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Jewish Education Unit Opposes
Pairing NYC Public Schools
Auschwitz Trial Hears of SS Man
Who Sent 12 Girls to Death
NEW YORK (JTA)-The Jewish
Education Committee warned the
New York City Board of Education
this week that one of the Board’s
plans for integration of public
schools "poses a grave threat to the
survival of our system on Jewish
religious education ”
The warning was contained in a
letter to the Board signed by Jules
L. Freed, president, and Dr. Azrial
Eisenberg, executive vice-president
of the JEC. The plan to which the
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Education intentions to pair schools
in marginal ethnic and racial neigh
borhoods which would involve
bussing the affected children to the
paired schools.
The JEC explained that a large
proportion of Jewish children of
grade school age and a growing
number of children in junior and
senior public high schools were re
ceiving their religious education in
afternoon Jewish schools three to
four days a week. In this way, the
JEC said, the children devoted the
largest portion of their free time
during daylight hours on week-days
to instruction in the principles, tra
ditions and classic materials of Ju
daism and thus “fortify and sup
plement the spiritual and moral val
ues stressed in the public schools.”
Pointing out that nearly 50,000
children attend religious classes in
nearly 500 Jewish schools usually
operated between 3:30 p.m. and 6:30
p.m. the JEC declared: “The pro
posed changes will impose hardships
on our children, fatigue and serious
ly impair the Jewish religious edu
cational program that we have pain
stakingly established. The proposal
to impose on the children’s time in
getting to and from public schools
poses a grave threat to the survival
of our system of Jewish religious
education. The loss to the children
would be enormous.”
The JEC official emphasized that
they were in favor of public school
integration in principle but added
that in any changes for that goal
” school attendance should be plann
ed so that it does not infringe upon
the limited time and energy that our
children have available for study of
the religious beliefs, ethnical pre
cepts and cultural heritage of our
people.”
New Buildings
EVANSTON, Ill. (JTA)—Members
of Beth Emet Synagogue used their
new building this weekend for the
first time, when the annual meeting
was held in the edifice. The new
facility, which is scheduled for com
pletion this spring, contains a sanc
tuary with permanent seating for
350, and an adjoining community
hall which can accommodate 1,100
persons. The entire cost of the
building and land will be more than
$1,000,000.
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA (-Temple
Judea this weekend dedicated its
new structure completed at a cost
of $400,000. The new building, con
taining a sanctuary seating 1,000,
was designed to direct the worship
per’s thoughts and gaze upward
through the use of tall, triangular
windows of soft-toned pink, blue and
purple glass.
DETROIT (JTA)—Groundbreaking
ceremonies were held in suburban
Southfield this weekend for a new
$250,000 structure to be built by the
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah as part of a
$1,000,000 expansion program. It was
announced at the ceremonies that
$275,000 had so far been raised tow
ard the $1,000,000 goal.
STAMFORD, Conn. <JTA>—A new
sanctuary and social hall was ded
icated here this week by Temple
Sinai. The structure, completed sev
eral months ago, contains a chapel
and an auditorium divided by a
movable wall. The new sanctuary is
dominated by a huge pipe organ
given to the temple by the Noroton
Presbyterian Church of Darien.
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FRANKFURT (JTA) - A vivid
description of the manner in which
one SS officer, with pistol in hand,
drove a dozen Jewish children to
their deaths in the Birkenau gas
ovens in 1943, was given to the court
here as the trial continued against
22 Auschwitz-Birkenau officers, ac
cused of murdering many of the
4,000,000 Jews executed at the
death factory. The trial has been
under way since December.
This week’s witness was Ludwig
Woerl, who said he had been trans
ferred from another camp to the in
famous Auschwitz Arrest Bloc II.
There, one day, he testified, “a doz
en little Jewish girls, aged 3 to 11,
came up to me, begged me to save
them from the gas chambers. They
said they were strong and could
work arid didn’t want to die. I
couldn’t help them. There was Os
wald Kaduk, with gun in hand. That
murderer Kaduk drove them away
to the gas chamber.”
Woerl pointed his fingers at
Kaduk, one of the defendants.
Kaduk leaped from his chair at the
defense table, shouting “you lie!”
The witness repeated his accusation,
calling Kaduk “a pig.” Spectators
Rockwell's Speech at
U. of Minnesota
Provokes Dissension
MINNEAPOLIS (JTA)—“A back
wash of hatred and dissension” con
tinued to swirl among non-Jews and
Jews alike in the Twin Cities of St.
Paul* and Minneapolis as a result
of an address delivered at the Uni
versity of Minnesota by George
Rockwell, leader of of the American
Nazi Party, the American Jewish
World, loially weekly newspaper re
ported.
Rockwell spoke on the University
of Minnesota Campus when 1,500 stu
dents and guests, many of tnem de
fiantly wearing the Star of David,
crowded a camps auditorium, while
about 2,500 others listened to his
anti-Semitic diatribes over loud
speakers. The Star of David, made
available by the Student Zionist Or
ganization, was worn by non-Jews as
well as by Jews. They jeered and
booed the Nazis.
Rockwell received wide press,
radio and television coverage during
his visit here. Jewish leaders, in
ducing Rabbi Louis Milgrom, direc
tor of the B’nai B’rith Hillei Foun
dation, had urged university officials
to ban Rockwell. Some Jewsh stu
dents, however, according to the
American Jewish World, identifying
themselves as members of Hillei,
said they disagreed with Rabbi Mil
grom.
Samuel L. Scheiner, executive di
rector of the Jewish Community Re
lations Council of Minnesota, de
claring he believed that some mem
bers of his own board of directors
may disagree with him, expressed
his “regret” over the invitation to
Rockwell. He charged that six Jew
ish members of the Young Democra
tic Farmer-Labor Party on the cam
pus had hacked the Rockwell invi
tation.
The American Jewish World noted
editorially that “thousands paid this
unspeakable pariah their tribute of
personal attention.” The newspaper
suggestd that the time may have
come when a national association of
universities “formulate criteria for
appropriate and useful utilization of
the college plateform, to help de
termine what case and what type
of personality deserve hearings.”
yelled “Beat him to death!” It took
presiding Justice Hans Hofmeyer
several minutes to bring order back
to the court room.
Woerl’s most sensational testimony
concerned Kaduk: he also implicated
two others among the defendants,
Joseph Klehr and Wilhelm Boger.
He told of a girl prisoner who was
shot to death in a room with doors
closed. “I didn’t see Boger shoot
her,” he said, but he was in there
and no one else besides the girl.
I heard two shots. The girl was
dead.” He told the court that Boger
had so much influence at the camp
that even SS men feared death at
his hands.
As for Klehr, Woerl said he had
seen records showing that Klehr
had killed 250 or 300 persons. “Add
some zeroes to those figures, and
you will have a more correct fig
ure,” he said.
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NY Rabbis Warn
Shift May Harm
Jewish Edueation
NEW YORK (JTA) — The New
York Board of Rabbis, representing
more than 800 Jewish spiritual
leaders of all denominations in the
metropolitan area, requested the
New York City Board of Education
to "take into consideration the re
ligious needs of New York Jewish
community” in planning transporta
tion of pupils as part of the city’s
efforts to devise balanced integra
tion of the city’s schools.
Cautioning of the possibility that
the transportation plan might inter
fere with pupils attending afternoon
religious schools, Rabbi Max Schenk,
president of the rabbinical organiza
tion, told the Board: “The future of
Jewish religious life depends upon
this religious program. Any program
of transportation which will reduce
the afternoon religious school hours
will do irreparable damage to the
religious life of the New York Jew
ish community. We therefore urge
you to evolve a pupil transportation
plan which will enable the Jew&i
community to maintain its afternoon
religious school program intact.”
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