Belgian Parliamentary Body Backs
Extension of Time on Nazi Prosecution.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
"Delayed action" recalling the
6.-000.000 Jews who perished in
Europe during World War II was
taken on several fronts this week.
In Brussels. Belgium. a bill ex-
tending by 10 years the statute of
limitations for carrying out the
death sentence against major war
criminals was approved. after
lengthy deliberations by the jus-
tice commission of the chamber of
deputies.
The bill had been drafted by the
ministry of justice. It is still to be
voted on in the chamber.
Under the measure. the May
19. 1945. limitation for the exe-
cution of such sentences would
be moved up to 1975.
The bill provides for prolonga-
tion of the expiration date in cases
concerning "death sentences for
actions or attempted actions against
the security of the state between
Chanin Foundation
to Sponsor Jewish
Cultural Projects
NEW YORK i.ITA)—The Chan-
Cultural Foundation of the
Workmen's Circle announced it
would sponsor five cultural pro-
jects during the coming year.
The projects, for which 53.500
has been allocated by the organiza-
tion. are the awarding of three
prizes for the best three books in
Yiddish published in 1964: a prize
for the best original play about
Jewish life in America: five prizes
for the best English translations of
Yiddish literature • published in
magazines or newspapers during
the year.
The foundation will also spon-
sor lectures at American universi-
ties on Yiddish literature and the
American Jewish labor movement.
and an essay contest on the, Jewish
contribution towards civil rights in
this country.
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Boy, 15, Killed in Fire
at London Yeshiva
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
May 19, 1940, an&May 19, 1945,"
LONDON — A 15-year-old Yeshiva
the official dates of the duration
student, Wolf Katz, died here Tues-
of World War II in Belgium.
The ministry of justice has esti- day when a fire swept the Yeshiva
mated that 1.336 persons sentenced Talmudical College at Stoke New-
to death for major war crimes are ington in North London.
still in hiding abroad. Most of them
Another boy was seriously in-
are said to have taken refuge in
Germany. Austria and Spain. while jured when he jumped 40 feet
some have taken up residence in from a top floor window during
the blaze. Firemen rescued seven
Morocco and Egypt.
The bill provides that the king others trapped by the flames.
may continue the death. sentences
The blaze. which gutted the en-
of those convicted was criminals tire Yeshiva building. was fought
who did not participate in denun- for more than an hour by firemen
ciations of people later executed wearing breathing. apparatus.
in the Nazi death camps or those
who did not personally participate
in assassinations.
In Bonn. five thousand young
persons. most of them members .
of West German trade unions,
attended special memorial cere-
monies for the victims who per-
ished in the Dachau and Flossen-
burg concentration camps.
At the site of the Dachau camp.
2.000 members of the Bavarian
youth section of the German Trade
Unions walked in a silent proces- •
sion to the former crematorium in
which countless Jews - died.
A group of Jewish youths laid
wreaths at the gravesides. - In an
address at the ceremony trade •
union leader Ludwig Rosenberg
carted on Germany's youth never
to forget what happened. In Flos-
senburg, 3.000 y o ung persons
walked with lighted torches to the
site of the former camp.
In New York. Mayor Robert
F. Wagner honored Dr. Gertrud
Luckner. the German woman
who was imprisoned by the Nazis
for her wartime help to Jews
persecuted by the Nazis. Dr.
Luckner. who is currently on her
first visit to the United States.
was presented with a plaque in
special ceremonies at City Hall.
After the outbreak of the Sec-
ond World War. Dr. Luckner was
instrumental in helping Jews cross.:
into Switzerland to savetheir lives. I
In 1943. she was .arrested by the
Gestapo while carrying money to
aid Jews in Berlin.
British JNF Announces $2.8-Million Target for '65
LONDON (JTA ► —
The Jewish Yaacov Tsur, world chairman of
National Fund of Britain has set a the JNF' board of directors, was
of honor at the conference.
fund-raising g o a 1 of 1,000,000 Other
ther speakers included Chief
pounds sterling ($2.800.000) for Rabbi Israel Brodie;
Rabbi Solo-
next year. it was announced by mon Gaon. the Sephardi Hacham;
Arthur
Rosser Chinn, president' of the and Israel Anibassador
British JNF, at the 40th annual Lourie.
conference of the organization.
It is forbidden us to pray to
Reporting on the British JNF ef-
forts during the current year. , God that He send death to the
Chinn said that the organization wicked. If God had removed from
had remitted to Israel so far a the world the idolatrous Terah be-
total of 795,000 pounds ($2,226.000) fore he begat Abraham, there
with remaining pledges likely to would have been no Israel, no
raise the total for the year to Torah. no Messiah. and no Pro-
900 000 pounds (S2.520,000). This phets.—Zodar Hadash.
compares with a total last year of
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Luxembourg Jews Plan
Forest in Israel to Honor
3 Go on Trial in Deaths
Its Abdicating Duchess
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to The Jewish News) .
LUXENIBOURG — The Ltixem-
bourg .Jewish community announced
plans here Tuesday to plant in
Israel a "Grand Duchess Charlotte
Forest" on the occasion of the
forthcoming abdication of the
grand duchess.
The project which was under-
taken as a mark of the Jewish
community's "gratitude and affec-
tion" for the Grand Duchess' will
he carried out by a committee
which includes Israel Ambassador'
Amiel Najar. top-ranking Luxem-
bourg officials and leaders of the
Jewish community.
Ambassador Najar will repre-
sent Israel Thursday when the
Grand Due Jean takes the oath as
the new sovereign.
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- BONN (JTA1 — Three more ex-
Nazis. charged with having mur-
dered 30,000 Jews - and Russian
prisoners of war during World War
II. went on trial Monday at Tubin-
gen. They were indicted for the
murders committed in 1943 at the
Stutthof concentration camp. near
Danzig. The men are Otto Karl
Knott. Otto Haupt and Bernhard •
Ludtke. •
At the trial of 22 former Auich-
Witz administrators and medical
Personnel which has been under
way in Frankfurt since last Decem-
ber. the court heard a: Czechoslo-
vakian post office worker. Victor
Lederer. describe how the Nazis
mutilated men and women at the
Auschwitz death Camp.
During the session. the court
revealed that it has asked the
Soviet Unifin to make available
the 40-volume Auschwitz "death
register in possessiOn of the
USSR. The requeSt had been
sent to Prof. Nicolai Alexeyev,
dean of the law faculty at Lenin-
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Remains of 1,200 Victims
Reburied in Soviet Union
LONDON (JTA1 — The remains
of 1.200 Jewish victims of the Na-
zis have been exhumed from their.
place of burial on a collective
farm in the Soviet Union and have
been reburied in a local cemetery
near Smolensk, it was reported in
London from Moscow.
Although the report does not
specify whether the final resting
place of the victims is a Jewish
or non-Jewish cemetery, it is be-
, lieved to be the latter. Passports
and other documents were found
in the pockets of the decomposed
garments of the victims.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22—Friday, November 13, 1964
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