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Swiss Exhibit
Draws Big Crowds
Geneva (JTA) — Curiosity
about Jewish traditions and
customs among the general
public accounts for the high
attendance at an exhibition
on the history and culture of
Jews in Switzerland, cur-
rently on display at
Lausarine's Historical Mu-
seum.
The exhibition was first
mounted by the Federation
of Swiss Jewish Com-
munities in 1982 and has
been seen in Zurich, Basel
and Geneva.
The current version
stresses Jewish life in the
canton of Vaud, where
Lausanne is located. About
600 Jewish families live in
Lausanne and a smaller
number in Avenches, some
25 miles northeast, in the
canton of Fribourg; where
Jews from the French prov-
ince of Alsace have settled.
There are about 22,000
Jews in all of Switzerland.
But the community is more
or less self-contained and the
non-Jewish population has
had little opportunity to
learn about Judaism.
In the Middle Ages, Jews
were forbidden to own prop-
erty or to practice manual
trades. During the Black
Plague, which began in
1348, Jews were accused of
poisoning the wells and were
mercilessly persecuted.
Only at the end of the 17th
century were Jews granted
some rights in Switzerland.
Among Swiss Jews today
the nagging memory per-
sists of how Jews trying to
escape Nazi atrocities dur-
ing World War II were turn-
ed away at the borders of
neutral Switzerland, many
of them to a certain death.
The Lausanne exhibition
focuses on the meaning of
Judaism, its holidays, tradi-
tions and ritual objects.
The Jewish community
has organized around it con-
certs of Jewish music, a
cabaret show featuring Jew-
ish humor and an "open
door" -at the synagogue.
There, the rabbi of
Lausanne, Saadia Morali,
explains Judaism to non-
Jewish visitors, many of
whom never before set foot
in a Jewish house of wor-
ship.
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Sydney, Australia (JTA) —
The demise of the Soviet
Union is thwarting efforts to
bring suspected Nazi war
criminals to justice in
Australia, a war crimes in-
vestigator has charged.
More than 12 cases against
alleged war criminals living
in Australia have had to be
abandoned because Lithua-
nian witnesses have refused
to cooperate with Australian
investigators, according to
Graham Blewitt, director of
the Special Investigations
Unit assigned to gather
evidence against Australian
residents accused of war
crimes.
The unit was investigating
a number of cases involving
Lithuanian murder squads
during the Nazi occupation.
Mr. Blewitt said they would
have led to a dozen trials, in
addition to the three cases
currently before the courts.
But "numerous witnesses
have reversed their deci-
sions to testify since
Lithuania seceded from the
Soviet Union," he explained.
The result is that only one
person is expected to be
charged. before the unit's
operations are shut down in
June.
Changes in the Eastern
European countries in gen-
eral have confronted in-
vestigators with difficulties,
especially where former
Nazis have been
rehabilitated as "anti-
Communists," Mr. Blewitt
said.
He disclosed that he has
lodged a formal protest with
the director of public pros-
ecutions over the poor trans-
lation of evidence in the case
of Ukrainian-born Ivan
Polyukhovich. . .
He is accused of personally
murdering 24 individuals
and complicity in the
murders of 850 others.
The proceedings have been
delayed while witnesses
argued with the court
translator over the descrip-
tion of a weapon used by Mr.
Polyukhovich.
In contrast, when a
witness was asked in Eng-
lish if he had been forced to
wear a yellow star, the
translator, repeating the
question in Hebrew, asked if
had been wearing a "green
sign."