2 - THE BULLETIN — Thursday. August 13. 1992
By RUTH E. GRUBER
ROME (JTA) — British H olocaust revisionist David Irving, who recently gained notoriety when the Sunday Times of London hired him to transcribe the diaries of Nazi prbpagandist Josef Goebbels, reasserted in an interview published here his view that the Holocaust did not take place.
Irving was deported from Italy in June, when he arrived to address a neb-Nazi meeting in Rome. He said in the interview, published in the magazine section of the newspaper La Repubblica, that he had been allowed to speak, he would have said what he has been saying for 20 years!
"What is called the Holocaust or the Filial Solution, that is, the physical liquida^
tion of the European Je\ys, was never ordered or scientifically planned by Hitler," he said in the interview.
Irving, a historian, said that what happened was probably the result of two forces: initiatives adopted by local authorities in the invaded territories, and a misinterpretation of the regime's antirJewish regulations by the leadership of the SS. "There does not exist one single document that establishes a direct link between Hitler and the so-called Final Solution," he added.
Italian journalist Miriam Mafai, herself a Jew, quoted Irving as saying that if he had known she was Jewish, he would not have agreed to be interviewed by her.
He denied the existence of extermination camps and
Al^-idgisd version Of'Mein
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By HUGH ORGEL
TEL AVIV (JTA) An abridged version of Adolf Hitler's Me/Vi /Camp/has been translated into Hebrew and published by Akademon, Hebre\y University's student press, over protests of right-wing and nationalistic circles.
According to Moshe Zimmermann, who teaches German history at the university and was involved in the project, the 130-page annotated booklet contain^ ing selected chapters frdni the driginal 700-page book is largely aimed at students of German history.
Hitler wrote Mein Kdmpf, which spells out his anti-Semitic philosophy and strategy for world control, while serving an 11-month term in a Bavarian prison in 1924-25 for ah atternpted coup.
"Anybody studying history has to know the facts. As long as not everybody in Israel can study German in secondary schools, we have to provide translations," Zimmermann said.
Four hundred copies of the booklet have been published. "We don't, expect this to be a best-seller," he added. ■■^'■^r'
Translator Dan Yaron has been working on the project for several years, but had not been able to get it published until nOw,
Reports of the p.yblication were denounced by right-wing and nationalistic leaders last month, claiming that Hitler's standard textbook should never have been translated and published in Israel; But academics replied tha^t, however hateful the work may be, not al! history students know German, and they should not be depriyed of major source material or be forced to depend on translations into other languages. ,
Hebrew language module availa^^
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For a week, the beloved tzaddik of Tarnapolchev had lain in a fever. The end was near. A disciple leaned over the old man's form and, in the gentlest tone, asked: "y?^/?/)? ; .;. have you made your peace with — Baruch Hashem — the L-rd?" . Wheezed the old man, "Who told you we ever quarrelled?"
LEO ROSTES, HOORAY FOR YIDDISH!
gas chambers. If they had existed, he claimed, he would have found documentation, because "the Germans were extiremely precise," and it was "improbable" that documents had been destroyed.
As for documents which did show the commander of Auschwitz ordering large quantities of Zyklon B, Irving said, "We cannot exclude that this was used in the crematoria where bodies were incinerated. Not for gas chambers."
Mafai carried out the interview with Irving at his home in London. When she returned to Rome, she wrote, she found "a surprise" in her mailbox: "an; envelope, addressed to me, filled with Nazi propaganda material," including stickers with a swastika and the slogan "Power to the White Race," and a flyer in which a strong fist marked by a swastika sweeps away the
' Israel Sun
TU B'AV (the 15th of Av), known as the "Festival of Love," is traditionally a time for weddings. After Tisha B'Av, hundreds of Israeli couples, such as this happy Tel Aviv pair, are married. Many halls are booked months in advance.
new {irpgrain to rescuers
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TEL AVIV
A new
traffic light, called "Ram-zoman," is expected.to save millions of litres of gasoline annually,
The device shows the length of each red light, thus allowing drivers to idle their motors while waiting and thus not waste fuel. Produced by "SignalOr," it was tested by Prof. David Mahalal, head of traffic engineering in Technion's civil engineering faculty.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — ■ The American Jewish Historical Society has presented Daniel Schorr; repor^ ter and commentator on National Public Radio, With the Judah Touro Award.
describe themselves as ordinary people. But during the Holocaust, they hid Jews in attics and closets for months or years, providing them with food, clothing, money and false papers.
Risking prison, deportation and death, they sheltered desperate Jews from the Nazi storm, even raising Jewish children as their own. The Ahti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, through the Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuers/ ADL, has announced a new program to help these people, many of whom are how aged, poor and forgotten.
"Fifty years ago, there were men and women of both the Christian and Mos-leni faiths who risked their lives and those of their families to rescue Jews from the Nazi terror," said JFCR/ ADL education committee chairman Robert Goldman.
In announcing the new program, Melvin Salberg, ADL national chairman noted that "they saved the honor of humanity- during this dark time and are owed the deepest gratitude from us all."
The JFCR has created the new Honor-a-Rescuer Prp-grdm to enable synagogues, Jewish groups and churches working with interfaith organizations to help the
JFCR/ ADL provide monthly grants and special financial assistance to mdre than a thousand needy rescuers in 15 different countries in North America and Europe.
In the former Soviet Union and Poland — where many rescuers live — the aid given them helps to meet rapidly rising costs for food, rent and utilities. The monthly assistance means a rescuer can buy more bread and butter, meat, or a needed article of clothing. Holiday packages from Honor-a-Rescuer participants offer a rescuer coffee, tea, nuts and other food that
. can last for months.
Many who came to the United States fled hostile neighbors in their homeland, and arrived without family and resources. The contributions mean they can ' now afford home care, ^health insIIranee premiums or basic living costs.
Organizations or individuals who choose to help are given the name and address
•of a rescuer whom they can call, write or visit.
Contributors also receive JFCR/ADL materials on the rescuers, including The Courage to Care, SL documentary video about several rescuers that was notninated for an Academy Award, and RESCUERS -Page 8
Willy Pf&tQr
FOUR DOCTORAL STUDENTS from the Xinjiang Institute for Desert Research in China arrived recently in Israel, heading straight to Ben-Gurion University's Jacob Biaustein Institute for Desert Research at Sde Boker in the Negey. Their welcomers included four Chinese students who have beenatSde Boker for close to a year. The four "veterans" are working on doctoral projects under the supervision of BGU researchers.
ISRAEL
Call for help
JERUSALEM — The 32nd World Zionist Congress has passed a resolution calling upon all Jewish and Zionist organizations "to embrace the cause of Jonathan Pollard and his early release from prison."
Knesset vote
JERUSALEM
The
Rabin government comfortably survived its firist test in the Knesset, defeating a series of no-cbnfidence motions by a vote of 59 to 48.
Rabliinical "first"
JERUSALEM
The
first woman ever to become a rabbi in Israel was ordained last week. The ordination of Naamah Kel-man, 37, was a historic step and brings to 11 the number of Reform rabbis ordained in Israel.
Missing Leba^^^ Jews worry E.C.
BRUSSELS-^The European Parliament, the European Community's legislative body, has adopted a resolution expressing con; cern over the fate of Lebanese Jews who were abducted several years ago.
Ina resolution iiitrod uced by French Liberal deputy Jean-Thomas Nordmann, the assembly called on the governments of Lebanon^ Syria and Iran to make "the necessary interventions" to free seven Lebanese Jews who were "kidnapped without, motive arid detained as hostages."
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lestimony deniy
SYDNEY^ Australia
Australian war-crimes prosecutors were denied their, request to take testimony in Ukraine from two elderly .woinen who. were to be witnesses in the case against alleged Nazi collaborator Mikolay Berezowsky.
Berezowsky is charged with being involved in the 1942 nlurder of 102, Jews hear the yillage of Gnivan, Ukraine, where he headed j the local police unit recruited by German occupation forces.:. .
Eventlor Petain
PARIS ■ The 41 St anniversary, of the death of Marshall Philippe. Pcjiiiri .was com me mora led by, a group . of some 50 people on the At Ian lie- island of Veu, off the-French coast of Vendee.
The event provoked protests from those who recalled the anti-Semitic crimes of the Vichy regime that he headed during the Second World War.