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Of more recent historical in-
terest, Potsdam was the site of
the Potsdam Conference, July 17-
Aug. 2, 1945, at which Harry
Truman, Josef Stalin and Win-
ston Churchill (replaced in mid-
conference by Clement Atlee) met
to determine the future of post-
war Europe. The actual confer-
ence took place in Schloss
Cecilienhof, the castle built by the
Hohenzollern family in 1917 —
a sedulous imitation of the
grandiose, pseudo-Elizabethan
style country mansions built by
their English cousins, the Saxe-
Coburg-Gotha family, aka the
Windsors.
An elderly guide, in the formal
attire and with the stately de-
meanor of an "Upstairs-Down-
stairs" butler, points out such
artifacts of the Big Three sessions
as the gargantuan, Moscow-
made round table at which the
VIPs sat, as well as the work-
rooms in which their underlings
sweated out the fine points of
agreement and disagreement.
One guidebook editor describes
the rooms as being furnished "in
various degrees of chintziness";
the Soviet delegation's: "about the
most tasteless ... but the British
... with furniture that looks like
it was bought as a job lot from a
defunct presbytery, a close sec-
ond."
Our own experience in Ce-
cilienhof was more rewarding.
We dined — and very well, in-
deed — in the castle restaurant,
"the poshest and most expensive
in Potsdam"; we were hosted by
the town's burgomeister; and we
heard an excellent report on the
condition of Potsdam's Jewish
community.
There are no survivors of the
pre-war Jewish community of
450. Spokesman for the new com-
munity at our dinner meeting
was Dr. Alexander Kogan, an or-
thopedist from Chernowitz, in the
Ukraine. Dr. Kogan is present-
ly the head of a new community
of about 250 members — all of
them former citizens of the one-
time Soviet Union.
Dr. Kogan told us that, in fact,
an influx of Soviet Jews in the
past seven years has brought
Germany's Jewish population
from 30,000 to 60,000. Dr. Kogan
said that the German govern-
ment, since reunification in 1990,
has "welcomed" Soviet Jewish
immigrants. Most of the new-
comers have settled in major
cities like Frankfurt and Berlin;
others have found jobs and hous-
ing, with government aid, in
smaller cities like Potsdam, close
to Berlin.
A relic of past Jewish history
in Potsdam is the cemetery, one
of the few in the country — ex-
cept for several headstones —
undisturbed by the Nazis. In-
scriptions on the headstones over
a period of centuries mark, iron-

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