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Jews who were , }n Naai Germany, chmarm in court in
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fcesaes were officials of^ttJf Palestine Office in Berlin. They were Dr. Benno Cohn, who was president of the'tiohlit Organisation there, and 'Aharon Wi Linden-strauss.
. Cohn met Bkhmann twice in Berlin. Mr. Lin^eastrauss went x> Vienna to see aim. Both Dr. 3ohn and Mr, Liridenstrauss left 3ermany in 1989 and now live in srael, says the New York Times. )r. Cohn, a dignified silver-haired ,awyer who is 67 years old, .said he first met Eichmann in 1937 at a farewell mMtinfr in Berlin for Rabbi Joachim Prinr, who was leaving Germany,
"My clerk called me to the entrance," Dr. Cohn said, "and he whispered, 'Eiehmann is here'." There was>a press of people trying to pttsh Into the hall because Dr. Prlnz had been a popular orator, Dr. tibhn said.
"Eichmann wore civilian clothes/' Dr. Coha continued. "He shouted at me. 'You are responsible =for the disorder here.' He threatened that if I would not restore order he would take steps. He claimed that he had been struck in thelttfeacfc by a Jew."
Eiehraann finally entered the hall with four other men, Dr. Cohn said, and they sat in the seventh or eighth row. "I watched him all the time from my seat on the pUtfornV' Dr^Cohn told the
Dr. Cohn met Eichmann again in 1939 when he and other leaders of the Jewish community were summoned by the Gestapo (secret police) to a meeting at National Police Headquarters. "There was a rope barrier and Eichmann stood or sat behind it," Dr. Cohn recalled.
"How was he dressed?" Yaakov Baror, Israel's Deputy State Attorney asked. "In civilian clothes," Dr. Cohn replied. "Eichmann had before him clippings from a French newspaper published by emigrants. He was furious because the paper had described him as 'Eichmann the bloodhound.' "
"He said that one of our group had given false information about him, Dr. Cbhn said, reports the New York Times. "He wanted to know who had supplied it He was excited and shouted and threatened to use all means at his disposal. "None of us admitted giving the ^information. It would have been suicide."
The Jewish delegation left the room fearing imprisonment, but they were called back half an hour later. Dr. Cohn said Eichmann then announced that a Central Office for the Emigration of Jews to Palestine would be established in Berlin. Eichmann, Dr. Cohn said, declared that the Gestapo would fix quotes and that Jewish leaders would be responr siWe for the dispatch of Jews to the office.
Dr. Cohn said he had replied that they could not promise quotas because the British Government, which had a mandate over Palestine, had restricted immigration. Eknmann then closed tae meeting* Dr, Coha said, and said he expected an answer 'the following day on whether 'they were prepared to cooperate. Dr. Cohn said they sent a- statement the next morning saying they would cooperate.
"We had no choke, * Dr. Cohn said.
Mr. Lindenstraaaa described his visit to Efehmann fa the Rothschild �astk in Vfcana i* 1*1*. Bfefc-maan sat at a' very fiae desk and wore dvilianreiothee, fee said. The Jewish defecation lined up facing Bkhmaiin, tat he ordered them to non fc*ek, Mr. Undeostraaes aaid.
Then, the witness said. Ekh. maim said emigration frost Germany was not movfac fast eooofh aad warned 'thai they ata** speed tUacs u� to the t�f� at !�&� a
y, says the New York Times, In the witaeas said. Jews ' ~ rtf�fly uiette* and 'atonal at orderly " MM an very de-we realised it of potter to Ger-
invited you here to make many to come to Palestine in 1939, ipprts�bitt.fo't $^fryinjg ouj said he had been doing field work
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, Aharon Walter Lindenstrauss, asked him and other Jewish leaders
also a lawyer, was, like Dr. Cohn, t� meet him in Vienna imme-
working with the Palestine Office J}�t�ly, says the New York Herald
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in trying to expedite pre-war emi gration of the menaced German Jews to what was th.en British-mandated Palestine.
Dr. Cohn had described in great detail the frustrations of trying to buck regulations in Germany and visa difficulties outside when, in 1937, "we heard from German officials that a new man with a sharp' brain was now dealing with Jewish matters."
He said that the Jews were "very afraid of him because of what we heard about his personality and his knowledge."
Dr. Cohn said Eichmann demanded, "Are you responsible for the order or disorder in this place?" Eiehraann threatened "to take measures," the witness said, and a Jew hit Eichmann in the stomach three or four times. But Eichmann ignored that and took a seat in the seventh or eighth row of the hall listening to what was being said, says the New York Herald Tribune. After going to the dais to admonish the witness a second time, he said, Eichmann finally left the meeting.
As the witness testified, Eichmann seemed to be lost in thought, but after a while, as Dr. Cohn continued describing the scene, Eichmann leaned forward and scribbled copiously on a memorandum, pad. *� ��
The second meeting which this witness had with Eichmann was far more menacing. It took place in 1939 after Dr. Cohn received a telephone call from the Gestapo that representatives of Jewish organizations were invited to meet at the Gestapo headquarters on Prinz Albertstrasse.
This meeting was held in the evening, he said, and Eichmann sat at one desk in civilian clothes while a high ranking SS officer in uniform sat at another desk. Eichmann was in a fury, the witness said.
He had in front of him a clipping from a publicat on put out by immigrants from Germany in France, He said, and he was very angry. He pointed to headlines which called him "bloodhound Eichmann" and "a new foe of Jewry." "He said that one of us had given the information to the French paper," the witness said.
Dr. Cohn said that "he threatened us all" and then he took up another matter, which was an accusation that members of the group had been commun 'eating illegally with Jews in Vienna. "He used very rude language, very aggressive language, very violent language," testified the mild-mannered Dr. Cohn.
One of the Jews then stood up and answered him, but this only infuriated Eiehmann further, and he threatened to send them all to the "konrertlager" which was "a vulgar term for concentration camp," Dr. Cohn explained, says the New York HeralcT Tribune. He said they tried to explain the frustrations of their effort to get Jews out of Germany, but Eichmann swept their excuses aside and said he wanted the program accelerated.
"I am ashamed to say all those words he used," the witness told the tribunal. "They were obscene words." Presiding Judge Moehe Landau told him he did not have to use the words, but Dr. Cohn in-terjected, "One expression I never heard before � I learned it from Eiehmann." He went on to quote Eicamaan as saying to the group of Jews:
"For a long time you haven't been in a concentration camp and still von are complataiifg and trtuntilfog." Again one of the group stood up and answered Elch-maxm, but the latter shouted again, 'Out, out, get out.'"
They left his office tat not the he said, and they took precautions meanwhile to destroy aay incriminating papers in their pockets. Then a half -hoar later Eichtnaaa summooed them back, and this t;me he was comparatively calm. ' The high-ranking officer aaid a word ataia* the whole
had been busy setting? up an emig-rat'on program in Vienna, and his object in calling the witness and the others there turned out to be to impress on them the need to pattern the Berlin operation after the more successful one in Vienna.
They were taken by Gestapo men to the Rothschild Castle and came into a beautiful hall, the witness said. The accused sat there at a very nice desk, he added. Eichmann was resting his hand thoughtfully on his chin, looking hard at the witness as he testified.
The witness said Eichmann was in civilian clothes this time, too. "and one of the first things he saia was to instruct me to withdraw two or three meters from his desk because I was too near. I did with-draw, of course, to a distance of about five meters from his desk."
E'chmann, said Mr. Linden-strauss, began by speaking about the bad situation in the old Reich, saying he was not satisfied and emigration was too slow. He spoke angrily about the situation, overruling all explanations and finally confronting the visiting Jewish group with this ultimatum:
We should find a way immediately and supply him with 1,000 passports daily, the witness said. At the same time Eichmann told them to collect a tax on emigration of Jews for the benefit of Germany.
The w:tness said Eichmann concluded by saying, "You who are present here, you will be responsible in the future for this operation as I have pointed out. Otherwise you know what your fate will be."
The confrontation by these witnesses came after Attorney General Gideon Hausner and defense counsel Robert Servatius had further argument on the admission of documents.
The hassle over the Haupt-sturmfuehrer Wisliceny documents was only partly settled by the court. In any case, the substance of Wisliceny's testimony was g ven in the Nuernberg trial, and so it is not strictly new, says the New York Herald Tribune. But it is offered by the prosecution as highly incriminating evidence against Eiehraann, and for the purposes of confronting Eichmann with Wisliceny's accusations in this trial it is viewed as having great importance.
The court received one lengthy Wisliceny document as an exhibit and that was partially read, but the court reserved decision on the others offered by the prosecution and challenged by the defense.
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A gift of $1,000,000 has been made to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, of Yeshiva University, in New York, and it will be used to establish a David and Irene Schwart* Pavillion when its new University Hospital is built, says the New York Times. Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of the University, announced the gift. It is the fjrst major contribution to the $27,500,000 development program of the University's medical school.
The donor was David Schwartz, an overseer and founder of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to which he and Mrs. Schwartz gave its psychiatry research wing in 1959. He is a trustee of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies; and president and chairman of Jonathan Logan, Inc., dress manufacturer. He began his career as a delivery boy.
The new hospital is to be built on the campus of the Medical College at Morris Park Avenue and Eastchester Road in the northeast Bronx. A spokesman said plans had not yet been drawn, but that it would have about 250 beds and would include private and semi-private accommodations for patients.
The two hospitals with which the medical school already has a close working relationship are both city institutions in which most of the patients are the medically indigent. These are the Abraham Jacobi and Nathan B. Van Etten Hospitals, of the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, with a total of 1,400 beds, immediately across Morris Park Avenue from the campus.
The developing complex of health and educational facilities also includes the New York State psychiatric hospital center approaching completion on the other side of Eastchester Road and the New Haven yards. The medical college was named for Albert Ein-ste n, the famous physicist, in 1953, two years before his death. Its first class of "physicians was graduated in 1959.
The development fund to which Mr. Schwartz's gift is being added is to strengthen and extend the college's facilities in medical training, research and patient care. In accepting the gift, Dr. Belkin said:
"One of the greatest challenges to a free society is the way it meets the responsibility of safeguarding the health and welfare of all its citizens," says the New York Times. "In contributing generously to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Mr. Schwartz is affirming the growing acceptance of that responsibility by our nation's industrial and business leaders."
.Only one of the forty-eight social studies textbooks most frequently used in Anjerican junior and senipr high schools Iffves a "satisfactory" s$counj of Nasi persecution pf Jews and other minority groups, tho Anti-Defamation League of Bnai BrUn/charted m a report, says thfe New York Herald Tribune. Nearly one-third of the texts "omit the topic entirely," the study said, and "more than three-quarters of them slight or minimize what the Nazi did to their victims."
The study also showed that only four of fifteen world histories include the Nuernberg war crimes trials.
"As in West Germany," the report continued, "youth in America appear to be ignorant of the nature and consequences of Hit-lerism. In view of the staggering price humanity paid for underestimating this danger in the 1930s, the aims, methods and consequences of Nazism would seem to be one of history's most important lessons � one not to be neglected in American social studies."
The forty-six-page study was prepared over the last ten months by Dr. Lloyd Marcus, director of the League's department of research and program development. Dr. Marcus said that the only fully satisfactory account of Nazi persecution was contained in some seventy pages of a senior high school text written by two teachers at Newtown High School, in Queens, New York. It is "Our World Through The Ages," by Nathaniel Platt and Muriel J. Drummond, and was published in 1959 by Prentice-Hall. Inc.
Other texts failed, Dr. Marcus said, in not presenting Hitler's "super-race" theory; his persecution starting from denunciation and ending with concentration camp, gas chamber, and cremation: his victims � Protestant ana Catholic as well as Jewish � and their vast numbers, running up to 6,000,000 Jews alone, and the world's shock, culminating in the Nuernberg trials and the United Nations' Genocide Convention. Pictorial illustration was also notably lacking.
Last October, the Board of Education wrote to 100 book publishers asking for "substantial re-
visions" In modem hUtory correct "serious deficiencies-in textbook treatments of Ntf Mfttj-tles against minority grofefes/' tiff* the New York Herald Trlmne.
The board Was asked how many
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His opinion was echoed by the American Textbook Publishers Institute, 432 Park Avenue; $ew York. Austin J. McCaffrey* �xe-cutive Secretary, said, "The ,toub-lishing process often means there is a lapse in Hme between the Wrth of an idea and the printed and bound record of it. If upon inspection Dr. Marcus' study does indeed reveal certain serious errors of fact in history and social studies textbooks, I can assure yog that these errors will be correcUfl forthwith." JS
Dr. Marcus' study, entitled "Textbook Treatment of Minorities," also investigated what junior and senior high school students; are taught about Jews, about' Aaier-ican Negroes, and about immigrants.
Treatment of the Jews "continues to suffer from an overemphasis on their ancient past and on the theme of persecution," the report said. No single text was found which presents "a rounded, comprehensive account* of the Crucifixion of Christ; Aost are "still too superficial to dispehmis-conceptions that may ttrfjfcrlie some feelings of anti-Semitism."
Texts could do much to counteract the "Christ-killer" concent in anti-Semitism by providing *Tnore factual presentations of the events leading to the Crucifixion, with particular ^attention to forces at wort throughout the Holy Land at that time which led many people to desire the removal of any 'messiahV However, the study found, progress has been made in the last ten years, as Jews are no longer referred to as a "race," says the New York Herald. Tribune. More material about Jews in America today would be desirable.
Similarly, the Negroes' position in contemporary American society
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