▪ THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 8 Friday, February 15, 1980 FEBRUARY SPECIAL 1 10 OFF SUEDE & I LEATHER CLEANING REPAIR & ALTERATIONS De Witt Leather West German Court Sentences Three Ex-Nazis BONN (JTA) — A Col- ogne court pronounced prison sentences of up to 12 years Monday on three former Gestapo officials who were closely involved in the deportation of French Jews and others to Nazi death camps during World War H. The defendants, Herbert-Martin Hagen, 66; Kurt Lischka, 70, and Ernst . Heinrichsohn, 59,- will re- main free pending the out- come of their appeals, just as they had been free during- the course of the trial. Hagen, who was the per- 2 Locations: 3103. Windward, Royal Oak 4 Wicks soura of 13 Mile 543-5700 1612 W.3 Ele Oak Park 3 blocks E. of Scotia closed Mosiay 578.0575 _ WITH THIS COUPON W.C. Trojan "Son of C. Trojan" CUSTOM FURNITURE & CARPET CLEANING ON LOUTION _ H?EE ESTIMATES Phone 576-1140 See "THE LEADER" Today Morris Buick IS THE GUY IS THE BUY OPEN MON. & THURS. 'TIL 9 P.M. WHERE EVERY DAY IS SALE DAY W 7 Mile At Lociye X-Way 342-7100 sonal assistant of the SS criminals to justice. police chief in Paris and Serge Klarsfeld, a headed a Gestapo depart- French attorney who lost ment there, was sentenced many of his relatives in to 12 years by Judge Heinz the Holocaust, lauded the Fassbender. court's decision. "I'm Lischka, one-time head very satisfied with the of the Paris Gestapo. verdict and very gratified drew a 10-year sentence about the way the case and Heinrichsohn, who was handled by the had worked in the Ges- court." Klarsfeld, with tapo's Jewish Affairs the aid of his non-Jewish Department, received six wife, Beate, led the cam- years. paign to bring the three A panel of three judges men to trial. and two civilians found As a Christian, seeking to them guilty of complicity in make amends to the Jews the murders of thousands of for her co-religionists who Jews, Communists and stood by as Jews were de- other anti-Nazis who they ported and murdered, Mrs. deported from France. Klarsfeld carried on a per- The sentences were sonal campaign against applauded by the several Lischka. dozen French youths who Several years ago, she were in the 'courtroom, slapped his face in public to members of the Union of draw attention to the Nazi Sons and Daughters of De- past of the man who sought portees. Some of them wore anonymity. concentration camp uni- In a two-hour state- forms and badges bearing the words, "I am a Jew from meat in which he re- France." viewed the evidence The Organization of against the three men Former Jewish Deportees and explained the sen- and Resistance Fighters in tences, Judge Fassben- Paris expressed satisfaction der observed that all of that a German court had fi- them must have realized nally brought these war that death awaited many of the 73,000 men, women shortest sentence be- and children they de- cause, as a sergeant in the SS he was subordinate to ported from France. The main defense during Lischka and Hagen. Heinrichsohn, a member the trial was that the ac- cused were unaware of the of the Christian Social fate that awaited their vic- Union, was mayor of Burgstadt, a small town in tims. In the case of Lischka, Bavaria at the time of his arrest. The CSU announced Fassbender referred to a document entered as evi- that he has resigned from that post. dence which bore his signa- He was the only defen- ture and referred to the "to- dant who admitted "moral tal annihilation of Jews." guilt" though he denied The judge said that while criminal guilt on grounds Lischka ranked high in the that he was unaware that Gestapo it was not he but the deportees faced death. Gen. Karl Oberg, Gestapo chief for all of France, who was primarily responsible for the deportations. How- ever, he said, as a trained lawyer, Lischka must have for your party been aware of the massive injustice inflicted on the de- portees. By Fassbender said the court considered Hagen to be the main culprit of the three be- cause he served longest in France. Call Although witnesses decribed Heinrichsohn as especially brutal in his treatment of children, Fassbender explained that he was given the Caricatures SAM FIELD 399-1320 Stolen Torah Scrolls Found By Hunter NEW YORK (JTA) — Memphis, after a hunter Two congregations in Mem- discovered one of them in phis, Tenn., are trying to re- the water. A search of the store four Torah scrolls area led to the discovery of found in a river after bur- the other three and a part of glaries at the synagogues. a fifth. The four were among six The Torahs still had their scrolls stolen from Anshei coverings but the silver or- Sphard-Beth El Emeth (Or- naments were apparently thodox) and Beth Sholom taken by the thieves, Israel Synagogue (Conservative) said. in late January. Allen Rabbi Edmund Winter, Israel, vice president of Beth Sholom, of Beth Sholom, told the said the Torahs were re- JTA that the two covered in the Wolf River in synagogues were trying to dry out the scrolls. 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He estimated the replace- ment cost of the four Torahs and their ornaments at $60,000. 41 ' NEW YORK — The ini- tial results of the first study in 20 years of ethnic com- munity non-English lan- guage resources in the United States by Yeshiva University has revealed that at least 5,000 ethnic- mother tongue schools are functioning throughout the nation, comprising some four dozen different lan- guage groups, with Hebrew-Yiddish, German, Greek and Spanish schools strongest and continuing to grow. The year-long explora- tion was completed by Dr. Joshua A. Fishman under a $40,000 grant from the Na- tional Institute of Educa- tion of the U.S. Office of Education. Dr. Fishman pioneered the first such study in 1960. Dr. Fishman found that New York leads in the number of ethnic community-mother tongue schools, but that no state or region was without an ap- Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extin- guishes it. preciable number of such facilities. 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