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Meanwhile, business is booming as Israeli citizens invest in the coins as a long- term hedge against infla- tion. Dispute Over Nazi Sex Crimes as Rabbi Patches Broken Lives By ALLEN A. WARSEN Countless numbers of Jews have for centuries lived and still do in accordance with the laws of the Ha- lakha. Even in the ghettos and death camps, incredible as it may seem, Jews contin- ued to observe halakhic laws. These Jews, because of the never-ending Nazi persecutions, were contin- ually confronted with ha- lakhic problems that de- manded explanations and solutions. Such problems were often referred to the community's spiritual leader whose decisions were binding. It is well to remember that problems referred to rabbis and the decisions they rendered usually were in the form (rabbinic genre) of "She'elot u'Techuvot" (questions and responsa). Rabbi Ephraim Oshry of Kovno, Lithuania, one of the few rabbis to survive the Holocaust, compiled his war responsa in the three vol- ume "Mi-Ma'amakim" ("De Profundis") which he pub- lished privately. Rabbi Oshry "com- mitted his responsa to writing on whatever scraps of paper he could find, and buried them in the ground, confident that someday redemption would come." Irving J. Rosenbaum's "The Holocaust and Halak- hah" (Ktav) is based mainly on the responsa of Rabbi Oshry. Some of the she'elot Rabbi Oshry was asked to resolve were: Is it permit- ted, according to Jewish law, • to endanger one's life to save another person's life? • to commit suicide? • to prevent conception by using diaphragms? • to risk one's life in or- der to pray in a synagogue? • to have an abortion to save a woman's life? The last "she'elah" re- sulted from the Nazi decree forbidding Jewish women of Kovno to become pregnant. ' Rabbi Oshry, it should be stressed, arrived at his decisions after careful de- liberations, study and re- search, and consulting the halakhic works of such au thorities as the "Shulkhan Arukh," "Alfas," "Tur," Carter Unsure of His Position on Israel Issue? NEW YORK — New- sweek magazine reported that Jimmy Carter's aides equivocated on the strong pro-Israel plank in the Dem- ocratic platform. Egypt's ambassador to the U.S., Ashraf Ghorbal, reportedly tried to reach Carter at the Democratic Convention in New York to complain about the Demo- crats' pro-Israel stance, and was reportedly told by sev- eral Carter aides that the whole subject was "pre- mature." "Emek She'elah," "Arukh Hashulkhan," and others. Some of these authorities, at one time or other, were themselves confronted with similar dilemmas. These resulted from Roman persecutions; the Crusades' and Chmiel- nicki's massacres; Rus- sian pogroms; and Pe- tlura's and Kelchak's butcheries, to mention some. The "She'elot u-Techuvot" examined in "The Holocaust and Halakhah" are impor- tant historical documents and mirror the Jewish soul under trying circumstances. The author cites numer- ous instances of Jews who met death courageously with dignity and defiance. The kabalist, Meir Of- ten, "led hundreds of Jews during their march to a mass grave reciting Psalm 33:1, "Rejoice in God, righ- teous ones!" The "Grodzisker Rebbe" led Jews in the singing of "Ani Ma'amin" prior to en- tering the Treblinka gas chamber. The "Spinker Rebbe" sang "Vetaher libenu l'avdekha b'emet" in the death wagon to Auschwitz. After the war, death- camp survivors were di- rected to Rabbi Oshry's "she'elot" resulting from the Holocaust. The following is characteristic: "After the German de- feat, a young man and a young woman, who had lost all their children in the Holocaust, were re-united and determined to resume their wedded life and re- build their destroyed fam- ily. However, to his horror and dismay, the man discov- ered, tattooed on his wife's arm, the words 'Prostitute for the Armies of Hitler." The husband, concerned that it might be assumed that his wife, in her role as prostitute, willingly had in- tercourse with the Ger- mans, asked if it was per- mitted for her to live with him once again as his wife ff Rabbi Oshry declared that "the unfortunate girls who were impressed into the Nazi army brothels have lived under a constant threat of death that was equivalent to the 'bran- dishing of the sword" men- tioned by the Rambam; therefore, the woman in the instant case may live with her husband." This last account contra- dicts the statement I cited in a review of Lucy Dawi- dowicz' "Holocaust Reader," which reads: "A less perni- cious form of historical fal- sification is the myth pre- tending to documentary veracity . . . fashioned by people who knew nothing of the Nuremberg Laws which made sexual relations be- tween Germans and Jews illegal, criminal, and sub- ject to severe punishment." To resolve the contradic- tion, I wrote letters to the publishers of "The Holo- caust and Halakha" and "A Holocaust Reader" ask- ing for an explanation of this extremely important matter. "For the sake of truth! People who were not in ghettos and concentration camps don't know that the Nuremberg Laws were `amended' to allow sol- diers in the occupied terri- tories to have sexual rela- tions with Jewish women, who they later shot. "I wrote the family (my informants), asking for per- mission to allow me to pub- lish their names and ad dresses. As soon as I receiN the answer I will inform you." Prof. Dawidowicz, author of "The War Against the Jews" and "A Holocaust Reader," writes: "The Oshry incident sounds extremely unlikely to me. Besides, I can't imag- ine the Germans doing that. If in fact any woman was so tattooed, it would seem more probable that she had been so marked after the war by her own people, as a mark of punishment." Rabbi Oshry replied: "To be sure, during the war, there were cases of in- dividual rape or sexual rela- tions between German men and Jewish women (German Army men and officers rather than SS men and of- ficers who were extremely scrupulous -about 'racial pol- lution'). "But there was never any institutionalization of sex- ual abuse of Jewish women. Look at the law on pp. 48-58 in the 'Reader' which you re- viewed. During Kristall- nacht (November 9/10, 1938), a number of SA men raped Jewish women. They were brought up for trial under the Nuremberg Laws and punished. "At Auschwitz, recruit- ment for brothels to serve German occupation men and officers and SS took place among the Polish women who were slave la- borers and even that was largely on a voluntary basis. (The offer of more and bet- ter food rations and less arduous 'work' was enough attraction no doubt.) "I trust this will clarify the matter a little more." Mrs. Ida Bloom Ida Bloom, a member of Jewish women's and com- munal organizations, died July 28 at age 76. Born in Russia, Mr Bloom was a longtime res, dent of the Detroit area. S' was a member of Ada, Shalom Synagogue and its sisterhood, a life member of Hadassah, and a member of Turover Farein, Women's American ORT and Bnai Brith Women. She leaves her husband, Nathan; two daughters, Mrs. Stuart (Jeraldine) Kar- mann and Mrs. G. Vernon (Shirley) Leopold; a brother, Nathan Maxman of Hallan- dale, Fla; a sister, Mrs. Fan- nie Black; and nine grand- children.