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invite you to attend their

64th
ANNUAL DONOR EVENT

(KEREN KAYEMETH
LEISRAEL) INC.

Please support the Women of JNF in their campaign to
complete the Home Site Project near Be'er Sheva.

Join us at 12:00 Noon
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1993
CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK
27375 Bell Road, Southfield
Enjoy Program of "Musical Treasures"

Featuring

CANTOR EDWARD S. FEIGELMAN
Baritone

SADIE BRAVER
Violinist

For reservations call:
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
17100 W. Ten Mile Rd.
Southfield, MI 48075
557-6644
Reservations must be
received by November 8
Luncheon tickets will
be at the door

LILLIAN ZELLMAN
Pianist

French Court Rules
Touvier To Be Tried

Paris (JTA) — A French
court has ruled that Paul
Touvier, the 78-year-old
former French Nazi col-
laborator, must stand trial
for crimes against human-
ity.
The decision was rendered
last week by the Versailles
Court of Appeal, putting an
end to a 20-year legal battle.
No date has yet been set
for the trial, but Mr. Touvier
would become the first Fren-
chman ever to stand trial on
such charges.
Another Frenchman who
was ordered to stand trial,
Vichy Police Chief Rene
Bousquet, was murdered

enabling him to come out of
hiding and regain possession
of his belongings, which in-
cluded a home.
When members of the war-
time French Resistance
heard this, they lodged a
lawsuit against Mr. Touvier
for crimes against human-
ity, which is not covered by
the statue of limitations on
war crimes.
Mr. Touvier again went
into hiding in monasteries.
On May 24, 1989, French
gendarmes discovered and
arrested Mr. Touvier in a
convent near Nice.
Jailed for two years, he
was released in 1991 by a

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earlier this year by a non-
Jewish man.
Mr. Touvier, who was head
of intelligence of the Vichy
militia in the southeastern
French city of Lyon, was
tried in absentia for murder
and condenmed to death in
1945 and 1947.
But he vanished
mysteriously and did not
surface until he was found in
1989 hiding in a Catholic
monastery.
He had been hidden since
the end of World War II in
various Catholic convents,
with the approval of some of
the highest members of the
Catholic Church in France.
This was shown by an in-
vestigation ordered two
years ago by Cardinal Albert
Decom-tray, the archbishop
of Lyon.
In the early 1970s, then-
President Georges Pompidou
pardoned Mr. Touvier,

court order that cited his age
and poor health. (He suffers
from bladder cancer.)
A first appeal by Mr.
Touvier's lawyers led to a
surprising decision by a
Paris court to throw the case
out of court.
The ensuing uproar led the
French Justice Department
to appeal the decision.
In the long course of legal
events, most of the charges
against Mr. Touvier were
dropped for technical
reasons.
The only one remaining is
the role of Mr. Touvier in the
execution of seven Jewish
hostages on June 29, 1944.
Mr. Touvier has always
acknowledged that it was he
who picked the seven to be
executed. But he has main-
tained that by doing so he
saved the lives of hundreds
of Jews who would have
been murdered. ❑