Russia Claims Matzo Baking Has Begun
ever, on Kropotkinskaya, in the
center of Moscow, the bakery oc-
cupies an entire house. Almost all
processes are mechanized. Either
a permanent representative of the
community or the rabbi himself
sees that all regulations for baking
matzos, envisaged by religious law,
are observed. Crispy, well - baked
matzo squares come off the con-
veyor. In the next room they are
packed in cardboard boxes and
then taken to the warehouse.
There they are turned over to cus-
tomers.
"'The entire equipment, induct-
ing the electric oven, we brought
from Riga,' Mikhailovich told me.
'It was more difficult as far as
the premises were concerned. We
had none of our own. The local
authorities readily offered us this
house, which suits us in every
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The statement from the USSR
Embassy was accompanied by a
,igned article by Samuil Rosin,
Novo,ti Press Agency correspond-
ent, entitled "Preparing for Pass-
0.,er." in which there is a denial of
charges in the American press last
year that Jews who applied for
matzot la..t year had to present
the pa —ports and to "present
data about themselves." The claim
is made that there were no restric•
lions for those who applied for
matzot baking when they turned
in the necessary flour.
The Rosin article states:
"I received a telephone call
from Moscow's Central Syna•
gogue on March 3: 'This is Mik-
hailovich, chairman of the Jewish
Religious Community. Today we
are starting to hake matzos at
way.'
3-1 Kropotkinskaya Ulitsa. If you
"'We were not only helped with
are interested come around, sam-
premises,' Rabbi Levin adds, 'but
ple our fresh matzos.'
were
also supplied with diverse
"When I arrived work was in
full swing. In previous years mat- materials as well as cardboard
zot were baked in the city's out- boxes for packing matzos.' ,'
"'Does this mean that you are
skirts. in a rather primitive way,
using a peasant stove. Here, how- in a position of supplying all the
-
Brazil Embassy- Ass ures Delegation
on Stangl Case; Sea rch Oil for Others
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A spokes-
man for the embassy of Brazil as-
sured an eight-man delegation of
former partisans and anti - Nazi
fighters Tuesday that his govern- j
ment will not abandon its obliga-
tions in the case of Franz Stangl,
the former Nazi commandant of
the murder camps of Treblinka!
and Sobiboe., who was detained in
Brazil pending action on a request
for extradition by Austria.
The delegation had called at the
embassy to express concern over
reports that the Brazilian Ministry
of Justice might release Stangl
because of a statute of limitations.
Austria had asked for Stangl's re-
turn to try him on war crimes
charges. Brazil is one of the coun-
tries which had signed the United
that he may know the whereabouts
—either in Brazil or elsewhere in
Latin America—of at least two
the embassy, also assured the dele-
gation that he would pass onto his
government their protest concern-
ing the former Nazi.
Investigating all German im-
migrants in Brazil, many of
whom came here under Red
Cross auspices during 1951 and
other top war criminals. These
men, widely sought throughout
the world for years, are Martin
Bormann. Hitler's top deputy, and
Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious
"selection doctor" at Auschwitz,
who chose the Jews to be put to
death.
Both Austria and West Germany
have for ma 1 1 y requested that
Stangl be extradited to stand trial
for his war crimes. The Brazilian
minister of justice has already
petitioned the Supreme Court to
permit Stangl's extradition, on the
members of your community with
matzot this year?' I asked the
synagogue leaaers. -
"'Not only our members but all
who wish to receive matzot as
well,' the rabbi replied.
"Last year the synagogues, and
there are three of them in Moscow,
all in all, baked some 80 tons of
matzot. This year the bakery on
Kropotkinskaya alone will put out
more than 100 tons. Besides this
bakery another two, true enough,
rather primitive bakeries are also
functioning in Medvedkovo, in the
North-Western district of Moscow,
putting out 800 kilograms of mat-
zot a day. For already se v e r al
weeks matzo baking has already
been underway, organized by the
Cherkizovo and Malakhovo syna-
gogues.
" 'How are orders for matzot
per kilogram of baked matzot and
turn over to the store-room the
corresponding amount of flour. And
thank God, everybody has plenty
of flour.' •
"'What formalities are observed
in accepting orders? I recall that
last year certain American papers
claimed that when flour was turned
over to the store-room, those wish-
ing to receive matzot had to pre-
sent their passports and g i v e
certain data about themselves'
" 'Yes, they indeed reported
such things,' Mikhailovich replied.
'But this was far from the truth.
The community has no need for
any data on those ordering matzot.
Neither in the past, nor this year,
are any documents demanded A
person comes, turns in his flour
and receives a receipt in which
it is stated that the bearer will
grounds that he is "seriously sus- be issued so many kilograms of
pected of the murder of more matzot. And that is all.' "
than 100,000 persons." The high
Nations Convention on genocide. court is expected to rule on the
minister's petition either late this
Danielo Meyer, first secretary of month or early in April.
(In The Hague, meanwhile, the
Dutch foundation that contributes
funds to the Vienna Documentation
Center for Nazi War Crimes, tele-
graphed the Brazilian ambassador,
calling on the Brazilian govern-
ment to extradite Stangl to Aus-
tria as`soon as possible.)
Brazil's federal police au-
thorities, following through on
the a r r e s t of Stang!, have
launched a probe in depth of
all German Immigrants in that
country, suspecting that there
may be large numbers of former
Nazis and war criminals among
100,000 Germans who entered
Brazil in the last 15 or 16 years.
Stangl is being held in maxi-
mum security prisons. being moved
from one jail to another almost
daily, for fear that he may be
assassinated by Nazis in this coun-
try to keep him from exposing
the suspected Nazi ring in Brazil.
Thus far, according to police
authorities, he has discThimed all
knowledge about any organizations
devoted to protecting former
Nazis and war criminals. However,
it was learned, he is being inter-
rogated minutely, on suspicion
at
1952, is "a massive task," the
federal police said.
The majority of the German
immigrants had settled in the
southern sections of the country,
particularly in the states of Pa-
rana, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa
Catarina. Some of them represent
in Brazil some of West Germany's
top industrial and commercial es-
tablishments, and many of them
are members of various organiza-
tions of genuine religious trend
or of groups masking their politi-
cal orientation under' religious
cover. It is suspected by the
federal police that some of the
German organizations act as
camouflage for groups engaged in
aiding former Nazis and war
criminals.
These facts and fears are being
emphasized by virtually the en-
tire press in Brazil. 0 Glob°, the
daily newspaper with the largest
circulation in the country, warned
that every effort must be made to
find the Nazis and war criminals
in Brazil, no matter how skillfully
their tracks may have been cover-
ed by groups with official aims of a
religious, industrial, commercial or
other "innocent" character.
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accepted?' I asked Maikhail Mik-
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replied. 'Any citizen, whether he
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matzot. The only thing he has to
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