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German Envoy Is Honored by Yad Vashem
(Editor's note: The fol-
lowing article was re-
printed in the German
Tribune from the Nov. 30,
1983 Der Tagesspiegel.)
Michael Jovy, a German
diplomat, has had a tree
planted in his honor at Yad
Vashem, the memorial to
millions of Jewish dead, in
Jerusalem.
He was also awarded a
medal and presented with a
diploma in Rome, where he
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on a Harris tweed
sportcoat? I went to
Kent and paid $119.
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those 'sales?' "
A John Kent Man
dresses better for less.
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works at the German em-
bassy. Dr. Jovy has been
German ambassador in a
number of countries.
"We are gathered here to
voice our esteem, our ad-
ministration and our
gratitude to a courageous
German," the Israeli am-
bassador said at the cere-
mony.
Dr. Jovy, 63, is the son
of Michael Jovy, the
Roman Catholic lord
mayor of Cologne who
died in 1931. As a teen-
ager he helped perse-
cuted Jews in Cologne
and Bonn.
"I imagine I am the only
German ambassador who
has ever been in prison," he
said. That was from 1939 to
shortly before the end of the
war.
He was a leader of an il-
legal youth group in Bonn
(where the family moved
after his father died) that
had conferred with a group
of German Jewish emigres
in France in August 1938.
They decided to set up an
illegal resistance organiza-
tion, to launch groups in the
Reichsarbeitsdienst and the
Wehrmacht and to found
an , aid association for per-
secuted Jews.
Detailed reports on the
Reichskristallnacht . in
the
1938, when
thanks to the testimony
of Jewish officers of
German extraction, and
returned to Cologne.
To save only a single
human being is to save the
whole world, the medal he
was presented with in Rome
proclaims.
MICHAEL JOVY
synagogues and Jewish
shops and homes were
sacked, and compiled
and sent to clandestine
addresses in Paris.
Clothes, food and cash
were Collected for friends in
France. As late as summer
1939 groups were formed at
the Reichsarbeitsdienst
camp on the Westwall.
In December 1939 he and
other members were ar-
rested. In September 1941,
after nearly two years' sol-
itary internment, they were
sentenced to long years in
prison.
At Siegburg jail, Jovy
kept up his clandestine ac-
tivity, making contact with
a resistance group in Col-
_gne. He was eventually
seconded -to a punishment
squad on the Westwall.
He was recognized by
Americans as a political
prisoner at the war's end,
In the peace and quiet of
the Israeli embassy in Rome
and Nazi era was brought
back to life by the ambas-
sador's words. He said it was
an honor and a special
privilege to hand over the
award as a token of his
country's gratitude.
Dr. Jovy's activities only
came to light a couple of
years ago, when an Israeli
journalist came across de-
tails. Until then few people
knew that other young
Germans than the Scholl
group had tried to organize
resistance to Hitler, it was
said in Rome.
Dr. Jovy would prefer
his own work to be
played down and more
attention to be given to
the activities of his group
as a whole as an inspira-
tion to young Germans
today.
"My friends and I were
pupils at the Beethoven
Gymnasium in Bonn," he
says. "I fail to understand
why to this day there is not
even a plaque to recall
courageous former pupils
such as Helmut Giessen
who gave their lives in re-
sisting the Nazis."
Arabs Back De Cuellar Plan
NEW YORK — United
Nations Secretary General
Javier Perez de Cuellar
proposed this week at the Is-
lamic summit meeting in
Morocco that the UN Secu-
rity Council authorize him
to sound out all interested
parties about having a
meeting on the conflict be-
tween the Arab nations and
Israel.
The U.S. and Israel op-
pose including the Soviet
Union in any Middle East
peace discussions. Most of
the representatives of 42
Moslem states at the meet-
ing backed De Cuellar's
plan.
The Islamic ministers
were embroiled in a fierce
debate through most of
their meetings over
whether to invite Egypt to
return to the Islamic Con-
ference Organization.
Egypt was ousted after sign-
ing its peace treaty with Is-
rael.
Syria, Libya and South
Yemen strongly opposed in-
viting Egypt back into the
conference.
Indira Gandhi Is Defeated
on Lebanon Troop Pullback
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NEW YORK — The
Australia/Israel Review re-
ports that Australian Prime
Minister Bob Hawke
clashed with India's Indira
Gandhi when she attempted
to ram through a pro-Syrian
resolution at a meeting of
the Commonwealth Heads
of Government.
Gandhi supported a plank
which called on Israel to
pull out of Lebanon but in-
cluded no reference to a Sy-
rian withdrawal.
Hawke, who is a
member of Australia's
Labor Party, challenged
Gandhi on her anti-Israel
views, telling her that
they were unrepresenta-
tive of the Common-
wealth governments as a
whole. Hawke's view
prevailed and the mem-
bers of the Common-
wealth group went on re-
cord calling on all foreign
troops to leave Lebanon.
Gandhi told the press that
she would not "go into the
history" of Lebanon but that
"the Israeli forces" must
leave first.
Mitterrand
to Aid Israel
Exports Via EEC
PARIS
(JTA)
President Francois Mitter-
rand has promised to try
and help Israel maintain its
current agricultural ex-
ports to Western Europe
after Spain and Portugal
become full members of the
European Economic Com-
munity (EEC) in 1986 and
begin to enjoy peferrential
tariffs.
Spain and Portugal sell in
Western Europe agricul-
tural products similar in
kind and availability to
those exported by Israel.