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MICHIGAN'S OLDEST ANGLO-JEWISH PUBLICATION
29th Year of Service to Jewry
Chronicle
Detroit and Jewish
The Legal Chronicle
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1944
Soviets to Try Nazis Guilty
Of Jewish Atrocities
Germans Charged with Mass Killing of
Jews in Lublin Will Soon Face Charges
Ladies of Beth
Yehudah to Burn
Mortgage Aug. 20
Seattle Rabbi to
Be Guest Speaker
Terrorists Attempt to Kill
Palestine High Commissioner
Act
of Alleged Members of Stern Gang
Condemned by Jewish Leaders in Homeland
JERUSALEM (WNS) — The ipality, when their car, escorted
MOSCOW (WNS) — Germans stories how the last several hun-
abortive
attempt last week of 10 by police, was ambushed. The
Mrs. Pearl Rottenberg, presi-
charged with participating in dred Jews — skilled workers —
gunmen fired several shots, slight-
were helped by the Polish under- dent of the Ladies of Yeshivath terrorists, believed to be mem- ly wounding Sir Harold in the
bers of the outlawed Stern Gang,
the mass-killing of Jews in Lub- ground movement to flee at night
lin, where thousands of Jews from the ghetto to the woods. Beth Yehudah, announces that to assasinate Sir Harold Mac- hand and seriously wounding his
aide-de-camp Major K. L. Nicholl.
from Poland and other countries But I hardly had the time to the date for the "Burning of the Michael, the retiring High Com- His wife and the driver of the
missioner for Palestine, was
were put to death by suffocation listen to all the horror stories.
strongly condemned this week in car escaped injury.
in death chambers, will soon be Our tank unit was speeding fur-
In its statement condemning
a statement by the Jewish Agen-
put on trial by the Soviet Gov- ther west to the Vistula river in
the criminals, the Jewish Agency
cy
for
Palestine
and
the
Jewish
ernment.
the direction of Warsaw. We
for Palestine expressed confidence
National Council.
Among the witnesses to tes- were rolling along the wide Lub-
that "whoever the culprits be,
Sir
MacMichael,
his
wife
and
tify against the Germans will be artowske street both sides of
all inhabitants of the country,
secretary
were
motoring
from
a Lublin Jew named Davidson, which were strewn with flowers
Jerusalem to Jaffa, where they regardless of race and religion,
who miraculously escaped death by the rejoicing population. The
were to attend a farewell dinner will do everything in their power
while facing a Nazi extermina- frightful past for the Jews ex-
that was tendered to the High to bring to justice the perpetrat-
tion equal. For two years Dav-
Commissioner by the Jaffa munic- ors of the dastardly act."
idson hid in the home of a Pol-
See SOVIETS—Page 12
The Jewish National Council
ish family.
of Palestine condemned "the das-
A 4ewish officer in the Soviet
tardly attempt on the High Com-
Army, Capt. B. Esterson, who
missioner's life and on the lives
recently returned from Lublin
of the party which escorted him,"
where, he said, he found only
and said the Yishuv "anxiously
two surviving Jews, this week
desires that the perpetrators of
gave the following account of
this detestable act are discovered
his observations in Lublin, a city
and the evil be outrooted."
with a pre-war Jewish popula-
In an editorial reflective of the
tion of 40,000:
sentiments of the Jews in Pales-
Reynolds
Opposes
"Entering with the first Sov-
Opening Meeting
tine, the Palestine Post said:
iet tanks into the city, I tried
"Everybody heartily congrat-
Additional
Free
Ports
at Jewish Center
to find traces of the old Jewish
ulates the High Commissioner on
Lublin which was bound- up in a
Ed-
WASHINGTON (WNS) —
his good fortune. It is a chal-
Widespread interest in the na-
thousand ways with Jewish his-
ward R. Stettinius, Acting Secre- lenge to the authorities upon
tory. But I could not find a soli- tional legislative program of the
whom the responsibility rests.
tary Jew. When I asked about Women's Division of the Amer- RABBI S. P. WOHLGELERNTER tary of State, declared this week In the struggle between the police
at his press conference that he and the desperadoes, the public
the whereabouts of the Jews, I
was led by Polish militia mem- ican Jewish Congress and its ac- Mortgage" ceremony has been was pleased to read the an- —particularly the Jewish public
bers to a factory which the Ger- tivities in behalf of Jewish rights set for Sunday, Aug. 20, 7:30 nouncement by the Mexican Gov- —demands not only the restora-
mans had converted into a pack- and the preservation of Amer-
ernment that it was planning to tion of order, but also the restor-
ing house where clothes of mut - ican democracy through legisla- p. m, in the auditorium of Yesh- establish a Refugee Shelter pat- ation of human and political de-
tiered Jews were methodically tive action, has prompted the ivath Beth Yehudah, Dexter and terned after the one set up by
ehe United States Government cency.
sorted, disinfected, packed and Detroit Women's Division to in- Cortland.
shipped to Germany. Here I vite Miss Milly Brandt, national
at
Fort Ontario. He said he Act Is Intolerable
Rabbi Solomon P. Wohlgelern-
found cases full of such clothes chairman of legislation, to ad- ter of Seattle, Wash., one of "would welcome such a move by
"It is intolerable that the con-
ready for shipment to Berlin. dress the opening meeting at the America's most outstanding re- all freeddm-loving countries of structive social effort made -by
the Jews in Palestine before the
This was all that remained of Jewish Community Center Wed- ligious leaders and brilliant ora- the world."
At the same time, Senator eyes of the entire world should
Lublin Jews, and of the groups nesday, Sept. 13. A subscription tor, brother of Rabbi M. J.
of Jews from Slovakia murdered luncheon at 12:30 p. in. will pre- Wohlgelernter of Congregation Reynolds, leader of the Amer- be sullied by a series of malig-
in the "extermination camp" at cede the meeting. Mrs. Max Beth Tefilo Emanuel, will come ican Nationalists, announced that nant and senseless assaults upon
Maidanka-Lubelsk.
Dushkin, newly elected presi- to Detroit to address the gath- he would begin a campaign to every canon of moral and polit-
"Continuing my search for sev- dent, will preside at this meet- ering. Cantor David Katzman prevent the United States from ical behavior. It is doubly intol-
eral hours, I finally found two ing.
of Congregation Bnai Moshe, who setting up additional free ports erable that the failure to disclose
the perpetrators should expose a
Jews. They came from the woods
Presidents and 1 egisla tive is well known to the Detroit like the one at Fort Ontario.
where they had been living and chairmen of important Jewish Jewish public as one of its most
In a widely circulated letter large peaceful and civilized com-
hiding under false identity docu- and non-Jewish organizations are beloved "chazzanim" will render written on official Senate sta- munity to political smear."
In a message to Sir Harold,
tionery, Reynolds described the
ments as Catholics. One of them invited to this meeting so that
See MORTGAGE—Page 12
turned out to be an old acquaint- Miss Brandt's experience and
settling of the refugees as "mere- Dr. Chaim Weizmann condemned
ance from Warsaw, Stanislaw practical suggestions for a suc-
ly the entering wedge," and add- the "dastardly" crime as the
Letz, a former contributor to the cessful co-ordination of the ef-
ed, "Once the foot is in the door, work of "irresponsible elements,"
Polish-Jewish newspaper N a s z forts of all groups combatting
I am of the opinion that thou- and expressed the hope that "the
Pszeglond and to the Polish sa- subversive a n d discriminatory
sands of refugees will follow— perpetrators of this shameful act
tirical magazine Szpilki. The oth- legislation and the championing
and once they are here they will will be apprehended and brought
er was a young Jew from Lub- legislation for lawful immigra-
never be returned.
to justice."
A statement issued by the po-
lin. Both told me that not all tion, naturalization and universal
" . . . Already several organi-
Jews of Lublin and of Lublin dis- suffrage may be brought to as
zations are propagandizing with lice authorities after an investi-
trict have been murdered and wide an audience as possible.
a view to keeping all of these gation at the scene of the shoot-
that several thousand of them
alien refugees here once they are ing reveals that 10 men had par-
Under the vice presidency of
LONDON
(WNS)--Sir
Ronald
are with the partisan units in Mrs. Irving Dworman, the local
upon our shores. I, as an Amer- ticipated in the attempted assas-
Lublin district. These Jewish par- legislative committee, headed by Storrs, former military and civil ican Nationalist, believe that we. , ination. The men, the report
Governor
of
Jerusalem,
asserted
should stop all immigration now.' said, had been lying in ambush
tisans are now beginning to re- Mrs. Phillip Stellar has during
Reynolds, who is referred to
turn to their native towns, I was the past months acquainted this week in an article in the
"Evening Standard" that "by de-
told.
members with important legisla- riding and discouraging every al- in his home state of North Caro - for several hours, waiting for the
"I listened to horrible tales of tion now pending in Congress.
lina as "The Tar-Heel Fuehrer' ' High Commissioner's car to pass.
ternative" the Zionists "render
the last days of the Lublin
poor service to the thousands
See TERRORISTS—Page 12
See STETTINIUS—Page 12
See BRANDT—Page 12
ghetto. I heard remarkable
who could anyhow never get into
Palestine." He charged that the
inclusion of pro-Palestine planks
in the Republican and Democrat-
ic platforms showed a complete
By HOWARD FAST
A Review by Dr. Mortimer
Cohen
disregard of General George C.
Marshall's warning that Amer-
There was never a time like and Moslem and Buddhist.
Harvest In The Desert. By Maurice Samuel. (iv)-316 pages. Phil- ican
official expression on the
There was never a time be-
adelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America; New Palestine issue would be "preju- this; in all the history of man-
fore when a struggle belonged
York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. $3.00.
kind,
in
all
the
thousands
of
dicial to the Allied war effort in
so completely to the people, to
years he was walked upon the the child slain by a Nazi bomb,
T o read "Harvest in the Des- pretations of Jewish events dur- the Near East."
"It is an ironic paradox," as- earth, there was never a time to the priest crucified by the
ert" by Maurice Samuel is not ing the past six decades, to come
like this.
Gestapo, to the woman defiled by
upon new insights into the won- serted Sir Ronald, "that Allied
There was never so much vio-
derful but latent powers of the citizens, co-signatories of the At- lent death, so much suffering, so the Hitler gangsters, to all the
lantic
Charter,
controllers
of
innocent, tortured, and slain by
Jewish spirit; it is also, and es-
much hideous cruelty; and there the thousands.
pecially, to experience the magic some of the greatest open spaces was never so much hope.
There was never a time be-
power of democracy when it in the world, should seek to prove
There was never a time before
touches an ancient people and their sympathy with persecuted when men of good will of every fore when we knew our enemies
European Jewry not by opening
so well; saw them so clearly, un-
an ancient land.
their own doors, but by forcing nation stood shoulder to shoul-
"Harvest in the Desert" is a yet more myriads into a densely der; when men of every color derstood the evil they stood for
prose poem singing the song of populated and protesting country and every creed and every race and the suffering they wrought;
democratic heroism in an awak- the size of Wales, of which they stood side by side with their when we faced the defeatists
ened people, struggling to new themselves are neither the own- faces and their arms set against among us so angrily and stripped
them so naked in their miserable
birth and new creation. By the ers nor the mandatory control- the powers of darkness.
Lhame.
light of the awakening power of lers, nor even members of the
There was never a time be-
There was never a time before
the democratic spirit, the author League which controls the man- fore when the aim and end of a
when the leaders of all men of
interprets all that occurred in datory."
struggle was so clearly indicated, good will were so united in their
recent Jewish history, vis-a-vis,
"It is for America and the so proudly indicated; not the vic-
Palestine. By its standard he British Empire, so solicitous for tory of this nation or that na- firm purpose, when they ranged
judges oml evaluates "the haunt- these unfortunates," says Sir tion, not the freedom of this themselves together so stoutly
ed land" itself; the rich philan- Ronald, "to be generous and hos- people or that people, but the lib- and so confidently.
There was never a time be-
thropists and their well-meant pitable—Russia has led the way eration of a whole world, the
fore when the free peoples of
but futile "good deeds;" the —at their own expense; and for brotherhood of all mankind.
messianic consolation of the past Zionists to remember that they
There was never a time before this earth put such faith in their
thousand years; the need for render poor service, to the thou- when such armies marched, all leaders, knowing that they were
inner, spiritual preparation for sands who could anyhow never under the same banner, black led by men who had been given
AURICE SAMUELS
outer, political and world oppor- get into Palestine, by deriding or men and white men, yellow men
See THE DEAD—Page 12
merely to learn new facts about
discouraging every alternative." and brown, Christian and Jew
See HAP.W..3T—Page 12
.Palestine, to receive new inter-
Stettinius Lauds
Mexico for Free
Port Creation
Milly Brandt to Be
Congress Women
Speaker Sept. 13
Sir Ronald Storrs
Blasts American
Political Parties
Harvest in the Desert
The Dead Will Not Sleep