Dean Heinrich Gruber, the West German Evangelical leader who testified here several months during the Adolf Eichmann trial, will be honored here by a special “Heinrich Gruber Forest” to be planted by the Jewish National Fund, it was announced today. The German anti-Nazi has been invited to come to Israel to help dedicate the forest on his 70th birthday, next month.
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