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8—Friday, Sept. 1, 1972

Tr!fars Admission of Fascist Ties Provides a Missing Link

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that
r:. r of the
'
,nd
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d by police and army
1 inquired as to what
'am, on, and was ad_
! by my friends to dis-
anpear right away.

- It
was
The
anarchy.
Bo hares! police and units
of thi• Iron Guard fought
hack for three days. There

permanent enemy -- Soviet I headed be Gloria) Sima. At
Union—and generals." the- same time, hundreds of

Guardists
Then, in an admission that ordinary I r o n
perhaps reveals more than worked in the factories for
he intended. Bishop Valerian Hitler a great distance from
stated: Berlin, the proCeeds of whose
- There was an anti-Jew- labor went to Sirna to sup-

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ish attitude but it was not port hi, and Trifa's rebel-
in any way inspired by Ger• ,Ilous grout)."
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Bishop Valerian, who fre-
many. There were some
1 NOM noA NMOO 3aisen
During this time some peo- manifestations or protests by quently leads services at St.
CoSe.A.
ple went to Jewish quarters students. Jews are able peo- George Romanian Orthodox
301 usni not, Ii
and killed Jews. This I con- pie in business and they • Cathedral on W. Nine Mile
Last May, The Jewish sidered one of the unfortu- monopolized the economy. and Southfield Rds. in South-
News carried an extensive nate things. I was not pies- This is the way we saw it field, is opposed by many
article on the crimes en and did not condone it.. at that time
i Romanian Americans, who
committeed
by the Iron I had no unit under corn- ,
There was no racial pro- see in him a usurper of the
I
-
mand.
I
did
not
see
or
hear
Guard, with young Viorel
test of the Hitler pogrom 1Romanian Orthodox Church.
Trifa in a leadership role. about it until afterwards.
His argument against his
type," he said. "There were ;
"From this went out a
Bishop Valerian — whose
some regrettable incidents, ' foes is that they are Corn-
headquarters is in Grass story that 6,000 Jews had but no organized anti-Semi- ! munists. Yet, ironically,
been
killed
and
that
the
stu-
'
Lake. Mich.—has consis-
tic liquidations as Hitler had. Bishop Valerian's church is
tently denied leading po- dents did it and I was some- ' People should not be over- • recognized by the Moscow
nobody Patriarchate, not by the
groms against the Jews in how responsible. But
sensitive over some inci-
has witnessed or testified to
Standing Conference of Or-
January 1941. and The Jew
dents."
this.
thodox Bishops in the Amer-
ish News was careful to
You get more when you deal with
The shooting deaths of
A different version is of-
print those denials, along
Rabbi Guttman's sons were icas '
with the charges against fered by Rabbi Zvi Gutt-
His
opponents
point
out
merciful compared with the '
him. He had in.sistorl that man of Tel Aviv, who lost
fate of another group o f that if there were a serious
photographs of a uniformed two sons in the Bucharest
Jews who were murdered in I dispute within the church,
Trim Guardist were not of pberom. At the time, Rabbi
an abattoir. An ey&-witness t h e Russian patriarchate
him,
Guttman was spiritual leader
described that incident as could
take over the church
' c
of
the
Jewish
community
in
In The Detroit le . :ee Press
• property. For an admitted
Fleet Manager
follows:
12330 Jos. Campau
Bucharest;
his
sons,
Jacob
Sunday
Bishop
Valerian
"The
bodies
of
those
killed
ex-fascist,
Bishop Valerian
Res. LI. 8-41 1 9
891-0600
891-2360
plays an interesting game. I
admitted that he was the and Joseph were well-known
literary figures, Jacob hav- in the slaughter house had
same man as the young Vio
been hung on hooks like cat-
DON'T MAKE A COSTLY MISTAKE CALL US LAST
rel Trifa shown in a photo- ing written many anti-Hitler
tle by the slaughtermen . .1 What a 13edlamite is man!
graph - haranguing a meet- articles for the local press.
(some) were found with their 1—Thomas Jefferson.
ing of the Romanian student
On the night of Jan_ 21.
stomachs deeply slashed by! ,
union in early Weeild War Iron Guardists entered their
the vile killers, masters in
home,
brutally heat the rabbi
11 "
the art of torture, who, by
It is this admission that and his sons and forced them using kitchen knives, tore
could crack Trifa's ar•rol. outdoors into a waiting truck.
the intestines from the bod-
Although he maintains that While being driven around ies of the victims and hung
he has "never in my life fur hours, they and others them round their necks like
killed anyone, neithr: Jew- were beaten relentlessly. Fi- ties." This story was sub
nor Christian. nor a r•ern- nally they were driven into slantiated by the !ate Leight
her of any faith," there are a forest where corpses lay VVnite, then a correspondent
witnesses to the cri•--es cam. scattered in the snow.
for the Overseas New s
mitted by young le iorel
The rabbis' sons, sensing Agency, who witnessed it.
T - ifa, during
the January what awaited them, begged
Even as this was going on.
1931 pogroms in Rumania.
that their father be spared.
synagogues were being de-
tine of them is Moshe As they pleaded, holding stroyed and plundered. Wor-
Maur-Schor, editor of Facia onto his arms, shots rang shipers were at prayer in
in Tel Aviv. who said he out. and the three men fell Bucharest's Choral Syna-
- personally witnessed the to the ground. The shots had
rogue when the Iron Guard
pogrom perpetrated by Vlo- only wounded the father but' legionaires entered. They
killed his two sons. Rabbi
re! Trifa "
dragged the reader from the
Guttman insists that Trifa
ime ti-I1 it
hima and murdered him,
led the pogrom.
along with a choir boy and
(,, ,, c1 to he in the
Despite Bishop Valerian's
four
others
!,,•barest the very insistence in the Free Press
The guardists didn't stop
lioria that he was no more than
with
Bucharest.
A few
,egionary corn
a Romanian nationalist, oth-
months later they substi-
7 '
izate,i-pogrom , rs view Viorel Trda
•....t•d In difficulty, I man- much more. A list of 21 toted machineg.uns for pis-
reach the Jewish Nazi war criminals living in toll and knives- and thou-
V, I walked through the United States which was say ds more met their death
Cie stt..et oppos,te the tern- compiled by journalist Not only Jews have spoken
ole. a merchant,
warning Charles R. Allen, Jr. in- up against Trifa. Romanian-
American sculptor Constan-
•
ro.t.ed we into his shop. eludes these words:
"Vlore! Trifa, now known tin Antonovici refutes the
Its dangerous to he in the
bishop's argument that he
street, he told Me.
as Bishop Valerian, ecclesi-
- Andso it was Within astical head of the Romanian was a "prisoner" in Ger-
many while Romania was at
minute. the butchers am
rthodox Episcopate of
pared to a wild rage in America. Resides in a small war. In an article in the
i
Day Service
front of the holy place and , town called Grass Lake, United Israel Bulletin, An-
beat up every Jew they en- Michigan. 50 miles due west tonovici said that Trifa, "to-
gether with many others who
countered. The merchant of Detroit "
by
took me down to the cellar
Bishop Valerian told his were considered trusted h
where, through a small win- F ree Press interviewer: the Nazis, were stationed in .
dow, we saw the murderous , "The students were all anti- • Germany with the view to I
onslaught and the havoc they , communist. They were all making an attempt to form '
'
wrought upon the temple.
right (rightists), and not on a new Romanian government
"Soon after this riot, a mo- the left. The nationalist
torcycle with a sidecar raced movement in Romania, in-
Wishing All Our Friends
wildly into the ruined scene. cluding the Iron Guard, sup-
Customers, A Happy, Health
In the sidecar sat Trifa, with ported Germany and efforts
and Peaceful New Year.
a revolver in his hand, corn. to keep Romania outside
mandeering the riot and su- the Soviet block. (The Iron
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