Page 6-The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, January 16, 1986
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World-National
Compensation from Flick conglomerate
Surviymg slave lab^ paid $2 million
BONN (JTA) -
The Flick grqijp of companie&^ a VVest Ger-nian industrial con; glomerate, said last weelT it has paid 5 milliph marks, the equivalent of $2 million, to the Con-fierehce on Jewish: Material Cliaims Against Germany to compensate surYJving Jewish slave laborers used by one of its subsidiaries Dynaniit-Nobel, during World WarlL:- ■
This was confirmed in New York by Saul Kagan, executive director the Glaims Conference, who said it culminated nearly 20 years of efforts on behalf of the daim-ants. There are an estimated 1,000-1,300 sur-
viving slave laborers; who^ were used bv D>:namit-
,. Nobel:.
■The: oiic-time .payment
~ was approvediiyTX-^utschc Bank/ West Germany's largest bank, which ac-
: cjuired the Flick group last month for $2 billion. It was deseribed as a ''huniani-tarian':' gesture. The bank's board chairman, Wilhclm , Christian, had
: said earlier that the bank-was uiider no legal obligation to pay ctTimpensaiion to, former slave laborers.
Rabbi Israel Miller, president of the Glaims Conference said in a statement. '-We are pleased with the prompt response byPeut^sche Bank and we forrnally acknowledge the
° decision of bynamit-Nobel
to^ t J na 1 ly prO\; ide as rna 11; paytuent to Jewish slave laborers \vho toiled for Dynamit-Nobel during the ■ war." V'
The Flick group.founded by the late Fricdrich Flick and sold to Deutsche Bank by his son. Fricdrich Karl, denied it had utilized slave labor during the Nazi era. though it. did,. profit from the acqujsi-lion of Jewish companies "aryanized* "by the Third Reich. The group was
dismantled after the war burrmide a rapid comeback during which it became "pITrent ; company of DynamiNN_obeli
The latter ran munition.s and explosives factories ■ near such concentration canlps as Auschwitz. Buchenwald and : Gross Rosen, utilizing camp \n-liiates. mostly women, under dangerous and brutal ■ conditions. '
The Los Angeles-based Siiriion Wiesenthal Center,
which accused JDeutschc Bank of having benefited,, .ntOm slave-labor; expr<?ss-ed .satisfaction with the: Flick group's agrcenient to. pay what it called ''a symbolic sunV to the slave labor Survivors. It iipplaud-ed the Claims Conference for its efforts "in pursuing these moral issues" bui expressed "deep di.sapppiht-nient'' that the Deutscht^ Bank; refused to acknowledge it.s obligation as a moral one..
Werner Nachman, ^ chaixman of the Ceritrai Council of Jews in Germany, aiIso_ expressed satisfaction with Flick's payinent. But the German Jewish community remains outraged by the anti-semitic slur of Her-, mann Fellner, a ranking meinber of the Christian Social Uiiion (CSU) who said he saw no legal or moral obligation to pay compensation to Jewish slave labor survivors.
The Name Game
FRED M. CATZMAN, who has been researching the origin of names for many years, reports on his findings each week in The GJN. In this week's column he responds t6 queries from some of oiir readers. ,
■;;:■' SCHMALTZ
Leonard Smith of North York enquires about the surname of bis father who came to Canada with the name SCHMALTZ. He understands correctly that the correct spelling is SCHMALZ and that means grease or fat. which hie thinks does not make sense.
The name is not as unflattefing as he thinks. Betbre di.scdvery of the perils of cholesterol. schmalz renderedTrdm chicken fat was a staple in the Jewish diet. It added flavor to fried chicken and padded the little bodies of skinny kids whom anxiousmothers consideredundernourished. It a|so had a favorable connotation: Schmalz herring was a delicacy. A "schmalz grub" was like a gold mine. And even today a schmalzy performance by an actor is one "larded" with effusion and gusto.
ZrrOMERSKY '•
/B<^iris Mirsky:writes that his.father immigrated from the Ukraine with the name ZFTOMERSkY. It is evident that the name derives from the town of ZHITOMIR a Ukrainian towriniear Kiev. It is a considerable distance from: Mir. a town in the province of Minsk, in White Russia, from \^hich comes the surname MiRSKY.r must concede that, in shortening the name to MIRSKY, although it misdescribesyaur father's origin, he distanced himself considerably frorn the tail end of the telephone directory.
RYZMAN - BALDERMAN
Mrs. Balderman of St. Laurent. Que., enquires about her maiden name RYZMAN and her married name BALDERMAN;
RYZMAN was probably REISMAN and would probably denote a dealer in rice(REIS in. German). It may be compared to WEITZMAN. a dealer iri wheat, and FRUCHTMAN. a dealer in fruit. , .
\'. BALDERMAN is more troublesome.. The closest I could get is WALDERMAN.;which is a woodsman or forester. Can anvof my readers help? • ' ■ ■"■■.:■..■ ;:--::-N,.
WALDOWSKI - LADOWSKY
i recently met the charming daughter of Kiva Ladowsky, the well knowii Toronto restaurateur, whose eater)' on Spadina Ave. was virtually an institution in the Jewish corrimunity; She believed that her sumariie derived from a Spanish nanie and was associated with Landauer. My research does not confirm this derivation. I would speculate that it may be a beheaded version of WLADOWSKJ. the name of one of toronto;'s earhest chazanim who leh his mark on many Jewish boys in Toronto as ah expert mohel.:
Wladowski conies frpm WLODAWA, a town in Eastern Poland bordering on Russia. ■ ■ * ■ ..■ ■'*- ' * '
CHERNIAK
Earl Cherniak is a pirominent barrister in London, On t. His surname is unusual and interesting. It means cuttlefish in Slavonic. Tintfisch is its German name, and in Spanish it is referred to as an ink-fish. If is equipped with a sac of black fluid which it can eject to darken the waters and conceal itself. The black ink was extracted from the fish and sold commercially as a dye or writing
fluid;-
BUCHAREST (JTA) -
The Choral Temple here was packed to capacity as memorial seryicc-s were held last week marking the 45th anniversan.' of the pogrom ih.which thousands of Buchai-est Jews Were murdered by: the Nazi-backed Rpmanian fascist . organization. Iron Guard.
The temple, where Romania's Chief Rabbi, Moses Rosen, presided and delivered the sermon, was the principal scene of the carnage that todk place in January, 1941. Jew? were herded into the main sanctuarv". which was set on fire. The' bodies of Jew? were hanged from the ceilings each body bearing the inscription, *'kosher meat." Scores of other synagogues were destroyed in the rampage.
The Jewish quarter of Bucharest, known as Vacaresti Dudesti, was devastated by the mobs.
The ceremonies were attended by niany notables, including the Israeli am-bas.sador to Romania. losef . Govrin. and officials of the United States ernbassy. In his sertnon. Rabbi Rosen; who is president of the -Federation of Jewish Communities, the central representative body of Romanian Jewrv and the World Jewish Congress af-filiaie here, declared: ' "Only in having our own homeland in Israel, where we are neither subject to
the hale nor pity of others, where wc are the masters of our own destiny. only in this way can we be certain that the dangers of such barbaric pogroms will no longer exi.st.": :
A young Rornanian fascist; Valerian Trifa, a
leader of the Iron Guard, was one of the chief instigators of and participants in the 1941 pogrom. Trifa made :his way to the United States after the wai" and became archbi:sh6p. of the Romanian Orthodox Church 'in that countrv.
with headquarters in Grasslakes, Mich.
After years of effort to bring him to justice, Trifa was finally stripped of his Americiin citizenship and was deported as a war criminal, He presently resides in Portugal,
(Cont'd, from page 1]
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Refering to a government report — Equality Now on the participation of visible, minorities in Canadian scxrieiy released' almOsi two years ago. Jelinek said "we have already begun to imple-nic nt 57" of the report' s 80 recommendations.
The $60,000 government grant for 1986 represents a substantial increase over the $28,000 budget of the.small communities committee of CJC in 1985, noted Murray Schwartz, co-; chairman of the committee.
Schwartz, a resident of Antigonish, NS, and committee co-chairman Nor-
a
JERUSALEM (JTA) -Only 11,298 immigrants came to Israel in 1985, the lowest-ever annual figure.
man . Berc'ovich froin Regina.told The CJN part of the money will go towards supporting a national newsletter distributed to Jews in small communities.
For niany. the newsletter represents the only "pipeline" to other Jews in similar circumstances and to Congress, they said.
Other uses for the funds include support for regional leadership development conferences. where items of concern to .small communities such as school curricula, day schools and inlermarriage are discussed, a.s well as for the design and development of new schcxif curricula, to enable even a single parent to teach his other children the aleph bet.
The funds will also sup-
The figure includes 2,035 immigrants from Ethiopiia. The previous all-time low was 1953, when 11,326 immigrants arrived.
port and sponsor tours of Jewish entertainers and lec-turers to small communities, they added.
Schwartz and Bercovich stated that the committee is considering various options in bringing Jewish reading material to people in small centres. One approach would see a judaica section iri public libraries, while a second would have a mobile library travel from place to place.
Both Bercovich and Schwartz stressed that their committee was constantly tr>1ng to reach out and identify Jews in small communities. "There are still a lot of Jews out there we don't know about," Bercovich said.
Anyone interested in getting on thermailing list, or. if you know someone who . might be; contact Shellie Ettinger. director National Small Communities Committee. Canadian Jewish Congress, 1590 Dtxneu r Penfield. Montreal. Quebec, H3G IC5.
Fellner, whose pai^y is the Bavarian wing of Chancellor Helmut Kohl's ruling Christian Democratic P":Union (CDU), suggested that the claim for compensation "creates the impression that Jews are quick to show up whenever money jingles In German cashboxes."
Fellner. a rightwinger. . who has often accused" the government of being "over-sensitive" to Israel, has refused to retract his remarks despite admonitions from members of his own party. Israel's ambassador to Bonn, Yitzhak Ben Ari, said "FeUner should be ashamed , of him.seIf for having stooped to use expressions familiar from the worst days of the Nazi era."
Heinz Galinsky. chairman of the West Berlin Jewish community called on Chancellor Kohl to take a clear stand on the issue. He said he was shocked to learn that Fellner is only 35 — born five years after the end of the war and the collapse of the Third Reich.
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