Frankfurt Court Considers Proposal Pope Stresses
,
to Inspect Auschwitz Death Camp
Links With Jews
FRANKFURT (JTA) — Judge
Hans Hofmeyer, presiding justice
at the trial here of 22 former
Auschwitz camp personnel, was
expected to rule on a proposal
that the court go to Poland, along
with the defendants, to inspect
the site of the Auschwitz death
factory.
The request was made two
weeks ago by Henry Ormond, a
Fiankfurt attorney representative
of the relatives of several inmates
murdered at Auschwitz. The prose-
cution endorsed the request, hold-
ing that an inspection of the camp
site was essential to the court's
tasks of determining the truth of
the charges of murder and com-
plicity in murder of the millions
killed at the camp.
The prosecution, in endorsing
the proposal, urged the court to
determine whether Polish authori-
ties could guarantee the safety
of the defendants.
In testimony, an Austrian sur-
vivor of the camp, pointing to
the 21 accused, declared that
"there isn't one among them
who is innocent."
Viennese lawyer Dr. Heinrich
Durenmayer, who was made chief
trusty in the camp in 1944, said
that if any of the accused had
not been a murderer, the prison-
ers would "have tried to win him
over to our side."
The court. was told by a Jewish
woman shipped to Auschwitz by
Adolf Eichmann that the Nazis
"kindly offered rides to children,
the sick and the weak"—straight
to the gas chamber.
Mrs. Georgette Reich, 62, now
a resident of Santiago, Chile, said
she and her husband didn't board
the trucks that met a trainload
of Jews shipped from Kistaresa
camp, Hungary, in 1944.
"We felt strong enough to walk,"
she explained. "You know .
your honor . . . trucks went . . .
Her voice broke - as she looked
at Chief Judge Arnold Schmidt.
Mrs. Reich said her, husband
died anyway. "They beat him to
death."
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Nazi Death Papers
Raise Bonn Doubts;
Probe Is Ordered
BONN — With evidence that
many of the death certificates is-
sude for top Nazis after the war
may have been faked, West Ger-
many has ordered the verification
of certificates listed for 150 "black-
est Nazis."
The list was supplied to the
justice ministry by the Jewish Do-
cumentation Center in Vienna. Al-
though death certificates were is-
sued for the 150, the center be-
lieves all of them were alive at the
time and that many are still alive
and hiding.
A number of cases where death
certificates were faked already
have been uncovered, as for ex-
ample, SS Maj. Gen Heinrich Muel-
ler, deputy to Gestapo chief Hein-
rich Himmler. Mueller's grave was
opened and found to contain the
bones of five persons, none of them
identifiable as Mueller. Bonn au-
thorities have information Mueller
is alive and directing the secret
police in Albania.
Dr. Werner Heyde, who recently
committed suicide after his cap-
ture, had been assumed dead after
the war. His "widow" collected a
pension.
The government is being pres-
sured to take legal action in all
cases where verification of death
can't be made. This is necessary
under the German criminal code's
statute of limitations for prosecu-
tion of murder charges. The sta-
tute of limitations runs out next
May 8.
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Catholic Editor Says
Pope Should Have Hit
Nazi Murder of Jews
MELBORNE (JTA)—A leading
Catholic editor told a Melbourne
University audience that he wish-
ed the late Pope Pius XII "had
found it possible as a matter if
judgment to have publicly de-
nounced the slaughter of Jews" by
the Nazis "as a matter of prin-
ciple."
B. A. S'antamaria, editor of the
Catholic Journal, a lay periodical,
added that it would have made him
personally "more tranquil" about
the policy of the Vatican if the
late Pontiff had condemned the
murder of Jews.
His lecture before a capacity au-
dience in the university's Bnai
Brith Hall was arranged by the uni-
versity's Jewish Students Society.
Santamaria also asserted that
the charge of Jewish guilt for
the death of Jesus was a "moral
wrong which should have been
done away with many years ago.
It is historical humbug."
He added that the "hoary old
attitude of so many Catholics in
past ages that the Jewish race is
in some way collectively respons-
ible for the death of Jesus and that
this in some way justifies a•ti-
Semitism is historical nonsense
and moral rubbish."
He told the university audience
that this attitude "ought to have
been fought long ago by the Cath-
olic church precisely in the way
in which the Ecumenical Council
proposes to fight it now." He added
that it was completely unnecessary
for Jews "to shout gratitude" for
that action "because we are be-
latedly doing what is right."
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Aussie Jewish Vets
to Fight Local Nazis
BRISBANE, Australia, (JTA)—
Delegates to the ninth biennial
convention of the Australian Fed-
eration of Jewish Ex-Servicemen
approved a program to "effec-
tively counteract the National
Socialist party" in Australia.
The decision followed wide-
spread debate over a television
program on the small Nazi party
showing jackbooted uniformed
men meeting in a suburban house
in Sydney, giving Nazi salutes in
front of a picture of Hitler and
screaming "Hitler was right."
Declaring that the party's ac-
tivities were "a threat to Aus-
tralian's democratic tradition," the
delegates expressed regret over
the "unwarranted publicity, fav-
orable or otherwise," gained by
the group.
The delegates asked the Ex-
ecutive Council of Australian
Jewry "to take the necessary
steps and investigate effective
use of the Crimes Act" and to
recommend to the appropriate
authorities amendments to the
act to protect all Australian
citizens against "propagation of
the evil doctrines of racialism."
The delegates also urged appli-
cation of commonwealth and state
legislation to ban the wearing of
uniforms by paramilitary organiza-
tions "preaching racialism." They
also appealed to the authorities to
ban the use of flags, banners and
emblems which would be asso-
ciated with the doctrines of racial-
ism and called for changes in ens-
tims, excise and postal regulations
to prevent the importation and
dissemination through the mails of
material "expounding racialism in
any form."
ROME (JTA)—Pope Paul VI de
Glared that the new Secretariat
for Non-Christians, which will
operate outside the framework of
the Ecumenical C o u n c i 1, was
created in an atmosphere of union
and understanding "which has
clearly characterized the Council."
The pontiff made his remarks
in a discussion of the work of
ecumenical councils, past and pres-
ent, to cardinals of the Roman
Curia who had delivered a mes-
sage of congratulations to him on
the occasion of the Feast of John
the Baptist, the Pope's name-saint.
With this "and similar initia-
tives," the Pope said, "we wanted
to show clearly that the church
not only intensifies its inner links
but searches also outside dialogue
and meeting with all men of good
will."
Commenting on his visit to
Israel last January, he said the
trip was a concrete reply to the
common desire of friendship based
on the most humane reasons.
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The press office of the Osser-
vatore Romano, the of f i c i al
organ of the Vatican, issued an
evaluation of Pope Paul's
first year in office which stressed
that the Pope gave audiences to
two major American Jewish or-
ganizations and emphasized this
visit to Israel last January.
The events involving Jews were
listed as among the Pope's efforts
and achievements in his first year
to establish "durable links" of the
Catholic Church with the modern
world. One of the audiences was
with a study mission of the United
Jewish Appeal last fall and the
other was with a delegation of
members of the American Jewish
Committee May 30.
The evaluation described the
later meeting as "a further sig-
nificant audience in the frame of
the approach between Catholics
and Jews." It stressed that at the
audience the Pope "dealt with the
Catholic attitude toward Judaism,
foremostly with regard to racial,
political and religious questions."
The press office also described
in detail the Pope's visit to Israel,
stating that he was greeted by the
highest authorities of the state
headed by President •Shazar.
George Gershwin Painting Presented
to Columbia U. by His Brother Ira
George and Ira Gershwin have
collaborated again—to present a
meaningful gift to Columbia Uni-
versity.
Ira Gershwin has given Colum-
bia's School of General Studies
t w o works of art by his late
brother. They are portraits rather
than pieces of music—a crayon
sketch and a water color which
come from a part of George Gersh-
win's artistic life most lovers of
"Rhapsody in Blue" know little
about.
Ira collaborated wit h his
brother in the 1920s and 1930s by
writing the lyrics for most of
George's songs.
George's sketch and water
color are portraits of the late
Adolph Lewisohn, an investor
and philanthropist. Lewisohn
Hall, which houses the School
of General Studies on Columbia's
Morningside Heights campus, is
named after him.
The gift is meaningful to Co-
lumbia because of the Lewisohn
connection and because Ira and
George and their sister, Frances,
all attended Columbia.
In the eight years before his
death in 1937, George Gershwin
was an active painter as well as
composer. He did more than 100
paintings and drawings, many of
them portraits, all of them valu-
able now.
His output was remarkable con-
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Catholic Prelate Named
by Christian-Jewish
Council in Great Britain
LONDON (JTA) — Dr. John
Heenan, Catholic archbishop of
Westminster, accepted an invita-
tion to the British Council of
Christians and Jews to become
a president of the Council. The
event marked the return of Brit-
ish Catholics to the inter-faith or-
ganization after an absence of
ten years.
Archbishop Heenan, in accept-
ing the invitation, implemented an
announcement two weeks ago that,
with permission, he planned to
take the step. A representative
of the archbishop said the ac-
ceptance of the invitation was
"a significant and much welcome
development in relations between
the Catholic Church and the
Jews."
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N. Y. Apartments Built Criminal Code Revision
for Victims of Nazism
MONTREAL (JTA) — The Ca-
nadian Jewish Congress submitted
a number of drafts for amend-
ments to the criminal code to pro-
vide protection against the spread
of hate propaganda in Canada.
The proposed amendments are
the result of earlier discussions
between Congress leaders and gov-
ernment officials on the distribu-
tion of racist literature.
Frank Lary, Detroit Tiger hurl-
er, went into the 1964 season with
123 major league victories, second
only in American League total
wins to Whitey Ford of the New
York Yankees.
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NEW YORK (JTA)—A 12-
story apartment building to house
220 elderly Jewish victims of the
Nazi holocaust was opened in the
Flushing section of Queens.
The apartment residence, which
has been granted tax exemption
by the city, was built with the aid
of reparations paid by the West
German government and will be
operated by United Help, Inc., a
Jewish agency that administers
reparations funds.
The building consists of two and
three-room apartments as well as
cafeteria for those who are ill or
not inclined to cook. Those who
cannot pay the full rentals for the
apartments will receive help from
the Gustav Wurzweiler Foundation.
sidering that d u r i n g the same
period he was writing the still-
popular hit songs in "Girl Crazy"
and "Of Thee I Sing" and the folk
opera "Porgy and Bess."
Most of Gershwin's works with
brush and canvas are portraits
of his many friends and col-
leagues. Some of his subjects
included composers Jerome Kern
and Arnold Schoenberg; novelist
Kay Swift; painter Diego Rivera,
and all the members of the
Gershwin family.
The crayon sketch given to
Columbia is a head-and-shoulders
portrait of Lewisohn dated "Adi-
rondacks, 2 September, 1932." The
water color, a standing profile, is
undated and unsigned.
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