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SECTION ONE

VOL 44, NO. 52

Detroit
Jewish
Chronicle
_ and Thellegal Chronicle

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1942

Jewish National Fund Convention
To Hold Memorial Service Dec. 21

Sen. Alben W. Barkley, Dr. Nahum Goldman,
Fred M. Butzel To Address Conference Dinner

Time will be set aside by the Jewish National Fund
Convention at the Book Cadillac Hotel, Sunday morning,
Dec. 27, to a Memorial Service for the 2,000,000 Jews
killed by the Nazis. Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of.
the JNF, and other nationally known Jewish leaders will

Seymour Lipkin

Music Study Club
Concert Artist

To Be Heard Jan. 3
At Institute of Arts

The Music Study Club on Sun-
day, Jan. 3, 1943, will again gath-
er with its friends for its annual
Young Artist's Concert, at the

speak. Cantor Jacob H. Sonen-
klar will chant the "El Mole
Speakers who have definitely
Rachamim," ancient prayer for
the dead which has come down promised to address the sessions
are: Dr. Israel Goldstein, Presi-
dent of the JNF of America, Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver, national . chair-
man of the United Palestine Ap-
peal, Louis Lipsky, member of
the world executive, judge Louis
E. Levinthal, president of the
Zionist Organization of America,
Dr. Nahum Goldman, official rep-
resentative of the World Zionist
Executive and of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, Mrs. David
De Sola Pool, president of Hadas-
sah, Leon Gellman, president of
the Mizrachi Organization of
America, David Wertheim, secre-
tary of the Poale Zion-Zeire Zion,
Mrs. Archibald Silverman of
SEYMOUR LIPKIN
Providence, R. 1., who recently
returned from England, Sidney large auditorium or the Detroit
Institute of Art. This year the
See JEWISH—Page 9
club is presenting one of its own

See LIPKIN—Pag e 12

Earlier Date for Next
Week's Publication

MRS. DAVID DE SOLA POOL

to the Jewish people from time
immemorial.
The Detroit sessions will rep-
resent the fourth bi-annual na-
tional Conference of the JNF.
News has come to the local com-
mittee from all over the country
that delegates have gone to a
great deal of effort to secure
transportation to attend this im-
portant gathering. It is only be-
cause the organization has not
met last year that this confer-
ence could not be postponed. Im-
portant war and post-war prob-
lems will be discussed. Prepara-
tions to enable Palestine to make
room for thousands of homeless,
stateless Jews, who have been
robbed and driven from their
homes by the aggressor nations,
will be considered.

Because New Year's Day,
Jan. 1, falls on Friday, we
will go to press on Thursday,
one day earlier than usual.
Copy for next week's issue
must be in the hands of the
Editor not later than Tuesday,
Dec. 29, at 10 a. in.

LOUIS LIPSKY

The Annihilation of Holland's Jews

By HENRY VAN DAM
Aneta Staff Correspondent

Editor's Note: The following article was wirelessed to New York by
the London bureau of Aneta, the Dutch news agency, in
convection with last week's Allied statement denouncing Ge"-
many's "bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination" of the
Jews. The article is released to the Anglo-Jewish press
through the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate.

Item: The Brit'sh Ministry of
Economic Warfare announces that
of the half million Jews deported
from occupied countries by the
Germans, Holland's quota has
been between 40,000 and 45,000.
Item: Ten physicians of the
Central Jewish Hospital in Am-
sterdam recently were arrested
and sent to the salt and sulphur
mines at Manthausen, Austria.
Soon afterward their families
were advised they had died.
Item: The Germans have im-
posed a second financial levy on
the Dutch Jews.
The German policy regarding
the Jews of the Netherlands,
while superficially less brutal than
that followed in Poland and else-
where, is designed to lead no less
inevitably to their destruction.
The Nazis adopted a more sub-
tle technique for use in Holland,
evidently realizing that the na-
tion's 180,000 Jews had always
1ived on terms of complete equal-
itY with the rest of the Nether-
lands people and thus were wholly
identified with them.
Because of this relationship,
the Germans seemingly appreciat-
e() that the Netherlands popula-
tion would resent vigorous po-
groms of the sort carried out in
l'oland.

These considerations led to the
adoption of a policy of more grad-
ual extermination. This began by
measures making it virtually im-
possible for Jews to earn a liv-
ing in Holland, which were fol-
lowed up by deportation on a
progressive scale using the excuse
that it was necessary to find
workers for the conquered lands
of eastern Europe.
The Germans attempted to as-
sume a pose of kindliness and pa-
tience toward the Jews. They
suppressed news of brutal anti-
Jewish measures, allowing ac-
counts of only a few out of a
great number to appear in the
controlled Netherlands press.
After his arrival in Holland to
take the post of Reichscommisar,
Arthur Seyss-Inquart announced
that all Dutchmen would be treat-
ed on a basis of equality. But
late in 1940 this announcement
was given the lie by the compul-
sory registration of Jews and by
economic measures against them.
Typical of the general policy
was the way Jewish civil servants
were "Relieved of their posts."
The press announced that those
dismissed would receive compen-
sation based upon their full sal-

See HOLLAND—Page 10

General Sikorski
Pledges Peaceful
Revived Poland

A large number of Detroit
Jews participated in the recep-
tion tendered the Polish Premier
and commander-in-chief of her
armed forces, Gen. Wladislaw
Sikorski, on Sunday, Dec. 20, at
the Masonic Temple. Included
among the groups to greet him
was a special delegation repre-
senting the Federation for Po-
lish Jews consisting of the fol-
lowing: Rabbi Joshua Sperka,
honorary president; Isidore Mel-
lin, president; Morris Mohr, treas-
urer; Harry Weinberg, secretary,
and Benjamin Graubart, execu-
tive director.
Gen. Sikorski pledged a peace-
ful Poland, in the future apply-
ing the principles of democracy
to her domestic and foreign poli-
cies. Gen. Sikorski declared:
"The federal principle of govern-
ment alone does not guarantee
democracy. There can be no de-
mocracy in a country unless' it
applies to its citizens, regardless
of race or creed, the principle
of equal opportunity and extends
to its under-privileged peasantry
and working people a full meas-
ure of social security."
Jan Ciechanowski, Polish am-
bassador, read a message re-
ceived from the women of Po-
land, sent via Poland's under-
ground postal system. It read in
part as follows: "What is hap-
pening today in Poland defies
description and surpasses the
imagination. Tens of thousands
of innocent people are daily be-
ing murdered by the Nazis. Men,
women and children are being
caught in the streets, thrown
into closed cars and carried off
to gas chambers for mass exe-

See

SIKORSKI—Page 12

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Nazi Massacres of Jews Coridemned
In United Nations Declaration

Warn Those Responsible for Anti-Jewish
Atrocities Shall Not Escape Retribution

WASHINGTON. (WNS)—The
United States, Great Britain and
Soviet Russia—the world's most
powerful anti-Nazi nations—is-
sued a joint declaration this week
condemning the Nazi policy of
"cold-blooded extermination" of
the Jews and warning that all
those responsible for the anti-
Jewish atrocities "shall not es-
cape retribution".

the creation of a United Nations
Commission for the Investigation
of War Crimes which will be re-
sponsible for meting out "just
and sure punishment" to the
"ringleaders responsible for the
organized murder of thousands
of innocent persons and the com-
mission of atrocities which have
violated every tenet of the Chris-
tian faith."

The joint statement — issued Text of Declaration
simultaneously in Washington,
The text of the joint United
London and Moscow—bore the Nations statement, as made pub-
endorsement also of the French li) ebr the State Department, fol-
National Committee and of the lows:
exiled governments of eight other
attention of the Belgian,
United Nations. Added signifi- Czechoslovak,
Greek, Luxem-
cance was attached here to the
joint statement since it marked bourg, Netherlands, Norwegian,
the first time that the United Polish, Soviet, United Kingdom,
Nations have officially warned the United States and Yugoslav gov-
ernments and also of the French
Nazis that the mass killings of National Committee has been
innocent Jewish men, women and
children would be avenged. Previ- drawn to numerous reports from
ously, President Roosevelt and Europe that the German authori-
ties, not content with denying
other Allied leaders had issued
persons of the Jewish race in
individual statements protesting to
all the territories over which the
the anti-Jewish persecutions and barbarous rule has been extend-
threatening post-war retribution. ed, the most elementary human
At a press conference, held rights, are now carrying into
shortly after the joint declara- effect Hitler's oft-repeated in-
tion wits made public, Secretary tention to exterminate the Jew-
of State Cordell Hull told news- ish people in Europe.
papermen that "the names of the
"From all the occupied coun-
criminals and accounts of their tries Jews are being transported
crimes are being recorded so that in conditions of appalling horror
they can be dealt with at the and brutality to eastern Europe.
earliest possible time, not later
In Poland, which has been made
than the end of the war."
the principal Nazi slaughter
Issuance of the joint statement house, the ghettos established by
culminated a series of confer- the German invader are being
ences in London and Washington systematically emptied of all
attended by high-ranking diplo- Jews except a few highly skilled
matic officials of the three big workers required for war indus-
powers. Allied indignation was tries.
intensified several weeks ago
"None of those taken away are
when the American State Depart- ever heard of again. The able-
ment confirmed reports obtained bodies are slowly worked to death
through Polish Jewish under- in labor camps. The infirm arc
ground channels that the Nazis left to die of exposure and star-
had murdered 2,000,000 Jew vation or are deliberately massa-
since the start of the war and cred in mass executions. The
had issued orders for the total number of victims of these
annihilation of the Jewish popu bloody cruelties is reckoned in
'talon of ocupied Europe.
ninny hundreds of thousands of
While the Allied plans for the entirely innocent men, women
early punishment of the Nazi and children.
criminals were not divulged, it was
"The above-mentioned govern-
recalled that on Oct. 7, 1942,
President Roosevelt announced
See MASSACRES—Page 12

Jews of Morocco

By M. DLUZNOWSKI

Editor's Note: Up to the 20th century, anti-Semitic persecution
raged nearly unhampered in Morocco. Jews led miserable,
unhealthful lives, easy prey to epidemics, starvation and fevers.
Today, Allied occupation has brought bright prospects of
freedom and equality to the Jews of Morocco. The following
article is presented through special arrangements with the
Universal Jewish Encyclopedia.

The Jews of Morocco of the in the same voice, and with the
20th century might be divided same gestures.
into five classes: (1) Berbers or
The town Jews, who filled the
Mountain Jews; (2) town and "Mellahs," were for the most part
village Jews; (3) Sephardic mountaineers who had moved into
Jews; (4) European Jews; (5) urban centers. These constituted
refugees from the second World the bulk of Moroccan Jewry,
War.
numbering about 160,000. They
There were, in 1942, at least lived in crowded houses, packed
30,000 Berber or Mountain Jews into dirty ghettos. In addition
in Morocco, in the mountainous to the large ghettos in Casablanca
regions or in the desert. The men and Fez, there was a settlement
were tall, healthy, swarthy and of some 20,000 Jews in Marra-
thoroughly free of urban influence. kesh and one of about 10,000 in
Living impoverished and isolated Meknes. Tangiers, in Spanish
lives, they remained attached to Morocco, had about 15,000 Moroc-
inherited modes or worship and can and 3,000 European Jews.
belief. Although ritually ob-
The languages spoken by the
servant, they knew little about older urbanized Mountain .Jews
Judaism, except for the tales of were Berber, Arabic and a little
Jerusalem and Palestine that Hebrew; the younger generation
came down to them. Some of them knew some French. The most rigid
spoke a little Hebrew. Both piety prevailed amid surroundings
men and women married early, ridden with filth. Trade, handi-
the woman at the age of eight, craft and begging provided
the
ten or twelve, and the men at means of livelihood
and were
twelve or fifteen. Polygamy was practiced indiscriminately
in the
permitted. The numerous chil- variegated and colorful back-
dren resulting from their early ground. About 50 per cent of the
marriages and their fecundity Jews living in Moroccan ghettos
had no source of educat'on but were engaged in handicrafts.
the Heder, where several hundred
The Sephardic Jews, who are
children, Jews and Arabs, were the descendants of the immigrants
crowded together. While an Arab from Spain and Portugal, were
read the Koran a Jewish teacher
read the Bible, at the same time,
See MOROCCO—Page 10

