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NEWSBRIEFS Former Nazi Death Camp Secretary to Stand Trial
GERMAN PROSECUTORS indicted a 95-year-old
woman who served as a secretary to a Nazi death
camp’s commander during the Holocaust and charged
her with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people
at Stutthof, a camp in occupied Poland, JTA reported.

The woman, identified under German privacy
laws only as Irmgard F., will be tried in juvenile
court because she was under 21 when she worked at
Stutthof. The indictment is based on camp survivors now
living in the United States and Israel. About 65,000
people were murdered at Stutthof. The indictment
against Irmgard F. was the result of a five-year inves-
tigation, prosecutors said.

The woman reportedly resides in an old-age home
north of Hamburg.

Celebrities Sign Statement Launching
Black-Jewish Entertainment Alliance
More than 170 entertainment industry leaders signed
a statement launching the Black-Jewish Entertainment
Alliance, which is designed to foster dialogue and
mutual understanding, JTA reported.

High-profile signees include Tiffany Haddish (who
is Black and Jewish), Mayim Bialik, NFL player
Zach Banner (a leading pro athlete voice against
anti-Semitism), Terry Crews, Herbie Hancock,
Sharon Osbourne and Nick Cannon, who made
anti-Semitic statements in 2020 on a podcast episode,
but later apologized.

“In the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., Rabbi
Abraham Heschel, and the many Blacks and Jews
who stood together in the fight for civil rights, we
come together to support each other in the struggle
against hatred and bigotry,” the group’s “unity state-
ment” reads.

The organization will sponsor programming
geared to its goals, along with “in-person trips such
as pilgrimages to destinations that are historically
and/or culturally significant to each community,”
according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Jewish Inmate’s COVID-19 Death Cited in
Push to Vaccinate NY Prisoners
Lawyers working to expand vaccine eligibility for New
York state prisoners are citing the case of an elderly
Jewish inmate who died of COVID-19, JTA reported.

Ira Goldberg, 72, of Brooklyn, who was serving a
seven-year minimum sentence for burglary, died on a
ventilator on Jan. 4. His lawyers said he suffered from
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema,
asthma, chronic renal failure and high blood pressure.

The Center for Appellate Litigation and others
are suing New York state to give people in its prisons
and jails access to vaccines in accordance with
guidance from the American Medical Association.

Congregation Beit Simchat Torah of Manhattan
sponsored a letter signed by 120 clergy pressing Gov.

Andrew Cuomo to include inmates in the state’s
vaccine plan; 27 other states have already done so.

Supreme Court Rejects Holocaust Heirs Appeal
The Supreme Court unanimously rejected an appeal
by Holocaust survivors and their heirs who wanted
to pursue restitution claims in the United States after
failing in the countries where the art was stolen, JTA
reported. The opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts
said that allowing the lawsuits to go forward would
contradict international agreements.

“As a nation, we would be surprised — and
might even initiate reciprocal action — if a court
in Germany adjudicated claims by Americans that
they were entitled to hundreds of millions of dollars
because of human rights violations committed by the
United States government years ago,” Roberts wrote.

“There is no reason to anticipate that Germany’s
reaction would be any different were American courts
to exercise the jurisdiction claimed in this case.” l
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