Wins Highest
Literary Award
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PARIS, (JTA)—A 31-year-old
Jewish metal-worker, Andre
Schwarz-Bardt, was named as
winner of the Prix Goncourt,
France's outstanding literary
award, for his novel, "Les Der-
niers des Justes," ("The Last of
the Just") which deals with the
plight of the Jewish mother
through the ages. The book has
enjoyed unparalleled popular
and critical success here.
Schwarz-Bardt was born in
Metz of Polish-Jewish parents
who had migrated to France in
1924. His father was a peddler.
The young writer lost both his
parents and most of his family
during the Hitler persecutions.
The Prix Goncourt is tradi-
tionally awarded on the first
Monday in December but the
selection committee advanced
the date this year because of
reports that the judges of the
Prix Femina, a major award,
had also selected the young.
Jewish writer to receive that
award.
The Schwarz-Bardt book has
been the target of criticism and
plagiarism because it has a
number of citations and quota-
tions, including lines from Men-
dele Mach er Sforim, without
attribution.
Hagen David Rewards Bravery
Anti-Jewish Slogans Painted on Zionist -
Headquarters, Newspaper in Vienna
VIENNA, (JTA) — Young! vandals destroyed the sign on
Nazis were held responsible for the front of the building bear-
acts of vandalism committed at ing the names of the organiza-
the headquarters of the Austri- tion and paper and painted
swastikas and anti-Jewish slo-
an Zionist Organization and its gans over the walls of the edi-
newspaper, "Die Stimme." The fice.
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Must Remember Nazi
Victims, Parley Told
r-
o--
TURIN, (JTA) — Sen. Piero
' Caleffi, president of the Asso-
ciation of Italian Political Con-
centration Camp Inmates, warn-
ed the second national congress
of the organization here that
"if we wish to remain free
human beings, we must not
forget the 12,000,000 exter-
minated people" of the Nazi
regime.
He said that 40,000 Italians
had been deported to Germany
for racial or political reasons,
of whom only 3,000 had re-
turned. Many of those who re-
turned, he said, later suc-
cumbed to the effects of tor-
ture and hunger.
Among the - chief problems
facing the survivors of Nazi
brutality, he declared, were
medical, social and financial
assistance and the obtaining of
state pensions for the victims
and their families.
Delegates to the congress, in-
cluding representatives of the
Union of Italian Jewish Com-
munities, made a pilgrimage to
the memorial to the Unknown
Deportee and to the monument
to the Jewish martyrs. An ex-
hibition was opened in con-
junction with the congress
highlighting the martyrdom of
the victims of Nazism. It was
composed of hundreds of photo-
graphs and objects such as
lampshades made of human
skin.
$6,000,000 Distributed
by Claims Conference
in Reparations Funds
GENEVA, (JTA) — Nearly
$6,000,000 in West German
reparations funds have been dis
tributed by the Jewish Material
Claims Conference Against Ger-
many during the past six years,
gaul Kagan, secretary of the
Claims Conference, reported at
the 14th annual session of the
overseas directors of the Joirit
Distribution Committee.
He said that $5,993,800 had
been distributed to aid victims
of Nazi persecution. He ap-
pealed to the leaders of the
European Jewish communities
to intensify their efforts to be-
come self-supporting in prepa-
ration for the time, five years
from now, when compensation
from West Germany will end.
Claims Conference money for
Nazi victims in the 25 countries
where the JDC operates is ad-
ministered by this organization
and becomes part of a common
fund known as JDC-Claims Con-
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