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The Sotrthern Israelite
The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry
Our 55th Year
VOL. LV
Atlanta, Ca. Friday, February 2, 1979
No. *
A matter of conscience
Nazi crimes to be forgotten
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by Vida Goldpr
to the fullest extent.”
It was a somber group—and a
varied one—which jammed the
office of the West German consul
general in Atlanta Tuesday
afternoon to press for the
elimination or extension of the
West German statute of
limitations for Nazi war criminals.
Under West German law, the
statute will expire on Dec. 31,
1979. The Atlanta coalition of
concerned citizens was one of
many such groups nationwide who
visited West German diplomatic
representatives. The date, January
30, represented the 46th
anniversary of Hitler's rise to
power.
Consul General Ernst
Ingendaay listened attentively as
coalition spokesmen stated their
concern. Burton Epstein,
chairman, read a resolution citing
the perils which would result if the
German statute expires, and
presented signed petitions for
transmittal to the German Federal
Republic. Epstein added, “We are
determined to pursue this matter
Larry Bogart, chairman of the
Atlanta Jewish Federation’s
community relations committee,
told Ingendaay, “It is astonishing
to me., that a civilized government
would allow the mere passage of
time to forever bar the prosecution
of those responsible for the
politically and scientifically
organized mass murder of 11
million people”...“It is astonishing
to me that this moral issue has
become in your country a political
issue...because civilized people do
not and cannot trivialize the
premeditated murder of 11 million
people by putting a statute of
limitations on it as one would a
lesser crime.”
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One of several Holocaust
survivors in the group, Caintor
Isaac GoodfriJt|^ w _marhed
Ingendaay, By ternnnattng sne
Statute of LimitafioM,- the
German government will be giving
credence and encouragement to
those Nazis, and Neo-Nazis, who
have until now avoided
prosecution, to rise again,
Carter nominates
woman for bench
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A Jewish woman from
Savannah, Judge Phyllis Kravitch,
has been nominated by President
Jimmy Carter to be U.S. circuit
judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of
Appeals.
Her selection, which must be
approved by the Senate Judiciary
Committee, and confirmed by the
full senate, is the first nomination
by Carter of a woman to a federal
appeals court judgeship.
Judge Kravitch, 58, was elected
to the Chatham County Superior
Court bench in 1976, after more
than 25 years of legal practice. She
is a native Savannahian. In
addition to being the first woman
in Georgia history to be elected to a
superior court judgeship, she was
also the -first woman to serve as
president of the Savannah Bar
Association.
A 1978 survey conducted by the
American Association of
University Women named Judge
Kravitch as Savannah’s most
influential womait.
In 1978, Judge Kravitch was the
recipient of the National Council
of Jewish Women's highest award,
the Hannah G. Solomon Award.
Judge Kravitch
After receiving an LL.B. degree
from the University of
Pennsylvania Law School in 1943,
Kravitch practiced law with her
father, Aaron Kravitch, from 1944
to 1965. From 1965 to 1976, she
was in private practice with other
Savannah law firms and on her
own and since 1977 has served on
the Superior Court bench.
Consul General Ingendaay (left)
hears Atlantans concerned
about expiration of Nazi crime
statute.
endanger the world once again."
the group was by no means 6nly
Jewish. Catholic, protestant,
black, white, clergy and lay
leaders, labor representatives,
Legionaires and educators were
represented.
Dr. Jack Boozer, chairman of
the department of religion at
Emory University, said, “The
primary reason for asking you and
your government to extend the
that *« do not take Nasi crimes
fifclBlyrfeat law and justice prevail'
and that a criminal’s laughter at a
law he outwitted will not be added
to the... murders that he
committed.”
Appearing genuinely moved,
with a slight choke in his voice at
first, Ingendaay promised to
report the committee's action to
his government. He then read a
prepared statement in explanation
be
easy mainly because any renewed
extension would be at variance
with the principle of non-
retroactivity in criminal law." An
extension of the statute of
limitation, Ingendaay said, could
be brought about only by an act of
See Nazi crimes, page 29
Libyans get Jewish info
from ‘Protocols of Zion’
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA)—It
seems that Billy Carter’s “best
friends” get their information on
Jews and Jewry from the
“Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
A delegation of 30 Libyans,
whose U.S. visit was prompted by
an invitation .by President Carter’s
brother. Billy, stopped in San
Francisco recently on a cross
country tour. During a
conversation with the press, the
delegation’s chief spokesman,
Ahmed Al-Shahati, said that
Zionism "was racist” and
according to “what we read in the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion,
Zionism tries to give privileges to
just a few,” it was reported by Phil
Bronstein, San Francisco Jewish
Bulletin assistant editor.
Al-Shahati is the head of the
Foreign Liaison of Libya's
Congress, a kind of a Foreign
Minister for the country. He and
his delegation were escorted
around Georgia by Billy Carter,
who called the Libyans his “best
friends." Carter aroused a storm of
controversy by blasting what he
called "Jewish pressure” on the
press and politicans, who snubbed
the Libyans. The Libyans are here
on a “good will mission.”
Al-Shahati, speaking through
an interpreter, spent a great deal of
time blasting the American press
for its “misinformation and
propaganda” aimed at “giving a
bad picture" of Libya. Pressed as
to whom he thought was
responsible for that “misinforma
tion” he said “the world Zionists
are behind this campaign, because
they don’t want to see good
relations set up between the U.S.
and the Arab people,” Bronstein
reported.
Asked about Libya’s reputation
for being a world haven and
bankroller for terrorist
organizations, Al-Shahati said
this, too, was a plot. “We know
that world Zionist is behind this
rumor.”
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