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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST II, 1944
VOL. 46, NO. 32
JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF THE UNITED . __STATES
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BENJAMIN KAUFMAN
NaJoual Coam.drr
PHILIP CANTOR
NAT'L EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEMAN
0237 WILDEMERE AVE.
August 1, 1944
DETROIT, MUCH
Mr. Jacob Margolis, Editor,
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle,
525 Woodward Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan.
Dear Mr. Margolis;.
Permit me in this humble manner to thank you
and Mr. Schakne, for the wonderful item that you'permitted to
be published in last Saturday's edition of the Chronicle, rela-
tive to our organization.
Our thanks are long past due for the mealy art-
ic'les that you have published in behalf of the Jewish War Veter-
ants which have emanated from our National office. This is the
least that' we can do.
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CANTOR DAVID KATZMAN
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ance of their effort for the final
clearance of the mortgage on
the new building of the Yishivah
at Dexter and Cortland. The
women's organization has now
completely paid for the lots upon
which the present structure has
been .erected, and on the evening
of Aug. 20, the ceremony of
"burning the mortgage" will be
held at the Yishivath-Mogain Ab-
raham Synagogue auditorium.
Rabbi Solomon P. Wohlgelern-
ter of Congregation Bikur Chol-
im, Seattle, Wash., has been in-
vited as guest speaker. He is the
brother of Detroit's Rabbi Max
J. Wohlgelernter who heads the
Yeshivah organization. The Seat-
tle Rabbi is well known locally,
and also spoke at the dedication
of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah in
Police and People
In Serious Clashes
National Headquarters • 276 Fifth Avenue • New York, N. Y.
Murray
Sunday, the first day of the
Hebrew month of Ellul, has been
set aside by the Ladies of Yeshi-
vath Beth Yehudah in observ-
Mistreatment of
Hungarian Jews
Provoke Protests
One of the Many Services Rendered by
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Your columns have always been generous to us.
We on the other hand have as yet no opportunity to repay the
many kindnesses in the past. It is satisfying to know that the
one paper in the City of Detroit has been so cooperative, has
seen fit to help in this publicize the-ideas that our organiza-
tion stand for. It may interest you to know that at a meeting
which the writer attended in New York City last Saturday of the
National Executive Committee, that mention of-the fine piece of
work done by your paper on the Memorial'Day number received spe-
cial praise, as we mailed copies of this edition allover the
country for their enlightenment.
Again thanking you for your support, and with
thewishfor your continued success,
I am, with kindest regards,
Y ure ) for Victory,
- T,
BERNE (WNS) — The wave
of mounting resentment in Hun-
gary against the mistreatment
and deportation of Jews has cul-
minated in serious clashes be-
tween the police and the civilian
population in many cities, ac-
cording to reliable reports reach-
ing here.
Mass demonstrations are re-
ported to have been held last
week in Hugnary in protest
against the anti-Jewish meas-
ures. The demonstrations were
held in areas adjacent to Jew-
ish ghettos, and within the hear-
ing of the Jewish internees.
These outbreaks are believed to
have been inspired by the lib-
erals in the country and by Hun-
garian patriots who fear the con-
sequences of the Government's
anti-Jewish policies.
Although the Hungarian Gov-
ernment last week "assured" the
Swiss Minister in Budapest that
"further deportations of Jews to
Germany for labor detail have
been temporarily suspended," re-
ports reaching here from Buda-
pest indicate that the Jews from
the rural districts are still being
deported.
Reports reaching here reveal
that among the Hungarian Jews
who were deported to the death
camp in Oswiechim, 100 were
British Jews. These, the report
discloses, were separated from
the other deportees and killed in
a---grotif) in the - dieecution charm,-
bers.
Letters arriving here from
Hungary disclose that the de-
portation of Jews is still con-
tinuing despite Regent Horthy's
Philip Cantor, National Exeoutive
Committeemen.
Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.
See MISTREATMENT—Page 12
See YESHIVATH—Page 12
Impressive Reception Cheers
Refugees at Fort Ontario
OSWEGO (WNS) — After of the War Relocation Author-
spending their first day at the ity, read a message from Secre-
Emergency Shelter at Fort On- tary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes in which he expressed the
tario, the 982 European refu- hope that the refugees will have
gees appeared so free and re- the strength and faith "to face
laxed that it was hard to be- a future in which the dignity of
lieve that these were the same the individual man will be recog-
men, women and children who nized and assured everywhere."
appeared so bedraggled, de- Mr. Ickes said he extended "the
pressed and frightened on their hearty welcome" on behalf of
landing from a ti'v oopship in. New the United States Government
York City only a day before. and that he hoped "this haven
Adding to their spirits '.was not from the intolerance, suffering
only the fact that they were on and persecution that you have
free American soil where they undergone will in some measure
will be fed, clothed and shel- ease your tragic memories."
tered for the duration of the Similar sentiments were ex-
war, but the fine reception they pressed by Mr. Meyer and Jos-
received both from American eph H. Smart, director of the
officials and the citizens in the center, who declared: "I assure
areas immediately adjacent to you that while you are at Fort
Fort Ontario. More than 20,000 Ontario there will be a minimum
people, from Oswego and neigh- of supervision and that you will
boring towns, villages and ham- be able to live your own lives
lets, attended the official welcome with as great freedom as tho
which was sponsored by the Os- physical facilities permit—when-
wego Chamber of Commerce. ever there is a knock at your
When the 982 refugees, of door, it will be a friendly one."
whom 918 are Jews, arrived at Among the welcoming speak-
the Fort Ontario camp they were ers at the ceremony were Mayor
met by representatives of the Joseph McCaffery of Oswego and
War Relocation Authority and Rev. A. S. Lowris of the Oswego
o f Jewish relief and rehabilita- Council of Churches. The speak-
fiat' organizations. They were ers said their communities were
immediately led to their quarters proud to have the first free port
on the 80-acre camp. After un- established in their districts, and
Packing their small personal be- that they would do everything
to make the refugees happy.
l ongings, the refugees were given
a wholesom e breakfast of fresh Rabbi Sidney Bialik of the Adath
eggs, green vegetables, coffee• and Israel Congregation in Oswego
milk. They then strolled on the spoke on behalf of the 18 Jew-
camp grounds inhaling the fresh ish families. He chanted a spe-
br eeze coming from Lake On- cial blessing for the safe arrival
tario.
of the refugees and said the
At the official reception cere-
See RECEPTION—Page 12
m ony Dillon S. Meyer, director
recent promise to the Interna-
tional Red Cross that no more
Jews would be deported. The
Jews are being moved at night.
Early last month a group of 300
Jewish women and girls from
Red Cross to Aid A Bill of Indictment Against Hitler
By JUDGE JOSEPH M. PROSKAUER
In Emigration of
President, American Jewish Committee
NOTE:—Delivered at Madison Square Park, New York
Jewsfrom Hungary EDITOR'S
City, Monday, July 31, at Mass Meeting in behalf of Hun-
ZURICH (WNS) — The Inter-
national Red Cross, whose repre-
sentatives in Hungary have been
permitted to extend all possible
relief to the Jews, "will try to
make the emigration of Jews
from Hungary easier through
the medium" of its delegations
in Budapest, Bucharest, London
and Washington, it was an-
nounced here this week.
Representatives of the Red
Cross have recently been allowed
to visit homes and hospitals
which have been allocated to
Jews in Hungary. They also vis-
ited internment camps, where
they made arrangements to help
the Jewish internees.
Unconfirmed rumors are cir-
culating here in authoritative and
well informed circles that there
may soon be a reshuffling in the
Hungarian Cabinet as a result
of the strong anti-Jewish meas-
ures. Minister of the Interior
Andre Jaross, Under-Secretary
for Jewish Affairs Iaszlo Endre
and Secretary of the Ministry
Laszlo Baky are expected to lose
their portfolios in the shakeup
"because their names were too
often mentioned in the foreign
press in connection with the de-
portation of Jews from Hungary"
to death camps in Poland.
In the meantime reports from
all sections of Hungary indicate
a mounting revulsion to the anti-
Jewish measures among the
plain people. In Budapest, two
city officials were arrested last
See RED CROSS—Page 12
garian Jews, sponsored by the American Jewish Conference
in cooperation with the American Jewish Committee and seven
other national organizations.
This great assemblage speaks which now seeks to impose on
the soul and the will of America. mankind the shame of its own
ultimate in degradation.
It prosecutes the suit of Amer-
Now seeking to spread its mad
ica in the court of the conscience murder into Hungary, we indict
of the civilized world to stay the Hitler government of the
the axe of the executioner and highest crimes in recorded his-
lift the lash of the torturer from tory. He not only brought upon
the thousands of innocent and a peaceful world the holocaust
unoffending Jews who still have of war. He debased war itself.
life but little more within the He devised a new form of con-
boundaries of Hungary. Thou- quest that threw aside all those
sands have already suffered de- restraints with which chivalry
portation and death at the hands and the laws of nations had
of the Quislings of Hungary sought to ameliorate the unbe-
who have yielded their principles lievable horror of armed conflict.
and their humanity to the de- Chivalry enjoined mercy to a
mands of the Nazi conqueror. fallen enemy, fair play in the
We who have known the Hungary fight, courage to face the ad-
of Kossuth, the patriot of de- versary squarely without deceit.
mocracy, in a land where our Hitler has mocked at mercy and
forebears sunk their roots a thou- put a premium on foul play.
sand years ago, who have known The laws of nations declared that
the sparkling gaiety of Buda- non-combatants should go scath-
pest's Corso and the joyous less, that the aged, the women
camarderie of her friendly warm- and the children should be
hearted citizenry, stand aghast spared from shell and sword.
at the picture of horror and Hitler has made total destruction
misery with which Nazi Germany of non-combatant civilians a
overpaints this fair scene. Noth- matter of course.
Our next count is that he has
ing can save the remnant of our
brethren from this ruin and save desecrated the shrines of religion
mankind from the disgrace of with ruthless blasphemy. Mon-
its perpetration except the astery and Abbey, Cathedral
aroused and concerted action of and Church, Synagogue and Tem-
the civilized world. To secure ple are ashes and rubble under
and achieve that unity and ac- his blasphemous onslaught. Ir-
tion it is vital that we make
clear to Christian and to Jew respective of military objectives
the essential and ultimate sig-
nificance of he Hitler barbarism
See HITLER—Pate 12