58—Friday, March 24, 1972
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Former SS Leaders Go on Trial on Charges of Murders
Rabbi's Mission to Rescue Women
Abducted Into Ma rriage With Arabs
BONN (JTA) — Three former orders to carry out mass murders
high-ranking SS leaders have gone in Czernowitz in July 1942 but
on trial in Munich on charges of claimed he "did not know that all
having participated in the mass of the 100 men and women ordered
murders of thousands of Jews in to be shot were Jews." Asked by
By MOSHE RON
Quarter of Jerusalem.
the judge who he thought they
Jewish News Special Israel
One morning, little Judith de- Russia during World War II.
The defendants were all mem- were, he replied, "civilian looters."
Correspondent
cided to go for a walk in the cen-
Finger claimed that he was
TEL AVIV — Before the estab- ter of Jerusalem. She lost her way, bers of the top leadership of the
lishment of the state of Israel,
some young Jewish girls were
kidnapped by Arabs and were
forced into marrying them. Others
fell in love and went with them to
neighboring Arab countries.
The well-known Jaffa Rabbi,
Hanania Darei took it upon him-
self since the Six - Day War to
look for Jewish women in Arab
towns and countries, to reunite
them with their Jewish families
and to reconvert them to Jewry.
Through his work, he has become
a legendary figure.
Rabbi Dar ei comes from
North Africa and speaks fluent
Arabic. He wanders through Arab
towns such as Hebron, Jericho,
Ramallah, Gaza and Arab villages
looking for Jewish girls and
women who have been missing
since the establishment of the
state. He knows that through these
visits he Is endangering his life.
He always carries a gun, and
has two pistols obtained with a
special license from the authorities.
He has many Arab` friends who
try to help him find Jewish women
and girls—for payments. Between
visits to the Arab towns and vil-
lages he carries out his duties as
a rabbi in a small synagogue on
Jerusalem Blvd. in Jaffa, where
he directs c o u r s e s twice a
week for Gentile Women and stu-
dents who come to Israel for a
period of time,
are studying at
Tel • Aviv Univ rsity.• Generally,
these students /meet Jewish boys
and girls during their stay here,
whom they Wish to marry. Rabbi
Darei instructs them about Jewry,
Jewish history, Jewish holidays
and laws. If they then apply to the
rabbinate for conversion, they al-
ready have some knowledge about
Jewish laws and rites.
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A few days ago, Rabbi Darei
gave a party at his synagogue for
20 candidates for conversion. He
prepared a big surprise for his
pupils. Suddenly, a 40-year old
woman appeared with three small
children — two girls and a boy.
Rabbi Darei introduced her as a
Jewish girl who had lived in the
Old City of Jerusalem for 27 years
with her Arab husband. She was
known as Leila Naysha, but two
weeks ago she had been reconvert-
ed to Jewry and had received her
original Jewish n a m e, Judith
Schwarz. Her young son of 7,
whose name was Ataf, is now
Chaim Schwarz, and his two sis-
ters, 9-year old Atte and 5-year
old Heilda, are now Esther and
Hulda Schwarz.
When I looked at Mrs. Judith
Schwarz, with her black hair and
green eyes, speaking a mixture of
Hungarian, Arabic and Hebrew, I
could not image that she had to
undergo such tragedies during a
greater part of her life, which is
characteristic for some of those
saved from the Holocaust.
She told us that when she was
9, the Nazis, with the help of
Hungarian Fascists, took her par-
ents, three brothers and her from
a cellar in Budapest where they
were in hiding. Her family, with
thousands of Jews, were sent to
Auschwitz. Her whole family was
killed. Judith was among those
who were freed in the camp by the
Russian army. She and 200 other
Jews were sent back to Budapest.
She was taken into the protection
of Youth Aliya and sent to Pales-
tine in 1946 on board the Hagana.
The British authorities held her
for a month in the camp for illegal
immigrants in Atlit. Later, she
was sent to Kibutz Afikim and
from there she went to an educa-
tional institution in the Talpiot
was picked up by an Arab shep-
herd who told her he would lead
her to the Jewish part of the town,
but brought her to the Arab part
of the Old City. On the way, she
was kidnaped by a group of young
Arabs and locked up in an Arab
house. The A r a b s told her
not to cry or shout. After a week,
an Arab who was 30 years older
than her, Mohamed All Harousha,
appeared and told her that she was
now his wife. In the evening, the
Arab took her to a khadi who cele-
brated a marriage ceremony ac-
cording to Moslem law.
She lived in a primitive flat at
the back of the town and during
the course of years, bore two
daughters and a son. The youngest
child, a daughter Hulda, was born
in the Old City during the night
of fighting in the Six-Day War,
when Israeli paratroopers captured
the Wailing Wall and the Old City.
Uri Frant, a doctor and an offi-
cer of Zahal who took part in the
liberation of the Old City, was
called to the hospital to assist
Judith at the birth of her child.
She then told the young doctor
the story of her life and revealed
to him that she was no Arab, but
a born Jewess.
• • •
After the liberation of the Old
City by, Zahal, and Judith's visits
to the Jewish part of Jerusalem,
her husband became suspicious
that she was intending to return
to Jewry. To avoid it, he trans-
ferred the two daughters to his
relatives in Amman.
Judith began preparations for
her return to Jewry. She found a
connection to Rabbi Darei, who
had heard about her from Dr.
Frant.
Suddenly her husband died.
Rabbi Darei brought her and the
three children to Rabbi Josef Bab-
liki in Jerusalem, who arranged
the reconversion and registration
of Judith Schwarz and her chil-
dren as Jews. She is now free to
marry again.
Rabbi Darei arranged the Brit
Mile of Judith's son, who received
the name of Chaim. In the mean-
time, the two daughters are being
cared for by a family who live in
good circumstances in Savycn,
near Tel Aviv. Rabbi Darei is
now looking for a suitable apart-
ment for Judith and her family.
Minister for Absorption Nathan
Peled has granted Judith the rights
of a new immigrant to Isra"l.
This is one of the great tragedies
of a Jewish girl — kidnaped by
Arabs and forced to marry an
Arab — but which has a happy
ending.
Rabbi Darei told us that until
now he had found traces of 34
Jewish girls and women who are
living with Arab husbands in Arab
countries and villages. He is try-
ing to bring them back to Israel
and Jewry.
Solender to Receive JWB's
Heller Professional Award
NEW YORK—Sanford Solender,
executive vice-president of the Fed-
eration of Jewish Philanthropies of
New York, has been named winner
of the 1972 Florance G. Heller Pro-
fessional Award of the National
Jewish Welfare Board, to be pre-
sented to Solender at the banquet
of JWB's national biennial con-
vention, April 15, in Atlanta, Ga.
The award, is given to an indi-
vidual who has had a professional
career in agencies directly re-
lated to JWB.
Rabbi Israel Miller, Leon Kap-
lan and Jacquees Lipchitz are the
winners of the JWB Frank L.1
Well Awards.
elite Einsatzkommandos which was
active in the Soviet Union from
1941 to 1943.
Their method of murder was
to force Jews to stand with their
backs to previously dug mass
graves and shoot them down.
Babies and small children in
their mothers' arms were buried
alive.
Brought to trial Monday were
Karl Finger, 61, charged with abet-
ting the murder of 3,128 Jews in
southern Russia, mainly between
1941 and 42; Siegfried Suchart, 54,
charged with the same crime in
the deaths of 3,100 Jews; and Theo-
dor Lipps, 55, accused of personal-
ly murdering 250 persons, including
30 Jews. Until his arrest in 1968,
Lipps was chief commissioner of
police, criminal division, in Co-
logne.
Finger confessed that he gave
"always against the persecution of
Jews except for emergency actions
during the war."
Every library should try to be
complete on something, if it were
only the history of pinheads.
—Oliver W. Holmes
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SING
Providing decent housing for
hundreds of thousands of immigrants
has always been a critical problem for
the people of Israel.
From the make-shift tents that
sheltered the first new arrivals to
temporary shacks of canvas, tin and
wood to more permanent structures ...
during the past 23 years these were
home to many of the hundreds of
thousands who came to Israel seeking
life and the fulfillment of a dream.
There's never been enough money to
house all these people properly.
So today, housing has become the
number one human problem people
in Israel face. At a time when the
staggering financial burden of
defense continues, too many families
live in conditions of dangerous
overcrowding. Too many families
live in inadequate facilities.
At least 70,000 Israeli families—some
10% of the total population—now live
in substandard housing, housing
which must be replaced—soon.
And this year, with the anticipated
arrival of 50,000 new immigrants, a
minimum of 15,000 new immigrant
housing units must be built.
All of this is our responsibility.
Our promise.
For those who are to come—and those
already there, trying to carve out a
decent life for themselves—the future
can hold little promise without a
decent place to live. A place to call
home.
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