3 Auschwitz Officials Get Terms for Mass Murder; One Is Free FRANKFURT (JTA)—A Frank- furt jury court sentenced one of the three defendants in the second trial of Auschwitz death camp per- sonnel to a life term in prison and the other two to prison terms. The verdict was issued on the sec- ond day of Rosh Hashana. Joseph Erber, 68, charged with taking part in the murder of thousands of Jews in the camp, received the life sentence. Wilhelm Burger, 61, received an eight-year term. Gerhard Neubert, 56, was *Sentenced to 3 1/2 years imprison- :I Anent. Erber was convicted of murder in 70 cases. The other two defen- • ants were convicted of compli- Oty in murder. Scores of Ausch- Witz survivors testified during the nine-month trial. Burger left the court a free Man, despite the sentence, because time spent in custody was deduct- '0 from his sentence. He served an eight-year term in Poland after conviction by the' Polish Supreme Court. He was then arrested again by West German authorities for the Frankfurt trial. The three defendants showed no emotion during their sentencing. They contended throughout the trial they had simply carried out orders. Erber's duty was to select peo- ple to go into the gas chambers. Most of the 70 he is accused of having killed in this manner were old or sick or were chil- dren. The prosecution accused Erber of having gone beyond the scope of his orders. His brutality, the judge said, had even been feared by other SS men, and the . 70 killings charged to him were the absolute minimum. - Burger was found guilty of hav- ing obtained Zyklon B, the gas used to kill 100,000 in Auschwitz's gas ovens. He was chief adminis- trator_ of the camp . in 1942 and 1943`.' Neubert was charged with being a member of the "preselection committee" that chose some of Auschwitz' arrivals for gas cham- bers. * * * Ghana High Court Backs Nazi' s Extradition ACCRA, Ghana (JTA) — Dr. Horst Schumann, 60, a former Nazi death camp physician fighting ex- tradition to West Germany to face a war crimes - trial, has lost a peti tion for release from prison. The Ghana high court rejected the Nazi doctor's bid for a writ of habeas corpus to be released from the jail where he has been kept since lower courts ruled he should be extradited to West Germany. The rejection sustained a magis- trate court's ruling in August that Dr. Schumann should be returned to West Germany. The Nazi 'physician, whose Argentina's Anti-Semitism Vigorously Denied (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) BUENOS AIRES — Gen. Juan :Carlos Ongania, president of Argen- tina, asserted vigorously in an in- terview Wednesday with an Israeli journalist that imputations of anti- Semitism against his military regime were without fOundation. The president discussed the issue and Argentine-Israeli relations at length during a meeting with Moshe Ron, general secretary of the Israeli Press Association. He told the Israeli that he found himself in a dilemma about answer- ing such questions. He said about charges of anti-Semitism : "Please excuse me for speaking frankly. Such a question is a barbarity and to ask it is to hurt this govern- Ment." ' He had previously spoken with favor about proposals for establish- ment in Israel of an Argentine House. He told the Israeli that "it is not possible that we should speak Of an Argentine House in Israel" and speak "at the same time about anti-Semitism in Argentina." He indicated he regarded such questions as insulting even if ' they posed specific points, such as what activities constituted anti-Semitism and if there was such a manifestation in his goy- : ernment, what was its degree. But, he said, questions on the issue often were in his opinion motivated by the "wish to hurt and damage" in an expression of attitudes "that we sometimes re- . ject openly even with a certain degree of pronounced dis- pleasure." He challenged such questioners to produce evidence that his govern- ment practiced anti-Semitism and expressed the belief that Argentina had never been anti-Semitic be- Cause, "if sometimes there were such activities, they were a corn- pletely isolated fact which was openly divorced from Argentine feelings." He said that even in moments of great "convulsion" in Argentine politics "there did not exist a real anti-Semitic pronounce- ment in this country but only some isolated manifestation, outside of any Argentine feeling." Gen. Ongania expressed regret over the postponement, by Presi- dent Sh•zar of Israel of his sched- uled trip to Argentina last summer during Shazar's tour of Latin i : America. Reiterating that he con- sidered the matter a postponement and not a cancelation, President Ongania said he anticipated that the visit, when rescheduled, would be "an event which will reaffirm once more the good relations and good feelings between the Israeli and Argentine peoples." Gen. Ongania hailed Israeli tech- nical cooperation with Argentina in the fields of agriculture and irri- gation and added he favored such cooperation not only in those two areas but also in industry. He noted that Israel was "actively engaged in intensive development plans with highly advanced technical meth- ods" and said that such methods could well serve "plans for our own developnient." He described the proposed Argentine House in Israel as "a synthesis of the fullest understand- ing of any kind now existingi.be, tween the Israeli and Argentine peoples," not only from the stand- point of his government but also in response "to the feelings of the entire Argentine people." * * Argentine President Hails Jewish Citizens on Holiday BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Presi- dent Ongania paid tribute in a New Year's message to Argentina's 500,000 Jews, to the community's "spiritual and material achieve- ments." President Ongania, whose mili- tary regime initially caused con- cern among Argentina's Jews, sent his message to the DATA, the central representative body of Argentine Jewry. He said that the Argentine Jewish community "which has been living in our fatherland for more than 100 years, has stood out at any time by its labor in the field of spiritual and mate- rial achievement and has given the country Argentine Jews who have honored it in letters, arts, sciences, technology, industry and commerce." "The native and immigrated Jews have participated in the advance- ment of the country and have been loyal servants of the nation," the president declared. "This great celebration coincides with the beginnings of the Argentine revolu- tion." He told the Jewish community that there was for them reserved "a position of honor in the com- mon reconstruction and we do not doubt that with your constant capability and firm tenacity, you will collaborate in the work in which we are all pledged to achieve the republic's greatness." This, he declared was the place "which fate has given us both to implement our destiny and our dignity as men." New York Board Decides to Go Ahead, Loan Texts to Religious Schools NEW YORK (JTA) — The City Board of Education decided to comply with the New York State Textbook Loan law And will buy $2,250,000 worth of - textbooks to be "loaned" to pupils in Jewish and Christian religimis day schools and to other non-public schools in New York City. A State Supreme Court justice has ruled the law unconstitutional as _violating the principle of church-state separation. He en- joined New York State from pro- viding such aid. However, State Attorney Gen- eral Louis Lefkowitz filed an ap- peal from the ruling, and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller notified State Education Commissioner James Allen Jr., that he could proceed. Allen then notified school districts in the state they could go ahead. Initially, New York School Board officials reacted with - "wait-and-see" attitude pending final clarification in the courts of the law's validity. They then decided to go ahead. In ordering the textbooks, the city board required delivery before Dec. 1 so that it could file reimburse- ment claims with the state be- fore the Appellate Court rules on the law's validity. The disputed law requires school boards' to furnish textbooks to non- ' public school pupils in their dis- tricts to the extent of $15 per pupil, with the state reimbursing the school boards for the costs involved. Under the New York City board eligibility standards, about 17,000 Jewish day school pupils in the city could receive textbook aid. Orthodox Jewish and Catholic school systems are challenging those standards as too restrictive. Q uebec Premier Pledges Against Anti-Semitism (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) MONTREAL — Premier Daniel Johnson of Quebec has pledged that his government will seek to "protect and strengthen minority rights in Quebec in education, civil rights and anti-discrimination legislation." He made the pledge in an ad- dress at the official opening of the Sir Mortimer B.. Davis Memorial Building of the Young.Men's and Young Worrien'S Hebrew AssoCia- Declaring that discrimination would not be permitted to "rear its ugly head" in Quebec, the premier said his government was eager to see the Jewish commu- nity contribute to the develop- ment of the province. He asserted "there is no question whatsoever of reducing or infringing on minor- ity rights." wartime experiments reportedly resulted in the deaths of more than 30,000 victims, most of them Jews, was expected to appeal the high court ruling. The West German government has long been seeking the extra- dition from Ghana of Dr. Schu- mann as a major Nazi war criminal charged with mass-killing of Jews and other inmates of Nazi camps. He will be put on trial in Ger- many as soon as he is delivered to the German authorities. 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