Bodies of 3 Murdered Youths Found; Rabbis Arrested
Witness Recalls* Futile Plea
to Hungarian Society as Jews
Carted Away to Nazi Camps
FRANKFURT (JTA)—A one-time Budapest rabbi told
a court trying two former aides of Adolf Eichmann here
how he made a desperate effort to influence Hungarian
church leaders to oppose the mass deportations of Hungarian
Jews to Nazi death camps.
The witness was Dr. Fabian that "two years later he (the in-
Hershkovitz, now director of mate) was hanged."
Mrs. Kagan, seized in Ger-
the Department of Culture in
Tel Aviv. He testified at the man-occupied Paris, testified
trial of former SS Lt. Col. that of the 67 women with
Hermann Krumey and former whom she arrived at the camp
1942, only four were still
SS Capt. Otto Hunsche taking in
alive.
place here.
She said she once saw a con-
As key aides of Eichmann demned woman inmate open her
in wartime Hungary, the two wrist with a razor blade before
Nazis are charged with complicity
in the transport of 430,000 Hun-
garian Jews to the murder cen-
ters and with extorting huge sums
from the doomed Jews.
Dr. Hershkovitz said he had
made the appeal in May 1944, in
the form of mimeographed leaf-
lets. The text of the leaflet, which
was read in the court, began:
"At the final hour of their
tragic fate, the Jews of Hungary
address themselves imploringly to
Hungarian society. We must re-
veal to Hungary's Christian popu-
lation that their Jewish compa-
triots are being deported."
He testified that the leaflet had
been distributed two months after
Eichmann arrived in Hungary
with his extermination squad and
that by then more than 300,000
Jews had been taken to the Ausch-
witz death camp in Poland.
The appeal said that the Jews
understood that they were being
sent to death, rather than to labor
camps, because children, sick and
old people and pregnant women
were not exempted.
The appeal expressed the hope
that Hungarian society could not
be silent and urged the church-
men to help paralyze the deporta-
tions by bringing them to the at-
tention of neutral countries.
The leaflet added that, "should
these efforts be in vain, at least
the atrocities ought to be stopped
so that we can be buried in our
native soil."
The two defendants showed no
emotion as the leaflet was read
to the court. Dr. Hershkovitz also
testified that Krumey had prom-
ised the doomed Jews that "noth-
ing would happen to them if they
remained calm," with the result
that none of them fled while that
was still possible.
At Germany's largest war
crimes trial, also being held in
Frankfurt, a witness testified that
SS guards at Auschwitz concen-
tration camp often took part in
educational activities of Jewish
children inmates before killing
them.
Dr. Otto Kulka, professor of his-
tory at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, told the court trying
20 former Auschwitz guards that
"even SS men took part in the
children's cultural activities be-
fore murdering them in cold
blood." Dr. Kulka, 31, told the
court of his experience as a child
inmate of Auschwitz.
An Israeli who worked three
years in the Auschwitz registra-
tion office, Mrs. Raya Kagan, said
that in 1942 the SS administration
of the camp allowed a German
inmate to marry a Spanish woman.
This was the only marriage at the
camp, where Nazis killed an esti-
mated 3,000.000 people.
The 54-year-old witness added
slashing the face of an SS man.
"I will die like a heroine, but
you will die like a dog," she
shouted, according to Mrs. Kagan.
In Munich, a former Transport
Ministry official in Nazi Germany
testified at a war crimes trial
that he did not know that the
trains he supplied for the trans-
port of Jews were taking them to
death camps.
That statement was made by
Albert Ganzenmuller, former state
secretary in the Nazi ministry, in
the trial of former SS Gen. Karl
Wolff, who is being tried on
charges of complicity in the war-
time murders of 300,000 Jews.
In Graz, Austria, the district
court announced it would try
soon Friedrich Lax, a former
Gestapo officer, on charges of
taking part in the mass mur-
ders of thousands of Jews and
other victims in the Nazi-held
Tarnopol district of Poland.
Lax was discovered by H. Salz-
mann, a Jewish banker and for-
mer native of Graz, who recog-
nized Lax as the former Gestapo
deputy chief in Tarnopol and re-
ported him to the authorities. Lax
disappeared after the war but
settled a few years ago in Graz,
living openly under his own name.
The bodies of civil rights work•
ers Andrew Goodman, 20 (left),
and Michael H. Schwerner, 24,
both of New York, were found
this week by a dam near Phil-
adelphia, Miss. A search had
been conducted since the two
and James Chaney, 21, were last
seen June 21.
* * *
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (JTA) —
Two rabbis started their 60-day
jail terms here after refusing as a
matter of principle to pay $500
fines upon conviction of "unlawful
assembly" in connection with a sit-
in at a bus terminal here during
an effort to desegregate the term-
inal in 1981.
Six Christian clergymen, white
and Negro, were also in jail with
the rabbis. The latter are Rabbi
Israel Dresner, spiritual leader of
Temple Sharey Shalom, Spring-
field, N.J.; and Rabbi Martin
Freedman, spiritual leader of Tem-
ple B'nai Jeshurun, Paterson, N.J.
The eight clergymen were con-
victed in Municipal Court here in
1961. They appealed their con-
victions to the U.S. Supreme
Court and, after three years of .
repeated petitions to the high
court, their appeals were reject-
ed on technical grounds.
The clergymen surrendered Mon-
day. Their attorney petitioned the
Federal District Court here for
their release or, alternately, for
setting bond pending further fed-
eral appeals.
U.S. Judge G. Harold Carswell
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