THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 44 Friday, July 13, 1919 Shcharansky Going Blind? Israelis, Jewish Leaders Hail Bundestag Decision to Abolish Statute of Limitations MOSCOW — The mother would appeal to the medical of Anatoly Shcharansky department of the Soviet told Western reporters this Ministry of Internal Affairs JERUSALEM (JTA) — week that she fears her son for treatment for her son. Mrs. Milgrom said she Israelis have hailed the is going blind in prison. Ida Milgrom said that in a June plans a day-long vigil West German Bundestag's 10 letter Shcharansky re- Saturday outside the vote abolishing the statute ported that he could hardly courtroom where her son of limitations for prosecut- was sentenced for ing Nazi war criminals and read or. write. Mrs. Milgrom said she treason a year ago. Mrs. have sent cables of appre- Milgrom was barred ciation to German officials from the trial in which and Germany's Ambas- Shcharansky was sen- sador to Israel, Klaus tenced to 13 years for Schuetz. Premier Menahem Begin treason. personally expressed his She said she hoped to be n s Music allowed to see her son in satisfaction to vitising West August, one year since she Berlin Mayor Dietrich last saw him. .A scheduled Stobbe. Begin urged West February visit was canceled Germany to pursue the prosecution of war crimi- without explanation. Must Locate Kind Persons nals. Justice Minister Shmuel Who Aided Me After Jonas Phillips, a suc- Tamir expressed his satis- My Fall In cessful colonial merchant faction with the vote. very much involved in Tamir, who interrupted a Oak Park, On The Jewish affairs, was an ar- Knesset session to an- Corner Of Church dent patriot. He signed the nounce the vote, said he and Kenwood non-importation agreement hoped that now Nazi crimi- On Saturday, against Britain. Although nals still free would be he was the father of a large brought to trial. 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In Bonn, it was re- margin of 255-222. ported that vandals de- Had it not been abolished, stroyed several the statute would have gone gravestones and painted into effect Jan. 1, 1980, re- swastikas on others in a ndering Nazi war criminals Jewish cemetery in Be- not yet subjected to the legal process forever immune rlin to protest the deci- sion to continue prosecu- from prosecution. The tion of Nazi war crimi- measure was also approved nals. by the Bundesrat (upper Heading the list of house) which is more con- wanted men abroad is Dr. servative in its makeup Josef Mengele, the Au- than the Bundestag. schwitz physician responsi- Bundestag deputies ble for mass murders and were permitted to vote inhumane experiments on their conscience on this some 200,000 children and a delicate issue rather than like number of other in- along party lines. The mates. Mengele is believed government Social to be in Paraguay. Democrats (SPD) and Other wanted men are Chancellor Helmut former SS Col. Walter Schmidt wanted the sta- Rauff, last seen in San- tute lifted; the Christian tiago, Chile, who was in Democrats (CDU) wanted charge of the mobile gas it maintained. Justice chambers in Nazi-occupied Minister Hans-Jochen areas of the Soviet Union, Vogel, urging that the and Alois Bruner, Adolf statute be eliminated, Eichmann's deputy for Au- told the deputies that the stria, Greece and France. Federal Republic had to Three war criminals defi- make its position clear in view of the millions of Nazi victims. "Every murderer detected after Dec: 31 who could no By RABBI SAMUEL longer be prosecuted SILVER would be a severe blow to (A Seven Arts Feature) peace based on justice An era ended recently and to Germany's im- when Rabbi Morris Laza- age," he said. Most CDU deputies ron, once of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, died argued for the statute. _ –In a cable to the chancel- in his 91st year. A founder of-the anti- lor, the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Zionist American Council for Judaism, Rabbi Lazaron Studies at Yeshiva Univer- sity of Los Angeles lauded was once part of a phalanx the Bundestag's decision of East Coast rabbis who "on behalf of justice and opposed the idea of a Jewish state. morality." Some of his associates Albert Vorspan, vice were Rabbis Samuel Gol- president of the Union of American Hebrew Con- denson (Manhattan), William Fineshriber and gregations, added the Re- Louis Wolsey (Philadel- form synagogue organ- ization's congratulations phia), William Rosenau to the German leadership (Baltimore), Norman for "exercising moral re- Gerstenfeld (Washington) and Edward Calisch sponsibility in the face of (Richmond. acute pressure to bury In his youth, Rabbi the past." Lazaron had been an ar- A spokesman for the American Jewish Congress dent Zionist, having authored a book glorify- welComed the decision of the ing Theodor Herzl. West German Parliament Most of his fellow anti- as a "fitting recognition" view that no Nazi war criminal Zionists were of the that Zionism was retrogres- may escape accountability sive. The start of the 20th for his actions. Century seemed the begin- Philip ning of a new era of Jewish Geneva, In Klutznick, president of the equality the world over, and World Jewish Congress, in a the Herzlian idea appeared \ telegram to Dr. Richard to them to mark national Stuecklen, president of the reghettoization. Bundestag, welcomed the Time changed Rabbi decision "for its moral and Lazaron's outlook. Many at political significance, as his funeral recalled that recognizing the principle earlier this year, he had that crimes of such preached from the -pulpit of enormity can never be sub- his old congregation and ject to statutory limitations had said that he had and as a warning for the fu- abstained from anti-Zionist ture." talk from the time that the Copies of the telegram Jewish state was pro- were sent to the leaders of claimed. But Rabbi Lazaron had a the four parliamentarian parties in the Bundestag most productive life. He had with expressions of appre- helped to found the Na- ciation to those of their tional Conference of Chris- nitely known to be in West Germany are Kurt Lishka, who was Gestapo chief in France (1940-43) and was responsible for the deporta- tion of French Jews; Her- bert Hagen, who was a spe- cial adviser to the SS in France; and Ernst Hein- richson, who was deputy head of the Gestapo's "Jewish section" in France. Several hundred war criminals are believe be alive and to have caped detection until now. More than 6,000 war criminals have already been tried and sentenced by West German courts. In Paris, a neo-Nazi group calling itself "Odessa" claimed that it had bombed the car of Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld and also threatened Klarsfeld's life. An anonymous letter re- ceived by the_French news agency, Agence France Presse, warned that unless "The Jews stop persecuting our comrades we shall have to envisage an extreme solution" for Klarsfeld. Klarsfeld and his wife, Beate, have been active for years in tracking down wanted Nazi war criminals. Death of Rabbi Lazaron Recalls Anti-Zionist Role , tians and Jews, and its first head, Dr. Everett Clinchy, was on hand to extol the rabbi, despite a statement he had left with Rabbi Mur- "ray Saltzman, asking that his obsequies not be an oc- casion for dolorousneil but a celebration of God's gift of life. That Rabbi Lazaron had changed his outlook was also evidenced by the fact that quite a number of yarmulkes were seen in the sanctuary. Rabbi Lazaron had taken up portrait painting after his , retirement, and in his Manhattan and West Palm Beach residences, many had admired his handiwork. Prohibited Sale Some Jewish authorities prohibit a Jew from selling any land in the state of Is- rael to a non-Jew. This pro- hibition is mentioned as early as the text of the hnah (Abodah Zarah The talmudic commentary derives this prohibition from a verse in the Bible (Deuteronomy 7:2). Nachmanides (in his comment to the Bible, Leviticus 25:23) explains the logic of this prohibition as being ordained because land owned by a non-Jew would not be returned to the original owner in the Jubilee year as the Bible prescribes. Other authorities claim that selling Israel land to a non-Jew is in violation of the biblical command "to inherit the land and dwell therein" (Deuteronomy 11:31).