wholly arbitrary. Black-market-
Religious Symbols Given. SS United States
ing on a large scale may be in-
volved. These activities were
not infrequently carried out by
Slavic-speaking DPs with the
connivance of Soviet and Ger-
man Communist trade officials,
_
until there was a falling-out
By ARTHUR GREEN
(Copyright, 1953, .Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
among the partners.
BERLIN — The West Berlin Jew in the ranks of his organ- Those convicted on trumped-
up economic charges compose a
*
Jewish Community h a s ad- ization.
Those who rot in the prisons third category. They may have
dressed a letter to Soviet High
Commissioner in Germany Vla- of the German Communist re- the best chances for relief in
dimir Semenov, t h e polished gime and of the Soviets fall into the temporarily milder atmos-
diplomat who since his appoint- four categories, ranging from phere of the moment. A fairly
ment several months ago has the Jewish-born apostates, who typical case is that of Adalbeit
steered an ostenstatiously mod- but yesterday served as the jail- Kaba-Klein, former Soviet Zone
erate course in East Germany ers' willing henchmen and apol- chess champion and a hotel-
and under whose auspices sev- ogists, to martyrs of the Jewish keeper on the island of Ruegen,
e r a 1 thousand Germans are cause about whom far too little who in April was sentenced to
ten years' penal servitude for
being discharged from prison is known in the West.
The letter was a moving appeal
Most of the Communists who asserted violation of rationing
for the release of Jewish pri- have run afoul of the party line, regulations.
The verdict against K a b a-
soners now held in Soviet or perhaps only because they head-
Dr, NORMAN SALIT (center) president of the Synagogue
Soviet zone jails.
ed West in their flight from Klein, who was known for his _ Council of America, presents a Hanukah Menorah to Commodore
adherence
to
regulations,
was
So far, there has been no Hitler or because they have re-
JOHN W. ANDERSON, captain of the SS United States, world's
reply, and none of the Jews be- latives in the free:world, never generally regarded as a means fastest ocean liner. Rabbi MEYER PASSOW, executive director of
of
intimidating
and
driving
out
identified
themselves
as
Jews
or
hind' bars have been set at lib-
SCA, holds the ship's Sefer Torah, with a new breastplate, also a
erty. But the petition of. the maintained ties with the Jew- of business other private hotel- gift of SCA, whose program includes providing all major ships with
keepers
on
the
island.
Berlin Kehilla h a s at least ish community. Among them
complete religious facilities for services.
The most tragic group, the
drawn attention to the fate of are high ex-government officials
those half-forgotten East Ger- such as Paul Baender, former fourth one, is that of Jews. who
man Jews who, having survived State Secretary in the Ministry were among the handful man-
"The Council Is a Full Time Job!"
Hitler, fell victim to Stalin and of Trade and Commerce, who aging to survive in Germany
his slavish would-be imitator in may perhaps escape a heavy herself, only to be thrown into
sentence for "economic sabot- Communist jails because of
Germany, Walter Ulbricht.
Few facts are more effectively age" now that the planned trials their devotion to the cause of
suppressed behind the German of several former Cabinet Min- Judaism.
One such man appears to be
iron curtain than the lot of isters seem to have been aban-
Dr. Hesse, a Halle lawyer now
those arrested by the secret po- doned.
Others were party functionar- serving a 20-year sentence. An-
lice. the dreaded SSD. Interest-
. ingly enough, and in contrast ies pure and simple, such as other is the unknown Magde-
No. 61 ON THE BALLOT
to the situation in Hungary or Josef Schleifstein and his wife, burg Jew who last February
Romania, SSD boss Wilhelm who jointly headed the "Depart- spoke up for the Jews then
Attorney
and
Professor
of Law, Wayne University
Zaisser never tolerated a single ment for Indoctrination" of the under bitter Communist attack
Preferred Candidate, Detroit Citizens League
Communist Party in West Ger- as "Zionist agents."
many until they were lured to
But it is the names of two
East Berlin and arrested a few deeply religious and dedicated
Best Wishes for-
years ago.
Jews in this category that
a Happy New Year
should be written in the hearts
Hans'
Schrecker,
editor
of
a
To Our Friends & Customers
Leipzig Communist, paper, be- of Jews everywhere, for they
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longs to those whose writings, went to their doom "al kiddush
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while in full accord with the hashem." Erich Nelhans and
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there are those who, because of experience of living "u n d e r-
13133 Dexter
their wartime stay in Mexico or ground," • with false papers, in
Scrip to Israel
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Switzer land, are particularly Nazi Berlin.
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After the collapse of Nazism,
suspected of having been in-
TRAVEL TO ISRAEL WITH CONFIDENCE
fected by Trotskyism, Titoism Nelhans became the first presi-
dent of the post-war Berlin
BY BOAT OR PLANE
and Americanism.
This sub-group comprises Jewish Community. When Pol-
Gift Selections and New Year Cards
Holiday Greetings
the former boss of the Bavar-
ish Jews approached him for
ian Communist Party, Sperl- help in getting to Palestine so
that they could fight in the
ing; Saxony-born Bruno Gold-
hammer, ex-manager of the Haganah, he helped without
East Berlin Radio Station; checking their credentials too
and t h e station's erstwhile closely.
BOWLING BALL
Because of this, a Soviet mili-
13722 Linwood
editor-in-chief, Polish - b o r n
tary tribunal charged him with
SALES and SERVICE
Leo 'Bauer, whose real name
TO. 8-0941
aiding members of the Red
TO, 8-9280
seems to be Rudolph Katz.
17377 Livernois
The second group includes Army to desert. At 60 and
those whose sentences, although broken in health, he was sent
UN. 4-7939
Classes reopen on Monday, September 14th, 1953
often unduly severe, are not off to a Siberian . labor camp.
All intervention availed nothing,
and there has been no word
from him in many years.
Fritz Katten was a younger
Session from 3:30 P.M.-7:30 P.M.
Best Wishes to the Community
Ages Pk - 5 Years
man who, after the war, rose to
Bar Mitzvah Preparations
be a vice-president both of the
(Five Days per Week)
1 P. M. - 4 P. M,
Berlin police and of the Berlin
on the New Year
Ages 6 - 14 Years
Jewish Community. An Ortho-
(Five Days per Week)
dox Jew, - he also headed the
Berlin Mizrachi. In 1948 he was
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arrested, in good part because
he had used the authority of
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530 BATES
his office as a vice-president of
the Berlin police to facilitate
and. expedite JDC relief ship
ments to the Jewish communi-
ties of the Soviet Zone.

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When he was released, his
friends urged him to move to
West Berlin, even offered him
a position in Jewish social
work. He refused, confident
that he would be completely
rehabilitated. One day, the
Communist authorities
cracked down again. This
time, they sent him to the
penitentiary at Bautzen, Sax-
ony, for a 15-year term. His
wife recently fled to West
Germany with her son.

Little more than three months
ago, the Communist authorities
in East Germany were contem-
plating the. establishment of
special interment camps for
Jews. These plans have been
dropped since the Moscow doc-
tors were freed. Will Semenov
also open the jail doors for the
Kaba-Kleins and Pikarskis, and
especially for Erich Nelhans and
Fritz Katten? Jews. everywhere
should keep asking the ques-
tion, insistently and persistently,
until he does.

Melvyn' Douglas: "It's danger-
ous to drive in a fog, especially
if it's mental."

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Friday, September 11, 1953

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