Italian Jews Ask Data on Nazi Deportations
Detroiters Provide Israel with TV; John 'L. Mayer
During the years since. the
ROME, (JTA)—The Union of
the Union has been exert-
Sets Up Equipment and Screen for Eichmann Films Italian Jewish Communities war,
ing pressure on the Italian
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
JERUSALEM, Israel—Israelis
are seeing television for the
first time thanks to technical
arrangements by Detroiters.
Their screening of the Eich-
mann trial for view by Israeli
audiences may soon lead to the
setting up of permanent TV'
apparatus in Israel.
John L. Mayer, a vice presi-
dent of General Television Net-
work, with offices at 901 Liver-
nois, Ferndale, headed a team
of specialists who set up the
equipment and the large screen
for the televising of the trial
for the thousands who are
streaming daily to the Rattis-
bonne Monastery, a block away
from the courthouse, to watch
the, court actions on screen.
The Israel Government had
given the Capital Broadcasting
Company the executive rights
for total arrangements 10 han-
dle all television, and to have
charge of total coverage of tele-
vision and film distribution
throughout the world. All photo-
graphic services for newspaper
distribution are handled within
the courtroom by government
photographers, and correspond-
ents must purchase their photo-
graphs from the government.
Photographers are not restrict-
ed, however, in taking photos
outside the court room.
General TeleviSion Network
was called in by the Israel Gov-
ernment to provide the screen
and equipment for broadcasting
the proceedings to the public at
large, and John L. Mayer
headed the staff of experts who
set up the unusual-for-Israel
television show. He was assisted
by Richard Colton, another vice
president. of the Detroit tele-
vision firm who has charge of
the New York office. This week,
they will be joined in Jeru-
salem by Stanley Akers, presi-
dent of General Television Net-
work, who will. be accbmpanied
on his Israel visit by his wife,
Phyllis.
"We convinced. the Israel
Government that the only means
for its people to witness the
trial, in which 350,000 Israelis
who are survivors from the
.
JOHN
L. MAYER
Eichmann terror are especially
interested, is by means of tele-
vision," Mayer said. "I am sa
dened that it was the •Eichm
case that brought me to I
but I am confident tha
will hasten the bringing
vision to Israel very soo
Mayer said he disagre
oughly with Israel's Pri
ister David Ben-Gurion
antagoniSm to television pr
vented the earlier introduction
in the Jewish State. "I am con-
fident that Israel -will have TV
very soon as a communications
and education medium," he de,
clared. "The people will demand
it, now that they have tasted it.
Only 20 persons, outside of the
newspaper correspondents and
members of diplomatic corps
are admitted daily into the
courtroom, and the system we
have set up enables hundre
to view the proceedings a
single sitting. There ar 700
Rat-
seats for TV viewers in
scores
tisbonne Monastery, a
to be
are in the waiting 11
admitted as soon as s e leave.
From all over Israel p ple now
are traveling to. -Je alem to
• set
see the screenings we
up for them. Now TV wi
come a necessity as an educa-
tion medium, as an aid to the
armed forces and later as en-
tertainment."--- -
Mayer-- explained that Israel
is completely cut' off from - the
entire world by a lack of wire
service. "Israel," he said, "pos-
sesses only radio and electronics
as means' for communication.
-It has no wire circuits entering
the state and it must depend
upon radio connections. Tele-
vision will go a long way in
solving and augmenting its com-
munications system."
Except for those who have
been to the United States and
other countries where there is
television, those now witness-
ing -it at the Rattisbonne are
seeing TV for the first time.
"It means that 95 per cent of
those viewing TV here now are
seeing ft for the first time,"
Mayer said.
Mayer e
rovisio
securit
of th
to prevent any harm be-
se
done to Eichmann, he is
orking with the rt-
ment. "F
poses, I
policem
ready
e
as wel
with
e, which
munications,
mg of TV equip-
y associates in the Gen-
eral Television Network are
hopeful that we will be called
in by the Israel Government to
continue to be its consultants
in organizing the inevitable Is-
raeli TV system."
Mayer,, who is 34, resides
with his wife and two sons,
Robert, 7 years old, and David
18 months oh at 16811 Pine-
hurs e, the
•r Barbara Fried
is
niece of Corporation Co
Nathaniel H. Goldstick,
is
moth , • ld
er
olik, of
1943 P eht
of De-
trot s
a ng
ders in
th co
social services:
layer studied at Roosev
and .Durfee Schools,
al
High School, Wayn•
e Uni-
versity in
°liege.' He
er of the late Dr.
eo M. Franklin's last confir-
mation class at Temple Beth El.
His late step-father, Julian H.
-was a member of Dr.
Franklin's first confirmation,.
issued an urgent memorandum
to each constituent Jewish com-
munity in Italy, requesting
statistical data on Italian Jews
Who were deported by the Nazis
during the Second World War
and details concerning the heirs
of such Jews.
The information is required
in order to establish the neces-
sary sums for individual com-
pensation by West Germany, if
and when the Bonn government
decides to grant compensation
to Italian Jews. West Germany
has concluded Compensatiort
agreements with most other
West European countries.
.
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government to negotiate an
agreement with West Germany
providing for individual com-
pensation for the Italian Jewish
survivors of Nazi concentration
camps or their heirs. The Na-
tional Association of Former
Political Deportees has also
been urging the government to
-act to facilitate compensation
payments.
Negotiations for a compensa-
tion agreement have already
been initiated by a special dele-
gation representing the Italian
Foreign Ministry and TreasurY
which was sent to Bonn for
this purpose.
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Eichmann Trial Unfolds Statistics
of Murder, Horror of Children,
Death Race, Torture, Experiments
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM,— Describing the
horrible treatment in the Nazi
camps and ghettoes in Poland
during his opening statement in
the Eichmann trial, Attorney Gen-
eral Hausner said that the only
place in Maidenek where childr
were treated kindly was
amber;
entrance to the gas
d a sheet
where each child rec
nd burned:
before being gass
Maidenek a
He said that
weekly race wa ld in
any inmate par pant
a wooden- shoe stumb
shot on the spot
Summing up _
murder, the prose
at least 200,000 Jews
dered in Maidenek, 750,0
Treblinka, 340,000 in Helmo and
250,000 in Sobibor.
As an example of the brutali-
ties practiced in Sobibor; the
prosecutor cited the practice of
dragging to a lavatory persons
who begged for water and wiping
their faces with excrement.
Another was the practice of
setting dogs against prisoners
who were torn into bits.
In Sobibor, too, the prosecutor
said the practice was followed by
clipping the hair of the doomed
Jews before they were gassed and
extracting their gold teeth before
they were cremated.
He told the court that the
Auschwitz death factory accounted
for 2,500,000 victims who were
annihilated in addition to the
500,000 who died of sickness and
•
starvation. He said this data was
based on statements of Rudolf
Hoess, the - Auschwitz comman-
dant who was hanged by the
Allies after judgment at Nurem-
berg.
The prosecutor
declared that
. .
usc.hwitz to
rder inmates to se reassuring
postcards to relatives, the senders
usually having -bee d before
the postcards arrived.
schwit
2,000
tims
ery
Mutes
, the
er bath
of
s, th e prosecu
said,
ding that at Ausc
grisly
ea-cal experime
e carried
out on inm
ncluding the
remov
male organs and
ction of chemicals to
"test resistance" of the victims.
Sometimes the victims were ex-
ploited in forced labor in mines
and forests before being mur-
dered.
8 British Anti-Seinites
Fined for Demonstration
LONDON, (JTA) —Eight
members of the . semi-Fascist
British National Party were
each fined 15 pounds ($42) for
carrying anti-Jewish posters
outside the Princess Theater,
during a Warsaw Ghetto memo-
rial meeting.
The magistrate told the de-
fendants that they had risked
a fine of 50 pounds ($140) or
three months imprisonment for
their behavior.
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