Friday, Doc. 15, 1972-11

Collaborator's Rehearing Asked of Pompidou, Who Pardoned him

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

PARIS (JTA)—The Inter-
national Le ague Against
Racism and Anti-Semitism
(LICA) announced here that
it will ask President Georges
Pompidou to reconsider the
case of former Nazi collabo-
rator Paul Touvier, who

NY Jewish Seminary Attacked
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served as chief of the militia

in Nazi-occupied Lyons and
was sentenced to death in
absentia at the end of World

War II by a French military ments were fraudulently eli-
court. minated from the Touvier
He was pardoned by Porn- file"
before the file was
pidou in November 1971 at transmitted to Pompidou las:.
the request of local Catholic November.

Bloch said LICA would not
seek a rehearing based on
Touvier's war crimes—since
they are proscribed after 20
years under French law—but
dignitaries
LICA accused a former for his crimes against hu-
LICA President Jean-Pierre Lyons police officer. Louis manity.
Bloch said his organization Tonnot, of having censored
Six former SS members ap-
would ask Minister of Justice the file. Tonnot is currently peared before a Hamburg
Rene Pleven to begin new in prison for his alleged role court charged with aiding
hearings because LICA "can in prostitution and racketeer. and abetting the murder of
about 500,000 Jews in Poland
prove that important ele- lag scandals.
between 1942 and 1944.
The man accused is Karl
Streibel, 68, former com-
mandant of the SS training
and labor camp Trawnike in
Poland. He is said to have
set up Ukrainian execution
units.
The other accused are Mi-
chael Janczak, Erwin Mit.
rach, Joseph Nupieralla,
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over a five-year period to
BY BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1972, JTS, me 1
find "satisfactory quarters."
NEW YORK — Last mid- The memorandum , added
September a leaflet was dis- that "as a result of the slow
tributed in the Morningside pace deliberately adopted"
Heights area of upper Man- by the seminary in relocating
hattan, announcing a "com- tenants, the relocations "have
munity protest" against the proved more than satisfac-
Jewish Theological Semin-
tory in almoFt all instances."
ary and "its eviction plans "
To speed- relocation, the
against tenants of two nearby JTS offered on May 16, 1969,
buildings.
to pay 54000, which the mem-
The sponsors of the protest, orandum described as almost
one of several over the years, 10 times the amount required
were listed as MOSTA (Mor- by city law, to the still re-
ningside Open Stairway Ten- maining tenants.
ants Association). Morning-
The JTS then applied for
skiers United, Morningside certificates to evict the re-
Tenants Committee, River- maining 11 tenants. The
Reinberger. All six are now side Democrats and members memorandum said the sem-
of the 121st-122nd Street Block inary continued to provide
living in retirement.
those tenants with normal
A court in Arnsberg, Ger- Association.
The leaflet asserted that maintenance service.
many, has handed down sen-
the
JTS
had,
since
1964.
tences from 2-51/2 years on
In August 1970, apartments
five former members of the "pressured over 400 people," were found for each of the
Gestapo for complicity in the to leave the two buildings, ••remaining tenants by a firm
murder of 5,000 Jews in Po- with four tenants remaining; paid by the seminary, and the
that 208 apartments stood va- landlords were paid by the
land in 1942.
Hans Wilhelm Bartsch and cant, "many empty for . seminary to hold the apart-
Joseph Laibenthal received eight years, in our eity's ments pending approval
51/2 years; Walter Augustin. worst housing crisis", and which was given by munici-
five years; Albert Krischok, that the seminary wanted to pal authorities who had in-
four years; and Ludwig Ro- destroy two sound- buildings spected the apartments."
"which people can live in, to
meis, two years.
The apartments were of-
The trial lasted 15 months, build a library."
fered to the tenants "in ac-
and more than 100 witnesses
The leaflet urged support cordance with regulations"
were questioned .
for "these courageous people but rejected by tre tenants.
who stay, refusing to bow to several of whom refused
subtle pressure, not so sub- "even to look at" the pre-
Novelist to Give Part tle harassments, threats to ferred
apartments.
safety. or lack of
The remaining tenants filed
of Proceeds to ORT physical
services or maintenance."
protest
against the eviction
a
NEW YORK — Jerzy Ko-
The setting for this dispute orders. After seven months,
sinski, winner of the National
Commissioner Ben-
Book Award for Literature, is unusual. The JTS is the Renting
jamin Altman filed an order
whose new novel, "The Devil core institution of American
denying
the
protests.
Tree" will be published Feb. Conservative Judaism, hous-
After more court hearings,
14 by Harcourt Brace Jovan- ing its rabbinical seminary;
Altman's order was upheld in
ovich, will donate all of the the headquarters of the
July 1971, but a new attorney
royalties from the Hebrew United Synagogue of Amer-
filed notice of appeal to the
and Yiddish publication of ica, the cent-al body for Con-
Office of Rent Control. Cur-
rabbis;
and—until
servative
his novels in Israel to the
a disastrous fire in 1966 in rently, there are two proceed-
ORT scholarship fund.
ings in civil court for the
ORT (Organization for Re- the seminary building tower
four remaining tenants.
habilitation Through Train- —one of the world's finest
Most tenants were single
ing) is a worldwide program Judaica libraries.
persons, with a sprinkling of
of vocational training schools
Columbia University, the elderly childless couples.
dedicated to the rehabilita- Union Theological Seminary,
Both of the 50-year-old build-
tion of the uprooted and un- the Cathedral of St. John the
ings have outside stairways—
derprivileged.
Divine and similar institu- from which the acronym
Kosinski has been professor tions, are nearby. The insti-
of prose and criticism of tutions constitute one of MOSTA was derived, though
Yale University's school of America's major religio-edu- one of the buildings has an
elevator. The tenants in the
drama and a resident fellow cational complexes.
elevator-less building accept-
of Davenport College since
ed the inconvenience because
Any
observer
of
the
Man-
1970.
hattan scene knows that ac- of the low rents.
The JTS spokesman flatly
quisition and demolition of
housing, for either commer- denied the leaflet charges of
cial buildings or high-rise "harassments, threats to phy-
apartment buildings for the sical safety or lack of serv-
well-to-do, is one of the facts ices or maintenance." None
of life in the big city. In fact. of those charges were sus-
it happens so frequently that tained during any of the
the city has a special reloca- many hearings before city
tion agency, plus various agencies and the courts, the
bureaus, departments and spokesman said
The seminary has summar-
laws to protect the rights of
ized in the 1970 memorandum
displaced tenants.
Landlords often have been its justification for buying the
assailed as greedy oppres- two buildings to provide room
for facilities for expansion
sors of the poor. The semin

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Lubavitch Weekends
any such label.
JTS officials make avail- for Collegians Slated
able, to any inquirer, two
NEW YORK — The Luba-
documents presenting its side . vitch Youth Organization
of the argument, as well as again has extended its invi-
spokesmen offering to pro- tation to all Jewish college
vide documented replies to students to attend weekends
all pertinent inquiries about of seminars on matters of
the problem.'
Jewish concern during the
One of the documents is a college midwinter vacation
three - page memorandum, at Lubavitch world head-
dated Jan. 19, 1970, entitled quarters here.
"Planning for Growth in the
The Dec. 21-24 weekend
Morningside Heights Area." will he for women students.
The other is a "Time Chart" I and the following Dec 2811
on the seminary's attempts weekend for male students.
to proceed with its building College faculty members also
plans.
are invited.
This year's theme, "Lib
According to the memoran-
dum, the tenants of 204 of a eration—Hasidic Style" will
total of 215 apartments in the form the intellectual milieu
two buildings were helped for the weekends

