Newyorki Figyelő, 2000 (25. évfolyam, 1-3. szám)
2000-01-05 / 1. szám
2000. január 5. NEWYORKI FIGYELŐ 5 World News (Continued from the previous page.) In response to protests from heads of a Polish-German center for international youth dialogue in Oswiecim, a provincial governor in southern Poland has revoked permission for a disco in a building used for storage by the adjacent Auschwitz death camp during World War II. The building planned for the disco was originally the camp's tanneiy storage house, housing belongings taken from Jews transported to the gas chambers and later storing victims’ hair. * A young man and two teenagers have been detained on suspicion of desecrating a Jewish cemeteiy in central Ukraine, according to newspaper reports. The Jewish population of the countiy is officially listed as between 350,000 and 400,000, making it one of the world’s largest Jewish communities. * Authorities in Plonsk, Poland have honored Israel’s founding father and first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion - bom there as David Gruen in 1886 - with an international essay contest in his memory and a memorial at the place he was bom, as part of a week of Jewish-themed activities. Although no Jews live in Plonsk today, before the Holocaust they made up two-thirds of the population. * Seeking to rehabilitate the reputation of the late Romanian leader Marshall Ion Antonescu, six right-wing civic associations have urged authorities to retry the pro-Nazi World War II dictator who was convicted and executed at the end of the war. During the war, Antonescu aligned Romania with Hitler’s Germany. * On the 58th anniversary of ‘he September 1941 massacre at Babi Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma led dignitaries at a memorial ceremony at the site. On September 29-30, 1941, 33,771 Jews were machine-gunned to death by a Nazi German SS unit supported by Ukrainian militia. By the end of Nazi rule in Kiev, the site had become a mass grave for over 100,000 people, mostly Jews. * The Israeli Army is testing an anthrax vaccine on its troops in response to a threat of biological and chemical warfare, according to a report by Israel Radio. According to the report, the army is assessing the possible use of the vaccine on civilians if Israel is faced with an emergency in the event of an attack with anthrax-carrying missiles. * The Israeli firm Shahala Emergency Company has launched an innovative device - a foldable wallet which contains a special ECG device to be worn in a shirt pocket. The device transmits electrocardiogram data from the wearer to the company’s headquarters, where it is monitored to pick up any dangerous changes in heart activity; the client is notified of any changes, and an ambulance can be dispatched on request. * Due to the ongoing drought in Israel, the government has ' drawn up an agreement to import water from Turkey by tankers. Each ship will carry 200,000 tons of water, to be unloaded in a specially -built facility in the port of Ashkelon, where it will be transported by pipeline to Zohar Reservoir and pumped into the national water system. * Tnuva, Israel’s largest dairy producer, has installed video cameras in cowsheds to ensure that Jewish Sabbath laws are not violated during milking procedures. The strict supervision of the dairy, which produces and markets 70% of Israel’s dairy produce, is meant to enable the company to sell strictly kosher products to those who require them. * A postage stamp honoring the memory of the late King Hussein of Jordan will be issued in February 2000 by the Israel Post Office. The stamp will be the first Israeli one to bear the image of the leader of a former enemy Arab country. * According to the September edition of Air Force Monthly, Israeli Air Force pilots defeated their U.S. Navy counterparts in a recent simulated joint combat exercise in the skies over Israel’s Negev desert. According to the report, Israeli pilots simulated “downing” 220 U.S. Navy Sixth Fleet planes, while “losing” only 20 of its own aircraft in the “clash" between Israeli F-16s and U.S. F-14s and F/A-18s. * Manpower Israel reports that demand for workers in Israel rose by 6% in the July -September 1999 quarter over the previous quarter. Statistics show a 25% leap in demand for industrial and production workers, a 12% increase in demand for high-tech and engineering personnel, an 11% rise in demand for office employees, and a 7% increase in requests for sales and marketing personnel. * British Prime Minister Tony Blair has personally endorsed a plan to make January 27 - the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp - a national Holocaust Remembrance Day. The first such day is likely to be observ ed in 2001. Dr. Moshe Rishpon, the Israeli developer of the world’s first completely outdoor science museum, has been awarded the 1999 “Award for Innovation” - presented by the Association of Science- Technology Centers - in recognition of his ■role in creating a new way to bring science I to a wide audience. The Clore Garden of Science, located Ion the campus of Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, is a year-round fouracre outdoor museum containing 70 interactive science exhibits. it After a long period of silence, the University of Vienna has awarded six medical school gradates with degree certificates denied to them after the Anschluss, the 1938 welcome of Austria's incorporation into Nazi Germany. Some two-thirds of the Vienna medical faculty was dismissed in 1938, and most Jewish final-year students were prevented from taking their examinations * A new German film about Josef Mengele - the infamous Nazi “Angel of Death” a doctor who performed sadistic medical experiments on concentration camp inmates during World War II - is being criticized by Jewish leaders as being potentially dangerous. The theme of the film, Nothing is But the Truth has Mengele, who escaped to Argentina at war’s end and reportedly died of a heart attack in 1979, returning to Germany to face trial. Critics object to what they say is a platform for the views of the man responsible for the deaths of 400,000 people, and to his presentation as a “campaigner for euthanasia.” * The house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank wrote her famous diaries has been restored to give visitors a better idea of how it looked when the Frank family hid there during the World War II Nazi occupation of Holland. The house, from which family was arrested and deported to concentration camps, is today Amsterdam’s top tourist attraction, drawing nearly 900,000 visitors a year. The museum does not highlight the looting by the Dutch of the Frank family’s furniture after their betrayal to the Germans. * According to recently declassified British Intelligence documents, Heinrich Himmler, wartime leader of the SS, sought to w in asylum for himself and 200 leading Nazis during the final days of World War II by offering cash and the freedom of 3,500 Jews held in concentration camps. According to the documents, the camp inmates were to be sent to Switzerland in two trainloads. * Hong Kong’s Jewish community is protesting the sale, in the city’s tourist district, of T-shirts bearing the Nazi swastika symbol and the name of designer Helmut Lang. The French News agency reports that under the swastika, the beige and green shirts read “Helmut Lang - Summercamp 1998 and display a serial number reminiscent of tattooed prisoner numbers at Nazi concentration camps. * A Swedish diplomat during World War II, Per Anger, has slammed his country’s government for not making adequate efforts to free Raoul Wallenberg from a Soviet prison, where he had been taken, after being captured in Budapest, during the final days of the war. Wallenberg is credited with the rescue of thousands of Jews form the Nazi death machine. (End) FIZESSEN ELŐ A NEW YORKI FIGYELŐRE! FIGYELŐ HUNG. PUB. Co. 136 East 39*h Street. 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