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Cloak-Dagiger Episode in Egyptian-German
I Genocide Projects Aimed Against Israel
(Continued from Page 1)
and Pilz, make him return from rest a well guarded secret.
The "Basle affair" started Egypt. Should he refuse, let him No one was informed of it:
mysteriously enough. On Feb, know that not only he, but you neither the two men's fami-
• •
20, late at night, three men and your entire family are in lies, nor the press and not
I opened fire on a German scien- danger."
even the Israeli Embassy in
(Copyright, 1963.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Bern.
I tist, Prof. Hans Kleinwaechter,
Heidi, the main witness that
as
he
was
driving
to
his
home
in
Only on March 15, did the
these
words
have
actually
Passover Present
Ask a Jewish scholar about the Sarajevo Haggadah, and he Loerrach, Germany, some three been spoken, has since left for Federal Council spokesman re-
will tell you that this is a priceless specimen of Jewish book miles from the Swiss border and Egypt together with her en- lease a brief communique which
tire family. The German au- announced their detention and
illumination of the 14th Century and one of the finest—if not from the city of Basle itself.
For some time already, a num- thorities have made no dif- said that the case had been
the finest—Haggadah in the world . . . Ask a non-Jewish lover
of art about the Sarajevo Haggadah, and he will tell you that ber of German physicists have ficulty in preventing the de- ties of the Basle Canton, where
it is one of the treasures of medieval culture . . . For many years seemed to vanish into thin air. parture Out of the country of the "coercion had been attempt-
various art publications have been reproducing illustrations First, noted missle expert Eu- the person who has provoked ed."
from this illuminated manuscript as .examples of book art, but gene Saenger disappeared from the entire affair.
Little is yet known about
never has this famous Haggadah been reproduced in its entirety his Munich home. Saenger, who
That Saturday afternoon she them: Josef Ben-Gal came to
. . An exquisite edition of the Sarajevo Haggadah, with com- had worked on the Nazi V-1 and still pretended 1 to be the good Switzerland on an official Israel
plete text and colorful illustrations, has now been pUblished for V-2 rockets, had after the war "little fraulein" that she has "service" passport, is 33 years
the first time by Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. . . It took formed a team of missle experts remained in the eyes of the old, an official of the Israeli
the publishers three years to prepare the engravings which con- who worked on Egyptian mili- German police. Accompanied by Ministry of Culture and Educa-
vey with remarkable fidelity the charm of the original illumina- tary projects.
German plainclothes men, she tion, married, and speaks fluent-
tions . . . This magnificent Haggadah, which has become part of
A few months later another crossed the border and returned 1Y English and German. Jukelik
is an Austrian citizen, well
the history of art, is more than 600 years old and is in possession German, Prof. Heinz Krug, also to her home in Freiburg.
of the Yugoslav National Museum in Sarajevo . It's reputation disappeared from his Munich
Ben-Gal and Jukelik behaved known as a scientist and radi-
as an art treasure is so great that when the Nazis occupied office. A man who gave his calmly and unconcerned: they ology expert. For a time he
Sarajevo in 1941, one of their first actions was to send an name as Ibrahim Saieh, picked boarded the evening "schellzuk" worked for the Egyptians until
officer to the National Museum to seize it . . . However, the him up in a black Mercedes to Zurich quietly reading their "his conscience prevented him
director of the museum succeeded in hiding it in a remote limousine and, since then, neith- newspapers on the way. Aboard from going on with this work."
er of.them was to be seen again. the train over a dozen Swiss de- He seems to know personally
village until the war was over.
Six days after this disappear- tectives were watching them most of the members of the
Communal Currents
ance, on Sept. 17, 1962, yet an- and, in Zurich, another police "Saenger team" of German
scientists in Nasser's employ.
The number of annual contributors to the campaigns of the other German expert was to van- I squad took over the trail.
JewiSh Federations and Welfare Funds can be estimated con- ish: Dr. Wolfgang Pilz who had I Unaware of the large police
servatively at more than 1,000,000, in the opinion of S. P. Gold- worked on the two rockets forces deployed around them, Hebrew Corner
berg, director of budget research of the Council of Jewish Fed- which the Egyptians success- which included three radio cars,
erations and Welfare Funds . . . A sample of reports from cities fully launched last summer. the two men walked to the
with a Jewish population of 2,300,000 Jisted 500,000 individual Both Krug and Pilz had been Zurich "Kongreshaus," a large
gifts to the federated campaigns . . . This excluded many tens members of the "Saenger team" casino which also contains the
of thousands of individuals covered by organization gifts, trade and had also served as fronts for famous "Tonhalle," • noted for
union gifts, synagogue appeals, landsmanshaften gifts, donations Egyptian orders for military its concerts. That Saturday
Over 300 delegates from 16 coun-
through Yiddish newspapers, and the like . . . Since the sampled I equipment bought in Germany , night, however, staid Zurich was tries that represented all the large
world Jewish organizations and so-
cities represent about 40 percent of the Jewish population in the Switzerland and Italy.
I on a romp; the yearly carnival cieties of Jewish communities in the
Diaspora, and representatives of
United States, the number of givers may even exceed 1,000,000
The whereabouts of all organized by the local Artists Jewish
youth organizations and Jew-
. . In 1961, Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds raised these men has since become Association- was in full swing. ish women's
organizations, took part
$125.600,000, but preliminary data for 1962 indicate an increase known: they are all, with Masked and fancy dressed peo- in the Third World Hebrew Con-
gress
in
Jerusalem,
a few months
of about five percent and may approximate $130,000,000 . . . This Saenger's exception, in Egypt; ple danced and sang throughout ago, sponsored by the
Brith Ivrith
is the average annual level since 1956,. indicating a relative their "mysterious" disappear- the building while the two sip- Olamith.
The Prime Minister, Mr. David
stability . . . These campaigns do not include the raising of ance seems only to have been ped their drinks in one of the
Gurion, spoke at. the opening
capital funds, or endownment drives, conducted by Federations a trick to hide their volun- building's bars. Swiss detectives Ben
session.
alone or together with local Jewish agencies for local hospitals, tary departure to Cairo. were more than ever on the
Mr. Zalman Shazar, President of
Brith Ivrith Olamith, read a tele-
homes for the aged, Jewish centers and .other institutions . .
lookout, fearing that under the gram with a blessing from the Chief
The
German
police,
and
es-
The per capita gift to federated campaigns is about $30 in the
guise of an anonymous mask Rabbi of Moscow. The telegram was
average, but in cities having effective campaigns, the average pecially Freiburg - im - Briesgau someone may try to slip them written in Hebrew, with Latin let-
ters.
District
Attorney
Fritz
Scharpp,
per capita giving is higher . . . Detroit, for instance,- has a per
The main subject of the Congress
a message or help their escape.
was finding means for promulgating
capita giving of $52, Cleveland's per capita is $69, Baltimore and chose to ignore this simple ex-
After
less
than
an
hour
they
the Hebrew language and culture
planation.
They
were
all
eager
Cincinnati have each a per capita of $42, Milwaukee and Minne-
aiming Jews in the Dispersion, the
apolis—$50 each . . . In Detroit, more than 20 percent of the to believe a 23-year-old German left the building and separated: problem of the Hebrew book in the
Ben-Gal
walked
along
the
"Li-
girl,
Heidi
Goerke,
when
she
Diaspora,
the position of the He-
givers each contribute $100 or more; in Boston such givers
brew language and culture among
constitute 17 percent, and in Cleveland they are 22 per cent claimed last February that "two matquai" which runs along the Jewish youth movements and
organizations. Delegates to
of the total number of contributors . . All in all. about 20 Israeli agents" were threatening Zurich main river and was ar- women's
the Congress were also invited to
percent of all givers provide close to 90 percent of the funds her and her family. Young rested by plainclothes men when the home of the President of • the
Heidi's f a ther, Prof. Paul he was less than a dozen yards State.
raised.
At the session that was devoted to
Goerke, is one of the German away from the Israeli Consu- problems
of the Hebrew language
missle experts building rockets late on t h e Stampfenbach- in Russia, the Congress called upon
the
Soviet
Government to stop the
strasse.
Jukelik
had
walked
to-
for Nasser.
policy of curtailment against the
His daughter asserted that an ward the center of the city Hebrew language and culture.
The Congress paid tribute to the
Austrian radiology professor, where he was arrested and tak- Jewish
writers who were put to
en
to
a
separate
police
station.
death
in Soviet Russia ten years ago.
Otto Frantz Jukelik, had con-
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
Translation of Hebrew column,
Herbert A. Gray, a Jew run- tacted her a number of times
For
13
days
the
Swiss
Fed-
to The Jewish News)
published by Brith Ivrith Olamith,
TORONTO— This week's ning on the Liberal ticket in so as to influence her to meet eral authorities kept the ar- Jerusalem.
Essex
West
at
Windsor,
Ontario,
"another Israeli agent" on Swiss
Canadian general elections for
which tabulations were complet- was re-elected. So was Milton territory in Basle. Both men
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ed Wednesday left the number Klein in Montreal Cartier who had allegedly told her that if
succeeded
to
the
seat
previously
she had "the safety of her
of Jews in the House of Com-
mons unchanged with four Jews held by Lein Crestohl. In Win- father at heart" she would meet
North, David Arlikon was them and convince Goerke to
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One Jew, David Lewis of the re-elected on the New Demo- leave Egypt and stop his work
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Two Jewish mayors, both Lib- Scharpp later told a press con-
was defeated on the New Demo-
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erals,
failed
in
their
bids
for
re-
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ference: "The two men warned
cratic Party's ticket, but was re-
placed by another Jew, Marvin election. They are Saul Lashkin her that, should she apply to
trn-
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trnanxn
of Port Arthur, Ontario, and the police, she would be kill-
Gelber, a Liberal.
The Social Credit Party, Sidney Buckworld, Sasakatoon, ed."
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Heidi, however, did contact
which has been charged with Sask.
tolerating anti-Semitic spokes-
Gelber, who defeated Lewis the German police and also
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men among some of its leaders in York South, is well known in agreed to meet the two men in
and candidates, lost six seats Jewish communal and Zionist Basle. The Freiburg police in-
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nationally, going down from 30 circles, having held office in formed the Basle authorities that
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in the previous parliament to 24 the Zionist Organization of his Heidi was to meet "two danger-
ous men on Swiss territory" and
elected in Monday's balloting. district as well as nationally.
b,
asked that all measures for her
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protection and for the "appre-
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On the afternoon of Saturday,
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Hebrew Congress
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to Canadian National Parliament
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