Page 12-The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, June 2, 1988
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WASHINGTON -
Two. alleged high-ranking members of the Nazi regime during World War II who became Amer-can citizens are facing deportation on charges by the department of justice that they failed to disclose their wartime backgrounds in entering the United States and later in applying for citizenship.
Former Yale University professor Vladimir Soko-lov. of Milford, Conn., is" alleged tohave voluntarily served in the Soviet Union at Orel from 1942 to 1944 as a writer and editor of the Russian-language newspaper Rech, which was published by the German army when it occupied that area of the USSR.
From 1944 to the end of the war, Sokolov allegedly was in Berlin writing for the Russian-language prop-agarida newspapers Zarya and Volya Nardda. The German army awarded him medals for his services, the department says.
Juris Kauls, of Sun City West, Ariz., was accused in federal court papers in Phoenix of having been deputy chief and inspector of guards in 1941 and 1942 for 14 Nazi concentration camps in Latvia.
Kauls was alleged to have entered Canada in February, 1951 and into the U.S. three years later. He applied for permanent-resident status in Detroit and in i960 bNCcame a U.S. citizen. He moved to Arizona from Indianapolis.
Both Sokoiov and Kauls are said to be 75 years of age.- \ V;,'
Sokolov^ believed to be the . first alleged Nazi propagandist faced with deportation from the U.S., was said to have used the pen names V.I. or V.L. Samarin for articles advocating extermination of Jews and imposition of Nazi rule worldwide. He taught Russian language and
literature at Yale for 17 vears before resigning in 1976.
Two years ago, in the U.S. district court in Water-bury, Conn., Judge Thomas Murphy found.Sokolov. had wilfully concealed his propaganda work when he applied for U.S. entry in 1951 and asked for U.S. citizenship six years later, He testified at his trial that he wrote the article to oppose Communism, The antj-semitism in them, he said, was not his but was inserted by his Nazi censors.
NEW YORK (JTA) -
Eleven Jewish organizations have joined with Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman in urging Attorney-Generaf Edwin Meese to imiriediately designate a country of; deportation for accused war criminal Boleslavs Mai-kovskis.
; Maikovskis, who served during World War II as a police chief in Latvia, was found in 1984 to be deportable for persecutions under the Nazis and for lying in order to gain entry into the United States.
Although he has exhausted all avenues of appeal in the American justice system, Maikov-skis still resides at his home in Mineola, NY.
Holtzman and representatives of the Jewish groups held a news conference on the case on the steps of the federal couilhouse in lower Manhattan. They distributed a letter they had sent to Meese registering"dis-may over the justice department's failure for the past, two years to designate a country of depk)rt^tion" for Maikovskis.
Elliot Welles, director of the B'naiB'rith Anti-Defamation League's Task Force on Nazi War Criminals, said at the news conference that Maikovskis was sentenced to death in absentia in Riga, Latvia, in 1965. The Soviet Union, of which Latvia is now part, has requested Maikovskis' extradition, but no extradition treaty ex-
ists between the United States and the Soviet Union.
"It's very sad that the U.S. judicial .system is protecting such a man." Welles said.
Meanwhile, the justice department has asked the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the state department to place 2,000 former members of Nazi death squads — known as the Einsatz-gruppen — on its "watch list." which would bar them from entering this^ country.
The announcement by the department's Office of Special Investigations (OSl), which searches for and prosecutes Nazi war criminals living in the United States, conies two months after it provided the INS with the names-of 9,800 suspected former concentration camp guards to include on its watch list. Both 1 ists were compiled through a newly instituted data base.
Neal Sber,0,Srs director, said a post-^war U.S. military tribunal concluded that through the Elnsatz-gruppen,"whole cate\ gories of people were to be. killed without a trace, without investigation, and without pity, tears or remorse."
The tribunal fbund that the Einsatzgruppen was responsible for "the premeditated killing of one million human beings," he ■ added.
ISRAEL AS IT W AS
This photograph of Tel Aviv's seaside promenade looks south toward Jaffa. It was taken years before the city refurbished and modernized the sea front, now a lively part of Tel Aviv life.
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TEL AVIV (JTA) -
An Israeli injured in a traffic or work accident, or
recently, discloses that as of last November, 37,131 people had been waiting for
who falls out of a window, up to three years for elec-
has a heart attack or needs tive surgery at government
surgery for cancer, is as- hospitals,
sured of rapid and first-rate Kupat Holim patients,
treatment in an Israeli waiting to see a doctor at
government, or Kupat Hoi- one of the hundreds of
im Histadrut sick-fund, sick-fund clinics for even ■ hospital. .
; But woe to the Israeli who needs elective surgery for a cataract or prostate or hernia operation. The state comptroller's report on the
the most minor ailment, must spend most of the day sitting in a chair m the corridor, awaiting his or her turn for the minute or so of consultation talk or
The Name Game
There's a story in almost every Jewish surname and Toronto lawyer FRED M. CATZ-MAN has been researching their origins over the past few years. Mr. Catzman reports on his research in The CJN. If you have any information relating to the origin and meaning of your surname, please pass it along to Fred M. Catzman, c/o The Canadian Jewish News, 10 Gateway Blvd., Suite 420, Don Mills, Ont. M3C 3A1.
SOLISH - SOLURSH - SHOLISH
There are two Jewish surnames; that look very similar, but are actually poles apart in their origin.
SOLURSH — comes . from , the Slavonic SOLARZ — a dealer in salt.
The Yiddish and German equivalents arc SALZ-MAN and SELTZER.
SOLISH, on the other hand, is Hebraic in origin and represents an offtcjaUn the hierarchy of •the medieval KAHAL, the organization of the local Jewish community. It is the Hebrew word for •'third." an impartial umpire chosen by the two arbitrators who were nominated by two disputants ' -tt) adjudicate a dispute.
BothSOLARSH and SHOLISH have'oftcn been abbreviated to SOLISH, which obscure their origin. . ■ ' .'^-^^
JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The new president of the American Jewish Congress emerged from a meeting last week with Premier Yitzhak Shamir saying his organization is still at (xlds with Israel government . policies, particulady in the territories.
• Robert Lifton told reporters that the AJCon-gress still. had its differences with the Likud leader, but described their meeting as"cordial.''
AJCongress was one of the few American Jewish groups to publicly criticize Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin's policy of ..using
health services, published examination by a doctor.
• Reducing the long wait
for elective surgery was - the ostensible reason for
' recent strikes and work
sanctions by the Histadrut f^f* and government hospital
doctors — though many patients charge that this "force, might, beatings" • was only an excuse for de-against Arab rioters in the manding higher incomes.
afternoons and evenings, on a two- or even three-shift basis, would considerably reduce the lengthy wait for surgery. ,
■ Anesthetists have also been demanding the training and employment of more of their colleagues, to be able to provide adequate care for all surgery patients.
The comptroller's report noted that, in addition to the over 37,000 patients awaiting (elective surgery, another 10,000 had not even been given an advance date, because the anticipated time was too far in the future.
some $2,000 on a vate'' basis.
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Israel has no government health service, though the Likud-led . government would like to introduce one.
Attempts by Likud to introduce a national health service have always been fiercely fought by Labor, which sees the attempt as a way of breaking the power of the Histadrut trades union federation. Many members Join the Histadrut for its Kupat Holim benefits. To offer an alternate government health system would almost certainly mean the desertion of many Histadrut members. .
Despite the drawbacks of the present public health
territories.
The organization also released a policy statement last Sept. 21, endorsing an international conference for Middle East peace to serve as the framework for Arab-Israeli negotiations.
Thenx .as now. the issue sharply divided Is'rael's unity coalition government. The Labor Party of Foreign Minister Shimon Peres favors a conference, while Shamir and his Likud bloc arc adamantly opposed.
The doctors have long been complaining that using the operation facilities only in the morning hours was a waste of expensive equipment. They said that iising those same facilities in the
This situation has given rise to a gray market in surgery, under the officially approved "Sharap" (private medical service) system. Patients .needing system, and the frequent surgical treatment for their -strikes, work sanctions and cataract, hernia, prostate, treatment delays. Israel can artificial hip joint and other be proud of its record of one elective-type surgery are in- physician for every 340 formed that the treatment members of the public — can be carried out within a one of the highest ratios in month or so. for payment of the world.
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