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(14 Sep 1999) German/Nat Germany's Chancellor has honoured the late Jewish leader Ignatz Bubis as a "moral authority" who won respect in Germany and abroad for his untiring defence of minorities. Gerhard Schroeder joined several hundred people, including prominent Jewish and political leaders, at Frankfurt's West End Synagogue to pay tribute to Bubis on Tuesday. Bubis died of cancer on August 13. He was 72. Prominent Jewish and political leaders packed the West End Synagogue in Frankfurt for the memorial service for the late Jewish community leader Ignatz Bubis. Bubis died of cancer on August 13 and was buried in Tel Aviv, Israel, two days later. Tuesday's ceremony took place after the traditional 30-day mourning period. Bubis was head of the Central Council of German Jews for seven years and became a respected commentator on the moral questions facing German society. SOUNDBITE: (German) "Ignatz Bubis has been involved in German Jewish understanding like no one else, not because he was caught in abstract and philosophical ideas, but because humanity directed his deeds." SUPER CAPTION: Charlotte Knobloch, Vice-President of Germany's National Jewish Council Bubis reacted angrily in 1995 when Israeli President Ezar Weizman questioned him on how any Jew could live in Germany, where the perpetrators of the Holocaust lived. But in the months before his death Bubis did begin to express despair that anti-Semitism was returning to the mainstream of German society. He took offence at a speech by the writer Martin Walser who said the memory of the Holocaust was used to keep Germans in their place. Chancellor Schroeder recalled Bubis' constant calls for tolerance and understanding. SOUNDBITE: (German) "Dearest Mrs Bubis, dearest Mr President, dearest Council, Ignatz Bubis has taught us moral and political responsibility, he has sharpened our senses for tolerance, understanding and for opening up to the world. His voice will not be forgotten and will always be heard as a reminder of our own responsibilities." SUPER CAPTION: Gerhard Schroeder, German Chancellor Despite having lost his father and siblings in the Treblinka concentration camp, Bubis returned to Germany to live and teach "love thy neighbour as thyself", as Schroeder said. Under Bubis' encouragement, Germany's Jewish community more than doubled in the last seven years. It has grown from 29-thousand to about 70-thousand, many of them ethnic Germans from areas of the former Soviet Union. National Jewish Council board member Michel Friedman said the growth of the Jewish community demonstrated the trust Bubis spread through his message of tolerance. SOUNDBITE: (German) "Ignatz Bubis was a person who learned and taught and to whom the youth was important, because he was convinced that children are not born anti-Semitic or racist and because he loved people." SUPER CAPTION: Michel Friedman, Germany's National Jewish Council board member Bubis regularly spoke to German school classes telling them "they were not guilty". But he also told them it was their responsibility to prevent it from happening again. Though Bubis chose to return to Germany and live his life there, he asked to be buried in Israel. He feared anti- Semitists would desecrate his grave as they had done to his predecessor, Heinz Galinski. Galinski's tombstone in Berlin was damaged by a bomb in December. No one has been arrested for the attack. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...