The Immigration and Naturalization Service is to continue presentation of its case for deportation against Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, a former Nazi guard at Maidanek, a notorious concentration camp in Poland. The hearings, which have been delayed in recent months by the illness of Mrs. Ryan’s lawyers, are scheduled to resume March 22.
Meantime, the Polish government has reportedly been holding talks with officials here on the possibility of having Mrs. Ryan, who lives in Queens, extradited to face trial for war crimes in the country where she allegedly committed them. During the hearings last year several witnesses testified that Mrs. Ryan had brutalized prisoners at the camp. Anthony J. De Vito, an investigator, said his inquiries in the Ryan case had turned up documents and other information relating to former Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
In a related development, the deportation investigation of a Latvian alien, Boleslavs Maikovskis, 69, of Mineola, sentenced to death in absentia by a Latvian war crimes tribunal in 1965 for World War II war crimes, has been reopened by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Maikovskis, who came to the. U.S. in 1951 as a displaced person, had been charged with carrying out the orders of Eduardo Rauschmann, known as the “butcher of Riga,” and other SS officials during the German occupation of Latvia in World War II. The Soviet government asked for Maikovskis’ extradition in June 1965.
An exhibition of recent and ancient Jewish art opened in Mexico City under the official sponsorship of the Department of Fine Arts of the Mexican Ministry of Education and arranged by local representatives of the American Jewish Committee, B’nai B’rith and Central Jewish Committee. Among the art objects on exhibition at the National Museum of San Carlos are original paintings by Marc Chagall and Mane Katz, Torah scrolls, sidurim, and mosaics found in ancient Hebrew temples.
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban will pay an official visit to Austria in the middle of this month, his bureau announced today. Austrian Foreign Minister Rudolf Kirschlager visited Israel last spring and Eban’s will be a return visit. The Italian Foreign Minister Giusseppi Medici is due in Israel later this month for an official visit. Officials here said no date had yet been set because Medici was having difficulty with his time table.
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