Implementation of Indemnification Law Demanded of West Germany
GENEVA (J'TA) -The Confer-
ence on Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany called on the
German federal republic to take
immediate action to "allay the
fears of tens of thousands of vic-
tims of Nazism whose claims for
compensation are imperiled by re-
cent developments in the imple-
mentation of the indemnification
laws" of West Germany.
The demand was made by the
Claims Conference at its plenary
session here July 13 after a report
by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Claims
Conference chair man. Sums
amounting to more than $100,000,-
i00 were assigned by West Ger-
aany in 1964. The conference con-
tinues to function as a recognized
spokesman for individual claimants.
Dr. Goldmann told the session
that the major positive develop-
ment of the past year was the
promulgation by the West German
government in December, 1965, of
the law extending benefits to new
categories of claimants, including
those previously excluded because
they were in East European coun-
tries and hence unable to file
claims for reparations before the
1953 deadline in the basic legisla-
tion. The law also improved exist-
ing rights under the previous
legislation.
Dr. Goldmann added that on the
negative side, there had been sub-
sequent "deplorable" developments
which he called a violation of the
basic spirit of the indemnification
legislation. He declared that
"within 90 days of the promulga-
tion of the new law, the West Ger-
man Parliament enacted a budge-
tary protection law which serious-
ly curtailed payment to claimants
during 1966 and 1967, deferring
them to a later date." He reiterat-
ed that "many of these claimants
may not live to see this date."
"We are now in the fourth dec-
ade since initiation of the Nazi
discriminatory laws and acts in
1933," he said. "Many of the
claimants have now been wait-
ing 20 years for payment of
their claims. They cannot and we
cannot participate in a race be-
tween justice and mortality."
Dr. Goldmann reported that the
new law did allow full payment of
certain "privileged claims" but, he
added, "even these pr i v i l e g e d
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claims are now endangered."
He said this "f un d a in en t a 1
injustice" Was now being com-
pounded by the fact that some of
the West German states were
pleading lack of funds as justifica-
tion for not making immediate pay-
ments even- to those in the "priv-
ileged category."
He told the session that "for the
first time in the history of indem-
nification payments, the question
of inadequacy of funds has arisen."
He called this "an intolerable sit-
uation," noting that West Germans
have referred to the reparations
program as "a debt of honor."
Insisting that such debts "have
first priority," he said the Claims
Conference was "calling on the
West German government to make
a public commitment to take ac-
tion to allay the fears of the Nazi
victims throughout the world that
there may be further delays in
payment and that their terms for
compensation may never come."
He reported that while annual
allocations have ceased, the
Claims Conference continued to
make allocations to individtials
and to groups of victims "who
have no other source to take the
place of what we have been giv-
ing them in former years."
Jacob Blaustein, Claims Confer-
ence senior vice-president, ex
plained that the sums distributed
this year come from residual funds
that remained after the conclusion
of annual payments by West Ger-
many, supplemented by accrued
interest.
Blaustein added that the budge-
tary proposals for 1966 were re-
stricted to a small number of spe-
cial programs in the field of relief
and rehabilitation.
He reported that a total of $1,-
144,534 had been allocated for this
year. He said the sum "is being
distributed mainly to men, women
and children who are entitled to
either public or private welfare re-
lief. It will also provide help to
aged rabbis and former community
leaders who have no official status
in the countries in which they re-
side."
Declaring that the funds on hand
"will be used in a very few years,"
Dr. Blaustein added that "hope-
fully, by then new resources of
help will be found or established,
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Center for Breeding
Lab Animals to Open
on Rehovot Campus
REHOVOT-A Laboratory Ani-
mals Breeding Center, the largest
facility of its kind in Israel and
one of the largest in the world,
will shortly be opening on the cam-
pus of the Weizmann Institute of
Science in Rehovot.
The building, which extends over
almost two acres, will annually
"turn out" 350,000 mice, 12,000
rats, 5,000 rabbits, 2,000 guinea
pigs and 3,000 chickens. This pro-
duction will supply the research
needs of the Weizmann Institute
for the next decade and it will also
be possible at a later date to in-
crease output so as to supply other
institutions in Israel with labora-
tory animals or eventually to ex-
port them,
The money for the building was
provided by the Edmond and James
de Rothschild ("Hanadiv") Me-
morial Group of London, England
and it will be run by Efraim Ben-
har, a leading expert in this field.
Emphasis was put in the con-
struction of the building on the
maintenance of pathogen-free con-
ditions, so as to prevent infections
from being transmitted from the
outside to the laboratory animals.
In order to obtain sterile stock
from the animals in Rehovot, the
young will be removed from the
wombs of their mothers by a
Caesarean operation and then be
foster-mothered on germ-free an-
imals which will be brought by
air from abroad in special sterile
containers.
This procedure prevents any
contact between the young and
their mothers, as well as between
the young and the outside world.
The operations are performed on
special tables under plastic hoods.
Attempts are now being made at
the Institute to guide the animal
technicians in their choice of the
best breeding stock, by feeding all
breeding characteristic and diag-
nostic laboratory findings into a
computer, which in turn may pro-
vide the collected data of thou-
sands of animals of various strains
and collect valuable data for fu- ,
ture statistical evaluation.
Knopf and the Jewish Publication
Society Aug. 15.
The purpose of the frame-up was
to give legal sanction to the an-
cient libel of ritual murder and
thus to create a climate for the
suppression of a rising liberal
spirit in Russia.
The prosecuting officials had
the assistance of the minister of
justice, the moral support of
Czar Nicholas II, the political
support of the reactionaries and
the cooperation of a criminal
gang.
Samuel spent more than three
years delving into the source ma-
terial of the Beiliss case, includ-
ing stenographic proceedings and
confidential reports. His account
of the trial is enhanced by exten-
sive qoutations from newspaper ac-
counts, letters, and pamphlets of
the time that show the wide-reach-
ing effects of this infamous case
on a disbelieving world.
In an epilogue, the author traces
and compares the anti-Semitic
manifestations in Russia today
with those of czarist times.
For nearly 50 years, Samuel's
major interest has been the posi-
tion of the Jewish people in the
Western world. Of his 20 books,
15 are concerned with the exposi-
tion of Jewish values or examina-
tions of the relations between the
Jewish and Christian worlds. His
works include "Little Did I Know,"
"The Second Crucifixion," "Certain
People of the Book," and "Web of
Lucifer."
Israel Aide in Bonn
Defends Pauls
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Asher
Ben-Nathan, Israel's first ambas-
sador to West Germany, assailed
last week "indiscriminate critic-
ism" of West Germany which he
said often countered Israel's own
interests. The envoy is currently
here on home leave.
He told a press conference that
"painting everything black and
ignoring the positive developments
in West Germany" might create
a crisis in German-Israeli rela-
tions. Such criticisms, he added,
also robbed of its impact legitimate
criticism such as he himself had
often voiced.
The envoy was particularly crit-
ical of the "cold treatment" given
in Israel to German tourists, in-
cluding students, who included the
most liberal and progressive ele-
ments in West Germany.
Ben-Nathan referred to a recent
speech by Dr. Rolf Pauls, the West
German ambassador to Israel, at
the Tel Aviv Fair in which the
latter criticize d Israel saying,
among other things, that Israel was
not sufficiently grateful for West
German aid.
The Israel ambassador said that
If one man says to thee: "Thou while he did not agree with every-
art a donkey," do not mind; if two thing Dr. Pauls had said, he felt
speak thus, purchase a saddle for the German envoy had the right to
thyself.-Bereshit Rabbah.
express his opinions.
Friday, July 22, 1966-9
dd:
Infamous Ritual Libel Case Related
in Samuel's Book, 'Blood Accusation'
In September 1913, Mendel
Beiliss, an employe in a brick fac-
tory in Kiev, was brought to trial
on the charge of having viciously
murdered a Christian boy to use
his blood for ritual purposes pre-
scribed by the Jewish religion.
The history of this bizarre trial,
the outgrowth of an accusation
against the Jews that arose during
the Middle Ages, is chronicled by
Maurice Samuel in "Blood Accu-
sation: The Strange History of the
Beiliss Case," to be published by
and our beneficiaries will be able
to spend the remaining years in
the peace and freedom from want
to which they are entitled."
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz of New
York, Claims Conference treasur-
er, reported on receipts and ex-
penditures for the past year.
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