This Week in Jewish History (From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency) 40 Years Ago This Week: 1931 The Joint Distribution Committee sought $2,500,000 in 1931 for the relief of European Jews. "Haam," a Zionist Revisionist daily, began publication in Jerusalem under the absentee editorship of Vladimir Jabotinsky. "Yehuda," a novel by Meyer Levin of the JTA staff was the March choice of the Jewish Book Club. An alternate choice was "Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms" by Albert Einstein. 10 Years Ago This Week: 1961 Egypt canceled a Cairo performance by an American troupe headed by Helen Hayes on learning its itinerary included Tel Aviv. Neue Juedische Zeitung, West Germany's only Yiddish periodical, suspended publication for financial reasons after 500 issues in 10 years. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, addressing Jewish audiences in New York, said that while Germany could never be "chemically free" of Nazism, "the generation of young Germans untainted by Nazism would not follow so swiftly another Brown Pied Piper as did their parents," and "anti-Semitism will never again become an integral part of official German life." Moroccan Jews asked the government to establish its Jewish com- munity as a separate entity enjoying equal rights with Moslems. Israel denied reports it had agreed to conduct the Eichmann trial in a way that would not impair Israeli-West German relations. Justice Minister Pinhas Rosen added that Nazi witnesses would not be given immunity from prosecution. Argentinian officials said the woman whose body was found in a mountain cave a year earlier was an Israeli seeking Auschwitz selection doctor Josef Mengele. The Relief Committee for Racial Persecutees said that of the 31,000 Jews in Baden-Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1933, 8,500 had been killed by the Nazis, 21,500 had managed to escape and 701 had returned after the war. The World Jewish Congress issued a list of 1,500 Nazis "accused or suspected of crimes against humanity," for use by the prosecution in the Eichmann trial. Sixteen years after World War II, Austria agreed to indemnify vic- tims of the Nazis, setting up a $6,000,000 fund and approviing an amendment providing double payments for each month of incarceration. Scores of Riga Jews cheered the Hapoel basketball team—which lost—and gave its players greetings for conveyance to relatives in Israel. Jews in Poland, Rumania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia were re- portedly given permission to bake Passover matzot. Captain Tells How Gunboats Spirited Out of Cherbourg COPENHAGEN (JTA) — Details of the famous "escape" of five embargoed Israeli gunboats from Cherbourg, France on Christmas Eve 1969, were related in an inter- view with a Danish sea captain published in the daily Politiken. Capt. Knud Lindholm Petersen said he played a part in the inci- dent which aroused world-wide ex- citement and the ire of the French government. The unarmed gunboats, built in France for Israel, were placed un- der embargo following the Six-Day War although they were fully paid for. They were kept under heavy guard at Cherbourg but Israeli crews were p e r m i t t e d to live aboard for maintenance purposes. Capt. Petersen sad they were al- lowed only enough fuel for heating and light but the Israelis secretly hoarded the fuel ration for months. "NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM" WIN SALEM'S VACATION IN ISRAEL SWEEPSTAKES 25 ADDITIONAL PRIZ NO PURCHASE NECESSARY 1. 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SOL The IRV PRINCETON SHOP The latest fashions for men 6 to 60 20072 W. 7 Mile KE 3-4310 Eve green Your Scotch dollar bugs more • • Eliel was graduated in mechanics from Anieres in 1953. After doing a two-year stint in Swiss industry, he returned to Israel and a teach- ing position at the ORT Technicum in Givatayim. He began as an in- structor in the mechanics work- shop and later became a teacher of theory; he is now a supervisor in the mechanics department, with 400 students under his jurisdiction. This was a great advance on the previous equipment, and the small size and low cost of their device would permit any school to own one and verify the results of a test immediately after its completion. BUCHAREST (JTA) — A me- Following the recitation of the morial service was held at the. Kadish, the congregation made a Choral Synagogue to mark the pilgrimage to the cemetery where 30th anniversary of the 1941 po- the martyrs are buried. grom in which 120 Jews were killed by fascist hooligans in this capitol city. WE CARE FIR YOUR CAR Chief Rabbi Dr. Moses Rosen delivered a sermon in which he said "We Jews struggle with the rest of mankind for a world order in which such dreadful events as the pogrom here 30 years ago are Sales • Service on all makes no longer thinkable. We Jews are also full of thankfulness that the ;4.3000 it ti .., TF L TWI L VI IVIALt +I it 1 Jewish people is restored to the t ,:c land of the Bible and is master of its fate." The small craft cast off in the evening and left Cherbourg harbor without lights. They had sufficient fuel for only a few hours. Capt. Petersen said they were refueled from tankers chartered by Israel which met them outside French territorial waters. The boats tied up at Haifa 17 days after leaving Cherbourg. Capt. Petersen said the voyage was "uneventful." Eliel completed a vocational course in a special lubutz school. Soon after, he learned that ORT Anieres was interviewing candi- dates for teacher-training; he applied and was accepted. RIO DE JANEIRO — Arnaldo Milstein Mefano, a 16-year-old electronics student at the ORT Instituto de Technologia here, has been successful in developing a small computer for use in the cor- rection of tests. Arnaldo and a school friend wanted to simplify the usual elec- tronic test-correction equipment and set to work at figuring out a way to do it. They came up with an apparatus about the size of a cigar box, which operated on a photo-cell principle, using only one electronic element to scan all the answers and to record the num- ber of correct ones on a perforated card. Friday, March 19, 1971—U 1941 Pogrom Remembered by Romanian Jews The escape was planned for Christmas Eve because the strength of the guard would be reduced at that time. Petersen said only two guards were posted and they were gotten drunk by the Israelis before departure time. 2 Success Stories From ORT GIVATAYIM — A happy chance reunion at the ORT Technicum here brought together two boyhood companions when Israeli Education Minister Yigal Allon met ORT teacher and Anieres graduate Yo- chanan Eliel, during Allon's recent visit to the school. The two men were, in a sense, "brothers"—Allon, whose mother died when he was a baby, was taken in and lovingly cared, for by Eliel's mother, who had 10 children of her own. Both men received their early schooling in their village of Kfar Tabor. Later, Allon went on to the Kadoorie Agricultural School and from there, into the Hagana and a public career. 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