6 Friday, July 2, 1982
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Some Light Moments During War
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ments. They visit the
hospitals and provide the
wounded soldiers with
chocolates and blessings
from the rabbi.
The Chabad Hasidim also
visit wounded soldiers in
hospitals and bring them a
book "Tania," which was
printed four years ago in
Lebanon after the Litani
campaign. It was written by
the first Chabad Rabbi, the
late Shneur Zalman. The
Hasidim also brought Torah
scrolls to soldiers who recite
daily prayers.
The cry "Shema Israel"
saved the lives of Israeli
soldiers, who were in tanks,
which were damaged. They
had to leave the tanks and
got lost in the darkness, try-
ing to reach their units.
When Israeli soldiers saw
them, they were sure, that
they were PLO fighters or
Syrian soldiers. When the
tank soldiers shouted
"Shema Israel," the Israelis
act, because he was worried
rescued them.
An Israeli military boat about his son about whom
brought a bride and her he did not hear anything.
family to the wedding of an The son has been mobilized
at the Lebanese front. He
Israeli soldier in Lebanon.
In the old synagogue in asked to be freed from his
the Lebanese village of El obligation as an artist, as he
Kamre, the wedding of could not come onto the
soldier Alex Areosti with stage in such a mood and
his bride Gila Wider, a play a satirical role. But a
soldier as well, took few hours before the per-
place. They had origi- formance, his son phoned
nally set their wedding in him from the front and His-
Tel Aviv, but Alex was kiahu reversed his former
mobilized when the fight- decision.
The participation of the
ing in Lebanon broke out.
They decided to get mar- Israeli population in the
ried in Lebanon. A mili- events in Lebanon found its
tary rabbi arranged the expression in the appeal '-',
wedding ceremony. The Israeli prisoners to don
Arab villagers watched blood for the wounded
the ceremony with inter- soldiers. The prisoners even
est. They brought flow- collected money for the Se-
ers. Christian Druze vil- curity Fund of the Israeli
lagers danced with the Army. Women prisoners
sent postcards to wounded
Israeli soldiers.
Before the wedding cere- soldiers. Some prisoners
mony, a prayer service was asked to be sent to the front
held in the synagogue. The in order to take part in the
only Jewish inhabitant of fighting.
A Druze citizen in a vil-
the village, the 85-year-old
Harriet Sidi, was proud to lage on the Golan
participate. After the cere- Heights, Ajami Turki,
mony, the bride and her donated 100,000 shekels
family were brought back for the welfare of Israeli
by a military boat to Haifa soldiers.
The Druze owners of res-
and the bridegroom contin-
ued his military service in taurants on the Golan
'Heights have donated
Lebanon.
Greetings from a soldier 10,000 shekels for the wel-
to his father, enabled the Is- fare of the Israeli soldiers.
raeli actor Abner Hiskiahu They also collected clothing
to take part in the theatrical for the soldiers. The Be-
performance of "The Forest" douins in the Negev do-
by Alexander Ostrowsky. nated money for the ex-
Hiskiahu refused first to penses of the Israeli Army.
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Former Latvian Policemen
Charged With War Crimes
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NEW YORK (JTA) — A
67-year-old former Latvian
policeman, Elmars Sprogis,
now a retired construction
worker living in Brentwood,
Long Island, was accused by
the Justice Department of
concealing war-time aid to
the Nazis in the killing of
Jews and Soviet prisoners of
war when he applied for and
obtained American citizen-
ship in 1962.
The complaint, filed in
federal district court in
Brooklyn, was the first step
in the department's effort to
strip Sprogis of his citizen-
ship so that he can be de-
ported.
Sprogis was charged spec-
ifically with concealing his
role as an assistant police
chief in Gulbene and as
police chief in Madona, both
in Nazi-occupied Latvia.
The
department
charged that Sprogis
helped the Nazis murder
Jews and confiscated
.their property in Gulbene
and that he took part in
the murder of Soviet war
prisoners in Madona. The
department asked the
court to cancel Sprogis'
citizenship. Sprogis came
to the United States in
1950.
Sprogis confirmed he had
been a Latvian policeman
during the Nazi occupation
of Latvia, but denied he took
part in any atrocities.
- In Bonn, a former captain
in the police of Darmstadt,
Hans Heinemann, has been
sentenced by a court in
Kaiserslautern to three
years imprisonment for
complicity in the murder of
Jews in Russia.
The court found that
Heinemann participated in
1941 in an execution of
some 100 Jewish men,
women and children near
the town of Kiev.
In a related develop-
ment, Georgetown Uni-
versity Prof. Jan Karski
dispelled the possibility
that any world leader in
World War II could deny
knowing about the final
solution as early as 1942.
Speaking in Israel as a
guest of Yad Vashem,
Karski said he brought 400
pages of microfilmed docu-
ments from the Polish un-
derground to the heads of
state and war departments
of France, Britain and the
U.S.
Karski said he joined the
underground and was made
an officer and chosen to be
courier to the outside world.
Captured and tortured by
the Gestapo, Karski was re-
scued by the underground
and before being sent to the
west, was smuggled into
concentration camp to g
authenticity to his reports.
When he got to the West,
he turned his reports over to
the generals of the Allied
Armies and to heads of
state.
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from charity, even a pauper
who is supported from char-
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