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. satiations between the Claima Conference �nd.the German Federal Government on the improvement of the existing laws for indemnification and restitution and on the enactment of new legislation covering Nasi victims who have been excluded from benefit* heretofore, have fatiled to bear froit so far, Dr. Nahum Gold-inarm, president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, stated at Brussels, Belgium.
In addressing the annual meeting of the organisation, Dr. Gold-mann contrasted the meticulous manner in which the German Government has met its reparations commitments to the Government of Israel and. to the Claims 'Conference, with the less satisfactory manner employed by it in implementing the indemnification and restitution laws for individual victims of Nazism. In illustrating the gap in implementation, Dr. Goldmann pointed out that more than 450,000 claims among those filed under existing laws, are still pending.
In addition, he noted that tens of thousand* of Nazi victims are still barred from filing claims because they had left countries bahiia^ie Iron Curtain aj^er. October 1, 1953. That date nad been fixed as the cut-off deadline for individual claimants eligible for German compensation under the 1962 agreement
"No group of Nazi victims is more deserving among those currently ineligible under the German laws than the post-1953 refugees", Dr. Goldmann said. These refugees include the thousands of former Nazi victims who fled in 1956-57 in the wake of the Hungarian uprising, and the thousands of others who arrived from eastern European lands in recent years. "On numerous occasions", Dr. Goldmann reported, "we have called upon the German authorities to place these refugees on an equal footing with the pre-1953 claimants, and to compensate them for imprisonment in concentration camps and for loss of life and health. It is a source of deep regret that in the final stages of these negotiations we have reached an impasse, for the present
"As we move across 1984, we are resolved to spare no effort in pressing the German authorities to bring the program for indemnification and restitution to a worthy conclusion. Such a conclusion demands that all Nazi victims who have been omitted from the operation of the laws, or whose claims have been treated inadequately, shall gain benefits due to them in justice and in morality", Dr. Goldmann stressed.
The Claims Conference, made up of 23 national and world-wide Jewish organizations, obtains its fundi for allocation under the special agreement it reached with the German Federal Government in 1952. By that agreement funds have been turned over to the Conference, in annual installments, for the benefit of needy Nasi victims throughout the world. These funds are in addition to the much larger suns paid by the German Federal Republic to the Government of Israel as well as to individual Nazi victims for indemnification and restitution.
The Segislation governing the latter aeyneats was also enacted
under the terms of the 1952 agreement The Conference is formally recognized by the German Federal Republic as the official spokesman for those Jews throughout the world who are entitled to compensation payments under German laws for indemnification and restitution.
On the favorable side. Dr. Goldmann hailed the "good will and speed" with which the German Federal Government has met its obligations under the Israeli-German Reparations' Agreement, a pact made in 1962 at the same time Germany concluded its agreement with the Claims Conference.
Under the Israeli-German Agreement, he said, goods, materials, and services provided to Israel by Germany have totalled $772,559,-000 since deliveries began in 1953. That sum represents over 93% of the goods and services due to Israel under the 1952 pact Dr. Goldmann reported. "The German authorities have carried out the terras of the 1952 agreement for reparations deliveries both in letter and in spirit It is gratifying indeed to make this fact known. Dr. Goldmann said.
Dr. Goldmann also reported to . the Conference on compensation
Sayments to individual victims of Faxism made by the German Government By December 31, 1968, the total had reached some $3,-700,000,000. In addition, he said that the German States had.paid Nazi victims �73,938,000 in com-
merit were*^enacted, rafting the grand total of compensation payments to individuals to $3,873,-938,000.
In 1963, Conference allocations came to $10,039,148, bringing the total spent since the program started in 1954, to $99,566,189, it was reported by Moses A. Leavitt, treasurer of the Conference. He said that in 1963, the Conference spent $7,716,087 for the relief and rehabilitation of needy Nazi victims; $1^25j861 for cultural and education teconstructionj and $394,250 for-various special projects. \
Mr. Leavitt called particular attention to the allocations granted the Jewish communities in France where the Jewish population has grown to some 600,000 persons. It now comprises about 75% of all the Jewish inhabitants in the continental countries of western and central Europe. He reported that the nearly complete destruction of Jewish communal institutions in those countries at Nasi hands has now been "substantially repaired".
"Today*1, he said, "western European Jewry is in a position to meet the needs of children, adults, and the aged in a vast and wide-ranging network of communal institutions. In France, where a great influx of Nazi victims has occurred in recent years, about 110 Jewish institutions have been constructed, renovated, repaired and equipped with Conference aid, or are in the course of construction and renovation. The institutions include.homes for the aged, children's and youth homes, schools, community and youth centers, summer camps, religious institutions and others."
Mr. Leavitt also called attention to institutions in Belgium, Italy, and Sweden which reached comply tion in 1963 with the aid of Conference fane}. "It is a source of true gratification that the Conference was abb to extend relief and rehabilitation* aid to Nazi victims in Europe h) the scores and scores of thousands, and at the same time could participate, in the rebuilding of the Jewish communities in Europe", Mr. Leavitt concluded.
(ing, the Rev. J. Oscar Lee, joined *dn the call for action. Y "This is a time not for words 'but for deeds," said Mr. Lee, as-'sociate director of the Commission on Religion and Race of the I National Council of Churches, says �the New York Times. He sug-; rested that some churchmen should ?Join the picket lines, f  Dr. Herman H. Long, president of the Negro Talladega College in (Talladega,   Alabama,   told   the \ ministers, priests, ana rabbis that i further change "will not come without   concerted   pressure   � there will be no gracious concession of rights and opportunities."
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Spokesmen for the Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish faiths in the United States revealed that the headquarters of the National Conference on Religion and Race would be closed this month.
The news stunned many of the delegates to the second national meeting of the Conference at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in St Louis Missouri. One after another they rose to express the fear that the> action would be interpreted as failure in the Conference's mission, says the New York Times. No time could be so inopportune for backing down, they said, because of the towering importance the civil right* issue nas assumed.
The Conference was born in Chicago 15 months ago at a meeting considered the most widely representative religious gathering ever held in America.
About 650 delegates representing 70 religious bodies of the three major faiths formed the Conference to galvanize organized religion in the U.S. into effective support of the civil rights movement The Conference was convened by the National Council of Churches; the National Catholic Welfare Conference: and the Synagogue Council of America.
Inspired by the unusual display of unity and concern in Chicago, and under the prompting of a secretariat set up in New York, 56 local conferences on religion and race have organized for direct action throughout the U.S.
The convening bodies of the original conference announced that the secretariat would be dropped ,and its function absorbed,by* three groups on an annually rotating
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* Roman Catholic authorities in Milan, Italy, have invited Rabbi I Henry E. Kagan, of Sinai Temple, �'Mount Vernon, N.Y., to organize a research project on the effect the j Crucifixion story has had in pro-educing anti-Semitism over the centuries, reports the New York /Times. The rabbi left for Milan 'by plane.
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Department ox the' National Catholic Welfare Conference, announced that the Rev. Galen R. Weaver's post as executive secretary would be eliminated.
For the coming year the Rev. J. Oscar Lee, associate director of the new Commission of Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches, will take on the secretariat's work as an extra task.
The name of the National Conference will be retained, but the budget will be slashed to a fraction of the $60,000 spent in the first year of operation.
Father Cronin explained to the delegates � about 100 from 18 states � that the change had been dictated by the hierarchies of the three faiths. None he said, was willing to relinquish decision-making authority on the explosive issue of civil rights to a Conference secretariat.
In the 15 months of the conference's existence, the three bodies have permitted its name to be used in support of only one national protest against racial inequalities � the March on Washington last August
Father Cronin said interfaith efforts would be strengthened by restructuring the Conference, reports the New York Times, because the three principal sponsoring bodies could work more efficiently in "troika" without having to operate through the "bottleneck" of a secretariat
Spokesmen for the National Conference on Religion and Race called on clergymen to participate in demonstrations against racial discrimination and to line up solidly behind a strong civil rights bill. "We should be in the forefront of demonstrations to show our support for the civil rights movement," said the Rev. John F. Cronin, assistant director of the social action department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference-Father Cronin said the nation's clergy should also serve as "a bridge and a contact" between the Negro and white communities in resolving disputes.
Elementary as this sounds, it is not being done satisfactorily, he told the first national meeting of the three-faith Conference.
BabM Nathan Lander, director of research for the Synagogue Council of America, toM the reli-fioos leaders they must make it alaia tha* nhethres faiths are united behind a strong and not an emadateeT efrfi rights MIL
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The rabbi's project has added -significance, because the Ecumenical Council will take up early this fall a new schema on Christian-Jewish relations.
Rabbi Kagan will work closely with three members of the faculty at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. They are: the Rev. Giovanni Rinaldi, Professor of Semitics and Hebrew; Dr. Leonardo Ancona, director of the University's Institute of Psychology: and Dr. Gustavo Bontadini, Professor of Philosophy.
The research project was authorized by Archbishop Carlo Colombo, of Milan, theological adviser to Pope Paul VI.
Last summer, Rabbi Kagan addressed the Milan meeting of the International Congress of Group Psychotherapy. In 1956 he became the first rabbi to lecture in a Roman Catholic monastery, says the New York Times, when he joined the summer faculty at St. John's Abbey in Minnesota.
In a darkened ballroom at the Statler Hilton Hotel, in New York, six survivors of the Nazi massacre of six million European Jews stepped before a candelabrum. Before a hushed audience; of 2,500 first-generation American-Jews, who escaped the Nazis by migrating there, they lighted six white tapers, one by one, to commemorate Hitler's slaughter during World War II.
The ceremony; the singing of Psalm 18 by Jan Peercej the recitation of the Kaddish; She traditional Hebrew prayer for^the dead; and choir music together'provided the theme of the 1964 fciass conference of the Council pf Organizations of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, says the New York Herald Tribune. It was one of several Jewish religious and philanthropic meetings held in various parts of Manhattan.
The six death camp survivors, all New Yorkers, were:. Max Gar-finkel, who was at TrebUnka; Miss Anna Weisbord, at ^lathausen; Jack Werber, at Bucheriwald; Mrs. Frances Garfinkel, at Bergen Bel-sen; Zyle Besserglik, �t Saksen-hausen; and Miss Gusaia Glatt, at Auschwitz. Each cafdle represented one million murdered Jews.
The candle-lighting climaxed a program of addresses by: New iYo*k Republican Senator Jaci* K. Jgvt&hfk-ftfrferit ^v&^direc-tor of the Peace Corps, and coordinator of President Johnson's anti-poverty program; and Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael M. Musmanno, who was one of the judges at the Nuremberg trials.
Senator Javite told his audience that the United States should give military aid to Israel if the Middle East arms race continues. "I deeply believe that Israel is in danger," he said, "and that this danger may be more imminent than many of us realize." He urged the end of a fourteen-year United States delay in ratifying the United Nations Convention on Genocide. He also appealed for continued protests against anti-Jewish acts in the Soviet Union; and against deprivation of human rights in the Republic of South Africa and elsewhere.
Mr. Shriver quoted from the diary of Anne Frank, who perished in a death camp, as he urged his audience to study the lessons of the 1930s and the 1940s � the "lessons of dictators and war. You know that these tragedies rise out of earlier failures, out of conditions that should not have been permitted to exist, out of poverty and discrimination," Mr. Shriver said. He said that Israel today is an "inspiration" to those in Amer- 5 ica who are in the fight against poverty.
Justice Musmanno's plea, that the six candles should be a symbol of "true brotherhood" among races and creeds in future years, drew heavy applause. He sharply criticized persons who defend the actions of Adolf Eichmann as "detractors who give aid and comfort to anti-Semitism," reports the New York Herald Tribune. Hatred, he said, is "too mild a term to describe the malignancy" which led to the "unrelenting torture of the Jews" by Hitler's forces.
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