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Friday July 20, 1945

Benes Asks Jews
Beco me Assimilated
Not National Minority

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

in finding employment it will pre-
fer "assimilation" to emigration
and to the uncertainties inherent
in resettlement.

Although the anti-Jewish laws
PRAGUE (WNS) — President
Eduard Benes, in a conference that were in effect during the
German occupation have been
last week with Jewish leaders de- abolished, the Jews here are find-
clared that the Jews who will re- i n g it difficult t o rehabilitate
main domiciled in Czechoslovagia
This is due both to the
are not to be treated as members themselves.
chaotic political a n d economic
of a national minority but as full-
stivation and to the fact that
fledged citizens.
many government positions are
Coupled with an assertion that still in the hands of officials who
he was in full sympathy with were associated with the former
Zionist aims and aspirations and regime. Another contributing fac-
that he would do all in his power tor is the fact that many civilians
t 0 facilitate t h e emigration o f have not yet rid themselves of the
Jews from his country to Pales- influence of Na z i anti - Jewish
tine, his statement was being propaganda.
viewed by Zionist leaders here as
an indication that the estimated
To speed and facilitate the re-
15,000 Jews in Czechoslovakia natriation of Czech citizens who
are to become "assimilated" if were deported by the Germans to
they intend to remain in the various labor and concentration
country.
?amps in Poland and Germany,
Other Jewish leaders here saw he Czechoslovagian Government
in President Benes' statement a has established a special depart-
corroboration o f a declaration ment. This body makes no dis-
made last week by a high Czech qnction between Jews and non-
official to the effect that the Jews Jews.
in Czechoslovakia must either be-
come assimilated or else leave the
Before the war Czechoslovakia
country for Palestine or their or- had a Jewish population of ap-
proximately 350,000. Bratislava,
iginal homelands.
In view of the disorganized with a pre-war Jewish community
condition of Czechoslovakian Jew- Jf 15,000, now has 1,500 Jews
ry and the lack of a properly while Kosice, once a thriving Jew-
functioning Zionist movement, it ish center, now has only 500. In
is hig h 1 y improbable that the many sections of the country that
Jews will have any other alter- were once teeming with Jewish
native but assimilation. Moreover, activities there is even no trace
it is felt in Jewish circles that if of the existence of communal
the Jewish youth should succeed Jewish life.

Labor Zionists
In Poland Call
For Jewish State

JERUSALEM (Palcor)—a di-
rect message from Zionists in
Poland was received here by the
Executive Committee of t h e
World Zionist Organization. The
message reads:

"The first General Congress
of the Organization for Labor
Palestine in Poland, which
took place June 16th and
17th, in Lodz, sends hearty
greetings in the name of the
small number of Jewish survi-
vors 'in Poland.

"We hope that in the face
of the enormous losses suf-
fercd by the Jewish nation
during the war, the Zionist
Exective Committee will place
on an international forum, our
demand for the creation of a
Jewish state 'In Palestine."
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TRAINING CAMP

LONDON (Palcor)—The Jew-
ish Agency has received informa-
tion from Germany that the first
training center for Jews liberated
from the Buchenwald concentra-
ti on camp and intending to go to
Palestine was established at Eg-
gendorf, near Blankenheim, in the
American zone of occupation.

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State Department, the Immigra-
NUREMBERG (WNS) — The tion and Naturalization Service
Jewish survivors in Nuremberg
of the Department of Justice,
were not being aided by the
the Federal Bureau of Investi-
municipality, a Red Cross aide
gation, and the Army and Navy
reported.
Intelligence Services reviewed all
Of the 10,000 Jews who lived visa applications and made rec-
in Nuremberg, citadel of Na- ommendations to American con-
zism, only 140 remained.
suls abroad as to the advisabili-
The plight of the survivors ty of issuing visas to applicants
and the returnees is a desperate to the consuls.
one. They have discovered that
Inaugurated as a necessary
no legal machinery -had been wartime security measure, this
set up for the restitution of ruling made it more difficult
their property.
than ever for prospective immi-
The only consoling factor in grants to secure the necessary
the situation is that in Nurem- visas. In restoring to our con-
berg, unlike in Frankfurt, the sulates abroad their traditional
Jews are receiving the same ra- function as the issuing agents
tions as United Nations na- for visas, the United States Gov-
ernment has taken a step to make
tionals.
visas more easily available to
persons properly qualified. As a
SEEKS RELATIVE
result of this new ruling, docu-
Hirsch Zuckerman, a Polish
ments in support of prospective
Jew, who survived in a German
immigrants' applications for visas
concentration camp, is looking
should now be sent directly to
for his relative, Lois Zuckerman,
American consulates abroad in-
resident of Detroit, who immi-
stead of to Washintgon.
grated from Brody, Poland.
"American relatives of per-
sons abroad for whom immigra-
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GRENOBLE, France — The one time or another are now of-
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opened a home for refugees in steps towards getting visas. The
Grenoble, France.
300 senior and junior Sections
of the Women's Council through-
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Soldiers Praised

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division.
These patriotic citi-
zens fought as brilliantly and as
bravely as those of any other
race . . . It is regrettable that
intolerant Canadians have been
prone to scoff at the service and
sacrifice of fellow-citizens of the
Jewish race who maintained the
great traditions of their people
in the present struggle against
Nazism.
Too often Gentiles have failed
to recognize the loyalty, indus-
try and military genius of Jew-
ish soldiers and airmen, whose
bravery and accomplishments did
not suffer in comparison with
the fighting qualities of any of
the combatants in the war thea-
tres of Europe.
"Acting Major Dunkelman,
DSO, is typical of the Canadians
whose qualities were so warmly
acclaimed by the people of Hol-
land, Belgium, France and Italy
when they were liberated from
the German yoke. Jewish Can-
adians, whether serving on land,
on sea or in the air, were among
the most effective fighters in the
armies of the Allies."

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