A group of West German visitors held a special discussion last night with members of an Israeli group called “Dialogue,” who believe in talks and cultural exchanges with present-day Germany. The delegation is headed by Ernst Bende, a member of the West German Bundestag, the lower house of Parliament.
Earlier a six-man West German delegation, representing the German-Israeli Friendship League, attended a ceremony at the Yad Vashem, the Documentation Center for the Nazi Holocaust. During the visit, Berlin Pastor Heinrich Gruber planted a tree in the Avenue of Righteous Gentiles, a section commemorating those non-Jews who worked under threat of Nazi torture and execution to save Jews.
Dr. Gruber, now 76, saved hundreds of Jews during the Nazi period, an action for which the Nazis sent him to the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps for three years.
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