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JET ROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

ONLY 12 OF 80,000 FORMER INHABITANTS
OF MINSK SURVIVE GERMAN BUTCHERY

MINSK (WNS).—Of the 80,- slaughter, related that in the
000 Jews who lived in this city Fall of 1943 the Germans began
to liquidate the ,Minsk ghetto.
prior to its occupation by the More than 8,000 of the Minsk
. Germans approximately three
Jews were deported to Lublin,
years ago, and of the 40,000 %vhere they were all subsequently
additional Jews whom the Ger- killed. Thousands of others were
mans deported here from other sent to the Trostinetz camp,
Nazi-occupied areas in Europe, Where they were killed in gas
only 12 were found alive when chambers.
the Red Army liberated Minsk
When the Red Army began to
from the Nazi yoke.
advance toward Minsk, Burstein
One of the survivors, Ignatz related, there were only about
Burstein, told correspondents 200 Jews left alive, including 13
with the Soviet liberation forces women and four children. The
that, in 1941, the Germans de- survivors were spared because
.ported 12,000 Jews from Lodz of their skills. Most of them
to the ghetto in Baranovichi, were mechanics whom the Ger-
several miles southwest of Minsk. mans forced to repair vehicles
There they did forced labor for and other impaired war equip-
the Germans until March of moil In the meantime, Burstein
1942, when the Germans began said, the surviving Jews had be-
to distribute green "tickets of gun to notice a buzzing activity
life." These tickets were "work among German officials, soldiers
cards," given only to the young and SS men. One of the German
and the physically able. Realiz- soldiers in charge of the slave
ing that the distribution of the laborers hinted that all surviv-
"green tickets" meant hard lab- ing Jews would be killed before
or for the recipients and death the Germans evacuated Minsk.
for the others, Burstein related, Thereupon Burstein and 11 other
the 12,000 Jews in the camp Jews, who were all employed in
were seized by such panic that a garage, decided to escape. They
many died of fright. They stain- hid in the cellar of one of the
peded the office at which the buildings from June 28 to July
tickets were being distributed 3, when the Red Army entered
and pled for "work cards." Hun- the city. The Jews who could
dreds of children, women and not escape were rounded up by
older men were trampled to the Germans and executed on the
death. day prior to their abandonment
After the Nazis distributed the of Minsk.
When the Red Army took con-
"green tickets," they threw the
unlucky Jews into huge trucks trol of the city, Burstein and
and carried them off while the the other 11 Jews came out from
"lucky" ones were looking on. their hiding places. After estab-
Later, in the Fall of 1942, the lashing their identity to Russian
Germans killed 3,000 of the "un- officers, they were taken to a
lucky" Jews and in December building where they were fed
of the same year they killed and sheltered for several days.
2,800 more. The 200 who sur- Now Burstein and the other sur-
vived the slaughter were persons vivors are employed in the very
with special skills. These, Bur- garage in which they worked for
stein among them, were later the Nazis, but now they are re-
removed to the death camp at pairing for the Red Army the
Trostinetz, 80 miles from Minsk, hundreds of trucks and other
where about 40,000 Jews that vehicles which the Nazis aban-
had been deported from Ger- doned as they fled Minsk.
many, Austria and Czechoslo-
PETOSKEY NOTES
vakia had been held. Here the
deportees were divided into
Congregation Bilai Israet has
categories. The skilled and the
physically strong, or about 30 opened its summer session. Dr.
per cent of the total of in- Selig S. Auerbach of Congrega-
ternees, were spared. The others tion Mt. Sinai in Port Huron and
were dumped into portable gas Circuit Rabbi for Northern Mich-
chambers where they were as- igan, is again serving Petoskey
phyxiated while German officers for this summer, operating out
and soldiers were looking on of that city for the summer
with glee. Their bodies were months.
Henriette Gordon, daughter of
thrown into pits several miles
away. The mass executions were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gordon, has
carried out with such German joined the WACS. She is the
speed and efficiency that it took second member of the Petoskey
only three hours to liquidate al- Jewish community to enlist in an
most the entire Trosinetz camp. Auxiliary corps, Leola Ruth Fry-
Only 500 Jews escaped the mas- man having enlisted in the
WAVES sometime ago. Besides,
sacre.
six Jewish boys of Petoskey are
Nazis Liquidate Ghetto
Burstein, who was also for- in the army, three of them serv-
tunate to survive this mass- ing overseas. There are only 13
Jewish families in Petoskey and
its close vicinity.

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CAPITOL
LETTER

By

CHARLES BENSON

Washington.
The spirit of sedition has per-
meated the trial of anti-Semites,
Nazi bundists, and adherents of
various colored-shirt fascist groups
before Justice Edward C. Eichler
in Washington.
That seditious spirit has brought
about repeated interruptions of
the trial in the form of law-defy-
ing antics, which made one news-
paper correspondent write that
fur the first time he had experi-
enced a sensation of physical fear
and nausea in an American court-
room.
The use of quasi-legal methods
in order to defy lawful procedure
and to hamper the orderly conduct
of a courtroom is an old Nazi
trick. This trick, used in many
variants, has resulted in the im-
position of fines by Justice Eich-
ler on a number of attorneys for
contempt of court. One of the at-
torneys, unfortunately a Jew,
Henry H. Klein, formerly counsel
for Col. Eugene N. Sanctuary, has
withdrawn from the case.
Another, James J. Laughlin,
was dismissed by the Justice, when
he had gone to the length of fil-
ing a petition asking Congress to
impeach the presiding Judge. As
one Washington newspaper ob-
served of this and similar epi-
sodes, Justice Eichler has ex-
hibited "the patience of Job" in
his effort to insure fair trial of
the accused.
The defendants have so far suc-
ceeded in their efforts that there
is prospect that, if indeed the case
is continued, it may go on for
many months, providing the ac-
cused with a forum for the doc-
trines they have heretofore spread.
The contempt they and their
attorneys have shown goes beyond
the court of law in which they
are being tried on charges of
seditious conspiracy. They are con-
temptuous of legal forms, of the
American social and political
scheme on which fair trial and
equal treatment for all at the
bar of justice are based.
It is the spirit of Nazism and
Fascism rampant in a Washington
court of law, that has taxed the
patience and the ingenuity of the
presiding justice. He, and the
public, need not hope that any of
the civilized forms will be ob-
served, except under the utmost
compulsion that legal procedure
provides. And, in fact, it is doubt-
ful whether our court machinery,
as it is at present constructed
and operated, suffices to deal with
a situation like this.
The entire record of the trial
to date, a performance without
precedent in American law, shows
how deeply dangerous the disrup-
tive spirit of the hate-mongers
is to every civilized functipn.
Air Garments
For, to the Nazi spirit, the
A gentle airing of woolen gar court of law becomes merely a
ments will blow away stale odors scene for the use of every trick
and lift the nap. Sun baths will and expedient to discredit law
rout moths. Care should be taken and orderly process. The place
lest colors fade in bright sunlight where all men are to be judged
without bias or favor becomes a
forum for the trumpeting of the
of hate and prejudice.
4•0W2.0"*N doctrines
If it is nothing more, the Wash-
ington sedition trial establishes
clearly how impossible it is for
any believer in the democratic
way to compromise in the slightest
with the fascist spirit.
Whether Justice Eichler can
continue to hold the citadel of
impartial justice through the long
months against those who assault
it with every device of chicane
they can muster, remains to be
seen. A failure in this case would
be a setback that hate-mongers
throughout the country and the
world would hail with joy.
The Washington sedition trial
proves once again that the fight
for freedom and justice is never
won. It throws a light into those
black depths, in the United States,
where lurk such groups as have
come to gangster domination in
crucified Europe.

For a Quarter of a Century

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Jul y 2; 1944

TWELVE HUNDRED EIGHT REFUGEES
QUICKLY SETTLED IN PALESTINE

Twelve hundred and eight Jew-
ish refugees from Rumania, who
recently arrived in Palestine on
five steamers, are rapidly being
absorbed in the economic and
social structure of the Jewish
homeland, with the aid of funds
contributed by American Jews,
it was reported in a cable re-
ceived by the United Palestine
Appeal from Eliezer Kaplan,
treasurer of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine in Jerusalem. The
United Palestine Appeal, which
is supporting the adjustment and
settlement of newcomers to Pal-
estine, is represented with the
Joint Distribution Committee and
the National Refugee Service in
the $32,000,000 war relief and
rescue campaign of the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees,
Overseas Needs and Palestine.
Funds for the transportation of
these refugees were provided by
the Joint Distribution Committee.
Among the Rumanian refugees
reaching Palestine were 199 chil-
dren, including 119 orphans who
had escaped from Transnistria,
the border region between Ru-
mania and Russia where more
than 150,000 Jews had perished
during the Nazi occupation of
that territory. Mr. Kaplan said
that all of the children were ad-
mitted to educational institutions
and agricultural settlements es-
tablished by the Jewish Agency,
where they will be looked after
by Youth Aliyah, the organiza-
tion responsible for the mainten-
ance of children. A total of 251
refugees were placed in inter-
mediary workers' centers; 20 in
agricultural settlements; and 237
women in hostels set aside for
female agricultural workers.
Plants Absorb Refugees
Industrial plants turning out

war material for Ow Allied
armies absorbed 100 refugees
while 400 others received private'
jobs or were assisted by rela.
tives. Special measures have
been taken to care for the aged
and for those who are physically
unable to work.
"All needly persons are ac-
cepted in our hostels and ar e
subsequently granted subsidies
for preliminary establishment and
in certain cases more than $200
each has been set aside for fam-
ilies to facilitate their adjust-
ment," Mr. Kaplan said. He re-
ported that more than $60,000
had already been spent for the
reception and adjustment of the
1,208 recent arrivals from Ru.
mania ,
The settlement of the new-
comers has been rendered more
difficult by the general housing
shortage. To meet this problem,
the Jewish Agency has under-
taken to construct 100 small
houses for the Rumanian refu-
gees, Mr. Kaplan said. Ile de-
clared that the Jewish Agency
was doing its utmost with the
limited resources at its disposal
emphasizing that large sums were
needed to meet all the require-
ments of the refugees.
Within the past several days
a sixth transport, carrying 739
refugees from Rumania, arrived
in Turkey on its way to Pales-
tine. This brings to 1,947 the
total number of Jewish refugees
from Rumania who have found
it home in Palestine in recent
months.

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Detroit Zionlit
Organization Sells
$100,000 in War Bonds

The Zionist Organization of
Detroit has sold $100,000.00
worth of War Bonds during the
5th War Loan Drive. The only
sales activity was a letter sent
out to the membership under the
signature of the new president
of the Zionist District of De -
troi t, Rabbi Leon Frain.

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The following contributions for
the Child Rescue Fund are ac-
knowledged by the Council of
the Pioneer Women's Organiza-
tion. .
Through the efforts of Mrs.
J. B. Kass $525 was obtained
from the following contributors:
Sarah Dunn, Mollie Stern, J.
Weinbaum, Peggy Ross, Nathan
Grodsky, Betty Eventz, Mrs.
Alex Chalit, Meyer Gorman, Mrs.
Nina Block, Dr. and Mrs. J. B.
Kass and Nathan and Gussie
Shifrin, Mrs. I. Kolin, ?fir. and
Mrs. M. Young and Jos. G. Kir-
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Through Mr. A. Rosenstein
$100 from the following con-
tributors:
Mr. and Mrs. Fishstein, Mr.
and Mrs. H. Gayman, Mrs. Kut-
ler, Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Wisen-
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Nirenberg.
Mr. and Mrs. Sol Schayowitz,
$240; Mr. and Mrs. S. Grand,
$480.
Contributions have been re-
ceived from Mrs. F. Cooper, Mr.
and Mrs. Gross, Minnie Margolies
and I Morof, Sholom Aleicheni
Parent Group and the Yud Aleph
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