The official organ of the German Social Democratic Party, “Vorwaerts,” carries an article commemorating the death by starvation just ten years ago of Hans Goslar, press chief of the last Social Democratic government in Prussia and a prominent member of the German Mizrachi movement.
The obituary, which appears under the title “A Forgotten Martyr,” recalls that Goslar, a close aide of Prussian Minister-President Severing, was considered by the Nazis almost as their enemy No. 1, and that he died of malnutrition in a concentration camp at a time when liberation was nearly in sight.
Goslar, a son-in-law of German Zionist leader Hans Klee, came from a religiously indifferent family but became a religious thinker and writer of note. Even in high government office he was a strict Sabbath observer.
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