Obituaries

Obituaries from page 85

SARA TIGEL, 88, of Escondido, Calif., for-
merly of Michigan, died Aug. 29, 2007.
Mrs. Tigel was a bookkeeper from
the age of 18 until her 70s for Creditor's
Service until they moved their offices.
An active cultural participant, she was a
member of the Humanistic movement.
She is survived by her son, Dr. Phillip
Tigel of Las Vegas, Nev.; brother and sister-
in-law, Bernard and Pauline Silberman of
Chicago.
Mrs. Tigel was the beloved wife of the
late Hertzol Tigel and the dear sister and
sister-in-law of the late Jack and the late
Claire Silberman.
Interment at Machpelah Cemetery.
Contributions may be made to the char-
ity of one's choice. Arrangements by Ira
Kaufman Chapel.

Correction

The obituary for Cantor Asher Adler (Aug.
30) should have indicated that he was was
the loving son of the late Ruth Adler; dear
brother of the late Sham Duben; dear
brother-in-law of Shlomo Duben.

World Briefs

Alleged Nazi Can Appeal

An alleged Nazi
Sydney, Australia/JTA
war criminal living in Australia can appeal
his extradition to Hungary.
Charles Karoly Zentai of Perth won
the right to appeal to the High Court
in Canberra against whether the Perth
Magistrates Court had the authority to
order the government to extradite him to
his homeland. Monday's ruling by three
High Court judges will prolong the case
against Zentai, who has been fighting
murder charges since the allegations were
made public in late 2004.
Zentai is accused of killing Peter Balazs,
an 18-year-old boy in Budapest, for not
wearing the mandatory yellow Star of
David in 1944 while Zentai was in the
army. Now 85, Zentai has repeatedly
denied the claims, which were brought to
light by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in
Jerusalem.
In April, Zentai lost his appeal to the
Federal Court, which ruled that state mag-
istrates did have the legal power to rule
on extraditions. Australia has never extra-
dited an alleged Nazi war criminal, despite
the founding of the federal government's

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Wiesenthal Center Slams Croatia

The Simon Wiesenthal
Prague/JTA
Center condemned Croatia for failing to
prosecute a World War II official suspected
of deporting thousands to concentration
camps.
"Croatia's failure to prosecute No
Rojnica, the Ustashe governor of
Dubrovnik, currently residing in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, is one of the most dis-
appointing results of the period under
review," Efraim Zuroff, Israel director of
the Wiesenthal Center, said.
Croatia's fascist Ustashe government
was allied with Hitler during the war and
was responsible for the deaths of thou-
sands of Jews, Serbs and gypsies.
"Despite the explicit promise of attorney
general [Mladen] Bajic that the Rojnica
case would be decided in early 2007 at the
latest, there still has been no decision in
the case, which only brings Rojnica closer
to eluding justice," the Wiesenthal Center
said in a statement.

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Special Investigations Unit in 1988. The
unit was shut down in 1993 with no con-
victions and or extraditions.
Konrads Kalejs, a Latvian-born alleged
Nazi war criminal living in Melbourne,
died in 2001 while his extradition order
was being fought in court.

Swiss Party Accused Of Racism

Switzerland's biggest politi-
Prague/JTA
cal party was accused of Nazi propaganda
techniques in an anti-crime campaign.
The People's Party has run an advertis-
ing campaign showing three white sheep
on a Swiss flag booting out a black sheep
accompanied by the slogan, "For more
security." The ads are part of the party's
attempt to enact the first law in Europe
that would punish the immigrant parents
of children who commit crimes by eject-
ing them from the country.
Ronnie Bernheim of the Swiss
Foundation against Racism and Anti-
Semitism said the proposal was similar
to the Nazi practice of Sippenhaft, or kin
liability, which held relatives of criminals
responsible for their crimes and punished
them equally.

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