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Friday, September 19, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Austria To Work With AJC
To Stem Anti-Semitism

New York (JTA) — The
Austrian government and the
American Jewish Committee
(AJC) have agreed to estab-
lish a joint working group to
implement a program to stem
anti-Semitism in that coun-
try, leaders of the AJC, who
returned from a mission to
Austria, announced in a press
conference here last week.
(See last week's editorial, "No
To The BSO".)
"This is the first time in 40
years that 'the Austrian
government has agreed to the
establishment of such joint
working group with any
Jewish organization," said
Rabbi Marc Thnenbaum, the
AJC's director of interna-
tional relations,,who was part
of the six member delegation.
Tanenbaum said the pro-
gram to reduce anti-Semitism
in Austria includes three
elements: A major conference
involving academic research
institutes on anti-Semitism in
Austria; •symposium on the
contribution of Jews to
Austria and to American
culture; and an Austrian sym-
posium on combating anti-
Semitic tendencies that
would incorporate exper-
iences in Austria, West Ger-
many and the U.S.
Leo Nevas, chairperson of
the AJC's Board of Gover-
nors, who headed the delega-
tion, noted that the group

was the first from an Amer-
ican Jewish organization to
visit Austria since the elec-
tion of Kurt Waldheim as
President following a bitter
campaign with many anti-
Semitic overtones in the wake
of revelations concerning
Waldheim's Nazi past.
Nevas said the delegation
met with Chancellor Fran
Vranitzky and Foreign Min-
ister Peter Jankowitsch,
leaders of the major political
parties and leaders of the
Austrian Jewish community.
"We did not ask to meet
Waldheim nor were we asked
to meet with him," Miles
Jaffe, chairperson of the
AJC's international commis-
sion said.
Nevas and Jaffe said that
in their discussions with the
Austrian leaders they ex-
pressed concern over the use
of antiSemitism as a "polit-
ical currency" in Austria's re-
cent Presidential campaign,
"The use of political anti-
Semitism was a terrible shock
to Austria's Jewish commun-
ity," Jaffe asserted. Nevas
noted, however, that current-
ly there is no fear or panic of
anti-Semitism among the
some 9,000 Jews in Austria.
"They are concerned that the
use of political anti-Semitism
will be used in the future,
unless it is stopped now,"
Nevas said.

Portugal Urged To Honor
War-Time Diplomat

Washington (JTA) — Sev-
enty members of Congress
last week sent a letter to
President Mario Soares of
Portugal asking his govern-
ment to posthumously honor
a Portuguese diplomat who
saved some 30,000 Jews and
others during World War III.
The bipartisan letter was
initiated by Reps. Henry
Waxman and Ibny Coelho,
both (D.Cal.). Coelho is the
only Portuguese-American
member of Congress.
The diplomat was Aristides
de Sousa Mendes do Amaral
e Abranches, who headed the
Portuguse consulate in
Bordeaux in the south of
France in 1940 where Jews
and others had fled in the
wake of the Nazi invasion of
France.
As the Germans approached
the city, thousands lined up in
front of the Portuguese Con-
sulate seeks Portuguese visas
for the only open escape
route, over the Pyranees into
Spain and into neutral Por-
tugal. Working around the
clock for three days, de Sousa
Mendes gave visas to Jews
and others fleeing Nazism
despite orders from the
military government of An-

tonio de Olivera Salazar not
to do so.
When Lisbon learned what
de Sousa Mendes was doing,
he was recalled and ousted
from the diplomatic corps. He
was forbidden to practice his
profession of law or hold any
other job and died in poverty
in 1954. Most of his 14
children had to leave Portu-
gal.
The only country to honor
de Sousa Mendes is Israel
where he was awarded post-
humously in 1967 the Yad
Vashem gold medal for those
who helped save the lives of
Jews during the Holocaust.

Terror Obstacle

Washington (JTA) — Israeli
Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin said that terrorism is
preventing any movement in
the peace process. "Terrorism
is the main obstacle to peace,"
he told reporters after a one-
hour meeting with Secretary of
State George Shultz at the
State Department. Rabin indi-
cated that the major topic of
discussion was Egyptian-
Israeli relations.