Miraculous Feat of Russian Jew IDesCribed in APN Writer's Report Novosti Press Agency (APN), the official USSR news service, this week released to The Jewish News the text of an interview its correspondent, Igor Tverskoy, had with the 46-year-old World War II veteran, Tevje Raiz, who risked his life in a fierce battle with Hitler forces in 1943. At that time, the APN correspondent explains, Alexan- der Matrosov stopped up the firing port of an enemy machine gun with his body. He saved his comrades-in-arms by sacrificing himself. The APN report states: "For millions of Soviet people Matrosov's name has become a symbol of heroism. It has become known that during the last war 170 Soviet soldiers of various nationalities had performed the same feat. Three of them had survived. Among those miraculously- alive is Tevje Raiz, a Jew, who lives in Moscow." Tverskoy's report of his visit with Raiz follows: A half hour's subway ride, plus a few stops by bus past blocks of merit. The grenades and cartridges newly built tall houses took ma had all run out. from the center to Ochakov, one "I thought of all the evil the of the numerous residential neigh- barbaric Hitlerites had done to borhoods of Mos- people and of the innocent blood cow. I found the they had spilt. I was overcome by right house, fury. This was when I stood up- climbed to the right and rushed at the machine- third floor and gun firing port. What happened rang the bell. next I don't remember, for I only The door was came to in a hospital in Kaunas." opened by Tevje "You probably want to know Raiz, a thinnish what followed," said Tevje Raiz. man of medium He took a time-yellowed letter out height. of his desk. "This was sent to me I was introduc- by the command, when I was in Raiz ed to his wife and their 16-year-old son Boris, hospital." "We were glad to learn," the an eighth-grade pupil. "Our eldest, Leonid, is in the letter began, "that you remained army," said Tevje, pointing to a alive after your heroic exploit, when you stopped up with your portrait on the wall. breast the firing port of a Ger- "I was born in Kremenets in man machine gun that was hold- Ternopol Region," he went on. ing up the advance of our sub- "My father was a bookkeeper. He unit. died in 1933. I lived with my "The soldiers who removed mother and sister in a small town you from the firing port and and worked as a dental technician. guards p l a t o o n commander I was called up as soon as the Lieutenant SYubayev who dress- war began. Later I learned that ed your wounds, all said that my mother and sister had been your wounds were fatal. Fortun- evacuated, but the road had been ately they were wrong. cut off by German troops, so they "We wish you, a guards hero, returned to the town, where to- a speedy recovery, restoration gether with 16,000 Jews from of your strength and energy, so Kremenets they were tortured to you could continue destroying death by the Hitlerites in aban- the cursed Hitlerites." doned coal mines . . ." Tevje Raiz was in hospital for The soldier's life in the army eight months. The physicians put was a hard one. Death often star- him back on his feet, but could ed Senior Sergeant Tevje Raiz in not save his right arm, which re- the eye. He will never forget the mained paralyzed. gloomy autumn morning of Oct. For about 20 years now Tevje 17, 1944. The guards unit in which Raiz has been working as a tech- he served was approaching the nologist at the Moscow factory of border of East Prussia. At day- medical equipment. He is respect- break, after artillery preparation, ed by the whole personnel of the Soviet troops, having forced the factory. Scherbint River, engaged in fierce For his exploit Tevje Raiz has battle with the heavily fortified been decorated with a high state enemy on the opposite bank. award. "Our way was barred by Ger- man machine guns," continued Tevje Raiz. "They were positioned Captured Fugitive Says on a commanding height. Battalion Bormann in Paraguay commander Captain Setesenko set PARIS—New reports that Hitler the rifle detachment that I com- aide Martin Bormann is in Para- manded the task of wiping out guay were printed in the Jornal do the fortified fire emplacements of Brazil, quoting Detlev Sonnenburg, the enmy. a captured fugitive. Sonnenburg, 43, was wanted by "There were seven of us. Taking along grenades and cartridge police in several countries for disks, we crawled to the German fraud and robbery. When arrested positions. Hand grenades disposed in a monastery in Recife, Brazil, of two machine guns. But the third where he sought lodging as "Fa- one that was some distance away ther Adolph," Sonnenburg w a s from them continued firing. My mistaken for Bormann. He claims Bormann is in Para- men were picked off one by one. Finally it was the turn of Nikolai guay disguised by plastic surgery, Makhonin and Nikolai Yakovlev. I and so is another war criminal, was left by myself within a few death camp physician Dr. Joseph meters of the fascist gun emplace- Mengele. JWV Commander Says Arabs Emulating Cong; Asks for U.S. Position THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 13, 1967-11 Bloch Publishes Elfenbein Essays WASHINGTON (JTA) — Pointing Shortly before his death, Dr. Is- A variety of topics dealing with out that they support administra- rael Elfenbein, noted scholar and major subjects of Jewish interest tion policies in Vietnam, the Jew- an eminent rabbi, had selected a mark this compilation. number of his sermons, essays and Commencing with the basic ques- ish War Veterans of the USA special articles to be readied for tions on the synagogue, dealing, asked Secretary of State Dean publication in a book. His widow, with the needs of the house of wor- Rusk to clarify the U.S. position Etta Hurwitz Elfenbein, asked ship, its functions, its future, the on pro-Communist Arab extremist Abraham Burstein to edit the Elfenbein collection includes ar- manuscripts and they are now ticles on education, the teachings elements seeking to turn Israel available in book form, under the of Rashi, Maimonides and others "into another Vietnam." title, "The American Synagogue as well as outstanding examples The request for an up-to-date as a Leavening Force in Jewish of Responsa, and there are tributes _clarification of American policy on Life," which has been published to the late Chief Rabbis Kook, Her- by Bloch. zog and Sonnenfeld. Arab terrorism was made in a letter by JWV National Commander Malcolm A. Tarlov. He said the Arabs were emulating the Viet Cong in new tactics now emerging. He indicated that vigilance is es- sential in the Near East at a time when Americans are fighting simi- By JAMES A. 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