Berlin Teacher liars Jewish Students;
German Court Treats Him Leniently
BERLIN, (JTA)—A local high
school teacher who refused to
admit Jewish students to his
class "because I am and shall
always remain an anti-Semite,
WIC
Seeks Contact
With Iron Curtain'
Jewish Communities
THE HAGUE, (JTA) — The
hope that the projected Four
Power talks will bring some
easing of the obstacles to con-
tact with Jewish communities
in Eastern Europe was expressed
here at the concluding session
of the European executive of
the World Jewish Congress.
The session dealt with prob-
lems caused by the emergence
of neo-Nazism in Germany as
well as with the position of the
Jewish communities in North
Africa.
Representatives from , Austria,
Belgium, France, Britain, Italy,
Ho 11 a n d, Switzerland, Algeria
and French Morocco attended
the conference. General agree-
ment that the Jewish commu-
nities of Western Europe are still
fighting a spiritual battle, ham-
pered by shortages of Jewish
schools and teachers, emerged
from the discussions,
Jewish Population in
Ukrainian City Reduced
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The 10,000
member pre-war Jewish com-
munity of Czerkassi, in the
Ukraine, has shrunk to 2,000
men, women and children, it
was reported here by an im-
imgrant from the Soviet Union
who arrived by plane. The im-
migrant, 72 - year - old Hirsch
Polowsky, was one of a party
of 14 elderly' Jewish men and
women most of them residents
of Czernowitz, who were per-
mitted to immigrate to Israel.
Mr. Polowsky said that only
one synagogue was in use today,
as compared with 12 in the pre-
war period. He added that the
lone rabbi was also the cantor
and shochet. Mr. Polowsky said
that there is still considerable
anti-Semi tism among the
Ukrainian people,
was separated from his post,
but granted 75 percent of his
salary for 18 months "in view of
the fact that he served honor-
ably in the war."
For the first time in the ten
post-war years . during which
educator Paul Joseph Rump has
taught school in the Kreuzberg
section of .Berlin, Jewish stu-
dents—a pair of twins—were as-
signed to his class some months
ago. He stated bluntly that he
would not accept them because
they were Jewish, but offered to
take in their place two retarded
or obstreperous boys from some
other class, so that he would not
gain an "undue advantage"
from his refusal.
The parents of the twins
forced the issue to a showdown.
Since Rump would not yield
and, as his superiors suggested,
represent the incident as a mis-
understanding, the case was
brought before the Civil Displin.-
ary Chamber of the West Ber-
lin Administrative Court.
The judge, Dr. H. Graeser,
found that Rump must be sep-
arated from civil service, since
he had disobeyed a legal assign-
ment, and persisted in his dis-
obedience. Yet Rump's anti-
Semitism, Dr. Graeser ruled, is
"understandable from the hu-
man aspect" and he, is not un-
worthy of substantial severance
pay "in view of the fact that he
has no record of prior convic-
tions and that he served hon-
orably in the war."
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-5
Friday, June 24, 1955
Exploit Negev Ores
With Israel Bond Aid
State of Israel Development
Bond proceeds are making pos-
sible large-scale exploitation of
Israel's natural resources, in-
cluding minerals and chemicals
mined and processed in the
heart of the Negev. Shown above
is an Israeli workman bulldoz-
ing tons of snow-like rock phos-
phates, which were extracted
from the Negev and brought by
trucks to this processing plant
near Kurnub. Israel's chemical
industry now produces phos-
phates and superphosphates to
fulfill the requirements of local
needs and foreign markets.
Nine-Power Pact on Custody of Tiles
On Nazi Victims Is Signed in Bonn
BONN, (JTA) — The files of
the International Tracing Serv-
ice at Arolsen, Germany passed
into the custody of the Interna-
tional Red Cross for a five-year
period under the terms of an in-
ternational agreement signed
by nine powers, including Israel
and West Germany. The files,
containing ten million docu-
ments and 20 million file cards,
are a compilation of informa-
tion about victims of the Nazis
in the concentration camps lib-
erated by the three Western Al-
lies.
Under the terms of the agree-
ment, the Red Cross will super-
vise the files until 1960, with
West Germany meeting the an-
nual cost of about $350,000. No
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later than 1959 the nine powers
—United States, Britain, France,
Italy, Benelux states, Germany
and Israel—must decide the fu-
ture fate of the files, which
contain much, or in some cases
all, of the documentation to
back up claims of Nazi victims
for indemnification.
The president of the Interna-
tional Red Cross, Paul Ruegger,
was a signatory to the pact, as
was Israel's Dr. F. Shinnar and
West German y's Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer. The repre-
sentatives of the nine signs,-
tories will meet in a committee
to give the IRC direction. A
Swiss director and several Swiss
aides will be appointed by the
Red Cross,
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Elect H. Faigin to Head
Labor Zionist Branch 7
At the annual election meet-
ing of Branch Seven, Labor
Zionist Organization of America,
Henry Faigin was elevated from
vice-president to the organiza-
-tion's presidency.
Elected with Faigin were Tom
Tannis, vice - president; Leah
Kovin, Vera Rollins and Lillian
Rosen, secretaries; and Louis
Rosen, treasurer. Evelyn Novak,
outgoing president, was present-
ed with a Tree Certificate in the
Williams-Hart Forest in recog-
nition of her leadership during
the last two years.
Plans were outlined for the
group's support of the Labor
Zionist Institute, now being con-
structed on Schaefer Hwy. The
group also announces its inten-
tions of conducting a summer
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"Zaydeh" Gets Degree
NEWARK, N. J. (JTA)—Leon
J. Rosenthal, of Orange, N. J.,
got the "third degree" here re-
cently—a Master of Business
Administration from Rutgers
University. It follows an earlier
Bachelor of Arts degree and
Bachelor of Laws degree. But
it's a long time between degrees,
all the same.
Mr. Rosenthal, 62, got the B.A.
from Cornell in 1915, and LI.B.
from Rutgers in 1923. Now the
M.B.A. has come along in 1955.
It also marked still another dis-
tinction. He is the first grand-
father ever to graduate from
the Rutgers business school. In
fact, he missed only three classes
in. his two years at the univer-
sity—when he went to Ft. Bragg,
N. C., to be "introduced" to hits
fourth grandchild.
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