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Jewish Survivors
See Limited Progress

Berlin (J-TA) - Kurt Goldstein
found himself in a French in-
ternment camp in 1939 after
fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
In 1942, he was denounced by
the French, turned over to the
Germansand sent to the
Auschwitz death camp.
Maria Koenig was deported to
Auschwitz from Lodz, Poland,
where she grew up.

about the rise of radical-right
politicians and parties, but about
neo-Nazi sympathies in the Ger-
man justice system.
Still, these survivors — not
only of the Nazi death camps, but
also of the failed attempt at a
Communist state in East Ger-
many — criticize, but stop short
of condemning their fellow citi-
zens. The three spoke to a group

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A former political prisoner lights a candle
at the Auschwitz ceremony.

Her husband, Adam, was ar-
rested in Frankfurt and sent to
the Sachsenhausen concentra-
tion camp near Berlin.
After World War II, the three
did what to many was the un-
thinkable: They decided to stay
in the country that tried to ex-
terminate them.
Believing that a more human-
istic Germany could grow out of
the ashes at Auschwitz, they
settled in the former East Ger-
many.
Today, 50 years after the lib-
eration of the Auschwitz camp,
all three individuals see some
progress in Germany's ability to
deal with its past.
But not enough.
They are not only worried

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of foreign reporters here a few
days before the commemorations
of the liberation of Auschwitz.
"I don't believe in making gen-
eralities," said Maria Koenig,
asoft-spoken woman. "German
children today have just the same
chance as children from other
countries to grow up in a democ-
racy."
Adam Koenig focused his crit-
icism on the German justice sys-
tem, which he felt does not
sufficiently pursue neo-Nazis.
He cited a case that generated
a worldwide uproar last year,
when a judge serving on a state
court in the southwestern Ger-
man city of Mannheim voiced
sympathy for Gunter Deckert,
the chairman of the extreme