Page 4-The Canadian Jewish News, Thursday, March 18, 1993
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Groups hopeful
By RON CSILLAG
TORONTO — Despite last week's announcement that pro-Nazi publisher Ernst Zundel will not be prosecuted for promoting hatred, Jewish groups are still hopeful Zundel will be charged one day for calting the Holocaust a hoax.
"He must be charged. Otherwise, we will lose our respect for the jaw in Canada," said Sabina Citron, who has been pressing for charges against Zundel since 1978 and through whose personal complaint Zundel was twice convicted of .spreading false news about the Holocaust.
The Supreme Court of Canada last year quashed the^conviction, ruling that the false news section of the
Criminal Code violated freedom of speech.
Citron said she was "outraged" by the Ontario Provincial Police's (OPP) decision not to charge Zundel.
"With all the information they have, the police have still not moved."
She said Zundel is free to do in Canada — deny the Holocaust in reams of brochures and literature — what he is prohibited from doing in his native Germany.
Last year, Zundel was convicted and fined in Germany for taking part in a neo-Nazi march.
Citron said her lawyers have been in touch with crown prosectors, who will continue to lobby Ontario's attorney general on the matter.
Also last week. Premier Bob Rae
met a Canadian Jewish Congress delegation; headed by Ontario region chair GerdaFrieberg, to discuss the case.
Rae listened to the concerns but made no promises, said region director Manuel Prutschi.
At a hastily called press conference just after the OPP announcement, Frieberg said CJC was "outraged and dismayed" by the decision.
The decision not to lay charges was in response to a complaint CJC jaid regarding statements Zundel made following the Supreme Court of Canada's dismissal of charges against , him.
The statements were culled from a press conference Zundel held that day and from a separate radio interview.
CJC called for charges under Section 319 (2) of the Criminal Code, which prohibits the promotion of hatred against an identifiable group.
In his letter to CJC, Det' Robert Matthews ofthe OPP's hate literature section wrote that Zundel's statements were investigated and a legal opinion was received from the attorney general's office.
It was determined, Matthews said, that Zundel's statements on that date "do not constitute an offense contrary" to Canada's hate promotion laws.
Freiberg said a recent broadcast of the CBC-s the fifth estate exposed Zundel as one of the world's most prolific purveyors of hate and Holocaust denial literature.
Frieberg said she hopes the OPP
decision is not the fmalword on legal action against Zundel.
CJC will point to another Supreme Court of Canada ruling which upheld the conviction of James Keegstra for promoting hatred against Jews.
B'nai Brith Canada (BBC) echoed the hope that the door on prosecuting Zundel has not closed.
The OPP made a "very narrow" decision on the CJC complaint but one that is not surprising given there was "insufficient" evidence, said Mark Sandler, counsel to BBC's League for Human Rights.
He said all levels of police are attuned to Zundej's activities and they are more motivated now than they u.sed to be. iSandler said he is confident Zundel will be charged when sufficient evidence is gathered.
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There is a story in almost every Jewish surname and Toronto lawyer FRED M. CATZMAN has been researching their origins over the past few years. Mr Catzman reports on his research in The CJN.
BERGSTEIN
Bunny Bergsiein.C.L.U.. of Toronto, believes that his arieesiors were either jewellers or dealers in precious stones or possibly involved in some form of mining.
Bergstein literally means hill stone, but the greater likelihood is that it is ornamental rather than occupational.
When Jews were compelled by law to adopt surnames, ostensibly to end their self isolation in the ghetto and to integrate them in society, blit more probably to identify them for enlistment in military services and inclusion in the tax rolISi their choices were varied. Some adopted patronyms like Abramson. Others chose place names, like Posen. Occupation like Schneider, physical characteris-tics like Kurtz (.short) or Goldhaar (gold hair) or ethical qualities like Ehrlich (honorable). Fruni (religious, observant).
Many, however, adopted ornamental names whichihey considered prestigious like Goldstein (gold stone). Goldberg (gold hill) and Bergstein (hill-stone).
GELBACH - WEINPER
David.Weinper. of Toronto, has written to enquire about the etymology of the above names.
Weinper appears to be an emasculation of Weinpresse —- a wine press.
Gelbach literally means yellow (Gelb) brook (Bach). , It probably belongs to the family of colorful names of bodies of water like Black Sea. Red River and Blue Danube.
GRANAT - MILGROM - RIMON
The pomegranate is full of seeds arid is a symbol of fruilflilness. It was adopted as a surname in several forms.
In German and Polish, it is Granat. In Yiddish, it is Milgrom. and in Hebrew Rimon.
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