10—Friday, May 5, 1967
20 000 Swiss Jews Celebrating at Centennial
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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LUCERNE (JTA)—Swiss Jewry, blaming the Jews of responsibility signs of resurgent neo-Nazism in
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/ numbering now about 20,000, ob- 1 for both world wars, the Russian Germany.
Swiss Jews also continued to
served the 100th anniversary of ' revolution and the "moral decay
Jewish freedom in this country at of society." There were also in- show concern over a law, enacted
I a two-day Assembly of Delegates stances of anti-Semitic and pro- in 1894, forbidding shehita any-
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was ar- ' Nazi statements made in some pub- where in Switzerland. The Gemein-
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Brazil's supreme court post- W es
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ranged by the Gemeindebund, the lications and by individuals. The debund started fighting against
S?angl. the ex-Nazi commandant poned until next week its sched- Swiss Federation of 24 local Jew- Gemeindebund not only, protested that law in 1904. Only a constitu-
of the Treblinka and Sobibor death uled hearings on three petitions ish communities, each of which those manifestations in this coun- tional amendment could wipe out
camp,. who is under arrest in from foreign governments—Poland
but also protested against the that law.
Brazil, facing possible extradition West Germany and Austria—for has autonomy. try
A report issued by the federa-
a, a war criminal, had also com- the extradition of Stangl.
The high tribunal postponed its tion noted that the federation is
mitted war crimes in Italy, it was
hearings on the request of the continuing its activities in defense
charged here.
According to information by the government's chief prosecutor who of Judaism through its special
Jew community of Venice.
Stangl had ordered during World
War 11 the deportation of patients
at a hospital for the aged in
Venice. It was also learned here
through Giuseppe Fano. a Jew liv- '
ing in Trieste, that Stangl had been
ext
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had asked for more time to study
and analyze the very bulky docu-
mentation presented by the gov-
ernments of Poland and West
Germany.
The documents from both those
countries, the prosecutor told the
active during the Nazi occupation - court. had arrived here only a few
of Italy in the country's north-' days before, and much more time
eastern section. between Septem- to study and analyze the very
bulky documentation presented by
ber 1943 and April 1945.
Fano declared that a gas cham- the governments of Poland and
ber had been built at San Saba, West Germany.
In ruling on the postponement,
near Trieste, where 2,000 victims
w ere murdered. Ile said Stangl had the court also decided that all three
"specialized" in uncovering Jews governmental petitions for Stangl's
in hiding. The Trieste Jewish com- extradition would be considered at
munity is preparing a file on a single proceeding. The Austrian
Stangl for possible use in his trial documentation, the prosecutor said,
was ready for presentation now.
vvtc never it takes place.
Stangl had originally been order-
"Italian Jewry attributes great
ed by the Supreme Court to be de-
importance to the extradition
tained for the maximum legal
proceedings now pending for the
former Nazi death camp' com-
mandant before the Brazilian
Judge Sergio
Piperno, president of the Union
of Italian Jewish Communities,
Supreme
Court,"
told the Brazilian ambassador
here during a visit. Stangl has
been under arrest in Sao Paulo
since March 2. His extradition is
being sought by Austria, West
Germany and Poland.
31011I11114•111 to Victims
f Dachau Ruined
stone monu-
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ment honoring Jewish victims of
the Dachau concentration camp
was smeared with a Nazi swastika
and the words "Heil Hitler"
painted on it. police reported Tu,es-
day. An official investigation was
la unched.
The monument is located over-
lioNN
looking the graves of many Jews
at Leittenberg Cemetery just out-
side the camp. It has a Jewish
Star of David chiseled on its face.
The president of the Bavarian
State Criminal Police. Dr. Hans
Schneider. took charge of the
probe. A Protestant Atonement
church was dedicated at the same
site on Sunday. A Jewish memo-
rial center was to be dedicated
next Sunday as part of the 22nd
anniversary of the liberation of
Dachau by Allied forces on April
29, 1945.
Investitzators said the desecra-
tion of the monument was timed
to coincide with the anniversary
events to show the contempt of
some Germans for the memory of
the murdered Jews.
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DeGaulle to Visit Site
of Auschwitz in June
PARIS JTA) — President de
Gaulle will pay a visit to the site
of the Auschwitz death camp dur-
in.: his official visit to Poland, it
was reported here Tuesday. He
is scheduled to arrive in Warsaw
June 1 and will remain in Poland
for about a week.
It was reported here that the
president had .asked the Polish
ambassador in Paris to arrange a
special visit for him to the death
camp site. General de Gaulle said
he wanted to pay his respects to
the victims of Nazism murdered
in Auschwitz.
A memorial to the 4.000,000 vic-
tims at Auschwitz was dedicated
last month in an official ceremony,
period, which expired Sunday. But
the tribunal found a legal techni-
cality for extending the detention
period by two more weeks.
It was learned here from ex-
cellent sources that Stangl -him-
self hopes he will not be freed
in Brazil, and would be extradited
to Austria. Ile was said to fear
"Jewish revenge" and efforts to
assassinate him if he were re-
leased here.
On the other hand, it was said
by these sources, he would prefer
extradition to Austria—rather than
to Poland or West Germany—be-
cause the Austrian accusation is
limited to a charge that he had
participated in a Nazi euthanasia
program, making no mention of
his command position at Treblinka
and Sobibor.
He was reported to hold the be-
lief that, in Austria, he would get
off with a light sentence, if tried
and convicted there.
Stangl's newly appointed attor-
ney, named as defense counsel by
the court after his three former
defense attorneys had withdrawn
from the case, indicated to the
court that he would call for the
man's aequittal on the grounds
that Brazil's legal code sets a
statute of limitation of 20 years on
prosecution of the crimes of which
Stangl is accused.
Stangl's new attorney, Xavier de
Albuquerque, is a professor at the
University of Brazil. The man's
three former attorneys were well
known and very expensive lawyers,
and there had been much specula-
tion here about who had retained
the prestigious defense battery and
who had undertaken the cost of
that private defense.
Prof. Albuquerque's claim that
the statute of limitations bars
Stangl's extradition is supported
by the supreme court's former
chief justice, Nelson Hungria, and
by Brazil's representative on the
United Nations Human Rights
Commission, Carlos Dunshee de
Abranches. An article by the lat-
ter, published here, invoked the
statute of limitations on behalf of
Stangl.
Hungria made his position on
that point clear in a statement
three weeks ago. Hungria's state-
ment garnered considerable inter-
est among attorneys here because
he had been the author of Brazil's
current penal code. Hungria had
been retired from his high judi-
cial post by Brazil's new national
government and is now on pension.
and on the next day, thousands
The surroundings of the famous
of Jews made a pilgrimage to
the site to recite the Kaddish. Tannur (Furnace) waterfall, near
Metulla at the northernmost point
of Israel, have been recently
Fear
The thing in the world I am opened to the public as a nature
most afraid of is fear, and with reserve. This reserve has been laid
good reason, that passion alone is out by Jewish National Fund ex-
the trouble of it exceeding other perts on an area of 400 dunams
(100 acres).
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"emancipation fund," established
by the organization's delegate as-
sembly last year, as well as
through religious works, scholar-
ships and the provision of emerg-
ency aid.
Anti-Semitism in this country
was one of the federation's prin-
cipal preoccupations last year, the
report showed. Among the anti-
Semitic manifestations was the ap-
pearance of a pamphlet containing
many calumnies against the Jewish
people, similar to the notorious
"Protocols of the Elders of Zion,"
Cabbage Month
Cabbage month (kalemonath)
was the Anglo-Saxon name for
February. The farmer's winter
soup had cabbage as its chief in-
gredient. Outdoors as the weather
became milder, cabbage was the
first vegetable to sprout during
the month.
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