20 Friday, April 15, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Klarsfeld Volume to Be Entered
as Evidence in Trial of Barbie
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NEW YORK (JTA) — A
book which documents and
lists the names of some
80,000 Jews who were de-
ported from France and
murdered by the Nazis will
be entered as evidence at
the upcoming trial of Klaus
Barbie, the "butcher of
Lyon" who is facing trial in
France on charges of crimes
against humanity during
World War II. •
The book, which was pub-
lished last week in its
American edition, is "a
memorial to the Jews de-
ported from France 1942-
1944," by Serge Klarsfeld.
The book was introduced by
Klarsfeld and his wife,
Beate Klarsfeld, at a press
conference at the American
Jewish Coramitttee's head-
quarters here. The two
Nazi-hunters, helped bring
Barbie to justice and were
instrumental in his recent
return from. Bolivia to
France.
Klarsfeld said that the
704-page volume, first pub-
lished in France in 1979,
serves as the only
"tombstone" to many
Jewish families who were
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wiped out altogether in the
deportations from France.
In addition, he said, the
book was "a potent legal
weapon" in the struggle
against Nazi war crimi-
nals still at large.
Klarsfeld noted that the
book was already ac-
cepted, shortly after its
publication in France, as
evidence at a trial in Col-
ogne of three top Nazis
who were active in
France during the war.
The book published here
by the Beate Klarsfeld
Foundation, contains a de-
tailed description of each of
the 78 convoys that carried
Jews from detainment
camps in France to Nazi
death camps, in most cases
to Auschwitz.
It gives the name of each
person in the convoy, to-
gether with his or her birth-
date, place of'birth and na-
tionality. It also contains
many hitherto unpublished
photographs, eyewitness
accounts of the Nazi horror
and reproductions of docu-
ments from the period that
point to the active role
played by the French, as
well as by the Germans, in
the deportations.
The book reveals that
Jews ranging in ages from
newborn to 95, and coming
from almost 60 countries,
were victims of the deporta-
tions. Most of the deportees
were, however, from France
and Poland, but others were
from countries such as Tur-
key, Ireland and Tahiti.
Klarsfeld told the press
conference how he was
able to obtain the lists of
the deportees. "Each
time a convoy left France
for the killing centers in
the East," he disclosed,
"a list of the names of the
victims was, by Nazi
order prepared in quad-
ruplicate. Two copies of
the list accompanied the
convoy and were eventu-
ally destroyed. A third
copy was kept by the
Germans at the detain-
ment camp, and was also
lost.
The fourth copy was kept
SERGE KLARSFELD
by the captive Jewish com-
munity council in Paris.
When the Germans fled the
city in 1944, they neglected
to destroy those fourth
copies." He said that he dis-
covered the fourth copies
"faded and crumbling" in a
crate in a French Jewish
archive in Paris, a few
blocks from where he lived.
In response to a question,
Klarsfeld said that another
purpose for his visit here
was to find relatives of the
Jewish children who were
deported by Barbie to death
camps. He said that Barbie
ordered the deportation of
at least 41 children in the
French town of Izieu. He
said he wants the family
members of these children
to take part in Barbie's up-
coming trial.
In response to another
question, Klarsfeld said
that the whereabouts of Dr.
Joseph Mengele, the notori-
ous war criminal who ex-
perimented and tortured
thousands of inmates in Au-
schwitz, are not known. He
declined to reveal what is
being done, if anything, to
locate him, saying only
that until Mengele is found
nothing can be done regard-
ing his extradition to Ger-
many.
The American edition of
"Memorial to the Jews De-
ported from France 1942-
1944," was prepared by
Susan Cohen Hellman. It
can be obtained from The
Beate Klarsfeld Founda-
tion, P.O. Box 137, South
Deerfield, Mass. 01373.
First Riga Rabbi Since '61
NEW YORK (JTA) —
After 22 years without a
spiritual leader, the Jewish
community of Riga in the
Soviet Union will soon have
its own rabbi, a native of the
city who has just been or-
dained in Budapest.
The newly ordained rabbi
is 30-year-old Menahem
Nidel who completed seven
years of studies at the rab-
binical seminary in the
Hungarian capital.
- He was ordained on
March 20 and is scheduled
to start his service in Riga
at the beginning of June. He
is the second Soviet Jew to
graduate from the semi-
nary, since 1974, the year
the Soviets and the Hunga-
rians reached an agreement
enabling young Soviet Jews
to study at the seminary.
The first to be ordained
as--a rabbi was Adolf
Shayevich,
who
graduated in 1981 and is
now Moscow's associate
rabbi.
According to Rabbi Ar-
thur Schneier, spiritual
leader of Park East Syna-
gogue in New York and also
president of the Appeal of
Conscience Foundation,
who was invite_d by Hun-
gary's Minister of Religious
Affairs, Imre Miklos, to
take part in the ordination
ceremony of Rabbi Nidel,
the ceremony was attended
by Miklos himself and a
high-ranking official of the
Soviet • Embassy in
Budapest.
Schneier said that pre-
sently there are 16 students
at the rabbinical seminary,
two of them from the Soviet
Union and the rest from
other East European coun-
tries.