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Friday May 28, 1999

World Report

BERLIN (JTA) -- Clashes erupted Saturday between German rightists and leftists over an exhibit in Cologne that depicts members of the German army committing atrocities during World War II.

Police said 26 people were arrested during the protest and counterprotest. The exhibit, which has traveled throughout Germany since it first opened in 1997, has been the target of numerous protests, some of them violent.

Finnish Jews upset over commemoration

HELSINKI (JTA) -- Finnish Jews are concerned about government-subsidized plans to commemorate Finns who fought alongside the Nazi SS during World War II.

The government money would help build a monument at a site in Ukraine, where some 150 Finnish SS members were killed. A government official recently defended the plans, saying there is no evidence that Finish SS members were involved in wartime atrocities.

Argentine panel finds links to Nazis

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) -- A government-created panel in Argentina recently uncovered evidence that the nation's central bank served as a repository for Nazi gold after Hitler's fall.

In recent weeks, Argentine researchers found three letters from the 1950s, including one implicating the Swiss central bank, which they say prove Argentina served as a hub for laundering Nazi-looted gold.

Russian neo-Nazis clash with police

MOSCOW (JTA) -- Members of a far-right nationalist group clashed last week with Russian police preventing them from rallying outside the Kremlin to commemorate the birthday of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov banned the event a few hours in advance after learning that the rally by the Pamyat movement would feature neo-Nazi symbols.

Kurt Weill opera to aid synagogue

BERLIN (JTA) -- German, U.S., Israeli and Polish musical groups are collaborating to stage a Kurt Weill opera next month to help build a synagogue in a German town whose shul was destroyed in 1938 during Kristallnacht.

The production of "The Eternal Road," which is based on the Hebrew Bible, will take place in Chemnitz. The town, home to 3,500 Jews before the war and 20 after the war, now has about 300 Jews. The opera will be a co-production of the Theater Chemnitz, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New Israeli Opera and the Opera Krakow.

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