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10 Visits Holocaust memorial me. And I can imagine what it means for Jews to be able to say never again, never again, Dinkins said. Before Adolf Hitlers rise to power in the 1930s, nearly 30,000 Jews lived in Frankfurt. By June, 1943, the Nazis had abolished Frankfurts office of Jewish affairs, explaining there was no longer any need for it. Now, 5,600 Jews live in Frankfurt, the second-largest community in Germany.

Returning to the business of selling New York, Dinkins went to an economic roundtable where he was received with some skepticism, despite a series of meetings and a lavish reception set up by The Bertlesmann Group, a multi-media conglomerate that recently bought a Times Square building for its worldwide headquarters. Is there a plan or is it a boondoggle? asked C. Michael Oppenheim, an American headhunter who set up shop in Frankfurt eight years ago. Noting that few of Frankfurts top business traders were there, he added, If you cant even attract a good audience then the whole thing is doomed to failure. The absence of most of New Yorks corporate heavyweights raised eye: brows among Oppenheim and other participants, who thought smaller sessions would have been more useful.

Dinkins returns to New York today. By Patricia Cohen -iT KI I IKKKSI'I )NDKNT Frankfurt. Germany Ashes from Auschwitz d( not rest alone in Frankfurts Old Jewish Cemetery. The 741 ews who chose suicide over deportation to the camps are buried there as well. It was hen that Mayor David N.

Dinkins came yesterday, on the last working day of his week long European trade mission. A journey to Germany that did not include a visit to a Holocaust memorial would be unthinkable for a New York City mayor. Nonetheless, the leaders of Frankfurt's shrunken Jewish community were touched by the gesture. As a survivor, it is very important for me that someone like the mayor of New York would pay tribute, said Trude Simonsohn, who, with her husband, Rerthold, escaped the ovens at Auschwitz and returned home. Dinkins donned a yarmulke before passing through the wrought-iron gates, where the words I will go before the Lord in ihe lands of life are engraved in Hebrew.

I would never come to Germany without visiting a grave or memorial, Dinkins said, lighting a remembrance candle after a rabbi said a short prayer. It is a very moving experience for AP Photo David Dinkins meets yesterday with Ruediger von Rosen of Frankfurt stock exchange. Report to Urge City Sell Some Hospitals in the middle, the doctor said. The corporation contracts with medical affiliates medical schools, teaching hospitals and professional corporations to run 1 1 acute-care hospitals, five nursing homes and a network of clinics. A second source said the commission is likely to recommend that those affiliates that have made specific proposals to take over HHC institutions be allowed to do so.

The-source would not name those hospitals. But one such proposal was made by Dr. Spencer Foreman, head of Monte-fiore Medical Center, which wants to take over North Central Bronx liy Gale Scott STAFF WRITER The BarondesB Commission, a mayoral task force charged with reforming the city Health and Hospitals will recommend that the city turn some of its hospitals over to the private sector, according to commission sources. According to one doctor on the commission, the group which began its study in November, will make that recommendation in a preliminary report slated to be released later this month. We've had some people telling us to privatize the whole thing, and others telling us the city needs to take control.

We are going to recommend something Another plan has been proposed by New York Medical College, which wants to take over Metropolitan Hospital Center in Manhattan and possibly Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center. In a March 10 presentation to the commission. Foreman argued privatization offers the best overall solution to the structural and management problems which have plagued the hospitals. Donald Meyer, a spokesman for the Doctors Council, a city physicians union, said, Im not surprised, but I think its terrible. The public will be abandoned this commission is an elitist group with no representation from the people who use the hospitals or the people who work there.

The commissions position is that, it is not elitist because it has taken testimony from the public and the unions, according to its chairman, Dr. Jeremiah Barondess, president of the New York Academy of Medicine. Marshall England, a longtime Harlem-based health advocate who predicted months ago that the Barondess group would tell Dinkins to sell some hospitals, said, Theres not much respect for HHC by the medical schools The mayor has inadvertently set this in gear. England said, by appointing the commission. They look down on HHC and feel they should run the By stem.

He No Hot Dog: Uncle Sams Out By Harry Berkowitz STAFF WRITER After a 23-year mn of TV ads in which Uncle Sam helped sell its kosher hot dogs, Hebrew National has turned to a new character a rumpled, balding competitor named Frank Weiner. "We wanted to update our message and do it in a more contemporary way, said Jeff Keane, vice president of marketing for Hebrew National. In the old ad, a perplexed Uncle Sam representing the governments standards looks skyward with the tag line, "Hebrew National. We answer to a higher authority. In the new one, Frank Weiner, pleading to the stormy heavens, acknowledges doing bad things, but explains that the government said it was OK.

The skies dear as Hebrew Nationals logo emerges. The new ad was created by McCabe 8c whose founder, Ed McCabe, created the old one. Tbs original ad found a way that could explain something that was kind of mysterious to people the word kosher to tell people that kosher meant higher quality, McCabe said yesterday. HtndvJbn I Gimme Shelter A smaH bus-stop shelter doesnt do much for people caught in the downpour yesterday in upper Manhattan. The added winds helped to soak even those with the forethought to carry umbrellas..