Sen. Humphrey Presses U.S. Horrors Related by Survivor
to Protest Against Moscow- in Testimony for Author Uris
AfiCongress Closes Convention

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to The Jewish News)

MIAMI BEACH (JTA) — T h e
American Jewish Congress ended
its national biennial convention
here following an address by Sen.
Hubert H. Humphrey urging that
the United States use official chan-
nels to protest what he termed "the
rising tide of anti-Semitism" in the
Soviet Union.
Sen. Humphrey said the welfare
of 3 million Jews in the USSR was
a proper subject of official U.S.
protest "at every conference and
in every negotiation." The U.S., he
said, has "never felt that our prin-
ciple of nonintervention in the
affairs of other states has limited
our obligation to make protests on
behalf of our moral duty to hu-
manity."
The convention adopted a resolu-
tion calling on the Soviet Union to
end official anti-Semitism and grant
the 3 million Jews of the USSR
full equality with other religious
and national groups in the country.
In other resolutions, the AJC:
1. criticized West Germany for
failing to take "effective steps"
to halt participation of German
nationals in the Arab arms build-

Hebrew Corner

Beisan

Beisan is situated south of the lake
of Galilee. 5,000 years passed since the
city was first built, still it was always
inhabited.
In the excavations of Beisan Egyp-
tian temples and monuments were un-
covered from which we can learn about
the religion and culture of ancient
Egypt. There are no remnants of the
Israeli period of 400 years — beginning
with the capture of the city by David.
During the Roman period Beisan was
developed. The excavations prove a high
Roman culture, a theater and beautiful
buildings.
After the Fifth Century Beisan was
inhabited by Christians. Many remains
of the Christian period were uncovered.
After the city was captured by the
Arabs, Beisan was for hundreds of years
only a small town. The Jewish inhabi-
tants were only a few, they were in
business and were artisans.
A new page in the history of the
place was opened with the beginning
of the resettlement of the country when
Jewish villages were built in the Beisan
Valley that surrounded the city. During
the war of Liberation Beisan surrend-
ered and many of the inhabitants left
the city.
About a year after the independence
of Israel, Beisan was resettled by immi-
grants. The Beisan of today proves that
the chain of periods beginning with
Saul, David and Solomon, ending with
Beisan of the State of Israel is not
broken.
(Translation of Hebrew Column
Published by Brith Ivrith Olamit).

up; 2. urged Secretary of State
Dean Rusk to press for ratifica-
tion of the Genocide Convention
and other international human
rights treaties;
3. Charged that current efforts
to amend the U.S. Constitution to
allow religious practices in the
public schools were "a threat to
religious freedom and separation
of church and state." 4. voiced
"strong opposition" to federal aid
to parochial schools and said "shar-
ed-time" proposals under which
students in religious schools would
take secular courses in public
schools were "highly undesirable."
The convention also called on
visiting King Hussein of Jordan to
seek cooperation with Israel rather
than join in "conspiracy" against
her. The 500 convention delegates
unanimously adopted a statement
asserting that King Hussein—who
last week urged American Jews to
re-examine their attitude toward
Zionism — would fail to "under-
mine" American Jewish support of
Israel.
Dr. Joachim Prinz, of Newark,
was re-elected president of the
AJC. Shad Polier, of New York,
was re-elected chairman of the
national governing council, with
Morris Michelson as cochairman.
In his presidential address, Dr.
Prinz declared that "as Jews who
shared the prophetic dream that
led to the creation of the Jewish
States, and who have demonstrated
a love of Israel and support of its
goals, we have the right to speak
as friends and partners with the
people of Israel on issues of justice,
peace, equality and spiritual life."
He said American Jews "do not
have the right to.. interfere with
Israel's political life."
But he drew a distinction be-
tween Israel as a sovereign state
and as "the land of our ancient
history, land of refuge for our
persecuted brothers, land of hope
for our new Jewish creativity."
Irving Kane, former president of
the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, and chairman
of the convention, told the dele-
gates that the "unfinished business
of American Jewry to make sure
our children will want to be Jews,"
required that the JeWish corn-

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munity act boldly on current issues.
"Our young people will find
little reason to identify them-
selves with a Jewish community
that acts with fear or timidity on
the issues of our times," he de-
clared. "On the contrary, we will
attract and hold our best young
people by continuing to fight the
good fight as Jews, with the
courage and compass on our
prophets enjoined upon us."
Kane rejected the notion that
"we need a little bit of anti-Semi-
tism as a kind of cement to hold
Jewry together." He said that pre-
judice against Jews still existed in
the United States but added: "I do
not underestimate them, but
neither do I permit myself to be
frightened by them. I believe the
question posed so frequently: 'Will
Jewish life continue under condi-
tions of freedom?" has been an-
swered decisively for our genera-
tion at least. Jews want to remain
Jews."
The Congress voted to intensify
its Jewish cultural program and
will undertake a broad program of
research studies on intermarriage,
Jewish family life and the Jewish
family structure.
Another program will call for
"in-depth exploration of Jewish
values in their historic and con-
temporary relationship to Ameri-
can Jewish life," under which the
Congress will extend its series of
conferences on Jewish values.
AJC will intensify its program
of publication and distribution of
books, records and films to pro-
vide "critically-needed tools of
teaching and learning for Ameri-
can Jewish adults," according to
Paul H. Vishny of Chicago, who
was applauded when he declared
that "it is essential that the
American Jewish Congress give
leadership to larger numbers of
affiliated and unaffiliated Ameri-
can Jews in their search for
positive Jewish values."
Rev. David R. Hunter, associate
general secretary of the National
Council of Churches, in a panel dis-
cussion, called for a common ap-
proach among the three major
faiths on the question of religion
in public education. He opposed
school prayer and Bible reading as
examples of what he termed "the
corporate practice of religion."
"But, he added, learning "about
religion" and its role in history
was "an integral part of liberal
education." He said it would take
"some doing" by Protestants, Cath-
olics and Jews to achieve agree-
ment on religion in the schools and
added: The doing will depend
chiefly on the will-to-do."
Howard 1VI. Squadron, American
Jewish Congress vice president and
panel moderator, said that coopera-
tion on civil rights among Cath-
olics, Protestants and Jews had
served to strengthen relationships
and increase understanding among
the three faiths.
President Johnson in a message
to the convention, lauded AJC's
"dedication to the cause of demo-
cracy at home and f r eedom
abroad."

LONDON — A woman survivor
of the Auschwitz death camp de-
scribed medical experiments per-
formed on her and other inmates
in testimony in the libel suit by
a former Polish camp inmate-doc-
tor against Leon Uris, author of
"Exodus" and his British publish-
ers.
Before the woman, an Israeli,
began her testimony, in London
High Court, Lord Gardiner, attor-
ney for the defendants, said some
of the witnesses had informed him
they would not testify if their
names or photographs appeared
in the press.
The suit was filed by Dr.
Wladislaw Dering, now practic-
ing in London, against Uris and
William Kimber and Co., over a
book passage 'referring to Aus-
chwitz medical experiments
which Dr. Dering contends was
defamatory to him.
The witness, who was born in
Greece, rolled up her sleeve to
show the court a tattoo put on
her arm at the Kirkenau section
of the death camp.
Speaking in Hebrew through an
interpreter, she said that on one
occasion, she was sent with nine
other women to a room in Kirke-
nau where electric plates attached
to a big machine were placed
against their stomachs and backs.
Afterwards they found dark-col-
ored spots where the plates had
been placed and they suffered
from vomiting.
Later, she testified, two men
gave her a spinal injection,
forcing her to scream with pain.
Dr. Josev Ivlezyk, now of Chi-
cago, who had been a prisoner at
Auschwitz, testified that it was
"unthinkable" for a doctor there
to refuse to carry out an SS order.
He contended that any refusal was
subject to punishment by solitary
confinement, flogging, being hang-
ed by the hands or immediate
shooting.
Auschwitz Official Accused
of Hanging Four Prisoners
FRANKFURT (JTA)—A Polish
witness told the Frankfurt court
hearing murder charges against 22
former Auschwitz officials that
one of the main defendants, Wil-
helm Boger, a former SS officer,
had personally hanged four Rus-
sian prisoners who had tried to
escape from the camp.
Boger, he said, had beaten him
up so badly that he had been hos-
pitalized for seven weeks, and still
bore the scars of his punishment.
He showed them to the court.
Boger denied having hanged the
four prisoners.
A second witness also identified
Boger and two other of his de-
fendants, Stefan Baretzki and Dr.
Viktor Kapesius, as the men who
selected the prisoners transferred
from the Theresienstadt camp in
Czechoslovakia, who were to be
sent to the gas chambers.
Two transports totaling about
45,000 women, children and aged
people, the witness said, arrived
at Auschwitz early in 1944 from
Theresienstadt.

A former Auschwitz inmate
who described herself as the
"bookkeeper of death" in charge
of the crematorium records, im-
plicated several of the defend-
ants.
Mrs. Jenny Shaner, 56, of Zu-
rich, told the court that three of
the defendants—Peri Brod, Boger
and Johann Shauberth—had se-K-
lected prisoners from the politica
bloc for execution. She said that
Boger was especially inhuman and
seemed to object whenever camp
commandants placed restrictions
on the guard contingent.
"Once," she said, "when Com-
mandant Liebenschel ordered that
irons were no longer to be used
to hold prisoners during beatings,
Boger nearly went out of his mind
with rage."
Referring to her job of keeping
records of the executions, Mrs.
Shaner said that "many days we
had so much to do, it took two
additional clerks working 16 hours
a day to keep up with all the
death notices."

Nazi Escapes Jail;

Others at Brunswick
Get Mild Sentences

BRUNSWICK (AP) — Former
SS Lt. Hans Walter Zech-
Nenntwich, awaiting transfer to
prison here, escaped from jail
Thursday morning.
* * *
BRUNSWICK—Three former SS
officers were sentenced to prison
terms ranging up to five years
each, and a fourth was acquitted
on charges of murdering thou-
sands of Polish Jews at Pinsk dur-
ing the Second World War.
Former SS Majors Franz Magill,
63, Kurt Wegener, 55, were given
five-year terms, while former SS
Lt. Hans Walter Zech-Nenntwich
was sentenced to four-and-a-half
years. Walter Bornscheuer, 49, was
freed for lack of evidence. Magill
was found guilty of complicity in
the murder of 5,000 Jews in Au-
gust 1941, and Wegener was con-
victed for his role in the ldlling
of 1,700 Jews in the same area at
the same time. Zech-Nenntwich
was found guilty of killing two
Jews.

Jews Are Molested
in Daylight, Argentina
Newspaper Charges

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

BUENOS AIRES. — Members of
the ultranationalist anti-Semitic
Tacuara organization are openly
molesting Jews in Parama, the capi-
tal of Entre Rios Province, in full
daylight without any police re-
action, the newspaper La Razon
reported here Tuesday.
The newspaper asserted that the
excesses were taking place in the
city's most important section. Most
of the aggressors are known, the
newspaper asserted. It identified
them as students of the national
high school of Domingo Sarmiento.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Gen. Yitzhak
Rabin, Israel Chief of Staff, de-
clared in an Independence Day
order of the day that Israel had
an answer to the rocket-firing pa-
trol craft which the Soviet Union
has supplied to Egypt and Syria.
He did not elaborate on this state-
ment.
Declaring that Israel was care-
fully watching missile develop-
in Egypt, he said that, once the
missiles were operational, the dan-
ger to Israel would be great—but
that it appeared the Egyptian mis-
siles were not yet operational.
"Egyptian efforts in the produc-

tion of missiles. operating various
types of missiles, has put Israel,
too, on a missile program spread
over a number of years," he de-
clared. Again without going into
detail, Gen. Rabin asserted that
Israel now had more possibilities
of getting additional arms from
friendly nations "and we now get
more from these countries than at
any time before." He pointed out
that Israeli purchasing was limited
by a "question of funds."
He reported that Israel's strik-
ing forces had been strengthened,
particularly the Air Force, which

now had French-made Mirage jet
interceptors which, he said, are the
best planes available to Israel. He
added that the Mirage jets could
match the Soviet'2,1ig-21.--j-ess-etv.-
plied to Egypt by Russia.
Gen. Rabin reported that Presi-
dent Nasser of Egypt was increas-
ing the Egyptian Army, doubling
it from its present three divisions
to six divisions. He said two of
the new divisions were already
functional, and the third was near-
ing completion. He mentioned
Israel's armor and artillery corps
as having also made important
gains in quantity and quality.

