THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
WI Friday, September 29, 1918
East Germany Today a Trace of Jews
Where Jewish Community Once Flourished
Best Wishes For A
HAPPY NEW YEAR
CANTQR & MRS. HYMAN J. ADLER &
MR. & MRS. SHLOMA H. DUBEN & FAMILY
17280 Anna, Southfield, Mi. 48075
By EDWIN EYTAN
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
Mr. & Mrs. Meyer I. Cooper
16198 Oxley Rd., Apt. 103
Southfield, Michigan 48075
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Best wishes for a happy and healthy New
Year to all our relatives and friends
Mr. and Mrs. David Herczeg
Oak Park
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Wishing all our relatives and friends
a Happy and Healthy New Year
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
To All Our Friends & Relatives
Irving, Sylvia & Howard Ross
Lillian & Seymour Gallant
Wish All Their Relatives & Friends
A Year Of
Health, Happiness & Prosperity
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BYRON, REBECCA & JANICE LIEBERWITZ
all their Irienis. and
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We would like to wish all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year
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The Hugo lczkovitz Family
LES & MARCIA WEINER
AND SONS OF TECK CLEANERS
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13841 W. *9 .Mile
Oak Park
wish. their family and friends
a happy and healthy Neu , Year
Judge and Mrs-. Barry Grant
wish all their family and friends
a year filled with health, happiness,
peace and contentment
I:Slim Ton
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East German experts,
military and civilian alike,
are active in Yemen, Iraq
and Ethiopia. The East
German officials them-
selves admit "we are second
only to Cuba" in the number
of experts and the material
aid granted to Afro-Asian
revolutionary regimes.
Palestine Liberation
Organization representa-
tives operate a large bureau
in the center of East Berlin
and hold regular meetings
with East German officials
and Communist Party lead-
ers to discuss "further coop-
eration." Even a casual vis-
itor to East Berlin can see
hundreds of Arabs, perma-
nent officials stationed in
the city, or trainees clog-
ging cafes, attending con-_
ferences or just shopping inl
the big super markets in the
city's center.
The Arabs also are un-
aware of the city's Jewish
history and of the role it
once played in Jewish cul-
ture and civilization.
Most of the East Ger-
mans, though their over-
whelming majority
watch West German tele-
vision and privately
admit they would like to
"cross the wall" and set-
tle in the Federal Repub-
lic, support their gov-
ernment on the Jewish
question.
Several non-Jewish East
Germans, who all were crit-
ical of their regime, said
they fully approved the gov-
ernment's decision not to
make any restitution or re-
paration payments. "Why
should we pay? Are we re-
sponsible for Hitler?" some
asked. Others added,
"There are practically no
second world war Jews left,
and, in any case, America
pays for them."
The East German gov-
ernment offered to pay $1
million to surviving Ger-
man Jews who live in the
United States. But even this
modest offer, which has not
been accepted, is unknown
to most East.Germans.
The Jewish community
has a central organization
mainly responsible, how-
ever, for welfare. It also
publishes a monthly maga-
zine of which only a few
hundred copies are circu-
lated occasionally. It or-
ganizes a ".cultural eve-
ning" with records, tea and
a guest lecturer.
For the High Holy
Days, and for funerals,
which are frequent be-
cause of the high average
age of the community's
members, a rabbi crosses
EAST BERLIN — The
German Democratic Repub-
lic (East Germany) is one of
the world's few countries
with no Jewish population,
no Jewish memories and no
Jewish problem. The Jews
have simply disappeared.
The former Berlin Main
Synagogue, burned during
Hitler's "Crystal Night"
and then further wrecked
during the Allied bombing
of 1944, is a ghostly ruin
haunted only by stray cats.
The former Jewish banks
along the Unter den Linden,
the Jewish-owned shops
and the coffee houses where
the elegant Jewish ladies
used to come in the after-
noon to drink their "kan-
chen" of coffee and chat are
gone. War, Hitler, the
bombings and the new
Communist regime have
wiped out the entire past.
There are today less than
1,300 Jews left in East
Germany, with an average
age running into the late
60s or early 70s. There has
not been a single Jewish
wedding, a Bar Mitzva or a
birth- for a full generation.
Most of East Berlin's
823 remaining Jews are
old and sick, nearly 200
live permanently in hos-
pitals or old age homes.
The rest eke out a miser-
able existence on the
small pensions paid by
the East German gov-
ernment.
East Germany pays no
reparations and has made
no restitution. It assumes
no responsibility for the
evils of Hitler's regime and
conducts its pro-Arab pol-
icy, far more dynamic than
that of all other East Euro-
pean countries, with an
easy conscience and no
qualms whatsoever.
"Yes, we are in the foref-
ront in the battle for democ-
racy in Africa and the Mid-
dle East," a senior East
German official said. "We
assume this role because we
feel that we owe the world a
responsibility to wipe out
the effects of fascism wher-
ever-it May be."
Israel, he observed, "is-for
us part of the American col-
onialistic enterprise
against which Africa and
Asia are fighting. No, the
fact that Jews live there
doesn't bother us in the
least. Not being racists we
don't oppose Israel as a
Jewish state but as a colo-
nial power. The fact that the
Israelis are Jews doesn't
change our policy a single
iota."
East Germany has be-
come the main European Radical Israelis
base for the Arab organ-
TEL AVIV (ZINS) --
izations. Several training
camps are being oper- Young Arabs in Israel and
ated near Leipzig. Ac- the administered territories
cording fo Western are becoming increasingly
radical because of contacts
sources, a special ter-
rorist_ training center is with Arabs outside Israel,
located near Dresden, - according to Eli Reches of
where both Arab and Af- Tel Aviv University.
He said even the Israeli-
rican revolutionaries are
taught how to operate born, Israeli-raised Arabs
explosives and plant de- are becoming increasingly
radical.
adly charges.
the "wall" from West Be-
rlin., There is a kosher
meat shop, with the meat
imported from Hungary,
but most of the clients are
neighboring non-Jews
who say "the meat just
tastes better. Hungarian
beef is the best."
No more than a dozen
Jews attend these "cultural
evenings" or go to the
kosher shop. Their only
regular pilgrimage is to the
East Berlin cemetery, one of
the largest in the world with
its 114,000 graves. By a
strange paradox, it is rela-
tively well kept.
As for the Jewish sur-
vivors, they usually come on
weekdays around noon —
old people with, a bouquet of
cheap flowers. "For us, this
is our present and also our
future," says an old man sit-
ting by a grave.
EVA & TOM ADELSON wish all
their family and friends a
happy and healthy New Year
EDIE
ESSIE FINE.
So uthfield
Wishes all her friends
and relatives a happy
healthy New Year
Dr. and Mrs. Alex
Friedlaender and Family
Manicurist
at
8530 Lincoln Drive
Huntington Woods, Mich.48070
Extend Best Wishes for a Happy
and Healthy New Year to All
Their Relatives and Friends
HARVARD - ROW
BARBER SHOP
LARRY & DODIE
HARRIS
AND FAMILY
Thanking You
For the past year
and hoping this year
will be better
Wishing You
A Happy
New Year
wish all their friends-and
relatives a good, healthy. Year
Michael and Nancy Fordonski
and Family
wish all their relatives and
friends a year filled with
health. happiness and prosperity
nzrizri rizIto rows
Best wishes for a healthy, happy
and prosperous New Year
The Schwartzes
Robert A., Rosalyn, Joel, Howard
and Michel _
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To Our Relatives
and Friends
MR. & MRS. NATHAN I. GOLDIN
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