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Friday, December 8, 1944

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Isgal Chronicle

EMERGENCY

mittee that it has assured compli- resolution expresses "the confi- disposed to more merciful mess- mained in extreme danger, so we
ance with the restoration of Jew- dent hope that the development ures. Various delegates concen- began to apply our own methods
ish rights and that the enforce- and extension of these relations trated on reconstruction of the of rescue, which were particular-
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ment of these measures has been will lead to ever closer coopera- Jewish communities and said the ly hazardous at that time. We
professional smugglers
other Latin American countries. guaranteed. tion and the ultimate return of punishment could be "left to the contacted
A resolution on the punish- Russian Jewry to full participa- arm of the law of the United and through them arranged to
The plenary session of the Con-
have some of the children taken
gress also adopted the resolution ment of war criminals, offered tion in the affairs of world Jews." Nations."
Anselm Reiss of the Polish .over the Py•anees into Spain.
A delegation from France is
appealing for the coordination of by A. L. Easterman, a member
At the same time Spanish and
the leading bodies concerned with of the British delegation, provides expected to arrive and will par- delegation, and Joseph Tenen- French women brought a num-
Jewish postwar relief and rehab- that representatii/es of the World ticipate in all future sessions. baum, president of the American ber of children through the for-
ilitation. The resolution calls Jewish Congress shall be admitted The delegation is composed of Federation of Polish Jews, said bidden military zone to the
upon the World Jewish Congress to the tribunals set up by the Guy Alphonse de Rothschild; Act- there should be a more intimate French frontier to a rendezvous
"to make a maximum effort in United Nations for the prosecu- ing Chief Rabbi Jacob Kaplan; knowledge and understanding of where the guides worked in hid-
order to secure this coordination tion and punishment of war crim- Leon Weiss, president of the Refl. the heroism of the Polish people ing and from where the trip to
as quickly as possible." It em- inals, as 'amici curiae." The res- resentative Council of French who, under Nazi attack and bat-
h aet.';
aien siusid mtad
phasizes that "the tremendous olution demands that full consul- Jews; and Joseph Fischer, secre- tling against tremendous odds, SpH
through the inter-
task involved and the complexity e•ation shall be given in the tary of the Council, who is also fought until killed.
A recommendation by the Re- cession of the American Embassy
of the problem of Jewish postwar prosecution of war criminals to secretary general of the Jewish
parations Commission of the con- in Portugal 300 orphans were
relief and rehabilitation require the evidence with respect to National Fund in France.
ference urging the United Na- placed in homes in a beach resort
the full cooperation of all forces crimes against the Jewish pop- R e port of Committee
tions to arrange for the payment six miles from Lisbon. The Con-
in Jewish life." It appealed to ulation, and that these criminals
Among the highlights of the of reparations by the defeated gress provided funds for the con-
affiliated branches of the Con- shh11 be indicted and tried on conference was a report by the
struction of additional homes for
.
gress to initiate action to secure these grounds.
political committee of the World Axis countries to the Jews as a children
T hrou e rteh.e
for it the funds necessary for
"In the prosecution of crimes .Teih Congress urging that the people, i in . addition to the indem-
help of Catholic
Through
nities wh ich are to be paid to
w s
work "in all fields of activity against the Jewish population," • United
insist
nsist in the peace individual Jews and that these Church officials, the right of asy-
the resolution says , "provision u
which look to Jewish rebirth."
negotiation. on the abrogation of reparations be turned over to a lum was given to a large number
negotiations
In accepting the new post—up should be made for represents- all anti-religious l le islation in all rep
of the children in Portugal but
tives
of
the
respective
Jewish
corn-
countries and that they make central Jewish body to be spent only for a time. Mr. Weissman
to now the World Jewish Con-
in the
investigating
for of
the
of a Jewish praised the War Refugee Board
gress had no president and was munities
prosecuting offices."
The
resolu- sure of the and
restoration
the development
full Palestine, evoked
much discussion
led by Dr. Wise as president. of
legal
ega i status of minorities. s.
and officials of the British Em-
at
Wednesday's
session.
the executive committee, and by tion also recommends that the
In order to safeguard the
bassy in Portugal for their help.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann as chair- United Nations War Crimes Corn- carrying out of the restoration Jewish Relief Body
Mr. Weissman also described
•
man of the administrative corn- mission shall receive and give of these
The
resolution
urging
the
co-
rights, the committee
how underground channels had
mittee,—D•. Wise expressed the due • consideration to • all material
urged that no nation be admitted ordination of Jewish relief and been established to get Turkish
.
hope that Jews will soon be se- which may be submitted to i by - to membership of the World Se- rehabilitation activities by a cen- Jews who were in France, out
cure all over the world and that the World Jewish Congress.
curity Organization unless it was
of the country. He said that
Palestine will soon become a Demand Bill of Rights
certified by an appropriate corn- tral
body
represen-
tatives
of composed
the Jewish of
Agency
for Lawrence Steinhardt, American
Jewish Commonwealth.
Emphasizing that "the Jewish mittee or agency to have complied Palestine, the Joint Distribution Ambassador to Turkey, interced-
people look to the United Nations with the demands of the organi- Committee and the World Jew- ed with the Vichy Government,
Resolutions
ish Congress led to a hot debate. and thus brought about the post-
A resolution adopted by the for the establishment of a new zation.
In its statement on the re- The opposition was led by Mizer- ponement of decisions by the Ger-
democratic o r d e r
conference urged that "no Jew international
based on the Four Freedoms establishment of Jewish rights in achi and Laborite delegates. Op- mans to send Turkish Jews to
who has escaped from Germany and the Atlantic Charter," the Germany the committee stated:
who
was also voiced by Ber- concentration camps.
ought to be compelled, whether Congress adopted a resolution
"The advent of the Nazis to Hart] Joseph, legal advisor to the
by legal means or by any kind of asking for the promulgation of power in Germany was accom- Jewish Agency, who represented
floral or material pressure, ever an international bill of rights panied by an assault of the rights, the Jewish National Council of
YIDDISH
o return, and no former Jewish securing full protection of life individual and communal, of the Palestine. It was revealed, how-
titizen of German ought ever and liberty for the inhabitants of Jews of the Reich, which has cul- ever, that the plan had received
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again to acquire German nation- all countries without distinctions urinated in the total destruction the approval of the Jewish
ality, except at his own direct of origin, nationality, race, re- of their legal status. They have Agency, to which it was present- Dramatic Sketch
The dramatic sketch, prepared
and personal wishes." The reso- ligion or language, and that en- been placed outside of the pro-
and
by Nahum Goldmann during
by Mr. Haar, will be presented
tution invites the Rabbinate of forcement of such a bill of rights tection of the courts and have his recent visit to Palestine.
Palestine to proclaim to the en- shall be carried out by adequate for all practical purposes been
Highlighting t h e conference by the newly organized Detroit
ire Jewish people an annual day international machinery.
reduced to the position of out- were reports by various delegates, Yiddish Dramatic Society under
if national mourning for the
the direction of Meyer Eisenberg,
The resolution also demands laws.
"The Jewish communities of European
many of countries
whom had
their popular Yiddish actor who has
Jews who have been annihilated the adoption and promulgation
only left
recently.
)y the Germans.
of national laws and other ap- Germany's satellite states have One of these was a report by played itrith the Yiddish Art Thea-
Another resolution demands prop•iate international legal in- in greater or smaller measure Isaac Weissman of Lisbon, a rep- ter and other Yiddish theater
that Jews who are or who have struments providing that anti- suffered a like fate, and Nazi resentative of the World Jewish groups throughout the country.
seen citizens of Axis countries Semitic and anti-racial activities, German influence has been stead- Congress in Congress. Describ- Mr. Eisenberg will take a lead-
should not be considered or treat- and similar acts of incitement to ily exerted throughout Europe in ing how the Nazis in occupied ing role in the play in addition
id as enemy aliens in the coun- racial and religious hatred and an effort to assimilate the posi- France were outwitted and pre- to directing the cast of 20 mein-
/ries of the United Nations, but discrimination, are violations of tion of the Jews in other coun- vented from deporting 5,000 refu- bers of the dramatic group.
Community singing will be led
should be regarded and treated criminal laws and public policy. tries to that of Germany. Ac- gee orphaned children to concen-
as allies. The resolution suggests The resolution also calls for:
cordingly, the Jews in the occu- tration camps in Poland nad else- by Louis Levine, a member of the
that the property of such Jews
1. The establishment of Pales- pied countries have, in flat defi- where, Mr. Weissman continued: Joint Committee. The evening
thould be saved from seizure re- tine as a Jewish Commonwealth. ance of the provisions of inter-
"The children lived in hiding will conclude with approprate in-
gardless of their residence, and
2. The recognition of the par- national law, been subjected to in private houses, farms and terpretive readings by the ever-
that no administrative restric- titular needs of the Jewish peo- all the horrors of German anti- cloisters in France, a large num- popular Moishe Dombey.
On the basis of the response
tions imposed on enemy aliens be ple in the application of relief Jewish policy. This policy has ber or- them under assumed names
applied to them.
and rehabilitation measures with- found its culmination in the at- and under the protection of sym- to the earlier programs in this
Other resolutions adopted by in the scheme of postwar recon- tempt to annihilate the Jewish pathetic Catholics," said Mr. series which were attended by
the Congress urge that:
people in Europe, of whom only Weissman, who arrived in this capacity audiences, the committee
struction.
1. Abrogation of anti-Jewish
3. Restitution and reparation remnants now survive. These country only recently from abroad anticipates a packed auditorium
legislation and the restoration of for the losses suffered by still ex- remnants are entitled alike un- where he had been active in re- for this unusual Chanukah pro-
the legal status of Jews and fisting Jewish communities and in- der the dictates of justice and lief and rescue work. He said gram. Tickets have been distrib-
;.uwish communities should be a dividual Jewish victims of Nazi the proclaimed peace aims of the that as soon as it became known uted through the Community
; recondition to the granting of and Fascist murder and spolia- United Nations to full and that the Germans were getting Council office to member organi-
• rmistice terms to any Axis coun- tion. speedy restoration of their rights. ready to round up the children, zations interested in Yiddish cul-
The war crimes committee told plans were made to hide as many tural activities. Individual tic-
ry.
4. The recognition of the prin-
kets will be available at the Cen-
2. Governments established in ciple that the Jewish people is the congress that the re-establish- of the orphans as possible.
iberated territories should un- entitled to a collective reparation rnent of ordered society in Eur-
"We appealed to the de Gaulle ter on the evening of the pro-
lertake the immediate abrogation for the material and moral losses ope required that "the Axis crim- Free FrenchCommittee," he said, gram.
of all anti-Jewish legislation and suffered by it and its institutions. inals shall be brought to justice "and as a result, the French
the full restoration of the legal The plenary session of the con- without delay." populations in Algiers and Lon-
"There can be no • peace so don, as well as in France itself,
status of the Jews under the pro ference also adopted a resolution
visions of international law.
welcoming "the establishment of long as large numbers of self- began to take active part in the Open up the cold blockade in your nose
3. Abrogation of all discrimin- a united Jewish front in the Unit- confessed criminals- are allowed work of rescue. Instructions were with fast-acting Penetro Nose Drops.
story measures should be made ed States in relation to postwar to be at large and by their very given to the resistance movement Breathe freer, easier, almost instantly,
retroactive to the date of their problems through the creation of presence to mock the promises in France that every effort be as they cool, soothe and shrink swollen
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enactment and should include the thhe American Jewish Confer- of a new and better international exerted to help the unfortunate nasal membranes. Caution: Use only Get
directed. Generous bottle 25c, 50e.
restoration of citizenship except ence." The resolution endorsed order made by the spokesmen of children.
in the case of persons who have the working agreement between democracy," the committee said.
"Meanwhile, the children re- PENETRO NOSE DROPS
in the meantime acquired another the World Jewish Congress and "Moreover, if , those who are
crimes
monstrous
of
citizenship.
the American Jewish Conference guilty
4. No nation shall be admitted which provides for a joint plan- against the Jewish people are al-
to membership in the World Se- ning committee for postwar prob- lowed to escape punishment, it
curity Organization unless it is ions.
cannot but have the effect of
certified by an appropriate coin,
The resolution urges the re- encouraging adventures in .the
establishment in each liberated postwar world to use anti-Semit-
country at the first possible mo- ism as a means of obtaining pow-
ment of an organized Jewish er and thereafter as an inst•u-
community on democratic lines ment of agression."
On the question of relief and
and affiliated with the World Jew-
rehabilitation, the committee in
ish Congress.
FURNACE OIL
The conference also adopted a charge of this phase of activity
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cooperative relations established ance of the problem of resettle-
by the Congress with Jewish or- ment and the need of taking im-
ganizations in Soviet Russia. The mediate steps looking to its early
solution.
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an individual membership plan
similar to the World Zionist Or-
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COLUMBIA
Much discussion was devoted
your assurance of complete satis-
by the delegates to the problem
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faction in dry cleaning.
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Temporary
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At
extermination of the Jews. Opin-
ion ranged from a relinquish-
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ment of retributive demands by
the United Nations to insistence
RABBI ISAAC STOLLMAN
on punitive action.
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Several delegates insisted on
a strong retributive policy against
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