World Jewry Pays Tribute to Martyrs of Nazi Persecution
Gestapo Forced Victims to Write
In Montreal 300 survivors of
LONDON (JTA) — Thousands
the names of former concentra-
Postcards From German 'Resort',
of persons took part in a cere- Nazi concentration camps paid tion camps. About 1,000 people
mony in Riga honoring the mem- homage to the 6,000,000 Jews at
had joined the procession by the
Relatives Told 'Wish You Were Here' ory
of the 85,000 Jews exterminat- special services held at the Cana-
time it arrived at the memorial.
FANKFURT (JTA) — Gestapo
murder squads compelled Jewish
victims at Auschwitz to send post-
cards to their homes, purportedly
mailed from the German resort of
Waldsee, saying "wish you were
here," a Brazilian businessman
who had acted as a liaison man
between the late Adolf Eich-
mann's Gestapo units and the
Hungarian Jews testified here.
The Brazilian, Laszle Petoe,
pointed to Hermann Krumey, one
of Eichmann's chief Budapest
aides, and told how Krumey had
handed him a stack of thousands
of postcards a week after the first
batch of Jews had been sent to
Auschwitz.
He said Krumey told him to
mail the cards which indicated
that they had been mailed from
Waldsee, and declared the pur-
pose was "to lull" the Jews still
remaining in Budapest into a
feeling that they would be sent
to a similar resort. Going through
the cards, he said, he found two
that bore the Auschwitz post-
mark.
Another witness, 72-year-old
Hungarian writer-historian Eugen
Levai, accused both Krumey and
his codefendant. Otto Hunsche, of
direct participation in the Eich-
mann program for the liquidation
of Hungarian Jewry.
He told the court that Krumey
had set up a special internment
camp in Budapest for Jewish in-
tellectuals. He said the camp was
bombed by the Nazis, then comb-
ed for survivors, who were sent
to the gas chambers in Ausch-
witz. Some, he said, were sent to
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Mauthausen, where they were
killed.
Among the latter group was a
brother of Levai, who, the witness
said, had been a prominent hero
in World War I. That "job," he
said, was done by Hunsche.
A survivor of the Nazi mass
slaughter of Hungarian Jews
told a court here Monday that
Krumey personally selected vic-
tims for gassing in Auschwitz.
Siegund Leb, now a Tel Aviv
businessman, testified in the trial
of Krumey and former SS Lt. Col.
Otto Hunsche another Eichmann
aide in Hungary.
Leb testified that 1,680 Hun-
garian Jews had been scheduled
for release to neutral Switzerland
to prove the Nazis "goodwill" for
the planned exchange of one mil-
lion trapped Jews for ten thousand
allied trucks in the closing days
of the war.
Leb said that instead of being
sent to Switzerland the group was
first moved to the Bergen Belsen
camp in northern Germany. There,
he said, Krumey removed many
names from the list of those to be
released. Leb, whose family was
murdered at the Auschwitz camp,
said one of the victims chosen by
Krumey was the mother of Joel
Brand, the Budapest Jew the Nazis
sent to Istanbul to negotiate in
the trucks-for-Jews transaction
which failed.
A survivor of the Nazi mass
slaughter of Hungarian Jews told
the court that Krumey personally
selected victims for gassing in
Auschwitz.
Escaped Nazi Sentenced
for Killing Jews, Leaves
Cairo for Ethiopia
LONDON (JTA)—Walter Zech-
Nenntwich, the former SS officer
who fled from a maximum secur-
ity prison in West Germany to
seek refuge in Egypt, has left
Cairo for Ethiopia, it was reported
here from the Egyptian Capital.
The former Nazi had been con-
victed of complicity in .the war-
time murder of 5,200 Jews in the
Pinsk Ghetto. He fled to Switzer-
land and turned up in Cairo, where
he boasted that a Nazi secret un-
derground had aided his escape
last April.
He left Cairo at the "sugges-
tion" of Egyptian authorities, who
reportedly advised him to leave
to end any possible friction be-
tween Egypt and the West German
Government, which had formally
requested the Egyptian Govern-
ment to extradite him.
ed by the Nazis in 1941 just out-
side that Latvian city.
Six candles, which also sym-
bolized the 6,000,000 Jews mur 7
dered by the Nazis, were lighted
at the six giant graves of the Riga
victims. Among the addresses at
the ceremonies was one in Yiddish
by Dr. A. Kussmann, a former
partisan.
From Prague, meanwhile, it was
reported that more than 5,000
Jews, including visitors from Aus-
tria, Hungary, Denmark and Nor-
way, attended the annual memorial
ceremony honoring the Nazi vic-
tims who perished at Theresien-
stadt.
George Samaan's father, a
prominent Arab resident of the
town of Nazareth in Galilee,
wanted him to study law or medi-
cine. These were professions with
prestige. But George wanted to
work with people, preferably
people in trouble. Even after he
had begun to teach high school he
had a strong urge to continue his
studies in psychology and so-
ciology.
And so it was that when the
new Paul Baerwald School of
Social Work was established at
the Hebrew University in Jeru-
salem, George Samaan was among
the first group of students to en-
roll.
The late Paul Baerwald was
chairman of the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee for many years
and it was to honor his memory
that JDC helped to establish
this school, the only one of its
kind in Israel.
Wreaths to the dead were laid.,
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the Association of For-
mer Concentration Camp Inmates
to commemorate the 19th anni-
versary of freedom from Nazi op-
pression under the motto, "Hom-
age to the Dead—Warning to the
Living."
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JDC support for the school
came from special legacy funds.
Other programs overseas are
financed by funds from the cam-
paigns of the United Jewish Ap-
peal.
When he returned to Nazareth
with a B.A. degree in social work
George became the probation of-
ficer for Arab adults in northern
Israel. He was not only the first
but is still the only professionally-
trained Arab probation officer in
Israel.
He prepares reports on offend-
ers coming up for trial and follows
up on those on probation. His 60-
hour work week, which includes
bumpy bus travel to distant cities
and nights of paper work, is hardly
enough for him.
Yeshiva U. Graduates
Even after two years of proba-
tion work George still feels in-
89 From Med College
NEW YORK (JTA) — Albert adequate to deal with the multi-
Einstein College of Medicine of plicity of problems confronting
Yeshiva University held its sixth him. His supervisor in the Haifa
annual commencement exercises, welfare office, a veteran social
conferring 89 degrees. Of the total,
four were degrees of doctor of Progress Made on Tel Aviv Hilton;
philosophy, granted by the Sue 11 Stories Already Completed
Goldring Graduate Division of
With the opening of the Tel Aviv
Medical Sciences. The remaining
85 were degrees of doctor of Hilton Hotel scheduled for summer,
1965, progress reports from Israel
medicine.
indicate that all phases of con-
struction are on schedule with 11
Iraqi Jews Checked
stories of the 17-story luxury fa-
ROME (JTA)—The Iraqi Em- cility already completed.
The Tel Aviv Hilton, which will
bassy here called on all Iraqi Jews
living in Italy to appear before be operated by Hilton Hotels In-
the passport office in Baghdad ternational, Inc., in cooperation
within three months to prove they with the Hilton Hotels worldwide
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
to 1,000 persons and a 230-car un-
Friday, June 5, 1964
derground garage.
8
39th Annual Spring Concert
dian Legion Headquarters here.
Representatives of the city of
Montreal, Quebec Province and
the Canadian federal government
attended and spoke briefly at the
service. Commodore Marcel J. A.
T. Jette, chief of the St. Lawrence
Command of the Canadian Navy,
accepted a plaque from the asso-
ciation which expressed "our eter-
nal gratitude to the men of the
Canadian armed forces who fought
and gave their lives for our
liberty."
The service was followed by a
slow march towards the Dominion
Square Cenotaph in Montreal, with
mourners carrying signs bearing
worker with a Ph.D. degree, helps,
but it is not enough. George is
torn between his responsibility to
his clients and his eagerness to
continue his studies.
Social workers are badly needed,
particularly in the Arab com-
munity. Last fall three Arab stu-
dents, all men, enrolled at the
Paul Baerwald School.
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