36—Friday, September 22, 1967 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 'Night Falls on the City' — Moving Novel Depicting Era of Nazi Rule in Vienna and Attendant Miseries Jewish Cemetery Near D.C. Hit Again fears, the threats from searching squads, the rumors and the intimi- dations are part of an experience that keep the reader so glued to this novel that he feels as if he is experiencing the horror imposed on Vienna—and mankind--by the invading enemy. There are, of course, the col- laborationists as well as the SS and the officials assigned to the theater to watch over the Nazi controls. There are the Oichkers, caretakers of the house that includes Julia's apartment, who are feared and who finally are relegated to their lowly position in the final days when Hitler met defeat at the hands of the Russians in Russia. But there also are Fina—Sera- fina Moosbauer, the Wedekers' housekeeper, who helps hide Dr. Franz, who guards over the sick- ly man until the very end, who protects Julia; and there is Dr. George Kerenyi, the newspaper editor, who is the only one to visit the Wedekers through the years, who is defiant of dangers, who smuggles Dr. Franz's manu- script to Switzerland in the hope of having it published. The administrator assigned to the theater by the new regime, Friedrich Lahmann, is there as the representative of the controlling elements but he is not antagonistic. , Others present dangers. But Julia befriends Nandy—Ferdinand von Kasda—the civil servant who later joins the army. There is a love affair between them and they meet Shah of Iran Says Israel away from Julia's home. She re- mains attached to him to the very Has the Right to Exist end—until the last word from him NEW YORK ( J T A ) — Shah from the Russian front. It is a deep Mohammed Riza Pahlevi of Iran love affair but that does not reduce has said publicly for the first time Julia's devotion to her husband that he felt Israel over whom she guards and for had the right to whose protection she seeks every exist "naturally, available means. like any other There are several very tragic memberof the aspects of this story. The begin- United Nations." ning, when the Nazi hooligans He made the run loose, pillage, attack Jews, statement in a murder, is horrifying. It is during wide-ranging in- these first days that Julia wit- terview with the nesses the attack on the home of New York Times her husband's aunt and her aged in his palace in father, a talmudic scholar. Both - Shimran, a sub- fa`-', die in the scuffle. She manages Shah Pahlevi urb of Teheran. to rescue ,Franz's niece, Ruth, and with the aid of Georg Keren- While affirming Israel's right to yi Ruth is given a home, is mar- national existence, the 47-year-old king said he was opposed to the use of military- force in general and specifically to the six-day June Isaac Stern Cancels Israeli-Arab war. He repeated prev- E. Europe Concerts to ious criticism of Israel's conquests, declaring that Iran was against Protest Stand on Israel "the annexation of anybody's terri- JERUSALEM (JTA) — Isaac tory by sheer brutal force." He con- Stern, world-fained violinist, has ceded that in the June war, "you Canceled concert appearances in might say this was the result of an the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia accident or that it was provoked." and Hungary in protest against the He also said that he would not anti - Israel poli- seek to be a mediator in settling cies adopted by the Arab-Israeli dead lo c k. The the governments Persians, though they are Moslems, of t hose coun- are ethncially dist inct from tries. Arabs. Stern, who per- formed last week with the Buchar- Argentine Jews Voice est Philharmonic Orchestra, noti- Concern Over Brethren fied the govern- in Russia, Ai-ab Lands ments of the, BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Reso- three countries: . lutions expressing concern over that as "a Jew the fate of the Jews in Arab coun- and a Zionists' ...- tries and condemning discrimina- he could not Stern tion against the Jews in the Soviet visit those countries and give con- Union were adopted by the national certs there after they had ordered convention of the Federation of the Israeli envoys to leave. Argentine J e wi s h Communities Stern is the president of the which was attended by delegations America-Israel Cultural Foundation from the Jewish communities in in New York and, with his wife, is most Argentine cities. It was held active in many Israeli causes. last week in La Plata City to cele- brate the 60th anniversary of the French Prime Minister Jewish community there. The convention adopted a reso- on Israel's Victory lution deploring the death, in PARIS (ZINS) — Speaking be- Prague, under mysterious circum- fore journalists at a meeting de- stances, of Charles H. Jordan, ex- voted to Israel's foreign policy, ecutive vice-chairman of the Joint French Prime Minister George Pompadeu said that "when we Distribution Committee. Working sessions under the granted Algiers independence we chairmanship of Dr. Tobias Kam- made history; when Abdul Nasser enszain, president of the organiza- nationalized the Suez Canal he tion, discussed educational and re- changed the globe; when Israel ligious problems of the community sent its troops into Sinai, it shook the entire world." and other domestic issues. There is no limit to the exposes of what had happened in the con- quered countries during the Hitler era. An extensive and growing li- brary devoted to the Holocaust exists in many languages, in many lands. It keeps expanding as new revelations appear, as more novels are being written based on exper- iences during the tragic years of mass murders and the suppression of human rights. One of the great novels of the year dealing with the Nazi era, "Night Falls on the City," by Sarah Gainham, published by Holt, Rine- hart and Winston, (383 Madison, NY17), is a story about Vienna during the entire period of Nazi domination, and the very able author delineates a situation that throws light on the tragedy and ex- poses the horror as it was faced by the sufferers and as it was ac- cepted by collaborationists. The heroine of this story is the beautiful actress Julia Homburg- Wedeker of the world famed Viennese Burgtheater who is married to the liberal politician Dr. Franz Wedeker. With the ad- vent of Hitlerism her husband escapes, but on his way to Prague he is warned that Gestapo are about to question him and he jumps off the train,- returns to his home and is hidden in a secretly set-up room for the dur- ation of the war. The subsequent tensions, the - ried, for the sake of security to an Italian. The latter, too, escapes, leaves Ruth behind, she is among the rounded up, and the scene of the gathering of the victims who are sent to their death is among the very disturb. ing and very moving scenes de- picted by Sarah Gainham. It is as a result of the disappear- ance of Ruth Wedliceny, Franz's niece, that Georg Kerenyi emerges in a very noble light. He runs to headquarters, seeks aid, even goes to Poland later—in search of Ruth who had lived with him during the period of his effort to save her life from the Nazis. But to no avail. Julia, too, is in Poland, enter- taining troops. It is part of the Nazi drama, and there she meets her lover several times, before his final disappearance. Among the fears depicted in "Night Falls on the City" is that of the impending arrival of the Russians. Preceding the m are stories of brutality, of hatred mingled with the desire for ven- geance. The Russians are feared more than even the Nazis. Then there is the final scene the attack on Vienna, the death in the rubble created by the air raid of Fina and Franz. Julia survives and again is asked to return to the theater which she has enricher by her acting. "Night Falls on the City" is one of the most moving novels of our time. 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