Rudzin Extradition Refused by French; Refugees in Strasburg

Abraham Rudzin of Chemnitz, whose extradition to Germany was demanded by the Nazi authorities for alleged malicious bankruptcy, was released from prison after two months of detention. The decision of the appellate court, ordering him turned over to the German authorities was overruled by the Minister of Justice who ordered Rudzin freed.

The court decision was reached in spite of the fact that the prosecuting attorney joined with the defense in its claim that a Jew cannot expect justice from a German court.

The case, which was believed, if successful, to be the first of many to be instituted by the Nazi authorities in order to compel the return to Germany of escaped Jewish refugees, aroused widespread attention.

Reports to the Paris Haint from Strasburg describe an inpouring of refugees from Germany who relate shocking stories of the resumption of Nazi terroristic methods.

NAZI TORTURE

Under the initials A.M., a Jewish refugee states in the newspaper that he was arrested May 5 by the auxiliary police and tortured until unconscious as the Nazis demanded that he submit a list of Jewish communists which he was unable to supply. He was released after prolonged mistreatment and after he had been forced to sign a declaration that he was leaving Germany of his own free will.

A Jewish widow, Ella Bauminger, was robbed of her valuables when a gang of Hitlerites burst into her home in Berlin, bound her hands and feet, gagged her and tore her hair.

Another Jewish refugee from Dortmund describes the torture of hundreds of Jews held in the concentration camps at Neustadt and Osthafen.

The Strasburg Jewish relief committee is finding it most difficult to deal with the daily growing problem of furnishing aid to the refugees. The situation of the Polish Jewish refugees is particularly acute as the committee has not been able to aid them all and can only advise them to proceed to Poland.