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 TUE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 7, 1964 9 Like GIN r? • ,ice adelly Cocktail's got it! 42 PROOF si 4 , 5 QUART 4 • 9 CODE NO. 66B8 UNITED. BRANDS- . DETROIT . U.S.A. 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