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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Friday, September 15, 1944
Reunited Refugee Families Begin New Year in Freedom
young soldier was sent to Eng-
teen million appeals for help in haunted, ragged band, he recog- land, but he kept in touch with
tracing war-separated families. nized with amazement his wife's the Council's Service to the For-
Sir Herbert Emerson, Director with firm faith and, this year, This immense Red Cross file of father and mother.
Almost a year ago, Corporal eign Born. A few weeks ago, the
of the Intergovernmental Com- with fresh hope of deliverance. information is available to the
Peace may come in time.
B, an American citizen in the Council worker sent him a V-mail
N.C.J.W.
and
the
six
other
na-
mittee of Refugees, stated re-
As occupied areas are more tional agencies in the recently U.S. Army, had written to the letter, to say that his mother was
in the Fort Ontario Shelter wait-
cently that at least five hundred and more rapidly being liberated, created Central Location Index, Council asking for aid:
"As in my experience, you ing for his return.
thousand of the surviving victims new havens are being established, with headquarters in New York.
In 1940, another refugee wrote
are the agency best qualified
of Nazi fury will probably never and the United Nation and neu- In this New Year, these agencies
tral countries are taking in large will have the reward of years
to give information and to as- a desperate letter from sours
be repatriated. In other words, groups of refugees. The United of anxious and painstaking
sist in immigration matters, I country he had entered illegally
more than half a million men, States last month welcomed 983 search, as children are given
would appreciate your advice and from which ultimate escape
women and children have lost persons of 17 different nationali-
in the case of my mother, a seemed impossible. His anxiety,
to their parents, husbands
their possessions, their homes and ties--the great majority are back
Yugoslav citizen, who has been however, was for his wife and
and
wives,
brothers
and
sisters
their country because they are Jews—to the Fort Ontario Emer-
in Italy since Yugoslavia was their child, not then two years
reunited.
Jews or of some other minority gency Refugee Shelter, Oswego, are From
N.C.J.W. sections in all
invaded by the Germans."
old, who were still in Vienna,
group. Nearly all have lost mem- N. Y., to remain until they can parts of the country come stories
Corporal B's sister lives in destitute and starving. Every at-
bers of their family or have been retunt to their homelands or be of long and seemingly hopeless
separated from them for years. resettled. The United States and searching. A sudden and dra- New York, and would take care tempt his wife had made to
Two million or more still fear- Great Britain have agreed to give matic ending to many of these of her mother if her immigration
fully wait for release from an temporary refuge to Jews able cases came with the arrival of could be arranged. Then the
See REFUGEES—Page 10
internment camp or for death in to leave Hungary. All those who the refugees at Fort Ontario
----h
an extermination chamber. In have escaped will begin a new reunion in America. The first
spite of the great military ad- life of freedom in the New Year. request made by most of the ref-
vances made by the United Na- Many families dispersed by war ugees--after they had begun to
tions and the increasingly effec- will observe the holy days to- feel at home in the shelter—was
Best Wishes For A Happy and Prosperous Ness Year!
tive efforts of these and of neu- gether again.
for help in finding their relatives
tral countries to rescue and
The National Council of Jew-
this country.
transport them to safety, these ish Women and other agencies in- in One
of these cases, a "stranger
people are still in gravest dan- terested in the problems of the than fiction" story, is of a young
ger.
woman who had asked the Coun-
Jews the world over carry into refugees have helped to bring cil Section in Newark, N. J. for
the New Year a new burden of about many of these happy re- help in finding her parents. After
sorrow, for the millions dead and unions, and their files are full of some time they were located,
for the hundreds of thousands cf poignant human dramas, of des- alive but f acing starvation.
starving refugees huddled in var- perate letters from all over the Scarcely six weeks later the
ious European camps or in hid-
young woman's brother-in-law, an
ing. But the Jewish congrega- world. The International Red interpreter for the United States
Cross
has
had
more
than
seven-
tion approaches Rosh Hashonah
Army, was standing at the pier
while the refugees bound for
Fort Ontario were brought
ashore. Among the still terror-
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