbi ordained by Leo Baeck Reg Butler helnin '''*""«*^''on, was personally involved in College is Daniela Thau from Berlin, noted for her One of the most exciting events in the early post­ to r^ '" T""^' °'"'^^^- Hackenbroch's relatives work with young people. Germany's first woman to escape from the Third Reich war years was the sudden emergence of a new rabbi was Regina Jonas, who died in a concen­ artist, Reg Butler, with his "Unknown political tration camp. prisoner". A work which in its massive gaunt simplicity said everything that could and should be CLUB 1943 AMERICAN GIFT TO LIBRARY said on this emotive subject. Since then Butler has done much good work, although the life-size, The Wolfson Foundation has presented the Meetings on Mondays at 8 p.m. painted bronze nudes of the seventies may not be American Trust for the British Library with the nannah Karminski House, everybody's cup of tea. 9- Adamson Road, NW3 sum of £10,000. The grant is intended to enable the Library to fill up gaps in its collection of American A comprehensive exhibition of Reg Butler's 2 Jan, No Meeting. Jewish books and periodicals. Much ofthe British work is being held at the Tate Gallery (until 15 Library's malerial was lost through Second World January 1984). It is well-worth seeing, if only to compare Butler's work with other modern pieces War bombing. •Gm^ (^883-1923) Der Schopfer des which are displayed in the hall approaching the Guten Soldaien Schwe,k-. special exhibition. il^A^V'^ ^°^"' "'•"'^^ia Holberg" (born

MRS. LILLY KOHNSTAMM OBITUARIES The death of Mrs. Lilly Kohnstamm occurred on 25 November, a few weeks before her eightieth birthday. She was the daughter of Julius and Gisela Weinschenk and at the age of 19 married f'ROFESSOR LEONARD SCHAPIRO HENRY RUDOLPH LINDSAY Siegmund Karl Kohnstamm, thus uniting two A world authority on Soviet Russia, Professor Henry Rudolph Lindsay died in London 24th families which for many years had been prominent Leonard Schapiro, CBE, has died at the age of 75. October 1983. Born in Cologne on 31st July 1904, in the hop trade in Nurnberg. With their three "orn in Glasgow, Professor Schapiro began his he studied Technology in Berlin and, after daughters and her parents-in-law the family came career as a barrister but was also always interested graduation, set up as a Consulting Engineer. He to this country in 1937 where her husband, with m events in Eastern Europe and Soviet Russia. specialised in telecommunications, optics and the help of British Kohnstamm cousins of an During the Second World War, he served in the lighting. His professional activities brought him earlier wave of immigration, opened the first Intelligence Division, German Control Command. into close contact with the cinematographic indus­ factory on the Treforest estate in South Wales for After Ihe war, he returned to the Bar, but devoted try in Germany and various European countries, the production of chrome leather. himself more intensely to international law and and the development of talking pictures. He was Mrs. Kohnstamm was an outgoing personality f^ast European an"airs. He joined the London involved with a considerable amount of patent and the beloved matriarch of an extensive and School of Economics, rising from a part-time litigation in the early years of talkies, and even close family which included numerous grand­ lecturer to Professor of Political Science, and developed a few inventions ofhis own, including a children and great-grandchildren, all of whom publishing many books, notably "The Origins of 3 dimensional video disc; he was also connected adored her and for whom she had a loving the Communist Autocracy" in 1955, which first with the early beginnings of television in Germany understanding and maintained continuous contact (••stablished him as a major scholar in the field. and was a founder member of the Allgemeine in a manner rarely seen between generations. After retirement as emeritus professor in 1975, Deutsche Fernseh-Gesellschaft. Her life was one full of activity at all times. Professor Schapiro continued to exercise his ta­ During the November-1938 pogrom, he was put Having been an enthusiastic car driver since the lents, particularly in support of Jewish rights into Sachsenhausen K.Z. However, with the help early twenties, when it was quite unusual, if not Within the Soviet Union. A long-standing member of •» non-Jewish business associate (a friend of the considered outrageous, for women to be seen "f the Institute of Jewish AITairs in London, he Polizeiprasident of Berlin, Graf HelldorO. he was behind the steering wheel, she retained her driving was chairman of the editorial board of the IJA's released to attend to the urgent engineering pro­ licence to the end and was much in demand by a "Soviet Jewish Affairs" over a term of 15 years. blems of some "aryan" clients. large circle of friends to drive them to the opera, to In April 1939, having ensured the safety of his bridge parties, or other activities. A member ofthe wife and daughter, he managed to escape from AJR of long standing she regularly assisted our DR. ALFONS LETCHNER Germany and to be admitted to Kitchener Camp. work with welfare visits to elderly refugees who, After a short while, with the help of Lord Sempill though her contemporaries, needed help and com­ Dr. Alfons Letchner died earlier this year at the (a pioneer of the Fleet Air Arm) and Commander panionship and were invariably cheered by her age of 84 after a long illness. Having qualified in Howard ofthe Admiralty (who was also a member impish humour and common sense approach to 1924 in Berlin, he worked in hospitals and in of M.I.5 Secret Service) he was permitted to set up everyday problems. practice there until 1933, when he came to Britain. practice. Later, though an enemy alien, he ob­ Alter a year's study at Edinburgh University, he She will be widely missed and our community tained a job with Gaumont British Picture Cor­ bought a practice in Harrow Weald and worked the poorer for losing her. poration as a sound engineer. After a while, his there, mainly single-handed, until 1974 when ill- influential friends vouched for him, saved him health forced his retirement. He was respected for from internment, and enabled him to work on his medical knowledge and accurate diagnostic various special government projects, mainly.for ability and for his concern for his patients. To the Admiralty. those privileged to know him he showed wide interests in art, music, history and in the world This brought him in touch with Thorn Electrical Remember around him. He is sadly missed by his patients and Industries and, in 1943, he started work for them, colleagues and by his family and friends. especially in research for defence contracts. Later Israel he founded their Patent, Trade Marks and Copyright Department. He stayed with Thorn MRS. FELICITY (FAY) CRAMER Electrical, later Thorn-EMl, for the remainder of So Israel may remember you his working life, developing his department into a Recently a quite remarkable lady completed a life vast area of reponsibility as the company span ol more than 94 years, which started in, then expanded. After he retired, aged 70, he still main­ If you wish Israel and Jewish , fj^"*!'"''"- Strasbourg, as a daughter ofthe "Schaf tained an active interest in his own field and kept Organisations to benefit by your Weils, Brought up bi-lingually, she added fluent in touch with his colleagues at Thorn-EMI. He Italian during her studies as pianist and singer at Will, why not consult us? made regular weekly visits to the Chancery Lane We have a special knowledge of the local conservatoire. By 1911 she married and Patent Office in order to keep up-to-date wilh lived in Frankfort-on-the-Main till the family electronic developments, and even at the end ofhis the problems and needs of moved to Hamburg in 1925. There she chaired the life had several patents of his own pending. Jewish Clients, and can help you cultural committee of the Bnai Brith Steinthal It can be said of Rudolph Lindsay that his work or your Solicitor to carry out your Lodge (where she partnered her husband, as in so was his hobby and his hobby his work. However, intentions. many other aspects, during their almost 40 years he also found time to be active in the Leo Baeck °' """•'•'age) before emigrating to London in For further information and B'nai B'rith Lodge and he belonged to the Belsize advice, without obligation and N37, and during World War II, to Leicester. Square Synagogue. Above all, he was a much Tjhough handicapped by extremely poor eyesight, loved family man and will be greatly missed by his free of charge, please apply to: she retained throughout her love for the arts. second wife Clementine, daughter Elsa, son-in-law Well into old age she commanded the afl'ec- Raymon and especially his three grandchildren. Mr H. Rothman (Director) tionaie admiration of all who surrounded her— R.B. whether family, friends or nursing stafl"—due to K.K.L. Executor & Trustee Co. Ltd. her exemplary joie-de-vivre and a ubiquitous faith PAUL ELIASBERG Harold Poster House, in strict Judaism, which made it natural for her to The Munich-born painter and graphic artist Paul Kingsbury Circle, complete a Yom Kippur fast even at 93. Eliasberg died recently in Hamburg, aged 76. He After staying for many years at the London spent his years of exile in France and survived the London, NWS SSP. home of her children, she spent the last 18 months war there, having joined the Resistance. France Telephone: 01-204 9911, Ext: 36 at "Woodstock Lodge" for the Elderly. became his second home and he made many R.C. journeys to the Mediterranean area. y

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CROWDED QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL BIRTHDAYS "Sold Out" was the proud announcement at the ticket office of Queen Elizabeth Hall on the occa­ ARNOLD HORWELL 70 Makers. He also serves on the Council of the British Laboratoryware Association. sion of the Self Aid Concert on November 13. The On January 19, Dr. Arnold Horwell, member of audience was not an anonymous gathering of Yet his professional work has always been the AJR Executive, will join the ranks of the concert-goers but consisted of people of the same linked with outstanding activities in the Jewish septuagenarians. If one tries to put his qualities on background. For many of them, il is the annual sphere. One of the beneficiaries is the Leo Baeck a common denominator, one may say that he is a occasion of renewing their contacts with friends Lodge. He was its President in 1968, when the man who has time for everything and everybody. and acquaintances. Thus, as in previous years, the Lodge celebrated its 25th anniversary and held a function was a social success. He was born in Berlin, where he was active in dinner with Quintin Hogg (now Lord Hailsham), the German-Jewish youth movement and, after James Callaghan and Sir Bernard Waley-Cohen Yet to no lesser extent it was afso an artistic completion of his studies obtained his doctorate among the speakers. He also organised the pre­ success. The fjcrformance was rendered by the ol economics when the Nazis had already come to parations for the Leo Baeck Memorial Forest in orchestra ofthe Yehudi Menuhin School under its power. Later, he joined the "Hilfsverein" and, as Israel. Last, but not least, he arranges group visits conductor Peter Norris and with Louis Kentner as head of the Secretariat, rendered signal services in of members and friends of the Lodge to places on the soloist. The well selected programme was, as the organisation of emigration during the years of the Continent, making a point of always bringing the Self Aid and AJR Chairman, Mr. C. T. Marx, anxiety and persecution. He himself left the coun­ the participants in touch with the local Jewish pointed out in the preface to the beautifully made try only shortly before the beginning of war, communities. When they were in Rome, the up Souvenir Programme," a muscial pilgrimage became an inmate of Kitchener Camp and partici­ leaders, including himself, had a special audience covering two centuries." It started with a Concerto pated in the work of the Re-emigration Depart­ with the Pope. Grosso by Handel, to be followed by a Piano ment. When war broke out, he joined the Forces, Concerto by Mozart and Elgar's lovely "Serenade and ended his military career with the rank of a In the AJR, his counsel is greatly appreciated by for Strings". The last two works, "Five Pieces" by Captain. After the end of hostilities, he was his colleagues in the Executive, who have also Hindemith and "The Capriol Suite" by Warlock attached to the first unit which entered Belsen—a become his personal friends. There are two annual were, by the standard of the not too young traumatic experience, as he describes it. He tried to functions under the auspices of the AJR Club, of audience, "modern"; yet they too were received assist the surviving victims, as far as this was wRich he takes charge: the Seder evenings, where with great applause. The orchestra is an organic humanly possible. he reads and explains the Haggadah, and the ensemble, living up to the obligation arising from Chanucah celebrations, at which, together with his After his demobilisation, he first went through the name it bears; it was very evident that Louis wife, he selects and comperes serious and humor­ Kentner, himself a teacher at the school, enjoyed diflicult times. Yet from small beginnings, and ous records from his large collection. with the help of his wife Susanne, he built up a the partnership with the youthful orchestra; it so business in medical equipment, which grew from In his house, he treasures a remarkable collec­ happened that he was also the soloist at the first strength to strength and only recently moved to tion of Judaica silver, and his library is constantly Self Aid Concert 36 years ago. replenished by new publications, last but not least larger new premises. His standing is reflected in the The advertisements in the Souvenir Programme honours and oflices he holds. He is a Freeman of about his home town of Berlin. There are many friends who enjoy the hospitality of the Horwells, testified anew to the loyalty and generosity of our the City of London and Livery Man of the friends in business. Together with the proceeds Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument whose happy homelife is enhanced by the close relationship with their son, David, a Gold Medal­ from the ticket sale they made the Concert also a list of the Royal College of Obstetricians and financial success, thus providing means for the Gynaecologists, their daughter-in-law, and their needy ones in our midst. three grandchildren. Arnold is a good and trustworthy friend to France & Germany's many in our midst, and it is in gratitude for this friendship that we extend our sincercst birthday Finest Wines wishes to him. W.R. SHIPPED BY with the compliments of DR. WALTER DUX 95 Dr. Walter Dux, one of AJR's long-term friends HOUSE OF will celebrate his 95th birthday on January 8. He was the first chairman ofthe Otto Hirsch House in Kew when it was founded in 1958 and served in HALLGARTEIV this capacity for many years. He offered at all times help and advice to the main AJR committee Special Recommendation as one of its important members. "Kellercup" Erdbeerbowie He is also well remembered as a brilliant speaker at the many lectures he gave at Hannah Karminski Beautiful blend of wine and House on a wide range of subjects: The Life of Strawberries with delicious Galileo, Helen of Troy, astronomy and other Pafra spritz. scientific and cultural themes. He fascinated his audience by speaking for well over an hour with­ synthetic adhesives out notes and with witty interludes. adhesive applicators Only £25.99 per case (12) Born in Hildesheim and belonging to a family Incl. VA T and delivery with roots in that city for over 250 years, he lived in Hanover, where he was very active in Jewish welfare. Delivery to all UK addresses. With the help of his devoted wife Marga, he. Pafra Limited Please write or phone: keeps in constant contact with old friends from his Bentaiis. Basildon K.C. days and people all over the world, and still Essex. SS143BU MARION WEIIMER shows an enormous interest in music, opera, pro­ 25 Hendon Hall Court gress in science, political happenings, and loves Parsons Street, London IMW4 being surrounded by his circle of family members. Telephone: 01 -203 4677 We at the AJR join his family and friends in wishing him continued happiness for many more years to come. AJR INFORMATION JANUARY 1984 Page 9 Visit to Pforzheim LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sir,—Former residents of Pforzheim were in­ Friedrich Heer 300 Years of Franco-German vited to a six-day visit to their former home town. Emigration The hospitality was overwhelming and the Sir,—I submit that the Austrian Catholic his­ programme was exceedingly well arranged. It in­ torian and writer, Friederich Heer, deserves better Sir,—Lotte Eisner, who was mentioned in the cluded, among other things, the unveiling cere­ of you than a mere five-line obituary saying he above report in your November 1983 issue, re­ mony of a memorial plaque in front of the Jewish produced several works on Hitler's religious and cently died in Paris. She was not, however, a "film­ cemetery. There was also an opportunity to meet quasi-religious beliefs. maker", as stated in your report. She started her non-Jewish citizens, with whom personal contacts In his "Gottes Erste Liebe" translated into career in 1926 with the daily newspaper the "Film- had been lost after the emigration or who had English as "God's first love" Heer wrote one of the Kurier" and soon became a film critic. In March never met Jews before, because they were born most profound and exciting books about the inner 1933, she succeeded in fleeing to Paris, where she during or after the war. i-onllicl between the early Catholic church and its joined Henry Langlois who established the Altogether, the party consisted of 31 invitees, Jewish origins and showed how this led to religious "Cinemateque Frangaise". A short time before her and there will be a second meeting in 1984 for anii-semitism, the father of racial anti-semitism death she was decorated with the Legion those who could not attend. Any former Pforz­ and its horrendous consequences. d'Honneur. Her books include the standard work heim residents among your readers, who are not Heer also wrote an important "Cultural History on the films of the expressionist era: "L'ecran on the list of emigrants at the Rathaus should send of Europe" and many other serious works, in all of demoniaque". The book has also been translated in their address to the "Kulturamt der Stadt which he denounced universal anti-semilism in into English ("The haunted Screen") and German Pforzheim" which is interested in having all the general and Austrian anti-semitism in particular. ("Die daemonische Leinwand"). addresses on their files. Friedrich Heer was perhaps in some ways a Her older brother Fritz, who went to England 87 Bridge Lane maverick among historians, but one who has after having been forced to abandon the old London NWl 1 O. A. SCHLESINGER played a singularly notable and noble part in established textile firm in Berlin, was an authority furthering his fellow Catholic's understanding of on Heinrich Heine. He edited four volumes of the the relationship between their faith and its source •poet's letters accompanied by four volumes of NEO-NAZIS ON TRIAL in Judaism. comments as part ofthe "Saekularausgabe", pub­ 75 Hornsey Lane GEORGE CLARE lished in Weimar and Paris 1976. Friedhelm Busse, the leader of the Volkssozialist­ London N6 26 Heath Drive HANS FELD ische Bewegung Deutschlands Partei der Arbeit is currently standing trial in Munich on charges of London NW3 7SB belonging to a terrorist organisation, illegal pos­ Sir,—Friedrich Heer was not just a "Roman Memoirs of Refugees session of weapons and blackmail. Four other f Catholic writer and editor", but a historian lectur­ members of the group are sharing the dock with ing at Vienna University as an extra-mural Profes­ Sir,—A number of years ago I embarked on a him. Although the VBD (People's Socialist Move­ sor on the "Geistesgeschichte des Abendlandes". study on German-Jewish refugees in this country. ment) boasts only about 120 members, it is con­ He was also "Chefdramaturg am Burgtheater". This study has been successfully completed and sidered one of West Germany's strongest neo-Nazi However, he will most likely be remembered as will be published by Macmillan in March 1984 organisations. Busse, once a pupil at an Adolf- Ihe author of the book "Gottes erste Liebe. 2000 under the title: German-Jewish Refugees in Hitler-Schule, was imprisoned last October for Jahre Judentum und Chrislentum . . ." (1967), in England. The Ambiguities of Assimilation. spreading racialism. which he demonstrates that the concept of hatred Meanwhile, 1 have set up a publishing firm and of the Jews and of genocide against them received it is in this connection that I am taking the liberty FREED AFTER DISCREPANCY IN material support from Christian theological con­ of again asking your readers for their co­ EVIDENCE cepts; thus he deals in this book also with the operation. Lack of evidence against Kurt Hansel in Munich spawning of the Austrian Catholic Adolf Hitler. We are in the process of building up a series of Jewish interest. One of our publications will be a meant that he was set free and has demanded As long ago as 1968 Heer won the Huber- damages for unlawful arrest. He had been accused Rosenzweig Medal for his efl'orts towards recon­ volume of memoirs of Central-European refugees living in London. We are interested in people's of killing six Poles in Rzeszov (ReichshoO during ciliation and brotherhood between Christianity the war, but none of the alleged eye-witnesses to and Judaism. experiences on the Continent and in London. (Contributions from individuals who later moved the act could maintain their evidence as set out in 24 Florida Court TIBOR HAAS the preliminary depositions. The State prosecutor out of London will be equally welcome). The Westmoreland Road said that he had never known such a discrepancy Bromley picture should be fairly comprehensive and ideally between aflidavits and evidence, and the judge cover as many areas as possible (family, education, declared that it would be unsafe to convict Hansel. work, religion etc.). Together with illustrations and photographs of important places and people this collection should become a valuable historical NO MORINGEN PROSECUTION document. The author of the Moringen town history which It is our intention to deposit all the material blamed the Jews for "provocation" before the received in the archives ofthe Leo Baeck Institute pogrom of November 9th, 1938 (AJR Informa­ in New York to add to its collection of memoirs. tion, September 1983) will not be prosecuted by However, we would like to stress that strict con­ the Land Hanover. The public prosecutor decided With best wishes from fidentiality will be assured. that Dr. Walter Ohlmer, formerly Moringen's The volume will be edited by Dr. Barbara archivist, although holding "a very individual Weinberger who has also prepared a set of guide­ perspective of historical events", could not be lines for those who feel this would help con­ considered as expressing solidarity or identifica­ tributors to relate their experiences. Dr. Weinber­ tion with the Nazis' attitude towards Jews. VICTORINOX ger would be most grateful if interested readers, who would like to contribute to this volume, in any form, would contact her at the following CAMPS Swiss Knives of Quality address: INTERNMENT-P.O.W.— School of Law, FORCED LABOUR—KZ University of Warwick, I Vi^ish to buy cards, envelopes and lolded post­ Coventry CV4 7AL. marked letters from all camps of both world wars. Please send, registered mail, slating price, to; (Dr) MARION BERGHAHN 14 Rosslyn Hill, London NW3 Berg Publishers Ltd. PETER C. RICKENBACK Leamington Spa. Page 10 AJR INFORMATION JANUARY 1984

GERMAN JEWRY'S PART IN THE BUF WAS INFILTRATED BY MIS insurance against the oncoming war. He returned BRADFORD The chief surprise involved in the opening of the home and two years later fell a victim to the Although only about 400 Jews live in Bradford Oswald Mosley files of the thirties seems for most German pressure on Bulgaria "to solve its Jewish today, they can look back on a proud record of commentators to have been the eflicient way in problem". Although Bulgaria endeavoured to save CIVIC involvement, mostly by Jews of German which MI5 infiltrated the British Union of its Jews, the efl'ort was not entirely successful. The origin. German merchants in the 1820's and 1830's Fascists. Regular quarterly reports were made, Ventura family business was seized, they were were attracted by Yorkshire's flourishing wool often speaking of internal squabbles within the forced to live in a ghetto and the two sons had to trade. A notable member of the community was movement. With regard to funding, information work in labour camps. Sir Jacob Behrens, who built up an international received at the time from Alexander C. Miles, then In 1948, the Ventura firm was nationalised by business on the multi-millionaire scale from a firm propaganda industrial ofiTicer for the BUF, spoke the new Communist Government and the family opened by him in Bradford in 1838. An honoured of money having been received from Courtaulds, emigrated lo Israel. Some months later, Asher adviser to the Government of the day, he was ICI, Sir A. V. Roe, the aviation pioneer. Lord Ventura travelled to London to claim his gold, knighted in 1882 and in his own words: "Who Lloyd, Sir Charles Petrie, Ihe historian, and other only to find it had been expropriated as "enemy would have thought it possible that now just 50 individuals, particularly landowners, and firms. property". As a Bulgarian, he was technically an years after I stepped ashore on English soil at Hull, Lord Nuflield's name was mentioned, but he enemy during the war years and the British gov­ a foreigner and a Jew, I should be deemed worthy publicly denied at the time that he had contributed ernment did not consider that his life during the of the ofler of a knighthood by the Queen's to the BUF. The MI5 report makes it clear that it war was one of "deprivation of liberty", so that he Government?" had not been possible to verify Miles' information was not eligible for an ex gratia payment. A long, slow, intricate correspondence developed and in Another noted immigrant, Charles Joseph and the vast majority of those named are now dead. 1977 he was finally informed that his gold had Semon of Danzig, was elected as the first foreign- been disposed of in accordance with the peace born and Jewish Mayor of Bradford in 1864. He Some money was received from Italy, appa­ treaty of 1947 between the Allied Governments supported and endowed many charities and in rently £3,000 per month up to 1936, when the and Bulgaria. particular built the Semon Convalescent Home in amount was cut to £1,000 a month. Other backers "kley, which is still in use by the Council. . of the movement included an elderly invalid The peace treaty had provided for Bulgaria to compensate its citizens who had lost assets under The first Rabbi of Bradford was Joseph Strauss, "known to be ill-disposed towards Jews", W. E. who came from Germany in 1873 to establish D. Allen, chairman ofa printing firm, Ihe novelist the terms ofthe treaty, but the Venturas had never regular services and a religious school. It was at Francis Yeats-Brown (author of "Bengal Lancer") received a penny under this provision. The sums this time that the community acquired its syna­ and best-known of all, the proprietor ofthe "Daily realised by the sale of Bulgarian property held in gogue and cemetery. Mail", Lord Rothermere. Rothermere's news­ Britain had been distributed among British clai­ mants who had lost property held in Bulgaria. The warehouse district, built in the second half papers began by giving considerable support to the of last century, is still known as "Little Germany" Fascist movement, but in July 1934 an exchange of Up lo his death in 1979 at the age of 90, the only and the buildings bear the names and monograms letters printed in the "Daily Mail" showed how sum received by Asher Ventura as recompense for of well-known German-Jewish families: Nathan great was the distance between Mosley and the his sufl'ering and losses was an ex gratia payment Reichenheim of Berlin, the Kessler family, Edel- press baron. A Home Office official noted at the from the West German Government. But his son stein & Moser, Reiss Bros., Rutherston & Heil­ time: "Lord Rothermere, somewhat late in the Raphael is carrying on the struggle in the hope of brun (formerly Rothenstein & Heilbron). day, finds that he cannot approve the word regaining some part of the gold deposited by his father nearly 45 years ago. Another influential Jew in Bradford's history Fascism or any policy directed to a corporate state was Jacob Moser, a founder of the Bradford or a dictatorship or involving attacks on the Synagogue and a fervent Zionist. Among his many Jews." It may be noted in passing that the "Night ERLANGEN AND DEUTZ charitable works was the founding of a Jewish ofthe Long Knives"—the murder of Ernst Roehm COMMUNITIES RECALLED and others who might be thought to undermine hospital in Leeds (where the community was much The Mayor of Erlangen recently dedicated a me­ poorer than in Bradford) to be known as the Herzl Hitler's forward march—had taken place only two or three weeks before this rupture. morial tablet at the Jewish cemetery for those who I Memorial Home—today called the Herzl-Moser died during the Nazi period. A path leads to the ; Hospital. But his donations were not limited to graveyard and along it are placed noticeboards, BULGARIAN FAMILY HOPES TO Jewish objects—for example, he gave £10,000 as telling the visitor something of the history of REGAIN GOLD endowment for a fund to help the local aged and Erlangen Jewry. infirm—and his obituary told of gifts amounting The ownership of eight kilograms of gold is at the Another place where the Jews ofthe town have to £300,000 during his lifetime and made to chari­ heart of a tale of oppression by a succession of been remembered is Deutz, a district of Cologne. ties benefiting all races and creeds. In 1910, Jacob Governments, told by Raphael Ventura. The catalogue of an exhibition celebrating the SOth Moser followed the example of C. J. Semon by In May 1939, Asher Ventura of Sofia deposited anniversary ofthe town's incoporalion contains a becoming Lord Mayor of Bradford. the gold in a .safe deposit in London as an short history of the Jews of Deutz.

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AJR INFORMATION JANUARY 1984 Page 11 lines of French Jewry have changed, but the JEWS AND RELIGION situation does not appear much different from that to be found in most western countries. A Irue comparison of religions must depend upon by its leaders, this movement is no more than a W. M. SCHWAB a real understanding of the religions to be com- brain-washing exercise undertaken by the ultra- * Take Judaism for Example. Sludies toward the Comparison of Religions, edited by Jacob Neusner. Orthodox. Trained missionary rabbis arc sent into {••ared. In Take Judaism for Example.* a book of University of Chicago Press. I9H3. £18.00 i-'ssays by eminent schohirs, edited by Professor the streets of Jerusalem lo entice "drop-outs" and lacob Neusner, diverse facets of Jewish life and other disorientated youth, mainly American, to t Reliirn to Judaism. Religious Renewal in Israel. llioughl are examined in detail. For instance, a full enter specially established Yeshivot (schools of Janet Aviad. University of Chicago Pre.ss, I9H3. account is given of Ihe Jewish Pietists in the I2C. study). In these schools the inmates are encour­ £16.00. m the Rhineland as an example of how religious aged to wear the old traditional East European t^xccsses can develop. The intolerance of this sect dress, adopted by the very Orthodox and are t Jewish Identities in France. An Analysis of ilrnosi defies description. "It is preferable to pro­ spoon-fed a doctrine of intolerance and personal Contemporary French Jewry. Dominie/iie Schnap- vide essential clothing for the wife of a l-ellow superiority, if they follow the doctrine (not unlike per. University of Chicago Pre.ss. I9S3. £20.00. 'Piciisi) Ihan to save the life of a non-Pietist" the Pietists of the 12C). Nothing enjoyable about l^cfcr I lasidim by Judah the Pietist). Other essays this book, but worth reading to learn of the iloal wilh worship, society, modernity, etc., includ­ curious ways in which "religion" can be expres.sed. ing an account ofthe elforts of rabbinical leaders, Dominique Schnapper's book on Jewish Iden­ i^^ u- Samson Raphael Hirsch, to come to terms tities in Frami't is a sociological study, wilh all the SILVER JUBILEE OF LEO BAECK ^viUi the external world. Not easy reading, but jargon that implies. It tells nothing very new about HOUSE containing much of original and lasting value. French Jewry except that it is divided into the The 25th anniversary of Leo Baeck House was Horrendous is the only possible description of Orthodox (relatively few in number), the militants, celebrated at the Home's Chanucah Party on 'he Baalei Teshuvah movement in Israel, especi­ the assimilated and those entirely divorced from December 4. As, due to the holidays, this issue had ally in Jerusalem, as explained by Janet Aviad in their Jewish connections. Faced with a large North to be given to press earlier than usual, a full report Reitirn to Judai.sm.f Although emphatically denied African immigration over recent decades, the out- will appear in next month's edition.

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Before 1933, operas by Jewish ary Gruendgens-team, and has over the years increased. Six out of 20 winners of the October mposers appeared regularly in the repertoire of been a pillar of strength for the ensemble. Hertlia Revolution Prizes were Jewish. One of them, iropean opera houses. The works ofOirenbach, von Walter, the German actress, known in Berlin Mikhail Shatrov, whose film "This is how we shall iltlmark and Meyerbeer were produced and as "kesse Gore", has also reached the milestone of win!" was honoured, is believed to enjoy the vived, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold followed; 80. Having begun her career with Max Reinhardt, personal support of President Andropov. He has she then progressed to be Berlin's "Fraeulein long these, the French-Jewish composer Halevy written a number of plays on subjects usually Julie"; she played in dozens of films, and was in riginally Levy) made his name 150 years ago considered taboo in the USSR, and their public Fritz Lang's famous "M"; she proved "disloyal" len, after having won the Prix de Rome and performance must indicate some special influence to the Nazis, had to emigrate and returned in 1958. itial operatic successes, his opera "La Juive" on the Soviet censorship. Several Jews also won he Jewess) won international fame. In Vienna, it Johannes Heesters, Dutch-born operetta tenor, and acclaimed as German stage-and film favourite prizes in the field of science and technology, but IS enthusiastically received when the tenor part artistic recognition has increased quite markedly. Eleazar was sung with brilliance by Leo Slezak. since the Thirties, has just joined the octogen­ alevy taught at the Paris Conservatoire where arians; at present he delights Munich audiences in ounod was his pupil; his brother Leon was an the (originally Chevalier) part in Lerner/Lowe's BRAZIL HONOURS TRANSLATOR "Gigi." •thor whose son Ludovic (who died in 1908) An important literary figure in Brazil is Dr. •llaborated with Meillac in writing opera libret- Obituary. He was the most popular represen­ Herbert M. Caro, who has just been awarded the s, Ihe best known of which is Bizet's "Carmen." tative ofthe French chanson, good-looking and he Critics' Circle Prize in Sao Paulo for his work as a Til-Bits. Michael Ritterman stage, film-and possessed a brilliant voice: Tino Rossi, who has translator of German literature into Portuguese. levision actor who lived in London for many died at the age of 76. He was internationally Dr. Caro practised as a lawyer in Berlin until 1935, ;ars, was associated with the "Blue Danube" admired for the sincerity of his interpretations of when he settled in Porto Alegre. His translations '.buret for a while, and has been playing many songs like "J'ai ma main dans ta main" and, above have included works by Emil Ludwig, Thomas laracter roles in Switzerland since the Sixties, was all, "La vie en rose." S.B. Mann, Oswald Spengler, Elias Canetti and other Duerenmatt's "Ackterloo" at the Zurich leading German writers. ;hauspielhaus. Hans Thimig, at 83 the youngest nd only surviving) son ofthe family of actors, is ?ain acting at Vienna's "Josefstadt" theatre, and CRACOW ON SHOW MINISTER AT POGROM |ve a Christmas reading at Vienna's "Hietzing Kazimier, the old Jewish quarter of Cracow, is one REMEMBRANCE hurch Festival." Birthdays. Senior member of aspect of the work of the Viennese-born photo­ West Germany's Minister of Justice Hans Engel­ le Schauspielhaus Hamburg, actor Josef Dahmen grapher Susanne Taschner. An exhibition of her hard was among those who remembered the an­ pebrated his SOth birthday. Starting at work is to be seen from January 4th to January niversary ofthe November Pogrom of 1938, when mburg's "Kammerspiele" and after acting 28th at the Photographers' Gallery near Leicester he laid a wreath at the site of a Berlin synagogue irs in Berlin, Dahmen became one ofthe legend­ Square. destroyed in the pogrom.

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