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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1990
AMERICAN
CANCER
SOCIETY'
Help us keep winning.
Boulogne, Rene Bousquet,
the police chief who served
his Gestapo masters so well,
was almost certainly sleep-
ing peacefully in his bed.
Bousquet, now aged 81, is
still fit and dapper. True, he
has lived a life of relative
seclusion since he was un-
masked in 1978, but it has
been a seclusion cushioned
by the vast wealth he ac-
cumulated as head of the
Bank of Indo-China over a
period of 30 years following
the war.
Simone Veil, a prominent
French politician, was one of
the children caught up in
Bousquet's net. Miraculous-
ly, she survived her ordeal in
Auschwitz and finds it
"particularly shocking" that
Frenchmen suspected of
crimes against humanity
have gone unpunished.
"Was he given special pro-
tection," she asks, "or was
there a political desire,
reflecting the relatively
broad consensus, to close the
book on a period whose most
odious aspects certain people
would prefer to forget?"
Annette Muller, another
survivor of the round-up who
was just 9 when she was
interned with her mother
and brother, "never thought
they would arrest the wo-
men and children."
But they did: "They used
rifle butts and jets of stream-
ing water to separate the
mothers from their children.
The gendarmes tore off the
women's clothes looking for
Imm°11
"
jewels and money. It was,"
she adds, "a purely French
affair. I didn't see any Ger-
mans."
Whatever the reason,
France has been unable and
unwilling to come to terms
with its wartime history.
Today, 45 years after the end
of the war, Muller finds it
scandalous that not a single
French official involved in
the deportation of Jews to
Auschwitz has been called to
account.
"Collaborators like Bous-
quet live in luxury," she
says. "Now Le Pen [leader of
,France's extreme-right Na-
tional Front can make peo-
ple laugh at jokes about the
gas chambers. It's become
normal to be a racist. But I
know that racism means
death."
So, too, does Serge
Klarsfeld, the Paris-based
lawyer-cum-Nazi hunter
who has instituted legal pro-
ceedings against Bousquet
but has yet to see the French
judiciary take up the case.
Klarsfeld believes that
Bousquet is on a par with
the worst of the Nazi war
criminals. "He must be
brought before a court."
But he has not and, in all
probability, will not. For
now, all that Veil, Muller,
Klarsfeld and hundreds of
thousands of fellow French
Jews can do is wrestle with
the question: Why not? They
are unlikely to find a satis-
factory answer. ❑
11 NEWS
Fifth Israeli Mountaineer
Plunges To His Death
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The fifth
Israeli mountaineer to be
killed in a week plunged to
his death Friday in a climb-
ing accident in the French
Alps.
The mountain climber,
Yitzhak Ziegler, 28, of
Givatayim, near Tel Aviv,
was a member of the
prestigious Israel Alpinist
Club, just as were four
mountaineers who are miss-
ing and presumed dead
following an avalanche July
13 in the Pamir mountain
range in Soviet Tad-
zhikistan.
Those four were part of an
international expedition of
60 highly experienced
mountain climbers, all of
whom are believed to have
lost their lives.
Ziegler, likewise an
outstanding mountaineer,
climbed a peak in the
Himalayas four years ago
and filmed it for Israel Tele-
vision. The four moun-
taineers who are presumed
dead in the Pamirs had also
contracted to do a documen-
tary on their climb for Israel
Television.
Ziegler had planned to ac-
company the four other
Israeli Alpinists on the
international expedition,
which was climbing Lenin
Peak in the Pamirs. He
canceled those plans at the
last minute in favor of a solo
climb up the 15,771-foot
Mont Blanc in the French
Alps.
Ziegler slipped on ice and
fell 900 feet while descen-
ding the mountain.
The missing Israelis in the
Soviet climb are Binyamin
Agur, Gabi Manobla, Dov
Milo and Ya'acov Peleg.