RABBI WHO ESCAPED

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 July 1934, Page 4

RABBI WHO ESCAPED

WRAPPED IN CARPET

Grand Rabbi Frankel, who escaped from Berlin rolled up in a carpet after alleged victimisation by Nazi Storm Troopers made a dramatic appearance at Kingsway Hall recently. Lord Marley, presiding at a demonstration organised by the Committee for the Relief of Victims of German and Austrian Fascism, had told the audience that the Rabbi was too ill to appear, and was in the middle of recounting his sufferings, when the old man, looking very weak mid ill, walked up the hall on the ai'm of his daughter and took a seat. Lord Marley said that Nazi storm troopers raided the Rabbi’s flat, stole about £1,200 belonging to him and to his congregation, took, or destroyed

many priceless Hebrew manuscripts and tried to get him to give away the names of his Jewish congregation. When he refused, they shot him .twice through the head.-

A few days later they tried to force his daughter to sign a paper that it was not the Nazis who had raided his flat. She refused, and was shot twice through the shoulder and the elbow. She made her living as a musician, and she had never been able to use her arm to play again. The Rabbi, wounded and ill, was later carried out of the flat, past the police guard, rolled up in a carpet, an descaped to Vienna with his daughter.