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Friday, May 10, 1985

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

NEWS

Yad Vashem Honors
Righteous German

Jerusalem (JTA) — An anti-
Nazi officer of the German army,
who at great risk to his own life
saved the lives of hundreds of
Jews during World War II, was
honored at a ceremony at the Yad
Vashem Holocaust memorial in
Jerusalem last week.
Eighteen visiting mayors from
West Germany and the United
States each placed a white rose at
the tree planted in memory of
Maj. Eberhard Helmrich in the
area of the Yad Vashem reserved
for the "Righteous Among Na-
tions." The mayors were attend-
ing the Jerusalem Conference of
Mayors sponsored by the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress.
The white roses are symbolic of
the White Rose Movement, a
small but dedicated group of
Germans, including high ranking
military officers, who detested the
Nazi regime and resisted it during
the war. Most of them were
caught, tortured and executed.
Helmrich, in charge of a
Wehrmacht quartermaster unit
in Drohobycz, Galicia, established
a farm to supply food for German
troops in the area. He employed
about 300 healthy young men and
women, 90 percent of them
Jewish. He promised that if they
did their job well, he would look
after them.
Each time Helmrich received a
request from the SS for a "selec-
tion" for deportation to death

Springer Cited

Berlin — West German pub-
lisher Axel Springer has been
awarded the Gold Medal from
B'nai B'rith International.
In his acceptance speech last
month, the publisher of
Bildzietung, Germany's largest
mass circulation daily, and the
newspaper Die Welt, said that he
would remain committed to the
cause of the Jewish people for his
entire life.

camps, he managed to convince
the Nazis that the farm could not
meet its quotas if any of his work-
ers were taken. He also bribed
gestapo agents to keep silent. Be-
cause of this personal interven-
tion, Helmrich's workers were
saved from deportation during the
autumn of 1942 and the winter
and summer of 1943.
Helmrich prepared forged
documents in his cellar which
saved the lives of at least 100
Jewish young women. The docu-
ments identified them as Ukrai-
nian Gentiles and as such they
were transferred to Germany to
work as domestics.

Canada Deports
Hate Publisher

Toronto (JTA) — Ernst Zundel,
the anti-Semitic Toronto pub-
lisher convicted last March under
Canada's anti-hate laws of
spreading literature which claims
the Holocaust was a Jewish hoax,
was ordered deported last week.
He said he would fight the order to
the highest tribunal. But he told
the Toronto Globe and Mail that
he would welcome deportation to
West Germany because he has a
"power base" there. -
Zundel was sentenced to 15
months in prison. He has been
allowed to remain at liberty pend-
ing his appeal against.the convic-
tion and against the deportation
order issued by the Immigration
Commission Adjudicator.
Ztindel is a resident alien in
Canada. Under the law, any non-
citizen sentenced for a criminal of-
fense to a jail term of longer than
six months is subject to deporta-
tion.
Zundel flaunted his racism
when he appeared outside a cour-
thouse here in blackface. "I didn't
get justice as a white man so
maybe I will as a black," he said,
implying that blacks get favored
treatment in the courts.

Machon L Torah — Torah Center of Metro Detroit

invites you to participate in a woman-to-woman

CONFERENCE ON THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH WOMAN

Brilliant Dynamic Guest Speaker, Esther Shkop, Chicago, IL

"SHATTERING THE ORTHODOX MYTH"

followed by discussions and workshops including:

• "Anyone for Singles?"
• The Art of Loving
• TheJewish Woman of Tomorrow

When: Sunday evening, June 2nd (registration at 6:45 p.m.) 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Where: Jewish Community Center, 15110 W. 10 Mile Road, Oak Park
Cost: $5.00 — For reservations and information please call,
Machon 968-4835 or Elaine 967-0956

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— refreshments will be served —