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Hold Austria Stalls Jewish Claims; Bonn Not to Meet Restitution Target
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
Problems of indemnification
and restitution by the West Ger-
man and Austrian governments to
Jewish victims of Nazism have
come to the fore as a result of
accusations by Jewish leaders in
Vienna, and the holding of dis-
cussions with Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer of West Germany by
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president
of the Conference of Jewish
Material Claims Against Ger-
many.
Charges that the Austrian
government is not only procras-
tinating about the promised en-
actment of legislation to com-
pensate Jewish victims of
Nazis m, but is even being
pushed to consider the "re-
Aryanization" of Jewish proper-
ty in Austria, were voiced by
leaders of the Vienna Jewish
community.
An appeal to the Big Four
Powers—United States, Britain,
France and the Soviet Union—
to force Austria to live up at
least to the limited promises of
compensation made under the
State Treaty of 1955 is being
considered here by Jewish
leaders. The State Treaty was a
pact between Austria and the
.
Big Four. According to A. M.
Ehrlich, president of the Jewish
Business Men's Association of
Vienna, the appeal will be made
to the Big Four, unless action is
taken on a restitution bill long
pending in parliament.
- Under the 1955 State Treaty,
Austria is obliged to pay within
a short time for the loss of cer-
tain types of Jewish property
here under the Nazi regime. A
large part of the property of the
200,000 Jews killed by the Nazis
was left heirless, since only
15,000 Jewish survivors now
live in Austria. Both parties of
the Austrian coalition govern-
ment—the People's Party and
the Socialist Party—announced
a long time ago that they favor
legislation, authorizing some
payments to Jews who lost
property during the Nazi regime.
Jewish spokesmen -pointed out
that, in the budget for 1961, the
Jewish restitution and indemni-
fication items are not mentioned
at all. The budget contains an
allocation of only about $1,250-
000 for items connected with
Jewish affairs. But this small
sum is related to a payment of
$1,150,000 for the loss of syna-
gogues during the Nazi depre-
Prof. Cross to Deliver 3 Zwerdling
Lectures"in Ann Arbor, Nov. 28
,
Prof. Frank Moore Cross,
Jr., of Harvard University,
eminent authority on the Dead
Sea Scrolls, will give the 1960
Zwerdling Lectures in Old
Testament Studies, Nov. 28 and
29, at the University of Mich-
igan, under the auspices of the
Department of Near Eastern
Studies. -
Dr. Cross, chairman of the
Semitics Department of the
Graduate School at Harvard,
has taught or lectured at Johns
Hopkins, Wellesley, Oberlin,
McCormick Theological Semi-
nary and the American School
of Oriental Research in Jeru-
salem. •
The lectureship was estab-
lished by the sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Osias Zwerdling on the
50th wedding anniversary of
their parents. It brings annually
to the campus at the University
of Michigan and to the Bnai
Brith Hillel Foundation and
Beth Israel Community Cen-
ter, a foremost Biblical scholar.
Previous lecturers in the series
were Profs. George E. Wright,
Ephraim A. Speiser and Wil-
liam F. Albright.
Dr. Cross will s k on
"Essene Origins" Mo y after-
noon, and on "The rolls and
the Old Testamen on. Tues-
day afternoon.
These lectures
be given
at 4:15 p.m. in A toriurn A
of Angell Hall. On onday, at
8:15 p.m., Dr. Cross
1. appear
before a joint audien
• f th
Center and Hillel, speak'
on
"Essene. Messiahs and Hillel."
The three lectures in this
series are open to the public.
dations, and $100,000 to the
Jewish community's annual
operating budget. There is noth-
ing in the budget for restitution
in general, or for monies to
meet the obligation imposed on
the Government by the 1955
State Treaty.
The Jewish leaders maintain
that the government proceeds
from heirless Jewish property
have already exceeded $4,000,-
000 in cash, and that additio
income from this property
pouring in daily to the e.
They point out that the J ish
indemnification claims ould
easily be met from then nds.
At the same time, how r, in-
fluential groups of " yans,"
who formerly acquired e now
unclaimed Jewish prop y, are
intensifying their pres e for
the "re-Aryanization" o
property, contending that they
paid "honest" prices for it when
they purchased it under the
Nazi regime.
Jewish leaders are particu-
lary resentful at the attitude of
government leaders who keep
claiming that anti-Semitic atro-
cities here were committed by
German Nazis only. They insist
there is ample evidence to
prove that Austrian Nazis had
willingly . . the
N •
ains
he are waiting for
die off," said Mr. Ehrlich, w
is 84 years old. "But they ar
not going to still our voices. Th
Aust an Gov- ent is
ing
any
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pe
o t e r t po
, in B
, Gold-
n held confer
es on simi-
• oth the Chan-
1 matters w .
cellor an•
resentatives of the
man Finance Ministry
West
oreign Office.
The talks coincided with the
issuance of a report by the West
German Ministry of Finance, in-
dicating that the -Bonn govern-
anent does not expect to be able
to meet its restitution obliga-
tions by the time of the legal
target date, December 31, 1962,
because there are several hun-
dred thousand claims still pend-
ing.
The repo
t
ro-
ndemnification
s
gress
bee.
mpered, not by ill wi
0
ederal and state officials,
t rather by legal, technical
and administrative
as well a the volum
sing. Th re
charge to
the de
stantly
hing the • ber
of cl
s, and that
Treas-
ury
postpon
of pro-
cessing is sa •
arge sums, is
unfound
port concludes that the
res prove that the federal
republic is not only demonstrat-
ing "good will" but in practice
"could claim to be prepared to
solve this most serious prob-
lem of doing away with the con-
sequences of the Nazi regime of
violence in a most determined
manner."
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