Return Nazi's Deportation Ortlersamr`Never to (Continued from Page 8) Eichmann had unlimited power regarding the problem of the Jews. Chronologically, geographi- cally and biologically, it was Eichmann who determined where, when and who was to be killed." When the defense counsel tried to get Musmanno to concede that various documents, memoirs and judgments had blamed other Nazis for the annihilation of the Jews, the American judge re- plied: "That is undoubtedly true; but the instrumentality was al- ways Eichmann; he determined in what order and from which coun- tries these executions were to be carried out .. . " The fate of the Italian Jews was described on the witness stand earlier by Dr. Chulda Campagniano, now a teacher in the religious settlement of Yav- neh, Israel. She is the daugh- ter of the late Dr. Moses D. Cassuto, professor of Semitic languages at Rome University, later professor of Bible re- search at Hebrew University. Her brother, rabbi of Florence, and her husband and a sister were murdered by the Nazis. Dr. Campagniano described how the situation of Italian Jews trucks were driven across the the Berlin Jewish community, border. In moving 40 other Jews testified how her husband was into Sweden in the same way, the summoned from Yom Kippur underground operatives told the services in 1941 and told by the Jews 'you are potatoes, don't say Gestapo that the Jews of Berlin would be "evacuated." Within a a word'. fortnight, she said, four trans- Mrs. Samuel, describing the ports, each carrying 1,000 Berlin work re ews, left for the Riga and Lodz , said that 8 ttoes, while Nazis ransacked en into Swed • such me abandoned Jewish homes. at Nazi polic She added re than 1,200 Berlin Jews, ess- swooped • n -On Jewish males A description of the an un- one nig and, despite the brave ful effort by the No dreds of efforts f the No egians, 750 derground to save Jews from the Co try's Nazi quarter was surrounded by the Germans, and the deportations were begun. She described in great detail how all classes of the Italian pop- ulation—Catholic and Protestant clergy and laymen — made ex- traordinary efforts to help save Jews. However, 7,500 Italian Jews were deported, and only 6 survived. changed after September, 1943, when the German racist policies went into effect in. Italy. She her- self, with her children, was shel- tered in convents and by Chris- tian families. - After the JeWs of Rome had paid to the Nazis 100 kilograms of gold as ransoni, she testified, an Italian police "commander in- formed her, indirectly, that the Germans would, nevertheless, start deporting the Jews from the ancient Roman Jewish, Quarter. Dr. Campagniano said she warn- ed inhabitants of the Jewish quar- ter of the plan, but they refused to believe her. That night, the occupiers was g n by Mrs. idow of the Henriette Samue rway's 1,700 chief rabbi of d a dramatic Jews. She prese account of how e Norwegian Jews were first arned of im- eizures and pending Gestap then smuggled a ss the bor- der into Sweden temperatures. Rabbi Sainue re- fused to leave his people and was taken to Auschwitz and murdered on Dec. 16, 1942. istant ced docu- andinavian pe- e Nazi murder pro- including • a letter from ichmann to the Nazi Foreign Ministry complaining about Swedish efforts to save Norwe- gian Jews. The letter specified that in cases where Swedish The greying survivor told how, citizenship was granted sudden- one night in November of that ly to Norwegian Jews in an ob- year, she received a telephone vious bid to circumvent anti- call from a neighbor she called Jewish plans of the Nazis, such Inge, a member of the under- citizenship should be disre- gr ound. "It is very cold tonight garded. An earlier directive and I advise you to dress your from Eichmann's office said all children warmly," Inge told her. Norwegian Jews would be sent Mrs. Samuel awakened her chil- to the Auschwitz murder fac- dren and dressed them. An hour tory "never to return." later, Inge came and took Mrs. Mrs. Hildegarde Henschel, wife Samuel and her children, a sis- of Moritz Henschel, last head of ter-in-law and her two children to a nearby house. After a week of hiding, she said the five chil- dren and the two adults were brought at night to two trucks which had licenses to ship pota- toes. The witness said, "We had to act like potatoes under the tar- paulin. The children had been given sleeping tablet. They said farewell to Inge—later identified as Ingeborg Sletten — and the • • • • • • • she said, committed suicide in a year She described how, when she reached the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in June, 1944, she found Jews forced to construct the gas chambers for their own annihilation. She said 18,000 of the camp inmates were trapped through a ruse to volun- teer for "work" and that all were sent to the death factory at Auschwitz. 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