Trials of Nazis Being Conducted I Council, Sinai Acclaimed at JWF Meeting
,Simultaneously in 3 German Cities (Continued from Page 1) Liam Boxerman, Isaac Franck, As a comment upon the con-
doctors then had difficulty get- Oscar Cohen, the late Boris tinuing efforts to create closer
Prior to the suspension Tues ting on hospital staffs, Jews who Joffe, praising the present execu- relationships between the Coun-
COBLENZ—The West German day, David Gaertler, now of Mu graduated from medical col- tive director, Walter Klein.
cil and Federation, Winkelman
Foreign Office was reported here nich, who had been in charge o f leges found it difficult to be
The Council, Winkelman em- said, "we must explore the pos-
placed
food
distribution
in
the
Lod
in hospitals as interns phasized, aims "to preserve sibilities of a fully integrated
Tuesday to have granted visas to
z
eight Soviet citizens to come here ghetto testified. The defendant and there was a demand by ob- and maintain the integrity of community."
to testify against George Heuser are charged with participatim servant Jews for kosher food the Jewish people." He listed
and 11 other former Nazis being in the wartime slaughter of 170, when hospitalized.
the many areas of Council ac-
tried for the murder of some 000 .Jews at the camp in Naz
tivities — support of Cultural
Half a century ago, he said,
35,000 Jews in the Minsk area occupied Poland.
projects, civil rights, Israel's
the small group carried on
during the wartime Nazi occu-
Gaertler testified that at the propaganda for a hospital, but
needs.
pation.
end of 1940 there were 150,000 it lacked funds. Then the Jew-
"Our most productive work is
The Foreign. Office action fol- Jews in the Lodz ghetto. At the ish Welfare Federation "yield- done in cooperation with other
lowed complaints by the Soviet end of 1941, he said, roughly ed to the clamor for a study groups," he said. He pointed to
Foreign Ministry at a press con- 20,000 Jews from Vienna, Ber- of the existing needs," Srere shifts in community relations.
ference in Moscow last month lin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Ham- said, "and the definite need Having begun with defense of
that the Coblenz- prosecutor was burg. and Dusseldorf, 5,000 from Was established."
Jewish rights and having devoted
ignoring evidence which the So- Prague and 8,000 from the Lodz
itself to activities in behalf of
He
recounted the activities for civil rights, the Council's "new
viet Ministry sent to Coblenz in region had been added. All of
them, he said, were shipped to the establishment of the hospital, direction is that of strengthening
the case.
the assumption of 'leadership by the Jewish community, and we
The Soviet government has of- Chelmno and there murdered.
Harry Maas of Luebeck, the first president, Max Osnos are turning our efforts inward,"
ficially supplied evidence in the
and the construction work that he stated.
trial here of Heuser and 11 a f or m e r police captain, proceeded.
other ex-Nazis accused of mur- told the court that he him-
Srere pointed out that initial
dering tens of thousands of self was able to avoid taking
Jews in the Minsk area during part in the killings by pretend- plans called for a 120-bed hos-
World War II. Some of the ing that he lost his eyesight and pital, but that was found to be
evidence, on films, was shown was hospitalized two days after inadequate, and a 230-bed hos-
to the jury here.
he arrived in Chelmno. He de- pital finally was erected at a
As a result, Ego Geis of scribed how calmly women car- cost of $6,000,000. Now, he said,
Frankfurt, one of the defense rying their babies entered the that there are 386 beds in the
attorneys, announced he is gas vans after which he said he hospital a n d the psychiatric
leaving for Moscow this week heard "banging and crying." He clinic, and together with the
to see the original documents said "the small children cried Shiffman Clinic and the Shapero
School for Nurses, Sinai is a
in the hands of Soviet officials. longer than the adults."
The evidence shown the jury
Another witness, Wilhelm $10,000,000 multiple structure.
"We are proud of the high
thus far was contained in a 30- Goerlich of Pforzheim, a for-
minute film sent here from mer accountant at Chelmno, tes- reputation attained by Sinai Hos-
Moscow, showing photographs tified that members of the ex- pital as one of the best in the
of brutal treatment - 'of Jews and termination commando units re- country," Srere said. "It was
picturing original documents ceived an extra 13 to 18 marks made possibtle by a united De-
ordering brutalities, "signed by each day and a bottle of brandy troit Jewish community."
Heuser and Artur Wilke, one every other week.
Dr. Priver, in a review of the
* * *
of his co-defendants in the
professional and administrative
trial.
BONN, (JTA) — Friedrich leadership of Sinai Hospital, paid
The Soviet. Foreign Ministr y Karl Vialon, currently State tribute to the dedicated efforts
held a press conference fo r Secretary of the German Fed- of the medical staff and of the
foreign journalists in Moscow eral Ministry of Economic Co- various committees that are func-
last week, detailing the evi - operation, was reported by the tioning in behalf of the hospital,
dence it has submitted agains t Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei- as well as to the Women's Guild.
Heuser and his co-defendants , tung to be the author of secret Their combined efforts; he said,
complaining that the •prosecu - directives issued in 1942 and are "providing a level of serv-
tion here was ignoring that 1943 concerning the disposition ices that will make you proud
evidence. Some of the Russian of gold, silver, clothing and of our hospital."
evidence showed that, by April other belongings taken by the
Dr. Priver, in paying honor
1943, 130,000 of the 150,000 Nazis from Jews in White
Jews in the Minsk area had Russia, Latvia, Lituania and Es- to the doctors and staffs who
rendered devoted services to
"disappeared" under the Ger- thonia.
the hospital, referred to the
man occupation of which Heus-
The paper's Moscow corres- tireless contributions made by
er was a part. Other evidence pondent reported that the di-
showed statements by German rectives were among the docu- the first 'two chiefs of staff,
army men to the effect that ments, copies of which were Drs. Harry C. Saltzstein and
Jews had been robbed of their sent by the Soviet government Saul Rosenzweig, and the
valuables before being slaugh- to the Coblenz court trying present chief, Dr. Hauser.
Winkelman, reviewing the de-
tered by the group commanded Georg Heuser and 11 other for-
by Heuser.
mer Nazis charged with mur- veloping concept of the Council,
* *
dering tens of thousands of expressed gratitude to the Fed-
leaders who had taken
DORTMUND —Wilhelm Jews in Minsk during the Sec- eration
COMPOUNDED QUARTERLY
a deep interest in its work—the
Gerke, 57, a former Gestapo ond. World War.
Get
the most from your savings
Vialon was recently nomi- late Fred M. Butzel, who was the
inspector in Tilsit, was sen-
a higher than average 4%
Council's
honorary
president;
the
nated
for
the
post
of
State
tenced Wednesday to five
current rate. Come in or save-
years imprisonment at hard Secretary to the Federal Fi- late Simon Shetzer, the 'Coun-
by mail. We pay the postage
labor for complicity in the nance Ministry, - but the post cil's first president; the execu-
both ways.
murder of 1,109 Jews and was given to someone else. The tive vice president of Federa-
other victims in the German Bonn government has so far tion, Isidore Sobeloff, who is to
Lithuanian border region challenged the accuracy of the this day a member of the Coun-
cil's executive committee, and
Current Rate
early in the Nazi occupation Soviet reports.
the late Julian H. Krolik, J. H.
of the Soviet Union.
Ehrlich,
Dr.
Leo
M.
Franklin,
Maurer Resigns
Gerke had been sentenced Dr.
-
Myron Keys, Henry Wineman
here for the crimes to three and as President of Jewish
He mentioned, in appreciation,
a half years imprisonment at
the former presidents, Simon
hard labor in October, 1961, at Community in Austria
Downtown: CADILLAC SQUARE Corner RANDOLPH
Shetzer, James Ellmann, Aaron
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
the same time that Alfred Krum-
Northwest: 13646 WEST 7 MILE Corner TRACEY
to
The
Jewish
News)
Droock,
Dr.
Shmarya
Kleinman,
' Bach, a former Gestapo inspec
VIENNA — Dr Emil Maurer, Sidney Shevitz, Samuel Rhodes
Both offices open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
tor in the Tilsit region, was
and Lawrence Crohn; and the
Northwest office open Thursday Night till 9
tried, convicted and sentenced who survived several years in a former
Downtown Friday till 6
Nazi
concentration
camp
to
re-
executive directors, Wil-
to three years and three months
for complicity in the slaughter turn to Austria to lead the Aus-
Jewish community, re-
of 827 Jews and other victims trian
signed Tuesday as president of
in the Tilsit region.
the Jewish Community of Vienna
The prosecutor appealed both because of ill health. He is 79.
sentences as too lenient and A successor will • be elected on
PRICES UNHEARD IOF
both were set aside by higher Feb. 21.
IOUR 'HISTORY
West German courts. The Dort-
Maurer emigrated to Britain
mund jury. court Tuesday sen- and returned to Vienna after
CURRENT BEST SELLERS
ISRAELI MERCHANDISE
tenced Krurabach to four and the Nazi regime collapsed. He
Trays
a half years imprisonment at was elected vice-president of the
Reg.
$5-$15
NOW
."SEVEN DAYS
hard labor.
Candy Dishes
Jewish Community
f Vi in
i
or enna
$2.50-$10
,
IN
MAY"
*3.50
$4.95
* * *
1948 and served in that post until.
Saccharin Holders
$1.5043:50
"LETTING
BONN—The possibility of 1952 when he was elected presi-
Book Ends
GO"
3.95
$3.50-$10
5.95
dent,
holding
that
position
until
a mistrial developed Wednes-
"A SHADE OF
day in the hearing against 12 his resignation.
DIFFERENCE"
4.95
ALL 50% OFF
6.95
He was honored for his many
former SS guards of the
erVices to Austrian Jewry for
Chelmno extermination camp
when three of the defendants Whom he obtain _ ed improved
I 14K GOLD CHARMS AND
became ill and the proceed- r estitution laws. He is also
known for his devotion to Israel,
ings were suspended.
BRACELETS, $10-$100
OFF
which he visited several times.
Under West German criminal
proceedings if the trial cannot
The Talmud Torah Institute,
be resumed within 10 days the a communal afternoon Hebrew
trial will have to be ended and school, organized in 1897, is
18294 Wyoming i block N. of Curtis
then taken up as a new pro- now the United Hebrew Schools,
UN 3-0543 or UN 3-1557
cedure.
a Federation member agency.
OPEN SATURDAY NIGHT AND ALL DAY SUNDAY
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
_ to The Jewish News)
WE POINT THE WAY TO
ABOVE AVERAGE EARNINGS
plus
10
EXTRA
BONUS DAYS
Every Month
11th ANNIVERSARY SALE
5 0%
SPITZER'S HEBREW BOOK & GIFT CENTER