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Paris (JTA) — French
Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld
was taken into custody in
Damascus and placed under
house arrest in her hotel
room.
Mrs. Klarsfeld, who with
her husband, Serge, helped
bring Klaus Barbie and
other Nazi war criminals to
justice, was seized by
Damascus police outside the
Interior Ministry.
She was demonstrating
there against the continued
haven Syria has given Alois
Brunner, one of the last of
the major Nazi war
criminals still at large.
The German-born
Klarsfeld was also pro-
testing Syria's denial of civil
rights to its Jewish commun-
ity, which is prevented from
emigrating.
A ranking Interior Min-
istry official reportedly
promised that he was
"trying to get her a meeting
with an important Syrian
personality," to whom she
could express her concern
over Mr. Brunner and the
treatment of Syrian Jews.
Mrs. Klarsfeld entered
Syria with admittedly ques-
tionable documents. Her
husband has been able to
speak to her by telephone
from Paris.
The Syrians are reportedly
trying quietly to rid them-
selves of Mr. Brunner, who
is alleged to have lived in
Damascus for more than 30
years.
He occupied a villa on
George Haddad Street under
the name of Georg Fisher.
But on Oct. 15, he was re-
ported to have disappeared.
The Syrian authorities are
said to be trying to ease him
out of the country in stages,
by taking him first to a less
visible location. They are
said to have already produc-
ed a sheaf of forged docu-
ments to prove that Mr.
Brunner, alias Fisher, never
lived at the villa.
Mr. Brunner, 79, was
sentenced to death in -absen-
tia by a French court in 1954
for premeditated murders
and torture. As an SS officer,
he commanded the Drancy
internment center near
Nazi- occupied Paris, where
Jews and others were kept
temporarily before deporta-
tion to death camps in East-
ern Europe.
He also was responsible for
deporting the entire Jewish
community of Salonika,
Greece, few members of
which survived. Mr.
Brunner continued depor-
ting Jews from France even
after the Allied landings in
Normandy in June 1944.
Like many other major
war criminals, he managed
to evade punishment after
the collapse of the Third
Reich a year later and found
not only refuge but welcome
in Syria.
The Damascus govern-
ment has persisted,
however, in denying his
presence, and repeated
French requests for extradi-
tion have gone unheeded.
But that could change if
Syria becomes convinced
that it would improve its
world standing by coop-
erating in the Brunner case.
The Middle East peace talks
have put Syria's support of
terrorism, its dismal human
rights record and its treat-
ment of Jews under interna-
tional spotlight.
In an apparent indication
that it is sensitive to the
"bad press" it is receiving on
these issues, the Damascus
government last month
released more than 700 peo-
ple from Syrian prisons.
Among those released were
four of the six Jews behind
bars for allegedly attemp-
ting to leave the country.
Anti-Semitism
Is Synod Topic
Rome (JTA) — Th e
assembled Catholic bishops
of Europe heard a ringing
condemnation of the
persecution of Jews by
Christians at the opening of
a special two-week synod
convened at the Vatican on
Nov. 28.
The speaker, Cardinal
Camillo Ruini, denounced
anti-Semitism of which, he
said, the Holocaust was the
"terrible apex," a "gigantic
crime" that contained the
"perversion of European
humanism" and the "denial
of the brotherhood of man."
Cardinal Ruini, a key offi-
cial at the synod, extolled
Jewish culture as "a consti-
tuent element in the devel-
opment of European civiliza-
tion."
It was not known whether
Cardinal Ruini's remarks
were written before or after
the European Jewish Con-
gress asked the synod to
"respect and affirm the prin-
ciple of religious and
cultural pluralism that
without a doubt constitutes
a fundamental principle of
modern Europe."
The EJC made its request
in a letter delivered a week