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Georgia Decision Outrages Jewish Units
(Continued from Page 1) board can call this incon-
dared: "If a corpse 70 years clusive."
In a sworn affidavit,
moldering can cry, Leo
Frank's is weeping today. Mann told two investigative
Not for himself death is reporters for the Nashville
immutable — but for jus- Tennessean newspaper that
tice, freshly lynched, and he had been too frightened
not by Klansmen but by in 1913 to testify that he
bureaucratic insensitivity." had seen Conley hold the
Dale Schwartz, the limp body of Phagan. Mann
leading attorney for said that Conley, who was
those seeking the pardon, convicted of being an acces-
said: "I can't understand sory to the crime and given
why, when every histo- a year in prison, had warned
rian who has studied the him that he would kill him
case, and the main if he ever mentioned what
players including the he had seen.
Mann told a news confer-
trial judge and the gov-
ernor who commuted his ence last Thursday, "I know
(Frank's) sentence felt he deep- down in my heart and
was innocent,. how the what I saw, that Frank did
pardons and paroles not do this." Frank was con-
victed of murder on the tes-
timony of Conley, who was
the chief prosecution wit-
ness. He said he had dis-
posed of Phagan's body for
Frank, taking it to the fac-
tory basement.
When then Governor
John Slaton commuted
Frank's death sentence
after conducting a separate
investigation of the crime, a
mob kidnapped Frank from
prison, took him to a tree
near the Phagan home and
hanged him. Armed mobs
Nazi Extraditions and Trifa
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General Zamir's office on
the extradition question.
He reported on the dis-
position of the Trifa case.
Trifa: was a leader of the
anti-Semitic Iron Guard in
Some art appears on Romania during World War
envelope backs, tiny II and was directly respon-
scraps of paper, some on sible for a pogrom in
real canvas. Many of the Bucharest in 1941 in which
artists who survived hundreds of Jews and anti-
stopped creating after Fascists were murdered.
the war. Many who did
Although Trifa was strip-
not survive displayed ex- ped of his American citizen-
ceptional talent, and ship and in October 1982
would no doubt have agreed to leave the United
found their niche as ar- States to any country that
tists after the war.
would accept him, Sher re-
A special area of the ported that Switzerland,
museum is devoted to art Italy and West Germany
done by children in the had turned him down. Sher
camps. After the pervasive told the WJC that under ar-
greyness of the adult works, rangements he had worked
here is an explosion of color; out at the time of settle-
an optimistic world as only ment, he had now sent Tri-
children could conceive it. fa's lawyer a letter stating
This section of the museum that unless Trifa finds a
is to many, the most poig- country to accept him by
nant, a searing memorial to Oct. 7 it is "the intention of
the 1.5 million Jewish chil- the United States govern-
dren murdered by the .ment to ship him to
Romania." He noted also
Nazis.
Assistant curator Ilana discussions he had had in
Guri reports that most vis- Tel Aviv concerning the
itors to Yad Vashem find possibility of Israel's accept-
the art museum as impres- ing Trifa even prior to the
sive as the documentary ex- Oct. 7 date.
Trifa, now 68, was tried in
hibition. The museum has
published a catalogue in absentia by a Roman mili-
Hebrew, English, French tary tribunal in June 1941
and sentenced to life at hard
and German.
Yad Vashem Exhibit
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of the despair and horror,
here and there, a note of
humor.
In addition to There-
sienstadt, sections of the
museum are devoted to art
produced by inmates of Au-
schwitz, Bergen-Belsen,
Dachau, the Warsaw, Lodz
and Vilna ghettoes, as well
as dozens of smaller concen-
tration and internment
camps.
Since Yad Vashem was
founded 30 years ago, the
documents, objects, relics
and bequests it has collected
include more than 2,000
works of art, 300 of which
are exhibited in the new
museum. Curator Irit
Salmon-Livne points out
that this collection is with-
out precedent considering
the death sentence
threatening the artists if
discovered.
After the war, some of the
works were recovered by the
artists themselves return-
ing to the camps, or by
others who by chance found
-work hidden in cans, behind
walls, under floors.
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Work Stoppages in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Strikes, slowdowns and pro-
test meetings continued to
plague Israel this week as
government workers
pressed for higher pay. The
Cabinet is scheduled to con-
vene a special session to dis-
cuss the growing economic
crisis and to consider Fi-
nance Minister Yigal
Cohen-Orgad's economic
plans and the proposed
trimmed budget for the new
fiscal year.
On Tuesday, all postal
services were paralyzed as
3,500 post office employees,
including workers at the
post office banks, stayed at
home.
Labor and Welfare Minis-
try employees also contin-
ued their partial work stop-
page which involves not
dealing with the public or
marking payments. Income
tax and property tax work-
ers also continued their
strike.
Administrative
em-
ployees in government hos-
pitals have threatened to
stop work if they are not
granted a 5,000 Shekel
($50) allowance. They have
also threatened to halt work
on the 24th of each month in
the future if cuts in over-
time allowances are not re-
stored.
Orgad, addressing the
Knesset Economic Corn-
mittee, warned that un-
less Israel reduces the de-
ficit in its balance of
payments by $1 billion it
will not be able to find
additional sources of
financing to repay loans.
Gad Yaacobi, chairman of
the Economic Committee,
said at the same session
that the present economic
hardships were a direct out-
come of the "stupid eco-
nomic policy of the govern-
ment in the past few years."
He predicted that in 1984
inflation will soar to 300
percent. Under such cir-
cumstances, he warned, the
economy will become
paralyzed.
The growing labor unrest
in Israel came in spite of a
17.9 percent interim cost-
of-living adjustment.
Death is the least of all
evils.
roamed the streets, forcing
Jewish business firms to
close their doors. About
1,500 of the 3,000 Jews in
Georgia fled, and others
were targets of a boycott.
Charles Wittenstein,
Southern counsel for the
ADL, said, "The state of
Georgia was badly' com-
promised by the conviction
and the lynching. They had
a chance to do something
about that and they failed,
and the whole country will
know they failed."
labor. He could face a
further trial for war crimes
if he is deported to his na-
tive Romania. He is accused
of fomenting a pogrom in
Bucharest in January' 1941
which led to the deaths of
hundreds of Romanian
Jews. He was stripped of
U.S. citizenship because he
lied about his connections
with the Iron Guard when
he entered the U.S. and
when he applied for U.S.
citizenship.
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