FreiPMPIWiltiworittitges ,, lVtare.:Syriaatt-Persecution. of , Jews , - ,,, Enter Efarbie Case; New Witness Found I Revealed by Stade nit' Action Grouri PARIS (JTA) ---.The investiga- tion to determine- the identity of a man in Bolivia believed' to be the fugitive Nazi Klaus Barbie was taken over Monday by a delega- tion of French military judges headed by Jean Claude Perioer, director general of the defense min- istry. They went to Munich Wednesday to receive from West German At- torney General Ludolph documents that may prove that Klaus Alt- mann, a Bolivian citizen now in a I,aPaz jail on charges of business fraud, is the notorious Gestapo "butcher of Lyons" responsible for the mass deportation of French Jews in World War II and the murder of the French resistance hero. Jean Moulin. The search for Barbie was con- ducted unofficially until now by Mrs. Beate Klarsfeld, a Ger- man married to a French Jew, French-Jewish civil servant and World War II resistance leader an- nounced that he would go any- where in the world to serve as a witness against Barbie. Aubrac, who is director of the Rome bureau of the Food and Agri- cultural Organization, said he had been personally interrogated by Barbie in June 1943 when he fell into Gestapo hands, Aubrac was rescued when an un- derground commando unit headed by his wife stormed the police car that was transfering him from one prison to another. Mrs. Klaisfeld returned here last week from Bolivia only long enough to pick up document,, and finger- prints to convince Bolivian author- ities that the man they have in custody in LaPaz is indeed Barbie. Mrs. Klarsfeld was promised documents by West German au- thorities in Frankfurt and Bonn. Klaus Altmann. the man be- lieved to be Barbie, was arrested Feb. 4 in La Paz for nonpayment of a $4,003 debt he owed the Bolivian government. France asked the Bolivian au- thorities last week to take the suspect into custody until a La Paz court could determine• whether he is the Nazi fugitive who obtained Bolivian citizen- ship under the alias of Altmann. If that proves to be the case, Bolivia, which does not extradite its own citizens, would 'have grounds to hand over Barbie to France to face war crimes charges, legal experts here said, Mrs. Klarsfeld said the docu- ments she would bring back in- clude Barbie's fingerprints from his old Wehrmacht personnel files. These could confirm his identity, Mrs. Klarsfeld's husband, Serge, to'd the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that his wife was kept under po- - lice protection during her visit to the Peruvian Interior Ministry. 'Memsry Fails' Ex-Nazi: Charged With Pinsk Crimes • BONN (JTA) — The Frankfurt police commissioner, Johan Eck- stein, who served in the Nazi po- lice force under Hitler, stated dur- ing a mass murder trial that he did not remember a thing" con- cerning Nazi crimes and the mur- der of Jews in Pinsk during World War 11. Eckstein has boon charged with participating in the liquidation of the Pinsk ghetto in the fall of 1942. Thousands of Jews were murdered during that action. A Hamburg court Tuesday ac- quitted Walter Becker, 74, Nazi Germany's director of criminal police in Starachowice, of charges of murder and other war crimes in Poland during World War IL - NEW YORK — Arg,7" terviews is AskijefF-4onditeted Israel for the seleetfon of - 0mi*, mat_gly 80 Israelis who will work in the United States this summer as counselors and specialists at Jewish community center, federa- , tion and other Jewish community agency camps. Asher 0. Melzer, director of Surprise Lake Camps, Cold Spring, N. Y., is currently in Israel for this selection process, represent- ing the National Jewish Welfare Board as an adjunct staff member in an exchange (shlikhim) pro- gram being sponsored for the Jewish ghetto. eighth year by JWB, the youth Six of the families own gro- and hehalutz department of the cery or other shops and are the I have made it a rule never to World Zionist Organization and the only Jews earning a reasonable smoke more than one cigar at a American Zionist Youth Founda- L. living. The others barely sup- time, —Mark Twain. tion. LONDON (JTA)—A community of 350 Jews in the town of Kami- sheli on the Turkey-Syria border is virtually imprisoned by Syrian authorities. Discrimination against them is severe and they are de- prived from earning all but the most meager livelihood. This information was disclosed here by the World Union of Jew- ish Students' action committee for Arab Jewry. According to WUJS, Kamisheli's Jews are restricted to a limited area of the town even in daylight and at night are confined to the who visited Bolivia. Her efforts prompted the French government to request the extracii - j e tion of the man believed to he Barbie. who, up to Jan. 26 was liv- ing in Peru. A positive identifica- tion of the man as Barbie would pave tho way for his extradition. , Meanwhile, Raymond Aubrac, a ,Interviews Under Way THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 2 for Selection . of 80 Israelis 24--FtInt febrporri) to M U- Ss iff tt port themselves as laborers, serv- ants or peddlers. They are forbidden to join trade unions, are paid lower wages than non-Jews and can be dismissed without notice or compensation. A 'majority of the families live in a single room, the report said. There is no Jewish school in the town. Jewish children attend the government school. Only six are enrolled in high school. Part of Kamisheli's only synagogue was taken over by the Syrian army. 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