Friday, October 20, 1944
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page 2
JEWS IN PALESTINE ASKED TO LEND
ACTIVE HELP AGAINST TERRORISTS
J.W.V. CHAIRMAN
Anti-Jewish List Denied Parliament as Demand
Is Made to Curb Capt. Remsay's Activities
LONDON (WNS)—Home Sec- 114 British subjects still were
JERUSALEM (WNS)—A joint the Jewish population in fighting
retary Morrison declined in Par- being held under regulation in
proclamation calling on the Jews the terrorists.
liament to name members of —under which Ramsay w,,s de-
The question of the issuance
of Palestine to lend active help
• ••
"The Right Club," organized in tained.
against the mounting terrorist of a special White Paper on the
An admission that he is asso-
1939 by Capt. A. M. Ramsay
activities was issued this week subject was raised when Lord
with its announced purpose "to dated with Kent was made by
by John V. M. Shaw, Acting Winterton, Conservative, asked
Capt.
Ramsay last week in an
C
cave Britain from the Jews."
High Commissioner for Pales- whether "in view of the fact that
Ramsay, Unionist member of article in the Sunday Pictorial
tine, and General Sir Bernard both sides in Palestine are arm-
the Commons, was released re- in which he denied that he knew
Paget, commander in chief of ing and a danger of civil war
ecntly after a four-year deten- that Kent engaged in ph•-1;er-
the Middle East Forces. exists," the government would
tion and Morrison said his asso- man espionage activities, but said
The proclamation charged that not consider issuing a White Pa-
elation with the club was partly that he visited Kent's aparduent
the "criminals in Palestine, with per clarifying the issue.
responsible for that detention. and looked through U.S. E m .
their active and passive sympa-
Other members of both houses hussy secret papers.
thizers," were assisting the en-
had been connected with the see- burglary," he declared in
emy by hindering Britain while French Court Fines
tide, "is not a new thine. in
rat society, Morrison added.
she was engaged in the war
Ile said it would not be in the country, when one is susp•cte.i
Jews for Carrying
against Hitler.
public interest to publish the of possessing information regard-
Verbal and press condemna- False Passports
list, but that all suspected indi- ing activities of organized Jew-
tion of the outrages is not
viduals were being watched. The ry."
enough, the proclamation said,
In testimony given to British
LYON (WNS)• — Proceeding
Home Secretary refused to ans-
and what is required is actual under the Vichy laws, the local
wer a question as to whether authorities, Capt. Ramsay admit-
collaboration with the police and Court of Correction here fined
"Lord Haw Haw" and Tyler Kent, ted that he worked with Kent,
the military, especially in giving several Jews 200 francs each for
former American Embassy at- but denied that he did it for non-
to sztvt. that
information that would lead to carrying false identification docu-
tache now imprisoned, were mem- Latr,i,odtititc everything declaring
the capture of the assassins.
bers of the Club.
ments.
The acts of the terrorists "can
William Gallacher, Communist, ain from the Jews." He also ad-
The court's action has produced
only bring shame and dishonor great public resentment, partic- Ben F. Swartsberg has been named asked:
mitted organizing a club osiens.
on the Jewish people as a whole," ularly in the press. Lyon Libre, chairman• of the 49th annual encamp-
"Is it not the case that all or ibly for coordinating anti-Jewish
it added, and the terrorism, organ of the movement of na- ment of the Jewish War Veterans of some of those who were members activities, but the British author-
which was culminated recently tional liberation, urged that the the •U. S. to be held at the Hotel of 'The Right Club' were acces- ties claim that the real aim of
by the fatal shooting of a police president of the court be in- Commodore, New York City, from stories to the theft of documents the club was to help Germany,
superintendent and the attempted formed that certain changes had Oct 5th 'through 8th. A top sergeant and espionage carried on by Ty-They disclose
he nm
lols e etash
b that Ramsay,
h
N, who
who
assassination of the retiring high taken place of which he was evi in the first World War, Swartzberg, a ler Kent and Anna. Wolkoff?"
the membership list of t
kept
commissioner, Sir Harold Mac- dently not yet aware. It pointed member of the Sgt. Meyer Levin Post
Morrison also declined to ans- club secret, attempted, among
Michael, is the work of two small out that other similar cases were of the J.W.V., is the father of thirty. wer that question, and said Gal- other things, to infiltrate the
groups, which long ago broke still pending, and asked the court two year old Corporal Jerry Swarts• lacher was "getting into rather British War Office, the Intelli-
away from the World Zionist Or- to postpone the trials until a rul- berg.
deep water." gence Department, the Censorship
ganization and undertook a cam- ing on the situation has been
The Home Secretary disclosed Office and the Foreign Office with
paign of destruction in protest
members of the organization.
made.
against the British White Paper
Le Progres, an independent
Chief Rabbi of France
limiting Jewish immigration into daily, pointed out editorially that Jewish Survivors
Palestine. Zionists, who have
Tells How He Eluded Nazis Refugees in Oswego
condemned these terrorist activi- under the Vichy regime the Jews Seek Relatives
and others had been compelled
C rops
ties say, however, that the Pales-
for reasons of safety to use TALLININ (WNS) — Of the LYON (WNS) — The story Help Pick Local
tine Jews have been cooperating
thousands of Vilna Jews who how he prevailed on six French
false
passports.
WASHINGTON (WNS) — The
with the authorities there to the
A confusing situation has re- were deported by the Germans
best of their ability.
refugees
at the Emergency Refu-
men,
who
were
ordered
to arrest
him
last
January,
to
The more violent of two ter- suited from the fact that many for slave labor in Klooga, Es- militia
Jews
who
had
destroyed
their
tonia,
only
85
escaped
the
mass-
help
him
escape
instead
of
turn-
gee
Shelter
at Oswego, N. I.,
rorist groups is that knowr as
identification papers in acre which the Nazis conducted
the Stern Gang, which is be- original
order to escape Nazi persecution on Sept. 19, two days prior to ing him over to the waiting Ges- will be able to supplement the
lieved to be responsible for the have been unable to secure new their retreat from Estonia. The tapo was told this week to your small grants given them by tne
shootings. The other group, papers without proper proof of majority of the survivors were correspondent by Prof. Isaye U. S. Government by working in
Schwartz, Chief Rabbi of France. farms and orchards in the vicin-
known as the "National Armed
Jewish doctors, lawyers, dentists
The rabbi, 69 years old, relit- ity, Edward Marks, officer of tit-
Forces," pledged itself to destroy their status.
Activities
and
other
professionals.
The
survivors
related that they ed that several unsuccessful at- War Relocation Authority dis-
Government property but not to Centralize
An agreement
was reached
yes-
terday
under which
all relief
ac- were deported from Vilna in tempts had been made to arrest closed this week. They have been
harm individuals.
To halt the shootings and rob- tivities will be combined and Sept. 1943. They lived in bar- him last winter. But on Jan. 9, given permission to help pick
3 5 as he was mounting the stairs to the local pear and apple crops
beries the Palestine Government
in the same office. This racks at the Klooga camp,
has imposed curfews on principal function
will not only centralize relief miles from Tallinin, until the the been
small
room
he had out
at revealed.
the prevailing wage, Mark:-
living,
two where
men jumped
Jewish centers and the proclama-
In addition, the Government
work,
but
will
eliminate
duplica
Germans
began
their
retreat,
with
pointed
revolvers
and
told
tion declared "these measures
of and facilitate relations when several thousand tlave lab-
will continue with all the re- tion
with the French authorities, the orers, mostly Jews, were either him
they were
French
of instituted
at a the
beginning,
of
the German
police
and agents
they were
this month
policy
of setting
sources, civil and military, avail-
ed Cross
and the
Re- burned
alive or
machine-gunned
Red
Agency.
by National
the frantic
Germans.
The
ordered to arrest him. He was up a certain number of paid refu-
able to the Government and the lief
A new enlarged commission mass-murder lasted for more than then taken to a room downstairs gee positions to be compensated
army."
at the rate of $18 a month. 0th-
for questioning, .
has been appointed to prepare 12 hours. One of the survivors
Rabbi Schwartz gave the fol- ors in the group employed in
COLONIAL OFFICE MAY
a program for handling the prob- related that German doctors, un-
ISSUE WHITE PAPER
lam of Jewish children, including der Berlin orders, had calmly and lowing account of what took
furthering the cultural activities
place while he was being pies- of the camp as religious workers
or teachers may be paid by pri-
LONDON (WNS) — Colonial the recovery of children who systematically killed all new-born
"I (lid not plead with them vate organizations wishing to do
Minister Col. Oliver Stanley de- were farmed out in the country- Jewish babies. One survivor said tinned:
and
to that
many
in for my liberty and did .lot im- so at a rate not exceeding the
clared in the House of Commons side,
save convents
them from
the orphanages
Gestapo, the
flames
of infants
boilers perished
into which
Private welfare
this week that the terrorists in
plore authority
them. I spoke
with firm- monthly
and indignation.
agencies $18.
are about to set up ye-
Palestine were a relatively smail maintenance of the children, their they were thrown by Nazi sol- cress,
body of extremists "whose ob- education, medical care and ion.: diers.
They argued they had to arrest cational training schools and plan
me, that the Gestapo chiefs were to sponsor a program of English
jects is to further political aims." tion
tion of missing parents. At pres- List of Survivors
Following
is a relatives
list of the abroad:
sun- waiting for me at their head- training at the Shelter, accord-
He promised to consider issuing ent, there are about 200 children
and their
being cared for by the GCDJ ViVDI'S
a White Paper on the subject.
quarters and that they would be ing to Marks.
A 10-man advisory council was
Asserting that the extremists whose parents were either killed, Bela Aronowiec, whose relatives shot if they failed to bring me
eported or disappeared, or whose are David Ogren in Tel Aviv, back, but I refused to accept the elected this week by the refu-
had been condemned by respons- deported
E
and Sam Feinstein in Brooklyn. situation. I told them they had gees at Fort OntarioEmergency
ible Jewish leaders of Palestine fathers are prisoners of war.
Jewish relief officials here esti- Raia Axelroad, who is related to to help me, and somehow I com- Refugee Shelter to inert and (Its-
and Jews throughout the world,
the Colonial Minister declared mate that about 20,000 Jewish John Judel of New York City. pletely dominated them spirit- c uss with shelter director Joseph
Smart questions of mutual in
that the disturbances were ser- families are residing in Lyon and Her husband, Moses, was among ually.
iously impeding the United Na- the vicinity. Most of these have the massacred. Abram Aronson,
"They yielded. Their leader o terr it e y st, dt is heelos Ti tr Relocation Auth
tions war effort and injuring the come here since the liberation of whose relative is Meyer Berman told me first that I would have
m t.,1
Jewish cause. He expressed the southern France, en route to in Tel Aviv. Lasur Oserski and to cut off my beard to help dis- i n g Follow
p toc e indg u ttt,s h e e sft l e t ‘ i t b n ioi clil •ni t lic, It 1 ,,
hope that the government would their homes in Paris and else- Falk Chasanowich of Vilna, whose guise myself. Another of them
secure the active cooperation of where in the liberated northern relatives are Wesim Kasen of made a bundle of my clothes and temporary
council set up s noitly
t
c totiri.gi
part of the country. About 10,- Pittsburgh or Chicago, Dr. Laser a third went out to find a car after the shelter opened early
1 y l
eligible
000
of
them
are
virtually
desti-
Kasen
of
Tel
Aviv,
Joseph
and
in
which
I
could
escape."
August,
557
of
the
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tute and require assistance.
NIalka Lusiski of Palestine, and
The Rabbi disclosed that since voters, persons 18 or over, eL.st
In the five weeks since Lyon Solomon Mendel Froyel of Tel January
he had
1:ved He
the lived
life of
from a tiny
village.
ballots for the candidates, select-
was liberated the number of fam- Aviv. B e n j a m i n Weintraub, a simile 1 peasant on a farm in ing the 10 councilmen from a
ilies receiving assistance from whose two brothers and mother
c hosen in
far
the General Committee for the and father were killed in the the Ardeche Department not
primaries held last wok.
Defense of Jews has increased Vilna ghetto, is a relative of under an assumed name, with
from the 600 who were aided Samuel Ambursky of New York, false papers, and only the Pro- suite
of 25 refugees
Benevolence
is the doing . of
during
the
underground
period
who,
Weintraub
said,
worked
for
testant
pastor
there
knew
his
did farmyard chores," righteous acts of help to living
SHADES
of 2,000.. In addition, the Corn- the Federal Food Corporation real identity. "I cut wood every creatures whether of high or low
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mittee for Assistance to Refu- there.
day
and . mountains of snow in degree; as when we help a for
through
ear
Jeremiah Ratner has relatives he reminisced. "I shovelled paths toise in trouble, or a sick sar
gees, which operated independ-
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Bubeski in Brooklyn. Isak
ently under the aegis of the Con-
row, without looking for any re
sistory, gave aid in September to Ratner, an engineer, is related winter."
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