MICHIGAN'S OLDEST ANGLO•JEWISH PUBLICATION

29th Year of Service to Jewry

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

VOL. 46, NO. 37

57051

The Re-settlement
Service Seeks to
Locate Relatives

Project Is Part of
Location Index, Inc.

With enemy occupied territory
being daily liberated by American
and Allied armies, people in the
United States, whose friends and
relatives overseas were dispersed
by war and persecutions, become
increasingly anxious to ascertain
their whereabouts.
In order to facilitate the work
of location abroad, several na-
tionally known agencies, includ-
ing National Refugee Service,
Joint Distribution Committee, and
Council of Jewish Women, have
establiAed a antral clearance
service in New York, known as
the Central Location Index, Inc.
In Detroit, the Resettlement
Service cooperates in this project
by receiving and forwarding ap-
plications for location.
The service operates as fol-
lows: The individual in Detroit
fills out a special blank which
can be secured from Resettle-
ment Ser. ,A.. (Miss Ursula Frie.
deberg), 5737 Second Ave., Trin-
ity 2-4080, giving full informa-
tion about the persons sought.
This blank is checked by Reset-
tlement Service and forwarded to
National Refugee Service in New
York. NRS clears the names with
the Central Location Index, which
has on file names of dispersed
'nerson5 colleted .through various
Including
ncluding the Internation-
al Red Cross. If the name is not
in the files, the International Red
Cross will make an effort to loc-
ate the person. When location is
effected, the Index notifies the
NRS, which sends the informa-
tion to the Detroit Resettlement
Service, which notifies the original
applicant.
)
The service furnished by the
Index is that of location only. It
does not provide any aid of a
financial or migration nature.
This service should not be used,
of course, where normal postal
facilities have been established
) with the territory in which the
relative or friend is known to be
residing.
Resettlement Service is an
agency of the Jewish Welfare

See RESETTLEMENT—Page 24

and The Legal Chronicle

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1944

LIGHTING THE ROAD BACK TO FREEDOM

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1944

Interned Jews in
Liberated France
Have Been Freed

Deport Dutch Jews
To Nazi Germany

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As the New Year brings the promise of libera-
. lion for millions of homeless and oppressed Jews of
Europe, American Jews, acting through the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas Needs and
Palestine, are providing for the relief, rehabilitation,
and resettlement of those who are being freed from
Axis oppression by the advancing Allied armies. The
Joint Distribution Committee is extending its rescue

Palestine Appeal is providing for the settlement in
the Jewish homeland in Palestine of refugees from
the Balkans and other territories. The National Refu.
gee Service is giving assistance to the newcomers who
have found a haven in the United States. The year
5705, which is expected to mark the transition from
war to peace, will also bring a greater challenge to
the Jews of the United States to support the recoil-
aetivPies to restore the Jewish communities in liber- structien of their fellow-Jews who have survived more
ated areas in North Africa and Italy. The United than eleven years of Nazi terror
and devastation.

Jewish Community Council
Against Holiday Synagogs

10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per Year

BERNE (WNS)—In the liber-
ated areas of France all the Jews
have been released " from the in-
ternment camps in which they
were placed by the Germans and
the Vichy regime, it was officially
announced this week over the
Paris radio.
The Berlin radio this week an-
nounced that many Jews have
been killed in a series of "anti-
Jewish demonstrations" in the
Nazi-held areas of Romania. The
broadcaster said that Horia Sima,
Romanian anti-Semitic leader,
had threatened "a merciless fight
against the Bolshevik traitors and
Jews who engineered the defec-
tion of Romania from the ranks
of the Germans."
Newspapers arriving here from
Germany disclose that Jews are
participating in large numbers in
the battle in the streets of War-
saw, and that "Jews and Com-
munists have been mercilessly
liquidated" in the region of Cra-
cow. The newspapers also report
increased anti-Jewish measures in
Slovakia and Hungary. The Slo-
vakian Minister of the Interior
is reportci .6, having boasted that
the Jewish poputatioli In Slovakia
had been reduced from 80,00 1)
to 10,000. Those who are still
alive, he said, were being treated
with "Christian kindness" and em-
ployed in war factories. The Nazi
press also utilized the recent up-
risings of Slovakian partisans to
call for a "vigorous campaign to
eliminate the Jewish traitors re-
sponsible for organizing and lead-
ing the partisan units."
It is feared here that the im-
minent collapse of the Slovakian
puppet regime may lead to the
wholesale slaughter of the Jews
in the internment camps. One
accredited report has it that many
Jews have been deported in
sealed freight cars from Slovakia
to Germany and Austria.
Simultaneously it was reported
here that the retreating German
armies in Holland had removed
thousands of Jews from the con-
centration camps in Holland and

See INTERNED—Page 24

Rabbi Sperka on WWJ1
To Preach High
Holy Day Sermons

With the approach of the High wish to worship and study. The
Radio Station WWJ invited
Holidays the Jewish Community text of the Community Council
Rabbi Sperka of Congrega-
Council has called again upon resolution follows:
tion Bnai David to preach the
the Jews of Detroit to withhold
High Holy Day sermons of
their support of any mushroom
"Each year the Jewish com-
this year over its facilities.
synagogues which may be opened
munity is plagued with undig-
On Sunday, Sept. 17, at
in the community this year to
nified announcements about
4:45 p. m., erev Rosh Hash-
provide religious services for
temporary improvised syna- onah, Rabbi Sperka will
Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur.
gogues which are opened for
broadcast a Yom Kippur mes-
The Community Council points
the brief period of the High sage.
out that attendance at privately
Holy Days. These synagogues
During last year WWJ pre-
are conducted usually for priv- sented Rabbi Sperka in "The
established services in stores,
ate gain and therefore intro- Jewish Radio Pulpit," a per-
public halls and theaters is not
duce an element of commercial- manent feature on the first
In keeping with the proper ob-
ism into a sphere which tradi-
servance of the holidays. Indi-
Sunday of each month.
viduals who attempt to organize
tionally has been free from it.
such services for personal gain
The religious feelings and
neds of many worshippers are
are criticized for attempting to
exploited for the profit of the
take advantage of the religious
sponsors of such synagogues.
impulses of people in order to
advance their own financial in-
"These temporary syna-
terests. Services conducted un-
gogues are generally set up in
der such auspices and in these
halls and stores which do not
surr , undings cannot be carried
possess the dignity and atmos-
o. n a proper dignified atmos-
phere associated with the syna-
Pore. In addition, the use of
gogue, and therefore convey to
PARIS (WNS)—Of the esti-
stores and other such buildings
many an unworthy impression mated 90,000 surviving Jews in
for religious worship creates an
of the Jewish religion. The France more than 30,000 were
undi sirable impression upon ob-
establishment of such three- saved by Jewish partisan units in
servers and neighbors in the com-
day-a-year synagogues offends the French underground move-
munity.
the religious sensibilities of ment.
In the statement on this prob-
many Jews of our community.
In addition to these, the Jew-
lem the Community Council urges
Their obvious commercial char- ish partisans also saved thousands
individuals not to patronize these
acter, their irresponsible and
services but to support the estab-
undignified methods present a of Jews from death and depor-
lished religious institutions in the
tawdry picture of the Jewish tation to concentration camps by
community which are performing
SEE PARTISANS—Pogo 16
See COUNCIL—Page 16
a year-round service for all who

Jewish Partisans
In France Saved
30,000 from Nazis

American Zionists to Fight
Palestine Partition Plan

WASHINGTON, D. C. — Pre-
dicting the likelihood of a "joint
declaration at the end of the
European war by Great Britain
and U.S.A. with the assent of
Soviet Russia, affirming the es-
tablishment of a Jewish Common-
wealth in Palestine as soon as
Jews constitute its majority,"
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of
the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, declared that "American
Zionists will demand that the
Jewish Commonwealth will be a
viable unit economically and po-
litically."
In a leading article which will
appear in The New Palestine,
official publication of the Zionist
Organization of America, on Fri-
day, Sept. 15, Dr. Israel Gold-
stein declares that "already mis-
givings are abroad as to the con-
tent, political as well as geo-
graphical, of the term 'Jewish
Commonwealth'," and asks: "will
Jewish Palestine be so tied up
with an Arab Federation of
states around it are to be placed
virtually at their mercy? Will
the area be designated as a
Jewish Commonwealth consist of
only a portion of Cis-Jordan Pal-
estine instead of its entirety?"
The Zionist president reveals
that the entire issue will be dis-
cussed and acted upon at the
47th Annual Convention of the

organization which will convene
in four-day session on Oct. 14,

at Atlantic City, N. J.
Maintaining that the "Zionist

Organization of America will
have to make clear to all whom
it concerns, that the Jewish Com-
monwealth must be a viable
unit, economically and politically
viable," Dr. Goldstein states that
American Zionists will insist that
the Jewish Commonwealth "be
politically free from enforced en-
tanglement with a complex of
Arab states," adding that "any
arrangements between a Jewish
Commonwealth and surrounding
Arab states must be free and
autonomous in order to be mutu-
ally beneficial." "It must be"—
Dr. Goldstein continues—"large
enough in area to be capable of
being developed so as to accom-
modate all Jews who may need
or who may wish to settle there
in the forseeable future. It must
not omit any portion which Jew-
ish enterprise has reclaimed and
cultivated. It must not sever the
northern part where water forces
exist from the southern part
where water is needed. These
requirements demand the whole
of C is—Jordan Palestine."
Emphasizing that no projected
partition of Palestine will be ac-

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