Friday, February 28, 19 64—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-24
Judge Overcome by Horrors Danny Raskin's
Related at Auschwitz Trial
LISTENING
FRANKFURT (JTA) — The
horrors suffered by inmates at
the Auschwitz death camp were
described in such gruesome de-
tail that a judge at the war
crimes trial nearly collapsed.
The trial—in its third month—
was suspended after only 90
minutes of the witness's testi-
mony.
The witness. Dr., Otto Wol-
ken, was the first Jewish sur-
vivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau to
testify at the trial here of the
22 death factory guards and
medical personnel.
Before the trial is over, 200
witnesses, most of them Jew-
ish, some from Israel and the
United States, are expected to
take the stand.
Dr. Wolken, 60, of Vienna,
had been an inmate at the
Birkenau camp, whence Jews
and others were fed into the
gas ovens. He told the court
he had kept written records
of his Birkenau experiences,
burying his documents and
recovering his papers after
the war.
of his group who are under de-
tention. He had been re-arrested
in court on new charges of
murder. Until now, he had been
free on $12,500 bail on charges
of "complicity in murder." The
new charges allege that he had,
personally, shot three Ausch-
witz prisoners with his pistol.
Meanwhile, in Bonn, Wil-
liam Doering, 46, a former
SS officer, was found guilty
a second time on charges of
having taken part in mass
murders of Jews in Russia
during the war and was sen-
tenced to four years in prison.
The former chief of the
criminal police in Sieburg, near
Bonn, was originally sentenced
to six years' imprisonment by
a Bonn court in November,
1962.
He was then convicted on
charges of aiding and abetting
the murder of 669 Russian
Jews and 16 mentally retarded
children during the 1941-42
period as an SS lieutenant in
charge of an extermination
squad. He received his second
The Jewish physician told the trial on an appeal.
At Limburg, three prom-
court that, very often, the mem-
bers of the Gestapo in charge inent physicians still practic-
of the camp "could not sleep ing in West Germany were ac-
until they had beaten a few cused by a former Nazi of-
victims to death."
ficial as the men who actually
Conditions varied in accor- decided which victims would
dance with the "mood" of the die.
guards and with the ebb and
The official, Dr. Hans Hefel-
flow of the success or failure mann. is being tried on a charge
of the Nazi armies on the vari- of directing Adolf Hitler's mass
ous war fronts," he said. 'They "mercy killing" program.
acted like animals in the Stone
He said midwives flooded him
Age," he testified, like animals
with names of handicapped chil-
who had tasted blood."
dren and adults. They got a 50-
As a doctor, he said, he had cent "reward" for each name.
to make out formal reports
Hefelmann, who claimed he
about deaths. But he had been had "only limited decision-
given orders. A victim who making powers," said the
starved to death had to be list- three physicians — now prac-
ed as having died of a heart at- ticing in Kiel, Wunstorf and
tack. Persons shot by the Nazis Hannoversch-Muenden--chose
had to be listed as having been the victims from forms sent to
killed 'while trying to escape." his office in the Chancellory
Into a space designed for
by doctors and midwives
300 persons, he testified, the
across Germany.
Nazis squeezed 1,200 victims.
The three doctors will be in-
"There was no water," he
said, "no food, nothing to eat vestigated immediately, accord-
—and, for the sick, no medi- ing to Judge Karl Dick of Hann-
cine." At one time, he said, over.
"We had so many reports,"
he had one aspirin tablet.
Prisoners with a temperature Hefelmann said, "we had to
of 100 degrees were allowed throw out the majority from
to lick the tablet once; those the start — cases not suited for
with higher temperatures mercy death." He defined such
were given "two licks."
cases as harelips, cleft palates
As Dr. Wolken went on to and even a "deformed little
describe the - horrors of the finger."
camp, speaking in a low, calm,
The more legitimate cases
matter-of-fact voice, one of .the were referred to the three doc-
nine judges, Werner Hum- tors for decision, he said.
merich, clutched at his heart Doctors volunteered to "put the
and seemed about to collapse. babies to sleep," he said. "No
Presiding Justice Hans Hof mey- one forced them." He said that
er suspended the trial, saying one or two hospitals in every
that Judge Hummerich "was province of Nazi Germany had
just overcome by what we have special children's wards where
been hearing."
babies were examined and
One of the 22 defendants, where the "mercy killings" were
Robert Mulka, sat among those carried out.
By Popular Demand
KOSHER CATERING
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PASSOVER SEDORIM
Friday Eve., March 27—
Saturday Eve., March 28
CANTOR SHABTAI ACKERMAN
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Under supervision Council of Orthodox Rabbis
TIME WAS when the annual
Purim masquerade ball by
Knights of Pythias, Detroit
Lodge 55 was THE big doings
of the year in the community
. . . It's been revived again this
year for March 8, at Pythian
Castle Hall, 15787 Wyoming.
PERCY SWARTZ had a two-
fold reason to celebrate rec-
ently and his long cautiously
waxed Mustache bristled with
much glee . . . He was elected
to the board of governors of
the Crescent Shrine Club and
received a glittering fez from
Potentate Al Acey marking
Percy as official photographer
for Moslem Shrine.
WITH SARAH MARKS and
her cute crew "manning" the
snack bar, aromas of home-
baked pastries and other nosh-
ery will tickle the nostrils when
Tikvah Chapter Bnai Brith Wo-
men launch their second annual
Las Vegas Night party, March
15, at Piemontese Hall on Puri-
tan . . . Estelle Harris and June
Weisberg will take the helm
for an evening of entertain-
ment accompanied by the gents
of Tikvah Lodge . . . Irene Ber-
ger is president of Tikvah
Chapter . . . Tickets will be
available at the door, or call
Rhoda Brickner, UN 2-4427.
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SEATS ARE FILLING up for
the Passover Sedorim, March
27 and 28, by Bill Kozin and
Larry Horowitz, Imperial Kosh-
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reservation only, with Cantor
Shabtai Ackerman conducting
services and chanting for the
festivities.
Toronto Synagogues, Jewish Organizations,
Receive More Anti-Semitic Literature
TORONTO, (JTA)—Scores of
Toronto synagogues, Jewish or-
ganizations and Jewish individ-
uals reported a renewal of hate
literature mailing.
They said they had reecived
letters urging them to join the
National White Americans
Party literature demanding "the
arrest of all Jews involved in
Communist or Zionist plots,
public trials and executions."
The party was listed as
having headquarters in At-
lanta, Ga. In addition to the
invitation to join, the en-
velopes contained a member-
ship card and a multilangu-
age anti-Jewish leaflet pro-
duced by Einar Aberg of
Sweden, a known anti-Semite.
The letters were mailed local-
ly from a Toronto suburb post
office box and ironically con-
tained a post office imprint
"Brotherhood Week, Believe It,
Live It, Support It."
In addition to the program
for arrest and execution of
Jews in "Communist and Zino-
ist" plots," the letter advocated
immediate sterilization of "all
other Jews." The box number
was known to be used by David
A. Stanley, 19, a former high
school student who was involv-
ed last September in the race
riots in Birmingham and who
has since been distributing neo-
N azi leaflets in Toronto.
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Ottawa Receives Bill
on Curb of Hate Mail
OTTAWA, (JTA)—David Or-
likow, member of Parliament,
introduced a bill to give the
postmaster-general the power to
stop mail service to such or-
ganizations as the National
White Americans party which
has announced it intends to dis-
tribute 1 million anti-Jewish
leaflets this year in a member-
ship campaign.
The Winnipeg Jewish MP
submitted the bill to House of
Commons officials after the
justice ministry said that the
attorney general of Canada and
HEY BOBBY Rosenberg! . .
Remember back in 1953 when
you locked the doors of your
convertible . . . but forgot. to
raise the top?
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BEST BET of weekend . . .
Infants Service Group's "Cher-
ub Ball" dinner-dance and
show, Sunday evening at Latin-
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Larry Best and songstress com-
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MARLIN REISS, five-year-old
son of Lila and Joe Reiss, was
watching his mother change a
neighbor's baby . . . When she
overlooked sprinkling the tot's
backside with talcum powder
and hurried him into his diaper,
young Marlin retorted quickly,
"Hey mom, you forgot to salt
him!"
IF YOU KNOW of needy
underprivileged children or
families who must have help,
contact Knights of Pythias, De-
troit Lodge 55 . . . This is one
of its main functions . . . to
help the needy and distressed.
TORONTO, (JTA) — Saul
Hayes, executive vice-president
of the Canadian Jewish Con-
gress has sent a wire to Guy
Favreau, newly named minister
of justice for Canada, urging
that he consider the recently
broadcast distribution of anti-
semitic material inciting to
genocide—it advocated steriliza-
tion of Jews—as material which
should be subject to a legal ban
because of its incitement to
violence.
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leading justice department of-
ficials had found no way to
stamp out hate literature with-
out simultaneously curtailing
freedom of expression.
The postmaster-general had
previously said that the post of-
fice could not censor the mails
though he personally consider-
ed the White Americans party
literature "disturbing and
shocking."
The Jewish Labor Committee
of the Toronto Labor Council
announced plans to fight the
"fascist" elements in Toronto
who are flooding the city with
hate material.
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