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PAGE 6 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE May 23, 1986
LIZ LERMAN
Docudance: Nine Short Dances About the Defense
Budget and Other Military Matters; Journey; Snow In
Siberia; New York City Winter.
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Berlin diary: For 40 years
Galinski has guided Jews
by Joseph Polakoff
TSI's Washington correspondent
WASHINGTON—More than 40
years of leadership of Berlin’s Jew
ish community have not lowered
Heinz Galinski’s forthrightness or
lessened his fighting spirit against
anti-Semitism in West Germany as
the country’s small Jewish popula
tion faces an increase in neo-
Nazism.
In detailing Galinski’s record
since the Jewish community was
re-established in Berlin on Dec. 20,
1945—seven months after Allied
armies had occupied Germany’s
capital—some West German news
papers have reviewed his outspo
ken views about politicians who
ignore or are indifferent to the
scourge of Hitlerism.
Galinski, now 73, “is a key man
in the post-war history of the Jew
ish community in Berlin,” said the
Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntags-
blatt in Hamburg in one of the arti
cles about Galinski carried by the
German Tribune, an offical weekly
publication carrying translations
in English of reports in the German
press.
Galinski’s mother and first wife
were killed in Auschwitz. He was
imprisoned in Auschwitz, Buchen-
wald and Belsen. As soon as the
war was over, he returned to Ber
lin. While the life of the Jewish
community reactivated “from the
moment the Red Army occupied”
Berlin in April 1945, the Hamburg
newspaper said, Galinski recalled
“there were grave doubts whether
there was any future for Jews in
Heinz Galinski
Germany after the Nazi Holocaust”
and “many felt it was out of the
question.”
Just over 1,000 of the 150,000
Jews who lived in pre-war Berlin
survived Hitlerism. Berlin’s pres
ent community of 6,000 is the larg
est Jewish community in Germany.
Among survivors who are now
members of the community, the
Hamburg newspaper said, are fash
ion designer Ruth Thomas “who
was hidden away by the wife of an
SS officer of all people, and TV
quizmaster Hans Rosenthal, who
spent the last few months of the
war in a friend’s allotment garden
in Lichtenberg, an East Berlin
suburb.”
“Not even in times of direct per
secution did we lose hope of demo
cracy and humanitarianism return
ing to Germany after the end of
Nazi dictatorship,” Galinski wrote
in 1980, the newspaper recalled.
While opposing assimilation, he
espouses the cause of integration in
a pluralistic society, it reported.
The synagogue in Fasenstrasse,
rebuilt in 1959 on the site of a syn
agogue sacked in 1938, set up m the
early 1960s a Jewish night school
offering evening classes in Hebrew
and Yiddish to non-Jews. It is des
cribed as the only facility of its
kind in Europe. Eighty percent of
its present students are gentiles.
While 40 years after its re-estab
lishment, Berlin’s Jewish commun
ity continues influenced by pre
war trends with Orthodox and
liberal wings, the groups joined
forces because they “could no
longer afford the luxury of ri
valry,” the Sonntagsblatt reported.
Many of the Polish Jews who
arrived in Berlin early in 1946 went
on to Palestine but some stayed.
Later, Hungarian, Romanian and
Czech Jews came. In the late 1970s,
several thousand Soviet Jews ar
rived in West Berlin via Vienna or
Israel. About 2,500 of them are
now in Berlin, making up almost
half of the community.
West Berlin Jews maintain ties
with Jews in East Berlin. On high
holidays, the cantor of the liberal
synagogue, Estrongo Nachama, who
was born in Thessaloniki, Greece,
and is a survivor of Auschwitz, and
Sachsenhausen, holds services for
East Berlin’s last 200 Jews. West
Germany’s total Jewish population
was put at 29,000.
Both the Sonntagsblatt and the
Suddeutsche Zeitung of Munich
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