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Is Eichmann's " Best Man" the Mentor of Murder in Syria?

Is Eichmann’s “ Best Man” the Mentor of Murder in Syria?



The man who made the mass deportation of Jews to death as
Eichmann’s “ Best Man” is the subject of the documentary film  Alois Brunner: The Last Nazi, to be
screened at Hollywood Temple Beth El, at 1317 
N Crescent Heights Blvd, West Hollywood, CA, on Sunday, April 27, at 4:00
PM. Following the screening, Lynda Goldman, executive producer, and Rabbi
Norbert Weinberg, author and rabbi of Hollywood Temple Beth El, will lead a
discussion with the audience.



Alois Brunner was a widely known Nazi war criminal, a
former SS commander, who was Adolf Eichmann’s protégé  and was called Eichmann’s “Best Man”. He
began the process of the mass deportation of Jews by train  and was himself responsible for sending more
than 128,500 European Jews to their deaths. After the war,  Brunner
with the help of anti-Semitic elements in the Catholic Church escaped to Egypt.
He was even put on the payroll of the CIA to spy on the Soviet Union until he
was eventually spirited to Damascus, Syria, with the help of the notorious Nazi
war-criminals gang 'Odessa’. In Damascus, he mentored the Assad regime in the
tactics of mass oppression and it is rumored that he may still be alive today
under Assad protection.



“The Last Nazi” includes interviews with many of the
people most closely involved in the case, including Gunther Deschner, the last
journalist to have interviewed Brunner; Serge Klarsfeld, a Nazi hunter whose
father was murdered by Brunner; and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

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Lynda S. Goldman was CNN producer in Jerusalem in the
1980’s  and produced and co-wrote the
documentary with her colleague, Jay Bushinsky, former CNN Jerusalem Bureau
Chief. They currently operate MGI
News which specializes in news and programming from and about the Middle
East. 



Rabbi Weinberg, who will
moderate the evening, has just published a book on his father’s experience
during the Holocaust, Courage of the Spirit. His father was on one of
the first freight trains used to haul Jews out of Czechoslovakia, a project
managed by Brunner under Eichmann’s direction, in 1939.

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This screening is part of a weekend of
commemorations for Yom HaShoah. There will be a joint memorial Service on
Saturday morning, April 26, at 10:00 AM, with the members of the Temple and the
Iranian American Jewish Federation. That Saturday evening, the Iranian Jewish
American Federation will host an interfaith program “Holocaust: Past, Present, Never
Again” on contemporary dangers of Genocide at 8:30 PM Honorable Consul General of Israel, David Siegel, Rabbi David Wolpe, Dr.
Ardeshir Babaknia,Dr. Majid Mohammadi, and Mrs. Renee Firestone, a Holocaust
survivor. Iran, during the Holocaust, actually served as a refuge for many Jews.Sunday,
at 2:00 PM, there will be a community wide commemoration at Pan Pacific Park
sponsored by the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.



 



For more information, please call Hollywood Temple
Beth El, 323 656 3150

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