Israel Mourns
Six Million on
Holocaust Day

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jews
of Israel completed a 24-hour
period of mourning April 9, in
memory of the six million Euro-
pean .Jewish men, women and
children slaughtered by the Nazis
during the war.
Tel Aviv, gaily illuminated
usually, was darkened the night
of April 8, and its streets almost
deserted as all places of enter-
tainment closed at 7 p.m. Me-
morial mee tin g s were held
throughout Israel. One major
meeting was held for Yiddish-
speaking Jews, mostly survivors
of the European Nazi-controlled
ghettoes and former partisan
,fighters.
Another state memorial mass
meeting was held with Gideon
Hausner, former attorney general
and prosecutor of Adolf Eichmann,
as principal speaker.
A long-distance participant
was a former Jewish inmate of
the Sobibor death camp, a
former Russian army officer
named Pitzarsky, whose address
was recorded with the aid of
the Soviet Broadcasting Services
and broadcast at the meeting.
Public buildings lowered flags
to half-staff, and memorial candles
were lighted in thousands of
homes where families remembered
their dead. All traffic and work
was halted for two minutes. The
traditional Holocaust Day ended
with an official observance in
Jerusalem.
Among those taking part in the
observance on Remembrance
Mount were President Zalman
Shazar, Prime Minister Levi Esh-
kol, members of the Cabinet, Knes-
set and diplomatic corps and
thousands of Jerusalem residents.
In an address at the gathering,
Premier Eshkol said that "never
again will the shadow of the holo-
caust darken the pages of Jewish
history." He stressed that history
commands the mobilization of all
Jewish resources in the cause of a
new Jewish life symbolized by
Israel.
Sharply rejecting the view
heard recently that the Euro-
pean Jewish communities did
not adequately resist the Nazi
extermination program, the pre-
mier said that the history of the
holocaust also refutes the "evil
charge" that it was easier to
carry out the slaughter because
the Jewish communities were
organized.
Other speakers included Arieh
Kubovy, head of the Yad Vashem
Center for Documentation of the
Holocaust; and Shalom Cholaysky,
a ghetto fighter. In an earlier cere-
mony, in the presence of Deputy
Premier Abba Eban, the corner-
stone was laid for a Heroism
Monument on Mount Remem-
brance.

Belgian Justice Chief Hits
Anti-Semitism in Russia

BRUSSELS (JTA) — Belgian
Justice Minister Pierre Vermeyler
denounced racism in the Soviet
Union at a meeting commemorat-
ing the 21st anniversary of the
Warsaw Ghetto Revolt. The minis-
ter cited as an example the publi-
cation of the anti-Soviet book,
"Judaism Without Embellishment"
published in Kiev last year by the
Ukrainian Academy of Science.
The meeting was organized by
the Belgian Zionist Federation in
cooperation with all other Belgian
Jewish organizations and Jewish
communities. Citing other anti-
Jewish manifestations in Russia,
the justice minister stressed that
the establishment of Israel was
the best refutation of anti-Semi-
tism.

Auschwitz Trial Goes On as Witness Names Defendants, Tells of Horrors

FRANKFURT (JTA) — Detailed
descriptions of "atrocious, sadistic"
Murders committed by several of
the defendants in the current trial
of 22 men who served the Nazis in
the Auschwitz-Birkenau death facto-
ry, were given to the court here.
Most of the defendants, all but
one of whom were officers in the
SS, were identified by witness
Irwin Olsvowka as he entered the
court room. Greeting most of them
by name, he used Franz Hoffinann's
SS title, "Herr Obersturmfuehrer."

Canadians Ask Study

of Religious Education

TORONTO (JTA) — A delega-
tion representing the board of
education of North York called on
Ontario Provincial Minister of Ed-
ucation William Davis, asking for
a re-examination of religious edu-
cation in the province.
The delegation, which included
Saul Cowan of the Canadian Jew-
ish Congress, asked in a memo-
randum that such religious educa-
tion comprise "commonly held be-
liefs which should be taught to our
children." "We feel the emphasis
should be on shared values with
our society and not on differ-
ences," the memorandum declared.
It stressed that "we do not wish
to abolish religion from our pub-
lic schools."
A resolution was adopted
unanimously by the Ontario Fed-
eration of Home and School As-
sociations, asking the Ontario
Department of Education to set
up a committee of teachers, so-
cial workers, psychiatrists psy-
chologists to study the religious
instruction course in public
schools which, the resolution
stated, has "generated strife
and tension in many communi-
ities."
Declaring that "we neither ad-
vocate nor oppose this religious
instruction in our public school
curriculum," the resolution ex-
pressed concern over the "strife
and tension which have been gen-
erated in many communities."
"Obviously this is not the kind
of atmosphere most conducive to
the welfare of our children," the
Federation stated. "What we seek
is a solution capable of alleviating
the strife and at the same time,
achieving the objective of devel-
oping the moral character of the
pupils in our public schools."

237 Arabs, Five Israelis
Come to U.S. as Trainees

WASHINGTON (JTA) — During
1963, a total of 237 Arabs came to
the United States for training
under financing by the American
aid administration, while the num-
ber of Israelis who arrived under
the same programs -totaled five,
according . to figures released by
a subcommittee of the House For-
eign Affairs Committee.

Olsvowka, a Pole, said he had
been at Auschwitz from April
1940 until the camp was aban-
doned by the Nazis, in the face
of the oncoming Russian Army,
in 1945. He implicated not only
Hoffman but also Wilhelm Boger,
Oswald Kaduk and Klaus Dylew-
ski.
He told the court about the death
march, in which the Nazis evacu-
ated the Auschwitz prisoners.
"They murdered with special
sadism," he said. "With my own
eyes, I saw how Boger, who seem-
ed tired, still seemed to get very
real pleasure from killing people.
At the start of the march, there
were 1,000 to 1,500 inmates in my
group. After three days, the num-
ber was far smaller. Prisoners who
stood still a moment, because they
were unable to keep walking, were
shot down at once. There was a
trail of corpses along the entire
road. The SS men had it easy. Most
of the time, they rode in trucks."
The man charged Boger and
Kaduk with "going wild" when
some Polish prisoners, about to die,
showed hatred for the Nazis.
"Boger even mistreated those who
were already, hanging," he declar-
ed. He accused Dylewski of giving
him 25 blows with a bull whip at
one time because he had accepted
some food from newly arrived
prisoners.
Earlier, a Polish journalist, who
was an inmate of the Auschwitz
death camp for five years, implicat-
ed a number of the principal de-
fendants.
Wojciech Bartz, 49, told the
court that he saw Josef Klehr
give a number of lethal -felonic
injections to prisoners, a charge
made against Klehr by previous
witnesses.
Bartz testified there were two
types of prisoners who were chosen
for such disposal. One comprised
the sick and infirm who could no
longer work. The others were mem-
bers of special crematorium squads
who had to transfer bodies from
the gas chambers to the ovens, who
were "periodically killed off and
replaced by new prisoners."
He also accused defendants
Dylewski and Perri Brod of
atrocities and brutalities, but was
unable to give any details on their
activities in the death camp. He
described another of the defen-
dants, Dr. Franz Bernhard Lucas,
a gynecologist who had been a
camp doctor, as "very decent" in
his treatment of prisoners.
He also testified, however, that
Dr. Lucas occasionally substi-
tuted for Dr. Josef Mengele, the
infamous "selection doctor" in
the camp hospital, and in select-
ing prisoners for the gas cham-
bers. Dr. Lucas denied the
charge.

May

DON FROHMAN CHORUS
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