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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November 28, 1986 Page 27
More Nazi evidence Obituaries
implicates Waldheim ‘
f rom staff and wire reports
Kurt Waldheim was found
guilty of “murder” and “hostage
executions” for his role as a Nazi
intelligence officer, according to
a secret Yugoslavian criminal file,
recently released by the World
Jewish Congress (WJC).
The dossier, compiled in 1947
by the Yugloslav War Crimes
Commission, says Waldheim
planned the reprisal measures of
the German Army in the Balkans
and was responsible for the exe
cution of hundreds of civilians.
The indictment, which includes
eyewitness testimony and docu
mentary evidence, lists and details
21 villages burned to the ground
as a result of these reprisal
actions.
“Based on everything herein
exhibited the State Commission
declares Lt. Kurt Waldheim a
war criminal, responsible for the
war crimes qualified and described
above,” the dossier states.
“We obtained the document
through sources in Yugoslavia
that will remain nameless,” said
Sharon Cohen, assistant to WJC
executive director Elan Steinberg.
Cohen told The Southern Israe
lite the Yugoslavian Crime Com
mission file has been forwarded
to U.S. Attorney General Ed
Meese.
“1 certainly hope Mr. Meese
implements the findings of the
Justice Department’s Office of
Special Investigations and bars
Waldheim from entering the
United States,” she said. “That’s
the law of the land here. I don’t
know what he’s waiting for. lt
should be a legal decision, not a
political one. The evidence is
quite clear.”
The 1947 file notes that Wald
heim is “presently a fugitive” and
says that “apprehension of this
criminal...and his extradition for
trial to the Yugoslav authorities
is compulsory.”
Evidence contained in the
criminal file includes the testi
mony of seven German officers
along with a series of captured
Nazi reprisal orders. The cap
tured Nazi documents show that
reprisal measures were systemat
ically applied by the Germans
throughout the Balkans.
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The Nazi orders note that “it is
correct to take hostages,” and
state that “reprisal measures
consist of: (a) Executions by fir
ing squad or by hanging, (b) Des
truction of the populated areas."
“Lt. Waldheim was responsi
ble for the implementation of the
above mentioned criminal order
and other similar orders, and for'
the development, creation and
issuance of criminal orders,” the
Yugoslav document states.
A fellow German officer, K laus
Melinghoff. identified Waldheim
as the deputy to the chief of intel
ligence at Headquarters, Col.
Herbert Warnstorff. Another of
ficer. Johann Mayer, testified that
Waldheim prepared all written
reports for Warnstorff that “dealt
with the question of hostages,
reprisal measures, and the treat
ment of war prisoners and civ
ilian population.”
Mayer described how the pro
cedure for issuing orders of rep
risal began with Waldheim. “The
issuance of orders was preceded
by the following: The suggestions
were developed by Lt. Waldheim
and submitted to his command
ing officer Lt.-Col. Warnstoff,
w ho if he agreed with suggestions
then submitted them for appro
val to Gen. Richberg, chief of the
Headquarters."
The dossier lists specific crimes
committed on the basis of such
orders issued from headquarters.
One German officer, Karl Heinz
Egberts-Hilker, describes burn
ing several Yugoslav villages in
1944 and executing 114 civilians
in carrying out these reprisal
orders.
Altogether, reprisal actions
developed “in collaboration with
Lt. Waldheim” and carried out
against people and property in 21
Yugoslav villages are detailed in
the Yugoslav indictment. In most
of these cases, the villages were
burned to the ground and large
numbers of the population were
executed.
The Yugoslav file was submit
ted to the U.N. War Crimes
Commission which in 1948 said
Waldheim should stand trial tor
“murder” and “putting hostages
to death.”
Louis Kaynard
Louis M. Kaynard of Po
tomac, Md., died Friday, Oct.
31. He was 71.
Mr. Kaynard was a retired
supervisory attorney with the
National Labor Relations Board,
joining the legal staff of its
Atlanta office in 1963. He trans
ferred to the agency’s Appeals
office in Washington, D.C. in
1967, where he served as a super
visory attorney until his retire
ment in 1984. He received the
NLRB's Sustained Superior and
Quality Performance award sev
eral times during his tenure.
A native of New York City, he
graduated from the City College
of New York with a bachelor of
social science degree and from
New York University School of
Law' with a doctor of jurispru
dence degree. He served in the
U.S. Arniv during World War 11,
settling in Augusta, where he
owned a jewelry business.
Mr. Kaynard was a past post
commander and department
commander of the Jewish W'ar
Veterans and past president of
the Zionist Organization of
America in Augusta. He was a
member of the Anti-Defamation
League.
He was also a past president of
the Homer-Gudelsky Lodge of
B’nai B’rith in Bethesda, Md., a
member of Beth El Synagogue,
and was active in many civic,
religious and charitable organiza
tions.
Survivors include his wife;
MinaTanenbaum Kaynard;sons,
Gerald A. Kaynard and Michael
A. Kaynard, both of Charleston;
daughter, Carol K. Brandwein of
Baltimore; brother, Samuel Kay
nard of Roslyn, N.Y., and two
grandchildren.
Mrs. Mollie Buchman
Mrs. Mollie Warshaw Buch
man of Atlanta died Monday,
Nov. 24. She was 82.
Graveside service was held
Wednesday, Nov. 26 at Crest
Lawn Cemetery, with Rabbi
Judah Kogen officiating.
Mrs. Buchman was a member
of Shearith Israel, a past member
of Hadassah and a past vice pres
ident of the Jew ish War Veterans
Women's Auxiliary.
Survivors include daughters,
Mrs. Morris(Elaine) Ornstein of
Atlanta, Mrs. Jack (Sylvia) Za-
rovsky of Fort Pierce, Fla., and
Mrs. William (Carolyn) Green-
baum of Huntsville, Ala.; brother,
Carl Levy of Seal Beach. Calif.;
eight grandchildren; 16 great
grandchildren; step-children,
nieces and nephews.
Contributions can be made to
Jewish Family Services.
Herbert Levis
Herbert B. Levis of Atlanta
died Monday, Nov. 10. He was
78.
Graveside service was held
Tuesday, Nov. 11, at Crest Lawn
Memorial Park.
Mr. Levis, formerly of Chi
cago, had lived in Atlanta since
1965. A portrait photographer,
he began his career in Vilna,
Lithuania, where, as a young
boy, he apprenticed with Vilna’s
master photographers.
During his 55 years as a por
trait photographer, he was the
recipient of numerous blue rib
bons for his work, nationally and
internationally. He received the
coveted Honor Medal from the
Royal Photographic Society of
England for excellence in photo
graphy. Some of his works are
still at Chicago’s National Acad
emy of Art and the Art Institute
of Chicago.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Jeanette Levis; daughter, Dr.
AnnRita Levis Hader; and grand
children, Stacey Hader-Epstein,
Joan Ellen Hader and Robert
Levis Hader, all of Atlanta.
Louis A. Lebowitz
Mr. Louis A. Lebowitz of
Atlanta died Saturday, Nov. 22.
He was 86.
Funeral was held Sunday, Nov.
23, with Rabbi Philip M. Kranz
officiating. Interment was Nov.
24 in Mt. Zion Cemetery, Mas-
peth. Long Island, New York.
M r. Lebowitz was a 32nd degree
Mason and a member of Faith
Lodge#52 F&AM in Manhattan.
Survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. ZellaTuchman of the Bronx,
N.Y.; grandson, Mr. Steven Isaac
of Marietta; granddaughters,
Audrey Murdoch and Mrs. Rose
mary Miller, both of Brooklyn,
N. Y.; great-grandchildren. Jason
and Nicole Isaac of Marietta.
Long-time refusnik dies in Kiev
NEW' YORK (JTA) —Haim
Elbert, a 68-year-old Red Army
veteran who with his family had
been denied exit visas since they
first applied in 1976, died in Kiev
Nov. 8, the National Conference
on Soviet Jewry reported here.
His death came two days after
he learned that the latest visa
application for himself, his wife,
their sons and their families had
been rejected, the NCSJ reported.
Elbert had suffered heart attacks
and a stroke in recent years.
According to the NCSJ, his
son. Lev Elbert, a former pri
soner of conscience, was sum
moned to OV1R, the visa office,
last week expecting the applica
tion to be granted. Instead, he
was told it was denied on grounds
that he had failed to disclose “a
former marriage” in a previous
application. The charge was false,
the NCSJ said.
Haim Elbert was a graduate of
the Stalingrad M ilitary Academy
and served as a company com
mander in the Caucusus during
World War 11. He was captured
in 1942 and escaped from a Ger
man prisoner of war camp after
two unsuccessful attempts. He
survived in the POW camp by
concealing his identity as a Jew.
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