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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION P'TACH of Mich., Inc. 18150 Alta Vista Southfield, Michigan 48075 (313) 399-6281 All donations are tax deductible 208 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1990 You're At The Head Of The Class With a Subscription To The Jewish News Call: 354-6060 THE JEWISH NEWS BOWLERS NEEDED for a FUN COUPLES LEAGUE Every Other Sunday 5:30 p.m. W Bloomfield Lanes Call Merryl 533-7427 New York (JTA) — Within a period of five days last week, the Office of Special Investigations thwarted the attempted entry into this country by three men suspected of having been SS guards at concentration camps during World War II. The men, who tried to enter the United States at three separate points, were not working together. OSI director Neal Sher said the occurrence of three attempts in one week is unusual. The men were stopped by employees of the U.S. Im- migration and Naturaliza- tion Service, who saw their names on the Justice Department's "watch list" of undesirable aliens suspected of war crimes. The border guards contacted OSI, accor- ding to standing instruc- tions, and were told to look for the telltale blood-type tattoo that SS guards had in their left armpits. Two of the men, who are German citizens, were found with the tattoos. Gustav Raasch, who ac- knowledged having served as a guard at Majdanek, in Lublin, Poland, tried to enter Houston after flying there from London. He was returned to England. Hans Weinem, who was allegedly a guard at Auschwitz, tried to enter in Miami after a flight from Frankfurt. He, too, was sent back. The third man, Eduards Podins, a Canadian resident, was detected in Vancouver by employees of the INS who work on the Canadian side of the border. They stopped him before he could board a plane to Hawaii. Podins is said to have been an SS guard at the Valmiera con- centration camp in Latvia. The men are not known to have been charged anywhere with war crimes, said Mr. Sher, but the OSI has now provided all known information to Canada and will be -informing the Ger- mans. Mr. Sher said the number of suspected war criminals trying to enter the country has increased in the last two years because residents of several European countries, including Germany, are no longer required to have tourist visas to enter the United States. An average of six to eight alleged Nazi war criminals per month have tried to come into the United States in the last two years, Mr0.- Sher said. The three attempts last week might be a result of decreased travel fares from Europe that take effect in September, he conjectured. But he doesn't think former_ Nazis believe it is now easier to enter this country than before. "I think the word has gotten out that if someone has a Nazi background, they will be stopped," Mr. Sher said. "The clear message is that Nazis come to the United States at their own risk, and we are going to vigorously enforce" the pro- cedure of screening and re- jecting at the border those with that experience. Meanwhile, OSI has been reaping a reward of informa- tion on war criminals since democratization swept over Eastern Europe. Of particular note has been the cooperation from East Germany. "We've got a commitment from the Easi) Germans, and this summer we sent over five people to scour the records, and they came back with 6,000 names," Mr. Sher said. Mr. Sher said OSI also has four researchers in Czechoslo vakia. "We're very optimistic that at a minimum we are going to have many more names to put on the Watch List," Mr. Sher said. "We've gotten the names of thousands of camp guards, to see if they are living here." CLAL Offers Lecture Tapes New York — A series of lec- tures that was formerly available only to a select group of American Jewish leaders will now be made ac- cessible to the community a large. CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning an Leadership, has chosen a series of twelve lectures, en- titled "Turning Points in Jewish History," as the first o several programs to be pre- pared in audiocassette form. The set of 12 forty-fiv minute lectures is being of fered at a cost of $50 per set plus shipping and handlin charges, through Dept. A10 CLAL, 47 West 34 St., Ne York, N.Y. 10001.