THE article (South China Morning Post, February 27) on the non-Jewish Rose Street Women of Berlin who saved their Jewish menfolk in 1943 contained an unfortunate turn of phrase.

It stated that Julius Israel was ''among an estimated 27,000 Jews married to Germans in Berlin'', as if their being Jews somehow precluded them from being Germans.

Perhaps it would have been better to have simply stated that Julius Israel was among an estimated 27,000 Jews married to non-Jews in Berlin.