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The legendary marque of high performance.
1991 ALFA 164 SEDAN
— AM/FM Stereo Cassette
— 4 Speed Automatic Transaxle
— Power Front Sport Seats
Air Conditioning
— Metallic Paint
— Cruise Control
— Air Bag
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Based on 35-month closed-end lease to qualified customers through Chase Manhattan Service Corporation 1991 Alfa Romeo
164, Automatic, $2,445.00 required at inception of lease. 36 monthly payments total 514,220.00. MSRP: 526,085.00 excluding
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before end of lease (but after 12 months) for greater of adjusted lease balance or fair market value, plus $150.00. Refundable
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value for mileage over 15,000 cents per mile or leasing industry guide value for mileage over 15,000 miles per year, plus
5400 fee and excess sear and tear charge. Offer ends Nov. 30, 1990. See your participating Alfa Romeo dealer for details.
Subject to limited availability of base 164s in dealer and distributor stock. Other 1645 available with additional equipment
at comparable savings. Dealer contribution may affect final cost.
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scent victory in her current
campaign to have Mayor
Josef Eber removed from of-
fice.
"We all know of Eber's
past, but it was long ago,"
Klaus Hermann, the deputy
editor of Passau's local
newspaper, was quoted as
saying recently. "We've had
articles about him, but there
were never particularly
strong feelings within the
community." Mr. Eber
himself dimisses the inci-
dent as "a schoolboy prank,
nothing personal."
Anna Rosmus, who
became known in Passau as
"The Nasty Girl," has
struck a chord with many
Germans, and filmmaker
Michael Verhoeven took her
story as the theme of his new
prize-winning movie, ap-
propriately titled The Nasty
Girl.
Mr. Verhoeven, who wrote
and directed the film, which
opens the first Washington,
D.C., Jewish Film Festival
on Dec. 1 and which was
premiered in Britain at the
London Film Festival re-
cently, became interested in
Anna Rosmus when he read
her first book, Passau: An
Example of Persecution and
Resistance.
"I admired her guts," he
says. "It is an extraordinary
tale of resistance by one per-
son."
Anna's work has not been
entirely unrewarded. Her
expressive face lights up
when she speaks of the con-
nections she has forged with
the forgotten citizens of
Passau — Jews who fled the
town as refugees and who
have had little or no contact
with their birthplace for
decades.
In order to find out about
their experiences, Anna
placed an ad in the New
York-based, German-
language paper, Auf-
bau,asking former Passau
Jews to contact her. Eight,
now living in the United
States and Israel, did so.
She did not just want to
know the biographical
details of their lives —
where they were born, where
they had lived and gone to
school, when and how they
had left Passau — she also
wanted to explore their emo-
tions:
"What did you feel? What
were your dreams, your
fears and hopes? What do
you think about Germany
and about your old
hometown?"
Some did not reply. One
woman begged her not to ask
such questions: "It's too
hard for me," she wrote. "I
would have to remember so
deeply and so exactly that I
couldn't bear it."
Others, however, did re-
spond, sparking off a regular
correspondence with this
strange German woman and
her penetrating questions.
Some even confessed that,
for all their traumatic
memories, they would like to
see Passau again.
Four years ago, Passau-
born graphic artist Robert
Klein, now living in San
Francisco, decided to take up
an invitation from Anna
Rosmus and visit the bir-
thplace he had left 50 years
earlier.
Anna was determined that
he would receive an ap-
propriate welcome from the
town and asked the then-
mayor, Hans Hoesel, to lay
on an official welcome for
the returning emigre when
he arrived at the station.
The mayor refused point-
blank: "I didn't expel him,
why should I welcome him?"
he asked brusquely. "There
"The atmosphere
in the town was
explosive . . . The
whole city
regarded me as the
devil, their enemy
. . . people in the
street called me a
`Jewish whore.' "
Anna Rosmus
may be one old man at the
station tomorrow, but the
next day there will be a
hundred old men. Every Jew
will think he can come."
Anna Rosmus does not eas-
ily take no for an answer.
She calmly informed the
local newspaper, the
Passauer Neue Presse,that a
distinguished Jewish emigre
would be arriving in the
town next morning, that the
mayor and his officials were
laying on a civic reception
and that his former
neighbors and school friends
would be welcome.
The paper innocently
published the information,
and when the train rolled
into Passau next day, Mayor
Hoesel, his officials and
some 60 former friends and
acquaintances were there to
meet Robert Klein. The
Passauer Neue Presse, still
unaware that it had been in-
strumental in "persuading"
the civic leaders to attend,
reported that the mayor had
been so moved by the occa-
sion that he had been unable
to speak.
Since then eight former
Passauer Jews have re-
visited their old hometown.