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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1944
VOL. 46, NO. 29
Hungary Christian League for Million Hungarian 282 Jews Liberated From Nazi
Ruthless Action Against Jews Jews Threatened Camp Arrive in Palestine
Medical Commissioner Deprives 4500
Jewish Doctors of Rights to Practice
BERNE (WNS).—A Christian circles in Budapest" are incensed
organization, known as the Unit- over the appeal made by the
ed Hungarian Christian League, Archbishop of Canterbury in be-
came out with an appeal last half of the Jews of Hungary.
week in the Hungarian press "The British Archbishop should
calling for more ruthless meas- first preach humanitarism in his
ures against Jews, it was dis- own ranks and among the Allies
closed here this week with the rather than lament about a few
arrival of Hungarian newspapers. hundred thousand Jews who have
The appeal reads: "It is our been interned because they are
view that the most vigorous and politically compromised," t h e
most ruthless solution of the Jew- Hungarian news agency adds.
The Hungarian newspaper
ish problem in Hungary would
not be radical enough, since we Magyarszo reports that on July
consider the Jewish problem un- 11 riots took place in front of
solved as long as even one-half the pastoral offices in Budapest
Jew, or one-quarter Jew is left
when thousands of Jews attempt-
in the country."
The Hungarian press also car-
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ried a report that Dr. Antal
Incze, Medical Commissioner, had
issued an order depriving the Prof. Anton Zolli
4,500 Jewish doctors in Hungary
from practicing their profession. To Broadcast
To speed the elimination of Jew-
ish doctors, the Medical Commis- From Rome Sunday
sioner ordered the early granting
At the suggestion and re-
of diplomas to medical students,
"so as to replace the discharged quest of the Jewish Commun-
ity Council of Detroit, Radio
Jewish physicians."
Station WWJ has made ar-
Simultaneously, the Hungarian
Government is reported to have rangements to broadcast the
intensified its drive to halt Hun- special thanksgiving service
garian Christians from helping from Rome this Sunday, July
Jews. A ranking member of the 23, at 4:30 p. m., Detroit
Hungarian nobility, Count Mi- time.
haly Andrassy, was arrested last
This program will be the
week in Budapest on the charge first Jewish broadcast from
of having abetted Jews in escap- liberated territory, and will
ing deportation.
consist of a 15-minute service
At the same time reports reach- conducted by Professor An-
ing here from Hungary indicate ton Zolli, Chief Rabbi of
that Hungarian authorities are Rome. A cantor and girls'
speeding the deportation of Jews choir will participate.
to death camps in Poland.
Professor Zolli, who is 73
Freight trains loaded with Jews years of age, recently came
have been arriving daily at the out of hiding in Rome as the
death camp in Oswiecim, Poland. Nazis had placed a prize of
Many of the deportees have been 300,000 lire on his head, after
put to death in gas chambers seizing his home and all his
after having been told by Hun- valuables. He had remained
garian officials that they would hidden for nine months, dur-
be exchanged for German pris-
oners of war held in the Allied ing which time he had pre-
pared a number of propaganda
countries.
Budapest newspapers also re- leaflets in German and Italian
port the arrest of Kazmer Kal- urging soldiers to lay down
lay, nephew of the former Hun- their arms. Before the war
garian Prime Minister. He is he had taught at the Uni-
charged with smuggling Jews out versities of Rome and Vienna.
The broadcast will emanate
of Hungary. Istvan Penzes, a
prominent Hungarian, was also from Temple Israelitico, lo-
arrested on the charge that he cated in the center of the old
helped Kallay. Penzes is the Roman ghetto on the banks of
owner of a large estate, one part the Tiber. The present mod-
of which is on Hungarian soil ern synagogue stands on the
and the other in Slovakia. The site of an ancient structure,
Jews are said to have crossed on one of the oldest synagogues
his estate from Hungary to Slo- in Europe.
Arrangements for the pro-
vakia.
The Budapest radio today an- gram were made by Ralph
nounced that the Hungarian Min- Howard, NBC correspondent
ister of Interior has issued an with the Fifth Army. The
order closing all shops of Jewish broadcast is being sponsored
artisans who sell not only their by the American Jewish Com-
own products, but also articles )mittee in cooperation with
produced by other artisans. The NBC. Station WWJ has re-
order goes into effect imme- arranged its schedule in order
diately, the broadcast said.
to make time for this historic
The Hungarian Telegraphic program.
Agency reported that "political
,
Lawyers Urged to Use Arbitration
Services of Community Council
The arbitration committee of facilities for the purpose of
the Jewish Community Council, settling a dispute. There are
under the chairmanship of Mor- very few types of controversies
ris Garvett, is beginning "this which cannot be handled by ar-
week a renewed effort to "ac- bitration, and the committee
quaint the Jewish community urges that it be used particular-
with the services of the arbitra- ly in matters whch involve some
tion and Conciliation Tribunal. phase of Jewish communal, relig-
Jewish attorneys of Deroit are ious, fraternal, educational, or
being invited to make more use ritual activities.
of this service.
In a statement to Jewish at-
. The Arbitration and COncilia:_torneys calling their attention to
inn Tribunal of the Community the availability of the Tribunal,
Council was set up primarily to Mr. Garvett pointed out that
provide a means of settling con- frequently the public airing in
troversies between Jewish organ- court of controversies among
i zatiQns, institutions and indi- Jewish organizations causes mis-
viduals. Operating under the interpretation and misunder-
laws of the State of Michigan standing, in the absence of more
which govern arbitration pro- exact information regarding the
c eedings, the Tribunal is avail- nature and background of the
able to any individual or organi-
zation who may have need of its See ARBITRATION—Page 12
With Annihilation
Secy. Hull Condemns
Ruthless Killin g s
WASHINGTON (WNS).—Sec-
retary of State Cordell Hull, in
a statement condemning the mass
killing of Jews, declared at his
press conference last week that
the entire Jewish community in
Hungary, numbering nearly a
million, is facing total extermina-
tion.
Mr. Hull asserted that "reli-
able reports from Hungary have
confirmed the appalling news of
mass killings of Jews by the
Nazis and their Hungarian quis-
lings," and added that "this gov-
ernment will not slacken in its
efforts to rescue as many of
these unfortunate people as can
be saved from persecution and
death."
Declaring that all the civilized
nations of the world share "the
horror and indignation felt by
the American people at these
cold-blooded tortures and mass-
acres," the Secretary of State
warned that the instigators of
the crimes will not "escape the
inexorable punishment which will
be meted out to them when the
power of the evil men now in
control of Hungary has been
broken."
His statement read:
"Reliable reports from Hun-
gary have confirmed the appal-
ling news of mass killings of
Jews by the Nazis and their
Hungarian Quislings. The num-
ber of victims of these fiendish
crimes is great. The entire Jew-
ish community in Hungary, which
numbered nearly one million
souls, is threatened with exter-
mination. The horror and indig-
nation felt by the American peo-
ple at these cold-blooded tor-
tures and massacres has been
voiced by the President, by the
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Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah Ladies
To Burn Mortgage
The Ladies of Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah will celebrate in the
near future the "Burning of the
Mortgage" after having complet-
ed payments on the land on
which Detroit's Talmudical Acad-
emy was erected only two years
ago. Mrs. Pearl Rottenberg,
president of the organization, an-
nounced today. The final drive
to liquidate the mortgage was
commenced in conjunction with
the 17th anniversary banquet
May 21, 1944, at which time
pledges totaling well over $1,-
200.00 were signed. A list of
some of the larger contributors
to the "Ladies of Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah Land Fund" follows:
The Simon Family, Pontiac,
Mich., $200; Mr. and Mrs. Theo-
dore Lipman, $100; Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Rosenthal, $100; Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Friedman in honor
of parents, $100; Mrs. Bessie
Cohen, $100; Mrs. Silverman,
$100. The drive is still in prog-
ress and will most probably con-
tinue until the end of this sea-
son. Generous contributors who
wish to have a share in this noble
effort to redeem the ground for
Detroit's own Torah Center are
requested to mail their checks to
Mrs. Pearl Rottenberg, president,
2466 Highland Ave., or Yeshi-
vath Beth Yehudah, Dexter at
Cortland. For all information
call HO. 7990.
The annual donor luncheon of
the Ladies of Y.B.Y. will take
place this year on October 31
in the auditorium of the Yis-
hivah, 12301 Dexter. Reserva-
tions can be made by calling TO.
6-1171 or HO. 7990. Ads for the
Souvenir Book will be accepted
by Mrs. Miller, secretary, 2292
Elmhurst.
Released Men, Women Were Palestinians
Who Had Been Interned in Holland
bent softly to the ground, kissing
the soil of liberation. This mov-
ing scene so stirred the people
who were gathered at the station
that they simultaneously broke
out into tears and wailing.
The group consisted of men
and women between the ages of
45 and GO, and of children up
to the age of 14. Most of the
exchanged Jews were Palestin-
ians, or holders of Palestine
visas, who had been interned in
Holland and who were later
transferred to the camp in Ber-
genbelzen, where they were held
until exchanged. Some of the
refugees had been brought to
Bergenbelzen from France.
Most of the arrivals were still
so shaken by their experiences
that they could not even speak.
Some of the more sturdy, how-
ever, offered to tell newspaper-
men their experiences while wait-
ing to join their relatives and
friends.
One of the arrivals related
that there are still about 4,000
Jews in the Bergenbelzen camp,
Plea Transmitted
most of them holders of South
To the Vatican
American passports. He said that
German authorities had refused
NEW YORK—Warnings to the to exchange them for German
Nazi puppets in Hungary, utili- internees in South America and
zation of the underground and that they now face deportation
the intervention of neutral inter- to death camps in Poland.
mediaries are among the meas- 40 Commit Suicide
ures which have been constantly
Another of the arrivals said
pressed to combat the Nazi pro- that when the news broke that
gram of extermination of the 282 Jews would be released from
Jews of Hungary, the Commis- the camp, 40 of those whose
sion on Rescue of the American names did not appear on the
Jewish Conference disclosed in a "liberation list" committed sui-
review of rescue efforts since cide. Among the suicides was
March. Close contact has been the widow of Chief Rabbi Moses
maintained with the War Refu- Schorr of Warsaw. Reuben Co-
gee Board and other agencies hen, a leading figure in the Miz-
rachi movement, died in the
through this crisis period.
Rabbi Irving Miller and Her- camp. Among the deportees to
man Shulman are co-chaimen of Poland was the famous Jewish
the Commission. The work has poet Isaac Katznelson. Dr. Kor-
been carried forward in collab- etz, the Chief Rabbi of Salonika,
oration with the World Jewish was still in the camp when the
Congress, whose Rescue Depart- group left Bergenbelzen.
One of the Dutch Jews in the
ment is directed by Dr. A. Leon group said that 90 per cent of
Kubowitzki who has been the Jews in Holland had been
charged with implementation of deported to Poland and exter-
much of the work in Washing- minated.
ton. He is a member of the Res-
Dr. Israel Taubes, one of the
cue Commission.
arrivals, disclosed that when the
Danger Mounts
sealed train bearing the group
The mounting danger in Hun- was passing through the Bulgar-
gary was brought to the atten- ian border, on its way to Turkey,
tion of the War Refugee Board it narrowly avoided being hit by
shortly after its creation and bombs thrown from Allied planes
even before the Nazi occupa- that were on a bombing mission
tion of that country. From the over the Balkans. He said that
beginning it was apparent that in the Bergenbelzen camp, which
militant warnings were essential the Nazis consider "one of the
if the Jews of Hungary were to most humane," the Jews were
be saved.
not actually put to death as
The first such warning was is- elsewhere, "but starved to death."
sued by the President in March He gave the following account
when he called on the people of of the conditions in what the
the occupied countries to assist Nazis call "the most humane
and shelter Jews and when he camp":
warned that those who share in
"They compelled us to get up
HAIFA (WNS). — Two hun-
dred and eighty-two Jews. who
only two weeks ago lingered in
a concentration camp in Ger-
many are now free men in Pales-
tine. The group arrived here
from Turkey in exchange for
German internees held by the
Allies in the Middle East.
For hours before the train
bearing the refugees arrived,
hundreds of Jews crowded the
railroad station. The first pas-
senger to alight was a young
girl. As she stepped off the train
she unrolled a shawl in which
was concealed a Torah she mirac-
ulously saved from the Nazis.
With the Torah in her hand she
Conference Takes
Measures to Save
Hungarian Jewry
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Popular Support Urged for "Land
For Rescue" Program on Tisha b'Av
NEW YORK, N. Y. — The
commemoration of Tisha B'Av,
the 1875th anniversary of the
destruction of the State of Ju-
daea and the burning of the Jeru-
salem Temple by the Roman
Legions under Vespasian and
Titus, will be the occasion for
marshalling new popular support
for the upbuilding of Palestine
as a Jewish Commonwealth and
the acquisition by the Jewish
National Fund of new land tracts
for its "Land for Rescue" pro-
gram in Eretz Israel.
The effort, which will take the
form of Synagogue collections
following the traditional recital
of Jeremiah's Lamentations, will
be made in hundreds of Syna-
gogues throughout the nation in
response to a call issued by
Judge Morris Rothenberg, Presi-
dent of the Jewish National
Fund, and Rabbi Max Kirshblum,
chairman of the Fund's Religious
Groups Department. Rabbis have
been requested to dedicate their
Tisha B'Av sermons to the
theme of Geulath Ha'aretz, Pal-
estine land redemption, and offi-
cers of congregations have been
urged to appoint committees of
distinguished members to ar-
range for the popular collection
and the remittance of the
amounts contributed to the local
J.N.F. Councils or to the Fund's
national headquarters, 41 East
42nd Street, New York 17, N. Y.
Temple Destroyed
"'On Tisha B'Av, the day
when the Temple was destroyed,
Messiah was born,' is an ancient
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