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War Criminal's Extradition Sought by Many
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unless treatment is ad-
ministered immediately, a
"dead body" will eventually
be extradited.
Marx has asked that
Wagner be removed to a
psychiatric hospital in Sao
Paulo for the needed treat-
ment. According to Sao
Paulo police sources, such a
move would carry a great
risk of Wagner's escape to "a
neighboring country"
where Nazi criminals are
well protected.
In a related development,
the deportation hearing
of Vilis A. Hazners of
Dresden, New York, ac-
cused of Nazi atrocities
against the Jews of Riga,
Latvia during World War
II, will not be continued.
After several postpone-
ments to accommodate a
government witness who is
a West German prosecutor
and expert on Latvian war
crimes, the government and
defense attorneys have
agred to stipulation to ac-
cept a deposition from this
witness.
Instead of a public hear-
ing, the government now
has 30 days to file its final
briefs. Ivars Berzins, Haz-
ners' attorney, will also be
given 30 days to respond.
Rabbi Paul Silton, co-
chairman of the Capital
District Ad Hoc Committee
on Justice for Nazi War
Criminals, said that the
government's decision to
complete the case without
farther public hearings will
cause much of the interest
that has been generated by
the Hazners case to be
"swept under the rug."
"In the course of my
2%-year involvement
with this issue," he said,
"I've consistently been
told by government offi-
cials, including Martin
Mendelsohn, now deputy
director of the Justice
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Department's revamped
unit on Nazi war crimi-
nals, that public hearings
sever the important pur-
pose of educating people
about the presence of
these alleged murderers
here, and now we've lost
this opportunity."
Meanwhile, disquieting
reports of neo-Nazi assaults
on Jewish property in Spain
and recent manifestations
of anti-Semitism in that
country have prompted the
International Council of
Jewish Women (ICJW) to
alert its membership for
petition drives to the
Spanish ambassadors in
their respective countries.
Marvin,
Eleanor
president of the ICJW, said
that a letter from her organ-
ization's Spanish affiliate
reported wide-spread de-
struction including three
Jewish-owned warehouses .
in Madrid.
The letter also reported
the proliferation of anti-
Semitic graffiti in the
form of swastikas and
crosses all over the
Spanish capital. Tension
between Madrid's
3,000-member Jewish
community and neo-Nazi
elements was heightened
last month when a mass
was called at the Al-
mudena Cathedral to
mark the anniversary of
Hitler's birth. The mass
was cancelled at the last
minute.
In Amsterdam, Pieter
Menten, whose re-trial on
war crimes charges was or'"
dered by The Hague Sup
reme Court last month, has
signed an agreement to re-
main under house arrest
pending trial for which no
date has been announced.
,
Wallenberg Kin in Israel to Seek
Begin Aid in Finding Lost Envoy
LONDON (JTA) — Pre-
mier Menahem Begin of Is-
rael is expected to be asked
to help solve the mystery of
Swedish diplomat Raoul
Wallenberg, who may still
be imprisoned in the Soviet
Union, 34 years after his
abduction by the Red Army.
Wallenberg's close rela-
tives were in Jerusalem last
weekend following fruitless
attempts by the Swedish
government to reopen the
case with the Russian
authorities.
Wallenberg — who would
now be 66 — was kidnapped
in Budapest, where he
headed a team of Swedish
diplomats who saved 30,000
Jews from deportation by
the Nazis. Many of the sur-
vivors live in Israel.
His half brother and
half sister, Prof. Guy Von
Dardel and Mrs. Nina
Lagergren, decided to go
to Jerusalem after hear-
ing that Begin had pri-
vately expressed an
interest in the case.
In view of Israel's influ-
ence in the human rights
field, they will ask Begin's
help in putting the Wallen-
berg affair high on the list of
urgent individual cases dis-
cussed in East-West con-
tacts.
Several politicians in
other Western countries
have promised their sup-
port. Sen. Frank Church
(D-Idaho), chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, has urged the
Kremlin to make a full dis-
closure of its files on Wal-
lenberg. In Britain,
Winston Churchill MP,
grandson of the wartime
prime minister, and Gre-
ville Janner MP, are or-
ganizing a Parliamentary
committee to follow the
case.
However, although
U.S. Ambassador Arthur
Goldberg is reported to
have brought it up at the
Belgrade sequel to the
Helsinki Conference on
Human Rights, U.S. gov-
ernment interest has
been erratic.
At the end of 1973, the
State Department was on
the brink of ordering the
U.S. Embassy in Moscow to
inquire about Wallenberg.
But at the last moment,
Henry Kissinger, then Sec-
retary of State, failed to
..
authorize the move.
Swedish press reports
have attributed this to his
anger over Sweden's anti-
American policy on Viet-
nam at that time. Other
sources quote Kissinger as
refusing to introduce indi-
vidual human rights cases
into East-West discussions.
The Carter Administra-
tion, however, has no such
inhibitions, as seen in the
recent swap of two Soviet
spies for five leading Soviet
dissidents. Since further
Soviet relaxations have
been predicted prior to the
Carter-Brezhnev summit in
Vienna this summer, Wal-
lenberg's family feels that a
campaign on his behalf is
particularly timely.
A further reason for the
visit to Israel is that much
of the latest information
on Wallenberg's impris-
onment comes from
former Soviet prisoners,
who have settled in Israel
over the past few years.
Abraham Kalinski, who
claims to have seen Wallen-
berg in prison long after the
date when the Russians
claim Wallenberg died, pro-
vided much of the evidence
for the latest Swedish note
to Moscow.
The latest information
comes from the daughter of
a Jew who is still in the
Soviet Union. In 1976, Jan
Kaplan telephoned his
daughter, Anna Bilder, who
lives in Jaffa. He had re-
cently been released from
the Butyrka prison and
casually ,told her not to
worry about his iealth be-
cause in the prison hospital,
a year earlier, he had met a
Swede who had been a pris-
oner for 30 years and whose
health was not bad.
The Swedish government
eventually hears of Kap-
lan's remark from other
Soviet Jewish circles. How-
ever, news of it was pub-
lished before the Swedish
government could make di-
rect contact with Kaplan.
At the end of last year, Kap-
lan was rearrested by the
Soviet police.
Syrian Jewry Rescue Group
Assails Denial of Torture
NEW YORK (JTA) —
The Committee for Rescue
of Syrian Jewry has chal-
lenged a recent assertion by
the State Department that
there is "no verified in-
stance of torture against a
member of the Syrian,
Jewish community and that
there are no Syrian Jews
presently in detention."
Abe Dwek, president of
the Brooklyn-based group,
said that in fact, "since 1976
when some restrictions
were lifted no improvement
has occurred in the general
situation of the Jewish
community in Syria, quite
-to the contrary, the situa-
tion has recently been wor-
sening."
Dwek made his remarks
in a letter to Sen. William
Bradley (D-N.J.), who had
conveyed the State De-
partment's report to the re-
scue committee.
He wrote: "Please be
advised that the arrests,
detention and torture are
continuing. A Jewish
man was released from
jail with a broken jaw
and another with back in-
juries and mentally de-
ranged.
"At present there are at
least five Jews in jail
(Kabariti and Bukai in
Damascus, Khafif and- a
Qamishli Jew, and Joseph
Gindi in Aleppo). The lat-
ter's two brothers have just
been released after payinc ,
$1,000 fine each, which cm
stitutes a new penalty in
addition to the torture and
beatings of relatives and
friends for their failure to
report to the authorities in
advance , of the attempted
escape."
The State Department
report spoke of an "investi-
gation" by the Syrian
authorities of the un-
authorized departure of a
sizeable number of Jews
from Syria in the latter
months of 1978.
Menuhin -Cited
NEW YORK — Violinist
Yehudi Menuhin will be
awarded a German pub-
lisher's peace prize in Oc-
tober for using music "to
bring closer people, races,
culture and civilizations."