Court Rules Bergan-Belsen Graves Are Not to Be Reopene d
U
BONN (JTA)—Nine judges of
the International Court of Arbi-
tration ruled in Coblenz that the
mass graves at the site of the Nazi
concentration camp at Bergen-Bel-
sen must not he disturbed in an
effort to find and remove the re-
mains of 139 French nationals in-
terred there. The French govern-
ment had demanded exhumation
of the bodies, a move opposed by
the World Federation of Bergen-
Belsen Associations, an organiza-
tion of concentration camp stir-
. vivors headed -by Joseph Rosensaft
of New York. The West German
government was also opposed. The
controversy had continued for 12
years before it was submitted to
international arbitration.
Hugo Wickstrom, of Sweden,
who headed the arbitration court,
said the judges' decision was bas -
ed on two factors: the moral and
religious objections of the Bergen-
Itelsen survivors and the testimony
presented by experts that it would
be impossible to identify the bodies
of individuals almost 25 years
after burial. Rosensaft, sole sur-
vivor of a family of 61 killed by
the Nazis, hailed the decision as "a
vindication of the moral stand
taken by the survivors in accord-
ance with Jewish tradition in op-
posing the opening of the graves."
Fifty thousand prisoners, most
Jews, are believed to have died at
: Bergen-Belsen. One of them was
Anne Frank, the Dutch girl made
famous by her Amsterdam diary.
The graves which the French
wanted opened were the repository
of bodies buried after April 15,
1945, when British liberation for-
ces occupied the camp. The French
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case for re-opening the graves was
based on a little-known French-
West German agreement made in
1954 which permitted the return ,
of French victims of Nazism to
France. The Arbitration Court,
which visited the gravesite on May '
6, was established to settle dis-
putes among World War II allies
Egyptian UNRWA Nurse
Freed After Providing
Aid to Terrorist in Gaza
TEL AVIV (JTA)—An Egyptian
nurse sentenced to three months'
imprisonment for providing medi-
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adie Mulias Cite m Trenton cal aid to an Arab terrorist in
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Gaza was freed after she expressed
The affection with which the city community. Both her son Isadore regret for her offense.
The nurse, Fatma Najuli, was
of Trenton holds Mrs. Sadie Mulias and nephew Stanley Ellias, who
was illustrated last week in an shares the ownership of the store, employed by UNRWA, the United
Nations Works and Relief Agency
article, "Happy Birthday" 'Mrs. are leaders in Beth Isaac.
The Times article pointed out for Palestinian Arab refugees. She
M' in the Trenton Times.
had appealed her sentence to the
Mrs. Mulias, who regularly at-
that "Mrs. M." refuses to reveal
tends Cong. Beth Isaac (which her age, only that she was commander of Israeli armed forces
in Gaza who waived the remain-
was named in her father's mem-
brought up on a farm in Bad
der of her prison term, Miss Na-
ory), is the matriarch of the Mu- Axe, the daughter of Belle and
has family, whose department
Isaac Noah Ellias. She was mar- juli- returned to her UNRWA post.
store, Mulias and Ellias, is Tren-
ried to Meyer Mulias in 1910 I
ton's largest.
and moved to Trenton two years Brazilian School Named
Rabbi Josef Zeitin also devoted
later. Isadore was born in 1912. in Honor of Levi Eshkol
his sermon last Friday evening to
The death of her husband sev- RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)—The
Mrs_ Mulias and her many serv- eral years after Isadore's birth
ices to Beth Isaac and the Jewish brought Mrs. Mulias into an active governor of Guanabara province
t h a Rio public
role with the store. She continues has announced
that role to a legendary extreme. school will be named in honor of
According to Ellias, her nephew, the late prime minister of Israel,
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FOLLOWING DELUXE TOURS:
MEXICO
New DeLuxe
Hotels-3
nights Mexico City-
7 nights Acapulco with departure:
December 20, 1969
January 2, 1970
January 11, 22, March 11, 1970
$540.00
$534.00
$549.00
11 days ACAPULCO, only Pierre Marques Hotel
departure: January 2, 1970 $549.00
CURACAO—ARUBA
12 days at the Curacao Hilton and Aruba
Eshkol.
"She's here when the store opens, Levi
Several other public schools
Sheraton Hotels. Departure:
and leaves when the store closes."
Yet Mrs. Mulias still finds time : here have been named for Jews
$479.00
January 21, February 4, 25, 1970
or Israel. One is the Anne Frank
Nov. 7—Temple Emanuel Cultural for the Soroptomist Club and the
Eastern Star and is a charter School, another the Madinat (State
8 days ARUBA only
Service -
of) Israel school.
$389.00
(some departure dotes)
member of both clubs.
9—USY Board
Three more schools have been
She is renowned for her honesty, • named for Brazilian-Jewish indus-
11 days at the Holiday Inn, Aruba,
11—Ahavas Israel Board
according to the Times article, trialists and philanthropists. There
departure December 23, 1969 $459.00
—Women's Bnai Brith
which related an incident with a are streets in the city named after
Games Party
customer who wanted Mrs. Mulias' Dr. Theodor Herzl, Dr. Chaim
PUERTO RICO-8 DAYS
11-12—Temple Emanuel Sister- opinion of a dress. Mrs. Mulias
Weizmann, Dr. Ludwig Zamenhoff
hood Leadership
kept insisting she would bring the and former Prime Minister David
EL CONQUISTADOR — Depart Jan. 18 and
12—Bnai Brith Women's Board patron another selection, but the Ben-Gurion.
$488.00
March 11, 1970
13—Temple Emanuel Board of customer persisted. "Finally, Mrs.
M. blurted the awful truth, 'The
AMERICANA SAN JUAN—Depart January 11
Trustees
dress makes you look like a tub HUC to Break Ground
$3 6 9.00
and March 15, 1970
14—Mossman Bat Mitzva
of lard. It looks like hell on you.' , for Los Angeles School
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ALL TOURS INCLUDE: air transportation round
"Another shopper was aghast
LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Hebrew
The Grand Rapids Symphonic and turned to the customer with
trip from Detroit, airport transfers, DeLuxe
• Choir will perform the "Chichester the offending dress. 'That's all Union College will break ground
hotels (based on two persons to o room), sight-
here
Sunday for a new $5,000,000
Psalms" at Temple Emanuel Sab- right, I've put up with it for 30
seeing,
, school adjacent to the University
bath services 8:15 p.m. today.
years,' said the dress customer.' of Southern California, an institu-
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For information call:
Rabbi Josef Zeitin of Cong. Beth lion with which HUC has had
Temple Emanuel will hold its Isaac
addressed the discussion academic relations for the past
family dinner 6 p.m. Nov. 21.
three years.
group of Elizabeth Church, Wyan-
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dotte, on "Our Common Religious • Plans for the new school were
Mark Belfer, son of Mr. and
announced jointly in 1966 by HUC
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evening.
was
recently
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Mrs. Gerald Belfer,
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installed as president of Grand ' Dr. Norman Topping. USC presi-
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Isadore
Leeman,
Rapids Temple Youth. Other off: -
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cers are Doug Singer, state board president of the National Women
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Friedman and Janice Wolf, vice America and past president of the . .
presidents: Edie Landman, secre Michigan Branch of the league, F.
will speak on "What Is the Na-
Lary - Jack Stevens, treasurer:
8 p.m.
and Jeff Henner, parliamentarian. tional Women's League"
Nov. 18 at Beth Isaac.
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Fannie Wasserman, 810 Glad -
- A member of the Beth Isaac
stone SE, died Oct. 26 at age S5.
who is from Iraq
The widow of Paul Wasserman. congregation
all persons who seek
she leaves a son, Joseph: a asks that
Jews of that country
help
the
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Phillip Was to
to AMCORR, 1200 Fifth Ave..
serman; five grandchildren and write
New York, N.Y. The unnamed
two g r e a t-grandchildren. Mrs. member addressed the Flint pro-
fig
'Wasserman was a • member of
march last month.
Temple Emanuel and Ilaclassah. test
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